News from Trade City USA

Aug 28, 2010 by orangebird    No Comments    Posted under: News

At today’s Trade City USA Town Hall Meeting, Steven Miller showed and announced some pin news for the upcoming year. Here is just a taste with previews in pictures. Be sure to listen to the upcoming Disney Pincast podcast for a full audio/visual presentation from the event.

First up, 101010 Preview/Announcement of Festivities. In Walt Disney World, the 10 hours of trading will begin at 10:10 on October 10th in the Yacht and Beach Club Convention Center, and will end at 8:10, there will be new pins being released at the ‘event’, though it is more like a Disney Trading Night. While in Disneyland Resort, guests can participate in a Pin Pursuit on October 10th.

Next, Steven begins to talk about the new year’s Pin of the Month Series, he starts off with Disneyland Resort, and the shared Tinkerbell ‘birthstone’ keys, that will be in both WDW and DLR, the pins will also be avalible for the whole year, not just that specific month.

Steven also revealed another ‘shared’ release, though both pins each month will be different, the Classic D Series. Disneyland will receive ‘its’ D, while Walt Disney World will receive ‘its’ D.

Disneyland will be getting the Then-and-Now series as well.

Walt Disney World’s Pin of the Month series will feature a 40th Anniversary series, a Piece of Disney Movie History and the Classic D set.

Finishing up the Pin of the Month sets, Steven goes on to announce next years Disney Trading and Collectible Showcases, as Pin Trading Events are ‘no more’ going into a new decade.

The ‘September Event’ returns with the Florida Project on September 9-11, 2011

Walt Disney World will get two events this year, the Florida Project, and Love Is Magical event, in February 2011.

Duffy the Disney Bear will be the ‘Mascot’

Here are some previews of artwork

Disneyland will have Alice in Wonderland, a weekly release for a period of time themed to Alice in Wonderland

Like this Mystery Pin Set of characters on playing cards

Disneyland’s Summer Event will be the Sci Fi Academy on June 24th, 2011

Sci Fi Movie themed attraction posters for Classic Tomorrowland attractions

Near the end of the presentation, Steven previewed some of the Hidden Mickey Collection 2011, which will feature a little Orange Bird, Disneyland Monorails, and some DeeBees

Stay Tuned later this weekend for more previews and information regarding next years events.