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Is anyone else into Disney Pin Trading? I got into it about 3 weeks ago. My friends and I were at Disneyland and every ride had lines that went on for miles! Luckily, I brought the pin trading starter set that Lena gave me a year ago. We only went on two rides, but pin trading kept me occupied for the rest of the day!
How does it work? Basically, you check out the Disney cast member’s pins (the Disney workers) and see if there’s anything you want to trade with them. If you see a pin you like, just trade one of yours for one of theirs. It’s that simple! Other rules are.. you can’t trade with them a pin they already have, and you can’t trade more than two pin at a time with any cast member.
So I started with 4 starter pins. Then I had to buy another starter set that had 7. And well.. I started buying pins that I like to keep instead of trade. And now my lanyard is getting really heavy. :)
It’s getting quite addicting. I’m at the point where I like all of my pins.. so I need to buy another starter set to start trading again! My best find yesterday was a new pin from the Tinkerbell movie, worth $14. I traded it with my $4 pin. :)
My best advice is trading pins with the Disney janitors… why? Because they don’t get that much traffic from visitors since they’re not selling anything. And yes, I got that Tinkerbell pin from a janitor. :)
To the left are some pins I had on Saturday, and in the top photo are the pins I have now. Sometimes it’s so hard to pick which ones to trade!
I was in Anaheim for a committee meeting today. I’m on the local arrangements committee that’s helping to plan all the fun stuff for the library conference that’s happening in two weeks. The committee members all met up to do a walk-thru of the conference area, hotel, and places within walking distance in Anaheim. I had no idea the day was going to consist of a lot of hiking though! haha I took a ton of photos that I can use for the website. :)
My favorite part of the day was when we finally reached Downtown Disney to scope out the restaurants and buy raffle prizes at the World of Disney Store. Fun! I found the perfect bag for my Dell Mini 9 too!
After our hike around the city, we had a late lunch at PF Changs at the Garden Walk. It’s a great area since it’s so close to the hotel and Disneyland.
So if you need any advice about Anaheim, just ask me. I know most of the in’s and out’s now. :)
More photos:
@ijustine, @daynah, @jlynnjohnston, and @rocknrollgeek. Thanks for taking the photo @dragonal!
After @ijustine and I got out of our Twestival LA meeting, we decided to head to Disneyland! It was the perfect night since everyone was home watching Superbowl Sunday. ;)
I love Twitter. This Disneyland Tweetup was planned so last minute, but it worked out. ;)
@Albert gave me an Annual Pass to Disneyland for my birthday! And I gave one to my sister for her birthday. :) The three of us spent all of Sunday at the parks together. It was tons of fun!
My sister was 3-years old when she last went to Disneyland.. so she didn’t remember anything. We got to show her all the good rides! Surprisingly, the lines weren’t that bad, we’ve just become experts on what rides to go on. haha The longest wait was about 25 minutes!
There’s a really fun new ride at Disney’s California Adventure called Toy Story Midway Mania. It’s now one of my favorites.
Anyhow, I can’t wait to go back to Disneyland. There’s still some new rides that I haven’t been on yet… like Nemo!
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