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“If you went to Disneyland, they have a room in one of the pavilions where they actually trade them. … People come and sit at tables and they participate in the whole lapel-pin marketplace,” said Brown. “It’s quite amazing.”
5. Imagination can get (almost) free rein with badge designs.
Fun fact: It’s unbelievable to consider, but it costs a pretty penny to build a die for a button that’s not yet in existence. “Those dies are in the thousands of dollars, like tens of thousands [of] dollars,” Bartolomei laughed as he related a story of how a distributor was in such disbelief at the staggering dollar amount, he hung up on him. On the badge side, a new die costs a tiny fraction of that. “That’s why, with a badge, it’s virtually endless the amount of shapes you can do,” he said.