Skulltimate Secrets are listed on Smyths UK, as well as Clawdeen/Lala/Frankie's Creeproductions! - I'm tempted to get a Clawdeen Creeproduction personally. Skulltimate Abbey looks actually kinda nice without that weird head cage on her, I might get her to display without it[/color]

I posted about the creeproductions at Smyths on the previous page, but they were still not actually in stock then. End may iirc.

I'm not really worried about them too much, though. I never did get a sig Frankie, I don't think, but they're all so expensive really. I'm not bothered about Lala and have never liked Clawdeen as a doll in any form, even if I like her character :'(.

Abbey would be nice...but still expensive.

Nefera might be interesting though.

Congrats Zapper

Regardless of all of those production experiments, I understand what Carrehz meant simply because G4 was a streamlined effort in both media and toy production. There's a difference between discovering a detail you never noticed before in an animated episode of a series, and trying to make sense of how seventeen different countries did completely their own things for reasons we're still trying to figure out.

G4 is an entity, for better or worse, and while some ponies were/were not sold in different places, there's no real deviation. Analysing animation is something you can do eternally, true enough - there is no end point for that kind of discussion - but it is still subjective and based on opinion. It's not the same as hey, hang on, why did x pony come with x accessory here and not here?

I understand these are different driving motives, but given that G1 ended in 1995 and we're still having these discussions, compared to how compact G4 is and how recently it ended.

MLPMerch demonstrates this perfectly. It has all the G4 stuff organised beautifully...but still has absolutely no idea how G1 works.

There is not a single G1 ID site on the internet (and I include mine) which has a complete picture of how G1 My Little Pony worked. THIRTY YEARS after it ended.

G1 will always have bigger questions to answer, simply because it was not a collectable at the time it began. It was also not very well coordinated, organised or planned, because it was the first.

Nothing I've said here is disrespect to G4. But by the time you get to G4, the process is polished and the intentions are clearcut. And so many of us were here to watch the whole process from start to finish, with the back history of seeing G2 or G3 in the middle...so there were always people watching as collectors and fans even before G4 blew up.

They're just on different scales of understanding.

Not to mention - speaking as someone who has been actively involved in G1 pony information stuff since the late 1990s - a lot of information for G1 has been collectively lost. It hasn't been lost by those of us who dug it up or those of us who bothered to retain it from back then, but the number of people who don't know stuff about G1 these days which ten years ago would have just been basic information...demonstrates that we're always going to have that conversation about who/what/where/why...probably for as long as G1 is collectable.

That's beautiful <3

Ponyfan.

My trivial complaint - the tall cupboard has mould in the back again. We had some issues with a leaking roof a while back which has now been fixed. BUT getting the mould permanently out of the cupboard has been so difficult. I am resorting it now to try and improve the ventilation, but it's so annoying.

A few G4 ponies in packaging bore the brunt of it on shelf 4. Most are fine, but one had to be decarded. I have no real emotion over G4 on card, thankfully, so throwing the packaging out was not a big deal - but it makes me worry a little bit about my G1s in the other cupboard...

Fortunately the most valuable (to me) thing on that shelf, Wedding Bells Confetti's box, is unharmed.

Anyhow, one pony got unexpectedly decarded as she's fine but her package was toast. Another one needs to be decarded but it's a pony I already have loose so I'm not really sure what to do with her. The others wiped down fine, thankfully.

It's not a massive mould infestation, just a line of it along the back wall where the water seeped in and we didn't manage to spot it. But it's annoying and unpleasant.

Yay for the Ficus! So glad it's starting to show green

The Dill is clearly a trooper, too

I just caught up with Yona. Honestly everything is so O.O at the moment I'm not quite sure where we are from one chapter to another. But I liked this chapter anyway. I feel like it was a good chapter for Yona and who she's become overall.

I also feel like...the author has been messing with us big time and is still messing. Ponyfan, you might want to hold onto those volumes a while before you read them...

Genuinely a spoiler

The media here keep saying the Czech entry is the favourite.

I admit, I don't really watch Eurovision anymore - I used to as a kid but haven't in a while. I have heard samples of most of the songs but I don't really know what folk are likely to vote for.

Just that there seems to be a bit of 'weird'...

What's the best way to do that. water from the bottom? I have shallow saucers.

Depending how shallow the saucers are, then I would put water into that directly rather than onto the top of the pot. If it's very shallow, you may need to do it in small bits and let it absorb it up. The plant shouldn't need to stand in water, so it should absorb into the soil relatively quick and if it doesn't, then it probably doesn't need water.

That depends as well on how good the drainage in the bottom of the pots is, though.