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Pins, Paper & Records

Pins and buttons, comics and books, records and park music, Disney Dollars and ephemera.

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Disney Pin Trading: From Cast Pins to the 1999 Millennium Boom

Disney pin trading history and collecting — pre-1999 cast and event pins, the Millennium Celebration launch (October 1999), Limited Editions, hidden Mickeys, back stamps, scrappers and fakes, storage, and what vintage pins are worth.

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Vintage Disney Records and Park Music: Collecting the Sound of the Magic Kingdom

Collecting vintage Disney records and park music — Disneyland Records (1956), the Buena Vista label, storyteller LPs, park souvenir albums ('A Musical Tour of Disneyland', 'Walt Disney Takes You to Disneyland'), 45s and picture discs, condition and values, plus where to hear the restored audio.

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Disney Dollars: Collecting the Parks' Own Currency (1987–2016)

Disney Dollars collecting guide (1987–2016) — the denominations, series by year, the Scrooge McDuck and character designs, serial letters and printing marks, condition grading, errors and rarities, and values.

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Vintage Disney Comics and Books: Four Color, Little Golden and Beyond

Collecting vintage Disney comics and books — Dell Four Color and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories, Carl Barks' Donald and Uncle Scrooge, Gold Key and Whitman, Little Golden Books, Big Little Books, Disneyland and park books; grading, key issues, and values.

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Ephemera Deep Dive: Menus, Brochures, Flyers and the Paper Nobody Kept

Collecting Disney park ephemera — menus, brochures, flyers, gate handouts, napkins, matchbooks, receipts, employee newsletters, press kits, the Vacationland and Disney News magazines — the throwaway paper that became the best record of the parks.

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The E-Ticket Magazine and the Birth of Serious Disneyana Collecting

The E-Ticket Magazine (1986–2009) — the fan-published history of Disneyland that shaped serious Disneyana collecting; its 46 issues and annuals, the Imagineer interviews, why collectors hunt complete runs, and how to use the alphabetical index as a research tool.

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