LR pin question

[MermaidPrincess]

Hi, still relatively new to pins and was wondering if LR pins are rare or special and should trade them as such.

Thank you


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[MerlinEmrys]

Hey there, and welcome!

LR stands for Limited Release, which are a step down from Limited Edition. Usually, these pins are available in large quantities for a set amount of time (usually a few weeks). I've heard Cast Members say that the edition sizes for these guys are usually over 10,000, so they're not as "valuable" in terms of edition as other LE pins would be. Of course, certain characters are always a solid bet (like Lucifer or Si/Am from the recent Crooked Comrades release). Most people will typically like to trade LR for LR, but you might be able to snag a high size LE with a good LR pin. It just all depends on what you have and what you're after.

For simplicity's sake:

Limited Edition > Limited Release > Open Edition/Mystery/Booster

~Merlin

 

[MermaidPrincess]

Hey there, and welcome!

LR stands for Limited Release, which are a step down from Limited Edition. Usually, these pins are available in large quantities for a set amount of time (usually a few weeks). I've heard Cast Members say that the edition sizes for these guys are usually over 10,000, so they're not as "valuable" in terms of edition as other LE pins would be. Of course, certain characters are always a solid bet (like Lucifer or Si/Am from the recent Crooked Comrades release). Most people will typically like to trade LR for LR, but you might be able to snag a high size LE with a good LR pin. It just all depends on what you have and what you're after.

For simplicity's sake:

Limited Edition > Limited Release > Open Edition/Mystery/Booster

~Merlin

Thank you so much!!!


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[hopemax]

The answer is "it depends."

For individual items, Merlin's answer is probably correct. In the past they used just make LE10,000 pins and people would buy them. Nowadays, people are okay with buying OE items, or okay with buying LE500 or less, but if they see LE10,000 it's a turn off. Calling it LR puts it into a middle ground. But they are in reality, really highly produced.

Mystery Box Sets. This is where it gets complicated. The earliest LR mystery box sets came out at the end of 2010. While there was no announced number of boxes, you could guesstimate based on how fast things sold out that there were probably somewhere from 3000-5000 boxes. So take a set with 16 or 20 pins in it. At 4000 boxes, 2 pins per box = 8000 pins divided by 20 styles that means there are only 400 pins of any specific style. Isn't a LE400 pin usually worth something? The quintessential series to use as an example is the Disney Girls Reveal / Conceal set.

Or take the pins coming out for the Epcot Pin Event. There are usually about 1200 attendees, and we were restricted to only being able to select 7 boxes. They would not assume every attendee would want 7 boxes, but lets start there. That would be 8400 boxes. There are 16 pins in the series. We know 8 of them will be LE250. So 8400 boxes = 16,800 pins. 8 x 250 = 2000 LE250 pins. So that means for the remaining 8 pins the number sold would be LE1850. If there only 6000 boxes, and the same 2000 LE250 pins then each of the remaining 8 pins would be LE1250.

Then there are other Mystery boxes that are sold marked as "Limited Release" but sold for years. Namely, the Beauty & the Beast set that came out when New Fantasyland opened. Those are a lot closer to open edition, than they are limited edition.

IMO, LR Mystery Box Pins that are released only once, are a lot more limited than people give them credit for, especially for the 20 pin sets. Most of these are Reveal/Conceal collections or Seasonal mystery collections.

 

[Dapperdisneyprincess]

So much information. I'm learning so much that my head is going to explode!