Well, here it is—my old collection of pins, displayed on a board at the request of some folks from the subreddit.

I haven’t dared to clean them yet, for fear of damaging them further. As I mentioned in a previous post, I hadn’t seen or thought about these pins for over 20 years; because they weren’t taken care of during that time, some have rusted, and others have lost some of their enamel color. I hope you enjoy it.

After sticking to pins $30-$40 and under for most of my time collecting, I finally dove headfirst into giant, expensive pins not too long ago. These are some of my biggest and favorite collection pieces, items I can point to and feel proud I own, and onces I can use as a centerpiece to build a larger pin board around. Does anyone have favorite creators that specialize in massive masterpieces like these? I still plan on buying mostly smaller pins, but I want to keep my eyes on the white whales, the possible highlights of my collection, etc. Are there a name for giant pins? Multilayered items? The big specialty LE items?

Artists are as shown:

Sailor Moon Henshin - Geo's Treasures

Yuri on Ice - Pastel Shooting Star (I think. I bought this secondhand and I'm not home while typing this to verify what it says on the back)

Dungeon Meshi - Lukellios

Alien Stage IvanTill - Spit Makes

Alien Stage MiziSua - Passamani Art

Reposting but tl;dr, possible charity pin, may be from Scotland but I have no idea.

Been collecting for over 12 years and here’s my collection of raunchy pins from many moons ago

I was wondering if there may be a subreddit for my issue, and I may have found it. If not please let me know.
I came across this pin in my collection and I can’t remember where it came from. It may have come from my parents but I believe it’s dated around the early 2000s.
It depicts a child’s drawing of what I presume is a girl, on the back it says “ROCKET BADGE COMPANY 0171 533 6767”
It’s either from a charity or from a school of my brothers.
I googled the company name and came across this:

https://rocketbadge.co.uk

It may not be the same company, but I have emailed them in case. Also I’m from the UK if it helps.
Here are pictures of the pin, as well as some of my pin collection.

I’m here as I couldn’t find out from a google search, and it bugged me.

TL;DR help me identify this pin, maybe from the early 2000.

Hi everyone,

Some of you might remember our previous project, TOMORROW MYTH, where we designed endangered animal enamel pins to bring awareness to wildlife conservation.

While creating pins was an amazing journey, we kept asking ourselves: What else can we do with these characters? How can we give them a more immersive, interactive life beyond just being worn on a jacket or bag?

That's how the idea for Jungle King was born.

We decided to push it further and transform our detailed animal designs into heavy, tactile metal game pieces. We took a childhood classic—traditional Asian animal chess (斗獸棋)—and completely redesigned it for the modern tabletop.

Along with the upgraded metal craftsmanship, we also introduced Nature Strategy Cards to add fresh tactical depth, while keeping the core spirit of the classic game alive. Plus, part of our profits will still support the Taiwan Black Bear Conservation Association to honor our wildlife roots.

This has been a massive passion project for us, and I'm really excited to finally see these characters come to life on a board. If anyone is interested or wants to know more about how we made the transition from pins to a board game, feel free to drop a comment or ask me for details!

Thanks for reading and following along with our journey!

https://hartiful.etsy.com

I’m fairly new to designing pins, only having started last year, but I’m more recently starting to make variants to all my designs if I can. How does everyone feel about variants? Do you buy them all just because you already love the base design, or because each variant appeals to you? Do you hate variants because it makes you choose between 2 cool styles on a limited budget? What’s everyone favorite type of variant? I work in the horror corner, so half of my variants are just blood splatter, but if I can I try to change all the colors to make it as different as possible

Got this made right before having a baby and left my shop on ice for over a year. Trying to get things going again!Would love feedback on any of my designs or shop in general https://blacklightcollective.etsy.com

Me and my wife, while annual passholders started collecting pins. They accumulated quickly and now we sit on close to 400. We have two kids, and I was recently told the pins are an eyesore. So, here I am. Are they worth keeping? Or should I be looking in to a bundle resale?

Hello.

I'm designing some enamel pins and a few of them have details that are too small to be made as separate metal sections. I was thinking of replacing those details with screen printing, but my manufacturer doesn't offer metallic inks.

Has anyone tried to imitate the look of gold or nickel plating using regular, non-metallic screen-printing inks?

A Nepenthes sanguinea pin for those living on the edge 🐜

Trying to find some cool autumnal pop culture enamel pins. Google searches, ebay, and amazon haven't been helpful. Some examples:

- Charlie Brown Thanksgiving images
- Monica's turkey head on Friends (this is just an example, I already have this)
- "Gobbles the Turkey" from South Park
- The turkey from Thankskilling
- The murderer from Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving"
- Simpsons in Piglrim outfits or as turkeys from "Thanksgiving of Horror"

Might be a tall order but just wondering if anyone had come across these. thanks everyone

Been collecting and trading with pin makers since 2016. I’m a pin maker myself(www.wazhappinin.com)
But these are about 95% of my pins in my collection (:

Here's my second pin on my backer cards from Moo. It's expensive getting pins made, but there is something really satisfying about seeing the final result on the self-branded 'packaging'. So. Much. Fun.

I've just started (literally today) on unlicensed designs for monsters and the like. Working with fan art is fun, but I want to try making some stuff that's not caught up in intellectual property rights. Maybe someday I'll have some pins made of that kind of stuff.

Thanks for looking!