Searching our 145,000+ Disney pin database just got better. Behind the scenes, we used AI to read every pin's description and extract structured details — characters appearing on the pin, year of release, park, edition type, and edition size — so you can finally search and filter the way you actually think about your collection.
What's new today
- Character search. "Every pin featuring Mickey and Minnie" — works now.
- Year filtering. "WDW Cast Exclusives from 2003 to 2005" — drillable.
- Edition type. Open vs. LE vs. Cast Exclusive vs. Mystery vs. Artist Proof.
- Park / event. "DLR Halloween 2010" or "WDI 25th Anniversary" returns the right pins.
A peek under the hood
Every pin's description was processed by an open-source language model running locally on our own server — no third-party AI services, no pin data leaving our infrastructure. The model was prompted to extract only facts explicitly stated in the source description, never to invent details from outside knowledge. We caught a few thousand cases where the AI got over-enthusiastic listing characters and re-ran those with stricter limits to keep the data trustworthy.
Coming next
- More advanced search. Combining multiple criteria — character + park + year + edition type + edition size range — is on the way, along with saved searches.
- Images per pin. Every entry will get reference photography so you can visually confirm what you are buying, selling, or trading.
The big one — authenticity detection
This is what we are most excited about. We are building an AI feature that, given one or two photos of a pin, gives you an honest assessment of whether it is authentic or a "scrapper" / counterfeit.
The pin community has a real and growing problem: people trade away genuine pins thinking they are getting authentic ones in return, only to find out later they got fakes. We hate seeing collectors get burned. If we can put a free, fast "is this real?" check in everyone's pocket, the whole hobby gets healthier — and we think we can do it.