Disney Pin Collecting - Themes For Your Disney Pin Collection

Disney Pins have become a remarkably popular collectible among all kinds of Disney fans, especially since Walt Disney World debuted pin trading at the parks during their Millennium celebration for 2000/2001. With the celebration long since over, the pin trading and collecting hasn't let up at all and has expanded to all the other Disney parks as well. Retail prices for pins at the Disney parks are usually between and for individual pins so they aren't too expensive either. If you're buying them from other collectors those prices can go up or down, depending on just how desirable a particular pin is among collectors online.

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While many collectors of Disney pins simply buy and trade pins that appeal to them in the moment, it is also possible to build up a pretty substantive collection by sticking to a particular theme. Keeping your collection themed also helps control costs and dealing with the overwhelming selection of pins available. Every month Disney releases dozens of new pins and even with an unlimited pocketbook, it is impossible to get them all. It makes more sense to theme your collection. For example, I only collect Mickey Mouse pins, Stitch pins and pins featuring Walt Disney himself. When I first started collecting, I was much less focused, but once I settled upon my themes, it was easy enough to sell or trade the pins that didn't fit my collection for ones that did.

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Some of the themes you might consider for your Disney pin collection are Disney characters. Mickey Mouse, Tinker Bell and Winnie the Pooh are some of the most popular choices among pin collectors and you can amass a collection in the hundreds of just one of these characters. Right now I have at least 75 pins featuring just Mickey Mouse. In order to keep my collection's focus even tighter, I usually only buy the pins that feature Mickey on his own and not with all his friends.

Other themes might include Disney cast member pins - these are pins that are only distributed or sold to Disney employees and they are a very popular collectible item; or you could build your collection on pins only released at Disneyland or in the international parks - Disneyland Paris, Tokyo or Hong Kong. It's all up to you -- you could even specialize in just Disney Cruise Line pins!

Disney Pin Collecting - Themes For Your Disney Pin Collection

Some of the most popular pins right now are the Disney Cast Nametag Pins and there are always lots of Limited Edition Disney pins to choose from as well.

To get started with your collection, you can buy Disney pins at: http://disneypins.collectiblesnook.com/

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Disney Collectibles - Collecting Figurines From the Walt Disney Classics Collection

Introduced in 1992 at the South Bend Collectible Show, the debut of the Walt Disney Classics Collection (WDCC) was the product of three years of work by Disney animation artists and sculptors to create a line of Disney figurines that would closely resemble their animated counterparts. The incredible detail work on the porcelain figures made them a huge hit with Disney fans and collectors. The first three figures released in the series were scenes from Bambi, Cinderella and the Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia.

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To date, there are over 100 different Walt Disney Classics Collection figurines produced and retirements are common, creating a popular secondary market for collectors who desire retired WDCC figures. With each retirement, the molds are actually broken, ensuring that additional figures cannot be created from the same molds. Some figurines are also issued as numbered limited editions and it should be noted that Disney has elected to avoid always starting off their number system with "#1". All WDCC figures carry a backstamp indicating the year of production and they are also issued with a Certificate of Authenticity.

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One year after the collection debut, Disney introduced a collector's club as an adjunct to the Classics Collection. Called the Walt Disney Collectors Society, members pay a year to join and this entitles them to a free membership figurine from the WDCC each year and access to members-only sculptures, as well as a newsletter and magazine and an annual WDCC catalog. In 1993, the year the club was introduced, the special charter membership sculpture was Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio. The collector's society was the first membership club sponsored directly by Disney.

Currently, both the Walt Disney Classics Collection and the Walt Disney Collectors Society are managed by Disney licensee, Enesco, with some of the original Disney staff involved to maintain production quality and Disney's high standards. The transfer of responsibility took place in 2004.

Disney Collectibles - Collecting Figurines From the Walt Disney Classics Collection

If you are looking to add to your Disneyana collection, you can find both Disney Collectible Figurines, including WDCC, and Disney Pins at Jenni's Disney collecting pages.

Jenni Kerala collects Mickey Mouse and Stitch, her two favorite Disney characters.

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