National Parks copying Disney?

[brimel]

While vacationing at Yellowstone NP last week, I saw something really cool. In many of the gift shops we entered (and I think we entered them all) were racks of pins depicting features of the Park, such as Old Faithful. They were also selling lanyards, as well as a set containing a lanyard & two each of two different pins. They also had a card describing a "new tradition" of pin collecting and trading, with trading guidelines. They even had employees in some of the stores wearing the lanyards laden with pins that you could trade for. Does anyone have any idea where they came up with this concept? This might very well turn into something popular.

By the way, Yellowstone is extraordinarily beautiful. Being from the East Coast, the change in scenery (not to mention the 15% humidity) was fabulous. I constantly hear the siren call of WDW, but this was a very worthwhile trip.

Steve

 

[NHMickey]

Pin trading has been around for ever... It seems that Disney just rekindled it and took it to a new level... It is funny as I was just in Las Vegas I saw other conventions in town and a few of them had Lanyards with pins... And even a few folfs seemed to be collecting pins from the different casinos/hotels.

 

[Eeyore's Pal]

Pintrading, as a collectible hobby, has more people involved, than any other single hobby on Earth.

Olympic pintrading is by far the largest category.

We actually got started collecting pins from places we visited, then added some Olympic pins, and finally fell head-first (or was that <i>wallet</i>-first? ) into Disney pins.

 

[YenSid1222]

I think we should have a pin meet at Yellowstone...that sounds very relaxing...

 

[KAP]

My mom has been collecting pins from National Parks and other vacation spots for years. She puts them on the curtain of her RV.
Kim