Pin Trading

[GOOFY D]

We just returned from the July 6 cruise (just missed the AC pins). It was my daughter's first time pin trading and she was a little shy. The good thing is that they have a binder at the pin trading times that you can "trade with" by just selecting a pin and replacing it with one of yours as long as the page in the binder does not already have that pin. It was an easy way to get here started. She then moved on to the cast members and that was pleasant. However, some of the pin trading times got somewhat unpleasant. As my daughter was looking at the binder, some young girls (early teens maybe) started pushing their way in and grabbing as many pins out of the book as they could (none of the pins in the book were anything special, just rack pins). When the cast member told them they could only do two trades per day from the book, their mother actually encouraged them by pushing in also. They seemed to have purchased a 4 pin set at CC for $10.50 and traded one at a time for the ones in the book. Well, this sort of scared my daugher off as they were pushing and shoving. It is a shame that the CMs could not control them, but it was sort of busy at the time.

 

[Mike Bartenhagen]

Questions in regards to the pins. I have a daughter who is 5 and last week I bought her the pin collecting starter kit from the Disney Catalog because the kids (also bought one for my three year old but she was not nearly as interested) always want to get something at the Disney Store when we are in town and I got tired of buying things they only played with for a few minutes and then they were tired of. I also thought it would be fun for them to get some pins on the ship which would last mcuh longer than a Captain Mickey toy. She is excited about her pin collection and I think it will be fun for her. What I would like to know is what are the pins that we should buy that will sell out? On the pin rack at the store there were many pins that all referenced movies and charachters which appeared like they were always available. There were also a few Lilo and Stitch pins that were in a little nicer package and a few that we bought the girl at the counter told us they were the last ones. Do pins come out with every movie that are sold for only a short time, is this what the Lilo and Stitch pins were? Also does everyone take the pins out of the packages? My girls are doing this for fun so I am not so much worried about the future value but I have a toy tractor collection and I am very aware that tractors in the orginal package sell for much more than those that aren't. Is this the case with pins? Just wondering as I knew many had pins on lanyards which would obviously require removal from the package.

I guess ultimatly I would like to know which pins we should look for that will sell out quickly. They don't need the 80.00 sets that I have seen in the catalog but I don't mind buying the 7.00 pins such as the Lilo and Stich we bought the other night.

 

[PinClubs]

Hi Mike,

Below you will find an early post by me. It should answer most of you questions.

Original package: Usually just the Disney Store pins come in a package, but not always. Since the store pins are more widely available, you won't find anyone of them in high demand, so in or out of the package isn't going to make much difference.

Originally posted by PinClubs
Let me make a few ammendments to the last post....

I was on the July 4th cruise - Wonder - and there were two places to buy pins.

Mickey Mates - a store on deck 4 and the "Pin Trading Station" from 7:30 - 8:30 on deck 3 or 4 depending on the evening.

Rack pins: $6.50 - $8.50
Limited Editions (LEs): $8.50 - $15.00
Artist Choice - $12.50

The rack pins are commons, no big deal, cute but inexpensive. The LEs are more popular because they are limited. The 4th of July pin with Goofy was an LE of 1000. There was also a Chip & Dale LE of 3,500. Also another DCL slider pin that was a LE 3000

The most sought after pin is the DCL Artist Choice because it is an LE of 750 - 375 per ship - and the ship is the only place you can buy the pin. As a matter of fact the pin is not sold at Mickey Mates only the Pin Station and it is limited to two per person. A new DCL Artist Choice is released every month.

If you have any other questions, you can email me directly,

Jeff (Buddy Bear) Langdon

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

Originally posted by BeanoC
Dreams:

In an attempt to answer your question as best I can: No, "semi-cloisonne" and "Soft enamel" pins are not considered Disney-tradable pins.

Of course, fellow pin traders can trade for whatever the heck they want, but CM's won't trade for these.

Help me out guys - am I right here?


'Beano'

Well, the things I find when I'm at home and just do some searching.

Okay, I'm assuming the rules for DCL pin trading are the same as rules for WDW, since the DCL port is so close to WDW and I haven't heard differently from any traders that have been on the pin event cruises. In WDW, any metal pin with a Disney copyright or a Disney affiliation (Rainforest Cafe and Planet Hollywood in WDW, DTD McDonalds and Lego store, etc.) is tradable with a CM. The rules at DL and DCA do differ slightly -- IIRC, pins that are metal in appearance with no coloring whatsoever and pins that are basically a photo with an epoxy dome over it are not tradable in DL and DCA. Pins that are non-tradable in all the parks include rubber pins, name pins, non-Disney pins, and forgery Disney pins (looks like Disney but doesn't have the Disney copyright).

Pretty much most pins made by Disney are enamel or semi-cloisonne and there are very few true cloisonne pins made these days. I won't go into details on the differences between true cloisonne and enamel, but when you're in WDW check out Scoop's seminar at Expo Hall in MK.

Pinclubs posted a link over to the Collectors Board. I have one in my signature also. If anyone has any questions, come on over and ask away. The pin collectors there love to talk about pin trading.

p.s. to the DCL forum mods ... hope I didn't get TOO off topic.

 

[Mike Bartenhagen]

I want to make sure I've got this right. There is a set of 60 pins on cheappins.com for 60.00. So if I buy these and my daughters take them on the ship they will be able to trade the CMs for DCL pins. How do the CM's display the pins that they have for trade? Do they always add DCL pins to their collection of pins to trade? Otherwise I would think that most people would want to trade for DCL pins and they would have none of these but plenty of cheap pins from DIS members. The collection of 60 has many duplicates, would this be a problem?

 

[PinClubs]

Mike,

What they do in the parks and I am pretty sure they do on the ship is this.

Before they go to work, the CMs are handed a lanyard with 12 pins, which they hang around their neck. These pins belong to Disney and not the CMs. When they return at the end of their shift they are required to have 12 pins on their lanyard.

Depending on when you catch the CM they can have a bunch of cool Disney pins or some not so nice cheap (common) pins. The CMs on the ship can wear any Disney pin that meets pin trading requirements and they don't necessarily have to be DCL pins.

As far as your cheap pins are concerned, if they meet Disney's criteria for pin trading then go ahead and buy them.

The duplicates can be a little bit of a problem, because one of the pin trading rules states that you cannot trade a pin to a CM that they already have on their lanyard.

Jeff