I don't have any complete sets (Unless you count having G1 bubbles and seashell lol) But I do want to complete some, Sparkle ponies being one, glow and shows being the other. I don't have any Glow and shows yet though 

Just pulled out my Goldi to check - all her hair seems fine and even in texture.  Gave it a good tug and no breakage or hair loss, save for a single short tail hair.  I'm baffled what's happened to yours because normally if it was caused by chemical exposure, you'd expect all her hair to be equally damaged.  It's possible the orange sections of nylon were more susceptible to whatever happened, either because of something intrinsic to the hair itself or just the formula that was used to make it.

Is the yellow part of her hair also brittle?

This is what puzzles me, I am no expert in hair types but my Daddy Apple delight, Applejack and starhopper all seem to have similar yellow hair. All of them have soft hair but Goldi has Dry feeling hair, more towards the bottom. This being said all of them except daddy AD have straight hair and Daddy AD has his factory curl so it could be due to that. I have several ponies who had curly hair and it is now very very dry. I don't have a hair dupe for her orange sections. I did have hair fallout from her yellow sections too but not as bad as the orange btw

Post Merge: July 30, 2018, 01:33:46 PM

Daddy Sweet Celebrations and Water Lily <3

Seriously though, Poor Goldilocks. I have her, and mines hair is just split and worn. It curls and hasn't fallen out but it's truly not looking all that great.

Yours is lucky to have someone to appreciate her for what she is

Thank you! a lot of goldilocks I see have quite sad looking hair

Hi all!
I have a story to tell.. Some of you know i recently bought my first Goldilocks off ebay. I live in the UK So was thrilled to see her for sale over here, and i was even more thrilled to get her for £2.99 (Excl. Postage). I was aware when buying she was missing two chunks of her mane (The orange parts) but im not a fussy collector and knew because of the nature of her hair it may not be obvious that she was missing these bits. She arrives and i am beyond thrilled with her, Overall she had frizzy hair and was clean. I took photos the day she arrived 
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I planned to recurl her hair, using my normal de frizzing methods. Boil wash with fabric softener, de tangle, straighten any frizz with low heat flat iron and then curl. This is where the issues begun... I had been having a spa day for my ponies (re styling hair and cleaning my new ponies) and left Goldilocks by my laptop. While having a break I was mindlessly watching Netflix while messing with her hair. I ran my finger up one of her cut sections and hair fibres flew everywhere, confused I did it again, with the same result. at first I thought it may have been left on her from when her hair was cut but then I remembered about the phenomena of 'Hair rot' In which ponies loose their hair from age, generally this is documented with Cheap G3 ponies. I reached out for help on the Arenas shoutbox where I was told that this can happen to G1 ponies from use of product in their hair. I imagined someones mum, or perhaps a collector many years ago used hair spray to preserve her ringlets (It didn't work lol).

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Here are the broken parts, the other section at the bottom was like this but is now stubble


So i had a dilemma, was i too leave her with the hair frizz or attempt to re curl... I chose to recurl...

I boil washed her tail tentatively, then very carefully combed with through her curls. it was at this point i lost a lot of the orange parts of her tail.
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I decided against the flat iron treatment incase i caused more damage to the delicate hair, so i went right in and re curled her hair

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Yes this looks weird (I didnt have bobby pins lol)


I then did the same with her mane.

And here is the final result...

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I didnt loose her tail thank goodness, if im honest the hair loss that did occur was benificial as its not as frizzy as the yellow sections. Im not happy if im honest as the frizz really bothers me 

So what can we learn from this? and why bother sharing? Well i find it curious that the orange sections broke off in her mane and not the yellow, is it weaker by nature? Perhaps check your Goldilocks ponies incase this breakage was caused by age and not product 

PS. Wow you read this far?! Heres a challenge, identify the 2 ponies hiding in my photos for a cookie 

I don't have much to add in terms of how to get rid of tail rust because everyone has it covered, but I do empathise with you on the germ fear thing  Have you ever considered carrying alcohol hand gel with you to flea markets etc? I do just because it gives me piece of mind. While you are cleansing your new finds, like the barbies or while you are fixing the tail rust maybe you would benefit from buying some plastic disposable gloves like are used in hospitals? As others have said there is likely no harm that comes from handling dirty old toys but if you had a barrier like that I imagine your anxietys would be greatly decreased. All the best xx

I am looking for some advice here care bear friends!  I bought a carebear recently and she came with some Dungarees. They are official care bear merchandise and the only info I can find on them is on Ghost of the doll. It comes from a care bear wear line in the 80s but I cant find any for sale anywhere, are they difficult to find?

Quote from: emily_katie on July 20, 2018, 11:18:29 AM

You all have such Unique and beautiful displays! I especially like the hidden nature of some of your displays @shabbychicdee!
My display leaves a lot to be desired I am afraid, I suppose you could call it making the best out of a bad situation xD I live In a student house so none of the furniture is my own,  don't have enough room for my own shelves and even if I did it just is not practical 
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So yeah this is mine xD I have 8 ponies and a plush to add to this actually  I need to create a riser for my pony section in the bottom left corner as you cant see a lot of them!

that is super cute . what is that sheep? toy and the toy in the middle next to the care bears? they look adorable.

It's a little alpaca plush I got her from a friend a while back and I call her apple And the thing in the middle is my 90's Polly pocket clock 
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I Bought it to celebrate passing my first year University exams, it is a working clock

Yaaaay!   I hope they get some really good interviews!!!!! 

I doubt there will be a focus on Bronies since the modern ponies are not "the toys that made us"

I only watched the girl toy episodes admittedly so I assumed they sort of followed the toys through the years, I'm pretty sure they did that with the Barbie Episode? or maybe they didn't 

EDIT: Yeah they did follow the Barbie Brand up until 2017 with the Fashionistas, so I assumed they would give a full history for MLP, G1-4 But with a primary focus on G1

looking good so far! I have a Baity Peachy who I could customise but I don't think I have a steady enough hand!