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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: SkyCakes on March 29, 2017, 06:12:35 PM
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There was so much information when I first started and it was hard at first. I had some interesting learning experiences like boiling the wrong group of ponies with another batch and boom yellow weird ponies. Do not boil ponies with chartreuse hair. ><: Be careful of using exact-o knifes. Plastic can slice palms. Yes that happened to me.. ><: Most of what I have learned are from tutorials (great pony persons there.) Thanks. :)
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I learned the hard way about ponies with fading pink hair. I had some on display and their hair faded.
Ponyfan
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I learned the hard way not to use oxiclean on princess ponies. It takes the metallic coating off their symbols.
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I learned that Cherry Treats can't be sunfaded... And that the G1collecting world was bigger then I ever thought, way bigger than my bank account.
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Even if your ponies are in a protective plastic bin, and they are turned AWAY from the windows... light will manage to get in the corner of the box and discolor the ponies near the outside edge. >.< (A very specific situation to me, but URGH it was so frustrating opening up my bin and finding yellowed G3s!!! Who knew G3s could yellow?!)
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Even if your ponies are in a protective plastic bin, and they are turned AWAY from the windows... light will manage to get in the corner of the box and discolor the ponies near the outside edge. >.< (A very specific situation to me, but URGH it was so frustrating opening up my bin and finding yellowed G3s!!! Who knew G3s could yellow?!)
Which sun deity did you anger? :P
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The wonderful world of nirvana ponies, I have a few foreign ones now. Also so many gen one that I never knew existed. I also discovered this fantastic place, and all of you.
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Oxyclean can fade ponies, dry out their hair badly, and twinkle eyes will loose their coating.... and symbol repaints should have a layer of sealer or white paint *under* them to prevent "halos" onlighter colored ponies.
My poor childhood Mimic taught me all of these things, but at least she was not in good shape to start with, having been played with outside constantly in the california sun!
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I learned that if you offer somebody $42 for Rapunzel you will get laughed at. LOL. That was years ago. IIRC I sweetened the deal by offering $60 for both Rapunzel and Hollywood.
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How to re tail. That G2 ponies existed. That lots of sets and country exclusives existed when I got online. How to repink. How to remove rust-splosions.
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That there was something before G4 and that it wasn't just some stupid ugly girly thing.
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I learned that:
- purple ponies should not be sunfaded, or else it will leave blue marks on them because the red part of their body dye fades.
- ponies with pink hair should not be boiled or else it will fade the pink badly (this happened to me with a Macau Snuzzledrop but happily, her new hair colour suits her quite well and I kept her as a variant
- you should never try to glue in rerooted hair with super glue (it will go through the holes to the outside and harden the hair line (that was a very early one and happened to just a Bow Tie, gladly)
- Sweetheart Sisters should be stored or sent with their earring between her ears, not to their side or else it will break (learned this by a seller who sent a pony to me)
- Ponies should NEVER be put onto a bag marked with sharpie like some people do mark bags with ponies inside (also learned by a seller who ruined my first UK Baby Candy this way, which was minty therwise. I didn't know about sunfading back then, could perhaps have saved the pony which I gave to a friend instead as it made me so sad to look at the poor pony.
- as said above, I learned about the wonders which can be done with sunfading on blue, yellow, orange and some white ponies.
I'm sure there is more but the rest won't come to my mind right now. :)
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I learned that ponies have washers in their tails and that they can rust.. I was unaware of this when I was younger so some of my ponies have been in water multiple times.
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I learned that cancer shows up under a blacklight. Still have about four pictures of blacklight ponies from a few years ago when I was experimenting with it.
Also learned after setting Quackers in the window for a year, you can't really sunfade cancer out. :(
I learned how to best clean So Soft fuzz- or at least IMO. Baby toothbrush and a gentle shampoo, scrub gently under cold water and rinse well.
Learned to never wrap ponies (or collectibles in general) in anything like newspaper, colored paper, etc, or the ink WILL transfer.
Learned how hard rehairs are... Years ago I tried to rehair a G3 and gave up, lol. I just barely finished my first MH rehair last week.
Learned that Nirvanas were a thing! I didn't realize before I started collecting that toys were made anywhere other than HK or China, so learning that ponies were made worldwide and that many of them are now super rare was a neat discovery. (I used to dream about finding a Nirvana at a thrift shop, lol.)
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I learned that sweet little colorful plastic ponies are a gateway drug to a lot of other collecting hobbies.
I also learned that there are so many more ponies than I'd realized in my younger days. (why oh why did there have to be location exclusive ponies)
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Never replace and metal bits on nirvana ponies in your possession even if you always replace the washers of normal ponies with twist ties to prevent rust issues. It angers the pony gods and effects potential resale.
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When I first started collecting in '98 the biggest discovery for me was Nirvanas and country specific ponies. I've been obsessed with UK and Euro ponies ever since and always loved Nirvanas too. I can't think of any new things I've learned more recently.
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Echoing a big discovery was Nirvana ponies. I was blown away that they made ponies after 1991 in other countries. Even more so I was surprised G2 lived on for so long outside the US. :D
It maybe also sound silly but it wasn't until I started collecting that I realized that they made ponies out of all the characters on the VHS tapes since I was so young and never saw any of those ponies.
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This shouldn't be a past tense question, because I'm pretty sure we're all still learning. Even if we know a lot about a generation we know best, it doesn't mean there aren't still ponies we haven't seen from other generations or other concepts we don't yet know about.
I have a few things though, from different points, both as a childhood collector, a teen collector and an adult collector.
As a child, I learned the following lessons:
Washing curly pony hair and grooming it means no more curly.
Baby Sea Ponies really are not designed to go underwater unless you want mould.
Ponies with wings do not actually fly, no matter how hard you throw them.
The best way to get a sunshine pony's hair to change colour when you can't go in the garden because Dad is working out there is to dangle them out of the window on a shoelace.
Dance and Prance Ponies and Brush and Grow Ponies are not compatible.
Baby Brother Bright Bouquet's mouth is not meant to open properly, trying to make it open further with a paperclip is only going to end in tragedy.
Putting pencil shavings in brush and grow hair and then brushing them out makes the hair shine more (absolutely rubbish but I totally believed it as a kid)
Boys are scared of unicorn ponies if chased at hornpoint around the playground.
Shady's hair does not glow in the dark (although I actually was convinced it did until I got a glowing magic pony and realised that it probably didn't)
As a teenage collector coming online in 1997 (I was 15) I learned the following:
Firefly existed. So did Medley. So did all the other ponies from childhood stories I had begun to give up on.
Minty is actually green and not purple like the Fact File says.
Italian ponies exist and have blue eyes.
Carboot sales are awesome.
Half the ponies I grew up with didn't exist to people on the other side of the world.
So Soft Ponies are not plush.
The ponies on the inserts for 1987 wearing Pretty Ups/Ponywear were not made up -Quackers, Angel, Twilight, etc did exist.
American names for ponies often repeat and thus lack imagination.
In order to help the online community I did a lot of investigation into what I grew up with. Some of the things that came out of that were as follows:
-UK Baby Sea Ponies have different poses and so does Confetti
- Twisty Tail had a different pose here too.
-Starlight Babies are not the same as Sparkle Babies.
-Italian Ponies existed in Europe but not in the UK.
-SeaSpray and High Tide were and are not the same pony. But Wavebreaker and Wavedancer are.
-Plush Honeycomb exists.
As an adult collector, I think since having my site I've learned a lot of things and have been taught a lot of things by other collectors. For example, I learned from Sel and Chrissytree that the Watercolor Baby Sea Ponies were sold in the UK. I learned from Lady G that Princess Amethyst here mostly had a purple hat, not the one she was always drawn with.
The biggest thing I've discovered over the years is that Hasbro Uk really made absolutely no sense with a lot of its release decisions and Hasbro in various parts of Europe were not a whole lot better. For that reason there are at least six versions of Baby Mischief, two versions of Sweet Clover, Tutti Frutti, Rosette etc and a lot of variation that really has no logical explanation.
Also that no matter how much you repeat that same information about stuff in the UK and/or Europe, it gets widely ignored and you or other people ultimately end up repeating it again and again, which gets very frustrating. Although people don't repeat most of the original myths about ponies in the UK, there is still an overt tendency to assume or believe something must be a 'UK variation' without doing the proper research to prove it, and that still drives me nuts. Twenty years on and I still have to tell people that white Tootsie wasn't sold in the UK, because some online ID sites still say she was.
Also, if you name a pony something, and everyone sees that pony on your site, that name suddenly becomes the pony's name. Bobbie came from our pony originally, if I had known that would happen I would have given her a much cooler name. But the name has taken on a life of its own - it's become Bobbi, Bobby, Bobbie and it now has also been applied to all kinds of other similar variations. Even though the name Bobbie only actually applied to the original pink haired no symbol version. The others are not Bobbie, but they get called it nonetheless.
In terms of other generations, I've seen a lot of ponies from G3 especially that I don't remember from when I was buying them. I also have learned a lot about G4, especially things like Holly Dash being hard to find and Starswirl as well (both of which I bought by fluke without knowing, so that made me kind of happy!)
Overall, though, I think we're all still learning stuff. :)
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This shouldn't be a past tense question, because I'm pretty sure we're all still learning. Even if we know a lot about a generation we know best, it doesn't mean there aren't still ponies we haven't seen from other generations or other concepts we don't yet know about.
I have a few things though, from different points, both as a childhood collector, a teen collector and an adult collector.
As a child, I learned the following lessons:
Washing curly pony hair and grooming it means no more curly.
Baby Sea Ponies really are not designed to go underwater unless you want mould.
Ponies with wings do not actually fly, no matter how hard you throw them.
The best way to get a sunshine pony's hair to change colour when you can't go in the garden because Dad is working out there is to dangle them out of the window on a shoelace.
Dance and Prance Ponies and Brush and Grow Ponies are not compatible.
Baby Brother Bright Bouquet's mouth is not meant to open properly, trying to make it open further with a paperclip is only going to end in tragedy.
Putting pencil shavings in brush and grow hair and then brushing them out makes the hair shine more (absolutely rubbish but I totally believed it as a kid)
Boys are scared of unicorn ponies if chased at hornpoint around the playground.
Shady's hair does not glow in the dark (although I actually was convinced it did until I got a glowing magic pony and realised that it probably didn't)
As a teenage collector coming online in 1997 (I was 15) I learned the following:
Firefly existed. So did Medley. So did all the other ponies from childhood stories I had begun to give up on.
Minty is actually green and not purple like the Fact File says.
Italian ponies exist and have blue eyes.
Carboot sales are awesome.
Half the ponies I grew up with didn't exist to people on the other side of the world.
So Soft Ponies are not plush.
The ponies on the inserts for 1987 wearing Pretty Ups/Ponywear were not made up -Quackers, Angel, Twilight, etc did exist.
American names for ponies often repeat and thus lack imagination.
In order to help the online community I did a lot of investigation into what I grew up with. Some of the things that came out of that were as follows:
-UK Baby Sea Ponies have different poses and so does Confetti
- Twisty Tail had a different pose here too.
-Starlight Babies are not the same as Sparkle Babies.
-Italian Ponies existed in Europe but not in the UK.
-SeaSpray and High Tide were and are not the same pony. But Wavebreaker and Wavedancer are.
-Plush Honeycomb exists.
As an adult collector, I think since having my site I've learned a lot of things and have been taught a lot of things by other collectors. For example, I learned from Sel and Chrissytree that the Watercolor Baby Sea Ponies were sold in the UK. I learned from Lady G that Princess Amethyst here mostly had a purple hat, not the one she was always drawn with.
The biggest thing I've discovered over the years is that Hasbro Uk really made absolutely no sense with a lot of its release decisions and Hasbro in various parts of Europe were not a whole lot better. For that reason there are at least six versions of Baby Mischief, two versions of Sweet Clover, Tutti Frutti, Rosette etc and a lot of variation that really has no logical explanation.
Also that no matter how much you repeat that same information about stuff in the UK and/or Europe, it gets widely ignored and you or other people ultimately end up repeating it again and again, which gets very frustrating. Although people don't repeat most of the original myths about ponies in the UK, there is still an overt tendency to assume or believe something must be a 'UK variation' without doing the proper research to prove it, and that still drives me nuts. Twenty years on and I still have to tell people that white Tootsie wasn't sold in the UK, because some online ID sites still say she was.
Also, if you name a pony something, and everyone sees that pony on your site, that name suddenly becomes the pony's name. Bobbie came from our pony originally, if I had known that would happen I would have given her a much cooler name. But the name has taken on a life of its own - it's become Bobbi, Bobby, Bobbie and it now has also been applied to all kinds of other similar variations. Even though the name Bobbie only actually applied to the original pink haired no symbol version. The others are not Bobbie, but they get called it nonetheless.
In terms of other generations, I've seen a lot of ponies from G3 especially that I don't remember from when I was buying them. I also have learned a lot about G4, especially things like Holly Dash being hard to find and Starswirl as well (both of which I bought by fluke without knowing, so that made me kind of happy!)
Overall, though, I think we're all still learning stuff. :)
That is many new things that are exciting to learn. As for past tense I changed the title to reflex this better.
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The saddest thing I learned about ponies is that G4 Neon Rainbow Power hair bleeds colors into the body :(
And the happiest thing I learned is that G1 and G2 existed! Growing with G3 and G4 made me think ponies were great discoveries of my age like microwaves and washing machines.
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That there were so many ponies that I never knew about (specifically nirvanas).
And... rubberband rot. T_T
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im learning new things every day. i always think i have the g1 roster down but then i turn around and by god theres another pony ive never seen before in my entire life! even though theyve been discontinued for 20 years, its like therye still being released! im always learning about pony merch and pony accessories.. theres so much i dont know. of course, nirvanas are a big "had no clue" about. I used to really really not like applejack but after seeing the columbian and french variants i think i need one x_x she looks sooooo beautiful when not orange! i had no clue she came in other colors! its a learning experience.
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I learned to avoid harsh chemicals when cleaning ponies! Might not skrew stuff up now, but we don't know what it could do tp the plastic down the line!
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I learned to only ever use plain white kitchen roll/paper towels when cleaning ponies, especially if using nail varnish remover. Ended up removing a stubborn mark on a Italian G1 Windy and giving her a new yellow one as the dye leaked out of the piece of kitchen roll. (Thankfully the yellow mark wasn't as bad as what I removed!)
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I have a lead for a a new way of removing pony cancer that doesn't involve soaking the pony in hydrogen peroxide out in the sun (ergo avoiding all the side effects). It's just a lead right now so nothing to report yet.
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This shouldn't be a past tense question, because I'm pretty sure we're all still learning. Even if we know a lot about a generation we know best, it doesn't mean there aren't still ponies we haven't seen from other generations or other concepts we don't yet know about.
I have a few things though, from different points, both as a childhood collector, a teen collector and an adult collector.
As a child, I learned the following lessons:
Washing curly pony hair and grooming it means no more curly.
Baby Sea Ponies really are not designed to go underwater unless you want mould.
Ponies with wings do not actually fly, no matter how hard you throw them.
The best way to get a sunshine pony's hair to change colour when you can't go in the garden because Dad is working out there is to dangle them out of the window on a shoelace.
Dance and Prance Ponies and Brush and Grow Ponies are not compatible.
Baby Brother Bright Bouquet's mouth is not meant to open properly, trying to make it open further with a paperclip is only going to end in tragedy.
Putting pencil shavings in brush and grow hair and then brushing them out makes the hair shine more (absolutely rubbish but I totally believed it as a kid)
Boys are scared of unicorn ponies if chased at hornpoint around the playground.
Shady's hair does not glow in the dark (although I actually was convinced it did until I got a glowing magic pony and realised that it probably didn't)
As a teenage collector coming online in 1997 (I was 15) I learned the following:
Firefly existed. So did Medley. So did all the other ponies from childhood stories I had begun to give up on.
Minty is actually green and not purple like the Fact File says.
Italian ponies exist and have blue eyes.
Carboot sales are awesome.
Half the ponies I grew up with didn't exist to people on the other side of the world.
So Soft Ponies are not plush.
The ponies on the inserts for 1987 wearing Pretty Ups/Ponywear were not made up -Quackers, Angel, Twilight, etc did exist.
American names for ponies often repeat and thus lack imagination.
In order to help the online community I did a lot of investigation into what I grew up with. Some of the things that came out of that were as follows:
-UK Baby Sea Ponies have different poses and so does Confetti
- Twisty Tail had a different pose here too.
-Starlight Babies are not the same as Sparkle Babies.
-Italian Ponies existed in Europe but not in the UK.
-SeaSpray and High Tide were and are not the same pony. But Wavebreaker and Wavedancer are.
-Plush Honeycomb exists.
As an adult collector, I think since having my site I've learned a lot of things and have been taught a lot of things by other collectors. For example, I learned from Sel and Chrissytree that the Watercolor Baby Sea Ponies were sold in the UK. I learned from Lady G that Princess Amethyst here mostly had a purple hat, not the one she was always drawn with.
The biggest thing I've discovered over the years is that Hasbro Uk really made absolutely no sense with a lot of its release decisions and Hasbro in various parts of Europe were not a whole lot better. For that reason there are at least six versions of Baby Mischief, two versions of Sweet Clover, Tutti Frutti, Rosette etc and a lot of variation that really has no logical explanation.
Also that no matter how much you repeat that same information about stuff in the UK and/or Europe, it gets widely ignored and you or other people ultimately end up repeating it again and again, which gets very frustrating. Although people don't repeat most of the original myths about ponies in the UK, there is still an overt tendency to assume or believe something must be a 'UK variation' without doing the proper research to prove it, and that still drives me nuts. Twenty years on and I still have to tell people that white Tootsie wasn't sold in the UK, because some online ID sites still say she was.
Also, if you name a pony something, and everyone sees that pony on your site, that name suddenly becomes the pony's name. Bobbie came from our pony originally, if I had known that would happen I would have given her a much cooler name. But the name has taken on a life of its own - it's become Bobbi, Bobby, Bobbie and it now has also been applied to all kinds of other similar variations. Even though the name Bobbie only actually applied to the original pink haired no symbol version. The others are not Bobbie, but they get called it nonetheless.
In terms of other generations, I've seen a lot of ponies from G3 especially that I don't remember from when I was buying them. I also have learned a lot about G4, especially things like Holly Dash being hard to find and Starswirl as well (both of which I bought by fluke without knowing, so that made me kind of happy!)
Overall, though, I think we're all still learning stuff. :)
I laughed so hard at the mental image of you trying to get ponies to fly and little you charging at boys with colorful unicorns! X'D
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A weird thing I learned and still have to remind myself of now: So Softs are no more water permeable than any normal pony. Underneath the flocking, they're still plastic! But for some reason I still think that the ponies are going to fill up with water when I wash them... Can't wrap my head around it.
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I learned that there will always be a Minty I need. Haha! I originally just wanted one, and then realized there are a lot of different poses, then I realized there are many variants, then I kinda wanted each MIB in addition to out of box, then I noticed that the different fadings of pink hair felt worthy of adding more to my collection, and now I want all of the merch I spot. Oh, it is just never ending with ponies.
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A weird thing I learned and still have to remind myself of now: So Softs are no more water permeable than any normal pony. Underneath the flocking, they're still plastic! But for some reason I still think that the ponies are going to fill up with water when I wash them... Can't wrap my head around it.
However, maybe you may confuse them with seaponies? I know mine fill up with water. Although I have sea ponies on my mind or something.
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The saddest thing I learned about ponies is that G4 Neon Rainbow Power hair bleeds colors into the body :(
Really? That's bad. Which ones exactly?
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oh I have had a couple of rough learning curves, the most tramatic one was to learn the symbols from brazil ponies can literally rub off so no scrubbing with tooth brushes.
Also the heat symbols don't like hot water :/
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I just recently learned that hydrogen peroxide doesn't always leave your ponies looking nice and white again. Poor Blossomforth.
When I first started collecting, I thought G1s were really rare and worth a lot of money. Now I've learned that some of them are really cheap to obtain in good shape.
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I've recently been learning about all the fiddly bits I'll need to find if I really want to fulfill the idea of being a "completionist." ^^; And some of said fiddly bits can be pricy! :yikes: I'm also learning that the hunt for said fiddly bits (and other ponies) is a lot of fun! And makes your "watching" list very long! :awake:
Sadly, when I first started collecting as an adult, I learned the hard way that so soft flocking will come off if you wash one of those ponies with warm water. Poor Wind Whistler... She looked so pretty, only had that funky chunk of crusty red I-don't-know-what between her wings... :cry: (Looked like petrified sugar; came off like petrified sugar, too. And then so did the flocking. Why yes, I did literally scream when that happend, however did you guess?)
I also have learned of the nirvana ponies! And the wiki has so many gorgeous ponies pictured... :satisfied:
Edit to add: I also learned that G1 line continued for at least two years after my local TRU stopped carrying them. Movie Firefly was the one of the last ponies I remember seeing at the store beforfe the ponies just vanished without a trace. And then I promptly lost interest in going to the toy store until I got more into video games - and the G3 line happened. :lol: