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Messages - Taffeta
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« on: Today at 01:03:32 AM »
I watched a documentary on YouTube yesterday about a guy who murdered over ponies. There are dangerous people everywhere.
WHAT?! Oh my!
Was that the Fedex case with the creepy Applejack letter or another one? Please don't tell me there's been more than one. I only use FB and I never actually post on my profile anymore, though I am in a couple of groups. Facebook are going to learn very little about me really, but yes, that stuff is creepy. Mind you, I had that experience in around 1999-2000, when the internet was a lot more basic. You'd be amazed how easy it was for people to create multiple new AIM accounts, and use all their friends to create a 'stalking' situation. One of the ponypeople I mentioned above threatened to send her partner (who was stationed over here at some military base) to see me because she 'knew where I lived'...and so on. That was the most terrifying time I have ever had in the pony community, hands down. Which is why I abandoned the TP because when I tried to get help, the mods there then took HER side and said I'd written all the transcripts myself and was making it up. Because she was an influential customiser who was popular for her artwork and nobody wanted to upset her. A lot later more stuff came out. I'll leave it at that. I'm afraid I've seen the same untouchable behaviour from some other customising people in the years since who are treated as deities because of their craft and thus allowed to behave like monsters in other areas. This is not an indictment of most customisers, I hasten to add - but it has happened and continues to happen whereby people put up with, or even validate nasty in order to get a particular product. Ways for people to do online nasty - and a lack of people doing anything about it - has unfortunately characterised the internet from the point of start to now. It's easier to attack people now, true enough. But if someone is determined, they will still do it. I dislike social media particularly because I had that experience at age 18 and I learned very quickly how trusting people online was risky and could hurt. The fact that we've gone more towards that model and less towards this one is very sad in my opinion.
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« on: Today at 12:52:48 AM »
I'm wondering how we figure out which ponies sold over here were made with poly and which were not (basically I can't get at 90% of my G3 at the moment, so I can't just go through and do the hair wash test, not that I'm brave enough to do it!) Some of my G3 also did come from the States so I don't know if they were in bonus packs or if they weren't. I can't remember if I had Petal Blossom and Rainbow Flash with the babies or the babies separately...but all those ponies are currently wrapped up in acid free tissue and stored away.
I've never had the Avon ponies but I also remember them being the first and it was a long time ago they were flagged. But I hadn't realised so many that I consider regular release ponies here may have had bonus releases over there...
I have December Poinsettia in box and I intend to keep her there...but it is making me hesitate about wanting to acquire any more of that set if they might be at risk down the line. They are a bit expensive.
The only pony right now that I know has this issue is actually a G1 Butterscotch, probably a Mail Order though I am not 100%...whose hair was full of conditioner and so dried up and is now so delicate I cannot brush her, or even put her in the cupboard. She's lived by my sink for the last decade or so. Since I am presuming G1 Butterscotch had nylon hair, I'm wondering whether products used on ponies has had any impact on hair breakage (speeding it up) in G3.
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« on: Yesterday at 02:39:29 PM »
Anything that is less social-media-y gets my vote.
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« on: Yesterday at 02:36:07 PM »
My daughter is learning letters today and has started to say the phonic names for letters in the word d u c k, because it's her favourite word. We were using giant foam letters to learn with. When she brought over to me the letter F I kept telling her that we didn't need it to say 'duck' but for some reason she insisted. I keep having the strange impression that she has lived many lives before.
Oh dear. That's hilarious xD Bless. @Beth - frankly, he can afford his own umbrella  He's the one who chose to stand outside making a long speech instead of a quick announcement. A speech which sounded like he'd been spending too long in the fiction section. But this is the happy thread. So happy thoughts 
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« on: Yesterday at 10:10:44 AM »
Day Lily, Knick Knack, Lady Slipper, & Rose Garden are harder to find than the other Breezies. Day Lily, Knick Knack, & Lady Slipper remain on my Want List, while Rose Garden was a very lucky find!!!
Snippety Snap eludes me to this day!!!
I think the harder to find ones seem to be those bundled in with other ponies over here or maybe also in Europe. I actually just went and dug up my collection spreadsheet and the ones you mention seem to be bundled with another pony/release: Rose Garden with Precious Gem Lady Slipper with Fluttershy/Purse Knick Knack with Star Bright (?) Snippety Snap with the Petal Parlour Of course, so is Day Lilly.
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« on: Yesterday at 09:17:23 AM »
We have a general election date 
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« on: May 21, 2024, 09:01:57 AM »
I have a feeling that Day Lilly had a weird release. Something about how her name is spelt reminds me. Pretty sure she was sold in Canada or something? Not quite remembering but I think she's the one I don't have because of that limited issue. Maybe she was also in the States in some places but there's something funny about her release, I'm sure. Maybe look into that.
I'm no G3 expert but I don't think any of the others are super rare.
Day Lily came with a balloon and Sweet Breeze and there was 1 specific shop chain that sold them over here in NL. In better days that shop had a lot of exclusive G3 stuff comparing to the regular toy shops. So yeah quite limited spread.
And some exclusives were also at UK ponycon assuming they were also sold over there. Snippity Snap is the most difficult to find and highly wanted.
That's interesting. I knew she had a very limited release (Day Lilly, I mean). I have quite a few of the sets sold over here with a Breezie companion, but I don't think that one got here. She's still the only one I'm missing iirc. I knew about Snippety Snap, but that wasn't one of them in OP's post, so I didn't mention her. The only extra I ever had I gifted to someone, so I have no idea what kind of price she makes now anyway xD.
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« on: May 21, 2024, 03:52:07 AM »
I have a feeling that Day Lilly had a weird release. Something about how her name is spelt reminds me. Pretty sure she was sold in Canada or something? Not quite remembering but I think she's the one I don't have because of that limited issue. Maybe she was also in the States in some places but there's something funny about her release, I'm sure. Maybe look into that.
I'm no G3 expert but I don't think any of the others are super rare.
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« on: May 21, 2024, 12:45:39 AM »
Oh, that is good news! I really haven't been paying attention, but I was sorting my manga the other day and thinking, why hasn't there been a final series! But hopefully there will be now. I hope they go back and start it where it should have started...but I'm not sure they will. They skipped a whole game between Ichidai and Yakushi and while the game in the manga bores me to tears, it's still part of the plot...
Yeah, that final game did take...was it eight months of manga? Or was it more??
I did go look up the announcement post but nothing in the Japanese indicates timescale. So we don't know yet. I guess your timeline is probably accurate...maybe October if we're lucky, but I think the last two were January starts.
I am trying to imagine how many series it would take to finish Yona. Not that Yona is finished, yet, but it's definitely moving in that direction. I know I've been saying that for ages but still.
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« on: May 21, 2024, 12:42:45 AM »
I've heard about druvdalen, and I think it's a shame it's no longer a thing. As a UK and European pony geek so much useful information has come out of discussions that happened there (and from ponypeople in Sweden in general, whose brains even now I am picking).
The problem is a lot of forums have died. A lot of people have abandoned forums and migrated to social media. For better or for worse, this is the internet now.
On the actual topic. I used free sites for the early iterations of my website. They are still online but flooded with ads and broken images...I no longer have access to them to take them down so although the information at times is questionable (lol) it's nostalgic.
BUT the reason I moved to an actual host was the advert issue. Even with ad blockers.
My domain name is bundled with the rest of my internet package.
If you do go down the road of setting up a website, something I would recommend is domain privacy, which is where your domain's owner's address is not public. Mine lists the address of my hosting company.
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« on: May 19, 2024, 05:07:14 PM »
Skulltimate Secrets are listed on Smyths UK, as well as Clawdeen/Lala/Frankie's Creeproductions! - I'm tempted to get a Clawdeen Creeproduction personally. Skulltimate Abbey looks actually kinda nice without that weird head cage on her, I might get her to display without it[/color]
I posted about the creeproductions at Smyths on the previous page, but they were still not actually in stock then. End may iirc. I'm not really worried about them too much, though. I never did get a sig Frankie, I don't think, but they're all so expensive really. I'm not bothered about Lala and have never liked Clawdeen as a doll in any form, even if I like her character :'(. Abbey would be nice...but still expensive. Nefera might be interesting though. Congrats Zapper
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« on: May 19, 2024, 05:01:38 PM »
G4 might not be considered a "classic", but many of its items are highly sought after and can be sold for a large sum.
G4 is still going quite strong, dare I say, it is bigger than G1. Many Hasbro collab product is still G4, and since G5 underperforms, the official MLP YouTube changed their banner to G4.
If G4 is still as popular in 30 years from now, then we can make that comparison. It's also hard to judge G4 prices against G1, as G4 items haven't had time to appreciate. The ponies are still being dumped en masse into charity stores and second hand sales. But G4 prices seem relatively cheap to me in comparison. G4 became popular because its timing coincided with a purple patch for social media. It thrived in an online environment that gave it every opportunity to thrive, through content, videos, memes and so on. I wonder how it would have thrived had the same fandom faced the challenges of the late 1990s...no paypal, ponies shoved in scanners, contact via mailing lists, limited art or coding facilities. G1 is still in stores, a new set came out (Celestials) and there's quite a lot of merchandising which has been on and off a thing for the last two decades. Again, G4 hasn't had long enough to really compare the two. As for G5, Hasbro's biggest miss was tying it to G4's world. As much as there's still a thriving G4 fandom, the mass hype in the mainstream for G4 has gone. It's what happens now in the collecting community over the next several years that will determine whether it's just a fad flash in the pan derivative or some cult classic that changed a generation.
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« on: May 17, 2024, 03:54:59 PM »
Regardless of all of those production experiments, I understand what Carrehz meant simply because G4 was a streamlined effort in both media and toy production. There's a difference between discovering a detail you never noticed before in an animated episode of a series, and trying to make sense of how seventeen different countries did completely their own things for reasons we're still trying to figure out.
G4 is an entity, for better or worse, and while some ponies were/were not sold in different places, there's no real deviation. Analysing animation is something you can do eternally, true enough - there is no end point for that kind of discussion - but it is still subjective and based on opinion. It's not the same as hey, hang on, why did x pony come with x accessory here and not here?
I understand these are different driving motives, but given that G1 ended in 1995 and we're still having these discussions, compared to how compact G4 is and how recently it ended.
MLPMerch demonstrates this perfectly. It has all the G4 stuff organised beautifully...but still has absolutely no idea how G1 works.
There is not a single G1 ID site on the internet (and I include mine) which has a complete picture of how G1 My Little Pony worked. THIRTY YEARS after it ended.
G1 will always have bigger questions to answer, simply because it was not a collectable at the time it began. It was also not very well coordinated, organised or planned, because it was the first.
Nothing I've said here is disrespect to G4. But by the time you get to G4, the process is polished and the intentions are clearcut. And so many of us were here to watch the whole process from start to finish, with the back history of seeing G2 or G3 in the middle...so there were always people watching as collectors and fans even before G4 blew up.
They're just on different scales of understanding.
Not to mention - speaking as someone who has been actively involved in G1 pony information stuff since the late 1990s - a lot of information for G1 has been collectively lost. It hasn't been lost by those of us who dug it up or those of us who bothered to retain it from back then, but the number of people who don't know stuff about G1 these days which ten years ago would have just been basic information...demonstrates that we're always going to have that conversation about who/what/where/why...probably for as long as G1 is collectable.
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« on: May 17, 2024, 12:08:34 PM »
So, a follow up adventure to my cupboard sorting. That same cupboard mentioned in the previous post, now largely cleared of mould, was sitting open and has been the last few days during sorting and cleaning. I had demoulded the top shelf, so I'd left the plastic tubs in there and some of the Dream beauties were lined up along the front of the shelf.
Some time just before 4 this morning I was woken by an ominous sound from the cupboard. I turned the light on and saw that the plastic tub that holds my ponywear had fallen forward and was resting on the backs of the dream beauties. And two or three ponies were now hanging precariously over the edge of the shelf into the abyss...
So at almost 4am I was clambering up on stools, grabbing ponies, stabilising the boxes in the cupboard and making sure everything was safe.
Luckily it happened when I was there. Luckily the ponies it fell onto were the striding pose ones who had a more stable posture. Luckily no Dream Beauties were harmed in this adventure.
...But I'm pretty tired.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 02:08:38 PM »
That's beautiful <3
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