inexpensive pins?

[iluvtinkerbell]

We will be going back to WDW in a couple of weeks and I was wondering where I could purchase some inexpensive pins for DD (who is 4) to begin trading with CM? My older children who are 15 and 10 love trading, so of course my younger daughter wants to join in on the fun. Also does anyone know if they still sell the "My first Pin" sets? I had purchased these back a few years ago for my other two children and thought younger DD would also enjoy this. I think I paid around $20 and it came with a lanyard and a couple of pins.

Thanks for any help or advice you can offer!!

 

[macntosh]

I purchased from mousepinsonline.com and couldn't be more pleased. They have multiple Grab Bags with 25, 40, 75, 100, 200 units.

I took my daughter for her third birthday, and this was one of the best things we did. She would make me go out of our way to trade pins, and I got into it as well. She chose Princesses to trade for and I went after Cast Lanyard pins.

Buy more then you think you will need as you don't want to buy them at the park to trade. I got 8 pins at the park when I needed traders and I could have gotten 25 online.

Enjoy yourself. I know I am planning our next trip so we can trade.

 

[Parkhopper]

Another option may be to search for "pin lots" on ebay. Many times you can find inexpensive traders there. Don't purchase pin lots that have the 2000 Millennium Dancers or Kodak 2004 pins as they will be difficult to trade as they are on just about every CM lanyard right now.

Suzi

 

[HollyJoy]

I purchased from mousepinsonline.com and couldn't be more pleased. They have multiple Grab Bags with 25, 40, 75, 100, 200 units.

I took my daughter for her third birthday, and this was one of the best things we did. She would make me go out of our way to trade pins, and I got into it as well. She chose Princesses to trade for and I went after Cast Lanyard pins.

Buy more then you think you will need as you don't want to buy them at the park to trade. I got 8 pins at the park when I needed traders and I could have gotten 25 online.

Enjoy yourself. I know I am planning our next trip so we can trade.

Thanks for this info! I will probably order a lot just before we go back. I hate buying pins at the park and then seeing my girls trade them away!

 

[*EWooWDW*]

I purchased from mousepinsonline.com and couldn't be more pleased. They have multiple Grab Bags with 25, 40, 75, 100, 200 units.

I took my daughter for her third birthday, and this was one of the best things we did. She would make me go out of our way to trade pins, and I got into it as well. She chose Princesses to trade for and I went after Cast Lanyard pins.

Buy more then you think you will need as you don't want to buy them at the park to trade. I got 8 pins at the park when I needed traders and I could have gotten 25 online.

Enjoy yourself. I know I am planning our next trip so we can trade.

Are these pins easy to trade in the park?

 

[HollyJoy]

Well, for my girls, all they trade with are Cast Members, so yes, they are easy to trade in that sense. Cast members usually don't pick which pin they take from my girls..

 

[*EWooWDW*]

Yeah I didn't know if the pins were actual disney ones. I couldn't figure out how they can sell them for such a low price.

 

[macntosh]

Well they were easy to trade with cast members. My daughter did a few trades with other children, but I don't think the avid collector would be looking for these. They basically are just another brand that was made at one time but have gone out of business. They are branded by Disney and thus able to trade.

They aren't the greatest, but are much better then the Spanish Pins. Not sure when we will be going back again, but I keep holding myself back on buying a few hundred. I don't know how close they are to the end of their run.

I took 100 pins for my daughter to trade and wish I bought 200, so I wouldn't steal from her to trade. I didn't think I was going to get so pulled in, but those silly Cast Lanyards, really pulled on my OCD's. We were there for six days.

 

[BONITATIME]

They are a company in Germany that as far as I know is still selling and producing pins. I guess like Sedesma they had the license before pin trading in the parks started. Neither set of pins is acceptable to trade with in Disneyland Resort Paris. I was caught out this way when I started trading.

 

[pezpam]

Actually, in looking at other sites, Disney seems to go back and forth on the Sedesma and other such pins. On our last trip, they were tradable, but even the CMs weren't very happy to see them and one let us know that they had not been tradable previously and might not be in future. (No, we didn't have them for trading, but did see others trading them)

I do have a couple of Sedesma pins that came in lots I bought along with 'real' pins. The few I have seen are so cheap-looking that I can't see trading them up. Maybe if I knew that the CM trading wasn't a collector, but just had a trading lanyard they turned in at night........

As with all things Disney, who knows........

 

[daber]

If you run out of traders while in Orlando, go to the Character Warehouse in the Beltz Outlet. They usually cost $4 there.