Hey guys, it's Stormness, back again!

I took a bit of an arena sabbatical. With the loss of our son, at first I threw myself into the internet and my online friendships, but as I started dealing with the loss better and re-entering the real world, I needed to put a lot more effort into keeping my real-world relationships functioning. And so the arena fell by the wayside.

But my life is so much better emotionally and more organised now, and I can afford a little me time. Although it's hard to find with a new baby on the way. Converting our guest bedroom back into a nursery after painstakingly removing all traces of the previous one. We never thought we'd get here, but here we are, healthy and happy, and with a strong, healthy baby kicking around in my belly. And so I'm back at my pony home, not buying, or doing much selling either (although I have a massive box I still need to get through, and an even bigger box of fakies that need to be catalogued and sorted, and a whole bunch sold) but I'm here!

When I am collecting, I collect all gens except 3.5 and 4.5 (are we still calling them that? I remember a debate around when I left, just as they started coming out) vintage fakies, and MLP colouring books, G1 & G2 and the 5 mile press editions of G3 & G4. I also collect MLP media (games, CDs and DVDs) and that range of things seems to expand constantly, with me picking up random pony 'things' all the time, despite not 'actively collecting' at the moment.

Can't wait to see you all around, the old faces and the new alike! 

This in NOT pony related, so please move if this isn't the appropriate place to post this.

Next month is 10 years since I started dating my now-husband. I'm wanting to commission a painting/drawing to illustrate the story of how we first met. The scene I'm imagining is of two teenage girls, both riding bay horses, and a guy standing beside them.

I'm thinking the picture needs to be vague in it's details, to match the story, as the story doesn't reveal who it's about until almost at the end, you have to know the story to know what's coming. No faces clearly visible or detailed, but the colours and emotions are vibrant in the story. (at least I hope that's how it comes across!)

I'm asking here, because pony peeps for the most part know horse anatomy fairly well.

If anyone would like to have a crack at it, I'm happy to provide ref pics of elements of the story, or even just describe things if that helps it remain vague and unspecific. This is a commission, something I'm wanting to pay for, as I'd ideally like to have a digital copy that I can have printed any which way I end up deciding on, as I'm as yet unsure how I'd like to present the story and picture. I have a few ideas, but I'm still hashing it out, despite it being next month. eek!

Here's the story in case that helps anyone put their hand up:

Also story critique is completely welcome! Have at it!

Can anyone help me?!

I'm hoping to have a get together to cheer up my newly single SIL, with a few drinks and some fun games to keep focus off of sensitive topics for all of us. I have CAH, and we'll probably play that for a while, but are there any other card or other fun games that people recommend to keep the fun vibe going? We're easy-going people, and pretty hard to offend, but personalized insults are probably not something we could handle right now, and I know a few games are that way inclined. There will only be a handful of people, of which I'm the only nerd/gamer type, so I need stuff that's not too niche, and can handle low-ish numbers, lets say 3-4 at the lowest if people start piking out and going to bed early.

No recommendation is too cheesy or lame... we love a good dad joke, and can dish out the crudest humour, all I care is that it's fun! Bring on your party staples, I want to fill our home with laughter!

Selling a bunch of stuff for Australian buyers only, but will ship o/s for arena members with positive feedback. Message me here or on eBay for a quote, I am happy to combine postage, but will have to source packaging first! More ponies being listed as I have time.

Ponies available include Snowcatcher, Honeybuzz, Shadowbolt Rainbow Dash, Twinkleshine, etc.

Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/stormness_1/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Hey there Care Bear enthusiasts!

I'm hoping (okay, praying!) that someone can help me to figure out the world of Care Bear DVD releases in Region 4 (English), I'm beyond confused trying to figure out what to actually get so I'm not doubling up too much!

The Original Nelvana series, "The Care Bear Family", and the first 5 movies I have a handle on, mostly. There is that boxed set with the crayons that confuses me somewhat though, it similarly to the MLP one, covers half the series (MLP one had Tales 1 & 2), however, I can't seem to find any info on the included discs being released outside of the set, or the other half of the set to complement them. Colour me confused! At this point I think I'll track down the original older volume sets, they're more straightforward!!

The very first season and the specials really confuses me. Firstly, no record of the specials on DVD anywhere that I can find, let alone the region codes. Sounds just like MLP in that regard!

Secondly, I'm only finding a few episodes of the original series from DiC released in region 4, on 2 DVDs from Jigsaw in NZ, "Daydreams" & "The Last Laugh", 6 out of the 11. Again a half series. Urgh! Does anyone know of a complete R4 set? Looks like I might have to go out of region to get that series, I'm up for a new DVD player anyhow, so might have to go for something region unlockable.

Fast Forward to the Adventure In Care-a-Lot series, and the region 4 complete collection set that has 48 Episodes. I'm confused, again... If you go by the wiki, each episode has 2 stories, so there are only 26 episodes. Okay, so they mean stories individually, so okay that's about.. okay, no, that's 52, still not right. So I'll take the 2-parters out, so that's Emma's Dilemma part II & Broken part II, and that's still 50 episodes.. What's missing from it?! I'm assuming Those last two episodes are maybe counted as specials being longer, and were left out? If so, that works because of the Grizzly's Adventures DVD, which just has those 2, but I'm not 100% sure... Then there's the Ups & Downs DVD, that lists the included episodes as "Cheer Up" & "Down To Earth", neither of which I've ever heard of?! What on earth....?!

I haven't even started on Welcome To Care-a-Lot, It seems like a massive pain in the rear. In MLP, they had similar 4 DVD boxed sets as the care bears "Belly Badge Collection", the dream valley set which was the g3 & 3.5 movies, and the G4 one (the name escapes me right now, and it's gone from the website) which contained the entire season 4 DVD set, nice and tidy. Is this the case with the Care Bears set? Does it cover the entire 1st season? Probably not, it doesn't look like there's enough episodes per DVD... If not, what else would I need to complete the season?

Can someone pretty please help to clear this up a bit for me? Or point me toward some good resources? There's heaps online from collectors about the toys, but not much aside from wikipedia about the media side of things that I could find! What I've got so far is from a combo of dvd cover images I found on google & ebay, and the wiki info to cross reference.

OOOOHHH... one last question! When I was a child, I had a VHS tape with a few stories on it from the Little Golden Books series. There was Care Bears, Poky Little Puppy, and a Sailor Dog I think. Now those episodes I'm remembering as a reading of the books, with illustrations from the books thrown up to make a video. Does anyone else remember these? There was the trouble with timothy, and another one I can't remember which though! I'd love to get them again, (the artwork was beautiful!) but I just know they won't exist on DVD, and my DVD player that just died was my VHS/DVD combo player, and I doubt I'm going to be able to get another of those, at least not new, so I'm guessing they're lost forever unless anyone's seen them uploaded online anywhere? I don't actually have the VHS anymore, but I've seen them for sale around the place, it jogged my memory, and now I want it back!!

Sorry for the crazily formatted post, I'm pretty tired today! Any help would be graciously accepted, this community is so awesome at stuff like this!

So excited!!! I was at the markets this morning (I'm visiting my sister in Sydney, so not markets I normally attend) and I found concerned pony!!  I got a blue one with Pinkie's balloon symbol. There was also a Rarity look-alike, and an RD earth pony there. I haven't seen her anywhere in person, so I was super stoked.  Hubby doesn't get why I'm so excited over a fakie!!

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Hey guys and gals, selling up some of my excess ponies and need to get some Price Checks! There were some I couldn't find anything within 2 years, or the search wouldn't work, so I thought I'd post them and get an updated PC, and maybe help others out as well. Here we go!

Rainbow Treat: Great hair, symbols and heart excellent, extremely faint discolouration NDS, so faint I couldn't get a picture.

Tiramisu(Tira-mi-su) and Mochanut as a set: Mochanut has scratches to her symbol, otherwise both are mint, with gorgeous factory wavy hair.

Star Flight: Uncut hair but with uneven tail clamp, heart rub, teensy eye scratch and her wings are intact and working.

Sunrise Song: Small symbol rubs, tiny green mark on leg, barely noticeable, single plug missing from the middle of her mane.

Windy Wisp: Slightly dry hair, but not brittle as that pink is prone to, Factory error blue paint splash (same colour as symbol) on NDS wing, 'CS' written in purple pen under rear hoof (visible as hoof is exposed in this pose).

Rainbow Dash I: Almost perfect, some cracking to symbol, otherwise mint.

Pretty Parasol: Funky tinsel, otherwise mint.