News EPCOT Relocates Most Collectible Pins to New World Celebration Kiosks

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EPCOT Relocates Most Collectible Pins to New World Celebration Kiosks

EPCOT Relocates Most Collectible Pins to New World Celebration Kiosks

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Inside Pin Traders

 

[HauntedPirate]

Side note - That black backpack is the first piece of merchandise that I've liked in I don't know how long. Clean, simple, plus a decent logo on it.

Irony - People decrying the Pin Trading building in the center spine and wanting it torn down just for its contents to ultimately be placed... in multiple kiosks around the center spine.

 

[osian]

The return of Future World! Just waiting for the flags now.

But I'm not convinced this is what people wanted rectifying in the new hub. Can't be due to guest feedback, surely.

 

[HauntedPirate]

The return of Future World! Just waiting for the flags now.

But I'm not convinced this is what people wanted rectifying in the new hub. Can't be due to guest feedback, surely.

They already made the move to "relocate" guests sitting outside the shop displaying their pages and pages of pins to trade, so this makes sense. It's probably also beneficial for park ops?

 

[Comped]

Side note - That black backpack is the first piece of merchandise that I've liked in I don't know how long. Clean, simple, plus a decent logo on it.

It is a fantastic backpack. Used it while working for Disney myself, and I adore all the little pockets it has. Honestly, I think it's worth it even if I hadn't gotten it with a CM discount (40% off at the time).

But I'm not convinced this is what people wanted rectifying in the new hub. Can't be due to guest feedback, surely.

Makes me less likely to buy a pin at Epcot, as I always appreciated the ability to get into some AC and actually take a chance to look at the pins I could buy. Hopefully this won't come to the other parks! Certainly it's a bad idea from a guest experience perspective, and even more-so from a revenue perspective (as that store was a pretty good revenue generator - now most pin-related revenue will be split between a number of carts).

 

[HauntedPirate]

It is a fantastic backpack. Used it while working for Disney myself, and I adore all the little pockets it has. Honestly, I think it's worth it even if I hadn't gotten it with a CM discount (40% off at the time).

Makes me less likely to buy a pin at Epcot, as I always appreciated the ability to get into some AC and actually take a chance to look at the pins I could buy. Hopefully this won't come to the other parks! Certainly it's a bad idea from a guest experience perspective, and even more-so from a revenue perspective (as that store was a pretty good revenue generator - now most pin-related revenue will be split between a number of carts).

I'm still using the Disneyland backpack we got in 2016 as my "travel backpack". Great quality, lots of space, plenty of pockets. But it's nice to know there's a good-looking replacement available, if necessary.

 

[aladdin2007]

shouldn't the shop be renamed? its misleading at this point

 

[Agent H]

shouldn't the shop be renamed? its misleading at this point

The shop across the way is still named camera center. If that’s any indication I don’t think they’ll be changing it anytime soon.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Makes me less likely to buy a pin at Epcot, as I always appreciated the ability to get into some AC and actually take a chance to look at the pins I could buy. Hopefully this won't come to the other parks! Certainly it's a bad idea from a guest experience perspective, and even more-so from a revenue perspective (as that store was a pretty good revenue generator - now most pin-related revenue will be split between a number of carts).

Surely they think they'll sell more and make more money with the pins out in the kiosks? I don't know quite why that would be, but I imagine they have some reason for thinking the pins weren't selling as well as they could have in that shop.

 

[Comped]

Surely they think they'll sell more and make more money with the pins out in the kiosks? I don't know quite why that would be, but I imagine they have some reason for thinking the pins weren't selling as well as they could have in that shop.

I'd think it'd be an incredibly odd decision to make even with the data - most other parks continue to have their pins sell well in (mostly) dedicated spaces. Epcot's was actually quite convenient and useful. I don't think it was because of the lack of making money off pins, but perhaps they wanted to add more non-pin stuff to the shop (or got annoyed at people sitting and trading pins around the front of the place - a great advertisement IMO for an activity that has made Disney probably a billion in the past 25 years).

Generic year merch and other stuff you can buy at 50 other locations across property do not a good store make...

 

[Disstevefan1]

Its too bad they didn't make that shop exclusively pin shop, I mean sell only pins with surfaces for trading.

I never liked the original pin location before the EPCOT destruction renovation and I was happy they moved it into the shop.

Now its a kiosk again. Too bad.

 

[JohnD]

shouldn't the shop be renamed? its misleading at this point

Collections? (You know, in the same vein as Creations and Connections.)

 

[Comped]

Its too bad they didn't make that shop exclusively pin shop, I mean sell only pins with surfaces for trading.

I never liked the original pin location before the EPCOT destruction renovation and I was happy they moved it into the shop.

Now its a kiosk again. Too bad.

Disney loves the idea of pin trading, but prefers the guest-to-guest angle happens anywhere but its parks it seems. Or at least that the power traders stick to pin shows outside the parks... More than happy for them to buy the new pins they make.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Disney loves the idea of pin trading, but prefers the guest-to-guest angle happens anywhere but its parks it seems. Or at least that the power traders stick to pin shows outside the parks... More than happy for them to buy the new pins they make.

Well the traders can use the rust finished tables in World Celebration Gardens.

 

[sWANNISAX]

I'm thinking they moved this towards the gardens to get the traders out of that walk way. Last time there a bunch of them sprawled out in throughfare with all their binders and stuff. Crowding walking space. Move that into the less trafficed areas of the gardens seems like a good move.