The Weirdest MLP Flaws In Your Collection?

[JanuaryJoy]

My Little Ponies are toys that were played with, and many are old toys, so every seasoned collector expects condition flaws. However, there's just some issues (varying in severity) that seem bizarre, unusual, or even kinda funny. I wanted to share a few of my candidates for this topic, and hear from others about their experiences as well!


G1 Birthday Pony is in solid condition, but why are all of the magenta markings bled into her vinyl? The other symbols seem immaculate. This baffles me, although it seems others have this exact flaw from observing online listings.
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G1 Twilight is bizarre. Her mane has this rough patch in the middle, and it didn't change at all with flat-iron treatment. Is it melted beyond hope from somebody else's poor style job, maybe...? What am I looking at?
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G1 Princess Misty has... What IS this stain? I've never seen anything like it. Why is it just one random foot? It's not even on the bottom, as if she stood on something harmful.
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G3 Tropical Delight is discolored, but it's a really odd crusty look isolated to part of her upper body. I don't think it has anything to do with the age of her plastic or exposure to sunlight... It's too different.
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Please share any of your interesting or strange MLP flaws, regardless of the generation! If you're confused, adding photos might give somebody the opportunity to answer with a cause and possible solution as well.

[TheBeatlesPkmnFan42]

My Starlight Glimmer from the All About set has a messed up hoof. Here's a crop of an old photo of her from a couple years ago:

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She has some balancing issues as a result.

[LordBlumiere]

I haven't got any photos, but my poor Masquerade... out of all the ponies in my collection, she seems to have problems with getting moldy! I cleaned her out thoroughly when I first got her and left her to dry out, but for whatever reason it's happened again--and this isn't even the first time. She's in excellent condition otherwise; it's truly bizarre.

[Leave a Whisper]

I've got a Toola Roola with the owner's name written directly under her tail. My daughter called it a tramp stamp.

My Seaswirl has a crooked tail hole, and then in the middle, she has the imprint of where another hole tried to go, but failed.

[Baby Crumpet]

My Tex, whom I've had since I was a kid [but got second hand], has a really... rough back? It's like someone took sandpaper to it, or something? It's nowhere else on his body, only on the spot on his lower back... but it's very strange. There's also a few tiny gouges there. I have NO idea what someone did [and I doubt I could get a decent photograph of it] but? It's always been there. He's very handsome despite this, however, and it means I can tell MY Tex out of a hundred

[SpacePinto]

My Wind Whistler has the parting between her forelock and the rest of her mane go right in the middle of one hair plug, which means it needs to be split in half for her to be combed properly, and it's really triggering to me. It kind of helps to just comb the shorter half back with the rest of the plug, although her mane is overall pretty messy and I will have to just take care of it one day anyway.

I see someone mentioned owner's signature, my Heart Throb has one under her hoof but I don't see it as a flaw, to me it's actually an enrichment.

[LadyAmalthea]

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Enough said. I'm hoping to find another Whizzer with that spectacular regrind in the opposite configuration; a bright body/normal head, so I can switch their body parts around and make two ponies without head/body mismatch...I know they exist, because I saw another person post one on here once, but then they never posted again. It's like my holy grail to find that pony!

[Taxel]

I'm not sure if the photos will work since Flickr seems to have gotten worse, but these are my favorites.

I have a G4 blind bag Minty with a super misprinted eye and a G1 Twirler with a symbol that was printed super low. Misprints are my absolute favorite and I really want to track down more of them. Someone had a MIB G3 Rainbow Dash years ago that they messaged me about, but I couldn't afford her at the time. I would love to track something like that down again!

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[Taffeta]

I have a Sundance with no symbol.
I am not sure if she ever had one that got removed somehow, or she didn't. It's a bit of a mystery as she's otherwise in great condition, still has her curl, and there's no sign of a symbol on her flank on either side. But...yeah. O.o.
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This is a horrible picture that's pixellated but I haven't got a better one right now.

She came from a carboot sale. I kept her because she was odd.

And then there's the "thing" that calls itself hair on the teeny tiny babies from my childhood. ><

I love the Twirler with the symbol down her leg xD.

Even my MOC Whizzer has that head body mismatch issue. I think it's fate.

[Leave a Whisper]

I have a Sundance with no symbol.
I am not sure if she ever had one that got removed somehow, or she didn't. It's a bit of a mystery as she's otherwise in great condition, still has her curl, and there's no sign of a symbol on her flank on either side. But...yeah. O.o.
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This is a horrible picture that's pixellated but I haven't got a better one right now.

She came from a carboot sale. I kept her because she was odd.

And then there's the "thing" that calls itself hair on the teeny tiny babies from my childhood. ><

I love the Twirler with the symbol down her leg xD.

Even my MOC Whizzer has that head body mismatch issue. I think it's fate.

That's interesting.

[JanuaryJoy]

I'm not sure if the photos will work since Flickr seems to have gotten worse, but these are my favorites.

I have a G4 blind bag Minty with a super misprinted eye and a G1 Twirler with a symbol that was printed super low. Misprints are my absolute favorite and I really want to track down more of them...

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Ahh, the magical wonder of non-existent or inadequate quality control, it spans across time and defies the boundaries of generations, hahaha!

[Carrehz]

I have a Lyra with a misprinted eye!

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(center - ignore Lyra Rays off to the right, she's a Taobao misfit )

Also I don't have a pic of this (I don't think it'd even be possible to photograph it) but my Sweetie Drops has a weird... sort of a dent? near the left ear. sort of lumpy and weird? Dunno what happened there, she was like that right off the card.

The blind bag errors are the best. didn't someone once find one with three eyes or something like that?

[milkywaymochi]

I have one that's a bit of a mystery. My starshine has an extra long forelock. And by that, I mean that she has extra hairholes, filled and glued with hair (that is the same length as the rest of her hair) , going down her face, almost all the way down to her nose. I can only assume that this was a factory error of some sort, and they just went with it and sold her anyway. I mean, I'd certainly be surprised if it turned out a child was somehow responsible xD


https://www.flickr.com/photos/185078305@N04/50909654321/in/dateposted-public/

(It's a bit hard to see, but it's my only picture of her and all my ponies are in storage at the moment)

[Leave a Whisper]

I have a Lyra with a misprinted eye!

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(center - ignore Lyra Rays off to the right, she's a Taobao misfit )

Also I don't have a pic of this (I don't think it'd even be possible to photograph it) but my Sweetie Drops has a weird... sort of a dent? near the left ear. sort of lumpy and weird? Dunno what happened there, she was like that right off the card.

The blind bag errors are the best. didn't someone once find one with three eyes or something like that?

[IceCrystal02]

My Baby Bow Tie seems to have more plugs down her forehead than the others I've seen so far. Plus she has a forelock, but it seems some have them while others do not.

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