1/29
Dumbo POM Spinner
This LE 5000 will go for sale on Feb.1 and will sell for $12.50 property wide.

1/30
"Walt With" Steamboat Pin
The release of the Feb. "Walt With" Steamboat pin will be on Feb.7 and will be property wide. This LE 5000 pin will sell for $10.50

1/29
Passholder Pin & Passholder News
Walt Disney World has announced the second in the series of Passholder pins. The pin on pin design features Leonardo Columbus from the Tapestry of Dreams Parade. This pin will be available Feb.15 at Expo Hall at Magic Kingdom, Pin Central at Epcot, Island Mercantile at Animal Kingdom and Sorcerer's Hat at Disney-MGM studios. All you need to do is show your valid Passholder ID. This pin will sell for $8.50.

New Passholder Lounge at Epcot will be open for Feb., March and April from 11am-7pm every day at The Land Pavilion. Look for the Passholder area inside the Land Pavilion and show your valid Passholder ID at Garden Grill.  Also a Passholder Viewing area for Illuminations will be across from the Doge's Palace, just show your valid Passholder ID to a CM at Italy Isola, this is a first come first served.

1/29
New Pocahontas Pins
These open edition pins were to be released in Feb. but have come out a little early. Each pin sells for $6.50

1/28
All WDW Pin Event Dates Confirmed
I just received official confirmation that all pin event dates are as follow:
  Dates for 2002 Pin Events
Confirmed-Feb. 23- Magic Kingdom-Princess Ball
 Confirmed-March 16- Disney-MGM
Confirmed-April 13-Animal Kingdom-Chester & Hester's Pino-Rama
Confirmed-May 16th- Disney Cruise on Wonder
Confirmed-June 1st- Wide World of Sports Complex
Confirmed-June 29th- Contemporary Resort
Confirmed-Sept. 20-21-22 Epcot

Now remember all dates, times, pins, weather, are subject to change
 

1/28
Pin Meet Tuesday 1/29 at Expo Hall
Tuesday 1/29 at 12 noon there will be a pin meet at Expo Hall. After trading for an hour or so Scoop will educate us with his seminar. Stop in and say hi.

1/27
Mickey Mouse Club Musical Pin
Scheduled to appear in Feb. This Marching Mickey Mouse plays the Mickey Mouse Club theme showed up today. This is a open edition pin selling for $15.00 and is large 2 1/2"Tall by 1 3/4 wide.

Compliments of C&CofC

1/25
Epcot Thumper/Norway Stamp Pin
This pin will be released on Jan.27th and be sold at these locations:  All-Star Music, Contemporary Resort, Boardwalk Resort, Island Mercantile, World of Disney, Exposition Hall, Pin Central,
and Sorcerer's Hat. This pin sold for $10.50.

Compliments of B

1/25
Tinker Bell Lenticular Pin LE 5000
This lenticular pin will be released on Jan. 27th and will sell for $12.50. The lenticular Tinker Bell shows up under the one you see in this scan she changes 2 different positions.

Compliments of B

1/25
Princes for the Princess Ball Event
Here are the open edition pins for the map which will be part of the Princess Ball Pin Event on Feb.23.
Jeff Ebersohl has been added to sign pins at Princess Ball Event along with Michelle Morrow Feb.23 10-2.
Michelle designed the princess pin and Jeff Designed the prince pins.

1/25
Eyes & Ears 30th Cast Pin
This pin was released today at Company D stores. It sells for $6.50 and has Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Eyes & Ears on front. The pin is a pin on pin design and is backstamped Walt Disney World Cast Exclusive Limited Edition 3000 January 2002.

Compliments of B, T, L

1/24
Celebrating Culture Kenya Pin
This pin is part of a 8 pin series. These events are celebrating culture of different areas in Asia & Africa. This pin was found at the NFFC sale in Ca. last weekend.
NOTE: Officially this pin has NOT sold at WDW and this pin is different than the production pin.

Compliments of R

1/23
Walt Quote Pin #5
This is the #5 Walt Quote Pin. It is an open editions pin selling for $6.50. When finished there will be 15 pins in this series. These pins are scheduled to be out on 1/25 but I got this one yesterday at WOD.

1/22
A Great Site To See
Over the past months we have all heard about Disney not hiring as many CM and in some cases CM not having jobs. Well today at MK I saw no less than 50 CM wearing that red ribbon that says "Earning My Ears". This is a well welcomed site to my eyes. If you see anyone with the red ribbon under the name tag, take a moment to stop and say Hi you might just make someone's day.

1/22
Use Caution
Just a word to the wise on my trips to WDW over the past 3 weeks I have seen many radar traps on WDW property. Slow down  or you might not have such a Happy Disney Day.

1/18
WDW Didn't Forget About The Cast Event
WDW will be holding the 1st Cast Pin Event for 2002 on Feb.14. This event is the MK Cast Event and will be held at Property Control from 8am-4pm. You will find the #2 cast ID tag pin at this event along with a few #1 ID tags left from the Cast Blast. You will find games and many special cast surprises. This event is for cast only, sorry folks, but we get the Princess Ball Event.

1/18
New WDW Cast Atlas River Country Pin
This pin was sold today at Company D stores. 

Compliments of B&T 

Breakfast Packages are sold out  1/23

1/14
Princess Ball Pin Event Announced Feb.23
"HEAR YE HEAR YE ANNOUNCING TO ALL LADIES AND GENTLEMAN OF ALL AGES-
THE PRINCESS BALL PIN EVENT"
The Most Magical Pin Event of the Year is coming to the Most Magical Place on Earth, the MAGIC KINGDOM® Park at the WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort!
This February 23rd, come join your favorite princes and princesses as we trade the day away with some unique items created especially for this festive event! 

Your presence is cordially requested at this exclusive event that includes:
-1st opportunity to purchase our “The Princess Ball” limited edition pins, each with a distinctive event logo backstamp, edition size and official pin trading logo
-Exclusive 2nd chance opportunity to purchase remaining event pins
-Exclusive limited edition pin on pin featuring an archival photo Walt Disney and his favorite little pixie, sneak peak…

-Exclusive event logo lanyard and unique event medallion
-Exclusive continental breakfast
Plus (if purchased) - Character Breakfast Exclusive Experience at Liberty Tree Tavern. Special Breakfast Sold Out
Disney will have a limited number of spaces available for guests to join them for a
unique Character Breakfast featuring the Princesses at Liberty Town Tavern
(space is limited, breakfast experience is not included in event package.)
Pin Event Package is only $25.00 per person, space is extremely limited, so register today!
Call Walt Disney Event Reservations at 407-827-7600!

Other Magical Happenings:
Disney Artist Signings ( Michelle Morrow, the Disney Artist who created all of the limited edition pins for The Princess Ball Pin Event at the Magic Kingdom, will be signing her pins at the County Bounty at the Magic Kingdom during the pin event on Feb. 23rd from 10am to 1pm.) also Jeff Ebersold who designed the prince open edition pins will be signing also at this event.
A Pin Traders Lounge,
Sneak peek at upcoming pins, Mickey’s Pin Trading Cart.
Pin Event will run from 9-2 Feb.23, 2002

Plus: Don’t miss our Magical Pin Adventure as we
help our ladies prepare for “The Princess Ball”

#4 Stunning Jasmine Princess Jasmine looks gorgeous in her lavender gown adorned with 4 violet jewels. LE 1500  $12.50	#5 Lovely Snow White Showing off her gown laced with yellow jewels, she is ready for her prince to come. LE 1500  $12.50	#6 Princess Bride Ariel Ready for the day, Ariel awaits her prince bridegroom, Eric, in her jeweled wedding gown. LE 1500  $12.50

	#7 Artist Choice Evil Queen The Evil Queen is looking to spoil the fun with the Magic Mirror by her side and draped in black with evil jewels. LE 3500  $10.50

Pins are not actual size shown!
*items subject to availability, event subject to change, park admission required for
event and is not included in event package. 

1/20
Mexico Donald Stamp Pin LE 3500
On Jan.20 this the first of the Stamp Pins was released at: All-Star Music, Contemporary Resort, Boardwalk Resort, Island Mercantile, World of Disney, Exposition Hall, Pin Central,
and Sorcerer's Hat. This pin sold for $10.50. Each month 2 new stamp pins will be released.

Compliments of B

 1/15
 Comic Strip Spinner #3
The 3rd Comic Strip Pin will be released for sale on Tuesday, January 15th 2002.
 Edition Size: 3500  Retail: $12.50
  *Please note, this is the 3rd comic strip pin to be released but it is the
  2nd pin in the comic strip series. When all 15 are put together, this will be the
  second pin. Pin #2 and #3 were mixed up and #3 was released in December.
The locations are World of Disney, Island Mercantile, Expo Hall, Sorcerer's
Hat, Pin Central, Boardwalk Resort, All-Star Music, and Disney's
Contemporary Resort.

1/14
Dizneypins.com To Be At WDW's Expo Hall
Tomorrow Tuesday 1/15 I will be at WDW's Expo Hall at Mk from 11:30 to 1:30 for pin trading and to do a interview with Scoop and others. Stop by and visit, wear a smile and a lanyard there is no telling what will happen.

1/11
All 3 Patriotic Pins Found At WDW
At most pin locations today I found in good supply all 3 patriotic pins.
 

11/8
Daisy 65th Anniversary Pin
 The Daisy 65th Birthday pin was delayed in shipment and will not be
  available upon opening at the locations listed below. However, the pin is
  expected to arrive tomorrow and should be available for purchase later
  that afternoon on January 9th.
 
 Edition Size: 3500
  Retail: $10.50
It will be available at the World of Disney, All-Star Music, Disney's
Contemporary Resort, Boardwalk Resort, Island Mercantile, Pin Central, Expo
Hall and the Sorcerer's Hat.

11/7
7 New Snowglobe Pins
Today these 7 new open edition snowglobe pins started showing up around property. Each pin sells for $8.50. Look close at some of the characters and they have no faces or eyes. These pins are much larger than the Animal kingdom or MGM parade pins. Each pin is between 1 1/2 and 2" tall.


Compliments of B, T, C, L

1/7
New Series Walt With LE 5000
Walt with Old Fashion Mickey  was released on Monday, January 7, 2002.
    This pin is a LE 5000 and sold for $10.50
This pin was available across property at WDW. This pin starts the Walt Picture Pin series, a new pin in the series will be
released on the 7th of each month for 2002.
 

1/6
2002 Walt Disney World 9th Annual Marathon
It started like any special day at Walt Disney World. But today as the fireworks went off at 6am, among 13,500 people running the full marathon and another 5000 running the half marathon was Suzanne. This was her first full marathon ever. She did well and ran the 26.2 miles in 4 hour 49 minutes. Not a world record but her personal best, so from all of us congratulation Suzanne.
Suzanne is the the wife of Scott who is scottakamickey on most pinboards.

British Naval officer Dai Roberts took charge during the final mile Sunday to win the ninth annual Walt Disney World Marathon by eight seconds. Roberts, a 40-year-old currently stationed in Virginia Beach, Va., had a winning time of 2:32:38.
Ilda Santos, 26, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, defended her Disney Marathon women's title, taking control of the race in the final three miles to win in 2:48:38.
In the half marathon, Gabriel Rodriguez, 23, of Miami won the men's division by shattering Olympian Keith Brantly's event record by 39 seconds with a 1:09:07. Monica Hostetler, 25, of Kendallville, Ind., won the womens half marathon in 1:17:34.
In the men's marathon wheelchair division, Olympic 1500-meter champion Saul Mendoza of Wimberley, Texas, celebrated his 35th birthday by winning a sixth straight Walt Disney World Marathon championship. In the women's wheelchair division, Katherine Hunter of Alberta, Canada, won her fifth straight Disney title and sixth overall.

 

1/4
2002 Disney Marathon Health and Fitness Expo
Features Free Running Seminar Series Jan. 4-5
Sports medicine specialists, a sports nutritionist, coaches and athletes with lists of accomplishments longer than a marathon, and other road-running experts add up to a high-energy series of 11 topical seminars Jan. 4-5 during the 2002 Disney Marathon Health and Fitness Expo in the Milk House at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex.

Yes pins also, This LE 1000 set will go on sale Jan.4 at this expo and sell for $50.00. The 3 open edition slider pins will be on sale property wide and sell for $8.50. I found the Full Marathon Thursday at AK.

1/3
Wide World Of Sports Pins
Here are 4 pins release at WWof Sports. Each pin is a open edition pin and sells for $10.50. Each pin has a rubber sports ball in center of pin, basketball, baseball, football, soccer ball.
 

1/1
Cogsworth Dated Pin
This pin was released today at Hat at MGM  it sold for $8.50

1/1
New Years Eve, Day Pins and "Little Pixy" Pin
The New Years Eve and New Years Day pins sold out on day of release. It is reported that the New Years Eve pin had many pins defected, where the Mickey or Minnie were falling off.

The "Little Pixy" Pin was in very short supply at 5 pm on 1/1 property wide.

12/31
Walt Disney 2002 Marathon
These pins have been released to celebrate the upcoming 2002 Walt
Disney World Marathon that will be on January 6th, 2002

The boxed pin set is available at the Wide World of Sports Complex.
LE 1000
Retail: $50.00


Full Marathon slider

Half Marathon slider

My First Marathon


All 3 pins Retail: $8.50
All 3 pins Open Edition
All 3 pins Available across property