Carrehz, I think the most likely story is that someone made her for their child, the child grew up and they gave the doll away

Ponyfan, yeah, that's what I thought when I saw her! 

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I asked a friend from that town to go and check it out. Here's new details about this doll. Her head and hands are made of plastic and her body is like a plushie. That's a pretty vintage technique... I haven't seen dolls with plush bodies for 20 years. So she might be even older. There are no tags or stamps tho

Are there any places to get info on fakies?

http://www.fakietopia.com/fakietopia
http://the-fakie-hideout.weebly.com/the-fakie-guide.html
http://www.mlplovers.com/fakies.htm
http://home.pacbell.net/booth71/preserve.htm

None of those seem to work.

EDIT: ah, the fakie guide works with VPN

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If this person is so bored of seeing Moondancer I'd suggest they try to find one in Russia for less than 50$ xD

I sunfaded G4 Skywishes without peroxide. Maybe it's just ponies that have pink in them. I'm gonna try to sunfade Rainbow Dash. It did not have any effect on Fluttershy (spots are still there after half a year of sunfading!) and Twilight Sparkle which are both 2010. I'm scared to sunfade Cutie Mark Magic Twi since Cupcake was purple and she was damaged during sunfading 

Also, best temperatures to defrizz earlier plastic head ponies and any pony that has silky nylon is 80-90C. The rough later years nylon takes up to 115C and is fixed better with some gel instead of just water. Same goes for all McDonald's ponies with nylon tails, even for earlier ones.

And another thing. 2010 ponies have some sort of membrane (is this the right word? ugh, language barriers) on top of their vinyl. So scratching would result in damaging that membrane. Maybe not all of them has it, but Twilight did.

Hello again. All the time I was away I've been researching G4 really carefully since most things about previous gens are already known or impossible to find out about, but G4 is here to explore which I'm happy to do. This post will be about restoration, accessories and other things. I want to have my own topic to update it once in a while. To me this is a pretty important info.

First thing I found out the hard way is that you don't sunfade G4s unless they're white. Sunfading absolutely doesn't work on G4s and ruins them. Sun literally kills their color no matter what color it is. I can attach photos now so you just have to believe me or share your experience. I tried to sunfade G4 Cupcake (Sugarcup) in peroxide. I detached her head and tail so they won't be damaged, her neck had really bad orange marks from some accessory. The mark is still there but half of my Cupcake is almost white. My second try was a small spot on Skywishes' leg. Now she's got a small spot and a big white spot. Ugh.

Second thing I found out is that crazy bleach + vinegar thing works really nice. It doesn't leave stains, it doesn't burn color unless you hold it too much and it doesn't ruin your pony years after. My friend did it five years ago and her pony is still great. Yeah, the acid you get mixing vinegar and bleach is super toxic, but I use a gas mask and electrical gloves. The bad thing is that mix releases toxic gas which can damage the pony too, so everything except the spot must be covered in layers of plastic package and attached to the pony with duct tape.

Third thing is toothpaste. It works really nice against yellowing, but ruins some prints. Sure, my Rarity has pretty pink eyes now, but that's not what I wanted. Toothpaste works for a really short period of time so just wash the pony after an hour and apply it again. Leaving the toothpaste on pony may damage the vinyl and turn it really solid. Use nice expensive whitening toothpaste, better get it at the pharmacy store.

Most and really interesting thing I found out is the fourth thing. I'm making a list of all G4 accessories that ever existed sorted by year and playset. Please tell me if something like this already exists and I will just help the person making it. All of you probably know the same accessory in the same playset may vary in color. Let's take Applejack Fashion Style 2010 for example. She has an apple barrette, a flower barrette and a medal barrette. All the accessories Hasbro put in their boxes must be different color, like this: green apple, red medal, purple flower. Every one of those accessories exists in those colors other accessories are. It means three colors multiplied by three different barrettes means there are nine defferent barrettes from Applejack Fashion Style set in existence.

Some not-so-important things. Many G4.5 loose their hair worse than a fakie. Cover the inside of their head with tons of glue before brushing. Can you detach pearly mermaid heads? I tried but I'm afraid to ruin it. All of them have that terrible nylon. It's easily fixed with hair straightener. 100-110C + hair gel and it gets really silky.

If you have read all that you're great! Have a nice day!
What I ask of you if you're a huge G4 collector with many accessories and ponies (MIP or loose) please PM me. I need clear pictures and help with some things. Like, does anyone has pictures of 2010 Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle singles without forelock? I need nice pictures of newer accessories since MyLittleWiki doesn't have them. I'm not even talking about G4.5. I mean there is a generation of ponies here to explore and I don't see this kind of information anywhere. It really upsets me that things just disappear and no one knows anything about them. It was harder to explore G1 because there was no Internet but come on, we have to know everything about generations that haven't passed yet.

Cute! They look like German Kinder toys. Fluttershy in particular reminds me of our Russian Sweetbox toys.