Raulandpinboy
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This is the first time Im posting from my truck on the turnpike going 75mph
I love technology this is so cool
. If you dont hear from me in a few days it means I got preoccupied. And Im in a ditch somewhere. 
The following is the accounts of a family that spent their weekend not with each other but split up in to groups hunting the elusive but popular Easter pins.
Morning comes the family sits in the animal kingdom parking lot, sitting in a circle surrounded by burning tiki torches planning their attack strategy like some great tribal tribune.
We attack at dawn says the leader, also their king know only as El Grande macho Raul, but first an equipment check.
Any true pin hunter knows that in todays day and age you need a minimum of the following if you are to survive and get the pins.
Satellite phones because the average pin hunter will use standard cell phone and block up traffic causing busy signal and frustrated results.
Global positioning, and tracking system to pin point any pin hunter, at any given time.
Two-way radio for quick communications for messages on the fly like youre in the wrong store nimrod, or check out that tourist who would think that spandex could stretch that far. (Oh sorry lost track)
A scanner tuned to Disney security frequency, because just as we like hunting pins, they like to hunt pin hunters, and they get so ticked off at the little things we do (read on to see why)
Maps of every know Disney park store, parking, bathroom, (for the women) and water fountain on property.
And last but not least, a bottle of water, unless you want to spend $2.50 for one, or you want to take a chance and drink Florida water from the tap. (Unless you have lived here for more than 2 years this is not advised)
Editors note empty bottle of water will double as a bathroom substitute when in a hurry, since it is a proven fact that stopping at a bathroom will delay you for 5 minutes 23 seconds if your man, 2 hours 13 minutes 23 seconds if youre a woman. Also to be noted the official Disney pin trading manual suggests that you not do this on the monorails, unless you are with a group that can form a curtain or barrier from the other tourists, and they also ask you from making long loud reliving noises like aaaahhhhhhhh, or oh yeaaaaaaa, this of course pertains only to the male species, the females can make any noise they wish, as the male mind finds any noise a woman makes so gosh darn cute.
Our first stop Disneys Animal kingdom, armed with my vow that if one more person runs up to me and yells Not-a-zoo in my face, Im taking them down. We gather with 200 other pin hunters and a family of 6 actually there to see the animals, the youngest of which runs up to me, and yep with an innocent smile yells not-a-zoo I reach into my backpack to get my stun-gun, and am instantly given that look by Donna All right I put it back buts thats it no more.
We reach security checkpoint Charlie Victor Bravo and open our backpacks, they know its a pin hunt day, so the extra equipment is not only expected, but also welcomed, cause if they catch us doing something bad they get to keep it.
Were in immediately we make a dash for the pin station, but are cut of by woman holding a scorpion in a glass case, who is all excited, and wants to talk to us about it, (the scorpion that is) we do what other pin trader would do, we pick her up and throw her in the river case and all. Onward to the pin cart. We arrive and find that a few traders bypassed the scorpion lady and got there first so we get in line behind them.
We get our first signal from team PHP2 (Pin Hunting Party 2) sent ahead as a scouting party . PHP2 to almighty almighty how do read, 5 by 5 PHP2 whats your sit rep (situation report I was ex CIA once)
Next location Allstar Movies do you copy over, 10-4 PHP2 good work.
Of course by now the unprepared pin traders or newbies as we call them, are intrigued and curious by what they see and hear, they ask if that means there are other pins at the Allstar resort, well being a newbie once myself I smile and say noooooo, we are collecting mugs not pins, and we need some Allstar mugs to complete the collection. (Yea like you all didnt do to me when I was newbie)
We get to the pin cart and find one of those we never get any people here cast members that wants to enjoy this day, and then she tells us we need to answer some Disney trivia before we can go to the pin station, well being in a hurry, we surround her, and bombard her with trivia not giving her a chance to answer the first question while hitting her with another one, and real toughies too like what was Walts imaginary friends name when he was 4, and things like that, she immediately granted us entrance to the pin cart.
We get the pin and were off to the Allstar to get our next set of pins errr sorry mugs. As we exit the park we run into other pin traders who feel that they have started late and are desperate for any information, we smile and tell them the pins are a the pin station and thats all we know, but ask if they have heard anything (he he) we heard downtown Disney had some they say, we smile and leave the park.
Once clear we first check with the GPS system locate the Allstar, and track the shortest route, hack into Disneys traffic net and check the traffic situation, pinpoint team 2s location and radio ahead and tell them to scope out Downtown Disney.
We arrive at the Allstar right behind us are the newbies not so new after all, looks like they didnt buy the mug story, we get the pins no minor skirmish just a bunch of lookie loo wandering what all the commotions about, the newbies tell them this is the mug of the month club and we are all collecting mugs (Kids, they grow up and learn so fast these days)
Team 2 has arrived at downtown Disney but are having problems parking the team leader keeps running into a little old lady with a stroller delaying them at every turn, they finally figure out shes a decoy from another pin tribe, and decide to take her out. They option instead to take plan b, split the team and send the vehicle with a smaller scout party to MGM, were earlier we got a small yet significant signal from pinyus2, a spy satellite put in place by Florida pin traders in conjunction with NASA association, where uplink pin location information is available for a minimal monthly fee. Splitting the team later proved to be a mistake as you read on, but for now it seemed to be a good idea.
The team split using our own decoy and deploy method, where in as the smaller team asked the older lady decoy if she knew where the mug of the month club was meeting here or at the Contemporary, the decoy said the Contemporary we now knew she was a decoy as we knew from the Friday pin meet (every Friday at 7:00pm a Disney run pin meet with fun and excitement for everybody come one come all A shameless plug) that no pins were available there, while the decoy was busy the other team members ejected out of the back and made a mad dash to the pin location which was Team Mickeys we had gotten this information from a captured pin trader earlier this morning, who fell for the oldest trick in the book, two super cute teenage pin trader girls asking directions. (well hello and duh) since team two consisted of mostly teenage girls, that poor soul was doomed.
What remained of team two drove off to MGM, just as the decoy woman notice part of the team running towards the pin station, she did try to do her job by doing the old scream and faint while pushing the stroller onto oncoming traffic trick, but a quick heat scan of the stroller failed to show any heat signs, so we just threw her a bottle of water and pushed on.
Upon arrival team two discovered Team Mickeys computer system could not handle the pin load and exploded, so team two had to wait while the pins were transferred to a new location under the protection of Disney security of course.
Team one was mobile and headed to Epcot a quick check of the thermal images from the space shuttle showed a large gathering of bodies at Pin Central, and we knew something was up, but it was time for a radio check Almighty almighty to PHP2 . PHP2 teens here we were attacked by decoy, and had to split we are at MGM, PHP2 adult still at Downtown over 10-4 PHP2 teens what is your location over PHP2 teens here we are 2 clicks from the hat and . (Suddenly communication where interrupted and we heard) .. Hi .. whats your name .Eric, hi Eric who are your friends (giggle) no were not models (then all we heard was static and the radio went dead) PHP2 teens was in trouble, a quick check of the global positioning satellite showed PHP2 teens heading towards tower of terror not the hat, we tried the satellite phone and all we got was a message (Poppy these guys are so cute gotta go bye) Team PHP2 teens was done for all the training in the world could not prepare them for what they hit head on, (CCBOSP) or as its known Cute College Boys on spring break we lowered our heads in silence for a moment, then we prayed for them, then we turned their radio channel off , in the distance a low sounding of taps could be heard.
Oh well onto Epcot the sin city capital of the pins, there we parked the command vehicle in what seemed like a good spot and ran inside Its sad that tourist dont understand when your hunting pins everyones a victim, so if you get pushed, shoved, or thrown in the lake, its all part of the fun, we do it so you can feel like part of the pin family, and enjoy the hunting fun, so please please accept our apologies . And suck it up and get out of the way, were after pins you moron. So after a brief bout at the gates we headed for Pin central once described in Rauls book of pins, as the Sodom and Gomorra of pin land, now clean since the super traders drove out the sharks. But what do we find the Disney pin team has scattered space heaters all about, and the thermal data was decoyed and useless, we now know the only way to get information is to purchase the cute little
Thumper egg pin, dont get me wrong its a cute pin, but its an LE3500, Im a big game pin hunter here Im hunting LE1500s so we buy the pins flirt shamelessly with the girls behind the counter all while trying to figure out where the elusive Eastern pin is located, then after we buy the pins and offer up the youngest male as a sacrifice we get the information the pins are at Mouse Gears, of course the big sign outside Mouse Gears that said Easter pins here, and the two super traders standing outside pointing to Mouse Gears didnt help us feel any better. Oh well live and learn.
Were off to Disney World, but first lets try a lost cause Ill try the satellite phone and PHP2 teens see if a miracle happens . Beep beep hello wait hold on poppy well I sorta was a model for a bit, (giggle) nope PHP2 teens was still AWOL.
Team PHP2 adults was not doing so good they got the pins, but were vehicle-less so they lost control and had hijacked a Disney bus and were headed to the next resort, we knew this because the scanner was all a buzz, Disney security was tracking a hijacked bus that those crazy pin traders commandeered at Downtown Disney. It seems they found the driver and a bunch of Japanese tourists locker in a bathroom at Wolfgang Pucks, good ole team PHP2 adults always thinking of the pins.
We also have a major setback, the mobile command center is blocked in by three super RVs sent from the north to foil our pin hunt Curse you NHMickey were on to you, but nothing can stop us do you hear nothing on to the monorail.
We board the monorail and all seems to be going well when suddenly the monorail stops and we are dead on the beam, after 15 minutes we figure we have been decoyed yet again, so we pop the top and jump onto the beam and start running towards the Magic Kingdom.
Suddenly we hear over the scanner that security is after some nuts on the monorail beam, and that stolen (borrowed) Disney bus is cornered, suddenly there were guards everywhere, we were surrounded.
Could this be the end of pin heroes could this be considered pindemonium and pin suicide What will happen tune in tomorrow-same pin time same pin channel.
The story thus far, the teams are in big doo doo, but fear not team one has abandoned all their gear and don on several cameras and goffy ears hats, they convinced security they were part of the Magical Disney tour but got lost, not only did they get a ride back to the park, they each got a golden key pin for completing the tour, and we all got the Easter pin.
Team PHP2 adults had convinced two teenagers that it was okay to drive the bus, and had long since bailed out the back and made it to the resort got the pins, and were on their way to collect PHP2 teens at MGM.
Team PHP2 teens had convinced the college boys to buy them the pins, collect all our abandoned gear, help move the RVs, and totally convinced them that they were models for teen beat magazine.
All in all a good time was had by all the pins were collected now were stuck with 20 sets of Eastern pins . Woo hoo. We rock.
Disclaimer:
I need help serious help I actually believe this could happen. The little old lady was knocked on her butt and well do again if need be. Nobody ended up in the lake seriously people what do you take us for animals. Okay okay two people ended up in the lake, thats all. MSRP does not apply to stolen Disney busses. No matter where you go, there you are. NHMickey has three super RVs for sale in Florida no delivery charges applied. Im a little teapot short and stout this is my handle guess wheres my spout. Long live the Boa brigade.
Good night Orlando its been real yall, peace out see ya .This goes out to all the ladies in the house love you mean it.
The following is the accounts of a family that spent their weekend not with each other but split up in to groups hunting the elusive but popular Easter pins.
Morning comes the family sits in the animal kingdom parking lot, sitting in a circle surrounded by burning tiki torches planning their attack strategy like some great tribal tribune.
We attack at dawn says the leader, also their king know only as El Grande macho Raul, but first an equipment check.
Any true pin hunter knows that in todays day and age you need a minimum of the following if you are to survive and get the pins.
Satellite phones because the average pin hunter will use standard cell phone and block up traffic causing busy signal and frustrated results.
Global positioning, and tracking system to pin point any pin hunter, at any given time.
Two-way radio for quick communications for messages on the fly like youre in the wrong store nimrod, or check out that tourist who would think that spandex could stretch that far. (Oh sorry lost track)
A scanner tuned to Disney security frequency, because just as we like hunting pins, they like to hunt pin hunters, and they get so ticked off at the little things we do (read on to see why)
Maps of every know Disney park store, parking, bathroom, (for the women) and water fountain on property.
And last but not least, a bottle of water, unless you want to spend $2.50 for one, or you want to take a chance and drink Florida water from the tap. (Unless you have lived here for more than 2 years this is not advised)
Editors note empty bottle of water will double as a bathroom substitute when in a hurry, since it is a proven fact that stopping at a bathroom will delay you for 5 minutes 23 seconds if your man, 2 hours 13 minutes 23 seconds if youre a woman. Also to be noted the official Disney pin trading manual suggests that you not do this on the monorails, unless you are with a group that can form a curtain or barrier from the other tourists, and they also ask you from making long loud reliving noises like aaaahhhhhhhh, or oh yeaaaaaaa, this of course pertains only to the male species, the females can make any noise they wish, as the male mind finds any noise a woman makes so gosh darn cute.
Our first stop Disneys Animal kingdom, armed with my vow that if one more person runs up to me and yells Not-a-zoo in my face, Im taking them down. We gather with 200 other pin hunters and a family of 6 actually there to see the animals, the youngest of which runs up to me, and yep with an innocent smile yells not-a-zoo I reach into my backpack to get my stun-gun, and am instantly given that look by Donna All right I put it back buts thats it no more.
We reach security checkpoint Charlie Victor Bravo and open our backpacks, they know its a pin hunt day, so the extra equipment is not only expected, but also welcomed, cause if they catch us doing something bad they get to keep it.
Were in immediately we make a dash for the pin station, but are cut of by woman holding a scorpion in a glass case, who is all excited, and wants to talk to us about it, (the scorpion that is) we do what other pin trader would do, we pick her up and throw her in the river case and all. Onward to the pin cart. We arrive and find that a few traders bypassed the scorpion lady and got there first so we get in line behind them.
We get our first signal from team PHP2 (Pin Hunting Party 2) sent ahead as a scouting party . PHP2 to almighty almighty how do read, 5 by 5 PHP2 whats your sit rep (situation report I was ex CIA once)
Next location Allstar Movies do you copy over, 10-4 PHP2 good work.Of course by now the unprepared pin traders or newbies as we call them, are intrigued and curious by what they see and hear, they ask if that means there are other pins at the Allstar resort, well being a newbie once myself I smile and say noooooo, we are collecting mugs not pins, and we need some Allstar mugs to complete the collection. (Yea like you all didnt do to me when I was newbie)
We get to the pin cart and find one of those we never get any people here cast members that wants to enjoy this day, and then she tells us we need to answer some Disney trivia before we can go to the pin station, well being in a hurry, we surround her, and bombard her with trivia not giving her a chance to answer the first question while hitting her with another one, and real toughies too like what was Walts imaginary friends name when he was 4, and things like that, she immediately granted us entrance to the pin cart.
We get the pin and were off to the Allstar to get our next set of pins errr sorry mugs. As we exit the park we run into other pin traders who feel that they have started late and are desperate for any information, we smile and tell them the pins are a the pin station and thats all we know, but ask if they have heard anything (he he) we heard downtown Disney had some they say, we smile and leave the park.
Once clear we first check with the GPS system locate the Allstar, and track the shortest route, hack into Disneys traffic net and check the traffic situation, pinpoint team 2s location and radio ahead and tell them to scope out Downtown Disney.
We arrive at the Allstar right behind us are the newbies not so new after all, looks like they didnt buy the mug story, we get the pins no minor skirmish just a bunch of lookie loo wandering what all the commotions about, the newbies tell them this is the mug of the month club and we are all collecting mugs (Kids, they grow up and learn so fast these days)
Team 2 has arrived at downtown Disney but are having problems parking the team leader keeps running into a little old lady with a stroller delaying them at every turn, they finally figure out shes a decoy from another pin tribe, and decide to take her out. They option instead to take plan b, split the team and send the vehicle with a smaller scout party to MGM, were earlier we got a small yet significant signal from pinyus2, a spy satellite put in place by Florida pin traders in conjunction with NASA association, where uplink pin location information is available for a minimal monthly fee. Splitting the team later proved to be a mistake as you read on, but for now it seemed to be a good idea.
The team split using our own decoy and deploy method, where in as the smaller team asked the older lady decoy if she knew where the mug of the month club was meeting here or at the Contemporary, the decoy said the Contemporary we now knew she was a decoy as we knew from the Friday pin meet (every Friday at 7:00pm a Disney run pin meet with fun and excitement for everybody come one come all A shameless plug) that no pins were available there, while the decoy was busy the other team members ejected out of the back and made a mad dash to the pin location which was Team Mickeys we had gotten this information from a captured pin trader earlier this morning, who fell for the oldest trick in the book, two super cute teenage pin trader girls asking directions. (well hello and duh) since team two consisted of mostly teenage girls, that poor soul was doomed.
What remained of team two drove off to MGM, just as the decoy woman notice part of the team running towards the pin station, she did try to do her job by doing the old scream and faint while pushing the stroller onto oncoming traffic trick, but a quick heat scan of the stroller failed to show any heat signs, so we just threw her a bottle of water and pushed on.
Upon arrival team two discovered Team Mickeys computer system could not handle the pin load and exploded, so team two had to wait while the pins were transferred to a new location under the protection of Disney security of course.
Team one was mobile and headed to Epcot a quick check of the thermal images from the space shuttle showed a large gathering of bodies at Pin Central, and we knew something was up, but it was time for a radio check Almighty almighty to PHP2 . PHP2 teens here we were attacked by decoy, and had to split we are at MGM, PHP2 adult still at Downtown over 10-4 PHP2 teens what is your location over PHP2 teens here we are 2 clicks from the hat and . (Suddenly communication where interrupted and we heard) .. Hi .. whats your name .Eric, hi Eric who are your friends (giggle) no were not models (then all we heard was static and the radio went dead) PHP2 teens was in trouble, a quick check of the global positioning satellite showed PHP2 teens heading towards tower of terror not the hat, we tried the satellite phone and all we got was a message (Poppy these guys are so cute gotta go bye) Team PHP2 teens was done for all the training in the world could not prepare them for what they hit head on, (CCBOSP) or as its known Cute College Boys on spring break we lowered our heads in silence for a moment, then we prayed for them, then we turned their radio channel off , in the distance a low sounding of taps could be heard.
Oh well onto Epcot the sin city capital of the pins, there we parked the command vehicle in what seemed like a good spot and ran inside Its sad that tourist dont understand when your hunting pins everyones a victim, so if you get pushed, shoved, or thrown in the lake, its all part of the fun, we do it so you can feel like part of the pin family, and enjoy the hunting fun, so please please accept our apologies . And suck it up and get out of the way, were after pins you moron. So after a brief bout at the gates we headed for Pin central once described in Rauls book of pins, as the Sodom and Gomorra of pin land, now clean since the super traders drove out the sharks. But what do we find the Disney pin team has scattered space heaters all about, and the thermal data was decoyed and useless, we now know the only way to get information is to purchase the cute little
Thumper egg pin, dont get me wrong its a cute pin, but its an LE3500, Im a big game pin hunter here Im hunting LE1500s so we buy the pins flirt shamelessly with the girls behind the counter all while trying to figure out where the elusive Eastern pin is located, then after we buy the pins and offer up the youngest male as a sacrifice we get the information the pins are at Mouse Gears, of course the big sign outside Mouse Gears that said Easter pins here, and the two super traders standing outside pointing to Mouse Gears didnt help us feel any better. Oh well live and learn.
Were off to Disney World, but first lets try a lost cause Ill try the satellite phone and PHP2 teens see if a miracle happens . Beep beep hello wait hold on poppy well I sorta was a model for a bit, (giggle) nope PHP2 teens was still AWOL.
Team PHP2 adults was not doing so good they got the pins, but were vehicle-less so they lost control and had hijacked a Disney bus and were headed to the next resort, we knew this because the scanner was all a buzz, Disney security was tracking a hijacked bus that those crazy pin traders commandeered at Downtown Disney. It seems they found the driver and a bunch of Japanese tourists locker in a bathroom at Wolfgang Pucks, good ole team PHP2 adults always thinking of the pins.
We also have a major setback, the mobile command center is blocked in by three super RVs sent from the north to foil our pin hunt Curse you NHMickey were on to you, but nothing can stop us do you hear nothing on to the monorail.
We board the monorail and all seems to be going well when suddenly the monorail stops and we are dead on the beam, after 15 minutes we figure we have been decoyed yet again, so we pop the top and jump onto the beam and start running towards the Magic Kingdom.
Suddenly we hear over the scanner that security is after some nuts on the monorail beam, and that stolen (borrowed) Disney bus is cornered, suddenly there were guards everywhere, we were surrounded.
Could this be the end of pin heroes could this be considered pindemonium and pin suicide What will happen tune in tomorrow-same pin time same pin channel.
The story thus far, the teams are in big doo doo, but fear not team one has abandoned all their gear and don on several cameras and goffy ears hats, they convinced security they were part of the Magical Disney tour but got lost, not only did they get a ride back to the park, they each got a golden key pin for completing the tour, and we all got the Easter pin.
Team PHP2 adults had convinced two teenagers that it was okay to drive the bus, and had long since bailed out the back and made it to the resort got the pins, and were on their way to collect PHP2 teens at MGM.
Team PHP2 teens had convinced the college boys to buy them the pins, collect all our abandoned gear, help move the RVs, and totally convinced them that they were models for teen beat magazine.
All in all a good time was had by all the pins were collected now were stuck with 20 sets of Eastern pins . Woo hoo. We rock.
Disclaimer:
I need help serious help I actually believe this could happen. The little old lady was knocked on her butt and well do again if need be. Nobody ended up in the lake seriously people what do you take us for animals. Okay okay two people ended up in the lake, thats all. MSRP does not apply to stolen Disney busses. No matter where you go, there you are. NHMickey has three super RVs for sale in Florida no delivery charges applied. Im a little teapot short and stout this is my handle guess wheres my spout. Long live the Boa brigade.
Good night Orlando its been real yall, peace out see ya .This goes out to all the ladies in the house love you mean it.
