Does anybody collect pins?

[dstrawn9889]

silver solder, and a soldering iron, Madeye...

@ BuDz211--- try this. go ahead and prepurchase your trading fodder pins... then you do not have to keep buying expensive trading starter packs... ebay has some good buys there
http://www.ebay.com/itm/50-Disney-Tradi ... 3cbc9a72b4
less than a dollar a pin in some cases...

[cy1229]

naw, AMY, there 'were' twelve monorail colors, then two were retired (purple and pink) and new colors introduced to replace them (peach and teal). when these sets were released there was red, green, blue, orange, yellow, purple, pink, lime, coral, gold, silver, and black.

That ^^ color font thingie took a lot of mouse clicking. Cute.

[dstrawn9889]

its nbd, other than there is no silver in the standard clicky box in SSR, it was a very light peach. had to go to the charts and find my ASCII Color Reference...

[cy1229]

its nbd, other than there is no silver in the standard clicky box in SSR, it was a very light peach. had to go to the charts and find my ASCII Color Reference...

Nerdometer - out of range.

[MadEye]

i am still missing one, Peter Pan's Flight, and the people who have them know how hard they are to find... ($15+ on ebay now)

I'll be on the look out for you. I had one PPF FP pin for about two weeks before I traded it for the broken Monorail Red.

Speaking of Monorails, found Orange today. Traded another Purple I found today as well for it (actually, since I already had two Monorail pins, I let them choose which color they wanted in the trade).

[MadEye]

silver solder, and a soldering iron, Madeye...

Not going to work with all the super glue all over the back... Oh well, I know their out there, I just have to be at the right place at the right time.

[sfcaguy]

I've bought a bunch of pins, but the funny part is that I never bought a pin inside WDW. Here's a small sample of the pins I have mixed with some non-Disney pins. See a theme?

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w251 ... 67766a.jpg

I plan on spending $100 on my next trip to WDW on pins. They will probably be souvenirs based on the trip. For example, if we say at Pop Century, I'll buy a Pop Century pin. If we go in December, I'll buy some Christmas pins, etc. I'm hoping for a good score.

I really like the Epcot/Horizons pin - very cool.

[dstrawn9889]

I've bought a bunch of pins, but the funny part is that I never bought a pin inside WDW. Here's a small sample of the pins I have mixed with some non-Disney pins. See a theme?

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w251 ... 67766a.jpg

I plan on spending $100 on my next trip to WDW on pins. They will probably be souvenirs based on the trip. For example, if we say at Pop Century, I'll buy a Pop Century pin. If we go in December, I'll buy some Christmas pins, etc. I'm hoping for a good score.

I really like the Epcot/Horizons pin - very cool.

anyone else see the R.O.B. pin, and suddenly get nostalgic for Gyromite?

[Amy]

anyone else see the R.O.B. pin, and suddenly get nostalgic for Gyromite?

What is R.O.B.? And what is Gyromite??

[dstrawn9889]

its not disney, its the Robot Nintendo released for the NES... and Gyromite was the game that came with 'him'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B.

[Amy]

its not disney, its the Robot Nintendo released for the NES... and Gyromite was the game that came with 'him'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B.

Ohhhh, yeah, never had a gaming system of my own...

[redstomr63]

silver solder, and a soldering iron, Madeye...

@ BuDz211--- try this. go ahead and prepurchase your trading fodder pins... then you do not have to keep buying expensive trading starter packs... ebay has some good buys there
http://www.ebay.com/itm/50-Disney-Tradi ... 3cbc9a72b4
less than a dollar a pin in some cases...

The only caveat that I can say about buying from eBay is buyer beware. A lot of the big lots contain mainly fake pins and are a hindrance to the pin trading community. Which the pin trading community calls "scrappers." A Scrapper pin is an unauthorized pin. Many of the molds Disney uses to make pins are not destroyed after the creation of its pin order, and bootlegs are created. This practice has flooded the Disney parks and secondary markets like eBay with cheap imitations, mostly of Cast lanyard pins and mystery release pins. Some are sold on eBay or found in the parks before the real pins are even released.

Usually if it sounds too good to be true on ebay, it usually is.

[dstrawn9889]

allright i'll add a caveat then: stick with reputable Disney pin trading companies (sleepy's is my preferred) and they also do the large pin packs(i even got a few that i needed to fill the ranks of my keepers)

[SorcererDonald16]

I enjoyed looking at ya'll's pictures! One thing I've always liked about collecting overall is that everyone's collection has a different personality. Really neat to see what people like!

I had completely forgotten to take pics of my pins since I ended up being MIA from here for over a year; I'll have to do that soon.

I traded more last year, but I can't say I'm a huge fan of that. Am I the only one who has a hard time trading? I generally just look out for Donald and Wilderness Lodge pins because I don't like dealing with the scrapper issue, and they aren't very easy to find. I think I came back with about 6 pins left over that I didn't find anything to trade for. And I only bought maybe 15 or so to take with me.

[momeja]

I enjoyed looking at ya'll's pictures! One thing I've always liked about collecting overall is that everyone's collection has a different personality. Really neat to see what people like!

I had completely forgotten to take pics of my pins since I ended up being MIA from here for over a year; I'll have to do that soon.

I traded more last year, but I can't say I'm a huge fan of that. Am I the only one who has a hard time trading? I generally just look out for Donald and Wilderness Lodge pins because I don't like dealing with the scrapper issue, and they aren't very easy to find. I think I came back with about 6 pins left over that I didn't find anything to trade for. And I only bought maybe 15 or so to take with me.

My kids collect and trade. They never have a problem. Of course, they probably aren't that picky either.

A question for pin collectors: how do you store your excess pins? Their lanyards are getting too heavy!