Let's talk pins...

Kat326

Kat326

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I LOVE pin trading! Started collecting pins in 2000, and started trading in 2003! Disney-wise, I love finding Donald Duck pins, but I'll collect any neat-looking design. C: I also love collecting Olympic & NHL pins, as well as pins from places I travel to. Finally started putting everything in a binder over the summer before I went back to college, but I might have to get another, the cover's hard to close!! hahahaha
 
jharvey

jharvey

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I can never bring myself to trade any of my pins. I tell myself every year that this will be the time I start, and it never happens. But I did find a nifty way to display them. I worked for Sears for 6 years. They carried Disney licensed watches. They were in the middle of a reset and were going to throw away a large Disney watch spinner. I took it off their hands, with permission of course. I now have an awesome displayer for my ridiculous habit.
 
jlevis

jlevis

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My wife and I both collect. We probably have several 100 between us. We do not trade - too many scrappers out there. I like Lady & the Tramp, Goofy, ride pins and anything that catches my eye. My wife likes Tinkerbelle
 
dreamfinder

dreamfinder

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Bairstow said:
When did they start putting little silver mickey emblems on all the pins?
My pins were all bought back in the '80s and '90s and none of them have that.
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If you are referring to the ones on the front, those typically aren't sold. That signifies a "hidden mickey pin". Which is primarily used to designate pins that are exclusives to cast lanyards meaning that you cannot buy them. The exception to this is normally "completer" pins. Completer pins basically complete the hidden mickey set, so the CM lanyards may only have 5 out of 6 pins, but the 6th is for sale at the pin stores. I think they have been doing 50-60 new hidden mickeys each year between DLR and WDW. They seem to be all over the place as those pins tend to have simpler designs, so it's easier to make copies of.

They added that within the last 10 years or so, since I do believe that pin trading just had it's 10th anniversary recently. And the first year or two of the cast lanyard pins didn't have the hidden mickeys I don't believe.

EOD K9 said:
Just curious, doesn't that get really expensive after some time?
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It definitely can. Just like any other collection, it can add up fast. Figure $8 and up for a pin. Jumbos and some of the crazy LE pins can have $30-40 MSRP, and then go for more than that on the secondary market.
 
copcarguyp71

copcarguyp71

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DD loves it and we think it is a wonderful keepsake from each trip. I do usually cheap out and buy one off of craigslist or eBay from individual sellers though and have had good success to that end. We take that with us and then she trades for ones she wants.

P.S. - If anyone has a WDW Miss Piggy pin they would like to trade or sell please let me know. She dropped hers coming out of Fantasmic one night and was pretty upset about it, even more so once we realized how hard they are to find or trade for. We looked for the next three days of our vacation for a replacement with no luck:(
 
HoneyMnShawnee

HoneyMnShawnee

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I collect as well but I don't trade. My last count for pins was around 300. I usually adhere to similar rules such as: if I didn't attend the event, I don't buy or didn't go to WDW during that season or year, I don't get pins for that. I have Flower and Garden Festival Pins for each year we have attended as well as Food and Wine. I have a resort pin for each resort we have stayed at as well as a pin with the year we vacationed. My husband inadvertently started me on this habit as he bought me my first pin on our honeymoon, a mickey head Canadian flag pin.. And the rest is expensive history..
 
fauzha7

fauzha7

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luv said:
I collect. I do not trade anything but accidental duplicates. Trading in the parks, with the Disney staff, is for people who don't actually care about pins. I take my pins kind of seriously. Possibly too seriously.

I have many, many pins. I just buy whatever suits my fancy. I never get bogus pins. I have to stay at the hotel if I want to get the pin. If I'm not at WDW for, say, Easter, I don't get Easter pins. These are just rules for me. I don't think anyone else should follow them. :)

I refuse to buy Tinkerbelle pins because I really don't like her. This has messed up the completion of more than one set of pins...like the lunch box ones.

My favorite pins (for the most part) are my IASW pins...but there are plenty of others I love.
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I am the same when it comes to selecting pins. I have to had stayed at that resort, been there during that holiday, enjoyed that ride or attraction. I always get a pin for the year of my visit.
 
a2grafix

a2grafix

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Have to admit when I first returned to WDW after a 14-year absence, I got into pin collecting. I mainly looked for Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit pins at WDW and online (big fan of the 1988 movie). I have a nice little collection of many Roger and Jessica Rabbit pins, including a few that I bought on eBay from Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland in Anaheim and Paris Disney Parc. The coolest ones are Jessica wearing a grass skirt with a surfboard, in a grass skirt with an Aloha sign, and promoting the Patty Cake Lounge.

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I also have a few other pins, some exclusive like the Minnie Mouse Adventurers Club maid pin, some Tower of Terror pins and some Disney salutes military pins (Veterans Day 2007).

I've scaled back on collecting pins, but if something catches my eye and it's in a decent price range I will purchase it. Unfortunately Vinylmation has taken over what pin trading / collecting was and it appears Vinylmation is the more dominate of the two collections and trading at WDW and Disneyland (I do not purchase Vinylmation). Last time I was at WDW in September-October there were no Roger or Jessica pins for sale, or special pins for sale at Downtown Disney. Seems that there are more Jessica pins made for Anaheim and the Hollywood Soda Fountain shop.
 
got2lovedisney

got2lovedisney

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My DBF collects Jessica Rabbit, The Incredibles and NBC. DD collected Beauty & the Beast and Eeyore. I try to collect Cheshire Cat, Figment, The Little Mermaid, NBC, villains, Lion King, Dalmatians, and lanyard/hidden Mickey pins but sometimes other pins catch my fancy. I'm up to 1365 pins that I have listed on pinpics. :eek: And, yes, it DOES get expensive but it's so much fun!
 
jlsHouston

jlsHouston

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I just got this pin starter set... they have a deal where if you buy 50 bucks in disney merchandise you can get a starter set for like 20 bucks. It has been going on since summer because my daughter did it in July and I kind of told her what a waste of money... and then I decided to do it this time, plus I bought each grandkid a string thing and 1 pin and a holder for their keytoworld card so they are now little pin traders...
 
Lunamis

Lunamis

Active Member
I love pins! I try to pick up one or two every trip and will trade some of my least favorite ones or duplicates with cast since I've gotten a couple of nice ones in the past and just think it's fun! I follow the "I don't buy it unless I stay there or attended the event" rule. I also don't prefer any dated pins...I like mine to be kinda timeless and classic looking. My favorite are attraction and park-specific pins, though I enjoy any Robin Hood ones!

I have a photo frame on my desk with cork board in it rather than a picture and rotate make 10 pins at a time on the board so I always have something fun to remind me of tr
ips. At my parents home we have 2 larger cork boards and probably 100 or so pins on there. I believe my 1st pin was in 2000 and so I've slowly accumulated a bunch.
 
ddbowdoin

ddbowdoin

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I like anything retro or Walt related... they are fun, although I get nervous trading with CM's because of people intentionally buying cheap eBay scrappers just to trade with CM's.
 
jlevis

jlevis

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ddbowdoin said:
I like anything retro or Walt related... they are fun, although I get nervous trading with CM's because of people intentionally buying cheap eBay scrappers just to trade with CM's.
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Yeah, Walt related - I love those pins with his picture in them.
 

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