Front Description
At the Disney Pin Celebration: A Family Pin Gathering in September 2004, attendees were surprised with a sneak preview of art for a new ten-pin Cast Lanyard Collection. Straight from the Disney Pin Vault, these pins had originally been designed for the first “Disney’s Lanyard Pin Series” that had been released in 2002. They’d been sampled but never ordered. Two years later, Disney announced, “The Disney Pin Trading Team is excited to offer a special promotion starting Monday, April 24, 2006, at Pin Central, located at EPCOT.”
Although often mistaken for Completer pins for some of the earlier sets, these ten pins were (according to Disney) created especially for this promotion, “as a tribute to the original series”. They were not distributed to Cast Members for trading and were released as a Purchase with Purchase (PWP) at Pin Central in EPCOT. For every $25 spent on Disney pins or Disney trading accessories at the shop, guests could add one (1) of these pins to their purchase for $1. A year later, on 1 July 2007, the pins were sent to Downtown Disney’s Pin Traders, where the promotion changed to one $1 pin for every $35 spent. The backs of the pins are marked CAST LANYARD COLLECTION, backstamped 2006, and have no Hidden Mickey icon on the front.
This rectangular pin (released on 4 Apr 2006) has all the appearance of a Florida license plate but features "UCANFLY" written in dark green and a lighter green Mickey-head icon on a white background. There are a red November sticker in the top left and an '02 yellow expiration sticker in the top right (release month and date). "Walt Disney World" is written across the bottom in green letters. It appears to have been the only one in this set to have been released with a silver finish (confirmed by the original DisneyPins.com photo), presumably to match the 2002 license plates.
*This pin has been faked.
#33263, #33264, #33265, #33266, #33268, #33269, #33270, #33271, #46090, #46091
Back Description
Silver sandblasted pebble finish. Single pin post with one barb. Official Pin Trading 2006 logo, CAST LANYARD COLLECTION, DISNEY, MADE IN CHINA.