how to collect pin badges in uk?

[torticat]

Hello

Since being to disney i would love to keep collecting pin badges. Can anyone recommend a way i can buy badges here in the uk? Can they be ordered direct from the parks? i have found a site that has pictures of the new badges but have not found anywhere that i can buy them from.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Torticat

 

[raksha2]

Hi,

I am the president of the UK's only (so far) Disney pin trading club. We met in central london about four times a year.
Feel free to e-mail me at londonears@ntlworld.com

and i will fill you in on details. There have been two pins released at UK disney stores in the last week (cinderella & Halloween 2005-tigger/eeyore/pooh)
and two lots of buttons (8 to a set) one nightmare before christmas and one of cutie degins.

Toni

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

In the immortal words of Bob Villa's evil twin Pancho,

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"

Ok, so I give up, what exactly is a pin badge? Is it kind of like a sheriff's star or something? I seriously have no idea but they do sound cool whatever they are. Sounds like Tori's got you covered (wow first talk of badges then "got you covered". I sound like a cheap detective novel).

Jeff

 

[raksha2]

Badges sold here have the broach safety clasp at the back. (in the states they call them buttons)

pin badges as sold by disney just have a single pin (or occasionaly more) out of the back with a butterfly clip that pushes onto the back.


there are thousands of different designs to choose from and more being released on a daily basis. I have been collecting since my first WDW trip in '99 and
between Dh & 1 we have about 700 pins in our collection and about 100+/- as traders.

check out pinpics.com for a database of all sorts of disney pins

Toni