Maps and pins stuff!

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Maps and pins stuff!
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Fri, 04-06-2007 - 1:52am
just got the email that our custom maps are on the way!! I'm getting so excited! and does anyone if the disney stores sell trading pins and lanyards? the boys are on spring break next week and I was thinking of taking them to the disney store to pick out some pins and stuff? I'm assuming they have them there right?!? oh I'm so excited we leave in 4 weeks!!!! AHH!!!!! going crazy, the questions will start pouring out soon I'm sure!

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Fri, 04-06-2007 - 12:33pm

Congratulations on your up coming trip. I am very jealous because my first trip is 300+ days away.

Anyway, we got a set of maps and they are so beautiful. My kids are already pouring over them.

I am in Wisconsin and our Disney Store has NOTHING for pin trading. I saw that you can order tickets etc through them, so I asked if they had lanyards and the workers didn't even know what they were. So I asked about pins and I got another nope. I then asked about autograph books and they were instantly rude saying that type of merchandise you can only get at the parks etc. I would call before making the trek, mine was a complete bust.

My suggestion is if you want your boys to trade pins, get a bulk set from online. By getting a bulk lot of say 25 or 50 pins, you are sure to get stuff your boys don't want so they can trade for the ones they do want.

Have fun,
Liza in WI
Mommy to Samantha, Travis, Eva, and # 4 due 7/6 ish
Wife since 1999
First trip to Disney World Feb 2008

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Registered: 02-06-2002
Fri, 04-06-2007 - 12:45pm

Here are some links that I have gotten from other posters on this board. I haven't ordered any yet (I am getting them for Christmas gifts) but they look like good pins for trading and none of the junk pins that members won't trade for.

http://www.mousepinsonline.com/tp40/Default.asp?ID=18157

http://www.pinseller.com/

http://disneyshopping.go.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10002&storeId=10051&categoryId=13826&langId=-1&N=0&Ntk=p_categoryID&Ntt=13826&Nu=p_productID
I don't know if this one has bulk packages.

Here's a tip site for trading points, plus there is one on the official Disney site.
http://www.mousepinsonline.com/tp40/Default.asp?ID=18157

Liza in WI

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Fri, 04-06-2007 - 3:36pm

first - Abby is so darn cute in that picture!!!!


Check Target Dollar Spot, ours has (had? they may be sold out) Pirates of the Caribbean lanyards. They were thinner material than the ones at WDW but they were only a dollar! lol


Plain lanyards are found at all of the WDW shops for $5, they are (were in Aug 06) in the Disney Store in the airport in Orlando. I don't remember the price.


For pins, I highly highly reccomend www.pinseller.com Jim is great to work with, and no worries about the quality.