05/07/08 Still a few typos, but, we have uploaded the Tokyo Disneyland 25th Anniversary Collection Guide and updated the Tokyo Disneyland Coins of the Month. Several other Tokyo Disneyland guide pages have also been updated. However, we are already behind! Three more coins of the month were issued on 5/1/08!
05/06/08 The very insightful anony-mouse visitor, MouseEars, reported that a new exclusive coin is coming soon to The Disneyland Resort, Anaheim! Our thanks to MouseEars for sharing this news with ParkPennies readers first. Updates will be posted as received.
05/05/08 Lots of "Free pressed pennies" were sent out today. So, if you sent in your SASE this last week, the wait is almost over. It was great to see several requests from fellow members of The Elongated Collectors included. If you are reading this page, you should really look into becoming a member of TEC if you aren't already!
Also, recently three new coins of the month were issued at Tokyo Disneyland. We are swamped, but, should have a major Tokyo Disneyland Guide Update soon.
05/01/08 Hard to believe we've been at www.ParkPennies.com for four years already! Some long time readers will remember the very small personal web site we started a few years earlier too. However, by far, the most exciting changes over the past six or seven years (at least for us) is that you have visited and shared this reference site with your friends and fellow Disneyana fans.
The record breaking use of ParkPennies.com, as measured by your links to this site, web site "hits" and your visits, has not only made our day, but, it has also motivated us to offer even more and better Disneyland pressed penny collector content. (And to use a spell checker more often!)
Thank you all very much for visiting our home-grown hobbyist site, sharing this wonderful hobby with us, and telling your friends about ParkPennies.com. Happy Collecting! From Boomer and the folks at ParkPennies.
04/29/08 Wow! Wonderful weather and a packed park! I wish we could all be there today. But, lots to do and share from here at ParkPennies.com! There are only about 40 Visitor Auctions today, but, the auctions include several Hong Kong Disneyland coins, a DCA Sneak Peak quarter and a Magical Milestones set with the 50th penny book. Do take a look if you have a chance. Also, Boomer is buried in the latest Tokyo Disneyland coins. It may take a few days to sort, number and scan them. However, as soon as we're caught up, we will be adding a Tokyo Disneyland 25th Anniversary set page to the guides. It will be much like the Disneyland 50th Anniversary pressed penny page. So far the Tokyo set seems like it might be complete at 39 coins? However the new Tokyo Disneyland 25th Anniversary "pressed penny" book holds 54 coins! Stay tuned for news as it breaks! Happy collecting!
04/26/08 No reports of new Tokyo Disneyland coins for five days in a row! I wonder what the heck happened?  Looks like all of the 25th Anniversary coins might be on stage now. The coins featuring the "25th" logo have settled at 39 so far. Many collectors have noticed that the anniversary set, Tokyo Disneyland Coins of the month, and all other TDR coins recently issued have been pressed on copper planchets. I have not seen a nickel colored coin from Tokyo Disneyland for some time now.
Both sets make for excellent collections. Maybe the coin of the month series will catch on in the US as the anniversary sets have in Japan? We expect the latest coins to arrive shortly. Once scanned, we will add them to the guides. This month's TDR updates will total more than 50 coins!
04/21/08 Yep. Another penny at Tokyo Disneyland! As is usual for TDR, this new 2008 Spring Carnival "pressed penny" is a beauty. Our thanks to Kuniaki in Japan for his report an picture.
04/18/08 Rumors of another penny press near the Disneyland Resort, Anaheim and lots of new coins at the Tokyo Disneyland Resort including a very cool 25th Anniversary series offering 41 coins so far, top the news this week. Updates will follow. Do you have some Disneyland elongated penny news? You can share it on ParkPennies.com with credit or anony-mousely. 
4/15/08 Yes, even MORE new Tokyo Disneyland resort "pressed pennies" today! More information and pictures are linked on the Tokyo Disneyland pressed penny news page or take a quick view of all the April 2008 TDR Pressed Pennies - Souvenir Medals.
4/13/08 Per your emails, some Tokyo Disneyland issues are currently offered on eBay and GrandHobbies Disneyland pressed penny sales has recently added Tokyo Disneyland issues to their Disneyland USA offerings. Also, some online Yahoo email groups have active pressed penny trading.
We are always happy to consider additional sources for a free plug here. Just contact us.
4/13/08 Another day another report of... Even more coins at Tokyo Disneyland by Hideo in Japan! Most of these new issues appear to be part of a Tokyo Disneyland 25th Anniversary set. They remind me of the Disneyland 50th Anniversary Magical Milestones set or maybe the 25th Anniversary set offered at Walt Disney World. Could be a very neat set. The engraving and artwork seem to be very nice. We hope to have images for you soon.
4/12/08 A good friend tells us that there are as of today, about 36 more new coins at Tokyo Disneyland! We hope to have pictures of them soon.
Some readers have mentioned that these coins have been hard to find. Tell me about it!  Limited order sizes, shipping, postage, and availability have made these coins a formidable challenge recently.
04/07/08 We have updated our Disneyland penny press machine location lists to include recent Disneyland Resort changes. They aren't perfect, but, we are told they are the best on the 'net and offered in PDF, HTML and XLS formats so you can print and edit them as your personal penny press check lists or link to them from your web site. If you have really good eyesight, we even have a single page penny press locations page that is easy to bookmark so you'll always have our most recent list only a click away.
04/06/08 Tomorrow night is the close of the Fantasmic! elongated coin. (Listed on the Visitor Pressed Penny eBay Auctions page.)
Over the past week or so, readers have asked us what we know about the seller etc. He is a well known person in the Disney elongated coin community, the Fantasmic! is from his personal collection, and he has had very few auctions in the past, most of which were hard to find coins. I won an auction of his not long ago and I'm very happy with the transaction. However, we suggest you contact the seller if you have any questions.
One ParkPennies.com reader, new to Disneyland elongated coins, was amazed to see such high bids for a single elongated coin. It's also unusual to see a Fantasmic! for sale! If there is a successful bidder, our guess, based on past sales, is the winning bid will be two thousand to twenty-five hundred dollars.
Readers just starting collections should not let the sales of prototype coins like this scare them into collecting Old Master paintings or 60's Muscle Cars instead. The Fantasmic! is a "key" coin in the DN Prototype Elongated Coin Collection, but, not part of the typical "complete set" of all in-park on-stage coins. So, no need to be concerned about the high price... unless you are an Advanced Disney Penny Collector with an eye on prototype collecting.
04/06/08 The Disneyland Resort had some serious traffic problems at around 10 o'clock this morning. Maybe they all heard about the new penny press at the ESPN Zone?
04/04/08 Donald and William B., the avid collectors and fellow TEC Members, reported a new four choice hand crank penny press at Downtown Disney's ESPN Zone! Our thanks for their report and pictures of these new pressed pennies! The machine was manufactured by the good folks at CMT / Penny Collector and is pressing well. The new coins will be added to the DR Disneyland Resort Hotels and Downtown Disney Elongated Coin Collection Guide soon.
04/01/08 Tokyo Disneyland issued three very nice April 2008 coins of the month. Pictures and descriptions on the Tokyo Disneyland Metals News Page.
04/01/08 YIKES! Could it be true? To assure you that this is not one of my April Fools pranks, here is a PDF of the Let's Goof Up The Penny Press Machines Again Act of 2008! (Also known as H.R. 5512: Coin Modernization and Taxpayer Savings Act of 2008)
Yes, as tax payers, we "have people" to make up April Fools Pranks for us! Here's a couple of easy read newspaper articles on the subject: one - two. I promise not to complain about zinc cents again!?
03/29/08 Two very neat coins are up for auction by ParkPennies.com visitors. A DN0001 Prototype elongated coin closing Monday night and per your requests, the DN0014 Fantasmic pressed penny was re-listed, this time closing Friday night at 7PM. Both of these hard to find coins are linked via the ParkPennies.com Visitor Pressed Penny Auctions page (eBay auctions link). For more background about the coins, please refer to our Legendary Disneyland Elongated Coins page.
03/27/08 Fellow collector Tim just reported the Little Green Men (Astro Blaster) machine is off-stage. Our thanks for the update, rumors have started to circulate that the coins may be retired.
03/27/08 New Tokyo Disneyland medal information report by Kuniaki in Japan!
Three medal designs were changed at Disney Ambassador Hotel on March 24, 2008
Mickey, Minnie, Chip 'n Dale.
Tomorrowland Terrace was re-open on March 19 2008
New Mickey medal was released.
The new medal is the same design as the 2007 Starcade coin but it's Copper not Nickel.
Medal of the month was moved from Stellar Sweets.
The 2008 Tomorrowland series at Planet M was temporarily removed.
UPDATE: Also 3 medals design were changed at Tokyo DisneySea Hotel Miracosta on March 28 2008.
The new coins are:
Mickey, Minnie, Donald.
Thank you,
Kuniaki Hiraki in Tokyo Japan
Kuniaki has also sent pictures of the new Tokyo Disneyland "pressed pennies".
03/24/08  Readers will remember we reported a rumor by DorMouse on 3/5/08 that a new penny press was planned late March or early April. One that might not even be known by Disney Management yet.
On 03/11/08, MouseEars correctly pointed out that Disney Management does know about all upcoming machines... in the park. Both posts were correct.
The new machine, featuring two new DW Pressed Penny Collection coins, was placed on site today! The coins are shown below. They were vended from a new $.51 three-play machine located at the Harbor Cove Mini Market at the Tropicana Hotel, 1540 South Harbor Blvd. Anaheim, across from the Disneyland Resort main entrance. (Open 7AM to 1AM) The machine has been pressing coins beautifully.
Although this penny press is outside of the Disneyland Resort and not an official Disneyland machine, the first and third coins mention "Disneyland" and therefore will have Disneyland Wannabe collection guide numbers of DW0029 and DW0030.
Here are the coins!
03/24/08 Our thanks to David. He emailed to report the Splash Mountain coin press has been taken off-stage, however, the change machine is still there. This may substantiate past rumors that the machine would be updated (no die change). Could be that the Disney folks are doing their magic on the machine. If so, the machine should return.
03/23/08 HAPPY EASTER!!!!
03/22/08 Late Friday a very seldom seen Disney elongated coin was offered for sale via this DN0001 "Buy it Now" auction at $1650.00. It is the first DN0001 elongated cent I have ever seen auctioned. This hard to find Disney pressed penny and others are often listed on the Parkpennies.com Visitors Auctions page, a great page to bookmark.
03/19/08 We have added a few new pages featuring Cast Member framed Magical Milestones pressed penny sets. If you have some information to add to our articles about them, please contact us.
03/18/08 As of this afternoon, we have caught up with the free pressed penny offer mail! If you sent us a SASE recently, your penny is probably on its way! If you haven't already sent in for a free ParkPennies.com penny, now is a great time!
03/17/08 Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Good news! Earlier this month, a Fantasmic! coin was offered for sale, but, did not reach its reserve. We hear it might be offered again, this time closing on a Sunday evening to accommodate a bidder or two that missed the first auction. If so, we'll post a link to the auction here.
03/16/08 Tokyo Disneyland Resort new coin report! Kuniaki writes:
TDL Event "Cinderellabration 2008" and TDS Event "Season of the Hart 2008"
was finished on Mar. 14, 2008.
So Event Linkage medals were gone.
New design "Donald" medal was released at the TDL Penny Arcade Mar. 15, 2008.
Thank you,
Kuniaki Hiraki in Tokyo Japan
Kuniaki also sent a picture of the new Tokyo Disney souvenir pressed coin to share with ParkPennies.com readers.
We are very thankful for these reports from Kuniaki Hiraki in Japan. The Tokyo Disneyland pressed pennies or medals have become increasingly difficult to acquire, especially for collectors in the United States. As you may have noticed, the long time suppliers that offered the coins on eBay and via subscription lists are not offering the coins as regularly as in past years. The costs of purchase, currency devaluation, shipping and related risks have made it difficult for dealers to resell the coins at a price comparable to past offerings.
Even though availability and costs of acquisition are challenging, we are still acquiring these coins for display in the ParkPennies.com guides knowing that coins that are hard to acquire often become the keys to a collection over time.
See our Tokyo Disneyland News Page for past news and links.
03/13/08 Avid collectors will notice three new coins listed on the "DN" pressed penny collection guide and a 2008 Hong Kong Disneyland Magical Coins Collection guide has been added also. Happy collecting... Boomer.
03/11/08 MouseEars recently commented about our 3/5/08 post and made a point that I'm sure is on the minds of many readers. His point, as I understand it, is that new Disneyland penny presses are approved by Management; they know or would know about any planned penny press machines.
ParkPennies.com, thanks to the many kind folks that share news via our news pages, often breaks penny press news first. We think our carefully worded 3/05/08 post from DorMouse is on target. Collectors and "industry related folks" will want to check back for future updates.
03/11/08 Last nights close of the Fantasmic! auction brought a historic record high eBay bid for a Disney elongated coin, $1,527.01. But did not reach the reserve. If collectors get another chance at this coin, Boomer hopes for an early evening weekend close, with his tax refund check in hand.
03/10/08 The Fantasmic! elongated coin auction ends tonight. Most all high value coins have been sold privately over the years, so this auction is a treat for many collectors. As of this morning, the bidding is over $1,000.00 and has already set a new eBay record for a single Disney elongated coin bid. I believe the previous eBay record sale was ~$800.00 back in 2001 for a DL0001 nickel. Based on past private sales, the Fantasmic! could bring two or three times the current bid. The reserve price has not yet been reached, the bids are building, could be exciting!
03/06/08 Our thanks to a good friend and avid Walt Disney World elongated coin collector that agreed to share his personal list of WDW quarter press machine locations with ParkPennies.com readers anony-mousely. The list is not yet complete, but, it is current and I'm sure it will be a welcome help for anyone collecting WDW elongated coins. Please visit our WDW penny press machine locations page for an Excel version of this file and several other WDW related guides.
03/05/08 ParkPennies.com welcomes "The DorMouse" with their first anony-mouse report. Now, if Boomer remembers what the DorMouse said... A new penny press is planned late this month or early April. A machine that even Disneyland management doesn't know about yet? Stay tuned.
03/02/08 Tokyo Disneyland report and new coin pictures by Kuniaki in Japan. Details on the Tokyo Disneyland News page.
03/01/08 Long time eBay auctioneer MarkMark2 reported three new Hong Kong Disneyland Magical Coins! Post and picture on the Hong Kong Disneyland Magical Coins News page.
03/01/08 Late last night or early this morning (11:00pm PST or 1:00am EST time) the Fantasmic! auction mentioned here 2/22, opened. This eBay 10 day reserve auction is linked via the ParkPennies Visitor Auctions page. Given coins of this status are not often auctioned, night owls could witness or participate in an exciting auction close next Monday night / Tuesday morning.
02/22/08 A well respected member of the hobby has just advised us that he will be auctioning a Fantasmic!, the legendary DN0014 elongated prototype coin . We've seen a scan of the coin. It is a nice, full roll zinc cent. The eBay reserve auction is planned to start next Friday, February 29th, 2008.
02/20/08 Rainy day fun ????land China? We are checking to see if... they might have any er ah "Disney" elongated coins.
02/18/08 Readers have asked why we haven't addressed recent changes in Disneyland elongated coin quality. At long last, Boomer's Evil twin has taken on the subject. If you'd like to see image comparisons and his take on the changes, please view our article about Changes in Disneyland pressed coin engraving quality.
02/16/08 Lots of updates to the Tokyo Disneyland Guides! Including one of my favorite Disney elongated coin collections, the Tokyo Disneyland Coins of the Month! At the bottom of this page are thumbnail images of the entire set. If you'd like to see larger images please open the ParkPennies.com Tokyo Disneyland Coins of the Month "pressed penny" page. If you'd like to see a series like this at Disneyland USA, I know they listen to guests. Can't hurt to thank them for what they have done... and ask about a coin of the month series?
02/15/08 Recently, we included ExonumiaAuctions.com on the ParkPennies.com Visitors Auction Links page, it's free to buyers and sellers. The site has been recommended to us by fellow ParkPennies.com readers.To try it our, I listed a coin for sale... easy and FREE! Matter of fact, given there are no auction fees, low cost auctions of many types of pressed pennies are plentiful. Do check them out.
02/14/08 No news to report from the park lately. But, there are lots of coins up for auction by ParkPennies.com visitors, some are aren't seen often. Also, thought I'd mention that "swapped back" coins have been reported, like these Nightmare Before Christmas coins. So, if you have a few duplicates, or spot a set of stamped back elongated coins for sale you might check the back stamps against the ones you already have. Sorry, I don't know of any that are up for auction, but, I never know what an avid collector might put up for sale or trade. "Swapped back" coins are something most collectors haven't noticed yet. (Parkpennies.com readers are of course, an exception to that rule. )
02/13/08 QUICK click on the "Visitor Auctions" logo at the top of the page and go the eBay auctions. LOTS of Buy it Nows just listed and some will be gone fast.
02/09/08 We have been both flattered and flattened by the number of free pressed penny requests! We hope to be caught up by Monday. Please bear with us.
02/08/08 Extra happy with a pressed penny related business? Do you offer a penny press related service or product? Why not submit a Free link request at www.PressedPennies.com and share?
02/04/08 Here are the details and pictures for the Tokyo Disneyland Resort coins mentioned 2/1 thanks to our friend Kuniaki in Japan.
Monthly medals were released on February 01
TDL Penny Arcade ---- Snow White
TDL Stellar Sweets ---- Belle
TDS Galleria Disney --- Mickey
New Design medals were released on February 01
TDL Western Wear
Western Land series 3 medals:
Mickey
Goofy
Chip & Dale
TDS Steamboat Mickey's
Short film series 3 medals:
The Band Concert
Two-gun Mickey
Brave Little Taylor
Here are the latest Tokyo Disneyland Pressed Penny Medal Pictures thanks to Kuniaki in Japan.
Avid Tokyo Disneyland medal collectors will want to check out the ParkPennies.com Tokyo Disneyland News page and the Tokyo Disneyland Coins of the Month.
02/01/08 Ashley text messaged Boomer (Boomer@parkpennies.com or mail@parkpennies.com) to let us know that the Haunted Mansion machine is back at New Orleans Square. The Nightmare Before Christmas set has been retired and the Haunted Mansion favorites have taken their place. Also, we hear from Japan that there are NINE more new coins on stage! Is that 41 so far this year? YIKES!
01/31/08 We have recently updated the Tokyo Disneyland Coins of the Month thumbnail images page. In our opinion, this has got to be one of the most collectable sets at any Disney park. Many readers have asked why only The Tokyo Disneyland Resort has a coin of the month series. Good question! You know, the Disneyland Resort and their on-line web site do accept suggestions.
01/28/08 ParkPennies visitor mail brought to our attention that the princess quarter press machine coin examples pictured below have off-center grip slots, however, the images appear to be well centered. Maybe the grip slots are a bit off-center on the dies? After a close look, I think it possible that the Arcade Techs had to force the coins to the right in the press to keep the main image centered. Unusual, but possible. Maybe a reader can update the machine status if image or grip centering change over the next week or so?
01/27/08 Thanks to visitor text messages, we have news of a new set of elongated quarters! The Princess quarter press machine is back at the It's A Small World Gift Shop! The original DL0158, DL0159 and DL0160 dies have been replaced by the DL0425, DL0426, and DL0427 dies. (All coins are shown below and are now listed in the Disneyland Pressed Penny Guides.)
You may be surprised to see that the new coins are so similar to the coins they replace. Although the dot borders were deleted on the new coins, the subjects and art work are very much the same.
Snow White and Cinderella still have their names on the coins and poor Princess Aurora is still called "Sleeping Beauty" as on the original set. The vertical images are still full length etc. One could assume that these dies are more "replacements" than "new" dies.
The good news, in my opinion, is that these coins are engraved in a quality comparable to the coins they replace, something that hasn't always been true recently. The lettering quality, in my opinion, isn't as good as the previous coins, but, the images are three-dimensional with the look of hand engraving. Also the new coins feature back stamps that, based on ParkPennies.com emails and witnessed guest reactions, have been a big hit with many guests and advanced collectors. So, if you have the "old set" you now have three more retired coins and three new coins to add.
01/26/08 Late night news... new machine rumored!
01/24/08 Reports are received regularly however, no new coin to report at Disneyland USA. We have added a link to a new free penny page on this page and the main home page. Advanced collectors that spot a link to the free penny page here or elsewhere on the 'net can add a ParkPennies.com pressed penny to their collection by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Boomer, here at ParkPennies.com.
01/21/08 The Tokyo Disneyland Pressed Penny or Medal Guides have been updated. 26 new coins were added and five more are on the way!
01/19/08 Lots of neat coins were just added to the visitor linked auctions... Bill Hogarth, Jack Steiner and Ron Dominguez copper cents, Cast Member Nickels, WDW 25th Quarters... and more! Just click the "Visitor Auctions" logo at the top of this page to take a look...
01/18/08 Tokyo Disneyland Resort report from Kuniaki in Japan! New coins and pictures! (Yes, MORE new coins!)
Details and pictures on the Tokyo Disney Pressed Coins News Page.
01/17/08 Last night a group of "buy it now" auctions appeared on the ParkPennies.com linked visitor auctions page. Some of the coins were not only "very hard to finds", but were offered at extremely attractive prices examples: an ANA 1995 for $5.00(!) and 35th Anniversary nickel for $75.00! The days of finding a scarce coin at a bargain price are not over! Do check visitor linked auctions often.
01/13/08 Some neat new visitor auctions are up on ebay. I noticed some WDW 25th's that might catch your eye and there are some older Disneyland pressed coins too. Do take a look at the 70-some Disney elongated coins up for auction and check back here often. Never know when a new coin will "hit the stage". Happy collecting!
01/11/08 Tokyo Disneyland Resort report from Kuniaki in Japan! New coins and pictures!
Details and pictures on the Tokyo Disney Pressed Coins News Page.
01/10/08 Looks like the 2007-8 Seasonal Nickel machine and the 2007 NBC quarter machine are both gone for good... already! For many, I fear the machines may have come an gone without notice. The one month stay for the nickel press was very short. Historically the seasonal nickel machine has been on-stage for two to three months and often in the high-traffic Penny Arcade. Given this year's off-beat location in the Main Street Opera exit, even collectors that knew the nickel machine was in the park, sometimes found themselves cell-phoning friends to look up the machine location on some web site run by some old "Boomer" guy. Chances are a lot of would be collectors missed these coins.
In my humble opinion, if you have a set, don't let go. If you missed them, don't pass up a good trade. This set may be scarcer than most in the future.
01/09/08 Emails received late last night from Tom V. Nightmare Before Christmas Machine, and Donald B. Seasonal Nickel Machine, report the machines are now off-stage. Our thanks to Tom and Donald for sharing this news.
We believe these machines are probably retired. Guides will be updated in a few days.
01/09/08 Some cool coin auctions are closing today! If you have time, check out the ParkPennies.com visitor auctions page.
01/02/08 Report from Kuniaki in Japan! New coins and pictures!
A Happy New Year.
TDR 2008 series 12 medals and monthly 3 medals were released on Jan. 01 2008
Penny Arcade
The Mickey Mouse Revue
The Flying Elephant Dumbo
Alice Tea Party
It's a Small World
Haunted Mansion
Splash Mountain
Planet M
Mickey
Pluto
Buzz Lightyear
Donald
Stitch
Emperor Zurg
Monthly
Penny Arcade ----- Princess Aurora
Stellar Sweets ----- Cinderella
Galleria Disney ---- Mickey
Thank you Kuniaki Hiraki in Tokyo Japan.
Details and picture links on the Tokyo Disneyland News page.
01/01/08! A 2008 Chip n Dale coin has arrived at the Acorn Gift Shop, Grand Californian Hotel, Disneyland USA! We believe this machine was placed last night as the machine has been off-stage for the past few days. If you anticipated a 2008 coin would take its place on the first of the year, and you are not at the park now... here's a picture of the new coin. We'll update the guides later today.
Anastasia was first to report this new coin. Our thanks to all the readers that email or text us with news to share. Without the valuable reports from fellow collectors, there is no way we could report new on-stage coins so quickly.
Happy collecting and happy new year!
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12/31/07 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!
12/29/07 No new coins to report this weekend. A few ParkPennies.com visitors have volunteered to check the park this next week and we'll be there too. So, stay tuned.
12/28/07 I was just sprucing up the links page and noticed that our friend Claude is having a liquidation / clearance sale! He's the first person we met back in the 90's that was both an avid collector and sold pressed pennies at the Disneyana Shows. He has had his on-line Disney pressed penny store for some time and is offering lots of items including Disney elongated coins and pressed pennies on liquidation / clearance sale! Do check it out.
12/28/07 Report from Kuniaki in Japan! New coins and pictures. Details on the Tokyo Disneyland News page.
12/23/07 It's 79 degrees and sunny, but, there is still snow on top of Disneyland's Matterhorn! Wishing all our friends and visitors a very Merry Christmas. Boomer and the folks at ParkPennies.com.
12/21/07 Wow 'tis the Season to be busy! A Merry Christmas or Happy Holiday to you all. We know many of you are out there getting last minute gifts or goodies, maybe some of you are even getting ready for New Years!
We've found a little time lately to update the Tokyo Disneyland Guides with the latest coins for the ever growing number of TDL collectors and added a search feature for everyone. It's not a really cool search like we hope to have later, but, it helps and trust me, for us it was a real surprise when it worked! Like a fellow collector said while I was "perfecting" it: "A small step for a kid, a giant leap for Boomer!" Happy collecting.
12/16/07 Not much going on at the park, but, there is always something fun to do in the penny collecting hobby. If you haven't visited www.pennycollector.com lately, why not check them out? We have known the good folks there for several years now and have been proud to share some of our humble current Disneyland coin scans with their zillions of visitors. You've probably already our scans, but, you have to see their very impressive database of all types of elongated coins and their on-line pressed penny store with LOTS of penny collecting books, coins, etc. etc. Do check them out. If I didn't think you'd like their site, I wouldn't be giving them this free plug!
(As long time readers and friends know, we do not accept any paid ads and we only offer a link to sites that have earned it via good content and customer service. If you have a site you'd like us to mention, please submit the site for our consideration here.)
12/13/07 Here is a fun quiz. For Boomer, it was also a good lesson that you should not bet! As penny pressers, we know there are copper, zinc and steel pennies. But, which cent weighs the most? The answer is on the penny varieties page.
12/09/07 Advanced collectors will want to take an especially close look at the ParkPennies.com linked visitor auctions today. ALSO, our free ParkPennies.com pressed penny offer is ending with Monday's postmarks. (Details below at 11/27/07) We will have other free penny offers, but, not until after the first of the year.
12/06/07 The 2007-8 Seasonal Nickel Machine is up and running beautifully at the exit to the Main Street Opera! The coins are hand engraved, three-dimensional, "Disney Quality" with excellent back stamps! Report by GrandHobbies. More soon.
Here is how to add your eBay Disney pressed penny auctions to the ParkPennies.com visitor auctions page.
12/06/07 The seasonal nickel machine was working intermittently at park opening but, down from about 11:00AM. Should have word later today. The Disney Arcade Staff has been outstanding in their efforts to repair this machine. We know what a challenge intermittent glitches can be, but, the Disney Arcade Tech folks are determined. Updates to follow.
12/05/07 Before you head for the park, you may want to wait for Thursday morning's post. Ron K. was at the cast member party after the close of the park last night and found the machine working at 11:00PM. He reported it to ParkPennies.com just after 10:00AM this morning. MouseEars reported the machine was on stage before the park opened this morning. So, Ron K. found it first, MouseEars reported it first, and Boomer who reported the machine was out of order at about 9:30AM and spent the entire day at the park waiting for the machine, as usual, was the first to complain!
As of Wednesday near park close, the machine is waiting for repair. Completion time is unknown, could be Thursday, could be a few days... We have a ParkPennies.com reporter that will text us shortly after the park opens Thursday morning and throughout that day and each morning for the next few days. So we should know as soon as the new machine is on-stage and working.
12/04/07 Our offer of a free ParkPennies.com coin (Details below at 11/27/07) will be ending in one week! Boomer has enjoyed reading your notes and pressing pennies. He just sent out a pile of envelopes today with notes he knows people will spend hours reading. Well, they are only a few words, but, given his handwriting, it will take hours to figure out what he wrote. If you haven't sent in for your free ParkPennies.com coin, now is the time.
12/04/07 Report as of noon, no new penny press machines found.
12/04/07 ParkPennies.com operatives are currently standing at the gates of The Original Disneyland Park. Penny press machine report... soon!
12/04/07 More new excellently engraved coins at Tokyo DisneySea! Read about them on the ParkPennies.com Tokyo News Page.
12/03/07 Not good news... ParkPennies.com is currently the target of typo-squatting also called URL hijacking. Here are the details for those interested. Bright side... Hey! We've made the Big Time!
Given the likely victims of this ploy would be returning ParkPennies.com visitors, who like Boomer, type quickly because they can't wait to see the latest pressed penny news... we offer a bookmark for this page. (Talk about high tech security measures!)
12/01/07 Report from Kuniaki in Japan... New coins!
Monthly Medals were released on December. 01 at TDR
TDL - Penny Arcade : Cheshire Cat
TDL - Stellar Sweets : Baby Minnie
TDS - Galleria Disney : Figaro
Also
TDL - Starcade was closed on 14. Nov.
Medal of the month was moved to Stellar Sweets. Event linkage was moved to Planet M
Thank you,
Kuniaki Hiraki in Tokyo Japan
Also included in this report are close-up Pictures of these new Tokyo Disneyland Coins. Do take a look at these excellently engraved coins. We're told they were done by the same Master Engraver that used to do all the coins for Disneyland, USA.
11/30/07 We were really happy to see our 11/27/07 offer had already filled our Post Office box with envelopes! We will send the first coins out this next week and hope to see lots more envelopes every day.
11/29/07 Seasonal Nickels soon. But, not yet.
11/27/07 Reports from MouseEars and at least one other ParkPennies.com reader anticipate the arrival of the Disneyland Seasonal Nickels within a week. We will break the news of the arrival here as soon as we have conformation. Boomer is pacing the floor... again!
11/27/07 DW Guide description of the coin pictured above: (Horizontal pressed penny image) PARKPENNIES.COM, FOR COLLECTORS OF, DISNEYLAND®, ELONGATED COINS, Dot border in a style similar to the DL0001 and DN0001, Initials ABC between bottom center dots.
First pressed 11/07 by ParkPennies.com. This coin could be one of my top favorites!
Last week, we mentioned we'd have a small 'thank you' this Season in appreciation of your visits and links to ParkPennies.com... Well, two very generous, long time friends of ours and the hobby presented ParkPennies.com with the gift of the wonderful die that made the coin pictured above. After an unnecessarily long period of contemplation, an epiphany of both imagination and penny-pinching thrift occurred to Boomer. He thought (drum roll) why not make a gift a ParkPennies pressed penny to our ParkPennies.com friends!? (Yep! Nothing gets past Boomer! ) He reasons that with the die he could personally make a ParkPennies.com pressed penny as a gift for you. Cuz he cares, has a terrific new penny die to share, and loves to press pennies. (We also need to keep him busy and out of trouble.)
So, although we can't up a specific time, if you happen to spot one of us at the park, we'll have a coin for you. If you are out of the area, we missed you at Disneyland, or if too many gray-haired guys wearing Hawaiian-style shirts and khaki colored pants have sworn to you they weren't Boomer and ran away screaming...
Just mail a self addressed stamped envelope to: B00MER C/0 R0BERT H0FF, Post Office Box 17812, Anaheim CA 92817. Be sure to include your choice of either a bright uncirculated shiny copper cent or a darker patina circulated copper cent. No strings attached. It's okay to put the coin up on eBay or trade it with another collector for something else. (As if there is anything more priceless or beautiful?) But, please only one per person / address.
We do hope to offer the coin to ParkPennies.com visitors every now and then. However, this offer has to end by December 10th, to give Boomer time to carefully make your coin and hopefully get it back to you by December 20th.
Thank you for your gifts of visits, park reports, and links that share our humble site with your friends and web site visitors. And of course, Happy collecting!
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