Dedicated G2 thread!

[MoonStars]

I know Eve and Copper Glow are tough to get hold of, but what about Miss Painter?

She’s not quite as HTF as the other  two, but still doesn’t  turn up that often (esp w/ accessories if loose). Ilove her vibrant  colors!

[freezestime]

I know Eve and Copper Glow are tough to get hold of, but what about Miss Painter?

I've personally seen Miss Painter more times than Eve or Cooper Glow.

Post Merge: September 21, 2019, 11:49:57 PM

Actually, if Hasbro doesn't want them, why not make them our own?

As in, get the copyright to the molds, characters, everything besides the MLP brand and anything else they'd still own.

[HoustonCollector72]

Do you mean  Copper Glow  if not then who is Cooper Glow ?

[freezestime]

Do you mean  Copper Glow  if not then who is Cooper Glow ?

Whoopsie my bad, yeah Copper Glow

[LadyMoondancer]

Hasbro will never sell the rights to the molds or characters.  If anyone is thinking about doing repros . . . just do it. 

Do not, repeat, DO NOT ask Hasbro for permission.  It's very noble to want to do things "above board", but it won't work.  Hasbro will just say "NO, in fact you do NOT have our permission to do that" and then send you a cease-and-desist because you've alerted them to your operation.

[freezestime]

Hasbro will never sell the rights to the molds or characters.  If anyone is thinking about doing repros . . . just do it. 

Do not, repeat, DO NOT ask Hasbro for permission.  It's very noble to want to do things "above board", but it won't work.  Hasbro will just say "NO, in fact you do NOT have our permission to do that" and then send you a cease-and-desist because you've alerted them to your operation.

Well, that sucks. Still going to look into making G2 reproductions like HQG1C.

[LadyMoondancer]

Yeah, I think it's entirely possible to do something similar to HQG1C with G2 molds.  (Don't know how much demand there is for them, but as far as manufacturing--definitely.)  You could look on Aliexpress, I'm sure a lot of the bootleggers there are willing to make anything you please, for the right price.

The challenge is they usually don't do small runs of toys, I don't think.  So it would be quite the financial burden to jump in with, and even moreso if the repros don't sell well and you end up with, like, 400 of a single pony in your garage.

[LightheartRose]

My original generation! My G2 ponies were ruined in a house fire when I was 10, but I had Lightheart, Ivy, and one other (a pink one with a magenta and orange mane, Name forgotten) and the fancy playsets. I've kept my eyes peeled for them, as I would love to have some to referb, and *okay, yes* keep. So far, the only one I've found was a Lightheart in a bag of ponies I bought at the Salvation Army. Of course, she stayed with me .

[freezestime]

Yeah, I think it's entirely possible to do something similar to HQG1C with G2 molds.  (Don't know how much demand there is for them, but as far as manufacturing--definitely.)  You could look on Aliexpress, I'm sure a lot of the bootleggers there are willing to make anything you please, for the right price.

The challenge is they usually don't do small runs of toys, I don't think.  So it would be quite the financial burden to jump in with, and even moreso if the repros don't sell well and you end up with, like, 400 of a single pony in your garage.

Cheers for the information, and I'll take that into consideration.

My older brother was looking into factories willing to reverse engineer a Bonzi Buddy plush and he recommended Alibaba. My initial search has proved fruitless.

It'd might be a good idea to make blank ones which people can customise.

A positive side is that Australia has a free trade agreement with China or something, so I might be able to get free shipping.

Edit: My brother recommended something called recasts and apparently the Warhammer 40k is known for that, so I might be able to produce my own.

[hilamb]

Friends, would you say that Prince Firefly stands out as a lot of people's favorites?

If so, he might be a good candidate for a reproduction!

I think he is quite loved. But there are so many otheeers

[freezestime]

Friends, would you say that Prince Firefly stands out as a lot of people's favorites?

If so, he might be a good candidate for a reproduction!

I think he is quite loved. But there are so many otheeers

Like who? Maybe Wednesday afternoon bride or Precious? Or should I make a poll?

[Taffeta]

I don't want to get into the legalities of reproductions, I think those are pretty obvious.

But please, for goodness sake, don't reproduce exact copies of existing ponies. For a start, there's no point, the ponies exist already. For a second thing, if the repro was close enough it might then get mistaken for the original. For the third, it's exactly Hasbro's intellectual property.

Producing new original ponies in poses from G2 ponies is not more legal than reproducing existing ones. But at least they can't be confused for originals later on down the line.

I am wholeheartedly against the reproduction of existing older stuff unless it's done by Hasbro or under a Hasbro licence. I know there are folk who won't agree with me but I feel really strongly about this.

[freezestime]

I don't want to get into the legalities of reproductions, I think those are pretty obvious.

But please, for goodness sake, don't reproduce exact copies of existing ponies. For a start, there's no point, the ponies exist already. For a second thing, if the repro was close enough it might then get mistaken for the original. For the third, it's exactly Hasbro's intellectual property.

Producing new original ponies in poses from G2 ponies is not more legal than reproducing existing ones. But at least they can't be confused for originals later on down the line.

I am wholeheartedly against the reproduction of existing older stuff unless it's done by Hasbro or under a Hasbro licence. I know there are folk who won't agree with me but I feel really strongly about this.

Well, you do have a point. Cheers for that, I'm just bouncing ideas off the wall.

[Taffeta]

Well, and again this is my personal perspective, but there's a difference to me between someone taking a pony and making a custom version of another pony for their own personal collection or as a placeholder, and someone mass producing replica versions of an existing pony and selling them. Aside the legal minefield, that's just...off to me.

I don't personally like the making a custom of an existing pony thing either because I don't collect that way, but I can understand people doing that. I don't support commercial reproductions of anything Hasbro.

(I feel like this about flutter wings and sea shells and stuff too. They exist, but I am not a fan).

[Lilja]

Would be great to have blanks of G2 molds so you could make the same ponies as you could in the CD-rom game. That or some of the lovely prototypes!