Is this unusual blind bag a fakie? Analysis inside

[Shiromisa]

So, recently, there's been a set of "error" blind bags circulating around Taobao and Ebay. They look remarkably like past pony releases, but the plastic is suspiciously shiny. Still, I chalked that up to either wet plastic or weird lighting. Well, last night I dug out my blue-haired Ploomette for a comparison.

First, an overview shot.
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Already you can see that Blue has a bit less care taken with her painting than Orange, but hey, Hasbro's QC hasn't been the greatest lately. But there's a bigger issue.

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Their cutie marks are completely different vectors. Two options at this point: either Ploomette's getting a rerelease, or something fishy is going on. Now for the moment of truth...

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Her head and body are all one piece. Unless Hasbro's changed their manufacture process drastically, this blind bag is fake as fake can be. Possibly the best fakie I've ever seen, though!

I didn't take pictures of this next part since I considered the matter closed, but I kept comparing. Everything on Blue is a bit thinner, smaller, less detailed. Her legs and face are narrower; the marks under her hooves stand out a bit less.

I bought the rest of the set off Ebay, it'll be interesting to see how they compare!

[elvenwine26]

If the hoof says hasbro she's not a fakie.  As much as I enjoy the blindbags I'll be the first to admit that they have never been high quality.

[TornadoTwist]

Hmm I rather find her an error/protoype, also because she has an production code under her hoof wich relates to the date: 4 May 2013.

[SeashellnBubbles]

The one with orangish hair seems to be a little smaller overall than the other...her front hoof is fatter as well...I don't know much about blind bags, so I'm just bringing and unbiased and notably uneducated view

[Shiromisa]

If the hoof says hasbro she's not a fakie.  As much as I enjoy the blindbags I'll be the first to admit that they have never been high quality.

It seems like she's made from a mold that was made from an official blind bag--hence the smallness and narrowness overall. So naturally she still has the hoof info, she was made from an official product.

[Strawberry Swirl]

Do you mean the one with matching hair + tail? Cuz if not, she's not a fakie. My Ploomette has mismatched hair, too, and I bought her like all my other blind bags.

[Shiromisa]

Do you mean the one with matching hair + tail? Cuz if not, she's not a fakie. My Ploomette has mismatched hair, too, and I bought her like all my other blind bags.

Hmmm! The plot thickens. Two questions:
1.) Did you buy her out of a bag, or on ebay?
2.) Are her head and body one piece or two? The deciding factor for me is that, since Hasbro just does not make blind bags in one piece (unless they've recently changed their mold).

[Strawberry Swirl]

Do you mean the one with matching hair + tail? Cuz if not, she's not a fakie. My Ploomette has mismatched hair, too, and I bought her like all my other blind bags.

Hmmm! The plot thickens. Two questions:
1.) Did you buy her out of a bag, or on ebay?
2.) Are her head and body one piece or two? The deciding factor for me is that, since Hasbro just does not make blind bags in one piece (unless they've recently changed their mold).

1) Out of a bag.
2)She should be in two pieces, unless you mean she's broken? Cuz she's not.

[Shiromisa]

Hmm! Now that is really interesting. Could you get pics of her?

The way blind bags are manufactured now, the head and body are molded separately, then the long neck stem is glued into the head. You can see it through the clear ones.

[Violet CLM]

Do you mean the one with matching hair + tail? Cuz if not, she's not a fakie. My Ploomette has mismatched hair, too, and I bought her like all my other blind bags.

No, mismatched is legitimate. It's the one with the same mane and tail that's apparently a fakie, counter-intuitive as that may seem.

I bought the rest of the set off Ebay

I should have known! Well, I got most of the next set, or at least of the ones I'm interested in. Just missing that beautiful Twilight Velvet Applejack, and I guess I may pass on the darker-maned Prism Glider if he's not a real prototype, since the visual difference is too subtle to be covetable on its own. And now I need to get myself a real Dainty Daisy to match the fake one... oh, life is hard!

There've been Mr. Cake and Nurse Snowheart pictured with these girls too, right? They gave the various AJs and RDs an air of authenticity, but heck, maybe they're fakes too...

[Shiromisa]

Ohhh pfff, sorry for the misunderstanding! I was eating lunch at the time and misread. Yes, blue is the fakie, orange is legit.

Violet: Haha, yep! There's also been a Flitterheart, Roseluck, and Periwinkle with them. I want a Flitterheart fakie, just for completion's sake.

[SeashellnBubbles]

I had no idea that blindbags held such intrigue...they're kind of a question mark the same way the Dicord Fashion Style ponies are. They have official Hasbro MLP hoof marks, have separately stamped numbers on the molded hoof bottom, and some have the black numbering, so Hasbro's either gone whackadoo, or the fakie makers have seriously upped their game.

[Khema]

So the moral of this post is to only buy blind bags from stores?

[SeashellnBubbles]

So the moral of this post is to only buy blind bags from stores?

I'm not sure...I guess if you want an absolute guarentee that it's a Hasbro BB...but if you like to roll the dice, this actually seems to be kind of a fun way to do it

[Navi]

I have the same Ploomette with blue hair, but I gotta say, her head and body look like separate pieces glued together to me.