I could hug you. I missed out on the 1.5 pin by about 50 people at the release after standing in the heat for ove 10 hours....this is so much nicer :O
The 1.5 one only goes for around $20-30 now on eBay so it's easy to get if that's the last pin you're missing to be a KH completionist (thankfully there are only 7 KH pins right now officially, 8 if you include this one).
It seems Disney is doing 1 KH pin a year too:
2011 - Sci Fi Academy
2012 - Organization Mickey
2013 - 1.5 event
2014 - 2.5 pin
So I'm perfectly fine with 1 pin a year
Easy to keep up and exciting since you know it's coming haha xD
Have never played kingdom hearts (when they came out I wasn't that in to Disney so I immediately cast it out lol) Curious to know if I would need to play the older games to be caught up with the new ones. And are kingdom heart pins popular?
If I were you, I would invest in a Playstation 3 and then I would buy both Kingdom Hearts 1.5 (which you can find cheap nowadays) and 2.5 (coming out December 2nd in the US). They cover 6 of the 7 titles for Kingdom Hearts so far (not including remakes and final mixes).
If you wanted to play the BARE MINIMUM and understand the story, I think you need to play (or watching on YouTube):
Kingdom Hearts 1
Kingdom Hearts 2
Kingdom Heart Birth by Sleep
Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance
Kingdom Hearts 1 is included in 1.5 (for the PS3) and Kingdom Hearts 2 and Birth by Sleep are both in 2.5 (for the PS3) and both games only cost $40 each!
Sadly, Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance is only for the 3DS at this current time but something tells me they will recap the game before Kingdom Hearts 3 for those without 3DS's