Thanks guys! I’ve started the loonngggg process of unpacking my herd. Of course all their hair is flattened from being wrapped up o I’ve got a lot of brushing and styling to do! But I’ll definitely be updating periodically! So excited!!

First things first! Let's tweak that a bit, ok

Those who have baity ponies on display or MOC ponies intact in yellowed packaging how can that not bother you? The reason I like to collect ponies (or toys in general) is to be able to look at what I would consider pretty things. But if it's in bad condition it's not pretty at all. not my preference

Ok so...Oof

Opinions are not fact.

It's startling to see someone judge people and their collections so harshly based solely on looks along with the assumption that everyone has the exact same taste as you....individuality does exist.

Honestly, and as respectfully as is possible in this situation,  the same could be asked of you... why do you bother collecting if you have no real connection or nostalgia for the items? It's just a bunch of pastel plastic horses on a shelf. You could just as easily look at photographs of them and get the same empty validation since there's no true meaning to your vapid material collection.
See how judge-y and rude that sounded?
So ya, let's try to understand our differences in opinions.

Like, I understand where you're coming from, I really do. Who doesn't love a beautiful minty MLP  ? I can empathize with you and your thought process there, and that's because I realize the entire world doesn't revolve around me and my personal ideals alone. You gotta try to put yourself into other folks' shoes. A lot of us grew up with MLP and quite a few of us still have our childhood ponies. In my case alone, those ~nOt PrEtTy ponies have been with me for almost 32 years of my life. I look at them, I remember all the fun I had with them. And when I get a random "baity" pony in a lot on eBay, I again think about what all adventures she may have gone thru. She meant something to some kid out there and I respect that greatly. Also I ~LOVE~ doing restorations so I sometimes purposely get some TLC lots, hehe  That's another facet of MY reasons behind collecting. Restoration means I get to actually do something with them other than just look at them and I enjoy it greatly!

Anyways,
Everyone in the world is unique to some degree and you just gotta understand that. That may actually be what you're attempting to do in this thread, but the OP just comes off as very snide. I almost skipped over it bc I've had an exhausting day and just thought I was being overly sensitive and reading too much into it until I saw the other posts that felt the same way.


And that was a massive post 



TL;DR is basically everyone's different and that's pretty cool 

Great job Minty_Magic and SunPony!

That's such a neat pic! So many of the lesser-seen ponies all together... I love it!

Bizarre. Definitely see about a replacement. And if the original doesn’t need to be exchanged, be sure to open her up and see what the rest of her feels like bc I’m seriously curious now.

In my job, I’ve seen the horrors of what moving companies do to belongings, so I’m 100% doing the moving myself. It’s not cross country or anything, just about 8-10 hr drive.

I love the silica idea! I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that, I’ll definitely be using that idea and definitely gonna keep a list of who is in what bin and such.
Thanks for all the input!

Only a week to go! Get busy!

Quote from: KottonKandy on April 19, 2020, 08:03:34 AM

Do we know who will be doing the commission prize or what type of gift card? Or are they going to be a surprise? 

A couple of our Mods have offered to pitch in to buy an Amazon gift card, and Shaiyeh has kindly donated a commission slot for a digital headshot
 

That’s amazingly generous of everyone! Thank you to everyone making this contest possible and I can’t wait to see everyone’s entries~

I’ve begun mine finally. I’m doing traditional and not digital so hopefully I’ll be able to complete it. Do we know who will be doing the commission prize or what type of gift card? Or are they going to be a surprise?