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Pony Corral / Price check various G1's and bait ponies
« on: October 07, 2023, 07:16:14 AM »
It's been quite a long time since I was last a seller rather than a buyer, so while I do know which ponies are more valuable and/or sought after than others, and I do know that most of the ponies I have available are pretty common, I'm still a little clueless on how we price accurately these days. I am planning to sell/trade here before trying Ebay, but I'm going to be away for almost two weeks so I won't be putting up a post in the for sale forum until October 21/22nd.
(although if you are interested in any of these ponies, still feel free to drop a message in the meantime!)

excuse the lack of pictures, I'll include as many pictures as possible in my sales post, but anyway, I need price checks on;

(these are all in varying conditions from very good to in need of some tlc, but I have a separate list for baity ponies)

Brilliant Blossoms (carousel pony): 3 small penmarks that have faded after a spa day, very slight scratches to eyepaint

TaF Milky way: all her stars are still visible but a good amount of glitter has been rubbed off, particularly on her non display side, small age spot on her horn

Tootsie: mild tail rust and small orange spot above symbol on non display side

Applejack: slight grey mark on symbol on display side

Bow tie: mild tail rust and head can turn

Lickety split: tail rust, fading pink mane and tail faded to white, grey mark to symbol on display side, age spot on non display side

Galaxy: some regrind on the head, slight trim to front half of mane

Sweet stuff 1: small penmark on display side, slight scratching to twinkle eyes

Sweet stuff 2: twinkle eye seems to be sunken into head on non display side

Baby Cotton Candy: fading pink mane and tail faded to white, 4 slight penmarks, two on head 2 on non display side body

Custom bait ponies:

I have a cotton Candy, Peachy, 2 Lemon drops and 3 Majestys who still have their manes, tails and symbols (well, the Cotton Candy has had her mane half cut off so she's sporting a mohawk)

a Majesty, Baby Cuddles and two Baby Tiddlywinks with their manes and tails already removed, no symbols on the baby ponies

a starshine with no symbols and no tail but a mane still

and a 1982 Remco pony for anyone who's interested in fakies

and actually I also have a G2 Ivy and 3 G2 mcdonalds ponies for anyone who's interested too

thanks in advance for any help on price checking!  ^.^

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Pony Corral / repainting princess pony symbols?
« on: May 16, 2023, 07:00:35 AM »
Just got the lovely Princess Tiffany/Pearl, which I'm very happy about  :heart: I got her cheap because although she's in fairly good condition otherwise, one of her symbols has lost pretty much all of its silver paint completely, while curiously the other one's fine, so your guess is as good as mine as to whatever happened there. her damaged symbol is on her non display side, so I'm not too concerned with making it look *exactly* right if you see what I mean, I'd just like to give it a bit of a repaint for my own benefit. does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of silver paint I need, any specific brands for techniques I should use? this isn't my first pony restoration by a long shot but it is my first time doing repainting work on a pony, so I'm a little nervous haha  :blush:

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Pony Corral / To deflock or not to deflock, that is the question
« on: November 17, 2022, 06:43:44 AM »
Hello all, I know I haven't been active on here in quite a while, but I'm back!

I've just bought the lovely so soft paradise, which I'm very pleased with since I didn't think I would find her. The main reason I got her for a reasonable price is because her condition is uh, well used. I'm not certain but I feel like her hair is slightly faded? But that's not the issue, her flocking itself isn't absolutely terrible, but it's not great either, with significant rubbing to her wings, neck, hooves and ears, only slightly less so on the rest of her body. And the glue is yellow, like *really* yellow. Apologies in advance for the not great pictures, but she's yellower than she looks on camera. (Go left for the other pictures)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/185078305@N04/52506292588/in/dateposted-public/

So I'm leaning towards deflocking her, because I really feel like there's a decent chance of her still being a nice shade of white under all that glue, but on the other hand I have deflocked twice before, and while both times had good results, as you can imagine deflocking is not a task I want to undertake unless I really have to.

So what do you all think, deflock or not?

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Pony Corral / Who's hair pick is this?
« on: January 28, 2022, 06:48:31 AM »
So I recently got a baby moondancer, which I'm really happy about, and the seller sent this along with her. I think it's a hair pick.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/185078305@N04/51846913812/in/dateposted-public/

I know that it's not baby moondancers, and while I think it may belong to a princess pony, I'm not at all sure. Could anyone tell me if this is a my little pony hair pick for certain, and if it is, which pony it belongs to?

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Pony Corral / Hair colour match for chief?
« on: March 19, 2020, 01:54:29 PM »
 I made a post semi related to this a few weeks ago that wasn't worded very well, so the short version is-

Chief needs a new tail, can't order from mylittlecustoms, won't order from dollyhair, so I need to know what colour to order from either Retrodolls UK, or the doll planet.

I know that his dollyhair colour is called forget me not, but I can't tell which blue matches on Retrodolls/doll planet, and I can't find the answer anywhere else.

Any advice at all would help. Thanks!  :lovey:

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Pony Corral / BB Chief hair match and where to get hair in UK now?
« on: February 21, 2020, 02:22:33 PM »
So I just ordered chief off eBay (very excited about my first big brother pony) for pretty cheap because he needs a new tail. In the past, I've always ordered my hair from mylittlecustoms, and had no problems, but this time, something seems...a bit off?

To start with, the first link took me to a domain that was for sale(??) And then when I DID find the website, there was only like six different nylon hair colours, and they were all sold out? idk what's going on there.

I've tried retrodoll UK, but I don't know which of their blues matches chiefs, they're all different names. I know his dollyhair colour is called forget me not, but even if there wasn't controversy surrounding dollyhair, I don't really want to order hair from the US. (Although it's starting to look like I'll have to)

So does anyone know what blue hair matches chiefs, or where I can find good nylon hair in the UK now? Thanks!

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Pony Corral / Caring for and storing a scented pony with other ponies?
« on: December 18, 2019, 12:32:52 PM »
So I've just bought a caramel crunch (my very first candy cane pony, one of my favourite sets!  :biggrin: )

she hasn't arrived yet obviously, but my concern is what effect her scent may have on the rest of my herd. You see, I don't have a pony room, or shelves, I have a cabinet with sliding glass doors, and I remember hearing somewhere that scented ponies are prone to discolouration, and it can spread to others, especially in a contained area.

So is there any truth to this? Can she live safely with the rest of the herd, or is it better to find her somewhere else to live? In terms of cleaning/care, is there anything I should do differently for a scented pony? (Like not using oxyclean or magic erasers, for example)

Sorry if these are silly questions, and thank you for your help/advice in advance!


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Pony Brag Arena / After two years of searching, I finally found her!
« on: October 19, 2019, 05:04:49 AM »
So I was trawling through Etsy on a whim, and happened across a shop selling some of their old ponies. My heart stopped when I saw that one of them was skyflier! I bought her of course, and she's living next to powder in the pony cabinet. (Here's a solo picture)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/185078305@N04/48922799608/in/dateposted-public/

 I realize that as far as ponies go, skyflier isn't that rare, (if you live in the US that is) but because she was never sold over here, I've been searching and searching, and I'm so happy to have a skyflier to call my own!

With this find, along with getting  baby cotton candy and  baby applejack, October is proving to be a good month pony wise!  :biggrin:

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So I recently found a princess Skylark in a charity store. She was practically black with dirt, and had something pink and sticky all over her face, but it was nothing a magic eraser couldn't fix.  :)

 Surprisingly, the mechanism for her tail still works properly, so she's looking great now, apart from her mane. (I'd put photos in at this point, but I'm still new here and can't figure out how to, haha)  It hasn't been cut that badly, but it is really uneven, and her tinsels all straggly. I've considered rerooting her mane, but I really don't want to do anything to break the tail mechanism. Is it possible to take a brush and grow ponies head off without breaking their tail mechanism, or should I just even her mane out and embrace her shorter style?

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Introductions / Hello, new member here!
« on: July 07, 2019, 03:35:58 AM »
Hello everyone! I'm Sophie, I'm 23, and I live in Cornwall, England.

 I've been collecting for roughly a year and a half now. I collect G1 exclusively, but I do have a soft spot for G3, the ponies of my childhood. I started collecting when I found a few G1 ponies in the charity shop I work for. They were in pretty rough condition, but I took them home and cleaned them, and they turned out beautifully. I realized that I loved doing it so much, I wanted to keep doing it as a hobby. My collection is fairly small in comparison to others, but I'm still very proud of it. I couldn't possibly choose a favourite pony, but my favourite sets are the rainbow curl ponies and the twice as fancy ponies. 

I'm looking forward to being a part of this community!  :)

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