How did you pick your collection?

Been spending time reading threads on here and I see everyone has what they consider to be there grails or sought after collection pieces. I wanna know how you decided that this was the set, type or genre you wanted to collect. I just started and I've been going nuts buying pins and nothing has a theme. I've convinced myself tho that I need one or I'll just buy everything I can. I love toy story so that will be part. But I also love frozen. And all the DSF pins are awesome. Then there are the marque....see I'm doing it again!


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I'm pretty picky when it comes to pins and I often dislike the artwork behind the characters or just the pins' composition in general... so I figured I'd just do standalone heroes and heroines. When I first started collecting it was from a financial standpoint. I was okay only buying the current open editions and they were easily available. Then I became really interested in finding older pins after spending hours and hours browsing Pinpics. :lol: The "princess" movies were always the most significant to me through my childhood so I guess it was a natural choice to only collect those pins. I think I've done a pretty good job of not deviating... I'm tempted pretty often (specifically by the DSF Elsa stained glass pin) but I'm usually good. Standalone's are still a pretty financially manageable collection in comparison to some. I think the most I've paid for a single pin (so far!) is $60? I'm okay with that hahaha

I based my pin collection on Disney characters that I live and feel a connection to. So, I collect Dumbo and Scoop Sanderson pins. That being said, I do love to get some of the hidden mickey sets - they are fun to try to get full sets of while I'm at the park (that doesn't happen nearly enough!). I also like travel related pins, puzzles and pins with the 'free d' element in them. There are some things that I may wish later that I had collected (Frozen, Brave, etc). But, I'm sticking to my two primary and then if something catches my eye I go for it.

My main collection is Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. I fell in love with the movie while in my first year of grad school. I fell in love with the history of the film and the cultural impact of the film. It got me interested in history again when I was really struggling with why I was in grad school. So I collect the pins (and other collectibles) because the movie means so much to me.

I have smaller collections of Pocahontas, Walt Disney World, Mickey Mouse/Fab 5, and Ariel. They are some of my favorite characters and I love going to WDW. I grew up going to WDW and I still love going today.

I started collecting Cinderella and Tiana pins because Cinderella and Princess and the Frog have become my favorite movies since I got my current job. Not sure what that says about my current employer that I relate to Cinderella and Tiana a lot...

For my wife and I, it's first and foremost about our son's favorite movies!! Cars was his first love, and he's very much into the others we collect -- Planes as an extension of Cars, Monsters Inc./U (he's into scaring us), Toy Story (he LOVES Buzz and Woody), and he's as of late really taken a liking to Wreck it Ralph, and we just recently added it to our collections. The only one that is not something he's BIG into (and he does like it) is Lion King. Lion King is actually MY favorite Disney movie, because of the father-son relationship the movie portrays!

I collect Pixie Hollow/Tinker Bell, Lumpy, Frozen, and animation themes. Also, I collect Tangled, too, but I'm not as much into that one because of how expensive it is.

I collect of those themes for sentimental reasons, or simply because I loved the movie.

I collect Tinker Bell because, after Minnie, she was my first love. I've loved Tinker Bell since the first time I went to WDW, and that was when I was 4. She is my biggest and main collection.

Lumpy/Pooh's Heffalump Movie was the first movie I cried in :lol: Roo and Lumpy's friendship reminds me a lot of the friendship I have with my best friend.

I collect Frozen because I have a really strong relationship with my sister. I would do anything for my sister, just like Anna would doing anything for Elsa. I could elaborate more on that, but I don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't seen the movie yet.

I collect animation themes because it is my dream to become an animator for Disney, and they are my motivation/reminder to keep practicing and striving to become an animator.

I collect Tangled simply because I love the movie. And I am in love with Flynn Rider :lol:

Mine was easy. I've always been obsessed with the lion king. Ever since it first came out. I only got to see it when we visited my aunties house a few times a year and I have great memories of that. I'll still do it now, when we visit her, I'll try and watch it while im there..l It's sort of a weird tradition! I love everything about it, the messages, the songs. Just everything. I collect other merchandise from the film, so I guess pins were just a natural progression for me.

My other pins are kind of mis mashed.

I collect what I like. And it happens to be certain movies or series of pins. I also don't care about being a completist, there are Tangled pins I don't like so I don't try to find them.

My collection choose me!

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I originally considered doing a women warriors collection: women in armor or uniform or carrying weapons. But I quickly realized that collection would encompass Mulan, Sgt. Calhoun, Merida, Kida, Helen Parr, Violet Parr, and more. I don't have the money (or the space) to keep up with a collection that varied. So I picked just my favorite, which is Mulan. (I also collect Sgt. Calhoun, but there's only two pins of her so far.)

I have a small collection of Magical Musical Moments pins, but only those that have a personal meaning to me (the songs I sing to my kids at bedtime, the song I played in marching band in high school, the song my dad and I danced to at my wedding, etc.).

I recently added some Jane (from Tarzan) pins to my wants list because I find her to be very interesting and underrated (for a woman at that time to go gleefully traipsing through the African jungle on a scientific expedition is amazing), but she also has very few pins and even fewer that I like. I don't look for pins that I don't think look good, even if they fit my collection. That was another way I narrowed my focus.

Romancing_Train said:

My collection choose me!

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In Soviet Russia, collections choose you!

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siujerkjai said:

in soviet russia, collections choose you!

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Mine had an accidental start, in a way. I had already been picking up the odd pin as souvenirs of parks I'd been to and tours I'd been on. So I had things like the 50th Anniversary of Disneyland pin and 15th Anniversary of Disneyland Paris and a Walk in Walt's Footsteps tour pin and things like that. In 2009 I went to Tokyo Disneysea and picked up the pins for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Nautilus Gifts. I am a huge fan of 20,000 Leagues and Jules Verne, and those pins were just about the only souvenirs they even sold that had to do with the rides.

After our return to Disneyland USA in 2012, I got into the idea of turning my souvenirs into a legitimate collection. I had also managed to trade an old pin I had for one of Stitch riding the Astro-Orbitor, and that with the pins I got from Tokyo defined my collection for me: Jules Verne-related pins with Disney characters on them.... Things like Mickey Mouse dressed as Captain Nemo and Donald Duck riding Space Mountain: Mission 2 and so on. That also served two functions, in that it's a small subject to collect anyways and sticking to the characters narrowed it down even further, so that I wouldn't be spending thousands of dollars on it (I'm estimating it's value right now at maybe $500). I didn't want to do something like Haunted Mansion, which I love but which has a million pins. I've diverged a bit from my original plan, but it's still nicely focused.

Why Verne? Well, as I said, I love his work... He is my favourite author and consequently 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is one of my most favourite Disney movies. One of my blogs is actually on Victorian Science Fiction. I've also made a habit of going to Disney parks that have Verne-inspired attractions, like Tokyo Disneysea and Disneyland Paris (actually, it's more that Disney has a habit of putting theme parks in places where I wanted to go anyways). It just seemed like a natural fit.

My collections (Tink, Stitch, Chip n Dale, Haunted Mansion, NBC, Alice et al, Tiana et al, Aurora, Maleficent, Cindy ALL PICKED ME!!!

See I am the same as you, I love them all!! Haha I had to narrow it down, so I have chosen a few characters or movies to collect. I also pursue a few different sets, as long as they are reasonable sized like up to 16 haha. For now

I picked the Haunted Mansion & Pirates because of my love for those attractions. And especially I picked the HM because of my interest in old & new horror films.

Alice in Wonderland because it's my favorite all time movie. Then as I got more into pins, I noticed there were awesome Stitch pins out there, so that became a secondary for me. I also have debated adding the mice from Cinderella because I always loved them and I think the characters dressed as other characters are often some of the cooler pins. So as you can see, it's easy to start with just 1 and it goes from there !

My parents started buying pins for me years ago- Tigger and Tinker Bell. When I started collecting for myself, I went with my favorite movie (Peter Pan- my main collection and obsession) as well as my favorite characters (Belle, Ariel, Classic Mickey, Vanellope) and basically anything that catches my eye.

Then Frozen came along and ruined EVERYTHING.

oh boy. well i had gone to WDW about 3x with my sons for 10yrs and buying a pin a day as a cheap keepsake was how it started, then all the sudden 4 years ago i snapped. literally and bought the Peter pan and aristocats booster sets. When i got home i dug up all those gift pins we had and remembered my sons traded this awesome cinderella wedding pin years ago and wanted it so i just for the heck of it googled disney pins....well that led to ebay and sure enough i found that pin and about 180,000 more. So i thought it a cool idea sonce i love Disney movies to collect a pin or 2 form each feature film. YEHHHHHHHH then that went to just one of each character in a film.........YEHHHHHHHHH then i love the silly symphonies, and once i got more than one pin of a certain character, all bets were off. Then when i got to 100 pins i searched for a way to keep track of them and found pinpics and not soon after managed to buy a duplicate pin and NOW IM A TRADER! well 3300 pins later i collect 50 animated feature films, silly symphonies, black and white pins and a few retired ride pins and mary poppins- yeh im screwed cause i love them all and find it very hard to downsize. I can almost remember who traded what to me, who zapped me, who met getting this pin so for now im keeping them all.

I collect Mickey, Minnie, Stitch, Chip & Dale. Mickey, Minnie, Chip & Dale bring me fond memories of my childhood of watching their cartoons on Wonderful World of Disney or early Disney channel. I'm not a Stitch fan per se but so many of his pins literally make me laugh out loud that I have to collect them. I've tried collecting pins from movies I liked but they just didn't give me that same smile or feeling I got when I get the above characters in my hand.

I collect Frozen, Belle, Beast, Pocahontas, Gaston, Bolt, Ariel, Louis, Jaq and Gus, Disney Princess dogs/horses and all the other princesses except Snow!

I collect Frozen, BATB, Poca and Ariel, because these are some of my favourite movies! I collect the other princesses too cause theyre also my favourites :lol: ! I also collect Bolt because I love the movie so much and Bolt reminds me of my dog who is my best friend !
I collect Louis cause he's one of my favourite characters ^_^!
Jaq and Gus cause I love Rodents (have had a pet rat and 2 hamsters ) and theyre adorable hehe.
I collect princess dogs for the same reason I collect bolt, I especially love Bruno from Cinderella!! I hope to be a completist of Bruno pins, there aren't many so shouldnt be too hard hehe.
I collect the horses too because I love horses and love the princess horses ^_^!

Tangled, because I'm apparently crazy. *eyetwitch*

Tangled was a no-brainer for me personally from the get go. I remember spazzing out over even the RUMOR of Disney doing a take on Rapunzel. It was the first film my now-husband and I saw on a date. 10 has always been my lucky number, and Rapunzel was our 10th princess. Dan proposed with a little help from Rapunzel in 2012 at the Magic Kingdom, and we had our Tangled-themed wedding in 2013. But two other big things influenced this decision and my passion for this movie. In 2008 I toured with a children's theater that specialized in working with severely underfunded, high-risk schools who had no art programs. I spent four months on tour as Rapunzel (in a fractured fairytale/comedy sense) and giving those kids the gift of live theater and getting them INVOLVED in a performance for the first time was pure magic. Perhaps the last, and silliest reason I connect so much with this movie is that I was born with nearly ZERO Vitamin D in my body!! (Also known as the "sunshine vitamin" - I have to spend a minimum amount of time outside in the sunshine or sit under a lamp and eat crazy giant Vitamin D pills!!) I know it's really silly, but I really love that she's the sun princess and how prevalent the sun theming is in the film.

This movie is litereally everywhere in my life. Dan and I collect ALL THINGS Tangled, so pins were sort of a given for us, lol. I also fully recognize that this list of "why I collect what I collect" is really silly, lol. But you have to collect what you love and what "speaks" to you, so to say. I have a very modest Sleeping Beauty collection to commemorate my grandmother, who loved the film. But I've found that given the price and frenzy around Tangled, and also just how happy those pins make me, I'm really good with having just my two collections.

I collect Up, Brother Bear, Kronk and other, usually lesser known, characters I love (Roo, Charlotte, Burrito, Jane, Olivia Flaversham and others). My hubby collects (well, I collect for him) Jungle Cruise and Star Wars, and the kids collect Tigger, Ariel, Monsters Inc/U, Wall-e and Goofy. (Thank heaven they have small collections and are good with that.)

I collect what I collect because it makes me happy. Up and Brother Bear make me happy. When I see a pin of a character I adore then I collect the pin. I don't know that there is much rhyme or reason to it. I just collect what I love.

I mainly collect Aurora Sleeping Beauty has been my favorite movie since I was little. I can still remember going to Costco and getting the VHS way back in the day. I was instantly hooked. Besides that, I like Cinderella and Snow White a lot. I think it has to do with the fact that Walt Disney was around at the time, and I admire him so much. I'd love to collect Disneyland PoDH someday because the park is so special to me. I'd also love to one day collect Haunted Mansion since it's my favorite ride

My collection is mostly things that relate to something in my life. I started with the 75 years of Mickey pins and cast lanyards as that was what was out/being celebrated when I took my first trip to Disney in 2003. I also collect tea party pins because my friends and I used to host themed tea parties for us and our daughters, Germany pins because that is where my mother and her family are from, Mickey and Minnie heart pins that symbolize me and my hubby, Jessie/Western pins as I am from the west and my dad used to have an orchard/livestock/horses and my zodiac and birthstone pins. I collect other pins that catch my eye and if I like the pins, but don't want an entire set, I just get the Mickey and Minnie from them. It is tough to keep my collection in check as there are so many nice pins out there. I wish you luck in deciding on (and sticking to) a theme