I noticed residue on shadowbolt and a tiny bit on shining armor but the more I handled him it seemed to go away so maybe residue from the molding process?
And why has no-one posted pics of theirs yet? :P I have never seen these in the flesh so curious to see how they look in hand.
I've seen the Celestia and Nightmare Moon ones at work. They look so awesome^^ I /really/ want the one of Discord on his throne though. If I had infinite room, I'd also want the grown Spike one as well as Celestia and Nightmare Moon. Right now I don't have any of them because we've run out of space in our tiny house.
And why has no-one posted pics of theirs yet? :P I have never seen these in the flesh so curious to see how they look in hand.
Great photos! Cool topic!
These toys are very 'show like' I must agree!
Happy Pinkie there is a REAL way to do expressions on the pony toys. I think the brushable was going for the same look, but really missed and the 'super happy' brushables are just kind of weird to me, while these toys aren't. They made Cheese Sandwich cute too, which is surprising because I really don't like his funko.
Mrbrightsky, they must have sent all our Shining Armors to Texas cuz I don't see any here in my little corner of California. I forgot there was any big Spike until I saw him on the GoH line card included with the Shadowbolt...I bet he's real expensive!
I have Celestia and Nightmare Moon and love them. But I am disappointed that my Nightmare Moon can't stand on her own - I have to put something under her one hoof or she will fall right over. Does anyone else have this problem?
I really want a Shining Armour next, he looks awesome.
And why has no-one posted pics of theirs yet? :P I have never seen these in the flesh so curious to see how they look in hand.
Well, if you insist. :P
I really want these now, I hope I can find them at some point.
Moonbreeze (I love your celestia avatar image!) I did notice imperfection on my Shadowbolt's paint too where the body color shows through but I also don't mind.
I have Pinkie and her party cannon and I love it, very solid and she looks so cute and happy. I dearly want NMM (well, I'd prefer Luna but NMM looks amazing anyway) and I'd like Cheese Sandwich too. Sadly they're exclusive to one toy chain over here and I don't think I've seen NMM at all so not got my hands on them yet.
I wonder why they chose to give Chrysalis boxing gloves and a wrestler mask, of all things. She looks cute on her own, though!
I finally got Twilight and the drone, and YIKES those wings! Rainbow and the Shadowbolts' are much better. Twilight's fall off if you so much as look at them wrong. Also, her teeth bother me a lot less than i thought they would. But she's so top heavy I can't get her to stand in any cool rearing poses :(
how bout a transformers Queen that re-folds into Cadance
I wonder why they chose to give Chrysalis boxing gloves and a wrestler mask, of all things. She looks cute on her own, though!
I finally got Twilight and the drone, and YIKES those wings! Rainbow and the Shadowbolts' are much better. Twilight's fall off if you so much as look at them wrong. Also, her teeth bother me a lot less than i thought they would. But she's so top heavy I can't get her to stand in any cool rearing poses :(
I have Celestia and Nightmare Moon and love them. But I am disappointed that my Nightmare Moon can't stand on her own - I have to put something under her one hoof or she will fall right over. Does anyone else have this problem?
I really want a Shining Armour next, he looks awesome.
Mine stands up great. A little disappointed only the wings are articulated though...I'd add pics but she looks just like the one pictured earlier here and she stands on her rear hooves and a points on the bottom of her tail where it is directly under her front hooves.
Do you have a picture of yours? Maybe the point on the tail is wrong and can be corrected.
I have Celestia and Nightmare Moon and love them. But I am disappointed that my Nightmare Moon can't stand on her own - I have to put something under her one hoof or she will fall right over. Does anyone else have this problem?
I really want a Shining Armour next, he looks awesome.
Mine stands up great. A little disappointed only the wings are articulated though...I'd add pics but she looks just like the one pictured earlier here and she stands on her rear hooves and a points on the bottom of her tail where it is directly under her front hooves.
Do you have a picture of yours? Maybe the point on the tail is wrong and can be corrected.
I took some pictures, I will put them behind a spoiler tag. Looking closer at her, I am wondering if her left rear leg is too short or if the little tail swirl is too long?SpoilerThis is a picture of me attempting to make her stand up straight. You can see that her left rear leg is quite a bit off of the ground.
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Close up of the hoof.
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And this is what she looks like if I try to have her stand on her own. I have to hold her up or she topples.
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My current set up to keep her upright.
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Is the Pinkie Pie chicken cannon actually supposed to shoot? Ours doesn't really work - wondered if we got a dud.Yes, but it's just a simple spring mechanism so you need to pull the pin back as you load the cannon so that the chicken is touching the rear of the cannon with the pin pulled back as far as it can go. Then the chicken should shoot out when you release the pin. Pulling the pin back with the chicken already in the cannon won't work - the chicken doesn't go back with the pin so it just sits there when you release it.
Isn't there just the one Queen? and the one underling included with Twilight, and the Shadowbolt...
Where do you see a second Queen?
Must be this one then:
https://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Pony-Chrysalis-Changelings/dp/B01JKAR1ZM/ref=sr_1_3?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1482869762&sr=1-3&keywords=queen+chrysalis
$50 and only three left in stock, DRAT I'm going to miss this one too dangit.
Too many GoH, too few dollars.
Seems more like the Sisters than the rest of the set, and I can't be sure if that's one or two extra drones with her, and the description is of no help because it says "style their hair" when of course they have none....but at least one drone is included that looks different than the other GoH drone.
Worth the price for sure if you aren't out of money like I am.
I finally saw GoH toys in the wild, namely the Spitfire and Soarin' set. I didn't get them, but they looked very well-made. Slightly larger than the average brushable.
That crazy wing pack runs up the cost a lot on that pair too...is why I bought a Shadowbolt instead until I caught the Wonderbolts on blowout on amazon. They are complete without it though and it does provide some sound effects too so maybe is fun for kids and maybe for those of us who do more than collect...
I don't really play with my ponies so much but the other day I got a pair of traditional wooden tops and just can't stop playing with them, sooo cool so I bet you some adult out there is enjoying that wing pack accessory...
I just hope it doesn't ask if I'm a princess too, haha. And yet I still keep pressing that Pinklestia button...have to, to make her wings flap.
Yeah, I don't really get the Wonderbolts' wing accessories either.
The toys themselves looked good, no obvious paint smears or anything. They're also slightly bigger than the normal brushables, which pleases me as I've always found the regulars too dinky and the Fashion Stylings too big.
If you act now they can be as cheap as $4.50 on Amazon for the Shadowbolt and once it's in your hands you might be pleasantly surprised!
I like big and bulky so that was a selling point for me, but the weight and show-accurate look makes me love the smaller ones even more.
Not to worry, Gandalf will return to you at the turn of the tide.
Not to worry, Gandalf will return to you at the turn of the tide.
I just got home from Target and saw a new Rarity playset (not GoH) with outfits that are like a butterfly hairclip and she "slips" into them it says...with a little track that inserts her, haha. I noticed they drew her head a slightly different shape in the artwork on the back, and when I looked closely at the figure (holding a wonderbolt up next to her) it looks like at last Hasbro has corrected the head shape!! Yay. Looks like she can share sunglasses with the 'bolts. I know sometimes they do Rarity with a slightly different head shape and nopony else gets changed so I hope this is a trend and the others will have corrected figures with better head shapes soon.
Thanks LunaMoonCustoms1212 and WaterRaven! I wonder what good LOTR customs are out there...I have a few baits, hm...Moondancer's pose might work for Gandalf...baby pony for the hobbits, I don't have any bait babies though. Maybe an Uruk-Hai oh, could try and do the Balrog to fight moondancer Gandalf but that's probably beyond my limited ability...
Tell me who else has been seen in the new sculpts?? Enough ponies that we might see them more??
I just dropped in on one of my two walmarts today and found a couple GoHs including Shadowbolts and lot of Spike the Dragon but he was $40! Ouch!
Heard Shadowbolts has gone as low as $3.x on Amazon...haven't checked back in yet to see how those prices are doing. At that price it might be worth getting a few to make some customs of the other G4 characters.
VioletCLM, I was thinking the same thing. However, I got Discord for $6 and his price has gone right back up....maybe good eBay fodder.Yep, same. But he's $15 with free shipping on eBay, and between eBay and Paypal fees for that size box I can probably only do a little bit better than that if I want my money back. Maybe it's worth waiting until the market is less saturated, but that's a lot of space being taken up in the meantime.
I wish they did a version of these with brushable hair. I know they have those other poseable ponies but they lack the neck joint that makes these great.Brushable hair for something with a neck joint is 100% doable. If they were able to do it with the G2 ponies then they can certainly do it with these. There is after all two different ways the hair can be added. The G2 Magic Motion ponies that had movable heads had the normal hair plugs in the hard plastic, but they could also so the same as normal horse models with one continuous weft. Sure it won't be show accurate either way but with some ponies their hair is designed like a normal horse's hair. Some of them don't really make sense on how they are designed, but I suppose that is why G4 has such rounded heads so that the hair doesn't have to go all the way down the neck on some of the ponies.
I wish they did a version of these with brushable hair. I know they have those other poseable ponies but they lack the neck joint that makes these great.Brushable hair for something with a neck joint is 100% doable. If they were able to do it with the G2 ponies then they can certainly do it with these. There is after all two different ways the hair can be added. The G2 Magic Motion ponies that had movable heads had the normal hair plugs in the hard plastic, but they could also so the same as normal horse models with one continuous weft. Sure it won't be show accurate either way but with some ponies their hair is designed like a normal horse's hair. Some of them don't really make sense on how they are designed, but I suppose that is why G4 has such rounded heads so that the hair doesn't have to go all the way down the neck on some of the ponies.
I know he's supposed to be "magicked up Spike", but I think it's pretty fun pretending that he's Spike's dad. Or mom! I might add eyelashes to him . . .
I got my Guardians of Harmony Celestia right after Christmas and mine has paint flaws and issues also. There are several spots of paint missing or applied incorrectly on her mane and tail and even some paint or glue missing around her horn. There is also a black mark on her cheek.Does Celestia have a section of her tail by her front hooves that is completely devoid of paint? I know that is a design choice they made but even if that part is hidden from display it would have been nice if they connected to two strips of paint
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True but Funko seems to have gone through a period where several of their figures had bad finishing/assembly work. My G4 Rainbow Dash I got new a year ago has big gaps where the hair parts attach and the mold seam on her face not only has a lot of flashing, but the sides don't match up like the mold halves weren't positioned right before the pour so there is no fixing it. I have some much older used Funkos that are much better.
I just got a new Big Mac and while his color is orange instead of red (and a lot of them seem to be that way judging by the product pictures) his seams are all tight and well finished. I have a red one on the way and my hooves are crossed as to the assembly quality...
my walmart finally got a Gaurdian of Harmony toy set in. made my sister laugh, cause I was all 'we finally get a GoH toy and its Cheese Sandwhich UGH.'.....my walmart still has the baggies, the applefamily blind bag sets, we never even got the nightmare night stuff, and only new stuff is maybe a random pearly now and then and the crystal palace thing with flurry fartsOur Walmart finally got the posable GoH.. Shining Armor, Pinkie, Rainbow, and a Shadow Bolt... one of each.. I bought Shining Armor and well.. I had both good and eh to say about him XD
I don't really like the Funko toys. They may be show accurate but there is just something blah about them. Partly due to the lifeless "I'm staring straight ahead at nothing" pose.
The ones I've had in real life have had terrible paint and scratches / rough spots on their bodies.
They ARE action figures, Dazzlekitty.
I disagree about them being for bronies, I think they are for 8 year old boys, at last! Thanks Hasbro.
Have you seen the new brushables and sets? Fashion runway and sleepover themes etc, and no spears or artillery.
So...do you want to buy back any of your G1s now? haha
Has anyone found the Chrysalis with the two Changelings in store? All I can find is the action wheel version.
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I was perusing the GOH toys again on Amazon- and noticed that the mini set with the Chrysalis chariot and bat pony was on sale- as was the Bakery (that I had been trying to resist)Bat pony? The only bat ponies I know of are from the mini story packs XD
I was perusing the GOH toys again on Amazon- and noticed that the mini set with the Chrysalis chariot and bat pony was on sale- as was the Bakery (that I had been trying to resist)Bat pony? The only bat ponies I know of are from the mini story packs XD
After xmas Shadowbolts went below $5 but I just checked, cheapest currently is $7, Rainbow Dash is $7 too.I'm going to have to check at Walmart to see how much they really are again.. at least the smaller packed ones XD
I got the Chrysalis and two Changelings set today from Gamestop.. :)
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I put all my goh stuff straight into storage as i bought em too. Only got to play with shadowbolts.
Hope you get yours out soon! (er than mine anyway)
Also, love that avatar pic Starflashbaby. Been meaning to say so.
I don't think they're boy-focused, although obviously Hasbro wants to attract boys as well as girls to the brand.
They are action-oriented, certainly. Which a lot of girls are into.
My walmarts too. My target has a dwindling supply of the same old stuff so it's like yt? hey just arent moving or maybe theyre just not stocking too fast.
Isnt this sort of shelf stagnation pretty typical with mlp these days? Lps disney barbie and the various monstery dolls keep revolving just fine, it seems to me.
I am still waiting on the Changelings to show up at my Walmart. Were they supposed to be out at the same time as Dash, Shining armour and Cheez Sandwich?
The multiple changeling set seems to be slightly later and much rarer than Twilight with changeling