what is that floating in the water?
I think that's Baloo.
Yep, it's Baloo.
Found it at the gift shop at the Grand Floridian that's on the right when you come in from the monorail. I wasn't sure what it was but it looked unique so I grabbed it.
It was the different shape of the Mickey heads that made me think scrapper. But it's hard for me to tell without a real one to compare it to.
My general rule of thumb is the less busy the area, the better the pin boards. POFQ boards were the best, both at registration and the gift shop. Grand Floridian, Polynesian, and Contemporary were ok. The kidcot stations at Epcot were nearly 100% scrappers. We were staying at All Star Music so we checked that one out several times. Most of the time it was mostly scrappers but I think that's where I picked up the puzzle piece. Even the best boards are still 75%+ common scrappers.
I know. Drives me crazy. Back when the Sundries shop was open at Boardwalk there was a cast member who worked there who was into pins. She tried to clear out the scrappers and that board always had at least one good find for me.
Hello i am new to the pin game what do you mean by scrappers??
A true scrapper is a pin that is from an official Disney Pin production run but doesn't pass quality control. It's supposed to be destroyed ("scrapped") but sometimes they make it out of the factory and into the pin supply. However, the term here is being used interchangeably with counterfeit - either the production run mold itself is used to make additional non-authorized pins, or a new mold is made as a copy of an original mold in order to make non-authorized fake versions of an official pin. These pins are usually sold by the hundreds for pennies a pin from factories in China, which are bought by resellers and sold in smaller lots on sites like Amazon or eBay, again for pennies a pin. So those lots of, like, 25 pins for $20 on eBay? Those are all "scrapper" pins.
