G3 Ice-skating pony - how to disassemble?

[Zoundz]

OK - I have a G3 ice skating pony here, and I want to make a mermaid pony out of it. I'd done some of the work so far, but I can't work out how to fix the head-  I want to take the hair out and take out the mechanism, but having terrible trouble :/ Any thoughts?

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[Colorscapesart]

Can you cut around the hard plastic circle by keeping your exacto knife in the soft vinyl and going very slowly?

[Zoundz]

I could try that - will have a go later on thanks.

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[Zoundz]

OK - that's not working, have a neat incision all the way around, but it's still stuck fast

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[PrincessOfDarkness]

http://www.aikarin.com/mlp/customs/iceskating.html
Aikarin's tutorial might be helpful I pulled one apart to make Zila

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If I recall, I think I used a screwdriver to pry parts out and used brute force to seperate the sections of body.
I know I had to cut out the neck seams, and Zila was then stuck back together (minus her insides) with superglue and apoxy.

[Zoundz]

Done it! Thank you! Ow my hands!

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[Salli]

Yep, I've done that, it was not my idea of a good time