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« on: November 15, 2024, 01:37:42 PM »
The age spots (the perfectly round ones with the darker center) are cause by bacterial or mold colonies if I recall correctly. The dark center is where the colony started, and then it grows outwards until it runs out of steam.
Unfortunately they are not removable, the best you can do is paint over them. The original pigment has been destroyed in those spots, so you can't get it back.
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« on: July 28, 2024, 10:19:25 AM »
Oh yeah, I forgot she was Stormer! One of my favorites from Jem. If anyone has questions you'd like me to ask her, lmk.
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« on: July 28, 2024, 10:18:17 AM »
They might let MLP "rest" for a while but it will be back as long as little girls continue to love horses.
It would be a healthy move for the brand, but I don't see that happening. Taking a break means losing 1. that precious shelf space in stores and 2. diminishing the value of the IP; my guess is that third parties still interested in licensing it would fork over more money for something that is being kept current rather than on indefinite hiatus. I think that's why we get those half-baked filler gens.
Great points! I agree about the "half" gens, gotta keep that shelf space.
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« on: July 25, 2024, 08:43:13 PM »
Hi folks, just a heads up that Sue Blu, who voiced several MLPs in "MLP & Friends", will be a guest at CybFest, a small Transformers convention in western Washington.  I've met her at TF conventions before and she's extremely smart, funny, and personable! She will charge for autographs, that's standard practice, and you can bring items for her to sign if you want. (I have a sketchbook I use as an autograph book.) Also, I'll be selling "girls toys" at my booth, including MLPs.  But the convention will mostly be Transformers. Event: CybFest Date: August 3rd, 2024, 11am to 5pm Location: Kent Commons Community Center, Kent WA Tickets (buy at the door): Age thirteen and up - $12 Kids (5 to 12) - $5 Little Kids (0 to 4) - Free Family (two adults, 2-5 kids) - $29
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« on: July 25, 2024, 07:51:12 PM »
They will just reboot MLP again, they would have done so whether G5 was a flop or a smash success. G4 MLP was originally intended to be cancelled after its third season, and only spared because it was so popular at the time.
I think that will be the new methodology going forward: MLP gens that last three to four years (maybe with a playholder gen between the "real" gens, like G3.5 and G4.5 were), and if a show is crazy popular maybe the gen gets stretched out a little more.
Hasbro has been going through financial struggles lately so I expect them to focus the most on their most profitable properties for a while, which I believe are Magic cards and Dungeons & Dragons. They might let MLP "rest" for a while but it will be back as long as little girls continue to love horses.
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« on: July 08, 2024, 07:22:30 AM »
This is so great! Confetti: "WELP, who's gonna marry me?  " Baby ponies in parkas: *dying of heat stroke*
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« on: February 03, 2024, 02:05:15 PM »
I found a Jem doll at the thrift store and I was FLOORED by how tall she is. An amazonian queen! But I get it, it would deflate any of Mattel's attempts to sue Hasbro and claim that Jem was a copy of Barbie.
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« on: February 03, 2024, 01:49:02 PM »
Frankly I completely understand the Equestria Girls hate. The first couple waves in particular were terrible fashion dolls (molded on tops and ugly ugly ugly skirts). They are cheap and created to try to lick up the crumbs falling from Monster High's plate. They are just so lazily made, like it's unbelievable to me that they just molded dolls legs in green or pink or whatnot to give them "tights" instead of of actual cloth tights. Who cares if their actual, not-able-to-be-removed legs clash with other outfits in the line, right? They're only FASHION DOLLS where switching clothes is the main mode of play. But more to the point, ponies have never been fashion dolls and I think that is very freeing. There usually are clothing sets that either come with the ponies (like G3) or that you can buy separately (like G1), but they're totally optional. And it's really rare for a girls toy to go "hey, fashion is fine but not caring about it is fine too." And with G4 specifically, two of the characters are tomboys. It doesn't make sense for their humanized versions to wear preppy skirts on the daily. But there they were, wearing them. One thing I noticed with those prototype(?) G5 "human dolls" is they put Zipp Storm in stylish clothes that a jock girl would actually wear. But with G4 Equestria Girls, they didn't. Also the high school setting is so uncreative, boring, and, again, obviously just a desperate attempt to ride Monster High's coattails. IMO Monster High and Bratz are the only two doll lines that have EVER made the high school setting work. With Bratz it worked because it subverted Barbie's campy, fantasy vibe (that she had at the time), plus they look like they would gladly push you down a flight of stairs which is a very high school vibe, and with Monster High it worked because the idea of monsters doing something as mundane as going to high school is funny and made for all kinds of silly puns and dark humor, like going to Home Ec class and making Eye Scream Cones out of eyeballs or whatever. With horses it's like . . . okay. They were adults as horses who had jobs and saved the world and stuff . . . don't see why they couldn't do that as humans . . . Also high school is usually an exciting, aspirational place for tweens, but the major MLP market is for young girls (like three to eight) so it isn't even a sound marketing decision imo. But, once again . . . Monster High was selling like hot cakes. Why think about your audience when you can just copy Mattel's homework? Rainbow High is another doll line where I absolutely hate the high school setting. It doesn't even make sense because the dolls HAVE MAJORS. But god forbid a toy company even branch out enough to put them in college instead of high school. Girls are only allowed to fantasize about being in high school, and after they get out of high school . . . I don't know, I guess we are to assume that the earth opens up and swallows every female fashion doll character immediately after they graduate. Except Barbie. That is actually why Barbie owns so many planes, she needs them to save her from the pit. Man I miss Jem. I also don't get why the Baby Ponies were treated like new characters, rather than just the younger version of the pony they resembled. I don't know if all canons did this (the cartoon did, and there's a comic that has the baby ponies being cloned from a mirror), but I find it strange that they made baby versions of the adult ponies, and made them new/different characters (I'll check what the toyline did, but the cartoon could have easily have had flashbacks to when the adult version of whatever baby pony they wanted to market was younger...) Because mother-daughter sets / play is cute and endearing. The babies look identical to the moms so that children can immediately identify which baby pony goes with which mom pony. Also in the 80s Hasbro was all about collectibility, which meant collecting new characters. I think their feeling was "If a kid already has Pony XYZ, why would they want a new version of her?" Like, why would Baby Glory being "Glory as a baby" be any more engaging than "Glory had a baby who looks just like her"? If they're separate characters, you can have Glory nuzzling her baby, putting on her diaper, and feeding Baby Glory her bottle. If they're the same character that deletes the mother-daughter play and interactions between the toys wouldn't really make sense. I mean you could make up a time travel plot, but what about when you don't want to have time travel, what about when you just want the ponies to go to a party?
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« on: November 21, 2023, 12:34:49 AM »
Great fakies! I've never seen a blue Princess Rinse 'n Spit, she's so pretty! I don't own this but I did see it on Aliexpress . . . a bootleg set of stickers so kids can recreate five of the G4 ponies . . . and G3.5 Starsong. RIP Applejack, you have been SNUBBED. visitors can't see pics , please register or login
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« on: November 19, 2023, 03:19:59 PM »
The gimmick of the G1 Sunshine ponies is that their one hair stripe color-changes in the sun, but several of them have the pink hair that fades in the sun.
Maybe Hasbro was just unaware of this? They probably didn't take their prototypes outside a lot.
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« on: November 03, 2023, 10:04:46 AM »
Nooo, Midnight Dream, she's one of my favorites! ;_;
When I hear about poly hair breaking it's usually pink or red hair. I'm not sure if that's because it breaks more frequently than the other colors or because Hasbro mostly used those colors. Rainbow Flash does have poly for all her hair colors, though. Poly does seem to come in lots of colors, as I've been vaguely following Monster High news and there are lots of complaints about G3 MH using poly hair.
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« on: October 31, 2023, 01:02:10 AM »
The word canon was used in fandom prior to G4 times. I don't know when it first became a thing, but Transformers fans argued about canon when Beast Wars was airing (late 90s). Or they would argue about the origins of the Constructicons in the G1 cartoon. In the TF show bible they said "The origins of the Constructicons, who form the giant robot Devastator, are a mystery", so three different writers took that to mean "Oh, I should invent an origin for these guys" and of course all the origins contradict each other. #1: Megatron built the Constructicons. #2: The Constructicons built Megatron. #3: The Constructicons used to be Autobots but Megatron turned them into Decepticons with his Turn-Evil Ray. Technically all these origins are canon since they were in the show which just goes to show that just because something is canon doesn't mean it has to make sense. Oh yeah, pony names! The name "Tootsie" is very confusing to me because no one in the US uses tootsie as a generic term for candy (unlike some states using "Coke" to refer to any soda), it's specifically used for Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Pops. And those were named after the company founder's daughter, so it wasn't a generic term in The Old Days either. Also, her symbol doesn't look like Tootsie Pops. Usually they are wrapped in a patterned, waxed paper wrapper. (There are a few different patterns and when I was a kid there was a rumor that if you found the wrapper with a boy shooting a star with an arrow then you could turn it in for a free Tootsie Pop. As far as I know this rumor was false, ha ha.) And when you do unwrap Tootsie Pops they're never light pink. They're very dark colors and they have a kind of raised band around them. visitors can't see pics , please register or loginSo like. Why call her that. Why not "Lollipop" or "Candy"?
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« on: October 30, 2023, 09:18:33 AM »
That's so interesting!! I never thought of it before, but it is weird that Peachy isn't in MLP 'n Friends because I'm pretty sure the Pretty Parlor was still being sold at the time. Even Baby Sleepy Pie shows up at least once (in the Big Brothers episode).
Thank you for preserving and uploading all this, I'm so happy this history isn't being lost! Can I ask if the material is from Wendall Washer's estate? Years ago I emailed him telling him how much I loved RaMC and he very kindly responded and mentioned he had the original recording of the sea pony song. (Or maybe a demo version?) I was so sad when I heard he'd passed away and wondered what had become of his studio stuff. Man, I wish he'd been a guest at a pony convention, I'll bet he would have had such great stories to tell.
I checked Little Piece of Magic and The Revolt of Paradise Estate but the nursery shot doesn't seem to be from those either. It's such beautiful art, love the long evening shadows on the flowers.
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« on: October 30, 2023, 07:43:02 AM »
I thought they might be from Bright Lights since that episode has a lot of night scenes, but they don't appear to be in that one.
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« on: October 29, 2023, 02:37:18 PM »
Once I was looking for trademarked MLP names and I found a record of suing another toy company for using a pony name. The pony name: Cotton Candy. The toy that was being produced: a toy that produced real cotton candy.
The really interesting thing was it occurred after G1 and before G3. It might even have been before G2. So that baffles me. They lost the lawsuit, obviously.
Maybe the purpose was intimidation? Like, smaller toy companies probably don't want to go to court even if they know they'll win, because they'll have to pay lawyers. So maybe this was some weird warning, like "You'd better double-check that you don't use a pony name from over a decade ago or WE'RE COMING FOR YOU."
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