Disney Trading Pins – Hidden Mickey Collection

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Hidden Mickey Disney Pins have become very popular with pin collectors, since their introduction in 2006. These pins originally started out as part of the WDW Cast Lanyard Collection that quickly gained momentum and interest among Disney fans. Eventually the WDW Cast Lanyard Collection was renamed the Hidden Mickey Collection.

Disney trading pins have been very popular with Disney collectors for many years. In 2002, Disney started releasing the WDW Cast Lanyard Collection which consisted of pins that featured Disney attractions, characters, and more Disney icons on them.

The original release of the first set of pins was to encourage pin trading within the Disney community. After the huge success of the first released set, Disney decided to release a set of new pins every year.

After having two successful releases, the designers at Disney decided to put a new twist on the pins by adding a special Disney touch to them. They started placing silhouettes of Mickey Mouse on the third set of pins in the WDW Cast Lanyard Collection. Not only were the Hidden Mickey Disney Pins a huge success, but they started to get more people into pin collecting.

There is a certain excitement when looking closely at a pin and finding the hidden silhouette or a shadow of Mickey Mouse somewhere within the pin. Sometimes the whole image of Mickey Mouse will appear on the pin, while other times it will be just a part of his body or the infamous Mickey Mouse ears and the only way to know is to look at the pins yourself.

Disney releases a collection of these great pins once a year – in a set of approximately 75 pins each. The rising popularity of these pins has had fans rushing to the Disney parks, Disney hotels, and scrambling online to find them. No matter where you get them or what pin you get at first, Hidden Mickey Disney Pins will make a great addition to any Disney collection you may have.

Juan Legaspi loves to trade Hidden Mickey Trading Pins and runs the website devoted to Disney trading pins called The Disney Pins Blog where he talks about Disney pin lots. —-

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These are good times for trading pins. Introduced more than a hundred years ago, trading pins carry many messages today, and are wildly popular for many uses. With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on tap for London in less than two years, trading pins are very much the focus of attention among pin collectors.

For the London Games, organizers have announced two thousand twelve distinct designs of trading pins to match the year. For Olympic trading pins, it’s a remarkable number of releases, and a far cry from the original Olympic pins first introduced more than a century ago.

Trading pins are a proud Olympic tradition. Athletes at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 wore pins to identify officials and athletes. These were the precursors of the modern trading pins. Swedish athletes introduced yellow and blue pins (the national colors) which are considered the first real sports trading pins in 1906. Before long, athletes from many countries started trading pins among themselves as a symbol of friendship and camaraderie.

By the 1980 Winter Olympics, in Lake Placid, N.Y., spectators had picked up on the fun of collecting trading pins and joined the party. Major corporate sponsors such as Coca-Cola joined the pin trading frenzy as well. With the opening of its own Official Olympic Pin Trading Center for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Coke created a gathering spot for aficionados of trading pins that attracted more than 17,000 visitors a day.

Coke has sponsored pavilions for trading pins at every Olympic Games since, and the number of fans has increased year by year.

In 1992 alone, more than half a million people, representing 70 countries, came to the Coke trading pin center at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.

Today’s trading pins go far beyond just the Olympics. Youth sports programs such as Little League have adopted the pin trading traditions as their own. South Williamsport, Pa., the home of the Little League World Series turns into a Mecca for trading pins and their collectors every August. Pin trading becomes a pastime second only to baseball. Teams from around the world gather to swap pins and make new friends.

Traders traditionally exchange trading pins at a one-for-one rate, but rare and uncommon pins can command a much higher “exchange rate.” Some trade for up to 10 ordinary designs for against a single desirable pin.

It’s no wonder that sports trading pins are so popular. They’re small and easy to carry, they have unique links to the sports or events they represent, and they feature attractive artwork. Add the fact that they’re easily affordable, and you’ve got an unbeatable combination. In some ways, trading pins are the perfect memento of events such as the Olympics.

Trading pins encourage participation and involvement. They help break the ice between strangers, who might not even speak the same language. In that sense, they truly represent the spirit of fellowship and understanding signified by the Olympic rings. Quite an accomplishment for something so small.

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