First in a set of 6: mostly duplicates, with a couple new HMs

This is the first image for a set of 6 images from the same manufacturer.  The link will be the same for all the images, and then you will need to use the viewer navigation to get to each image.  The screenshots will show the specific image.  Most of these are duplicate pins from Hidden Mickey series, but each image has something new.

http://www.ecvv.com/product/3813720.html

New pins identified: 2
Total pins identified: 1201

Recap: Where are we, where are we going?

Just a quick recap post to gather my thoughts about where I am in the process and where I am going.

After almost a year, I'm almost finally finished with Stage 1.  Stage 1 was to Google for Chinese factory listings, make screenshots, save photos, print images, identify all the pins and start building the master list.  I have about 15 more images to post, which I hope to finish in the next couple of days.  There are probably more images to find, but I'll have to do some more heavier duty searching than I've been doing, maybe try to use the Internet Web Archive to find older images that have been removed because they are out of date, etc.

Then I'll move on to Stage 2.  Stage 2 will be almost the same as Stage 1, except it will be for the images that were collected by Dizpins prior to ceasing operations.  The link to those images is in the link list on the right.  I think this will go much quicker, because many of the pins will be duplicates.  But the images contain a  bunch of older counterfeits from the Cast Lanyard series and older rack pins, so it's definitely worth going through all of those pins.  I hope to finish all of those within a couple of weeks, hopefully before the 1 year anniversary of this blog.

Stage 3, will be cleanup of the blog.  It took awhile to wrap my head around how I wanted to organize and phrasing of the pin listings.  I need to go back and make sure the way I referred to each of the Hidden Mickey series is uniform, check for spelling errors, verify the Pinpics numbers are accurate, etc.  At that point the "duplicate" listings will be removed from the Master list, and each pin will only be listed once, but I think I might leave a reference to how many times it appears in a counterfeit image. And I'll see what I can do about getting pictures, or Pinpics links.  Also, at that time I will make the lists of Hidden Mickey and Vinylmation pins only.  I might also make other pages like those, where I can list specific series that have been counterfeited like certain rack pin series, or WDW Gold Card series, etc.  Hopefully, those will make it easier for people to find the specific pins they have a question about.

Stage 4.  Time to go public.  I keep writing as if I have regular followers, but in truth I've only shared this blog with one other person.   How useful this blog will turn out to be, I have no idea, but at least *I* have a better understanding of how many pins have been compromised, the types of pins, how many (or actually few) manufacturers are involved in this.

Stage 5:  Continue to look for new images.

2013 DLR and WDW HM pins: Duffy Hats, Sweet Characters, also 2013 PWP Starter Lanyard

Here's where we say "booooo."  We all knew the 2013 Hidden Mickeys had been compromised when they started showing up on Ebay before release. And here's the visual confirmation that they are coming out of China.  Or at least for some of them.

http://www.tradeeasy.com/supplier/700648/selling-leads/1125420/sell-disney-pins.html

 Note: This link previously showed a different set of pins, so in the future it may change again with whatever current batch they are trying to peddle. That's why I take screenshots.

New pins identified: 19
Total pins identified: 1199

PWP Pluto, Figment & Dreamfinder LE, Tinker Bell

Only 3 new pins in this small image

http://www.ecplaza.net/product/tin-badge-disney-pin-pin--333386-2601716.html

This image also appears here: http://www.lihaobadge.net/products/Lapel+Pin-2C+Button+Badge-2C+Tin+Badge-2C+Disney+Pin-2C+Pin+Badge-3200175.htm

New pins identified: 3
Total pins identified: 1180

Deluxe Starter Americana, CM Pin Party, More HMs

Lots of newly identified stuff here, although they are all older pins.  Annoyingly, this was the only image I could find from this supplier, but the way this starts with #23 indicates there is at least one more image somewhere waiting to be identified.

http://www.ecplaza.net/trade-leads-seller/sell-disney-badges--5901415.html

New pins identified: 15
Total pins identified: 1177

2011 HMs from both WDW and DLR, mini pins and 2-pin sets

A fair number of more recent pins (2011).

http://shanji.en.ec21.com/offer_detail/Sell_Disney_pins--17739994.html

New pins identified:  11
Total pins identified: 1162

DLR HM 2007 - Halloween and Fairies, plus a few other HM odds and ends

I would have thought we've seen most of these before, but actually not. Only some of the Alice Watches have shown up.

http://makite.en.ecplaza.net/disney-pin--164457-864513.html

New pins identified: 18
Total pins identified: 1151