39922 - WDW Cast Lanyard Series I: Kooky Characters - Donald Duck - Walt Disney World

Pin Description:

This is part of the first series of Cast Lanyard exclusive pins released at WDW in 2002 to address the lack of diversity in trading options on cast lanyards. There were no hidden mickey symbols on these pins. The pins were released throughout the year in eight different batches, much like modern hidden mickey pins, however they did not release a whole design collection at once. Instead, they released one pin from each collection at a time. You could not complete a series until the final batch was released. The pins were found exclusively on WDW Cast Member Lanyards and were never available for sale with the exception of the Completers that were later released in 2006.

Released in Batch 4. Donald Duck marches in front of a triangle filled square. Behind him is a series of green, yellow and blue triangles pointing off the edges of the pin. It's purported that two versions of this pin were released, one with white eyes and one with light blue eyes. The DizPins archives from June 2002 display the version with the light blue eyes. It's unknown if the white eyes version is official, or a counterfeit/scrapper version.

Reverse of pin reads: Disney's Lanyard Pin Series and has the 2002 Official Pin Logo.

For search purposes: WDW Cast Lanyard Collection #1; Cast Lanyard Series; WDW Lanyard Pin Series I; Lanyard Pin Series 1.