Hi from Canada.. well actually Japan atm
Appreciate the help. I also appreciate posting the pin and pop site. I had no clue about it. I looked up a bunch of the pins I found in the tokyo 2nd hand store. Looks like I found some staff pins as well. But there were also pins that couldn't be located. Is there a reason for that?Hi, welcome to the pinsanity. There are a few pin databases to help you get an idea what you might want to obtain. A few are Pin And Pop, Pin Trading Data Base (PTDB), and PinPics.
Thank you! Calgary is such a great place. I own a house there but I am never there. It seems like I am out of town for for work every week these days.Wow… a fellow Calgarian. Welcome to the forum.
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The only place I have went to is Nakano Broadway. I found a honey hole at Mandrake. I think I bought 25 pins or so. Are there any other places I should look, care to share your small list?Hello! Welcome!
The databases like Pin & Pop are populated with user submitted content, so if no one has submitted that pin yet, it won't be listed. Since it is a US based website, users are more likely to have domestic pins, so there are often gaps for international pins. They are actually having an event, focusing on listing pins, today and the missing Tokyo Disney Resort game pins is something I am focusing on. Although, there will still be more missing after I've gone through mine. And I have a container full of more Japan pins that aren't in the database yet.
Are you in Tokyo, or elsewhere? I am curious about which second hand shops you visited. We're going to visit Tokyo Disney in October, and I have a small list of places to look. We visited the shops in Nakano Broadway in 2018, including Mandarake and this time plan on going to Akihabara district as well. I've seen recommendations for the chains: Hobby Off, Book Off, Treasure Off, Treasure Factory and Super Bazaar. But always keeping an eye out for more.
If you aren't familiar with him yet, there is a guy named Chris who runs the TDR Explorer website. He is originally from Saskatchewan, but has lived in Japan for over a decade. His website covers not only Tokyo Disneyland, but also Hong Kong, Shanghai and non-Disney parks like Universal in Osaka, and covers various pop culture places in Japan (Pokemon, Studio Ghibli, etc.) He's on social media too... Twitter / X. YouTube, etc.
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