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Title: Does my Blossom have pindot? Or something stranger?
Post by: Mrs. Prospector on January 05, 2024, 05:26:28 PM

So last week, I bought a small lot of G1's off Ebay, and finally got around to cleaning them all up. One of them, Blossom, has something peculiar going on with her body, and I couldn't get them off with soap or a magic eraser.

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As you can see from the pics, she has specks all over. They're mostly on her right side, but there are some everywhere on her body (not on the head, which is also slightly mismatched in color).  At first, I thought it might be pindot, but I haven't been able to find many good pictures of MLP pindot to compare. It looks less like spots of mold, and more like she has enlarged pores. They are very difficult to see unless looking directly up close. I opened her up and her inside is completely normal.  Is this what pindot does, or is something stranger happening, like the plastic disintegrating? And whatever it is, what can I do to fix this?

Title: Re: Does my Blossom have pindot? Or something stranger?
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 05, 2024, 06:07:05 PM

Pindot isn't mold :) It's dirt that gets into the pores of the plastic, like a blackhead. It's actually extremely easy to give a pony pindot but it's hard to remove. Use super hot water, as hot as you can stand it and scrape at the spots with the back of a butter knife. I find that to be the best way to get rid of it.

Title: Re: Does my Blossom have pindot? Or something stranger?
Post by: Shaiyeh on January 06, 2024, 11:38:20 AM

Yup, what BC said. A hard toothbrush can get the job done as well, but I agree scaping usually gets them better :)

Title: Re: Does my Blossom have pindot? Or something stranger?
Post by: Kitcatepic on January 08, 2024, 05:11:40 PM

Quote from: BlackCurtains on January 05, 2024, 06:07:05 PM

Pindot isn't mold :) It's dirt that gets into the pores of the plastic, like a blackhead. It's actually extremely easy to give a pony pindot but it's hard to remove. Use super hot water, as hot as you can stand it and scrape at the spots with the back of a butter knife. I find that to be the best way to get rid of it.

I've seen other people refer to mold as pindot before a lot of terms for pony ailments get used interchangeably and it's really confusing and annoying to me