A look back at TDS pins, so far

[Luv2Roam]

If you knew on 9/22 what you know now, what would you have done different on collecting the Dream series?

 

[Brise Nannie]

I wouldn't do anything differently. I kinda knew what I was going to be in for having collected the Millennium set last year. I'm not a morning person so it does take some effort for me to get to my TDS EARLY but I've enjoyed chatting with the other *pinheads* waitiing in line. I've also been fortunate enough to get what I wanted (sometimes with the help of GREAT friends) so I can't complain. I'm not collecting the entire Dream set so that helps too.

 

[nsmia]

i was a newbie when the first pins came out. had decided i would buy a bunch of pins so i could trade in DW when we went the first week of october to help occupy time and give me some other thing to be excited about while waiting in the lines for dumbo , etc with my very young daugher. little did i know i would fall in hook line and sinker for pin trading. unfortuantely i traded a bunch of the first week pins for CM lanyard pins. so i'm missing a few and i'm also missing most of the pins from the 2nd and third weeks because i was in DW. but despite all that i figure i have at least 40 of the 50 pins so far. thats not bad considering i will be able to get the next 50 plus a few state pins. if i could do it over again i would have kept at least one set of the week one pins and had someone buy me the 2nd and 3rd weeks so i had them all. plus had bought out therack of pin #1 instead of the 2 that i bought, (that $75+ price on ebay could have financed the rest of the set for me, lol, half joking). No other regrets except i think i have found this new fun hobby a little too late!!!

 

[DeeP]

Well I have done a complete turn-around since the first week of the DS pin sales. I went the first week at 9:00 am planning to only buy the Mickey pins from the set. Well now 7 weeks later I am arriving at TDS at 7:00 AM, I am buying the whole set, and I am buying an extra set of Snow White and the 7 dwarves and an extra set of the poster pins, (I am going to frame these 2 sets), plus I have agreed to pick up pins for a CM that will be out of town the last week of the pin release. Would I do it any differently now that we are 1/2 way through our Sat morning treks to TDS? Heck no, I am having a blast! I have met some great fellow pin collectors and we have our own Sat Disney store meeting, we talk, we laugh, we share pin stories, we have fun! Plus now that I am collecting the whole set, I just love coming home and putting them in the pin binder and admiring them. This has been a lot of fun for me, I am glad I changed my original plans from just collecting the Mickey pins to collecting the whole set.

 

[Eeyore's Pal]

I would've stayed home, in bed, where I belong!

I'm not buying any of these pins for me!

Every single pin purchased has been for one of my kids, DH, or a DIS pinpal.

I must be nuts. How did I get sucked into this Saturday morning, 8 AM line thingey???

And now, I don't know how to stop! I have customers! I have obligations!

Someone . . . <font color=red>Please help me!</font> I think I may need and intervention.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Eeyore's Pal -- You ARE sick!
JUST SAY NO!!!
What does D.A.R.E. stand for?
Maybe we should have P.A.R.E.

 

[Kazooie1]

Robyn,

Clearly the problem here is not that you have to stand in line every Saturday morning at the Disney Store. I'm guessing the real problem is more likely WHO you have to stand in line WITH every Saturday morning. You've seen everything in my trader book enough times that you know you're not going to find anything you want (although I might surprise you this weekend). And if it's not the people you have to stand in line with, then it's CERTAINLY the volume of Pooh pins. For those of you who've never seen Robyn buy a Pooh pin (for a friend)...

She asks for "that Pooh pin" in a whisper, afraid the CM might think she has one iota of desire for the pin... Then she reaches out with two fingers, holding the pin by the very edge of the plastic wrapper... She turns her head, afraid to cast even a glance at it... Then calls over her DS and implores him to, "Take it! Take it!" He holds out the plastic shopping basket, into which Robyn then drops the pin...

The scene at the register is equally disturbing, but I'll save that for another day... In the meantime, anyone who needs 100 Years Pooh pins, PLEASE e-mail Robyn. She'll be happy to get them for you : )

Jim

 

[DinaF]

We're MORE than half-way there!