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Title: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: lonewolf on January 02, 2019, 09:15:26 PM
So apparently a container ship lost 30 containers into the ocean near the Netherlands, and now the merchandise is washing up on the beach, including these G3.5 fakie brushables:

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Definitely brightens the place up. :P

Edit: Apparently the ship lost 270 containers out of 19,000 according to the source:
https://twitter.com/gwillem/status/1080432048349872128

News story: https://news.yahoo.com/ship-loses-potentially-dangerous-cargo-north-sea-coastguard-184102600.html;_ylt=Awr9Fq1vnC1c7gEAVjFXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyNzR0aHVuBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjQ4NTNfMQRzZWMDc2M-
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 02, 2019, 10:08:51 PM
Everybody who wants to find a fakie truly in the wild, pack your bags and head to the Netherlands!
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: Elva on January 03, 2019, 01:44:29 AM
This is so absurd  :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: Moonbreeze on January 03, 2019, 03:18:42 AM
Omg xD It's at Terschelling though. Too far away for me haha.

Wow... just read that they actually lost 270 containers! :shocked: Also with dangerous materials...
That area is already a protected environment. I hope they can clean it up
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: Loreofyore on January 03, 2019, 03:23:35 AM
The Red Bull is vanquished again... run free!

                    :huh:>>>No oceans in town, just rivers, one trip I bagged a toy cop car & a little armored car (must have been a story behind that one), and one really realistic giant rubber snake that was stuffed with polyester fiber which I carried home on my shoulders... I had thought the neighbors might be surprised to see me in the distance as I rounded the corner home, but believe me or not, it was the dogs who went wild!
Bagging litter can be fun & hazardous, & toys do sail.... alas I have never found ponies but I will have to write back 17 years from now (I've heard message bottles can float that long) if I'm near an ocean somewhere and one turns up. That day also found a lockable plastic tub from the Walgreens round the bend, asked them if I could take the container home and reuse to lock up my garden tools but they've a policy against this they actually accepted it back and inventoried... dripping as it was and smelling of fish! How strange for the employees... :lookround:
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: The_Loner on January 03, 2019, 05:03:01 AM
Whoa :wow:, that is really cool! But also kind of sad. Did you bring any of them home?
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: mlp4me on January 03, 2019, 05:41:22 AM
This happened a few years back with a container full of Lego's, I think I'd rather step on a pony on a beach...
Title: Ponies on the Beach
Post by: StarSwirl05 on January 03, 2019, 07:20:14 AM
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FW9fgeg09Ho/XC0iUTqSqxI/AAAAAAADIJ0/i07Vdjrsbd88U--7SyAwmQLrxscYAg0pACLcBGAs/s1600/Dv53N0hXcAEl2Hu.jpg%2Blarge.jpg
Evidently from a cargo ship spilling containers in The Netherlands.


[merging with existing thread ~ Kiwi]
Title: Re: Ponies on the Beach
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 03, 2019, 07:28:03 AM
Oh no! All that plastic in the water!
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach
Post by: bladed on January 03, 2019, 07:44:15 AM
they escape... and now they are planning world domination... their army will storm us! :silly:
Title: Re: Ponies on the Beach
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 03, 2019, 07:47:54 AM
O.O  oooooooooooooooh boy... 
at least it wasn't a shipment of Concerned Pony
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Loreofyore on January 03, 2019, 10:32:02 AM
This happened a few years back with a container full of Lego's, I think I'd rather step on a pony on a beach...
I don't know... be something to see if those public beach artists could combine Legos with sandcastles...
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Carrehz on January 03, 2019, 10:44:10 AM
:lmao:
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Ponyfan on January 03, 2019, 10:47:20 AM
I'd love to find a pony on the beach. That picture is really funny. :lol:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Glitter Yolk on January 03, 2019, 11:11:56 AM
They are here to party!
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 03, 2019, 12:53:31 PM
I came here just to post this, I thought I finally had something interesting to post! :|

Never mind, I'll see myself out. :lookround:

EDIT: Now I see how not nice this post sounds... Just to clarify; it was aimed at myself, not at anyone in this thread! I was just disappointed in myself that I waited too long and as a result someone beat me to it. I really never have anything interesting to post. Now I still don't. :P
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: lonewolf on January 04, 2019, 07:01:12 AM
Wait a minute... Their colors... Coming from the sea...

Spoiler
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They're Kelpie!! :whoa:

Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Shaiyeh on January 04, 2019, 07:49:34 AM
O.O  oooooooooooooooh boy... 
at least it wasn't a shipment of Concerned Pony

OMG that would have been amazing :lmao:
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: CinnamonOnions on January 04, 2019, 08:08:01 AM
Even though I feel bad for the enviroment, this is also so absurd and hilarious. World takeoveerrr.
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on January 04, 2019, 08:59:23 AM
I wish I was there to capture some of them.   
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 08, 2019, 10:22:12 AM
Found two more amusing photos. :P

(I have absolutely no clue about social media etiquette since I don't use it myself, so I hope I didn't do anything wrong by sharing it this way? I just took some screenshots and left the names in it for the credits.)

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"The sea takes. The sea gives. 30 Containers on Terschelling, Vlieland and Schier with Ikea wares, My Little Pony and car parts. The islanders are happy."

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"And it keeps coming"

Also, I edited my previous post in this thread to clarify that I wasn't being snotty to anyone else but myself. :lookround:
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Barnacle_lady on January 08, 2019, 10:50:10 AM
Yeah, awesome if these were real :) My colleagues asked me if I went to pick them up even though I don't live nearby.
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 08, 2019, 09:57:24 PM
     UPDATE: it would seem scientists are able to use the pony spill to their advantage in studying how plastic travels in the ocean.

Article: https://nos.nl/artikel/2266516-dobberende-my-little-pony-s-in-noordzee-bieden-kansen-voor-wetenschap.html

It is written in (what I think) is Dutch. I just used google translate because I can’t speak it.
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Lady.Arachnia on January 08, 2019, 10:50:34 PM
Dang....that was my AliExpress shipment....
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 09, 2019, 07:06:39 AM
Dang....that was my AliExpress shipment....
I really hope not!  :( 

Well it is somebody's... which is sad... but at least there's humor in it!
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 09, 2019, 07:13:35 AM
     UPDATE: it would seem scientists are able to use the pony spill to their advantage in studying how plastic travels in the ocean.

Article: https://nos.nl/artikel/2266516-dobberende-my-little-pony-s-in-noordzee-bieden-kansen-voor-wetenschap.html

It is written in (what I think) is Dutch. I just used google translate because I can’t speak it.

Yup, that's what it says! Especially this line amuses me:

"Dan kunnen we achterhalen hoe lang het duurt voordat een My Little Pony water maakt en zinkt", vertelt hij. "En dan krijgt dit ongeluk met de MSC Zoe misschien nog een zilveren randje."

("Then we can find out how long it takes before a My Little Pony makes water* and sinks", he says. "And then this accident with the MSC Zoe might get a silver lining.")

*No idea if watermaken/making water is some kind of nautical expression? It sounds funny in this context anyway. :P
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Moonbreeze on January 09, 2019, 07:26:59 AM
     UPDATE: it would seem scientists are able to use the pony spill to their advantage in studying how plastic travels in the ocean.

Article: https://nos.nl/artikel/2266516-dobberende-my-little-pony-s-in-noordzee-bieden-kansen-voor-wetenschap.html

It is written in (what I think) is Dutch. I just used google translate because I can’t speak it.

*No idea if watermaken/making water is some kind of nautical expression? It sounds funny in this context anyway. :P

'Watermaken' is basically sinking, right? But yes, it's kind of a weird word :P
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Broken Irishwoman on January 09, 2019, 02:53:09 PM
I guess that's the meaning, but I looked it up, and I couldn't even find it. XD
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 11, 2019, 08:52:36 AM
The Red Bull is vanquished again... run free!

 :lol: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: made my day  :lol:


Saw the fakies in the news a few days ago. Its so sad what happened, I hope they will be able to retrieve the containers from the sea before the dangerous stuff finds a way out of them!
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Foxtale on January 11, 2019, 09:39:55 AM
O.O  oooooooooooooooh boy... 
at least it wasn't a shipment of Concerned Pony

That would be too funny so see those images XD
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: allymer on January 15, 2019, 05:52:00 AM
OMG this is truly once in a lifetime story im amazed

me n hubby coming to the Netherlands next month ... cant they lose a container of 35th anniverseray G1 ??????
Title: Re: G3.5 fakies storming the beach [merged]
Post by: Loreofyore on January 19, 2019, 03:39:52 PM
OMG this is truly once in a lifetime story im amazed

me n hubby coming to the Netherlands next month ... cant they lose a container of 35th anniverseray G1 ??????
Ever have one of those dreams where it tricks you into thinking you just dreamed of finding G1 ponies all over the thrift store and then woke up and then you really find G1 ponies all over the thrift store, then wake up...?
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