Disney - It's all about the pins

[agt_spooky]

So remember when I said I had finished with my posts about my Disney vacation? Yeah, I lied. :-)

I completely forgot to talk about the pins! My friend Andrew has been down to Disney about a million times and he always came back with a couple of pins. He told me it was a big deal down there but I had no idea until I saw it with my own two eyes.

Holy crap, these people take their pins seriously!. There were stores devoted to nothing but pins. Hundreds and hundreds of them! And people walk around with them on lanyards and trade them with other people, including the park employees!

Needless to say, I quickly got caught up in the pin frenzy as well. And 18 pins and $100 later, here's what I scored. Do you notice a theme? :-)

And here's my "variety pack". The Winnie the Pooh one was a bonus pin for buying over a certain dollar amount and I love it because it says 1971 on it - the year I was born and also the year that Disney World opened. Had to get one that said 2013 on it, of course, and there's one from the Wilderness and my little buddies, Chip and Dale. Oops, how did that other Star Wars one get in there? LOL!

And now I'm done with Disney. Really. ;-)

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Comments

[celtprincess13.livejournal.com]

I'm a pin collector and I fear I'd have to take out a second mortgage before pin shopping at Disney. These are all awesome, I think I like Pooh best.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you’d have gone insane down there. You should have seen my face when I walked into the first store. And people were swarming like bees, for crying out loud! LOL! It was really cute to see kids stopping the park employees to trade pins with them. :-)

[cadia58.livejournal.com]

My favorite: the 2013 one. What do you do with those pins? Just pinning them on a pinboard or do you wear them too?

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

They had SO many different 2013 ones. Took me forever to decide!

For right now I’m keeping the Star Wars ones in their boxes and displaying them with my other collectibles. The others I’m putting on the Mickey Mouse lanyard I also bought and I’ve got it hanging in my office at home.

[queeberquabbler.livejournal.com]

That one of Stitch as Yoda is SO AWESOME! I WANT ONE!!!!!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Isn’t that neat?? I totally laughed at that one. :-) And I love Donald as the Stormtrooper, too.

[tracys-dream.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are awesome!
Love the chip n dale one!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Aren’t they cool?? As soon as I saw them I knew I had to have them. :-) The neat thing about the chipmunks is that Dale is actually on a spring, so he moves!

[tracys-dream.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really cool!

[maguie.livejournal.com]

they are so cute!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Aren’t they?? As soon as I saw them I knew I had to have them. :-)

[donelbo.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE SOOO COOL!!!! LOVE THEM!!!
It took me a lot of mind control to not start collecting those ;).

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

It’s a darn good thing that I don’t live anywhere near Disney because I’d be there all the time spending all my money on those darn pins! LOL!

[rivercritter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my friend Wendy is a huge fan of the Disney pins. She spent a LOT on them. She said if you see a park employee and they have a pin you like, they HAVE to trade it to you in exchange for one of yours. That's how people get the limited edition ones that are super rare. The employees come out wearing them.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kept seeing folks going up to employees who were wearing lanyards and exchanging with them. What a neat thing! Now that I know how it works, if I get back down there again I’ll definitely be scoping out the employees!

[faninohio.livejournal.com]

Nice selection! I found that store the last time I went to Disney, I couldn't believe it was nothing but pins! They certainly do love them.

I really enjoyed all your Disney posts and pictures!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

The pin stuff just blew me away! It’s a darn good thing that I don’t actually live close to Disney because I could see myself dropping a LOT of money on those things. :-)

And thank you! I’m glad you liked reading about my Disney adventures.