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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: princessluna11706 on December 02, 2016, 02:25:05 AM
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I'm a little late to the game as G4 ponies are no longer available in Japan, but has the hair quality improved between waves somewhat? These are both directly out of package, and look at the difference! Poor Starlight, I don't know what to do with her :lol:
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As you can see, Coloratura's hair is gorgeous, while Starlight's hair is a hot mess. Just wondering if hair quality has improved, or I just got a lucky pony :)
I miss the early days of G4 when they had curls straight off the card!
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It was a lucky pony you got I think! I got Pretzel not long ago and she had the worst hair I've ever seen on a pony of any generation. I couldn't tame it with conditioner or straighteners so in the end I just wrapped it round her horn and sprayed it in place.
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yes absolutely! i bought a pretzel from Walmart and a coloratura from TRU, about a month apart from eachother. coloratura's mane is so so silky and smooth! especialyl as opposed to pretzel, who was actually physically greasy? like her whole body had some sort of slime on it. and her hair is basically just thread. there must have been some sort of problem with the materials used to make wave 1..?
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But YES! The G4s did used to come with beautiful curls. :(
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I get what you are saying, but I have to say.......I kind of like Starlight's hair like that. lol
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The pearly Twilight Sparkle I have has the worst hair of any new pony I've ever seen in my entire life. I might have to chop it off and rehair her. Uneven, tangles, knots, glue, and just feels gross besides. I think wave 1 pearlies like Coloratura have much nicer hair than wave 2, though.
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With the pearly ponies, it's been hit or miss. My Coloratura and Pretzel were fine, but Rainbow Dash took some combing out.
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The pearly Twilight Sparkle I have has the worst hair of any new pony I've ever seen in my entire life. I might have to chop it off and rehair her. Uneven, tangles, knots, glue, and just feels gross besides. I think wave 1 pearlies like Coloratura have much nicer hair than wave 2, though.
Have you tried washing it? Sometimes it helps cause rerooting is such a pain.
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Not sure, but the hair on my Shine Bright Luna and DD's Shine Bright Cadence are thick, soft and don't get tangled so easy.
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No, my Coloratura hair was covered in glue. So much of it that it has fused her hair together and I had to style the glue chunks into loose curls to hide it. I had the same issue with the G3 ponies.
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I had no issues with Coloratura or Starlight Glimmer from the pearly set 1, but Pretzel and Cherry Berry came off the card with not great hair and the greasy feel mentioned above. A wash and a shampoo later, though, and it's a lot improved. Not quite as good as Colo's, but decent enough to be going on with. I think it's hit and miss with G4.
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Thank you for the replies everyone! I guess I just got a lucky pony. Starlight's hair feels a lot like others mentioned above, greasy, tangles, frizz, and an odd texture, sorta stringy. I'll def try to wash hers, and I may have to try something else. Anyone else tried to style her? Coloratura does look great though!
LunaMoonCustoms, I miss those curls dearly!
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Hit and miss for me too. My Coloratura has really nice hair, at least for her mane, but Starlight Glimmer from the same wave has a dry-ish frizzy tail. Differences between manes and tails seem to be pretty common for me with G4s. I got the styling size Power Ponies 6-pack recently and the manes are all pretty good, but some of the tails are not (Rarity's is the worst, it's thin, it's unmanageable and it's two different lengths (!!). It looks especially weird since so many of their manes have 3 rows of plugs so really really thick hair, and then this limp little tail in back.
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Thank you for the replies everyone! I guess I just got a lucky pony. Starlight's hair feels a lot like others mentioned above, greasy, tangles, frizz, and an odd texture, sorta stringy. I'll def try to wash hers, and I may have to try something else. Anyone else tried to style her? Coloratura does look great though!
LunaMoonCustoms, I miss those curls dearly!
I got the same two ponies recently! I saw the headband version of Starlight Glimmer in my search for Coloratura and thought she was cute. When I took her off her card her hair was crazy :/ I washed it with shampoo and conditioner as I do for any other pony and it's better but doesn't really "drape" right. Coloratura's hair, on the other hand, was very nice straight off the card. Maybe the blue hair is superior in quality to the other colors they used for the pearly ponies?
And yes -- I'm only a casual G4 collector so I only have a little bit of experience with this, but older secondhand G4 ponies and the one G4 I got new off the card (Sunset Shimmmer) have beautiful hair.
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i don't think they have, most of my pearly's have terrable straw like wirier hair i can't do anything with except put some of them into a plat :( and other ones their manes have been sown so thick i can't even plat it :(
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The pearlies appear to have that lighter, almost fishing-line-like quality to them. Feels very cheap compared to early G4 hair, but it does behave just fine sometimes; my Fluttershy, Coloratura, and Starlight Glimmer all looked great right out of the package, while Pretzel and Twilight Sparkle... not so much, heh. So yeah, definitely comes down to luck I think. Some batches just come out better than others it would seem.
That said, even though the manes aren't so great, I've found the tails on recent releases benefiting from the new hair type. Again, not as good as early G4, but better than nearly all of my Rainbow Power and Crystal Princess Celebration ponies, which had the frizziest tails I have ever seen on a legit MLP.
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I would say that it's been getting worse lately. My Starlight's hair wasn't like that bad, but it's still frizzy and dry on the ends and the tail just feels awful. Pursey Pink's hair is okay, but it almost feels sorta greasy or something and her tail frizz is just as bad as Starlight's. They feel rough and scraggly. Compared to my earlier G4s...it's no match at all. The old ones weren't this frizzy, and it was softer to the touch.
My personal favorite pick for best G4 hair is my FS Pinkie Pie's Boutique Pinkie. No frizz, great shine, soft all over. I wish every G4 had the hair this one does. My Rainbow Power FS Rainbow Dash comes close though. So it seems 2013-2014 was my favorite time for G4 hair.
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Poster, yes their hair does feel much MUCH cheaper than the earlier releases. Cheaper hair, less accessories.. I really miss the earlier releases, and wish I had gotten more of them when I had the chance!
Haruna, yes I'm only a casual G4 collector myself, but as I mentioned above I regret not getting more of the earlier releases back when! I really miss the nice hair and cute, fun accessories.
Noxxbunny, I also have that Pinkie, and I have to agree, she's got gorgeous hair going on!
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The pearly Twilight Sparkle I have has the worst hair of any new pony I've ever seen in my entire life. I might have to chop it off and rehair her. Uneven, tangles, knots, glue, and just feels gross besides. I think wave 1 pearlies like Coloratura have much nicer hair than wave 2, though.
Agreed i have her and was also going to rehair her. For the moment the greasy mess is in a braid, its gross