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Wanted! / Re: ISO NM Moonstone & Merriweather (&tamagotchis)
« on: August 31, 2023, 05:24:31 AM »
I have a small Tamagotchi (OVP) from Japan. PM me if you're interested.

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Pony Corral / Re: Rehairing a Brush and grow pony
« on: August 30, 2023, 01:53:30 AM »
Any pony can be rehaired too without cutting the head off. You simply cut the affected plugs as short as possible and pull the rest inside the head. Then you prepare in a hair plug with a knot in the middle and push that gently in the head with the rehairing tool. Cool and easy for several plugs only. I wouldn't do that with a full head. 

In general you will break the mechanism when removing the head yes but with the right glue (epoxy - no super glue) you glue back the tiny piece and can put her back together.

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Arts & Crafts Corral / Re: Crystal Dreams of Pony Design...!
« on: August 17, 2023, 02:31:11 AM »
Oh man, I LOVE those Bubble Belle ponies so much, and the Merry Marshmallow ponies are glorious! Your designs are so pretty and fun, I would have collected these ponies for sure if they'd been released! <3

Aww haha thankyou SO much! :heart:
You might get an opportunity in the future - customsbypandabear has said she will be making some of my achievable designs in custom form (although sadly this doesn't include the Bubble Belles due to their composition) and there is a possibility they may become HQG1 one day as well! :)

Yes I will do any of the designs but some of them like the Bubble Belle and Rock Candy ones are transparent and we got only glittery baits from HQG1C. Also the original ponies had no transpaent ones.

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Pony Corral / Re: German - Swirly Whirly hair colour
« on: July 28, 2023, 06:09:21 AM »
From shimmerlocks Cupcake is the correct color (https://shimmerlocks.com/cupcake?search=Cupcake&description=true)

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Customs / Re: G1 Baby Glory Re-Glitter
« on: June 21, 2023, 02:25:59 AM »
I once got the glitters for all ponies in the correct shades - if I remember from ebay but that was long time ago. I know that Baby Glory is one of the 30 glitter ponies that has a mix of 2 colors: purple and silver. Only 8 ponies don't. Also micro glitter is important.
I use the same technique for application like BC.
You can sunfade her sure - but be careful - white ponies might get brown in sunlight. 

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MLP Nirvana / Re: PC on German Skydancer
« on: May 25, 2023, 12:40:29 AM »
Hm, to me she looks kind of aged in general if that's not of the lighting? So regularly she is more yellow - mustardy yes but not so dark. And she has age marks which is common for her. Was her shorter front streak replaced with regular length pony hair or is it just the picture?
Her body color at the NDS seems to be faded too like with vitiligo (if that makes sense?). Sorry I can just judge from the pictures.

In this condition I probably would value her at 80-90$.

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Customs / Re: Best place to purchase HQG1C ponies?
« on: May 23, 2023, 12:34:39 AM »
Don't forget Emily under Ahorseofeverycolor on etsy. https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/AHorseOfEveryColor?ref=l2-about-shopname

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Customs / Re: Repro winger wings?
« on: May 23, 2023, 12:32:00 AM »
I have some but as you're in UK, please consider buying from Pinkkittywinks - she makes wonderful replacement wings.

https://www.etsy.com/de/search?q=shadowonthemoon&ref=search_bar

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MLP Nirvana / Re: PC on German Skyflier
« on: May 23, 2023, 12:29:06 AM »
Ah good eye @Pinkkittywinks (now I see the "dingy yellow mustard" which indicated Skydancer too). Well it really depends whether she has age marks or not. The rehairing even with donor hair is another issue. Pictures would help to determine the value but my first guess is about 90 - 100$.

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MLP Nirvana / Re: Price check Spanish Moonstone?
« on: May 22, 2023, 02:10:41 AM »
I paid for a good condition one about 30€ but that was about 2 years ago.

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MLP Nirvana / Re: PC on German Skyflier
« on: May 22, 2023, 02:09:53 AM »
I don't know that Skyflier came in a German variant. Only US, Italy and Argentina. Do you mean the Italian one maybe with blue eyes? She was sold in Germany if I remember correctly.

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Pony Corral / Re: Any Basic Fun retro G1 news for 2023?
« on: May 09, 2023, 11:07:54 PM »
@all the "concerned" members here that feared about the influence of my reaction to future Basic Fun and HQG1C projects etc:
The issue has been solved, but the result is none of your business at all. I know how to react here properly too in the future so please stop "worrying" about my health.

@ Pinkkittywinks, Gizmo and baby_gusty
Thank you so much for your support - I highly appreciate it!

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Pony Corral / Re: Any Basic Fun retro G1 news for 2023?
« on: May 08, 2023, 02:00:45 AM »
Hey dears,

Here's "the customizer" whose pictures have been used without permission by Basic Fun on Amazon. First I want to thank all the members here who support my point of view and support the defence of my rights as artist.

Well these customs have been done on the base of the known pictures back in 2016. At this time I debated with my close friend what would be the perfect poses for them based on the prerequisite to choose 4 Earth ponies (only the ones that have been used at this time in the sets with 4 ponies). So this set has been made in the way it is.

On mylittlewiki there was a note that Hasbro planned to make them in the poses that were taken by the Precious Pocket Ponies later (makes sense, these girls almost were released in the exact same body colors).

When Basic Fun planned to makes these ponies I absolutely agree with Lady Moondancer that they had just a limited choice of poses available. In my mind, they simply chose the most dynamic ones of these which are Tootsie and Posey. As they didn't have the other two poses of my sets at hand, (Gingerbread without TEs) I'm sure that's the only reason they didn't fully copy the set as mine.

I'm absolutely not happy that they chose to make Nova (blue) and Aurora (magenta) - according to their Amazon names - in exactly my poses. I understand that my ponies are just customs, which are fan-made and non-official toys but it clearly shows that this company has wasted absolutely no lifetime on design. They could have extremely easily swapped these two poses and no one would have said anything about it. But if you also look at the type and shape of the antennas, it's clear that they simply copied shamelessly. Good that they have no idea of the fancy gimmick of these.

I saw these ponies last year as part of the Toy fair article, and even then I figured they copied my designs. But okay, what do you want to do as a small artist against a company from the USA if you don't have the appropriate contacts to lawyers there?

The straw that broke the camel's back was the fact that my images from Deviantart were just extremely poorly cropped and taken for listings on Amazon for these ponies.
It was rumored on the part of some members that it was going to be a third party seller, but no, it was Basic Fun's ads. 

My custom pictures were used WHILE these ponies already existed either finished or in some sort of prototype status at Toy fair. Why couldn't these pictures be used right away?

Also, the communication with Basic Fun themselves (not even responding to my inquiry on their contact page but just because of my copyright infringement complaint officially through Amazon on 04/27) shows that they are not aware of any fault. They didn't even offered an apology.

I have therefore sent them a Cease and Desist Letter on 04.05. Enclosed is the link, for those interested (https://drive.google.com/file/d/15t6VGaHDRthzov45LZGujsHHxRppc_1b/view?usp=sharing). My address is blackened out here for privacy reasons. So far no reaction.

I understand that there is nothing I can do about the pony poses which is okay for me, but the fun really stops when using my images for wrong ads on Amazon and for third party UK sellers (see the C&DL).

Despite the hassle I hope everyone has fun with the ponies. Those who don't buy them out of solidarity get an extra big imaginary hug!

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Customs / Re: Style Challenge Show Off Thread!
« on: April 17, 2023, 04:04:54 AM »
Congratulations to all!

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