Renegade Pins

In Hard Rock pin collecting, a renegade pin is an unlicensed pin released by a physical location that met one or more of the following descriptions:

1. The location called itself Hard Rock Cafe but was not authorized to do so at the time the pin was released. Please see below for a list of known renegade locations. Note: Some later became home to authorized Hard Rock Cafes and released authorized pins.
2. The location was allowed to use the Hard Rock name but not its iconic logo. Example: The original Johannesburg cafe, which closed in 2003, released more renegade pins than anywhere else, with a logo that put a distinctive cursive twist on the word "Cafe."
3. The location was in a country where Hard Rock had not yet established its trademarks. Example: Two of the earliest and longest-running renegades were in Germany (Frankfurt, 1978-2007, and Heidelberg, 1978-2017).

Subject ID: 104362

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In Hard Rock pin collecting, a renegade pin is an unlicensed pin released by a physical location that met one or more of the following descriptions:

1. The location called itself Hard Rock Cafe but was not authorized to do so at the time the pin was released. Please see below for a list of known renegade locations. Note: Some later became home to authorized Hard Rock Cafes and released authorized pins.
2. The location was allowed to use the Hard Rock name but not its iconic logo. Example: The original Johannesburg cafe, which closed in 2003, released more renegade pins than anywhere else, with a logo that put a distinctive cursive twist on the word "Cafe."
3. The location was in a country where Hard Rock had not yet established its trademarks. Example: Two of the earliest and longest-running renegades were in Germany (Frankfurt, 1978-2007, and Heidelberg, 1978-2017).

The following is a list of known or likely renegade physical locations, not all of which issued pins: Amsterdam, Athens, Ayia Napa, Bandung, Beirut, Bloemfontein, Brisbane, Budapest, Cape Town, Chartres, Chiang Mai, Crete, Dar es Salaam, Durban, Eilat, Firenze, Frankfurt, Ghent, Gran Canaria, Heidelberg, Jamaica, Johannesburg, Lanarca, Lanzarote, Milano, Mombasa, Moscow, Mykonos, Nairobi, Nuremberg, Okinawa, Paros, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Prague, Protera, Rhodes, Rota, Saigon, Salzburg, Subic (Olangapo).

Renegade pins are not to be confused with Fantasy Pins, which also are unlicensed but are a separate category.

Subject ID: 104362

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