QUESTION Get to Know: Pin Products

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Get to Know: Pin Product Types​

This may be a bit of a strange category to write a guide about. However, sometimes you trade for one pin of a larger set, which you may or may not know, and try to find it in a pin database to inventory it. Knowing Disney’s or other standardized terms might assist in the search.

Pin

You know this one. A single pin. Comes in varying sizes.



Multi-Pin Carded Set

Sometimes a regular sized-ish pin card comes with multiple pins. Most commonly, are 2-pin sets, but there have also been trios and quartets.


Flair Set

Featured at the 2017 Disney’s Pin Celebration, Flair sets are 3 or 4 similarly themed pins, packaged on a smaller card than Booster sets. The card may or may not be themed.



Booster Set

Booster sets and Mini Pin sets are sometimes used interchangeably, but Disney tends to use the Booster Set terminology for 4 or 5 pin sets, and the pins are a bit larger.



Mini Pin Set

Mini Pin sets and Booster sets are sometimes used interchangeably, but Disney tends to use Mini Pin Set terminology for 6 or 7 pin sets, and the pins are a bit smaller. The original mini pin sets came in boxes and not on large cards, which made the differentiation more apparent.



Starter Lanyard Set

Although, Disney has used this terminology on larger sets, more frequently Starter Lanyard sets contain four pins. Sometimes it is two sets of two identical pins, sometimes it’s four different pins.



Deluxe Starter Lanyard Set

Although, sometimes Disney drops the word Deluxe from the packaging, Deluxe Starter Lanyard Sets contain eight different pins.



Hip Lanyard Set

Modeled after the Hip Lanyards that Cast Members wear as an alternative to a lanyard, these are sets of 4 different pins.



Collectors Set

Multiple pins packaged together in packaging similar to a Deluxe Lanyard Set, but there is no lanyard. Pins are just displayed on a tall card in plastic. These pins are usually available individually (minus completers) and in a framed set with an additional completer. This is the second option in “Tiered Collection” releases.

 

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Boxed Set

Multiple pins packaged together in a single box, or a box with a window. Some of these can be quite elaborate in design.



Framed Set

Multiple pins, often displayed on an artistic background or illustration. These are typically matted, and framed under glass.



Additional Merchandise

Pins have been packaged in a number of different ways. Several pins have accompanied lithos, figurines, patches, statues, hats, ornaments, etc.

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Blind or Mystery Sets

Mystery Baggie

Mystery baggies, like the ones used for Purchase with Purchase (PWP) pins are a thin, black baggie containing a single pin, like you may find inside a Mystery Box.

Mystery Box or Blind Box

This option is probably what people are most familiar with, in terms of mystery item packaging. Each box contains one or two pins depending on the series. Tiny Kingdom Mystery Pins contain three pins. Inside the box, the pins may be wrapped in a baggie. Retailers like Box Lunch refer to these as Blind Boxes.



Mystery Collectors Set

These are sets of usually 6 pins. Most of the pins are visible, as if it was a Booster set. However, one pin is sealed in a mystery baggie and is one of several unknown designs, depending on the set. In the set shown, Kermit is what would have been a mystery.



Mystery Pouch – Small

Pouches are thicker material than baggies. This small size is larger than a baggie, but smaller than the larger pouches. Magical Mystery Pins come one pin per pouch. Hidden Mickey / Hidden Disney pouches are two pins per pouch.



Mystery Pouch - Large

These are larger than baggies, and contain 5 random pins. Disney has also used the term “Pin Pack” to describe these.



Mystery Tin

While DLR and WDW offered more of these at one time, these are usually found in International Parks, especially Hong Kong Disneyland. Each Tin typically contains four random pins. The pins are typically in a baggie, but the baggie may be clear or black depending on age and release location of the set.



Reveal / Conceal Mystery Box

Same general idea as a completely blind or mystery box, however one pin is visible through a window, while the second pin is in a mystery baggie.