Mickey pin backs started?

[niftyk13]

I have a lot of older pins from 2000 and notice that none of them have the cute Mickey rubber pin backs, but any of the pins I've bought in recent years have had them. When did it become the norm for all Disney pins to have a rubber Mickey back?

 

[Psycho Pixie]

I don't know when, but I know when I was a kid, som pins had rubber backs, but some had metal pinch lock backs.

Random memory of looking through pins at a WDW store in the late 80's, as a kid on vacation.

 

[hopemax]

They started late summer of 2001. Here's a link to an old Dizpins news archive, which references the 2nd pin to have a Mickey back

http://www.dizpins.com/archives/2001/2001september_1.htm

 

[niftyk13]

Thanks for the information. I was just really curious since a lot of mine didn't have them!