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Pins & wheedles: Odd Disney Q&A

The Mouse House’s shareholder meeting wasn’t all business — at least not serious business.

Despite more pressing matters such as the re-election of the board and compensation, Disney boss Bob Iger spent most of his time during the investor gathering in Kansas City, Mo., fielding offbeat questions from the audience.

A woman named Eileen wanted to know why parking passes for theme parks are $99 and not priced based on parking usage.

“I’m not familiar with the parking rates and policy. ” Iger said in response. “I’ll look into it.”

That quickly became Iger’s stock response to a slew of such inquiries.

An elderly man wondered why he couldn’t use his Disney credit-card discounts and said he didn’t like the poor design of a Disney site that sells collectible pins.

Iger’s response: “I’m not aware of how we discount the pins. I’ll look into the whole process.”

One of the strangest questions, however, came from a man asking how Disney protected guest characters from physical attacks in its parks, an apparent reference to a video that circulated on the Web showing a man punching an employee in the face.

Iger said security is standing by to help in such an event but thankfully, “those incidents don’t happen very often.”

Amid questions from children about whether Disney’s Pixar animation studio might release more than one movie a year, Iger also got some free advice on the marketing front.

A man in the audience said he didn’t like the use of the phrase “Disney Parks,” saying, “When I’m at Walt Disney World, I’m at much more than a park.”

Iger thanked him for the “interesting suggestion.”

The only real question came from a shareholder asking for some financial details about the fallout from $350 million movie bomb “John Carter.”

“It’s very early to talk about financial results,” CFO Jay Rasulo said. “I don’t want to give any numbers out.”

catkinson@nypost.com