Very much like last year’s Istanbul YAH, the newly announced You Are Here Ornament Christmas – Istanbul is the only city with this design so far. All other red handle mini mugs were released for countries. As per insider’s information, the new ornament will be officially available in stores on November 2. … Read more
What I love about Starbucks, that it always does unexpected moves in terms of merchandise and mugs in particular. However, it might be only unexpected to us, while their marketing department knows better what to release and when. Anyway, just when I thought that European country ornaments were the last batch from this series for this region, Starbucks strikes back with the release of the mini city mug – You Are Here Ornament – Istanbul. Pretty amazing, right? On the other hand, this major Turkish city holds a special place in Starbucks YAH collection.… Read more
Again, thanks to a reader of my blog with an eagle eye, I’ve discovered that there were two mugs I missed to add last Holiday Season! And here’s one of them, You Are Here Christmas – Istanbul 2 mug which is very unique in a sense, that it is the only Christmas city mug with the red handle!
Below, is the collage of all three Istanbul YAHs side by side. As you can see, there are couple other elements making Christmas v1 and v2 different, apart from the red handle, namely:
– the Christmas tree and snowman have switched places
– there are two additional candy canes on the right
– the small ship now carries a gift box
– the tram on the front of the mug is now missing the huge bow, which was initially introduced with v1
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Very surprising release – You Are Here Christmas Istanbul, just when we thought YAHs of this kind are over this year. This gives us hope for more Holiday mugs this year, since it’s only November.
As for the mug, it resembles the regular YAH with the snowman, Christmas tree and some other elements added to it.
Please see the pic below for a comparison:
Just a reminder, we now have 27 Christmas YAHs (apart from 2 from US) available in the collection… Read more
This Icon mug came from Istanbul, Turkey. Light Blue is used as its theme color. Bosphorus Bridge can be seen on the front of the mug and Steam Ship on the back.
This mug is somewhat hard to find.
Countries of production: China… Read more
This Relief mug was released for Istanbul, Turkey and it’s main color is black. Production date: November 2015… Read more
This Icon Mini was released for Istanbul, Turkey and is a complete copy of it’s bigger brother.… Read more
