Tokyo Disneyland - Cast Member - 2000 Coming-of-Age Pin

Description: Please remember that as a seller, my sales costs also include packaging tape, printer ink, printer paper, shipping supplies, sales tracking and auction listing tools, not to mention the 12-14% that eBay commissions and payment processing take off the top for fees and commissions. Prices include FREE SHIPPING on all FIXED PRICE items (Domestic Only). All of these costs are included in what you are paying. In the past our images were made using a scanner or camera at very high resolution, exposing many minor flaws that are NOT visible to the human eye. There is a tendency for scanner images to wash out certain colors such as skintones and not pick up silver or gold tones well. I am currently using an iPhone 14 Pro Max with the app "Photoroom Pro" to add innovative backgrounds, providing a stellar image of the actual pin. Please know that as these images are also at very high resolution, flaws, marks, and other imperfections not or barely visible to the human eye may be exposed. Having sold pins for 25 years now, it is nigh impossible to find any pin that I would call "perfect". I also remove the outer plastic wrapper in order to give the images a cleaner line and I return them to the wrapper (assuming they had a wrapper) after taking the image. For those of you that peruse my auctions, a comment on pricing. I look at current and prior completed sales when assessing what price point to list my pins at. To a minimal extent I take my cost into account (after all, the collectibles market is an investment, so values go up and down and I will list a pin near or even under my cost if the market demands this). The biggest factor is rarity, if a pin only comes to market once to several times a year and there are often none of that pin available for sale, I consider those rarities, and will price them accordingly, generally at high values as they are near impossible to replace. Sometimes I wait years to finally attain a certain pin or to replace one I sold. These are the types of pins I consider my specialty as I am ALWAYS on the lookout for something rare, hard to attain, and/or extremely limited. Since I offer free shipping and I try to be at or near the lowest price plus shipping, on eBay, at the time I list, my prices are sometimes negotiable, but not by much. Description: This extremely rare pin has been around for 24 years now and still hasn't found its way onto PinPics, the pre-eminent database for all things Disney pins, nor the new up and comer Pin Central. It's a very rare piece of Disney Cast Member history in terms of pins and is exclsuive to the Japanese parks. This pin is for those Cast Members, whom, during their time as Cast Members at Tokyo Disneyland, turned 20 years of age. As far as I know there are I think 5 different years this pin has been issued for and considering the rarity, and what it would mean in the Japanese culture to the Cast Member, it's quite likely there are other years this pin was made and given out, but we just haven't seen them yet! SEIJIN-no- hi, or Coming of Age Day, is a national Japanese holiday held on the second Monday of January to honor young adults who turned 20 years old in the past year. It is a way of welcoming them into society and is an essential rite of passage for the Japanese people. This symbolic moment of transitioning from childhood to adulthood marks the point at which the journey to become an honorable members of society begins. On SEIJIN-no-hi, the Coming of Age ceremonies, SEIJIN-shiki, take place across Japan in city halls and other official centers. Customarily, people return to their hometowns for this celebration, the young women dressed in a gorgeous kimono called furisode for the ceremony and young men wearing hakama, the traditional mens kimono. It is an opportunity for the SEIJIN, the newly recognized adults, to receive encouraging advice for the next chapter of their lives as newly gained freedom and responsibilities are celebrated in the company of family members and old friends. This moment is one that people remember for the rest of their lives. It is a memory that we all look back on fondly. Year of Release: 2000 Where Released: Tokyo Disneyland Pinpics # Not On PinPics Traders Having This Pin: - Traders Wanting This Pin: - Backer Card: Never Came On a Card How Acquired: Purchase Pin Central # Not On Pin Central Edition Type/Size: Unknown Edition Size Please read all information below!! 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Price: 199.99 USD

Location: The Villages, Florida

End Time: 2024-12-25T05:53:45.000Z

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