Lemon Drop army brag! + Surprise AOPK: The best bubble wrap substitute ever!

[mul-ta]

Today, I had the pleasure to welcome Zora's OOAK dark drops Gotitas to my Lemon Drop army. Unlike the light lavender Gotitas, both her drops and eyes are a striking bluish purple, but what I love most about her must be the "crazy eye"

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Here's the box I picked up at the post office today (my desk Minty is included for scale). Looks kind of big and fat for a single Lemon Drop, doesn't it?

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And when I open, this emerges out of it:

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A giant mutated Toola Roola! With a note from Zora, stating she was out of bubble wrap wanted to give me an early Christmas present. Silly, as if the chance to own her dark purple Gotitas wasn't enough, but oh so sweet! 

Now for my Variant Army Pony…

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More than one member has asked to see my Lemon Drop army. I'm not much of a photographer and have display issues - I don't have enough shelf space for them all (unless I wanted to keep them gathering dust on the windowsill) so I had to dig most of my army out of a box for this occasion. Anyways, here they are, all lined up for you. Say hello to 1. Garde-Kavallerie-Regiment "Zitrönchen!"

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Counting the newest arrival, it totals 17 adult Drops which may not sound like a lot… but all of them are different. I'm even missing two really common variants, one of which I had but she has gone MIA, and keep passing on the Greeks. Way to go.

Yes, there is a German baby, even though I don't really collect babies… I don't know what happened. I left my Lemon Drops unguarded for too long, and this is the result… 

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Left row:
HK 4-stamper: Playset
HK 4-stamper: Mail Order
China
HK blue drops 2-stamper
HK blue drops 1-stamp oddity (no Hasbro stamp, country only)
Macau bleeding symbol Snuzzledrop (Rosy)
Macau Folly - she needs to be upgraded, but I've grown attached to my old one…
Italy 2-stamp Snuzzledrop
Italy 4-stamp Snuzzledrop - she's practically mint with pink hair!

Right row:
Ponies 1-2 are Italians w/AB eyes, 3-5 with stamped eyes in different molds.
Non-pat pend, mirrored symbols Gotitas
Pat pend Gotitas
and finally the dark drops Gotitas Thank you so much, dear! I promise to take good care of them both!

[happycootie]

What a lovely collection you have! Lemon Drop is such a pretty girl Toola Roola is huge!

[achab1984]

Congrats on your new ponies! You got a good army there

[kiwimlp]

That is an impressive army!  I really like Lemon Drop and often think she is under appreciated

[MikeysGrrrl]

Great army choice

[zora]

glad you like your bubble wrap substitute and ooak LD looks great and happy with her yellow sisters ^^ love the army picture!!

[TinyShinyUnique]

Zitrönchen

That is an awesome army! So many lovely ladies there! I especially adore Rosy - her bleeding drops are super pretty to me!

huge congrats! also on the bubble wrap substitute

[Hope1989]

I've received this giant Toola-Roola yesterda  She's  so cute 

[mul-ta]

Thanks everyone! Kiwimlp, youre right, the subtle beauty of Lemon Drop too often goes unnoticed. My personal favourite variants are probably the extremely well-preserved Italian Snuzzledrop and all three Gotitas - I like the "color-changing" look of her hair. I'm not sure if I understand why she is not more popular, maybe most people just haven't held one in their hands? I hope to add a few non-yellow sisters sometime in the future...

Toola Roola totally surprised me, I normally only collect G1 so I didn't even know she existed and had to look her up. Pony people have opened my eyes to so many ponies... I especially love TR's triskell symbol.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Congrats!  Love your army...

[Diamond]

That was so neat of her, love your new addition and your whole army.

[brightberry]

Beautiful army!

[BabiChuld]

Wow! I just bought CP Lemon Drop and she's "at the salon" haha, wow it's amazing to see a whole army of them- she's a lovely little pony! Look at all of those variations

[maycrestmom]

oh mul-ta I just caught this thread :-) mega congrats!!! your army is the perfect spot for that Spanish dark drops :-) love the pony peeps here providing such amazing "padding" too ;-) great idea!

[michelle53]

I just saw this!!  Holy cow, that OOAK Lemon!!!  Wow, your Army is spectacular, and I'm loving Toola-Roola:). Congrats hunny, what a wonderful gift!