DLR Any word on 2015 DLR hidden mickeys?...has anyone seen what they will be?
I am surprised they still have left overs from wave b
Again, I think this was a result of the west coast port slowdown. And I expect the pins were stuck on a ship they didn't know when would be unloaded. They knew they needed to do something and so they flip- flopped the pins.
My experience has been they are super stingy with the current wave. Then when a new wave gets released, they get stingy with that one, and flood the lanyards with the previous wave, meaning they have a lot of stock left. At least that's how it's been at WDW. So I don't think it's surprising they have Wave B pins to swap.
Just another way of saying we do not care about you pin traders...
There already were sets of hidden mickeys that were available at both parks. By releasing ones unique to each coast it was intended so we could all trade with each other to get the ones we needed. By making all hidden mickeys available at all parks, it's simply another step to eliminating trading as a hobby for people outside of the parks. It's not a good thing.
ETA: I also do think it's far more likely due to new hidden mickeys not being ready - either due to production or shipping issues - than anything to do with "guest feedback" no matter what the CMs are being told/are saying.
Dude, yes really. It's an old merchandise line with a trading aspect that's a hassle to keep going via cast members getting nothing but fakes in return.Dude really? I highly doubt they're out to just kill trading as a hobby.
I will probably never get to go to WDW so buying online is probably my only option, and i'm not the only one. Families save up for a lifetime to go. If they really want the DLR HMs what would be a better way for them to get them?
Wishing for a thing doesn't make it so.Disney is supports pins and pin traders more than ever right now.
Wishing for a thing doesn't make it so.
Are there dedicated pin cruises? Daily instructional Pin Talks at MK by Scoop where he gives away pins to attendees? Free monthly (I think WDW even had bi-weekly) PTNs with announced-in-advance pin releases and trade boards? Multiple pin events at multiple WDW parks held multiple times a year? Pin-only events (not "merchandise" events) for DL with pin games, constantly refreshed pin boards filled with tons of AP and LE pins, and large amounts of great themed pins for sale? Unlimited board trading at pin events? Ability to bring as many pins as you want to events for trade? Free public trading days held concurrently with the EPCOT pin events so there's an even bigger pool of people to trade with? Monthly hidden mickey releases previewed months ahead of time? Advanced information provided timely on all upcoming retail park pin releases (other than surprise pins) and kept updated on odpt.com? High quality, low edition pins for sale on a daily or weekly basis to anyone, no matter where you live, via Disney Auctions or DisneyShopping.com? Pins available via catalog sales? In Gallery stores? During cast pin parties? CM lanyards filled with authentic Disney pins? Dedicated CM "Pinbassadors" for each park to guide the pin programs for each coast?
And on and on of what we used to have, but no longer do - and that's all an incredible loss - and I miss it all so much. But the high point of support for the hobby was sadly many years ago. What we have left are remnants. Enough remnants to keep it going for some still hanging in there or for those who don't know the history of what was truly offered during the heyday of pins. (It's such a shame that DizPins, which held all of that history for us as a community, is gone.) There was SO MUCH happening in the pin world back in the day, that nobody cared what happened daily or weekly or monthly at DSF unless it was a release they collected. Marquee pins wound up in the $3 sales bins after months sitting on the racks and would be used to trade onto boards or CM lanyards since they were just cheap pins nobody wanted. Now, people seem to think DSF is the only game in town. So sad when you think about the DA pins that would sell for $20 or $30 retail that are unbelievably better in quality and were available to everyone online, with BTs only the palest imitation of what DA pins were.
If I was starting out now, I wouldn't choose pin trading as a hobby - the market is filled with too many fakes, the best older pins have long since been in "forever" collections and the market has bubbled on anything "new" and "hot". I might still collect pins - directly purchased from visits to the park - as the wonderful souvenirs and little pieces of art that they are. But as a hobby, it's way too mature and oversaturated and there is no counteracting that. We won't go back to the days of daily, weekly and monthly free support of the hobby to keep up the enthusiasm. It'll just be these last ditch attempts to keep it going until even charging for entry to PTNs is not cost-effective and they give that up again too.
You can blame the lack of new hidden mickeys on the current port problem - but it doesn't explain why the concept art wasn't even previewed six months ago at the September pin event as it had been in years prior.
It's sad and it's upsetting both to say and to see, but it is a very different pin world than what it used to be back when there was so much more offered.
With all that said, I'm still holding on. I started pins because they were part of my larger Wonderland collection until they came to largely define my Wonderland collection. I'm too close to complete after 16 years of collecting to stop now. But I was lucky and started when pins started with just a small break in the early years (which is when the pins I'm still missing are from!). I got to see so much of the best of what was offered even if I couldn't afford to go to all the events - I had enough of a taste of everything to have known the highlights. It's just sad you all didn't get to see what it was like during that time because it was a pretty amazing experience to live through - when it was all just so... magical.