April 2010 Visit.

 Carolyn and I had a great time trading Pins and visiting our favorite attractions. The parks were much less crowned than our March visit as it appeared that spring break was over. We walked right on to The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise with no waiting. Usually the appropriate Disney Bus was waiting on us or arrived shortly after we got to the Bus stop.

As most of you know Disney is allowing Pin Traders to set up at the four tables located in front of the Epcot Pin Trading Center. If you wish to set up with your Pin Trading Book it is necessary to arrive right when Epcot opens in order to secure one of four tables.

While Carolyn finished touching up her makeup and hair, I would make a dash to Epcot to set up on one of the Trading tables. We now have to carry our trading pins in a case with wheels. We are using one of my old Pelican Rifle cases in order to safely transport the pins on the Airplane and to drag them to Epcot. The case certainly gets strange looks from the Disney Security Staff until we open to reveal over 1600 Disney Pins.

We made some great trades and met a lot of very nice people from all over the World. Emma and her little sister from Scotland traded a very nice group of older Euro-Disney Pins as well as a USA Jumbo Monorail for a few of our older Walt Disney World Pins and the new 2010 Hidden Mickey Pins. Speaking of Hidden Mickey Pins we verified that there are completer pins for the 2010 Hidden Mickey pins. They are the new $1.00 pins at Downtown Disney when you purchase $30.00 or more of merchandise.  For example the completer pin for the figment 2010 Hidden Mickey Pins is a yellow shirt with the letter "F" on the front.