What does the emblem on the front of the pin read?
Never seen it before but my guess is it's never been released. It looks like it should go with the then and now Stitch's great escape pin that is on pinpics. The alien on the front is from the original ride.
Have you tried reaching out to the artist himself ?
A quick Google search tells me he's a Disney featured artist , he still does signings for them too so he may respond .
This might sound silly, but how would it have become public property if it was never released? I'm new to the world of pins and didn't realise this was possible.
Cool pin. Where did you pick it up, at a Disney Park or trading event or somewhere else?
There are two ways I can think of. Sometimes, at trading events, Disney puts things on the boards that haven't been released yet. Or high level managers have access to "the good stuff." If the release got cancelled the AP and PP versions could still have been within Disney's circulation. I notice in the very left, bottom corner is a PP. That means Pre-Production. Also, auction lots at the big Epcot pin event sometimes include pins that were never released.
The pin was made, but not released, and then the factory sold it, not authorized by Disney. This is where things get tricky. Normally, pins direct from the factory are not wanted, but unreleased stuff provides a conundrum. Think about coins, stamps, or other collectibles the "money" is in the stuff that was never sold and meant to be destroyed. However, usually there is more than one pin, and so somebody else will be selling it, or put it on Pinpics or something.
Artist Choice pins are their own series. Originally, they were marked by a pencil & paintbrush, but the last ones that were sold had a round logo like the one on this pin. So, as someone who would if she would have thought more about it earlier would have tried to collect all the "Artist Choice" pins, it's a very cool pin.
Finally, Pinpics is not perfect. Pins do get missed from the database. Everyone else is sitting around waiting for someone else to add it. So it is possible that this was released at a pin trading event and whoever added the catalog of pins accidentally skipped it. Or the listing got accidentally deleted in moderation or something. I will try to take a look back at events that happened in 2009 and see if anything pops up.
I thought of another way. Artists, I think may have an option to get copies of their pins (especially, AP or PP versions. That's why they exist so the artist can verify the work). It may be possible the artist had one / several and then sold them for whatever reason.
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