When Vinylmation came out, I wasn’t that interested in them. I thought they were just some new fad and that they’d quickly die out. I’d been a pin collector for a while and didn’t want to lose my focus. A couple of trips to Disneyland later, and they started to grow on me. Eh, I’ll buy one, I thought to myself. There was a cute cupcake one in the clear box on the store counter, so I thought I’d trade the one I bought for it. Then, I’d give it to my little baker of a cousin. It was the perfect plan, or so I thought. I decided to buy one of the Cutesters. They were just so- cute! I snatched a box out of the Cutesters tray and paid for it. I opened it up and pulled out the Vinylmation. I had seen the Cutesters everywhere for a while, yet I didn’t recognize the one I’d pulled out of my box. “Huh?” was my only thought. “That’s a chaser,” the cast member behind the counter remarked. Call it beginners’ luck or fate; my first Vinylmation was a chaser. Then I was hooked.
