Hi folks--it's been a couple years since I last posted here! My blind bag collection has been languishing for a while now, with no new additions since 2015, a time when I was gradually transitioning into caring more about brushables instead. And then all the molds got replaced because of the movie and I lost interest altogether. I've sold a few since then, but there were always just so many blind bags to process, mostly acquired one by one individually, that putting them all on eBay always seemed like too time-consuming an endeavor and so nothing ever happened.

Today I took almost all of them to a local "free market" (like a flea market but everything is free), and happily watched for the next three hours as they all found new homes. Most were taken by adults getting presents for their daughters or granddaughters, though there was an elementary school teacher who took a lot of them to give to her students as prizes for good behavior, and a 20-something woman who seemed enchanted by each new name I told her (particularly Sassaflash), and another young woman who was actually familiar with the characters and really liked Trixie. The best, though, was a maybe 5-year-old girl who kept taking a few, asking me what they were called, giving them to her parents to hold onto, wandering off, then returning some minutes later to take a few more. At one point her father had his hands overflowing with ponies and ended up transferring a lot into his shirt pocket.

So yeah! It was a really fun time, and I hope they all go to good homes that give them more attention than I've managed to provide of late. And I kept most of the mane 6, and all my Minuette figures, and most of my prototypes and all my fakies. They may or may not be kept forever but I think I deserve a break now.

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In retrospect I should have seen this coming.

Past #1, #2

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Captions in imgur album. Seventeen new girls came in yesterday, so this seemed like a good time to sort fakies by character and take some photos. I left out all the blind-bag sized ones and the keychains to save time.

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We are all by now familiar with Concerned Pony, I trust? The ever-miserable blue fakie and her less-popular orange palette swap? Perhaps, if you are very good, you have even seen this picture of her elusive glow-in-the-dark release?

Well, apparently there's a baby now!
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And where did this baby come from? Obviously G1 ponies are born from eggs, but surely things have changed a bit between generations, right?
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...I guess not.

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So these girls just turned up on aliexpress. (Can't link, but they should be really easy to find.) They claim to be 8cm, but their heads look kind of like styling size heads. The quality of Dash and Twilight's cutie marks suggests to me that they're fakies, plus Dash's hair is all red and orange and yellow.

Oh, and Rarity is an alicorn apparently!

I want! But currently the smallest quantity they're sold in is $80 for ten sets of four ponies, or $8 per set. So I'm just curious if there's anyone else--or more specifically, nine other people--who'd be interested enough in four weird 8cm fakies for two bucks apiece plus shipping, including an AliRarity, that this would be a successful purchase. I'm guessing probably not--the other three don't honestly look very interesting--but I might as well ask.

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They're so big! I still don't have Cadance, though. (Which is apparently normal... I'm not sure I have a brusahble Cadance in any size.) And I tried to get the fakie Luna styling size but the package was lost in shipping.

(I've actually got a second Applejack in this size too, if anyone in the US is still looking for one. PM me with offer if interested I guess, or eventually she'll make her way over to eBay)

Fakies continue to expand into the larger body molds. We recently saw a whole line of Ponymania Fashion Styles, which were very cool, and a set of six Styling Size ponies with completely non-canon color schemes and cutie marks. These four are a little less exciting in that respect, being mostly based on Through The Mirror toys (except for Cadance, who's just based on her most recent Fashion Style release), but the fact that they all come in Fashion Style and Styling Size variations is very neat!
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Hi all! I've got the house free to myself for a bit in a few weeks and am looking to have a fun playful time of it. I tried this two years ago but nobody responded, so... trying again! Are you anywhere near Santa Cruz? You should come over! At noon!

I've got a bunch of games, from your basic Chess/Risk/Scrabble/Settlers of Catan up through Alhambra, Dominion, Carcassonne, Tichu, Puerto Rico, and plenty more, plus various quicker games like Category 5, Quarto, and even Fluxx and Uno. Come over and play stuff! Even if you're not an experienced gamer at all, there's sure to be something right for your skill level that pertains to your interests.

Or if that doesn't completely appeal to you, play with ponies instead! I've got a bunch of ponies too and lots of them are dying for some good roleplaying or at least hairbrushing. Reenact episodes or tell all-new stories. Want to pick out your favorite pony and build her an elaborate fortress? I've got blocks and legos.

Or... combine the two! Who knows how many games could use blind bags as player pieces? I'm guessing a lot of them. Whatever you feel like doing, there's sure to be a way, so come on down. Ask if I've already got a game you want to play before bringing it yourself. Bring money if you plan on trying to buy or sell ponies. Tell me your dietary preferences if you want to be fed. And of course tell me you're coming if you want this to happen at all.