Pin



Pins are popular, collectible items in Club Penguin. Every two weeks, a new pin is hidden somewhere on Club Penguin Island. A player obtains a pin by walking towards it and clicking 'Yes' in the dialogue box that pops up. The dialogue box says: "You've found a/the(pin name). Would you like to pick it up?". Then, the player can select a pin from their inventory and it will appear on the top left hand corner of their player card. Some pins, such as the Christmas Tree pin, Circus Tent pin and Yellow Balloon pin, were bought at the Fall Fair and inside special issues of The Penguin Times. To find a pin, many penguins ask, "Where is the pin?" in-game or "Where did you find that pin?" if he/she is using Ultimate Safe Chat. Some pins are themed for an event that is coming up or going on. The first pin came out in March 2006, during the St. Patricks Day Party, and it was in the form of a shamrock.

Pin list
See main article, List of Pins.

Flags
See main article, Flag.

Flags are very similar to pins in that they are displayed in the upper left corner of a penguin's player card. However, these are bought at the very end of every Penguin Style catalog for 20 coins each and require membership to buy.

Trivia

 * To honor the first pin in 2006, during the St. Patrick's Day 2009 party, a "Lucky Coin" pin with a shamrock in the middle was released.
 * The first pin that required you to click on something was the Cactus pin, which was released at the Coffee Shop during the Winter Fiesta 2007, in which you had to move your cursor over the pinata there twice. After the party ended, the pin was placed in the spot where it would have landed during the party.
 * Pins never come back once replaced with a new one, just as the anniversary party hats will never return. However, the Ruby pin has been brought back along with the play "Ruby and the Ruby," and it may be possible that the staff reused the entire set for that play and forgot to get rid of the pin.
 * Currently, the only pin that will never be gone is the Rockhopper's Key Pin, which can be found on the last page of The Journal of Captain Rockhopper, and allows penguins to access the Captain's Quarters when Rockhopper's Ship is docked at the Beach.
 * It is unknown why it is called a "pin," as the penguins do not wear it, it appears in the background.
 * On 5 June 2009, the Safari Hat pin could not be collected due to a glitch which opened a dialogue box reading, "This item is currently unavailable." The same problem occurred on 17 July 2009 with the Umbrella pin and on 31 July 2009 with the Toy Sailboat pin. Actually this isn't a real glitch, the Club Penguin Team just released the pin too early and forgot to un-patch it. (all unavailable items are patched to prevent cheaters from getting rare items)
 * There was an activity in the 101 Days of Fun that involved putting on an ice cream apron and leading penguins to the current pin, the Ice Cream Sundae.
 * On 10 June 2009 in the What's New Blog, there was a vote on the next pin; this chosen pin was #2, an umbrella. The other choices were a sunflower and a bucket of sand with a small shovel in it.
 * In the Penguin Times #193, there was a glitch where it showed next week's pin, a Dojo Lantern.
 * During the 2008 Fiesta Party, there was a glitch where when a non-member tried to collect the pin, it would ban you for cheating to get a member item. This was quickly fixed and the innocent penguins were unbanned.
 * The only times free collectible pins weren't free was during Fall Fair 2007, in which the Circus Tent pin could be bought for 100 Fall Fair Tickets, Fall Fair 2008, in which the Yellow Balloon pin could be bought for 100 Fall fair Tickets, The Penguin Times issue during Christmas 2007, in which a Christmas Tree pin could be bought for 250 coins, and at the Fall Fair 2009 in which the Cotton Candy Pin could been bought for 50 tickets.
 * In the inventory, pins are out of order; they are not arranged in the order they were found, this is because of a glitch.
 * In the yearbooks in the Book Room, If you look carefully and click in the right places you will be able to view the pin that was hidden for that month!
 * So far, Club Penguin has had 100 pins!

Current Pin Location
See the homepage. Please note that the current pin will always be displayed on the front page in that spot.