The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Zapper on July 26, 2019, 05:05:17 AM
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The line is ending and I want to know what was the number one draw to you when it comes to collectability? Everyone gets 3 votes.
For me it was old mould brushables, CMC and Equestria Girls minis. What was your G4 fave?
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Original mold brushables, of course :) Then EQG grew on me surprisingly quickly, and I love blind bags. Still annoyed we never got the last couple of waves over here >_<
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The normal brushables, both the old and new molds.
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What do I think will be considered Collectibles?
Anything with a decent gimmick. So the Pearlies, Fashion Styles, Guardians of Harmony, and Water Cuties would definitely be up there, they're quite popular, and of course, non main sux figures that aren't bb/moulded, like Haven Bay, Queen Novo, Sandbar, Lulu Luck, Princess Sterling, Holly Dash, Blossomforth etc.
I imagine the build a bears would be as well, given that Build-a-Bear plushies are higher quality then Hasbro's.
Other then the fact that I personally like the underrated Magic Scenery and recent Mishmash Set, (pity they were limited to M6) most of this gen is garbage.
New characters with interesting designs being consigned to Blind Bags or expensive playsets, the quality control is utter crap, the obsession with pushing a handful of characters ad naseum was tedious and infuriating, some of the unique gimmicks were sucky and ugly, the reboots are even more hideous in terms of sculpt, the poses are dull, and the distribution was dreadful.
My most liked of this gen are:
Water Cuties, they're what finally made me start adding this gen to my collection. The gimmick is unique and they had a few other characters.
Pearlies, they are a classic gimmick and very lovely. Shame about the distribution.
Merponies, I don't like this breed of pony usually, but the babies are cute and the unique adults are a big want.
Magical Scenery- I just plain like the gimmick. Pity there weren't any non-main characters.
I like the idea of the Mishmash. They finally look like Ponies again. I reeeally want Pearly Twilight and about half of the boxed set.
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I'm mostly just interested in the brushable toys, any mould. Blind bags were fun, too!
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Blind Bags tired me out! I actually really enjoy the Cutie Mark Crew, and am interested in buying some of the new boring wave to customize. :P
Of course, I'm still biggest on the actual brushables. As oversaturated as they are, they're cute. I actually like the new molds a lot, too.
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Old and new style brushables, but not so much the new ones. I don’t quite like the new style as much as the old style, but I’ll take it. And figurines, plush, blind bag...I pretty much tried to collect as much as I could, with the exception of Equestria girls. Not any of those I’m afraid.
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Guardians of Harmony were made by Hasbro, weren't they? I don't think they were licensed.
My favorites were the doomed, short-lived smaller lines - EqG Minis, Hasbro Pop!, and Guardians of Harmony. I wish we'd gotten more of all of them :(
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Man... I felt kinda depressed when I looked at this list and realized the original mold brushables are the only thing I really considered fun to collect. No wonder I'm not much of a modern collector anymore! Don't get me wrong, I have some of the comics and quite a few blind bags, but as tailrustedtealeaf said, it just gets very tiring after a while. I dunno why, the bling bags do have a lot of different molds and we get a LOT of show characters... I guess they just feel cheap?
As a collector, I don't get a lot of pride looking at a pile of blind bag figures the way I do when I look at my brushables collection. I mean heck some of the pegasi are just earth pony molds with folded wings painted on the sides.... -_-
And once we switched from the original brushable molds to those bulb-headed new molds, I just stopped collecting altogether.
I'm eager to see what the new gen will bring! I wouldn't mind if they are that style we saw with SDCC Twilight and the retro Mane 6! Anything that actually looks like round little ponies would be great!
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Brushables, old style, non m6.
Eqg. Again mostly non m6. Special emphasis on Sunset Shimmer.
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Figures that were more show-like than others, so Funko (regular colors) and blind bags, but only if the pose was unique, like in the sets. It took a while, but I finally warmed up to brushables. And for somebody who said he'd never collect EQG, the seven minis staring at me from the desk are calling me a liar.
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I liked the original brushables after I watched the show... especially any that were not main 6. But I think I was collecting the blind bags way before I saw the show. There is just something about a teeny tiny pony that I can't resist. I have huge handfuls of them. My favorites are on display.
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The old style brushables are an absolute classic for me, since they were my favorite toys in lower school. I still hope to one day have all of the ones no one bought for me as a kid.
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You gave me one too few votes. XD My favorites... Hmm, it’s a tie between the original brushables (esp. the princess molds), the blind bags, and EQG dolls. However, GoH is also pretty well tied, since it finally introduced more villain characters... Not to mention Funko, who gave us an epic Discord, perfectly to scale with the brushables... This question is too hard! XD
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I have to say, although I don't like the new moulds as standard, the small figure for Spitfire and the Fashion Style for Luna that's actually dark blue are both winners in my view.
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I have only ever been collecting brushables, and I prefer the old moulds, but I don't hate the new ones :) They can be quite cute and expressive!
I bought one blind bag once but I didn't like it, so yeah. Just brushables for me!
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Good old brushables ;) Not opposed to the new style brushables (but a bit underwhelmed since it's mostly characters that already have brushables)
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I think the blindbags are my favourite G4 thing. Teeny-tiny ponies! I got fed up when they started just making the translucent ones.
I also liked the original brushables and the original Equestria Girls.
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Water Cuties, they're what finally made me start adding this gen to my collection. The gimmick is unique and they had a few other characters.
I am afraid water Cuties will age badly. I have already seen some that had yellowed plastic or dried out. Same as some of the non-M6 brushables thag had severe head/body mismatch or yellowing Celestia :huh:
Guardians of Harmony were made by Hasbro, weren't they? I don't think they were licensed.
I did not mean to imply that. Just tossing them with the higher end collector figurines. I think GoH "collectors series" figurines were recommended for ages 14+
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Guardians of Harmony were made by Hasbro, weren't they? I don't think they were licensed.
I did not mean to imply that. Just tossing them with the higher end collector figurines. I think GoH "collectors series" figurines were recommended for ages 14+
Ah, that makes sense. I was just like "did I miss something?" lol
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Trust me, I know. I have a Diamond Mint that I foolishly put in the window, and her head started turning clear. I found that suncatcher/stained glass paint helped her out, although her head no longer turned once it dried. I keep my girls outta the sun now. Kicking myself for not grabbing Flower Wishes, because she reminds me of Shady, and I woulda loved Princess Luna too.
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Trust me, I know. I have a Diamond Mint that I foolishly put in the window, and her head started turning clear. I found that suncatcher/stained glass paint helped her out, although her head no longer turned once it dried. I keep my girls outta the sun now. Kicking myself for not grabbing Flower Wishes, because she reminds me of Shady, and I woulda loved Princess Luna too.
Flower Wishes so reminds me of Shady, too!
Flower Wishes and AJ were everywhere here for about two years so I am imagining there are millions of them on the second hand market waiting to flood charity shops o.o.
I have Diamond Mint somewhere in her box, and I have a loose one. She's also been on display and her head is a little paler than her body but she was a carboot find and I wanted to display her so I kind of resigned myself. It's pretty either way, she's nice and the gradient look sort of suits her ;)
I also think they will age badly which is sad because this one one of the few sets in which I think Twilight Sparkle looks amazing o.O. It's one of the few sets I've almost completed from G4 because I think it's a really nicely done set. The wing idea is weird but somehow works too? I dunno. I wasn't going to go after these but I found a couple at the airport in Tel Aviv so they ended up coming home with me too...:/
Mind you, I think G4 in general will age badly, so maybe that's why I'm resigned already :) I mean we already have mismatch and I am assuming that hair rot is probably in our future considering the horrible hair some of them have. Even compared to G3, where there is hair rot but only in certain specific cases and colours thus far...I am predicting a mass balding of G4 ponies at some point in the not so distant future.
<---always cheerful :D
I do hope not though. I am quite fond of several of the non m6 character brushables. And even a couple of the more interesting M6 ones, like rainbow rocks Pinkie Pie and Rarity.
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Mind you, I think G4 in general will age badly, so maybe that's why I'm resigned already :) I mean we already have mismatch and I am assuming that hair rot is probably in our future considering the horrible hair some of them have. Even compared to G3, where there is hair rot but only in certain specific cases and colours thus far...I am predicting a mass balding of G4 ponies at some point in the not so distant future.
This, sadly. :( My wave 1 EQGs are already discoloring, along with some other G4 merch... None of them have had any sun exposure, and most have just been hanging out in storage. Very sad.
In any case, I’ve pretty much resigned myself as well. Things don’t stay perfect forever, as we’ve learned from regrind, age spots, plasticizer leakage, and hair rot. That’s life. It’s taken me a long time to stop being obsessive and just relax about it. Now I love my collection, flaws and all. :)
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I'm afraid the Water Cuties will age badly, too, it's one of the things that kept me from collecting them (that and I'm not a fan of translucent gimmicks. Or water gimmicks, actually XP).
I mean heck some of the pegasi are just earth pony molds with folded wings painted on the sides.... -_-
oof, now THOSE blind bags, those really irritated me. I can deal with a lot of stuff but painted on wings? Seriously?!?!
The names got pretty stupid near the end, too. I mean, "Dane Tee Dove"....??
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The names got pretty stupid near the end, too. I mean, "Dane Tee Dove"....??
I don't know if it's just me but I've always... not liked the puns in G4. "Everypony" is whatever, city names are whatever, but I draw the line at pony names. :lol: I hate names like "Mare E Lynn" Mare E Belle, Mane Moon, which is what the blindbags were full of in the end, and in the show as well with ponies like the Hooffields, McColts, they recently introduced a pony named Lighthoof, etc. Rodger Silvermane? I get this is a reference but I just hate how it's with other pony names like... Rainbow Cupcake Cutie Sprinkles or whatever. For G5 I want no human names for ponies, names can't contain mane/hoof/mare or anything else horse-related, and I don't want towns/cities to be named after real-world locations...
Imagine if Care Bears did the same thing? Instead of names like "*Adjective* Heart Bear" what if they just started calling them George or Ursina or something...? And they lived in New Bear City instead of Care-a-Lot.
Can't wait for Horsehoof Equinepun to be the real final villain of FiM! :lookround:
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I don't mind puns to a certain extent (I haaaate "everypony", though!! It doesn't even make sense! What's wrong with everyone/everybody? It's not like we say "everyhuman" -eyeroll-) but yeah, they got.... weird with them near the end of the blind bags. Can't comment on the show, but geez.
Dane Tee Dove is weird since I don't get why they couldn't have just used "Dainty Dove". Like, Mare E Lynn/Belle are stupid but at least I can see the pun there.
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George Hart. :P Sorry Ragamuffin, I couldn't resist.
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Water Cuties, they're what finally made me start adding this gen to my collection. The gimmick is unique and they had a few other characters.
I am afraid water Cuties will age badly. I have already seen some that had yellowed plastic or dried out. Same as some of the non-M6 brushables thag had severe head/body mismatch or yellowing Celestia :huh:
My Diamond Mint's confetti has started to disintegrate :cry:
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Can't wait for Horsehoof Equinepun to be the real final villain of FiM! :lookround:
-giggle!- I wouldn't be surprised!
You all make me paranoid with all this deterioration talk. >_> All my ponies have been in storage for a while, as I don't have a lot of display space in my current home. I'm afraid I'm going to pull out the boxes someday and open them and it'll just be a pile of plastic bits left. :shocked:
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Water Cuties, they're what finally made me start adding this gen to my collection. The gimmick is unique and they had a few other characters.
I am afraid water Cuties will age badly. I have already seen some that had yellowed plastic or dried out. Same as some of the non-M6 brushables thag had severe head/body mismatch or yellowing Celestia :huh:
My Diamond Mint's confetti has started to disintegrate :cry:
I think it's horrible that something that cost 10-15€ retail in my country and is basically a snow globe with nylon hair attached, is deteriorating within just a few years without being exposed to the elements.
And then you see actual snow globes at fleamarkets that are 30+ years old and just a little yellowed but functional.
Typical Hasbroken.
Post Merge: July 29, 2019, 04:57:27 AM
Can't wait for Horsehoof Equinepun to be the real final villain of FiM! :lookround:
They did this a lot in MLP Tales and it was even worse. Mrs. Hackney, Logan Berrytown. I'll give them Teddy, but it was skirting the line of normal human name. All teddies are named after Theodore Roosevelt :P
But I agree they should stop giving ponies family names. Pinkamena "Diane" Pie. Or the character Spoiled Milk even had a name change from Milk to Rich when she married Filthy Rich. What's the purpose of that? It's not even funny. So their actual names are Filthy and Spoiled and their daughter is thusly fully named "Diamond Dazzle Tiara Rich"? XD It just sounds dumb.
The silly blind bag names have the purpose of trademarks. I guess they coildn't trademark "Diamond Tiara" so they put a "Dazzle" in there. But on the show there is no reason for it. That's why it always bugged me in Tales. There was no reason to give ponies human names, they just did it.
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Misty, Melody and Tiffany are human names too. You can also say Ruby is a human name as well.
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They did this a lot in MLP Tales and it was even worse. Mrs. Hackney, Logan Berrytown. I'll give them Teddy, but it was skirting the line of normal human name. All teddies are named after Theodore Roosevelt :P
Though none of those ponies actually existed in the toy line, you're missing Katie, Billie and Susie, which DID :P
I remember as a kid going...huh?
Amber and Pearl are also human names. Amber is actually my middle name ;) and I have a friend called Amber, too. Thinking about it, I had a student last year called Sapphire as well.
I think you can probably use Amethyst as a name as well. And Blossom.
And if you subscribe to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Truly and Scrumptious are also names >.> I am so sure Hasbro were watching that when designing SS ponies. Seriously.
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I don't mind the occasional pony with a human or human-y name, I guess (IMO some fit better than others.. Tiffany, Amber etc fit in okay, but I've always thought the Best Friends ponies names were kinda weird) but I haaaate the idea of giving ponies surnames! It's not even consistent - like, what's Rarity and Sweetie Belle's surname? "Belle"? IMO if they have to do the surname thing, either do it consistently or not at all. Gah.
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I don't mind the occasional pony with a human or human-y name, I guess (IMO some fit better than others.. Tiffany, Amber etc fit in okay, but I've always thought the Best Friends ponies names were kinda weird) but I haaaate the idea of giving ponies surnames! It's not even consistent - like, what's Rarity and Sweetie Belle's surname? "Belle"? IMO if they have to do the surname thing, either do it consistently or not at all. Gah.
Well, a bunch of those names are also actually other things or have other meanings. (Tiffany is an unforgivable choice for a pony for me, though...apologies to anyone called Tiffany who might be here on the forum but whenever I think of it I imagine a cheerleader. I went to school with an annoying Tiffany, though, so may be biased xD)
So it's not so much the ponies being named human names, but humans having names that have other connitations. Like being named after a month or a country, which happens quite a lot.
Billie, Katie, Susie - there's not really much excuse for that except someone ran out of names. Which is possible as it's the same year as Kiss N Tell and Kiss n Make Up happened.
Agree on the surnames. Was always confused with the family ponies and their names because of this.
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Well yeah, that's what I meant. Amber works since it's a gemstone name. Not sure where Tiffany or Serena came from, but I think they still work just fine... I think the BF babies throw me off because they're so... I dunno what the word would be, normal? Every day? Like, Serena's a real name but you don't see it around that much (at least I don't?), whereas Katie is all over the place, I know a lot of Katies. I think that's why that set's names feel so weird to me.
(not that I dislike them, I love that set and I like the names they pick.. I just think they're weird. :P)
I don't mind stuff like the family ponies all having names like "[Mummy/Daddy/Baby Brother/Sister] name" since that doesn't really feel like a surname to me, it just feels like how the baby ponies are all Baby [name], you know? But stuff like "Pinkamena Diane Pie".. ugh. Themed names don't bother me much, it's just when they treat it as A Thing that it throws me. like, Pinkie's sister being Maud Pie, sure, that's cute. "Pie" being treated as a surname? argh!! No!
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Well yeah, that's what I meant. Amber works since it's a gemstone name. Not sure where Tiffany or Serena came from, but I think they still work just fine... I think the BF babies throw me off because they're so... I dunno what the word would be, normal? Every day? Like, Serena's a real name but you don't see it around that much (at least I don't?), whereas Katie is all over the place, I know a lot of Katies. I think that's why that set's names feel so weird to me.
(not that I dislike them, I love that set and I like the names they pick.. I just think they're weird. :P)
I don't mind stuff like the family ponies all having names like "[Mummy/Daddy/Baby Brother/Sister] name" since that doesn't really feel like a surname to me, it just feels like how the baby ponies are all Baby [name], you know? But stuff like "Pinkamena Diane Pie".. ugh. Themed names don't bother me much, it's just when they treat it as A Thing that it throws me. like, Pinkie's sister being Maud Pie, sure, that's cute. "Pie" being treated as a surname? argh!! No!
THinking back I had a Serena, two Katies and a Tiffany in my school year. Yay for the eighties ;) But I also don't consider Tiffany or Serena pony names as they weren't here *shrug* so. Amber seems quite common still but Ruby and Pearl etc you don't hear often and last year that student was the first time I met a Sapphire.
On topic.
I think what got me with the families was that the tales eps gave specific names to the babies and added characters to the families that weren't there and made it seem like a surname. Like Logan, or Corny, or I think Posey? Or something also happened in there as well? It made it a bit more confusing with them.
...I think the whole naming idea in G4 is badly explained and mostly based on ridiculous. Some of it is attempting humour but I guess it missed me by. Also, you have to think of the pony growing up with some of these stupid names. Not least because they then end up saddled with a symbol that has additional meaning for their identity.
Pinkie Pie as a name should also have been stifled in G3. It's already unforgivable in G4 even before you get to Pinkamena and such.
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Just for the record, I think all human-y names are dumb. I don't mind names like Ruby or Pearl because those are gemstones and people are named after the gemstones and not vice versa.
Also in Germany nobody would call their daughters "Rubin" and "Perle" so I am good :cool:
I simply binged through Tales and almost fell over laughing when a pony said "my name is Logan" XD They really couldn't think of anything else. And anothet one is called "Cheval" which is just French for horse. I should start a Tales thread so this one can stay on topic.
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The new brushables (Non Mane 6), Cutie Mark Crew, and licensed figures. I have been buying the comics lately, too.
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Tales thread! Do it!
Btw I love that Amethyst is Opal and Amber (?) Topaz in German. It gives some variety to the jewel box.
Aand back to g4 now.
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Just for the record, I think all human-y names are dumb. I don't mind names like Ruby or Pearl because those are gemstones and people are named after the gemstones and not vice versa.
I feel the same.
Also, what I mean by "a humany name" is "a name that is not an object, kind of weather, emotion, but is JUST used as a name."
Like if I say the word "ocean", most people's first thought will be "a big salty expanse of water", not "a human named Ocean." Whereas if I say "Jane", most people's first thought will be "a human named Jane." So to me Ocean would be a fine pony name, Jane wouldn't.
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I'm the exact opposite - it drives me crazy that they don't all have surnames. It seems to be an Earth pony thing? The Apple family, the Pie family, the Rich family, etc. I wish they delved more into the lore/worldbuilding of Horse Society, there's so much potential.
I also hate the locations that are just horse puns on real place names. They feel so lazy, like they couldn't be bothered to think up an actual city/town name. That being said I was thinking about potential names for a country of goats and sheep and I thought up "Salt Lick City" and now I can't get it out of my mind.
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I'm the exact opposite - it drives me crazy that they don't all have surnames. It seems to be an Earth pony thing? The Apple family, the Pie family, the Rich family, etc. I wish they delved more into the lore/worldbuilding of Horse Society, there's so much potential.
I also hate the locations that are just horse puns on real place names. They feel so lazy, like they couldn't be bothered to think up an actual city/town name. That being said I was thinking about potential names for a country of goats and sheep and I thought up "Salt Lick City" and now I can't get it out of my mind.
Lol. Tbh Salt Lick City could work for horses as well.