Shanghai Disneyland
Greets Guests with
Twelve Coin Press Machines!
The Shanghai Disney Resort (officially) opened on June 16th, 2016 with a VIP open a few days earlier. As many longtime ParkPennies readers are aware, the many multi-million dollar attractions, fancy restaurants, history making stores, and luxury hotels are of great interest to us... if they have a penny press machine! :-) To that end, the folks at ParkPennies have been all ears. Over the past few years, details about if, when, and where there might be coin press machines at the newest Disney Resort were hard to come by. But, shortly after the resort opened, several fellow pressed coin collectors and good people in the "industry" could confirm the long running rumors and with them, the start of this guide.
On opening day, twelve Magic Medallion pressed coin machines, placed throughout the Shanghai Disney Resort, SDR, greeted guests. These very popular souvenir presses were very diverse in both their coin image selections and machine designs. The opening Shanghai assortment of souvenir smashers included six traditional four-design hand-crank machines, five newer electric type machines offering eight different designs each, plus one electric machine offering twelve unique Zodiac designs for a total of 76 different souvenirs. Cost: 10.00 Chinese Yuan each or about $1.50 USD each. Placements were in hotels, stores, and the Disneyland theme park. Like the Tokyo Disneyland Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Shanghai Disney Resort souvenir pressers use hopper-fed penny-sized copper planchets, much in the way similar machines press pennies in the United States. However, the vended souvenirs at SDR appear to be of more even lengths and are solid copper like pre-1982 copper cents!
Note: Please read the Shanghai Disneyland Pressed Coin Tips & News if you planning a "penny pressing" "squishin' mission" visit to the Shanghai Disneyland Resort. Based on all we've heard, we think you'll to have a great time and these tips will help make it even more fun and a lot less stressful. :-)
We feel collecting these little treasures could make for a fun family hobby or maybe even evolve into a life-long personal quest! :-)
If you are a collector based outside of China, completing a collection of these very cool Shanghai Disney Resort souvenirs may be more challenging. However, knowing what designs have been issued and when new designs are first issued can be a great advantage in accomplishing your goal of collecting just one design type or every design type. We hope you will find this guide of help and might use it to share the hobby with friends. Fun! (<- Boomer's short sentence. :-) As always, your comments, additions, visits, likes, and links to ParkPennies are most appreciated. Happy collecting, Boomer.
The SDLShanghai Disneyland Park Pressed Coin Guide includes only the pressed coins from inside the Disneyland Park gates. This numbering system is similar to The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort numbering system. "SDL1601" decoded: SDL = Shanghai Disneyland Park; 16= Year 2016; 01 = Coin number. Our traditional guides descriptions will follow, soon I hope.
The Shanghai Disney Resort Pressed Coin GuideSDR includes the "on property" pressed coins outside Shanghai Disneyland park admission gates. (Resort hotels, stores, etc.) SDL includes coins issued inside the gates of the Shanghai Disneyland park. This numbering system is similar to The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort numbering system. "SDR1601" decoded: SDR = Shanghai Disney Resort; 16= Year 2016; 01 = Coin number.
In mid-2017 eight new coins were reported:
1 First Anniversary SDR1701, Tinker Bell SDR1702, 1 Castle SDR1703,
Carry-Over Castle SDR1704,
1 Mickey and Minnie SDR1705, 1 Pluto SDR1706,
Stitch SDR1707, and Iron Man SDR1708.
Note: Coin die rings are engraved in sets of four. Therefore the
carry-over Castle design is probably only a slight variation of the earlier castles.
December, 2017 four new coins reported:
Mickey SDL1701, Carry-Over Design Castle SDL1702,
Goofy & Friends SDL1703, and Mulan SDL1704.
Note: Coin die rings are engraved in sets of four. Therefore the
carry-over Castle design is probably only a slight variation of the earlier castles. (Click picture to open larger image.)
February, 2018 eight new World of Disney coins reported:
Mickey SDR1801, Minnie SDR1802, Donald SDR1803, Goofy SDR1804,
Sully & Mike SDR1805, Baby Winnie & Tigger SDR1806,
Baby Minnie with Tea Pot SDR1807, Baby Mickey & Pluto SDR1808. (Click picture to open larger image.)
April, 2018 four new coins reported:
Woody SDL1801, Buzz SDL1802, Jessie SDL1803, and Bullseye SDL1804. (Click picture to open larger image.)
August 13, 2018 three new World of Disney coins were reported by Jimmy in Hong Kong.
Chip N Dale SDR1813, Mickey & Minnie SDR1814, Mickey & Pluto SDR1815,
Carry-Over Castle design SDR1816.
These coins are replacements for the retired 1st Anniversary coins.
Note: Coin die rings are engraved in sets of four. Therefore the
carry-over Castle design is probably only a slight variation of the earlier castles.(Click picture to open larger image.)
November 7, 2018 four new Shanghai Disneyland Hotel coins were reported by Jimmy in Hong Kong.
The Minnie SDR1817, Mickey SDR1818, Castle SDR1819 & Goofy SDR1820. Replaced:
Donald, Goofy, Daisy, Mickey & Minnie (Click picture to open larger image.)
December 2019 four new World Of Disney Location #1 coins
were reported by Ralph X.
Baby Mickey SDR1901, Baby Minnie SDR1902, Baby Donald SDR1903 and Baby Chip N Dale SDR1904.
The new coins were initially "Gold" in color and replaced:
Sully & Mike, Baby Winnie & Tigger, Baby Minnie with Tea Pot, Baby Mickey & Pluto. (Click picture to open larger image.)
December 2019 four new World Of Disney Location #2 coins
were reported by Ralph X.
Lt. Judy Hopps & Nick Wilde SDR1905, Anna and Elsa SDR1906, Donald SDR1907, and Olaf SDR1908.
These coins were initially "Gold" colored and replaced the copper colored SDR coins:
Little Goofy & Donald SDR1602, Little Daisy & Donald SDR1604,
Little Chip N Dale SDR1606,
Little Minnie & Mickey SDR1608. (Click picture to open larger image.)
New 12-Play SDL machine
reported on 12/15/2019
by Jimmy in Hong Kong. Minnie SDL1901, Mickey SDL1902, Donald SDL1903, Chip N Dale SDL1904, Tigger SDL1905,
Winnie The Pooh SDL1906, Duffy SDL1907, ShellieMay SDL1908, Gelatoni SDL1909, StellaLou SDL1910,
Lt. Judy Hopps SDL1911 & Nick Wilde SDL1912.(Click picture to open larger image.)
Our thanks for this image
courtesy of Momo Disney via Alex L.
Four New SDL Coins reported on 1/8/2020
by Jimmy in Hong Kong.
Image courtesy of Momo Disney via Alex L.
Thor SDL2001, Iron Man SDL2002,
Catwoman SDL2003, Spider-Man SDL2004. (Click picture to open larger image.)
Our thanks for this image
courtesy of Momo Disney via Alex L.
Four new SDR Coins reported (set #1) at the World of Disney Shanghai Disney on 7/6/2021
by Alex L. in Hong Kong.
5th Anniversary Logo SDR2101, 5th Anniversary Mickey Mouse SDR2102,
5th Anniversary Minnie Mouse SDR2103, No 5th logo Chip N Dale SDR2104. Alex L. shared that this missing 5th Anniversary logo appears to be an error. The original marquee included the 5th Anniversary Logo Chip N Dale, but was replaced to match the coin. No Chip N Dale coins with a 5th Anniversary logo have been reported.(Click picture to open larger image.)
Our thanks for this image
courtesy of Momo Disney via Alex L.
Four more new SDR Coins reported (set #2) at the World of Disney Shanghai Disney on 7/6/2021
by Alex L. in Hong Kong.
5th Anniversary Donald SDR2105, 5th Anniversary Duffy SDR2106,
5th Anniversary ShellieMay SDR2107, 5th Anniversary StellaLou SDR2108. (Click picture to open larger image.)