I normally do dunk my ponies and let them dry upside down standing on their tail hole for 3 days or so. Normally that works getting all the water out again
But with the talking mechanism I am really afraid to destroy it because it still works well after so many years!
Thank you for your advice

Hello everyone.

So I don't have a single MOC image of a Magic Message pony from the UK. I also have no translated cards for this set - so none in German, or in French, or any other language.


So what I want to know is


Whether cards exist for this set in German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian.

Whether anyone has a UK carded Mint on Card Magic Message Pony (it will have an orange border and the names MAGICAL BREEZE and TEDDI on the back instead of WINDY and CUDDLES). (Any pony is fine, I want to corroborate accessories.)

Whether anyone has a UK backcard (as above) with the name MAGICAL BREEZE on the front.

Whether any UK or European collectors had any of the Magic Message ponies from new, ESPECIALLY Magical Breeze/Windy.

Also, if you are in the UK and did the mail in offer for Magical Breeze, do you remember whether she had a comb/brush or ribbon with her?

And what cards were used to sell this set in Canada, in Australia, in anywhere else not mentioned, OTHER than the USA.


...This is a massive longshot as I suspect the evidence I need isn't out there, and it's more a case of disproving rather than proving a theory, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

US Collectors, if you have a UK carded or European carded pony in your collection, feel free to drop in. I do have images for all the US carded set, though, so have no questions about their release

Note - US cards with Dutch/French import labels on them count as European in this exercise.

Thank you all

I'm just amused every time I accidentally stumble on some brony conversation and they're all reaffirming themselves that they invented the pony fandom and that there were no ponypeople before G4 happened.

Although in seriousness, given how fandom has moved around platforms, and given how these are mostly kids who weren't around to use earlier platforms like newsgroups...it's not surprising that they think this. There are a lot of older collectors who aren't so keen to throw themselves on social media or only use one. A lot of older site stuff has also disappeared for one reason or another. Things like the Ring of Rainbows, which was probably our answer to G4 fandom, albeit in the tech restrictions of the time, are basically gone. There are relics of it on very old dead site fragments floating around the internet, but why would younger pony fans know about that?

I've been sorting old stuff in my room and I kid you not, I found floppy disks with pony fanfiction on it. Goodness knows what else is on those disks. One day I might pinch my Dad's disk reader and find out.

It's obviously true that the angle of the G4 fandom moved in a different way to G1, but I remember a lot of fanfic writing, newsletters, artwork, and other stuff and sites set up specifically to promote those things - alongside the collecting. There are a lot fewer websites now for G1 that are not information about the ponies. In fact, do any still exist? It's hardly surprising that there are G4 fans who don't know about the fandom before theirs, because of how much the internet has changed.

I have been thinking about this especially since I've been spring cleaning/renovating my site, and one thing I've been trying to include is character material for each pony if I can. And it made me realise that that's not much different from the G4 fandom wikis and their biographies of characters from the cartoon. True, I'm mostly working from backcards and comics (and some have nothing to write about)...but it strikes me that the origins of our fandom were not that different from the one they think they invented. And in ten years, theirs may have completely vanished as well, to be replaced by whatever the new thing of the time is (if there is still MLP by then).

Toys:

1. a mix between flutters, sweetheart sisters, the feathered hooves of the boys, with the identifiable G1/G3 style head sculpt for the "main toyline"
2. bring back the petites; expand this line, because the small sized pony figures allows for elaborate playset buildings that are still afforable and storable due to size
3. DIY pony building: blank ponies to design and decorate, with removable hair plugs and tails

Media:

1. A mix between G1 RaMC, Winx, W.I.T.C.H., Harry Potter, Chevaliers du zodiaque
2. A total ban on "teaparty gone wrong because a cupcake went missing" storylines

we had a ton of rain come through and my parent's house still doesn't have a tarp over the collapsed roof 

update: the tarp was on my dad just forgot to tell me