Pins are collectible items in Epic Mickey. They do not serve any purpose in gameplay; it's just fun to see how many you can collect in a single playthrough. There are four types of pins.
Bronze, Silver, and Gold Pins are shaped like the black Epic Mickey logo with a bronze, silver, or gold outline, respectively, are found in red treasure chests and given by NPCs after completing certain quests.
Special pins are given after completing certain major choice-making objectives, meaning it will take multiple playthroughs to make different choices and collect them all. Each Special Pin is shaped like the key person(s), object, or place in the quest that was required to collect it.
There are 20 Bronze Pins, 17 Silver Pins, 20 Gold Pins, and 48 Special Pins for a total of 105 Pins. It will take at least three playthroughs to collect them all.
Bronze Pin Locations
Dark Beauty Castle (First Visit)
- Mad Doctor's Lab- In chest in the room opened by defeating the Mechanical Arm.
World of Gremlins
- Gremlin Tim's park- In chest in the room opened by Tim if you fixed his park by filling the pump with paint.
- European Boat Ride- Paint in all the gears behind the scenes and the platform with the chest lowers.
- Gremlin Villiage- Chest inside Gremlin Gus' house after you turn off the thinner and paint in the house.
- Asia Boat Ride- Fix the valves in the room with the spinning blades then go back to beginning of area and take the now-available walkway to the chest.
- Colisseum- Chest inside Small Pete's treasure room (must have completed the "Small Pete's Ship Log" quest).
Mean Street (First Visit)
- Detective Agency- In the hidden alcove near roof (use thinner to expose).
- Cinema- Given by the Usher if you have four film reels.
Ostown (First Visit)
- Mickey's House- Given by Telephone if you complete his "Ostown Phone Network" quest
Tomorrow City
- Falls- In chest if you free the Gremlin and complete his "UFO" Quest
- Elevator area- near a Beetleworx spawner.
Special Pins
- Animatronic Donald: Shaped like Animatronic Donald's head. Gained when you get Donald fixed with the 4 parts in Lonesome Manor. The time of the fix and the combination of found and purchased parts don't matter.
- Art Appreciator: Shaped like a painting of a Lonesome Ghost with a black background and a gold frame. Given by Madame Leona when you restore her art collection.
- Cartoon Buff: Shaped like a movie real leaning against a stack of four. Given by the Usher when you give him all 36 cartoon reels.
- Dark Beauty Castle: Shaped like Dark Beauty Castle against a light green background with two lightning strikes. In a treasure chest when you thin out the toon red door near the catapult.
- Mad Doctor: Shaped like a yellow circle with The Mad Doctor raising his left fist in anger. Gained when you defeat him. (Doesn't matter if you use Paint or Thinner)
- Me And My Shadow: Shaped like the Shadow Blot's head in a blue circle (Symbolizing Paint) Gained when you redeem the Shadow Blot with paint.
- Oswald: Shaped like Oswald's head. Given by Oswald if you restore his throne room.
- Play A Tune: Shaped like an organ keyboard with a musical note in front of it. Gained when you help the Pipe Organ by playing his song.
- Redeem Petetronic: Shaped like Petetronic's smiling armored head but his helmet is blue (Symbolizing Paint). Given by Pete if you redeem Petetronic with paint.
- Small Pete: Shaped like Small Pete's head. Given by Pete if you help out Small Pete.
- Stop The Music: Shaped like a record player. Gained if you redeem Clock Tower with paint.
- Well Read: Shaped like the book Ian sent you to find for Madam Leona. Given by Ian if you give Madame Leona the runaway book.