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Wow! It’s looking pretty good 😄. I also love your new banner ❤️
Yay, my donations got featured! It's too bad I don't have more of the missing G2s.Are Euro G1s in as Nirvana, or just not in yet? I didn't notice Tutti Frutti when I was adding my ponies.
One more question!Are the venezeulan ponies the squeaky butts? if so, i can donate another pic.
I have an initial reaction to something: the word Gimmick.I don't particularly like this word, especially when speaking as a collector. And I've generally seen it used in a negative mindset where collecting is concerned. So that's one thing I see that kind of made me cringe.
The birthflower G3 page doesn't work: https://data.mlpmerch.com/g3/series/2006/birthday/birthflower-ponies/Edit - Also the blue Cute Curtsey shown on this page was never released, IIRC: https://data.mlpmerch.com/g3/series/2006/carriage-ponies/
As much as I love the G4 site, (it is my go to G4 site) I'm never going to use this for G1 because of the system. It just doesn't work for collecting outside of the US, unless you want to force your collection into the US system (which I don't). I don't want you to get rid of the US system, I would just like to see more integration of ponies.It's a practical point of organisation which affects a lot of non-US collectors and completely bewilders new collectors coming in from outside of the US. I used the example in another thread, but if you had Cherries Jubilee and Snowflake as a kid and you got them at the same time from the same store, it's pretty confusing to try to find them on a site using that system, because you'll get Cherries Jubilee in 1985 and Snowflake on some other planet. The overreliance on the US system is a general bugbear of mine, I admit. BUT with your site especially I think it's important. You might have people coming in new from G4 to G1 and they might have a bunch of ponies they also want to ID at the same time. If they know your site, they are going to want to rely on it because they're familiar with it. It could also be someone cataloguing their childhood ponies. And unless you know a pony is international, how are you going to know? If that makes sense. Ultimately it's up to you, but I feel like we shouldn't be segregating mainstream store ponies just on the basis they weren't sold in America. They're not Nirvana ponies :/ they belong with the mainstream.On a detail note, I think both your pictured Tutti Frutti ponies are from the UK. But it's hard to see their streaks from the picture.Also, not the NBBE and NSS terms. Please I also noticed that what you have put together as "NSS" are actually ponies from three separate sets issued in different parts of Europe/the world at different times. It would be more helpful for people who have those ponies (many of whom will be outside the US) for them to be listed in their actual sets and years, under their actual set names.
Looks amazing!
Quote from: KarentheUnicorn on October 02, 2018, 10:36:08 AMI have an initial reaction to something: the word Gimmick.I don't particularly like this word, especially when speaking as a collector. And I've generally seen it used in a negative mindset where collecting is concerned. So that's one thing I see that kind of made me cringe.I liked it!
Quote from: banditpony on October 02, 2018, 10:53:32 AMQuote from: KarentheUnicorn on October 02, 2018, 10:36:08 AMI have an initial reaction to something: the word Gimmick.I don't particularly like this word, especially when speaking as a collector. And I've generally seen it used in a negative mindset where collecting is concerned. So that's one thing I see that kind of made me cringe.I liked it!Everyone has their own opinion but The word gimmick is more used in my experience for selling/advertising. Or, you'd say something like: we need a gimmick to sell this product, etc. In laymen terms, It also tends to mean something that cannot sell on it's own so it needs some sort of deception or distraction to sell.