Seriously?? G3 hair breaking?? and other issues

[kaoskat]

Ok, last night I was pulling some of my G3s down to pack them up. I found 4 that were all tacky and gross that I can only imagine is leaking plasticizer. Several had yellowing spots. I'm so not thrilled about any of those things but I was already aware that there are G3s getting these issues early. The worst thing had to be my Jazz Matazz though. I picked her up and when I touched her pink hair it all broke off at the base! Just the pink and (so far) just her. I don't know what the heck is going on, but it's really upset me. She was one who was rather special to me and now she's wrecked. Has anyone else had this issue with her or other ponies? Has it happened with any other hair colors?

[MnDancer]

I haven't had that happen to me with a pony yet, but it did happen to a Bandai Strawberry Shortcake doll of my daughter's from 2003. I picked up one day (it was just stored in a toy box with other toys)  and I touched the hair and it all started falling out, the more I touched, the more broke off! It was so weird, but it didn't happen to Angel Cake or Apple Dumplin. I can't explain it.

[achab1984]

WOW! that is weird. I have never had any issues with any of mine and still do not have any issues. Were were the ponies left at? Or stored at? They must be reacting to something????

[NoDivision]

I've heard reports of a "rotting pink" with G3s. http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,308431.0.html

[Sandi]

I've only seen it happening on fakies before, never hasbro ponies.

[kaoskat]

Oh joy! Thanks NoD. That thread mentions Tea Lily and guess what. I go poke her pink and sure enough, her's is doing it too! *is not happy* I wonder what a good color match would be. Doesn't seem like there's much point in replacing if the same thing is likely to happen with the others.

[CrimsonEtClover]

oh lovely. It wasn't enough to have "fading pink"... but now there is a "rotting pink"?! ick!

[Galactica]

Oh no! How traumatizing!

That happened to a lot of my Bandai Strawberry Shortcake dolls too- even some MOC- their hair just fell right out.  Very odd...

[kaoskat]

oh lovely. It wasn't enough to have "fading pink"... but now there is a "rotting pink"?! ick!

Tell me about it! At least the fading pink stayed attached and can be repinked! This stupid color is going to make me have to rehair!

[HavACrumpet452]

The only problems I've found so far are the glitter G3's getting sticky.

[kaoskat]

Yup those are 3 of my 4 sticky ones. The other was one of my Waterfires. Those 4 are all nice and de-stickified for now. I have alot with some odd yellow patches. I suspect the humid environment is to blame for that. Not much I can do there. The yellow patches, while irritating did not devestate me the way that broken hair did. Alot of my ponies are...... "well loved" secondhand ponies with varying amounts of odd marks, so the yellow patch ponies fit in fine. And the sticky is annoying but managable if I just keep cleaning them.

[Mandy85]

I'm sorry about your Jazz Matazz kaoskat. I hope you're able to get her looking nice again.

I haven't experienced any G3's with breaking hair, but I did have a G1 arrive to me this way. In my case it was Barnacle and the slightest pull on any of the hair fibers just made them snap off at the base. It was so fragile and brittle, I've never seen anything like it before or since. I don't know if where he was made had anything to do with it (he was German), or if it was just some fluke the manufacturing process of the nylon, as I've had a few other run of the mill Hong Kong Barnacles in my possession that were fine.

[sd_dreamcrystal]

I haven't had any problems, though I haven't really picked up any of my ponies recently either... do we know what color pink it is?

Edit: Just did a quick check on the the G3s on my shelf that are not in the bin to be fixed. All the ones with Pink seem to be fine (other than i just noticed my Blossom Forth was getting Tail rust and trying to take off her head now seems to be hazardous )

[YellowCat]

I've never had this problem with ponies that are in nice shape, but I did have a Rainbow Flash I found awhile back who had dreads and her hair was breaking off in clumps. I think that happened because of something her previous owner put on her hair (hair spray or gel sometime contain petroleum and plastics generally don't get along with petroleum).

It's kind of scary that thing like this are already happening to G3s when most are not even 10 years old yet.  Makes me wonder how the lesser quality G4s are going to age.

[sd_dreamcrystal]

It's kind of scary that thing like this are already happening to G3s when most are not even 10 years old yet.  Makes me wonder how the lesser quality G4s are going to age.

This makes me wonder too