man thank goodness you snagged those pictures - so frustrating that the seller pulled the listing for a private sale :-( we lose so much history that way...

I have the sunbeam variant, so that one isn't OOAK and I think the princess crash variant has been documented but not 100% on that

and yeah I don't think shelti's site is up and running at this point

oh that is a cool find :-) I would love it if BF made an alternative pose fizzy :-) but yeah seems like maybe that was just a pose/color test who knows... if only the toys could speak

whoa :-) fantastic accomplishment 

now the big question = any idea how you are going to display everyone?

 
oh man that is so cool! Great find and a wonderful bit of hasbro history :-)

I'm familiar with sunfading and most marks go bye just takes time

there are IMO alot of good tutorials on the developer and UV method so I would say watch youtube and decide if you want to go that route

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFAVwFpIzZc

I posted this vid to show that there was some bleaching effect so I would be wary of fading a pony

oh you super lucky duck = keep the china IMO unless you want to sell it to me just name your price I have been hunting for a china version for ages.  Yes the hong kong is US and quite popular but seriously if you get picky there's dark vines variants, dark red hair variants, etc. because of several production runs :-) great thrifting find :-) she's cleaned up great!

oh no pipsqueak that reads like my own childhood story where all the ponies and breyers and  fashion fillies ended up in a big church / community yardsale ...

yeah that was a regret of mine so  I made sure I was one of those moms that kept everything toy-wise ...hehe that was my excuse to keep stuff on the shelves "for the kids" (including my own inner child)

so yeah not sure how often novis show up in the wild but ya never know with FB groups these days in addition to so many other online shops it's cool IMO to be able to find such childhood treasures again :-)

sooo... do I look to rebuild her back to her original?  This is one of those hybrids I am wondering about and feel like I've customized a piggy pony thinking it was a fakie
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and this was a lovely memory of a trip to arizona and yet both these dolls are not at all common, still, I think I love the memory more (but somedays - tempting)

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so, yeah, I wonder what these guys will be in a few more years at this rate