Thomas Kinkade White Christmas Crystal Snowman, Handcrafted Figurine with Lighted Village and Moving Train, Bradford Exchange Collectible

My Thomas Kinade White Christmas Crystal Snowman is perfect. It is beautiful and the quality is great. The delivery time was much quicker than I expected at the holidays.

This was bigger than I expected, I ordered as a gift for my daughter who loves Thomas Kincaid pieces and collects snowmen. It was perfect! She loved watching the lights and movement & it took center stage in her holiday display. I didn't plan to spend so much, but with the sale price - no choice - and glad I bought it! Great as a gift or for a collector.

This supposedly was supposed to be crystal but looked and felt like just plain glass. The silver was tarnished and there was a sticky substance that dripped out of the scarf and stuck to the tissue paper it was wrapped in. Also the wooden base had white paint on it in many places. In the picture it looks like the lantern lights up but doesn’t. The buildings did light up but were very dim. The certificate that accompanied it was dated 2007 which means it was sitting on the shelf for many years. Not worth the money, I sent it back!

Ok so last year I bought the Kinkade Crystal Tabletop Christmas Tree and ended up returning it for poor quality. This year I thought that the reviews for this snowman sound promising and bought it, but it doesn't come even close in quality to what's pictured here, so I feel like this review is necessary.First of all the glass is really thick, even though in the picture it looks very fine and elegant. No. It's thick. If you zoom in on the picture you can kind of see like a blurry edge on the inside of the glass (about a quarter of an inch thick) - yeah that's where the actual glass ends. It's not the nice thin edge that's clearly seen in the picture..it's the one that they tried to blur so you can't see how thick the glass is. This bothers me because it makes the figurine look cheap and hefty, not fine and expensive.Next, the nice shiny gloves and scarf are nothing but dark plastic silver paint. Definitely not as shiny. I'm not sure what kind of material I was expecting but it was not silver paint. Maybe at least silver paint with some glitter? But we don't get that here.The train does make sound when it moves around and the lights are dim, as someone else mentioned, and there's no way to turn the lights on without the train moving which is too bad. I suppose if it had some kind of music it can cover the train hum.I'm not really sure why I am giving it 2 stars. I guess I like the idea (just not so much the way it was executed). It's also bigger than I expected so I guess we get quantity over quality. I also like that it has the option to be plugged in an outlet or work on batteries.Similarly if you are buying the Crystal Tree that I mentioned the glass is REALLY THICK, so I would recommend it even less than this snowman, because in the case of the tree you can barely see the inside from the ugly thick glass. It's like they slapped your grandma's pickle jar on top. That's really what the glass quality of these products resembles.

Im pleasantly surprised, the recipient is going to love this. I give this five stars. Thank you and have a Merry Christmas . God bless

It looked like it had been opened and put together. The hat is dim not clear. The rubber that goes on bottom of snowman to help seal it in place, was stretched out of round and took me a bit of work to make it fit enough to slip into place. the train was bent different ways.I love snowmen and the pictures shows this in a different light than it. I would not have gotten if I had seen one in person first....

Absolutely wonderful

A+

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