Christmas Holiday WDW Pins - Where & When?

[btowndude]

I have questions about where and when you can buy the Christmas pins at WDW. I know that you have to go to each of the five resort hotels and the American Adventure pavilion in Epcot to get the gingerbread house pins, . But, where and when can you buy the pins for the Osborne Lights at DHS and the pins for Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party? Specifically, do you have to wait under the Osborne evening light shows start each night before you can buy the pins or are they available earlier in the day? Can you only buy them on Hollywood Street? For the Mickeys Very Merry pins, do you have to wait until 7 pm official start to buy the pins or can you purchase them, when you are first allowed to enter at 4 pm? And where are the Mickeys Very Merry pins sold?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Roxane]

The Osborne Lights pins will be sold at the Hat at DHS. You can get them anytime during park hours. The MVMCP pins are sold at the Frontierland pin store. You buy those during the party, but once I got mine early by showing my party ticket to the CM in the pin shop and she went and got it out of the back for me. Also, you can get all the gingerbread pins at the pin ship at Downtown Disney if you don't want to go to all the resorts.