After the warm-up at Legoland, Bentley was ready to do some serious Disney pin swapping at Disney World. Some Disney cast members wore lanyards around their neck with Disney pins on them. Other cast members had a small square of black felt attached to their belt. Once in a while there would be a board or notebook filled with lots of pins. The rule is that if a guest wants to trade with a cast member, the guest can trade any pin they own (as long as the cast member doesn't already have that pin) for any pin of the cast member's collection. That's a pretty good deal!
At Animal Kingdom it took us half a day to locate cast members with pins to swap, but once Bentley figured it out, he was able to find more. Bentley made some great trades, as did Jake.
Viva wasn't as interested in pin swapping as her brothers, but occasionally she would bestir herself to take a look at whatever was available. I told her brothers to let her know if there were any good princess pins on the cast lanyards they checked out. When they found one, then Viva would go take a look.
In the next three Disney parks the children found many more cast members to swap with. Jake and Bentley were quite good at spotting possibilities. Viva continued to swap only when encouraged to do so. She liked collecting sets of princesses even going so far as to have two of the same pin. She called them twins.
Jake also had two of the same pin. Maybe it is a twin thing? Bentley was the most discerning trader often opting not to trade after looking over a cast member's pin collection. Jake was unpredictable. He'd swap for a pin and then trade the new pin out just a few minutes later.
Pin trading was fun. I'm glad we purchased some pins on eBay for children to swap. The pins for sale at Disney are $7+ per pin. On eBay we bought 50 pins and three lanyards for $40.
Here are the pins the children brought home.
Did you figure out who collected which set of pins? Bentley's was the first set, Viva's the second (tough guess!), and Jake's the last set.
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