OK, I'm thinking this isn't entirely accurate about the DL lanyards. I was at DL from April 25th till May 8th, I think it was; that's almost 2 weeks. May 5th is when the big switch happened at DL. Let me explain what the lanyards were like before the big rules change. There were 2 men who would go around the parks and dump these cheap-o pins made overseas, they were very thin, possibly even plastic, with a smooth gold finish on the back and a smooth nail-polish-like layer of epoxy over painted characters on the front. These people probably got these pins for about a nickel or a dime apiece. EVERY lanyard was plastered with these pins as well as mini-map pins on about one in every 10 lanyards. There were no official Disney pins, no cloisonne pins, nothing, unless you got out there very early in the morning and happened upon a manager who would care enough to have his/her lanyard redone overnight. This had been the case for some time. If you traded with a CM for anything off of their lanyards, you were trading WAY down, quality-wise and money-wise!!!
Fast forward to May 5. Official Disney CLOISONNE pins!!! Knock me over with a feather, there were some LE's on the lanyards! Those cheap-o nickel and dime pins were no longer on the lanyards. During the days leading up to May 5, my family and I spotted lots of managers going around with baggies full of the cheap-o pins showing them to CM's to teach them what not to accept after the 5th. The lanyard improvements were VAST and very good; the parade pins are LE 5000 each. So to complain that there is nothing good on the lanyards even though there are official Disney cloisonne LE pins on them now is not giving DL enough credit. They did so much work to improve the lanyards, and you can find a great variety of pins on them. Parade pins + attraction pins + character pins. You just have to look hard enough. Also the super traders at DL and DCA ALWAYS have wonderful pins.
If you go into DL expecting what was on the lanyards in April (cheap-o pins that NO ONE wanted because the good stuff had been stripped by these 2 SCUMBAGS) and you get what is on them now, you will be PLEASANTLY surprised. If you go in there expecting WDW LE's on DL lanyards just because it's a Disney park...leave your lanyard in the room. The folks at DL did so much hard work to improve the situation for all of us and it's just really saddening to see people saying that there was no improvement. That's just not true.