From What’s HapPINing Blog:

Wow! What an exciting weekend. Thank you to all of the residents to Trade City, USA for making the 10th Annual Disney Pin Celebration such an enjoyable experience. We were delighted to see so many long time and new friends at the event.

At the event, we announced several new events coming in 2010-2011. Below is a list of those events:

• Love is Magical – February 5, 2011
• Sci-Fi Academy – June 24, 2011
• D23 Expo – August 19-21, 2011
• The Florida Project – September 9-11, 2011

We have a few pictures from the announced events from this weekend’s Trade City USA Town Hall Meeting with Steven Miller, and a few items to be released. Enjoy!

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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.

Disney Pincast and Vinylmation Station Reporter returned from the second, and final day of Pin Celebration 2010- Trade City USA today with more pin previews and news.

We’ll start today with the 2011 Pin of the Month Disney Cruise Line Series

Upcoming Disney Cruise Line Panama Canal Crossing Set

Alaskan Cruise Pin Set

Open Edition Tangled and TRON themed pins

Destination D Pins, September 2010

Pixar Short Mystery Boxed Set, Coming October/November 2010

DLR October Pin of the Months

Disneyland Resort November Pin of the Months

‘its a small world’ Holiday Character Mystery Boxed Set, Coming November 2010

Spectacle of Lights Pins, Coming to WDW in November 2010

D23 Exclusive Holidays Around the World Pin, to be released at Epcot and online at DisneyStore.com

Disneyland Resort’s December Pin of the Months

DLR December Pins

Walt Disney World Resort Holiday Pins

Disney Pincast and Vinylmation Station reporter, Cody Smith, as well as other members of the WDWNT team are at the Pin Celebration 2010–Trade City U.S.A, and he’s returned from Day 1 of the event with some great previews of upcoming pins.

Let’s begin with some 40th Anniversary Pin Previews

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From What’s HapPINing Blog:

We are busy preparing for the Disney Pin Celebration 2010 this week. Seriously? Is it that time again?! We can’t wait to see many of our long time and new friends this weekend. We have a couple of updates about the activities this weekend.

Autograph Sessions with Disney Design Group Artists
On Friday, August 27, an autograph session with Disney Design Group Artists will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The following artists have been confirmed for this activity: Monty Maldovan, Chris Chapman, Susan Foy, Casey Jones, Quynh Kimball, Alex Maher, Tyler Dumas, Mike Sullivan and Adrienne Draude.

On Saturday, August 28, the autograph session will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The following artists have been confirmed for this activity: Casey Jones, Quynh Kimball, Caley Hicks, Alex Maher, Adrienne Draude and Chris Chapman.

Games
Throughout the event, select event Guests will be chosen to participate in various games. The participants are pre-selected at random and their names will be displayed on the center stage screen. Please be sure to check the screen throughout the event. Here are the times that games will be held:

Friday, August 27
12:00 Noon
1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 28
10:30 a.m.
12:00 noon
5:00 p.m. – Ultimate Trivia Challenge

From What’s HapPINing Blog:

We are back! It’s been a little quiet on the blog while we make our final preparations for Disney Pin Celebration 2010. But now it’s time to begin the final countdown (cue 80s synth line) and to start it all off we have the auction catalog. We’re very excited about several of the auction lots, we’ve pulled pins from all through our ten year history to make this a truly unique auction. We especially like some of the big lots we’ve created this year (who doesn’t like 83 Figment pins) as it basically creates an instant collection.

Click here to download the catalog and view the items available for auction.

And for our Guests who are visiting the Vinylmation™ Showcase, click here to download the catalog for the Vinylmation™ auction items.

See you on August 27 (or August 26 for all of the early registrants)!

In a Steampunk themed blog post on the Disney Parks Blog, Steven Miller showed off a preview of six vinylmation figures, be sure to check out Vinylmation Station for more information. Also featured in the article was a preview of a set from the upcoming Sci Fi Academy in Summer 2011 at Disneyland Resort:

Mike provided me with one last concept drawing for a pin set that will be released at the Sci-Fi Academy event at Disneyland Resort in Summer 2011. Do I see a Steampunk Tiki from Adventureland?!

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From Disney Parks Blog, by Steven Miller:

By now, many of you know from previous Disney Parks Blog articles that I am a huge fan of science fiction. I love all genres probably because of the former Epcot attraction Horizons that taught me “if I can dream it, I can do it.” That is one reason why I can’t wait for the Disney Trading and Collectible Experience we have planned for Summer 2011 at the Disneyland Resort. We recently announced the theme of this one-day event at the Dateline Disneyland 1955: Pin-Vited Press Event in July 2010. I caught up with Chris Chapman, the lead designer for this event, to discuss its evolution.

“We started work on this event in May 2010,” explained Chris. “This event will feature some of the most involved storytelling we’ve ever done. The event will be for every fan whom has ever visited Tomorrowland, enjoyed science fiction entertainment, played video games in the Starcade and more. We want to immerse our Guests into the story from the event experience to the product packaging to the merchandise we are designing.”

Mike Sullivan (http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/03/the-mechanical-kingdom/) from Disney Design Group is the leader character artist for this project. He shared some details about the story created for Sci-Fi Academy.

“Mickey has always loved adventure stories,” explained Mike. “His good friend Professor Ludwig Von Drake created a device making it possible for Mickey to be transported into his favorite Sci-Fi tales from the late 1800s to today. After each trip, Mickey would return with otherworldly keepsakes. As time passed, he realized he could not study all of the great Sci-Fi movies, books, games and television artifacts he collected. So, Commander Mickey created the Sci-Fi Academy, where recruits could help him collect, analyze and catalog these treasures.”

As a child, I remember spending many hours in Tomorrowland watching people and listening to ambient sounds of the future. I recall riding the People Mover during my first visit to Disneyland in the early 1990s (gosh, I loved that soundtrack). Chris explained that this event will pull from those nostalgic childhood memories and experiences.

Chris also created the teaser poster and the four logos representing the different science fiction genres that will be featured at the event. Doesn’t that poster look like advertisement for a brand new motion picture? How I wish it was – sigh. Nevertheless, stay tuned to DisneyPins.com as we reveal more details in the coming months about this event. And I hope to see you at the Academy.

From What’s HapPINing Blog:

Happy third blogiversary to us! It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since the beginning of What’s HapPINning. We have no intention of stopping now, so keep checking back for more sneak peeks and pin trading news in the future!If you are headed over to Star Wars™ Celebration V, be sure to check out the great pins that we are releasing as part of the event. Click here to view the whole assortment.