Guests can make up to two (2) trades per вЂњlanyard,вЂќ per Cast Member, per day. Cast Members at our Theme Parks and Resorts have to trade their pins displayed on their Company issued lanyards. IS IT TRUE DISNEY CAST MEMBERS HAVE TO TRADE THEIR PINS? It even provides some вЂњpin trading etiquetteвЂќ.

Check out the вЂњOfficial Disney Pin Trading Site, a great site filled with all kinds of helpful information for anyone who is interested in pin collecting and trading at the Disney Parks.

And I have to say, it is fun to go back and look at the binders years later and relive the fun we had collecting them! We were given the suggestion, to create binders with foam sheets in between to protect the pins, and that is what we do.

Think about how you are going to keep them when you get home! DonвЂ™t go to all this trouble to buy all these pins and just keep them in a shoebox! Some people frame the lanyards and pins.

If this appeals to you, there are some great books out there that can give you more information. But if you want to make this a serious collection, you can buy only Limited Editions, for example, to increase the value of your collection.

If you have kids who are going to trade everything away, you wonвЂ™t spend a lot on them, or especially care about what they look like. Make a conscious decision: collect for fun, collect to trade, or collect seriously.

For us, we tend to now buy our pins around dated events, as they are a great reminder of when we went and when we got the pin: such as New Years Eve 2005. Maybe the resorts, or characters, or villains, or princesses.

It is easier, in my opinion, to do this if you are collecting with a theme in mindвЂ¦.which can be just about anything.

It is easy once you start looking at them, to get carried away!

Set a limit of so many per day, or per trip, or a cost limitвЂ¦and then stick to it.

The idea here is to trade these for others your kids will like more. You can find some on eBay, at, and even Amazon.

If you have kids, arrive at Disney with a dozen or so cheap pins for your kids to trade with.So if this all sounds like a fun and rewarding hobby and activity, well it is! To get started then, keep in mind the following:

Disney pin serial number database