Mickey's Mystery Pin Machine

During this past Pin Celebration trip, we found this pin game machine in Mouse Gears. We've never heard of it before. It was a game that you play ($5 per game) in trying to get a ball all the way to the top. But whether you win or lose, you still get a prize, which is one of the randomly selected pin out of the 3 pin sets on display at the machine.

This is a picture of the machine.


I think we spent $25 playing this game and got 5 different pins. Out of the 5, 3 came from a set, so we're one short of completing that set, which we'll try to get when we go back to WDW later in the month.

It seems that this particular pin machine was brand new. It made its debut on Sept. 6 at Mouse Gears. This of course, made perfect sense since the pin addicts were swarming all over Epcot starting on that date. I'm not sure how many of them knew about the pin machine though. Disney will be installing this machine at several other locations. It isn't a bad price for a pin, since the cheapest rack pins go for $6.95. So it can certainly be cheaper to use this for trading with cast members for the lanyard pins rather than using the rack pins or even the booster sets.

Zz.