Disney Trading Pins - How to Theme Your Disney Pin Collection

By: Emma Martin

If you've been to any of the Disney parks lately you've probably noticed lots of other park guests walking around the park wearing pin lanyards around the neck, loaded with Disney trading pins. The pins have become a remarkably popular collectible among all kinds of Disney fans, especially park goers who encounter the experience of pin trading for the first time.

Disney introduced pin trading at Disneyland in late 1999, but it really took off when they expanded it to Walt Disney World during the Millennium Celebration for 2000/2001. With the celebration long since over, the pin trading and collecting hasn't let up at all and has expanded to all the other Disney parks as well and now each Disney theme park features special locations set aside for Disney pin collectors to congregate so they can show off and swap their pins.

Retail prices for pins at the Disney parks are usually between $7 and $14 for individual pins so if you find yourself drawn to them, it's important to not let things get too out of hand or you'll find that you've spent most of your vacation money on pins. What I recommend is theming your Disney pin collection. Keeping your collection themed also helps control costs and dealing with the overwhelming selection of pins available.

Every month Disney releases dozens of new pins and even with an unlimited pocketbook, it is impossible to get them all. So it makes more sense to theme your collection. For example, I only collect Mickey Mouse pins, Stitch pins and pins featuring Walt Disney himself. When I first started collecting, I was much less focused, but once I settled upon my themes, it was easy enough to sell or trade the pins that didn’t fit my collection for ones that did.

Some of the themes you might consider for your Disney pin collection are Disney characters. Mickey Mouse, Tinker Bell and Winnie the Pooh are some of the most popular choices among pin collectors and you can amass a collection in the hundreds of just one of these characters. Right now I have at least 75 pins featuring just Mickey Mouse. In order to keep my collection’s focus even tighter, I usually only buy the pins that feature Mickey on his own and not with all his friends.

Other themes might include Disney cast member pins - these are pins that are only distributed or sold to Disney employees and they are a very popular collectible item; or you could build your collection on pins only released at Disneyland or in the international parks - Disneyland Paris, Tokyo or Hong Kong. It's all up to you -- you could even specialize in just Disney Resort pins since each resort -- from the Grand Californian in Disneyland to the Grand Floridian in Walt Disney World -- has their own pins.

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You don't have to go to Disney World to collect Disney trading pins. It's easy to buy and even trade them online. And be sure to check out my own fave: Disney Stitch pins. You'll find even more great pins on my website: disneypins.collectiblesnook.com

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