2007 Pin Celebration Trip

Another pin event, another trip report....

Last year at around this time, I reported on my pin event trip. Tomorrow, I fly off to Orlando to attend another Pin Celebration event. Unlike last year where the trip was for the whole week starting over the Labor Day weekend, this year I'm only going for the pin event. So this trip will only be over 4 days, with most of the activities centering around the pin event.

As usual, I'll report on the going-ons and also will try to post pictures at the end of the day. I'm hoping to bump into other WDWMagic members at the event (I'm going to wear the WDWMagic buttons during all 4 days).

The next report will be from the Happiest Place on Earth.

Zz.

 

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Mystery Tin Pin Set

The mystery tin pin set started at least year's pin celebration, and again this year, they had another one. These are sealed tins that contains 4 randomly selected pins. The whole set has 10 pins. So obviously, people would like to collect the whole set, which means you have to by at least 3 tins to give yourself any chance of having a complete set.

Well, it is not as easy as you think. You see, Disney tortures us by not having the same edition number for each of the pins in the set. Last year, the Pluto pin was the smallest edition number of ONLY 200! So imagine 1400 pin attendees and only 200 Pluto pins possible to get, and randomly scattered among those tins. I was told last year that by the end of the first day, the Pluto pin already appeared on e-bay and going for $40 (each tin costs $22 for 4 pins).

This year, it was the Goofy pin with a limited edition of 200. Next came the Daisy pin and the Donald pin, at 400, Chip and Dale, each of the pin at 600, Pluto at 800, Mickey and Minnie each at 1000, and Stitch and Tinker Bell each at 1500.

You can just imagine that by the last day of the event, there were pin collectors literally going from person to person almost begging to trade for the Goofy pin. I was also told (but I couldn't confirm this) that the Goofy pin appeared on e-bay with a going rate of $60. Yikes!

Now, if you had read my trip report from last year's pin celebration trip, you would have noticed that we were lucky enough that, after buying several of these tins, and trading with people, we managed to get 2 complete sets of the mystery pin set. Well guess what, folks? WE DID IT AGAIN this year! :sohappy:

We bought and traded, and when we finally got a second Goofy, we decided to go after a 2nd set. It was only on the very last day that, after some complicated trading, we managed to complete that second set. This is a picture of both pin sets. The edition number goes from low to high going from left to right.

So, if they're willing to pay $60 for just the Goofy pin, how much do you think a complete set would go for? Hum?

Zz.