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what is the worst pin release you've ever been too.

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what is the worst pin release you've ever been too.

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I'm at the Steamboat Willie release at DTD and everybody just looks miserable and it just got me thinking.
 
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I'm at the Steamboat Willie release at DTD and everybody just looks miserable and it just got me thinking.
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It's funny. There is a chance that most everyone in line may have never seen this cartoon. So which scene is the "money" scene that everyone will put on eBay?

Good luck to the actual PODM collectors.

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HM dangle (DLR) for 10 yrs pin trading - 2010
Absolute CHAOS in back of Rainforest in early AM
 
Last year on the Pin Trading Day in Disneyland Paris, it was a nightmare!
Everyone running to the Pueblo Pin Trading Post and fighting with eachother and pushing and &%^&%
This year is gonna be different (they say....)
 
Even though I play it cool with every release I go to, tangled podm was a little hectic. Mostly because a little old lady cut in front of me, and someone had a panic attack in line. @_@;
 
For me it was the little mermaid PODM. Simply because it's what I collect and a single women bought 6 pins infront of my mom so I didnt end up getting one. Needless to say my day was ruined. Especially seeing people trading them already (this was before I became reall deep into pins) and it was like tere were dangling infront of me but I couldn't get them.
 
DSF Up release fiasco. First with the cutters and the unofficial line moving into the official line. People were jaywalking across Hollywood Blvd and just absorbing into the middle of the line as it was moving. I stood and watched my pins go away as people cut in. Then people going home and admitting they weren't returning but refusing to give up their line ticket when Nelson (Security guard) asked for it. Then people showing up hours later without a line ticket and magically having one.
 
Even though I wasn't in the line up, from what I read on the Dizpins post (police called in to Magic Way, traffic jams, & Disney's idiotic attempt to merge 3 separate lines into 1 and failing!) and talking to friends about the DLR HM piece of history release on Nov. 15th, 2009, it looked to be the worst. However I went to DLR that day anyway to meet some friends and decided to take a chance in the 1:00pm stand by line and AMAZINGLY still got my 2 pins! They actually had 10 or 12 leftover! I was 2nd in the stand by line.
 
DLRP pin trading night 2011. Was a total nightmare, everyone was on edge, looked grumpy as didnt know when the queue was going to start etc then one guy decided to start the line, luckily my partner is taller than me and noticed it and we said bye to the CM and rushed forward into the crowd not a line. there was shoving etc and I didnt like it, we got our pins and a very nice woman told us about the queue etc and let us use her discount which was very nice of her to do since it was our first PTN.

Ive been told its not like that anymore now but I hated it until after the pin release as then everyone kind of relaxed and started to trade and chat away.
 
Have any of you gone in the morning to try to get on Radiator Springs Racers? Just for a ride, it's so bad, they have to walk people, with a gas nozzle and road, down the main road, through radiator springs route 66 and around the corner. The entire time people are elbowing, shoving, stepping on children, all just to try and get in the front of the line which is already a half hour wait thanks to the magic morning passes.
The line for the fast passes start by Bugs Land, wrap around Carthay Circle theater, down Hollywood blvd, and around the corner to Aladdin theater. Sometimes makes it to Tower of Terror. 50% of those people then get their passes and join their family in the ride line. I did this once and the CM near the line was happy to let me walk up the exit ramp to join my family right before they got on the ride. Probably 30 people followed me. Yet, almost no one was upset about the fastpass people joining. They were all upset about the people that almost just trampled their kid. (understandable.)
I think people's buttons get pushed for different reasons, but turn the coin and if it helps them, they are first in line to do it also. Everyone likes to feel like they got a little advantage once in a while. I had a friend once that thrived on getting the advantage. He'd ask for a water cup and get Sprite and think it was like winning the Civil War or something. He would say and do things normal people wouldn't, just to get a discount or freebie. Those people are the ones that can get nasty. The ones that know they are taking advantage and are in the wrong but then snap at you for calling them out and somehow turn it back on you. That guy is no longer my friend and those people generally aren't either. I think he's the only person I have conciously thought "he's not my friend anymore."
DSF has made great strides since the Up release to help the issue. The numbered wristbands work so well. Now if they can just figure out how to distribute them without the mass push from the mob. Last time it was all shoving for nothing, they had wristbands after the main group got in. All for not. I think making pins LE500 would help too. Lower the resale value and allow more people to get them. Imagine if the PODM pins were LE3500 or even LE5000. Then do online wristband sign ups. It would mellow out the releases so much more.
 
Muhaha....I remember (and was part of) all the DLR lines mentioned...but our # 1 & #2...not mentioned yet. Our 'runner up' worst line ever DLR Beware of Pin Trading ghosts surprise......but EVERYTHING pales in comparision to...

Chip N Dale Rocket
 
Tangled PODM. @ DLR. People were pushy, linecutting, running. CM's just did nothing. Part of why I divorced Tangled, to me the insanity was not worth it, so why bother collecting a pin set that people were that stooopid over?
 

That's funny... Not funny that he did it, but funny that you're bringing it up right now, because Cracked.com recently did an article on "3 Kinds of People That Need to Go Away" and the first one on the list was "people who think they're crafty for doing things better people are ashamed of."

Does that not occur to these people, or do they just not care? I'm not sure, but even worse than the deceit is the pride they take in it. Most of the world is smart and brave enough to craft some deceit; the emotion you should be feeling is shame​
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Definitely the DSF UP Valentine's release. That was around the time when I first started serious pin collecting. My mom and I got to the Kodak theater parking lot at 10:55pm, and we got to DSF RIGHT at 10:59, and a line had formed. Even though DSF stated no lining up until 11:00pm, a line of 150 people had magically formed. Was number 152 and 153 in line. Went home empty handed :cry: Why would DSF enforce a rule and not stick to it? I used to LOVE DSF but ever since that night I can never have the same happy feeling when I go inside that store.
 
You guys are rookies. Try getting your hands on a cabbage patch kid or tickle me Elmo or zsu zsu pet for a kid that's 100 percent sure that Santa is bringing it to them. Nothing makes people crazier than sheer desperation and an undying desire to not disappoint their kids.

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hahahahahahaha seriously. I remember when the Babbling Boo doll came out the mall had big o lines. And I was 11 and really wanted it. Monsters inc has always been my favorite Pixar movie
 
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