Talk about having too much time and money on your hands

Here's an event for people who clearly have nothing else to do:

Image probably Copyright © Disney,
found here

I mean seriously, you're getting together with other people from across the country, maybe around the world, to do nothing but trade Disney-themed pins back and forth with each other? How useless* an endeavor is this? What kind of a strange person would spend his or her hard-earned money to travel to Epcot Center for a weekend and then spend the whole time trading pins?! I mean, you're in Epcot Center, for goodness sake!

Here's a question—how would you like to have been the designer who was hired to create this logo? Sure, the money was probably good, but wouldn't ithave been more than a little bit disappointing? "Sweet, I get to design a Disney logo! Oh...that's what it's for. Meh."

*To qualify the above opinion, I will disclose that I was once someone who used to collect business cards, with heavy emphasis on used to, and I realized how strange it was, immediately after a less-than-favorable article about me was published in the Oregonian.