EDIT:   If you currently have ebay listings or are automatically renewing listings, your pony auctions may be getting lumped into a very broad category with Star Wars, Disney and other TV Movie Character Toys!   Please help make our searches easier and check your listing options to make sure it gets into the right "Character Family - My Little Pony"  and Decade <3

So the "My Little Pony" and "Pre-1990" section is now gone from the main category listing!    It just seems to go to "TV, Movie & Character Toys", with no further breakdowns of that category. I started to set up a mock ebay listing, and again, nothing past that category. The only place I see the Pre-1990 category is on older listings.

It doesn't just lump all pony generations (G1, G2, G3, FiM, Equestria Girls, etc)   There are thousands of toys in this category, including Star Wars and Disney toys. 

If you'd like to let ebay know what you think, you can do that here.   

If this is a permanent thing, here are some helpful tips.   Let's say you do a search for "Accessories" in this TV Movie Character Toys.   Use the category options to the left to help narrow things down a bit.

Under CHARACTER FAMILY, you can select "My Little Pony"
Under BRAND, you can select "Hasbro"
Under DECADE, you can select "1980s"


This will help, but there are a few problems with this.

First, any current auctions, auctions that are automatically getting listed by sellers who don't know about these changes, and new auctions by sellers who aren't going to bother specifying Character Family and Decade (which are optional, not required when listing) will get filtered out of your search above.     

Under each of these three category options, you can select "not specified" to include those auctions. However you're going to get hundreds of auctions you don't need across all toy lines and decades and companies.   

Some sellers are more specific in their listing titles so you can add things like "Vintage" or "old" to your searches, but as we all know, not every seller gets this detailed or uses the same terminology. 

EDIT:   Now taking orders!   
http://mlparena.com/index.php?topic=387501.msg1658378#msg1658378
 



(Previous information)
For those of you who don’t know what Adventure Cards are, see here:

I’d like to get your thoughts on making replica Adventure Cards.    Every now and then someone will ask me about doing them and I’ve held off for a few reasons:

- potentially dropping the current value of the originals

- accidently/purposefully being sold as originals in the secondhand market

- finding good quality card paper and printer for the job, something that meets people’s expectations

- copyright issues with Hasbro



If there's enough interest and positive reaction to the idea, I'd consider making and selling these sets to other collectors.

As far as pricing goes, I’m thinking around $55* due to the work that’s already gone into cleaning up the scans, the paper and ink expense, and I also cut these by hand and there’s time involved in that process.   


At least initially, only orders of full sets of 42 will be made. 
 

I’m working on the gameboard and die as well, although the gameboard is huge. It was made to use full-sized ponies as the game pieces!   I’m researching different options for large-scale printing but haven’t found a good option yet.


Anyway, I’d like to get your thoughts on this project – ethical issues, pricing, interest.   If there are a lot of legitimate objections, I won’t pursue it. If you don’t feel comfortable publicly posting, feel free to PM me.   I’m just trying to gather information (not orders) at this point    Thanks!

Update 06/30/2017  ORIGINAL CARDS vs TEST CARDS: 
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Similarities:
Same size

A close match in thickness of card stock

Glossy on the front, matte on the back 
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Original scanned artwork of rainbow and pony

A close match to the blue and purple colors used on the back

A close match to the font used


Differences:
Card stock is a brighter white

Copyright information removed and replaced with “2017 Custom Replica Adventure Cards” on both sides, to avoid mistaking them as originals.  Probably going to make this text a smidgen larger and bolder than what appears here. 
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Glossy side is slightly different type of glossy;  ink is matte, so where the rainbow, text and pony is printed, it is not glossy like the background 
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Back side artwork is recreated so that the colors are more uniform; scans used as templates for accuracy

Rainbow artwork on front is the same rainbow in the same place on every card (something that is not uniform on the originals)

Pony artwork may be bumped up or down a bit so that it doesn’t come so close to the edge of the card

     

I got my first pony ornaments for the season, and noticed there was something off about Fluttershy.
 

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Just need the plastic cape piece that covers the battery compartment if anyone's got a spare one around 

Thanks!

I'm thinking about selling this MOC Dutch Baby Flower. I know what she and her barrette go for loose, but am not sure about MOC values.   Can anyone help me out (please and thank you  )?   The card and bubble are intact, but there are some creases you can see on the back of the card and some price tags on the front.  The baby looks great though - no flaws I can see.

Bloemetjes-Pony / Blumen-Pony
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I'm considering selling my Argie Christmas pony.  I'm taking her to the Fair this weekend and would like to know what a fair offer would be in case there's some interest.  I'm not entirely sure I want to part with her, but if the offer is good enough, I'm thinking about it.   

She DOES have the comb;  it's just fallen out of place behind her.  She's not white anymore but doesn't seem to have any cancer that I can see.

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Help is much appreciated! I'm not experienced in Argie ponies 

I *just* received the 4th and last Euro ribbon I need for my Sweet Heart Sister ponies.   A few years ago, I noticed I had a couple of ribbons that were a different pattern than others in my collection, and found out that European ribbons (at least UK and Germany) had their own lacey stock.   I also learned recently that they only got 4 of the 6 Sweetheart Sisters.  For awhile, I was searching long and far for a peach colored European ribbon, only to find out it doesn't exist!  The Euro ribbons are slightly longer than the US ones I have too.

I was wondering if there were other countries that may have gotten yet another style of lace? 

Here's my comparison photo of the US and UK/Germany ribbons: 
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