Pin Trading??

Has anybody heard about Pin Trading?

I was looking through a guide book the other day and it mentioned that guests can ask castmembers to trade any pins that they're wearing on their costumes...

Does anybody know if we buy these pins, or are we given a few to start with ~ I'm not really sure I like the idea of trading a pin that I bought because I really liked it!

Ahhh well...maybe I'll end up with a better one ~ or just not wear any at all!

Charlene

 

Easy,

if you bought a pin and you like it a lot, don't wear it while on stage

 

That's the simple way out!!!! ;D

 

OMG Charlene i completely forgot bout this!! My dad was crazy about it when we went and they hav some amazing pins!! I dont know if we hav to buy them but if there is a pin u like and u dont wanna trade just hide it lol

I remember going Disney and seein all castmembers wearin these pins and thinkin how cool they were and how i wanted one but guess i will b one of those people soon  

xXx

 

check out this website....

http://www.pinstore.com/disney/castmemb.htm

...there's special "Castmember" pins!!! Gem...that really is gonna be us!!!

 

In Merch, we had to wear lanyards on stage. Then guests could come up and trade us a disney pin for one of the ones on the lanyard. It was fun sometimes, but got really annoying when people would grab your lanyard and drag you around by it!! People feel that they can just grab you...and sometimes they miss the lanyard and do!!! You will see the same people that come week after week...we called them Pin Freaks and try to take all your good pins, so we'd hide them sometimes.

You can't wear pins on your costume (unless it is a special disney approved one, which you can't trade anyways) so you don't have to worry about people wanting yours.

Shan

 

whats a lanyard?

 

This is a lanyard. You get one from Disney and stick pins on it for then to trade. I remember I hated it. It had NOTHING to do with being a cultural representative.

 

now we're talking! I love pin trading I usually go lining up to buy the special limited ones early in the morning! then if I buy some spares I go and trade them for ones I haven't got with the pro's that wait outside the stores. it's really cool! I can't wait to be able to buy all the cast member specials. I've managed to get a few by buying them on ebay and trading with cast members.
I remember one time we saw this guy walk by that had some great pins on his landyard so I ran after him and asked him if we could trade, only in horror to find that this guy was not a cast member (he had no badge!) :-[ , me and my mum were just saying sorry a lot for stopping him! but he then said that he is a cast member but just on his day off! he must have had that disney cast member walk! lol oh and we did trade a pin with him so it was cool in the end!

 

OMG i love pin trading!!!!!!!! i had a pink thing!! ( i dont know the correct name ,but u put the pins on it!)(sadly it fell in my oil paint as i was painting my penguins :'() but its ok! my pins were safe!!! i will definatly want to wear my pins.they arnt allowed tho ,are they??


xxx ;D

 

I got my first PIN at the Disney Presentation.. The International Program pin which they have stopped making I heard..

 

hey chavster!!! ur lucky then arnt u!!!! which question did u get right? ;D

when are u going orlando?>

 

oh pin sounding sounds cool! imagine making those little kids happy

 

I have spent so much money on those pins. I have like 40 of them in my room on a special Disney cork board.

Any one ever go to the pin trading station in Downtown Disney? That place is crazy with people who have thousands of dollars worth of pins.

 

my brother has started the pi trading three years ago... he has got two lanyards full of pins... he must have at least 45 or something.... the thing is that you cannot stop buying them and then trade them... lol this is sooo much fun

 

the pins are pretty expensive....when im over there im gunna collect sum for my brothers..they so wanted to collect pins last time we went...unfortunatly they didnt get any  ..ill get them sum this time tho!!!

 

you're are a lovely sister...
gonna buy my bro some as well

 

Christmas presents all the way!

 

aw thanx jessy uve made my day!!

 

I got a really easy question.. "Whats Disney called in Orlando"

I leave in 12 days! Getting really excited now, started to pack and got all my stuff now