I signed up, too....mostly to see if there's any releases or perks.
I can understand why they would charge $10 (staffing, space, set-up, crowd control, etc.). But it's hard to convince people to pay for something they used to get for free.
My preference would be for a one-day full-day or half-event, rather than a paid-for PTN. To make paying worth it, I would want to see something like this:
-Quarterly, so we don't break our banks
-Low price, like $10-$20
-Maybe a theme, even if it's just a holiday close by
-At least one exclusive pin to buy, like a PTN pin, maybe in whatever theme. More pins would be nice, but nothing extreme like the September event catalog. Just 5 or so.
-First shot at any releases for that month- basically, they save the releases for the event/trading day
-Event-like features, like trading boards or games. Once again, not as many as September, but just SOMETHING to make it feel different from the old PTNs.
Basically, something like the Paris events, just scaled back. So something between a full one day event and a PTN.
If nothing else, more than 3 hours would be appreciated.
I still hate the bag restrictions- I dislike having to leave pins behind. But I really feel there's a trip-and-fall law suit behind this strict new rule, in which case I doubt Disney will change their minds on it.
