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« on: May 22, 2016, 07:44:23 PM »
I wash my plushies by hand and using a soft shampoo (for people) it cleans then well and helps taking a part of the bad smells , I get mush better results wit the shampoo than using washing machine soap as that one has stained me some plushies
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« on: May 07, 2016, 08:06:03 PM »
Maybe Cheese Sandwich and Maud Pie colours and design were too dull to non-adult G4 collectors , and that's why the sales were poor, since this two ponies looked bland and boring for parents and small kids? 
Maybe if they had released NMM and Chrysalis instead, they could have get better sells? 
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« on: February 19, 2016, 04:59:23 AM »
Now if they really wanted collectors drooling at their door, Hasbro would do something like, say, take a pony that never had a non-Nirvana baby version, make both mom and baby, package them up, and boom you have instant market appeal. Nostalgia plus something new.
THIS!!! Or do releases of ponies that weren't released in the U.S. or mail orders. Why not do something unique?
Because the average non-collector isn't going to fondly remember a non-US pony unless they grew up overseas. It needs to have wider appeal than just collectors.
Maybe the 7 MLP Tales characters could? I remember that I really wanted them as a child, but never saw them as a toy, I thought they didn't exist
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« on: February 15, 2016, 08:01:33 PM »
The Retro SSC doll Bridge Direct released last year was successful enough that they are expanding on it and adding more character. I find it amazing that a small company can do better on a retro rerelease than a big company. They are not just popular with collectors but with parents too. Too bad the G1 MLP rereleases never caught on with parents but perhaps it was just too soon. I think a lot of people who grew up in the 80s and put off having children until they were more financially stable are buying things for their kids now. And these nostalgic parents have more money at their disposal than parents who had kids right out of high school or college. Of course that is just my observation and I wish Hasbro would give retro rerelease brushables a try or at least license them out to someone who will since even tho I like the MLP G1 Action Vinyls, they are not the same.
Wish SDCC repro doll?
I was just ranting about this the other day haha, but I think a really crucial thing they failed to realize is that repros can be really successful to non-child non-collector buyers, but it needs to be an impulse buy.
If people say "I'd pay $5 for it," saying "ok here's 3 or $15!" is NOT the same thing. A mom or college kid at the store is going to feel much more stupid indulging herself in a massive box closer to $20 than 5, with three ponies in it - and in the case of the Collector Ponies, three nearly identical ponies. It just can't be justified.
I really can't believe they didn't just test the waters and put out, say, Firefly by herself on a backcard.
I also can't believe, with the gorgeous original-packaging Jem repros hitting comic con to please collectors, we've never seen like a Princess Pony or more astutely a Flutter Pony repro hitting the con. And then as in the pre-brony days they'd probably have extra stock for Hasbro Toy Shop, so all the collectors who wanted them would get them and they'd undoubtedly sell out.
They are doing JEM REPROS??? 
Personally, I don't believe there was anything wrong with the packaging, which referenced the g1 art or selling three in a set. TRU did a similar concept for Strawberry Shortcake around the same time - I think the set contained Strawberry, Orange Blossom and Raspberry Tart - and it sold just fine (and it still seems to sell well on eBay.)
In my opinion, the main problem was the lack of quality. Those ponies just look don't look as good as the originals, IMHO. I didn't even mind the brighter colors on them. But their hair is thin; their bodies are heavy and tip over easily. When you could literally buy the original pony for about the same price secondhand, most people were going to go out and buy the originals. In fact, most people already owned the originals, so why buy a semi-duplicate that didn't look quite as good?
I appreciated that Hasbro tried. I wished that the Rainbow set had a better distribution, because I thought they looked a little better. But I wished they'd ignored the price point that collectors told them. Clearly, not all collectors could've answered them (I didn't, because I wasn't on the boards yet) and I was certainly willing to spend more than $5/per pony. And I wished they'd tried harder.
True, the rainbows are better, the hair colors are the same match but the difference in the hair is the order of the blue and green, I have report Sunlight that I got from a flea shop and she's better than the original 6, she doesn't have standing issues and the plastic is not that hard 
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« on: February 15, 2016, 05:35:25 PM »
Hmm, I suspected that after noticing Princess Sparkle on one of my retro cups. I suspect that they didn't specifically choose these characters after all. They just used the characters that Hasbro has already been using in its retro merch.
I agree, these are the characters turning up on a lot of retro merchandise. Hasbro probably sends clipart of them to all its licensees.
Foxtale did say they were open to making more waves, so people should email them and let them know their favorite ponies, with a link to their My Little Wiki entry. 
Or maybe Princess Sparkle love is just affected by the OC tv series 
Love her, she's one of my childhood ponies, I had a very small heard back then because we could't afford to buy more than a couple toys in a year, she came from the flea shop, so I'm really happy to see her in march
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« on: February 15, 2016, 02:46:44 PM »
Neat!! they look mush better on those new pics and video, I suppose they looked bizarre in the first leaked pics because of an odd picture angle? 
Well they still need a neck, but they are cute and I'm glad to see new G1 stuff 
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« on: February 15, 2016, 02:41:46 PM »
I'm happy that we have another G3 character as a FS but I'm confused as to why that character? Why not Minty, or Wysteria or any of the more commonly known or popular G3?
About Sapphire Shores?, well she appears at the FIM show and is an important character in a couple of episodes but she only shares the name wit the G3 pony as the G3 is pink wit light blue and white hair and a seashell symbol wit a 3d jewel, the g4 is yellow wit two tone blue colors in the hair and the cutie mark is just a single jewel
No, I meant Royal Ribbon.
Ah! I see, maybe Hasbro chose her because she's another pink unicorn? lol, most of the G4 non-mane 6 unicorns are pink 
I really want to see the two spa ponies made as fashion size, it is very odd that we don't have them yet mostly when they DO have pink
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« on: February 15, 2016, 08:41:20 AM »
I'm happy that we have another G3 character as a FS but I'm confused as to why that character? Why not Minty, or Wysteria or any of the more commonly known or popular G3?
About Sapphire Shores?, well she appears at the FIM show and is an important character in a couple of episodes but she only shares the name wit the G3 pony as the G3 is pink wit light blue and white hair and a seashell symbol wit a 3d jewel, the g4 is yellow wit two tone blue colors in the hair and the cutie mark is just a single jewel
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« on: February 10, 2016, 07:45:05 PM »
They forgot to give them a neck 
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« on: February 10, 2016, 08:37:32 AM »
LOL Rainbow Dash looks like Harry Potter wit those glasses on
They look amazing, I'm surprised that Hasbro has finally made show accurate figures , I like Nightmare Moon the best is so neat!!
it seems they would be smaller than normal sized Funkos?
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« on: February 09, 2016, 07:01:54 PM »
I got one of those years ago when I got some G3s at the flea shop, the glass eyes and molded bridle creeped me out sp I gave him away 
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« on: February 07, 2016, 08:00:13 AM »
At the Facebook page, they said they are going to re-realease Luna, Celestia, Cadance , Muffin and Rainbow Dash, but no info on new ponies
However they have Carebears now, so I wonder if they are going to replace the ponies
Wow, that's amazing that they're going to re-release that many!
I kind of prefer the Care Bears made by Just Play.... Build-a-Bear's just don't quite seem plump enough....
Well, I suppose they made them that way so they could use any BAB clothes for boys and girls respectly, for example I tried to make my Sapphire bear from the Gem of a friend set (that I got from a flea shop) wear Elsa's clothes but the clothes were to tight and didn't had shape since this bear is bigger than Elsa bear and I guess is a boy bear and the Elsa clothes looked bad on him
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« on: February 02, 2016, 05:49:07 PM »
I think the mystery one is Glory? Maybe they made her with a slight purple/pink tint?
That's...more then a tint. :p
Maybe is Windy but wit wrong hair colors? like they did wit Lickety Split
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, I repainted her symbols in lavender and this is the first time I use 4 colors in a repair, the poor girls has some scratches on the plastic in her face, body and wings but she is still a cutie
, since it was the first picture in the thread I was like "what, now they are going to wear HP costumes?" LOL 