wow my discoloured starshine air freshener is now white again

[shabbychicdee]

That's what i call the scented 35th Anniversary ponies 
my daughters bedroom smells like strawberry's thanks to Parasol and mine smells like coconuts (and tanning spray) thanks to starshine 
anyways..
  sorry if this is old news but i do believe the discoloured  scented  35th retro ponies maybe able to be sun-faded, well starshine anyways.

one day in the summer break/christmas holidays i needed some cheering up from some annoying family members who were staying with us at the time and driving us up the wall so i grabbed my starshine who was the only one of my four rainbows still in her box and got her out only to see her with very yellowed blotches on both sides of head and on one side of her upper body, disappointed i just left her down the sunny end of my bedroom out of the way but making my bedroom smell nice, the part of my bedroom she was in is like a sun-room attached to my bedroom, its very light and bright, no direct sun as its summer here and the sun is high but very powerfull as in New Zealand we have high UV rays from lack of ozone layer.
just pickup her up now to find that 90% of her yellownish has gone.  her body is pure white with a little bit on her head which was under her mane.

im not sure i would recommend doing this with colourered ponies as i recockon they might fade, i don't think the bridge direct quality is like the 80s Hasbro ones

sorry no before photos as i didn't expect it, just have starshines head in the direct sun now and see how see goes. 

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retro - vintage

[Galactica]

Wow good to know!

[tailrustedtealeaf]

That's reassuring! Also, "air freshener" ha.

[Einhornbaby]

Tehehehe "air freshener" nice!

Good to hear that shes white again! <3 (but awful that a pratically new pony would develope such goo on her body in the first place!)

[mlp4me]

Good to know that the she can be sun faded. I had to have one, so far she's only slightly off-white... Sun here is weak, so she'd have to be in the window for almost a year for any results.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

interesting results!  thanks for coming to share with us! 

[shabbychicdee]

oh my goodness me, sorry for the pic but i can't get her head back on 

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any suggestions? it popped of easy now it's a struggle to get it back on    
anyways she looks better..............kind of 

[mlp4me]

oh my goodness me, sorry for the pic but i can't get her head back on 

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any suggestions? it popped of easy now it's a struggle to get it back on    
anyways she looks better..............kind of 

I have had success putting heads back on by heating the body neck hole with a hair dryer.

[shabbychicdee]

good thinking thanks hun, i could only think of hot water but i dont want to get them wet, i never use one personally so now have to hunt for it.

its amazing how sticky these are inside, i think they pore the scented stuff inside them, i really can't wait to see if the unscented ones come to NZ, i might be tempted to get a moonstone.
 What a bad design flaw

[glitterball]

She looks so white!
Interesting that you found her sticky inside - hmmm does that mean rinsing the insides will wash-out the excess scent? I wonder if this could be done to save other scented ponies from getting stained.

[shabbychicdee]

i reckon its worth a try, just imagine what they will look like in the future and all the discolouration might not be repairable.

[shabbychicdee]

added picture comparison with Vintage G1
still can't get over how yellow she was