My Haul from WDW
Now that I am back from WDW, I decided to post "my haul" and a few cast member trading stories. (Below). The first photo has items that all are up for trade. Yes, it's a lot of hidden mickeys, but they all seem legit (more on that below) with good weight, no borders paint issues, etc. The only scrapper is my alice diamond pin, but I am keeping her anyway. And although the Alice heart is a DL pin, I checked her out and she also has good weight, no paint, etc and she was the only one I saw my entire time there. I talked to a few people who had done both parks, so my guess is someone, maybe even a kid, had one and traded to a CM.
I'll post a separate trading thread in a bit. The cell phone pin you can't really see is Belle.
My keepers:
Notes:
I noticed a lot less in terms of fakes this trip. I don't know if I got lucky and hit a refresh, or if Disney is more on top of cleaning up boards and lanyards. I did notice significantly fewer CMS with lanyards (i.e. no one at the check desk this time etc.) I am wondering if having fewer of these to update is making it easier to refresh, but just speculation on my part.
So a few cast member trading moments:
I was walking down the street in Hollywood studios and all of a sudden a cast member sees me and goes "Pst, you, come here" and crooked his finger at me. I wondered over to him. Since it was chilly out (by FL standards, this New Englander was in shorts) he had a coat on and then just whips a lanyard out from underneath it
with a lot of the newer HMs on it and asked if he hadanything i wanted. And that's how I got the Kevin pin.
And my favorite:
I walked into my hotel one afternoon and there were two managers standing there talking. I politely asked one of them if I could I trade for his Russel Pin.
Manager #1 " Sure, but you'll have to tell me which one Russell is."
Me (pointing) "That one."
Manager #2 "Way to know your characters, Doug."
Manager #1 (pause) "Well, I know which one Dug is."
I'll post a separate trading thread in a bit. The cell phone pin you can't really see is Belle.
My keepers:
Notes:
I noticed a lot less in terms of fakes this trip. I don't know if I got lucky and hit a refresh, or if Disney is more on top of cleaning up boards and lanyards. I did notice significantly fewer CMS with lanyards (i.e. no one at the check desk this time etc.) I am wondering if having fewer of these to update is making it easier to refresh, but just speculation on my part.
So a few cast member trading moments:
I was walking down the street in Hollywood studios and all of a sudden a cast member sees me and goes "Pst, you, come here" and crooked his finger at me. I wondered over to him. Since it was chilly out (by FL standards, this New Englander was in shorts) he had a coat on and then just whips a lanyard out from underneath it
with a lot of the newer HMs on it and asked if he hadanything i wanted. And that's how I got the Kevin pin.
And my favorite:
I walked into my hotel one afternoon and there were two managers standing there talking. I politely asked one of them if I could I trade for his Russel Pin.
Manager #1 " Sure, but you'll have to tell me which one Russell is."
Me (pointing) "That one."
Manager #2 "Way to know your characters, Doug."
Manager #1 (pause) "Well, I know which one Dug is."
