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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Wilford B Wolf on May 28, 2012, 04:34:20 PM
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so..a few years back i was clearing some farm land, delapidated house barn and shop...being a bit of a packrat i went thru HUGE piles found lots of intresting and cool stuff but we are talking about 20 dumptruckloads spread thru 3 buildings...it was a DISASTER and i was the one given the keys to the place and told to make it ready for the new owner B Y the new owner..keep what you want put everything else in a burn pile
anyway i found these 3....i will admit they are what re-started my intrest in ponys and shortly after i fumbled into G4 and was blow away...somewhere...in storage my old moving boxes are some of my childhood ponys what ones..i honestly dont know..ill get to them in time but they are safe
anyway these 3 came home..and were NOT cleaned..they are weathered and still in the shape they were in when the last child stopped playing with them or were lost in the junk piles...so dont give me grief for not cleaning them yet...as i think it kinda gives them character....and they are 99% EXACTLY as i found them..and have been living quietly on top of my desk ever since
the large one im pretty sure is a fake..but the feather was found in the same pile so i stuffed it in her allready braided hair...the other 2 are stamped hasbro on the hooves
so..what gen/year/names?...im thinking they might be a lil rare i mean..a CAMEL?!?!? id never seen a camel before and all the feedable babys ive seen didnt have holes(2 holes?!?!?)
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yes once ID'ed id like to clean them up...so any input on cleaning would be great..i dont want to scrub off any paint!!!
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im pretty sue the pink one is a fakie reminds me of the curnet walmart fakies
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The Camel's name is Spunky I believe and the Drink N Wet baby is Baby Rainfeather... I think!!! Someone correct me if I'm wrong, lol. The other one is a fakie :) Great finds though!!
I'm not sure how hard to find they are since I've never researched them before. Someone else should know though :)
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Yup, that's Spunky the camel, a pony friend from year 5. Pony friends are always fairly HTF though Spunky is one of the more common ones I believe?
And Shenanigans is right, it's Baby Rainfeather, a drink 'n wet from year 8. She would've had a diaper originally. :)
The big fakie I don't know anything about either, sorry.
Hope it helps! I love Spunky :heart:
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im pretty sue the pink one is a fakie reminds me of the curnet walmart fakies
yeah that and NO marking on the hooves aside from made in china.....the other 2..if they are fakes in any way ..they went so far as to forge hasbro.....
aside from being dirty they "look" to bee in good shape tho there seems to be some small sharp animal marks on one of the camels legs if you look REALLY close ....i mean i didnt notice till just now
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Post Merge: May 28, 2012, 04:46:22 PM
so baby rainfeather and spunky eh...somehow i find alot of humor in the thought of a spunky camel at 1500ft abouve sea level on a farm....
a drink n wet baby..thats the idea ii had in my head but still seemed a bit...ODD
well i must thank you all a bunch..i didnt expect to get that kind of answers that quickly....so what gen are they...im still trying to get a good handle on gen identification
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Those are first generation.
Info on baby: [size=78%]http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/8th_edition_ponies.html#baby_drink_n_wet_ponies (http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/8th_edition_ponies.html#baby_drink_n_wet_ponies)[/size]
Info on camel: [size=78%]http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/5th_edition_ponies2.html#pony_friends5 (http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/5th_edition_ponies2.html#pony_friends5)[/size]
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Oh, I love Spunky! What a lucky find!
To clean then, I'd just start with soap and water to get the fairly loose dirt off. After that, a lot of people would probably recommend a Magic Eraser, but I like toothpaste and a toothbrush. You can just wash and condition the hair to get rid of frizz, and gently comb it out.
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Those are first generation.
Info on baby: [size=78%]http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/8th_edition_ponies.html#baby_drink_n_wet_ponies (http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/8th_edition_ponies.html#baby_drink_n_wet_ponies)[/size]
Info on camel: [size=78%]http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/5th_edition_ponies2.html#pony_friends5 (http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/5th_edition_ponies2.html#pony_friends5)[/size]
YAY...but
ok i feel like a TOTAL idiot but ive gotta share it .....the bottle and the lil block crib/changing table?...i did find in one of those piles but was not aware they went with the poor lil pony..in fact they wernt even seen on the same day so how was i to know....but boy am i suddenly kicking myself..i figured it was just generic dolly stuff and wanted nothing to do with it.....lemmy bash my head into the table for a lil while...DOH
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Oh no! I've done the same thing though...found a baby pony in a box of junky toys at a yard sale, saw some of it's accessories, but didn't know what they were at the time, and left them behind. :yikes:
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Oooo ouch! That kind of painful stuff always happens when you first learn about something new. I didn't realize until recently that the second generation was even My Little Pony and found that my sister actually had one of the magic motion ones. She had already gotten rid of it in one of her cleaning purges and it was donated to goodwill. Then we found the playset recently and I realized it was Gen2 and we were both upset that she got rid of the pony. I personally think that generation is a little funny looking but i'd gladly add her to my collection anyway.
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Cute finds! I love random pony finds! :)
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in a fit of boredom and annoyed at the sudden inability to attend everfree....im cleaning these ole girls up
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Gosh what a random place to find ponies!
They are not super rare but people are always on the look out for Spunky so certainly worth a clean and offer for sale if you are not keeping them! Good luck
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Wow! Nice finds!
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i do intend to keep atleast spunky...the 3 of thhem got a good deep scrub last night with the exception of the fact i didnt want to unbraid the fakies hair "yet"......brushed out the otehr 2 sooo much tangled mess in that friz..they came suprisingly clean...now i need to figth teh frizzys!!!
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i do intend to keep atleast spunky...the 3 of thhem got a good deep scrub last night with the exception of the fact i didnt want to unbraid the fakies hair "yet"......brushed out the otehr 2 sooo much tangled mess in that friz..they came suprisingly clean...now i need to figth teh frizzys!!!
Conditioner [human or fabric] and a set of straightners!!!
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straightners?...no explain please
of course i used "mane and tail" shampoo and condition on all 3 of them LOL....no im not kidding
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I think she means you can use a flat iron to straighten the hair. Personally, I don't bother, but if the frizz is really bad even after conditioning, it's supposed to work. I don't bother because I can't seem to do it right...
Plus, Spunky has curly hair...
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looks like they beat me to the IDs, but im not sure, but that fakie might be a CPK pony (cabbage patch kids) they tend to look kinda chunky, tho it might be a fakie of them then... hard to tell. and yeah spunky is supposed to have a little mop of curly hair so it might not really be frizz. i jsut heavily condition it, finger tease it to find the original curls, then carefully rinse them out. if youre worried about straighteners you might be able to pull off a simple leg and neckwrap for the drink n wet. easier with decent results. =]
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The purple pony is just your average "real eye" fakie - they were sold at many chain stores from the 80's onwards, you can still find them today more or less the same. Sometimes called Tootsie fakies because they have the lower body mold ripped off from Hasbro's Tootsie/Cherries Jubilee pony. Their heads do look similar to a CPK horse though.
CPK horses are stamped ©1999 OAA Inc, MFD by Hasbro Inc, US Pat. Pend, Made in China on their bellies. They also have large chunky feet with molded horseshoes and little cabbages in the centre of each one.
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sadly the frizzys is BAD BAD i spent a good hour+ EACH on the 2 of them just getting the knots out..the curls in spunkys hair are still there but the frizzed ends is really really bad...on a side note tho..no mold, no tail rust on spunky just some likely cat teeth marks that are somewhat hard to notice and only really on the inner front legs.......as for drink n wet..well...tail rust alot of sun fade and crazy bad frizz even after leaving conditioner in...both of them got a leg/neck wrap but it really didnt help....i tried some brush in hair gel on the baby and got mixed results..it calmed the frizzys but didnt fix them LOL
heres the clean results..or ..atleast initial cleaning...btw there are NO hoove markings on the fakie except made in china..ahh well i still like her
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Post Merge: May 29, 2012, 10:28:13 PM
btw i got 3 more i need ID'd that i picked up today while hunting..tho ive only got 1 shot.....the G4 in me saw that white one and went OOOO SHINEY!!!!! as in shining armor lol..but i didnt see the gem cutie mark till i got home and opened the grab bag
im guessing by the pink plastic imbeded in there hooves that they are all g3 or 3.5(ill get the hang of this soon enuf
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All G3's, looks like Sunset Sweety, Flower Flash, and Periwinkle.
Foot + magnet (or plastic cap) always equals a G3.
G3.5's have the giant heads.
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All G3's, looks like Sunset Sweety, Flower Flash, and Periwinkle.
Foot + magnet (or plastic cap) always equals a G3.
G3.5's have the giant heads.
ha SWEET..so its the 3.5s that creep me out..got it..
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Yup, 3.5's are the "creepy" ones with LPS style proportions. (Giant head, heavy plastic body, tiny neck, distorted looking features.)
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I think she means you can use a flat iron to straighten the hair. Personally, I don't bother, but if the frizz is really bad even after conditioning, it's supposed to work. I don't bother because I can't seem to do it right...
Plus, Spunky has curly hair...
Lol - *smacks computer* UK English to US English translator not working! Yes, a flat iron!
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haha, I think for the most part, anyone who's used a straightener/flat iron knows what it is.
Wilford, you can get rid of the tail rust with toothpaste. I don't know if there's anything special about the inside of the Drink n Wet ponies, but typically, you should be able to take the head off, remove the tail (and get rid of the rust washer) and rub toothpaste into the rusty end of the tail. You'll have to condition the tail again. I just put the tails back without a washer, but you can replace it with a zip tie or something non-metal if you want.
But yeah, that's some bad frizz...I have a few like that and just kinda left it alone.
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as i sit here and eyeball them..ummm where the tail is looks like it would be really hard to get at....but worse im wondering how you get the tail back in...i mean ive got modeling supply's and skills from tons of custom 24/25th scale car stuff so this should be easy for me but..im a lil dumbfounded....as for the washer..ill have to see it but im willing to bet i have some stainless hardware that would be a MUCH better replacement..or if nothing else nylon...how spunky isnt tail rusty or any of the other afflictions is beyond me
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Well, like I said, I don't know if the inside of one of those is different from regular ponies, but typically, you can pull the tail out with pliers or hemostats. If you don't put a washer back on, you can usually just push the metal clamp back through the hole from the outside. It usually stays in, unless you want to brush it's hair much.
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Drink n' Wets aren't really good ponies to practice tail removal on, because they have a clear plastic tube glued inside as well from the mouth to the rear. You generally have to remove the pony's head to get at the tail washer/clean up the gunk inside, so you might want to leave that for later on down the road if you don't feel comfortable with disassembly. So long as you keep her dry, the rust isn't likely to spread.
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Ah, that's what I was wondering. Well, if nothing else, you might be able to remove the rust that's visible.