Are These "Good" Pins?

[Daxx]

While at WDW, DS picked a pin off a CM's lanyard. The CM told DS he had a good eye for pins b/c it is a very special pin. It's (if I remember correctly) Pluto's first appearance. On the back of the pin it says #43 of 101. The CM told us it is a very good pin to have b/c it means that only 101 pins were made and it's "rare". Is this correct!?

Also from a CM, DS traded his pin for a "lanyard" pin and it's all gold, it's castle shaped and on the back it reads "Beast's Castle". Is that a good pin? The CM said it was, but we're not sure.

Would love any input!

 

[Buzz2001]

pinpics photo

Hi Daxx, is this the pin? 42 of 101 in this case means that this was pin 42 in a series of 101 pins for the Millenium Disney Store Countdown. The pin itself was not a LE.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

The lanyard pins are pretty good to get, as you can't buy them off the racks. You can only get them by trading for them from the CMs off their lanyards.

With pin trading, as with anything, it's a case of supply and demand. If this

is the pin he has, according to pinpics.com, there are more members trading than members wanting. Still, he did manage to find a lanyard pin, and that's always cool.

As for the Pluto pin, if this

is the pin he found, I hate to burst your bubble, but the CM gave you some bad info. The #42 of 101 on the back doesn't mean there were only 101 of that pin made. This pin is from the Disney Store Countdown to the Millennium series. There were 101 pins in that series and this is #42 in the series. It's a pretty common pin that many bought on clearance and used for trading with CMs.

 

[Daxx]

Those are, indeed, the pins! No need to worry about bursting my bubble ... as they are not my pins. I will not tell my DS that they're not as valuable as he was led to believe ... after all, he's only 6.5 yo! He treasures these pins (as well as the standard, off-the-rack pins) as if they were gold, thinking he made some great trades. And, you know what ... that's the Disney magic and why take it away from him, right!? He has no intentions of *ever* trading them again ... so if it makes his day, to think they're as good as gold, why not!!!!!

He'll have many disappointments in the years to come ... why do it on something so small!!!

Thanks for your help ... he thinks he's a pin trader extraordinaire, so let him continue thinking so, right?! I appreciate your input. I was more wondering for me than for him! Thanks!!!!

 

[JudySue]

Daxx,

I think both you and the CM are right, except for the part about the LE pin.. The pins that your DS chose are wonderful! Perhaps not worth a whole lot of money, but, since he picked the, they are wonderful to him.

Whenever I trade with a child, either from my "kids landyard" or from "Pintrader Figment's " vest I always tel the child that the pin they want is very, very nice, and the pin they choose to trade (they always decide on bothe sides of the trade) is an absolutly wonderful choice!

I really doubt that anyone is going to get rich from this hobby and we're all reallly here to make friends and enjoy! And if telling a child that they are nice and make good choices is wrong, well then I'm just wrong.

 

[Figment2]

As far as I'm concerned, JudySue is never wrong.

JMHO.

Cyn

 

[anne930]

As far as I'm concerned, any pin you "like" is a "good" pin - no matter whether it's valuable to someone else or not.