The newly renovated Pixar Place Hotel had it’s grand opening on Tuesday January 30th out in Aneheim California. The celebration included all your favorite Pixar friends and from the pictures I’ve seen it looks like quite the improvement over the previous version of the hotel.

Now the grand opening has been covered already by news, vloggers and bloggers so as I’m sure you can assume since I’m also posting about this, there must be new coins available. And you would be absolutely correct. Let’s head on inside the STOR-E gift shop near the main lobby to take a look.

First is the collectible medallion machine. We can spy the new 2024 medallion booklet up on top of the machine. The cabinet design is pretty plain but inside is what we are most interested in I’m sure.

There are four new designs located in this machine inlcuding Sully & Mike W from Monsters Inc, Russell & Dug from Up!, Crush & Squirt from Finding Nemo, and Woody & Buzz from Toy Story. However, in my opinion the best part is the reverse side that shows the Pixar Place Hotel logo, Pixar Lamp (Luxo Jr) and the Pixar “Luxo Ball” with Grand Opening across the top

Next we have a new set of pressed pennies. This machine cabinet is similar in style to the medallion one we just looked at. The colorful marquee at the top is a nice subtle touch.

At this machine you can press one penny for $1, or the entire set of eight for $5. The penny designs include Boo, Joe Gardner, Wall-E, Jack Jack, Merida, Miguel, Jesse Woody & Bullseye, and Nemo with Dory.

There is a reverse design on each of the pennies as well that includes the Pixar Place Hotel logo, with Lamp and Ball similar to the medallions but no Grand Opening is shown.

Of course the big question everyone has is how long will these coins be available. I would think the pennies will be around for quite awhile. But the medallions are a different story, with that Grand Opening tag line on them I can’t seem them sticking around for more than a year. However we still aren’t quite sure how often the medallions are reordered. As always I would suggest trying to get them as quickly as you can since we really don’t know when they will be gone.

Keep on Pressing and Collecting!