SOLD! Mysterious Hunchback pin! Please help me hunt down this elusive gem!
So a few days ago I was browsing Instagram, minding my own business, when I happened to stumble upon a photo of a glorious Esmeralda pin I'd never even seen before!!! (And as you can perhaps surmise, there aren't many Esmeralda pins in the first place. So the fact that I'd somehow missed one was rather mystifying.) Tragically, someone had already beaten me to buying the pin long before I'd even seen the post. 
It is definitely a 100% authentic Disney pin, as evidenced by the IG photo the owner posted of the back of the pin (seen below.) If this is somehow a fantasy pin, then it's the most legit-looking damn fantasy pin I've ever seen in my life, and should pretty much just be considered an official pin.
I searched for this mysterious pin on PP - no luck. I did a google search using the limited information I could glean from the IG photos, including the fact that it is, evidently, an LE 1,000 pin commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Hunchback - yep, still no luck. eBay? Zilch. Not even in the completed listings section.
Since it wasn't already on PinPics, I obviously was quick to add it myself, offering the minimal details known to me. It's now Pin 126980 in their database. I was, of course, the first to click that "want" button, after which I promptly marked it as a grail.
This pin is an enigma. It seems to have surfaced randomly out of the blue, and its elusiveness has sent me on an obsessive chase. It is now the Moby Dick to my crazed Captain Ahab.
And so the hunt for my white whale begins...
I will obviously be watching the PP listing like a hawk, and the millisecond someone marks it as a trader, I'm swooping in. And on the slim chance that a fellow DPFer already has this pin in their possession (and has inexplicably been hoarding it from me, the resident #1 Esmeralda fan *side eye*), please let me know! I'm a broke college student with a pretty meager pin budget, but I'll splurge whatever I can possibly afford for this one. Or trade. Or do a combo trade+$$. Just hit me up and I'm sure we can work something out!
And to the rest of my beloved DPF family, if I could trouble you to please put some feelers out for me, I would be eternally grateful!!! I'm not on Facebook, so perhaps some of you who do have FB could poke around on there? Likewise, if you're in any private pin groups, or if you trade at the parks, etc, etc... ANY help would be so, so, SO appreciated, you have no idea!!! You would be zapped by me for years to come!
Also, if anyone knows more about the pin itself - where it originated, if it sold out, if there's a reason why it's so rare when it has such a large edition size, etc... - I would greatly appreciate that as well!!
Thank you again, my trusty DPF fam! If there's anybody in the world who can help me acquire this pin, it's definitely you guys. <3
It is definitely a 100% authentic Disney pin, as evidenced by the IG photo the owner posted of the back of the pin (seen below.) If this is somehow a fantasy pin, then it's the most legit-looking damn fantasy pin I've ever seen in my life, and should pretty much just be considered an official pin.
I searched for this mysterious pin on PP - no luck. I did a google search using the limited information I could glean from the IG photos, including the fact that it is, evidently, an LE 1,000 pin commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Hunchback - yep, still no luck. eBay? Zilch. Not even in the completed listings section.
Since it wasn't already on PinPics, I obviously was quick to add it myself, offering the minimal details known to me. It's now Pin 126980 in their database. I was, of course, the first to click that "want" button, after which I promptly marked it as a grail.
This pin is an enigma. It seems to have surfaced randomly out of the blue, and its elusiveness has sent me on an obsessive chase. It is now the Moby Dick to my crazed Captain Ahab.
And so the hunt for my white whale begins...
I will obviously be watching the PP listing like a hawk, and the millisecond someone marks it as a trader, I'm swooping in. And on the slim chance that a fellow DPFer already has this pin in their possession (and has inexplicably been hoarding it from me, the resident #1 Esmeralda fan *side eye*), please let me know! I'm a broke college student with a pretty meager pin budget, but I'll splurge whatever I can possibly afford for this one. Or trade. Or do a combo trade+$$. Just hit me up and I'm sure we can work something out!
And to the rest of my beloved DPF family, if I could trouble you to please put some feelers out for me, I would be eternally grateful!!! I'm not on Facebook, so perhaps some of you who do have FB could poke around on there? Likewise, if you're in any private pin groups, or if you trade at the parks, etc, etc... ANY help would be so, so, SO appreciated, you have no idea!!! You would be zapped by me for years to come!
Also, if anyone knows more about the pin itself - where it originated, if it sold out, if there's a reason why it's so rare when it has such a large edition size, etc... - I would greatly appreciate that as well!!
Thank you again, my trusty DPF fam! If there's anybody in the world who can help me acquire this pin, it's definitely you guys. <3
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