Disney Animator Jason Peltz will be at an EPCOT Pin Kiosk near Creations Shop on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. He will have brand new limited edition pins available to celebrate Walt Disney World’s 25th Anniversary of Pin Trading. He will also be signing purchases.
Some of his credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Emperor’s New Groove, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, and The Princess and the Frog, working on iconic characters such as Mushu, Jumba, and Koda.
He has also worked on designs for pins, action figures, and snow globes. Currently, he works as an associate product design manager on the Pin Trading Center of Excellence Team.
In a post on his Instagram page, Peltz announced that he would be signing at EPCOT next week with set times 11:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 5:00p.m.
Peltz will have new, limited edition pins available for purchase at the kiosk, as well. These pins celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Pin Trading at The Walt Disney World Resort.
Four of the pins feature drawing tables with images of characters being drawn to life. The prints are simple renderings at the bottom, but the bust of the characters are full-color and look to be coming out of the page. Mushu, Simba, Kuzco, and Hercules are the characters represented in these Limited Edition 5000 pins which will run you $24.99 each.
Below the drawing table pins are a Stitch, Pleakley, and Jumba Jumbo Pin, Limited Edition 750 and Mickey Mouse Box Set Pin, Limited Edition 4000.
The Stitch pin features Jumba and Pleakely running after Stitch in a frame denoting the 25th Anniversary of Pin Trading and will cost $59.99.
The Mickey Mouse Box set features four different iterations of the beloved Mouse, started with Steamboat Willie, then moving to Conductor Mickey, Sorcerer Mickey, and classic Mickey Mouse. The versions of Mickey appear to be walking down a film strip. The Mickey Box Set Pin will cost $69.99.
Disney has release many other pins, new pin backer cards, and even a t-shirt denoting the 25th Anniversary.
Pin trading began at Walt Disney World as part of the Millenium Celebration. Initially confined to EPCOT, pin trading quickly spread throughout all of the Disney parks and eventually to Disney outposts like Disney’s Aulani, Disney’s Hilton Head Resort, and the Disney Cruise Lines. Today, tens of thousands collect and trade Disney pins.
While not previously announced by Disney, Peltz is visiting during the EPCOT International Festival of the Arts where he also had some of his 3-D prints available for purchase.
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