Stahp the Pinsanity!
Psycho Pixie
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Although, I think the low edition sizes and unique characters, plays a role in getting the ball rolling, I do not think it's the primary motivator for things like this. I think it's much more basic, people really want to be a "have." Whether it means owning the "right" style of shoes, or label on clothing in middle/high school or driving a fancy car, or this. Think about all the things you either did or saw others do in school, that only started after a few of the popular kids starting doing them. It's the same thing. If you have it, you're somebody. Or at least you're not one of those schmucks who isn't a "have." Everyone wants to be the first person to get a new design, so they could be the first one on Ebay, or facebook, or here. So no one left. The pin itself, is actually secondary. Which is why it stopped being about what character it was, popular or not. It's the feeling of knowing that only a select few can have it, and you are one of them. But very few people will actually admit that about themselves. That they want something, just because other people want it or could be the "first on their block" to have the new whatever.
If something "hotter" comes along, the reaction will turn on a dime, and DSF will be so yesterday. 2-3 years ago everyone was going nuts over Paris PTNs. Nothing really changed, in terms of price, or characters, or availability but no one talks about them with the same intensity as they did. Remember the Alice in Wonderland release at DL? What happened after that? A month of working everyone up into a frenzy and everyone was an Alice collector in desperate need and the pins came out and now they're where? Certainly, there are still Alice collectors, but they were the same people who collected before the insanity of that release.
Thanks for an entertaining thread Psycho Pixie! An amusing take on the situation! It must be a headache for those that want to actively collect the DSF pins. Personally, I wouldnt have the time to queque for pins and hang around for hours, I would just have to give up collecting them.
Thanks again Psycho Pixie, your thread gave me a good giggle!
Don't joke, it could happen still All it will take is the Tangled lantern scene and these will be HOT (meant to qoute pixie's reply about the windows of magic pins being the next it pin).
I am actually willing to bet Tangled does make the WttM series. But I think it would be the tower, not the gondola.
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I think what's responsible is what's already been pointed out... the market being what it is. Fewer good LE pins being put out by Disney via any other source; a good low LE pin near-perpetually available for the same price as a rack pin; and the pin makers and/or managers (it isn't the managers' fault if they have put out everything they had) deciding on very popular characters all in a row.
While I agree with this paragraph (makes perfect sense to me and I do blame a lot on the fact that there are less and less places to buy pins), there are people out there that are after the latest and greatest. Pins get "hot" and people go after what is popular, either to keep or to trade them away for what they want. I know I've done this, but with so many people focusing on PTDs, and how quickly they are going (due to popular characters or trying to get less popular characters to run out) I'm very curious to see what happens with PTDs when they return. Will the rules change again?
Also, here's a question that I'm hoping one of you guys who went to DSF this weekend can answer. I enjoy buying my PTD and enjoying it at the counter. Sometimes it leads me to purchasing more food, which I'm sure the soda shop loves. Was anyone allowed to sit down and order a PTD either by itself or with food? When I went down to pick up the Rapunzel PTD months ago, people were told that they could not purchase PTDs at the counter/tables due to the line. One woman and her young daughter tried to do that and they told her no. She walked out kind of pissed. More due to the fact that she wanted the pin I assume. Was that the case this weekend with the lines? Will PTDs become a "to go" option only, or perhaps only when there is a long line for a popular character? Say there are 50 people in line for a PTD and I wanted to sit down and order a personal pizza and a PTD. As a paying customer I should be entitled to the PTD as much as the people in line. The line, after all, is for the "to go" line, and not specifically a "PTD line" if that makes any sense.
What do you think DPF?
Also, I wonder if people are discussing this on Pin Talk as much as we are...
From what I hear, there are other sites that discuss DSF PTN releases - including several on Facebook. As I recall, several posted PTN photos came from a Facebook page photo that wasn't DSF (not to mention photos from that auction site).
If there were no people in line, I would think you could sit down and order a PTD and get the pin. But with a line of "50", sitting down, ordering a PTN and expecting to immediately get the pin is no different than cutting into the line in the #1 position, getting your PTD and then sitting down. Not cool!
Believe it or not Steve, even if you sit down to eat a real MEAL, if you try to order your PTD as dessert, they make you go get in the to go line now. UG
Believe it or not Steve, even if you sit down to eat a real MEAL, if you try to order your PTD as dessert, they make you go get in the to go line now. UG
That is NUTS. I'm glad that the one chance I got to go to DSF, they didn't do that. I got a PTD after a nice leisurely meal. That was in December...
Seems like DSF isn't making very good decisions from a business standpoint.
NOOO we liked looking through it for the new PTD (though sometimes it changed so quickly that you missed a couple (not your fault!) haha)I don't like the idea of blaming the master post hiding a release from people who don't live close isn't the answer. The post was created to free up the forum and have fun, it's not the existence of the thread but what people chose to post in it. I'm sad it was closed and shall stick to hercules from now on