My sister has a whole box of rescue ponies in the loft. She used to pick up every really abused pony she could find at carboot sales to rescue them. She's still a bit that way - at ponycon last year I had to talk her out of buying a bald Posey and I couldn't talk her out of adopting a brown Blossom...
Some could say, allowing a minimum wage hourly rate against how long it took to restore would work out more expensive than buying a mint pony, but here's the thing: it only costs me money for the physical materials, the time "spent" is my leisure time - which is a choice to do something arty, crafty and fun, just for li'l me, not to run a business :)
@Glitterball - exactly how many Honeycombs do you have? xD.
@LAW - a little OT but I love the image of Fizzy with the soda cup in the other photos on your DA site :) And Starhopper looks amazing too :D
My sister has a whole box of rescue ponies in the loft. She used to pick up every really abused pony she could find at carboot sales to rescue them. She's still a bit that way - at ponycon last year I had to talk her out of buying a bald Posey and I couldn't talk her out of adopting a brown Blossom...
I don't enjoy upgrading because I don't like comparing flaws and deciding both ponies are equally flawed and having to keep both til I upgrade AGAIN, so I tend to buy either mint or "will clean up to mint." I don't accept rehairs or restorations in my herd. They have to be original.I do this too. I have a rule that the first in never leaves. Later ones might, or if I buy a pony my sister already has and then get a better one, upgrading and selling the original is ok because it's just a placeholder. It's complicated because we have a shared collection, but the "real collection pony" sometimes belongs to her. SS Truly is one of these, but for some reason I can't stop amassing Trulys. I guess I'm still looking for a perfect one or something?
Oh - to add -
I recently bought one of my grails off of ebay - Bonnie Bonnets - she was actually a re-hair but that was cool with me - the re-hair was of great quality and she has a long, silky, mane and tail. I was absolutely delighted with her :heart: :heart: :heart: - but I know some folks would rather buy an original haired version.
Oh - to add -
I recently bought one of my grails off of ebay - Bonnie Bonnets - she was actually a re-hair but that was cool with me - the re-hair was of great quality and she has a long, silky, mane and tail. I was absolutely delighted with her :heart: :heart: :heart: - but I know some folks would rather buy an original haired version.
Can we see? :happy:
She does look pretty with those colours.
Oh - to add -
I recently bought one of my grails off of ebay - Bonnie Bonnets - she was actually a re-hair but that was cool with me - the re-hair was of great quality and she has a long, silky, mane and tail. I was absolutely delighted with her :heart: :heart: :heart: - but I know some folks would rather buy an original haired version.
Can we see? :happy:
OK - I have popped her into temporary storage as we are preparing to move house, but I do have one of the seller photos:
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She is a lovely re-hair, gorgeous long, slightly curly locks! :heart: :heart: :heart:
OK - I have popped her into temporary storage as we are preparing to move house, but I do have one of the seller photos:
She is a lovely re-hair, gorgeous long, slightly curly locks! :heart: :heart: :heart:
I know what you mean. The Sugar Sweet
http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,393220.msg1741011.html#msg1741011
I dug out of a box of horrors last summer at the carboot sale I totally meant to sell when I'd cleaned her up and recurled her messy hair, but she's still sitting on top of my briefcase in my room as if to say, "well, I'm staying now, and there's nothing you can do about it."
What is it about Sugar Sweet? Add me in too, she came to my herd the same way! I still have to get around to restore her.I know what you mean. The Sugar Sweet
http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,393220.msg1741011.html#msg1741011
I dug out of a box of horrors last summer at the carboot sale I totally meant to sell when I'd cleaned her up and recurled her messy hair, but she's still sitting on top of my briefcase in my room as if to say, "well, I'm staying now, and there's nothing you can do about it."
You know... she has done that to me to. I received one in a lot, who I did not intend on keeping. But she is still there with all the other ponies, firmly ensconced.
What is it about Sugar Sweet? Add me in too, she came to my herd the same way! I still have to get around to restore her.I know what you mean. The Sugar Sweet
http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,393220.msg1741011.html#msg1741011
I dug out of a box of horrors last summer at the carboot sale I totally meant to sell when I'd cleaned her up and recurled her messy hair, but she's still sitting on top of my briefcase in my room as if to say, "well, I'm staying now, and there's nothing you can do about it."
You know... she has done that to me to. I received one in a lot, who I did not intend on keeping. But she is still there with all the other ponies, firmly ensconced.
She does look pretty with those colours.
Thanks - I was really pleased when I got her in my pony-mail! It would have cost me a lot more to get an "original" haired one from here or the US (high postage fees are such a killer) and then I saw her for a decent price in the UK! I guess no one else bid on her as she was a re-hair but that's fine by me! She has gone to a good home! (albeit now waiting in a box until we move and I can display her again, lol)
It';s the face. It doesn't have quite the same effect with Moondancer or Sunbeam, but it's such an awkward, shy looking pose and when you get that, coupled with a bush for a hairdo, it just makes you want to fix her. Big sad eyes and all that. And then when you've spent all the time working on her, suddenly she seems to belong. xDHaha, there must be truth in this. And coming to think of it, I also always found the Moondancer pose awkward (which doesn't stop me from happily having Moondancer in my herd), but with Sugar Sweet, it feels like it's not the same pose. I don't know if it's the greater amount/differently styled hair, the colours, or both, but it feels different, even if I know it's the same.
I dunno. I am not a huge fan of the pose, but it really works on Sugar Sweet somehow. I am sure it's all in her expression.
I absolutely don’t mind “flawed” ponies at all! I’m the same about my Transformers (I have a G1 Inferno who’s missing his everything, even hands haha). I’m here for childhood nostalgia, not a flawless collection if that makes sense. I see all these ebay listings and stuff on here for “bait” ponies that have like, a few marker dots and some messy but still fixable hair! I appreciate how worthless people seem to think they are though because I’m broke 😂 The only pony I would think of as beyond redeemable would be if all their hair was missing/cut or if they had mold/regrind/cancer.Themeaning of the term 'bait' is so different from person to person... I agree with you, to me a lot of (I may even say the majority of) ponies sold under this term are far from bait. In the past I've bought ponies that were sold as bait, and they cleaned up perfectly in my eyes. I enjoy them just as they are :)