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What did you trade at PAX Prime this year?
burned.fork
Seattle, WARegistered User regular
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As the title suggests, what did you trade at Prime this year? Exciting, mundane, in your favor, or just to be kind to a new collector, let's hear 'em. There was at least one DLC trade, as well as a trade for a full Aus 13 set, so there must be some cool stories from this year. :biggrin:
Going first, the pin(s) on the left are what I traded away for those on the right.
Trades with collectors
Trades with staff (listing only those received, since I can't remember the fodder I traded)
Trades with exhibitors
Going first, the pin(s) on the left are what I traded away for those on the right.
Trades with collectors
- Sarkhan Unbroken (East) for Sarkhan (Aus)
- Kemperoo for Doom Revenant
- Doom Revenant for Rage of Demons
- CTS for Tin Man Games
- Kappa for Prime shield (my wife did this one)
- Moonrise Nemony for Ellie
- Pinny Arcade Logo (2012) for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Trades with staff (listing only those received, since I can't remember the fodder I traded)
- Lookouts Crest (I love those things, and they seem to be disappearing)
- 2x World of Warships (Did people dislike these? They kept getting dumped on the table.)
- 2x Coffee Kemper (my favorite kemper that I need to hoard)
- Beemo
Trades with exhibitors
- Traded a Harmonix dev an Iron Guard Stance for a Rock Band pin
- Traded a Screen Cheat dev a Moonrise for a Tin Man Games pin (he was given a stash by Tin Man Games to bring and trade)
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Trades with collectors
Trades with staff
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Trades with staff/fodder-trades
Trades with exhibitors
My sketch set for their Sadira and Orchid
My Aus 14 Tycho and Commander BRAAAAGH for their Karl
My Jerkimedies and Pipistrella for their 2x rainbow horse (we were both trying to finish sets early Friday, we didn't know how hot the horse would be)
My Crockett for their AOE Castleguy (trade of the century)
My 15x dsb/store pins for a bag of staff heads
Gave away 9 coffee/dunkin/crockett kempers, 1 commander BRAAAAGH, 1 vault boy, and 2 gideon.
Hightlight of PAX: 1 of each shield, 1 of each polygon, Ellie, 15th Anniv., Rainbow 6, and (I think?) another pin for a full Aus '13 set with @silrn
Other Trades:
Honestly I'm staring at my trading lanyard and I don't exactly remember where most of them came from. The lanyard I came to Prime with has been completely replaced with different pins with the exception of one just from trading around. Once I had the Aus set and the core sets I wanted to trade for I just tried to do my best to keep trading and enjoy meeting folks so half the time I wasn't too fussed over what I was trading for. Overall, great trading experiences at Prime, 11/10, 5 stars, would Seattle again.
Attendees/Staff
East Poly for a Prime Shield with the Woman wearing the blue sash (nicest woman ever).
PNW Kemper for Kemperoo (missed out on a PNW for Baby Kemper :bigfrown:)
PAX 15 logo for PAX 13 logo
Gideon for Ben Kuchera
Exhibitors
East Sarkhan for AUS Sarkhan at the D&D booth.
There were a ton of other minor trades, but those stood out and it was easily my most trading at any PAX to date.
From this point on, my focus at the staff trading event is going to be helping out new pin collectors. This was way too much fun to not do again. Now to actually start thinking about how to solidify the concept of a "Pinstructor"...
Also, I got to meet @merchmistress! I'm waiting for her to mock up a Pinny Pals poster after the PA Pins poster, and pinning up all the selfies she's taken.
2015 PAX Prime Omeganaut (I will forever hate Katamari)
As far as my trades, I couldn't remember even half of them... What I do remember:
Traded a spare Hearthstone for a spare Prime Polygon which I then traded for a South Polygon.
Traded a Carl for an East Polygon.
Turned 3x Behemoth pins, a Iver, and a Vault Boy into a Behemoth Rainbow Horse, Lovers is a Dangerous Space Time, Bellower, Diamond Block, and Co-Optional podcast.
Traded a Harmonix for a Riptor.
Another Harmonix for a Starslip Prime.
Another Harmonix for a Lovers is a Dangerous Space Time.
A Warships for a Valentines Day which I traded to a friend for a Tyto.
Traded a number of Warships for Behemoth pins.
Traded a couple of last years staff pins for this years staff pins along with a large number of Sprites/Warships/Gideons at the staff pin panel.
A large number of trades in between it all. Came home with a full Prime set, a south and east Polygon, an extra Tyche and Gabbie, 3 spare Prime Core sets to trade for other location core sets and it looks like 5 spare Prime Polygons.
WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU HIDING MY ENTIRE PAX?!?!?!
I would've thrown my Poly at you if I heard the Hearthstone cards being offered. It's the only Blizzard pin I don't have :-(
2015 PAX Prime Omeganaut (I will forever hate Katamari)
I got the South badge at the staff table by trading a World of Warships. (I noticed a lot of people had multiples of this badge because every time you went through the line you were entered into their raffle, and you got a different shirt each day.)
Throughout the con I had tried to trade for the Star Trek badge a few times, but had no luck. Then on Monday, just before I had to leave, I stopped by the staff table one more time to see what was available. A nice woman approached me and wanted to trade for my Order. She pulled out her book and I saw the elusive Star Trek. After a few seconds on indecision she finally agreed to the trade and we were both very happy.
I also hope I was able to help a few people get some holes filled in.
Pinnypals will be updated as soon as I finish unpacking. I HOPE to fill in a few of the gaps I have, but they are pretty big holes.
Things that stick out:
Prime Polygon for a South Polygon which I later traded for a Carl Swangee
Companion Cube for an enforcer pin
Behemoth Unicorn for a south star
Lovers for Kemperoo
Lots of other little trades that I just can't remember right now...
I also got to witness the DLC trade in the lobby at the trading session, that was just ... I don't know what. Lots of pins.
www.pinnypals.com/pals/d0rkangl
- Kappa + Warships + Rage of Demons for Leeroy Jenkins
- Rock Band for Wilson
- Prime Polygon for Vault Boy
My only regret was not trading pins with @merchmistress
“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”
East 13 Kemper for Overwatch + Rage of Demons
Twitch Glitch for Kappa
4 fodder for Kappa
Vault Boy for Kappa
Kappa for 4 Salmon Kemper
Vault Boy for Prime Poly
Vault Boy for Rock Band
Sarkhan for Sarkhan Unbroken
Sarkhan Unbroken for 2 Salmon Kemper
South Poly for Rainbow Horse
ETC for Jerkimides
I got a Rage of Demons, LRR Muffins, Commander Bragh, and Sprite from the staff trading event.
I gave away a Kemper Crockett to a little girl, and corgi to another random person.
I think this trade was pretty well known - Full Prime 15 set (38 pins) for Blind Merch + 30 fodder.
I also did a second trade - Aus 13 Logo + Aus 13 Gabe + Aus 13 Tycho for Blind Merch.
From my DSB boxes, I had 3 that I was willing to give up.
Star (a duplicate) -> went to a guy at the Pinny Panel for a Baby Gabe, very happy about that...I love that set.
Aus Dropbear -> went to a girl on the expo floor for an ETC pin, which I've wanted since I got into Heroes this summer.
Helmet Tycho (a duplicate) -> Went to Jerry for a Zombie Tycho. Maybe it should have been one of my double Behemoth pins, but my brain went straight to a Tycho for a Tycho while trading with Tycho.
Other trades:
I desperately wanted a Cardinal, and asked everyone that I talked to about it. *EVERYONE*. Even chased Jamie around since someone told me she had two (and I was hoping to grab her staff pin too), but I barely missed her at the merch booth...literally by a minute or two. She left while I was paying for my core set pins and merch. Finally, one of the guys from the Magic Tournament in the Annex gave me very explicit instructions on how to find his coworker there. It was like following an RPG quest. I found him and he happily traded for my extra Behemoth bird logo pin. Hooray! Cardinal obtained!
I also landed some staff pins that I wanted, even though I missed the pinny trading event. Traded one of those Behemoth bears with Jeff for his pin, traded an extra Acq Inc pin with Kiko. I had also been asking everyone, even Mike and Jerry, where Robert Khoo was but no one knew. So the staffers took pity on me and traded me for a Robert pin on Monday. Yay!
After all of this, I felt like my personal pin quest for PAX was complete. Played some Rock Band, met a lot of awesome pin pals, got the buyable pins on my list, traded for a few pins that I really wanted. So much fun!
Everything I brought with me to PAX
Received from airline
A shitty coach seat, no meal, and being treated like garbage
Check out my YouTube Pinny Arcade Videos!
Also, Q's situation... Worst trade ever.
-Traded away 3 Full Aus 13 Sets to various Pinny Pals. I now have no more that I'll travel with... but I guess I could trade for some ;D
-Gave away approximately 50 pins from my blind grab bag to new traders, told em to grab 2-3 and show me what they got. That was a lot of fun, I'll be trying to do that again.
-During the wait for the AI Theater to be filled, traded with a Cookie Brigadier to start back up her lost collection (started with the aforementioned blind bag), traded her an Aus Chandra for her Rage of Demons, a Crockett Kemper for her Rock Band and a full Aus 14 set for her Tyto. She seemed pretty happy! :biggrin:
Seven misc. pins for an Aus Chandra
Four misc. pins for a Carl
Prime Poly, South Poly, plus two pins for a Fallout
Reducing my collection!
Always looking to trade.
Disruptor for Gigantic
East Chandra for Mike Feh's first year
Friday
After Merch Lite on Friday
- Name unknown:
- Gabe Core 2.0 for Project Spark
- Tycho Core 2.0 + Talent Pipes for Kitty Kemper
- Advice he gave "Don't be afraid to trade down for multiple fodder"
After Make a Game Panel- Jerry Holkins
- Fodder for Tyche
- Name unknown
- PAX East 2013 Kemper for Carl
During Line for Rockband- Allie (Enforcer)
- Prime Polygon 2015 for a Carl
- MineCraft Diamond Block for a Coffee Kemper
- She said, though I've heard various reports, that she worked mornings so was unable to get the Poly herself
SaturdayDuring Merch Lite to get extra Polys to trade with enforcers who couldn't get them:
- Mike Krauhulik
- Fodder for Gabbie
- Learned you could trade for anything on the lanyard and not just the current pin
Buying Kris Straub and Katie Rice pins- Brian
- Fodder twice for Bust and Hobby
- South Tycho for Head and extra Bust (said he knew someone specifically looking for that one and gave the extra as a gift)
- @PA Jamie
- Fodder for Bust and Hobby (which I may not trade unless it is to a good home)
- She informed me that the staffers could only do two trades per person each day
After Make a Strip Panel- Enforcer who thought you had to demo the game to get Rainbow Six Pin
- Rainbow Six for IcedCoffee Kemper
Instead of going to Scott Kurtz panel because I thought I could find Robert at the Omegathon match and missed that too and wound up at Merch Booth- @Beker
- Fodder for Bust
- Played his game and guessed Hanna because I hoped it was, it was not
- @00Fayt00
- Dark Brian + Rockband for Baby Gabe + Tycho Tot + Santa Gabe
- Riptor + Sprite + Bin it to Win It for Hearthstone
- He was really nice to do these slanted trades (After looking at pinmash may have been a more even trade?)
- Kristin
- Fodder for Bust
- @evanephrine
- Starslip for Pipboy
SundayAt Merch Booth
- Ryan
- PNW Kemper for Colonial Kemper
At Thornwatch Panel- @Dabe
- Fodder for Dabe Bust
- I also got his autograph on my Automata Shirt!
In line at Staff trade session- @Qumaden
- Carl for Kemperoo + Moonrise + Emberjaw
- @silrn
- Prime 2015 Poly for South 2015 Poly
- Fodder for Sunset Overdrive
In staff event (A lot is a blur so I'm kind of guessing at who I got what from)- Jerry/ Erick
- Fodder for Zombie Tycho, Carboardtube Samurai, Helmet Tycho, 80s Tycho
- He said it was 4 trades for the table because they were together
- Jeff
- Minecraft for Hattington (He mentioned on twitter that his son wouldn't let him back home without one)
- Turns out I didn't get Jeff's Bust like i thought I did...
- Kristin
- Played game and got Fodder for 80s Gabe
- Played and got Fodder for Staff Pin (2013?)
- Gavin
- Played game and got Rainbow6
- Fodder for bust
- Brian
- Played game got Brian's Face
- I am not allowed to trade it he said, so I won't
- Fodder for Riptor
- Jamie
- Dabe
- Fodder for Broodax
- Traded with him earlier that day so i couldn't do a second trade
- Mike Feh
- Fodder for Bust
- Fodder for Mummy Gabe
- Robert
- Played game for Bust
- Fodder for Rockband
- Kiko
- Fodder for Bust
- Josh
- Fodder for Bust
- Dave
- Played game for Vampire Tycho
- Played game for some pin
- Mike/Eric Bronnum
- Fodder for Bust
- Fodder for Levin Hobby
After staff trade- Friend of @silrn
- Riptor for Stocking Kemper
After Thing- Josh
- Fodder for Face
- The first Brian Head, not the one from his game for Josh's Hobby Pin
MondayMerch
- @merchmistress
- Fodder for the right half of Garruk
- Jeff/Jeff's son
- Minecraft Diamond Block for Elspeth (I didn't know if Jeff wanted one as well as his son, but I overheard him say to his son that this would be an extra one)(Also I didn't realize she was rare?)
- Unknown
- Tyche for Fodder
- An enforcer who didn't find Jerry and couldn't attend the autograph session for one
After Autograph Session- Autograph Table of Jerry and Mike
- Fodder for Tyche
- Fodder for Rage of Demons
- Fodder for Chameleon Behemoth thing
MerchIt was the best trading experiences of PAX for me!
edit: remembered I traded the Rainbow Six with an Enforecer for the IC Kemper and a bin it to win it with Fay
I'm not sure how I could remember that much trading without specifically writing it down!
- I had a Leeroy Jenkins on my bag most of the weekend that many asked about, and that came from a trade on Friday before the Twitch panel: Twitch Glitch and Star Trek Timelines for Leeroy Jenkins and Overwatch Logo. And also noted that many were willing to make that exact same trade when I asked for Twitch Glitch pins the rest of PAX.
- I found someone to trade a Clicker to! I don't remember what I got in return though, but it was decent and not a Clicker.
- Traded for two Vault Boy on Friday, and wasn't able to get into the morning line to buy it for the rest of PAX. Whew.
- The "rubbed out eye" staff pins were on my bag on Monday for a bit of silliness. @silrn noticed and traded me things for them (and replaced Kuchera) with a plan in mind. See the eyes thread for the result.
- I spotted someone in the Expo Hall with a Wilson, and traded a Drop Bear for it. Later traded that Wilson for Kappa.
There's so many trades that I don't remember details about too. All I know is, the pins on my bag look totally different than the pins I came to PAX with.
Another year of Prime gone by... commence the struggle!
https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/dchoy
Damn son, you traded my Wilson for a Kappa? I ain't even mad, that's a well played trade.
Also, dchoy, if I'm on the hunt for a pin, I'll go looking for lanyards and offering trades, even if I don't have my lanyard on. I always have my bag with me, at the very least. If I've got spares and am looking to openly offer trades, I'll wear the lanyard, and oftentimes - like with Hacky - people will come up and peruse.
No fear, though. Even if you're shy, it's a very gentle process usually. ^_^ I've only had one or two weird trade encounters. I would suggest keeping a lanyard prevalent with spares you have, just so people know you're open to trading. That's the easiest way to advertise.
Also while in the trade line, offered up the pins we were planning on putting down for staff trades to those waiting alongside us. They could pick any of the pins in exchange for one fodder of their choosing. Made new traders happy to fill some holes in their collection.
Lastly, traded a core Gabe & Beemo for the "Bad Ass" Battleborn sunglasses. Worth it.
Dinotimecopforce.com
When I was at East I got one random offer from a guy in a line with me and one offer from someone while I was Enforcing. Normally I don't get too much attention because my trades on my lanyard are generally not great, and so I don't really go up and ask people for trades because I don't have much of quality to offer. I'm kind of hoping that my collection of US pins, even though they're mostly cores, will get some people in Aus excited.
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Yowza, great memory! I think I might start trying to keep record of each trade I make at PAX as well, though I might have to carry around a little booklet to write them down in or something. As for your question, I definitely remember the Starslip for Vault Boy trade, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't me with the Emu Tycho since the only aus '14 pin I got (and traded away) during Prime was the Dropbear Gabe.
For me, I won't approach someone unless I see like half a dozen pins on their lanyard. If it's just one or two, I assume they are only displaying those one or two pins because they like the games.
Always looking to trade.
2015 PAX Prime Omeganaut (I will forever hate Katamari)
I display, like, 25 pins on my Lanyard because I like the games. ;P But I'll still trade for more things I like!
@BrushwoodMutt - I can verify that 00fayt00 really wanted your Riptor pin because he was trying to get one for me as part of a trade for a DSB Merch. I'm sure he got a good deal in the end.
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
2015 PAX Prime Omeganaut (I will forever hate Katamari)
I traded a prime sheild for and Aus sheild. (my golden goose)
https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/Fugitoid
Trade me pins, yo: https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/Lazorz
There's more behind that particular trade too!
Late Monday, someone had their eye on the Wilson, and I proposed Wilson for two Rock Band pins on his lanyard, one of which was the RB4 logo from East. To my surprise, he mentioned that the RB4 logo had sentimental value to him. As it turns out, he was involved in the creation of the promo video for Rock Band 4. And I totally understood.
So his wife takes a Kappa from her lanyard, and offers it to me for the Wilson. I accepted it, and then she hands Wilson to him. "We'll discuss this trade later".
That's why I love pin trading. Let's see where this Kappa goes, see you at South.
In the pin trading overflow room: My East Shield for their Prime Shield (it completed her shield set, I felt good about that), my Colonial Kemper for their World of Warships (it hurts to let go of a Kemper, but being a morning [E] meant obtaining few of my own time sink pins, plus I am bad at saying no in person)
Staff: My PNW Tycho for their Red (with Beker after correctly guessing his first blind bag game!), My Twisp for their PNW Kemper (with Dabe after a Q&A)
Misc: A couple spare pairs of PAX South sunglasses for an Anubis and a Gideon (I think), gifted a Coffee Kemper for my friend who is a casual/new collector and is in love with that pin
https://pinnypals.com/pals/Evenstar