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The Pin That Started It All

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The Pin That Started It All
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Can you remember your very first Disney pin? Did you keep it, or did you trade it away?
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I'll start off. This was my first pin:


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Pin# 78495
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I got this pin for free from the Disney Movie Club. I still have it. I'm not really a big fan of Goofy, but somehow this pin turned a new hobby into an obsession :lol:
 
Our first pins were purchased by my wife on her trip to WDW in 2000... and yes she has every one she bought on her trip still...Figures she does... I would have traded them years ago... LOL
 
I don't remember what my first pin was. My uncle's girlfriend at the time was a pin trader and she collected TinkerBell for herself and princesses for her daughter. I remember just being wide-eyed at her mountains of pin books filled with shiny addiction. haha

I was still a teenager in 2003 and she would pay me in pins to babysit her daughter. I was more than happy! I haven't looked back since.

I lost contact with her after they broke up and I wonder if she still pin trades...

But the first pin I got for myself was this:
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These were my first two pins I received from the Walt Disney Travel Company back in 2005 for booking our trip through them. I still have them in my collection!

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Pin 38235: DLR - WDTC 50TH Commemorative Package (Tinker Bell)

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Pin 38608: Walt Disney Travel Co. - Disneyland 50
 
i picked up pins here and there on trips from 2000-2008, lost or kids traded most of them, it was just our little treat we could affford...and then something HAPPENED:anxious: i got this....my fav movie...
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and i literally fell in love...and quickly bought the aristocats booster set and remebered back years ago when my little boy traded this cinderella and prince wedding day pin to somebody for some crappy pin he lost and i decided to look on ebay just incase there might be disney pins on there....LOL well here i am 2400 pins later, on my way to the circus.
 
We bought a set of the starter lanyards pins last March at WDW and I was hooked. The first pin that really got me interested was my first trade at DLR after returning with only hidden mickey's at WDW. That first DLR lanyard pin was and LE600 CM exclusive pin 67372:
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Probably the best pin I've pulled off a lanyard the whole time. Soon after that I got bit by the LE bug with the Sci-Fi Academy pins. Man if I only knew it would've been worth it to go to the event. Those were my first LE pin purchases but the event entry price of ~$100 I thought was just insane to pay for. lol, now that's nothing to get me into some LE science fiction pins! haha.
 
My first pin was actually a 2 pin set:
Pin 5540: DLR - Memorable Moments - Peter Pan and Captain Hook in Battle (2 Pin Set)
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I remember seeing these two together and I knew I had to buy it. There are not a lot of pins that play off of one another like these do. I am happy to say that I still have it in my collection, and even though others have taken interest in them, I plan on keeping them for their sentimental value.
 
For me I would have to say this was my first "pin":
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Pin 1189: DLR - Disneyland 30th Anniversary Series (Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey / Fantasyland)
 
This was my first pin ever that I bought in 2007!! I have not traded it, and I never will. It is very special to me because without it, I never would've started pin trading. Well...actually I might've xD idk lol...well I remember walking past a pin cart and thinking it looked cool, so m mom bought me a lanyard and a pin and I bought a few more and I traded around the park :hsd: It's a cute pluto bobble head :D

Pin #42291
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My first pin, #11176:

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My mother's boyfriend (at the time) took me to Disneyland and bought it for me because I was dressing up as Alice for Halloween that year. This was a good ten years before I started pin collecting/trading.

And yes, I still have it. :) It's sentimental, so its a keeper - even though I don't collect Alice in Wonderland.

The first pin I ever traded for was a Hidden Mickey hitchhiking ghost, which I've since gotten rid of. The first pin I ever bought myself was a HM Belle off of eBay (which I still have). The first pin I ever actually bought myself at Disneyland was a Figaro. I could go on, but I won't. :)
 
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ooh i know this! And it comes with a story.
So, like 5(?) years ago, i went to disneyland with my girl scout troop. The leader bought us each a pin, and we would choose it at random. I got this one:
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I was insanely mad because everyone else got like princesses and tinker bell. hahaha, anyways, we went to westward ho and i found this pin:
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that was when i was reaaaaaally into peter pan, so i had to get it. So i count this as my "official" first pin. the other one sat on my desk for a couple years, and i sold it a little while ago. i still have my peter! Never getting rid of him <3
Okay, i'm adding to my story. hahha. so, i didnt really do anything with pins until a few years later, in seventh grade. My dad was having a conference at epcot and they sent my these pins as a gift. So i guess thats what *really* got me started in trading. they were some of my first pins :P The only ones i have left of these is the peter pan booster set.
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I was a cast member at Disneyland when pin trading first started. At one of the info sessions about pin trading a manager gave me this pin
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I was a casual pin collector from then on and got more serious about the hobby a few years ago. The Rocket Rods pin is still in my collection and I've been slowly working on that 1998 series since then.
 
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I got this pin when my family and I went to California Adventure. They opened the park early for just Disney Employees. My Dad worked for Disney at the time and worked on Soarin' (The firework and tinker bell sequence at the end). So because I loved the ride so much, I really wanted a souvenir from that ride, and so staring right at me at one of the kiosks was the Soarin' Wing badges. :)
 
I'm pretty sure that my first Disney pins were the Nightmare Before Christmas Countdown to the Millennium series pin ([pinpics]653[/pinpics]) and the Magical Musical Moments Headless Horseman pin ([pinpics]17709[/pinpics]). I'm not attached to either one. In fact, I traded off the former on my last trip to Disneyland and have no qualms about trading the latter either. They're from a different phase of my quasi-collecting.
 
Lightyear2Rescue, I love your story about your pin, and your dad having worked on that attraction...and I am so jealous you were able to get all the pins you have as grails pictured on your sig (but happy for you)!
 
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