I'm Mario.
I'm Liz.
And I'm Crystal.
And we've collected thousands of Disney pins.
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So we met about 10 years ago at work.
My daughter Crystal was about a year old.
MARIO: I don't think Liz was interested in me
when we first met.
I wasn't.
I didn't like his long hair.
It was just too much.
MARIO: It was really long.
Eventually we started talking about all
our favorite Disney movies, hers being "Tangled."
And I always remembered that, and I saw a nice Rapunzel pin
and thought it would make a nice gift for her, so I bought it.
LIZ: That was my first pin ever.
I fell in love with that pin.
MARIO: So Disney at its various resorts puts out pins,
and people buy, collect, and trade them.
We've been collecting for about five years.
We've owned or traded thousands of pins.
This one's definitely the cutest.
No, this one's the cutest.
Look at his face.
Look at this, it's all crystally.
MARIO: There's open edition pins where you can just
walk into the store and pick up whatever you want,
and there's limited edition ones that they release periodically.
Liz is kind of the hardcore trader.
She's the opposite of me.
She doesn't want to give up anything.
MARIO: Sometimes he lets himself--
She thinks I over trade.
Yes.
MARIO: Pins were getting so crazy.
We had so many pins.
We decided that we all really needed
to narrow down our collection.
So we had to choose three movies to collect pins from.
So I decided to choose "Peter Pan," "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame," and "Big Hero 6."
LIZ: I enjoy collecting Rapunzel, which is "Tangled."
I am in love with Pascal.
I also collect "Beauty and the Beast,"
just because I grew up with "Beauty and the Beast."
CRYSTAL: I collect "Bambi," Figaro, I also collect Pluto.
I saw the movie "Bambi," I really liked it,
and I saw some of the pins and I thought they were very cute,
and then it got out of control.
And then we got into one collection for both of us,
which is "The Rescuers."
We feel a bit like Bernard and Bianca.
LIZ: I guess I'm bossy like Bianca.
MARIO: You're a little bit bossy like Bianca, I
go along with it like Bernard.
Sometimes joking around she'll just yell out
Bernard in that Bianca voice.
I feel Disney was really what would
helped bring us all together.
When he came in the first time to the house,
she ran and said grandma, there's the boy in the house.
That was my introduction to Crystal.
When we first started, I didn't really think
about being a dad to somebody.
I had no previous experience with children.
Crystal got into pin trading almost right away, as soon
as she saw her favorite characters
she wanted all of them.
Pin collecting has really helped me
and Crystal come closer together.
It's something we can bond over, spent time doing together.
I always get a kick out of getting a pin that Crystal
really wants in a trade.
You know, just seeing how happy it makes her.
We started going out on adventures,
going to new places.
I relate to Quasimodo a little bit.
I can be a bit of a shut in from time to time.
You know, they help me get out there
and really be myself more.
Crystal just loves him.
For them to bond, it's something really special,
because she needed a father figure in her life.
Mario has helped me build my collection.
It means to me a lot.
It makes me feel special.
I'm grateful to have Mario and my mom.
I'm really happy that she has somebody to bond
with like that, who treats her right, because that's
what she deserves.
I'm just glad to have them in my life,
to have people that care about me
as much as I care about them.
Today we're getting up early in the morning to hopefully
get some pins at Disneyland.
We put a little book together to have some traders with us,
just in case we run into anybody.
LIZ: Pin trading, that's a big community.
You could even meet people from other countries.
MARIO: England, Hong Kong.
Tokyo.
LIZ: Everybody is really welcoming.
MARIO: It's really nice to be part of a community that spans
across the whole world.
Good morning.
You have that one at home.
This one, the boat?
I don't have that one.
Oh, that one's nice, yeah.
Find anything you like?
She kind of likes the that guy right there.
Is there any interest in trading the passport?
Yeah.
I can do that.
You've got some beautiful pins there.
MARIO: Thank you. - Thank you very much.
MARIO: Thank you.
Yeah, we just made a trade.
The pin is a Pluto sailing with Mickey.
MARIO: Never traded with this trader before,
but looking forward to doing more trades with him.
He seems like a nice guy.
This was a good trade.
MARIO: We're excited to add another member to our family.
I am due pretty soon.
I could be due right now.
It's supposed to be another little girl,
so that's going to be interesting for him.
Another Princess.
I've been wanting a sister for a very long time.
We're just having the time of her life
doing things as a family.
MARIO: I'm Mario.
LIZ: I'm Liz.
CRYSTAL: I'm Crystal.
And we have too many Disney pins.
And that's what makes us Disney People.