*The real reverse gusty has a perfect factory weave and its flawless inside while the faked one has a messy weave.
Absolutely no doubt ponies travel.. In fact I suspect she might be related to the US red haired tootsie prototype I have.. The red tootsie was bought in the rhode island hasbro employee store by a girls father who had a pass to go there and brought his daughter to pick out some toys. They have the same red hair and both have differences in their symbols compared to the normal releases.
I call her UK reverse gusty because she was found there.. but not because she was made there... I like to trace ponies back to where they were found..We really just wont ever know which country she was made by.. but obviously both her and the delaneys confirmed gusty were both found in the UK.
I know the one i have was originally wolfchicks and i can 100 percent confirm the one i have is just as real as any hasbro gusty.
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Wow. I can't believe Sarah-Bee sold her Reverse Gusty. :shocked:
The weave inside BabyDoll's pony and Ember1's pony is just spot on. They look identical, right down to the symbols and the darker green stripe :bigups:
Love pkw xxx
Your comparison symbol pics Are awesome. Yes i think the reverse gusty mystery is finally cracked. I think we can now tell the difference between the real and fake ones when they surface. There are noticable differences.
Awesome photos though. Good to see yours has a darker green stripe too.
The inside of the scandi gustys look similiar to the RG weave.
i think my RG has black eye lashes though. Check out my photo. The real one is on the right.
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Maybe yours have faded?
THE REVERSE GUSTY CHARACTERISTICS:
1. Darker green stripe in main.
2. Pointed and curved leaves in symbols of a silvery purple color. Symbols have a more detailed and delicate appearance than the regular or Scandi releases.
3. Factory woven head and small tail washer
Really enjoying all these comparison pics!
Babydoll, I remember that auction! Have you had her all this time? I think I still have the original auction pic saved :)
The green stripe of my reverse gusty is definately slightly darker. I Have compared them in all lights and side by side. Babydoll also says hers has a darker green stripe too. I cant see very well the symbols on yours either to see if the symbols are the same as our gustys. Check for the following features in broad daylight.
THE REVERSE GUSTY CHARACTERISTICS:
1. Has slightly darker green stripe in mane
2. Has pointed and curved leaves in symbols of a silvery purple color.
Symbols have a more detailed and delicate appearance than the regular or Scandi releases.
3. Has factory woven head and small tail washer
4. Has slightly more shinny silky cherry red hair with a heavy pink overtone
5. Has a lighter color for her thick eyebrows and a black color for her eye lashes
I also took a picture of her eye in direct daylight as opposed to flourescent light. It looks like babydoll is right. Her eyebrow is a lighter color than her lashes. Does yours have the same feature? Check all of the above characteristics in broad daylight. It is not super easy to notice some of them but once you know what to look for it becomes pretty obvious what the differences are.
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Here is another photo. Real rev gusty is on the left and fake gusty is on the right. The stripe is slightly darker. Try comparing the stripe on yours in daylight.
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I also got curious about the red in her mane and tail. Something is bringing the green stripe to an even darker hue. Albers color theory teaches about putting color on other colors to change the hue. If the two gustys red had the same hue then the two stripes wouldnt appear so different since when side by side one of green stripes look only slightly darker. I noticed that the real reverse gustys red hair has a great deal of a pink overtone in it. And its a more saturated cherry red than the fake gusty. The differences are small but noticable to me anyways. Real is on the left and fake is on the right.
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Real on the top and fake on the bottom.
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Kelly - I too thought perhaps the green looked dark due to contrast with the brightness of the red, but there really is a difference as can be seen in the pictures :)Yes PWK.. The fake gustys hair is a flat color and its more voluminous.. The real reverse gusty is silky smooth and has a lot of dimension and pink overtone to her hair..
Ember1 - the texture of the hair looks different as well as the colour.
I'm going to have a look for a thread that I remember from a while back on the hair colour of Scandinavian Hopsotch as I believe her hair colour is slightly different to her regular release.
Love pkw xxx
Im excited to read it when you find it PKW
If her eyeliner is brown i would say she's legit. No scammer would have known about that and the normal scandi gusty has black eyeliner.
Everything else checks out. Her symbols, hair, stripe, and eyeliner.
Only if it involves a pony. :silly:
*makes note to not commit murder around Ember1 as she would clearly catch me*
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The brown eyeliner was just discovered by babydoll. It would have been inpossible for a scammer to have known about this previously. The symbol differences are a new discovery too. It was previously thought she had the scandinavian or us glitter symbol. We now know she has a unique symbol.
So even if a community member was a scammer they still would not have known these details until the last few weeks. And even then it would be very very hard to replicate.
Ember1 and Babydoll what is the diameter of your RG's washers?
Ember1, Babydoll and KKV how long does the mane measure?
Love pkw xxx
I am pulling the hair straight when I measure kitkatvintage. Are you doing that too?
I think the UK Glow In The Dark Princess Royal Blue variant used hair left over from the Moondreamers line.
I think the UK Glow In The Dark Princess Royal Blue variant used hair left over from the Moondreamers line.
We need LadyG! From what I remember her saying I don't think the hair was a match and the only Moon Dreamer I have had in my hand had pink hair so I can't help :blush:
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I don't have any Moondreamers to compare Glow In The Dark Royal Blue to, but my first guess was that she matched Whimzee the blue-green haired one. There was a green haired doll planned for their 1988 line which was canceled before going into production. She's near the bottom of this page with the peacock pet:
http://www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk/moondreamers-unproduced.php
I will try to get some pictures of my RG with the red haired Tootsie I have as well.
Hmm i wouldnt have thought of pina colada .
You can see how pinky her hair really is in this photo.
Does anyone know if skyfliers hair is this shade?
PS that is the card my fiance gave me with gusty on my birthday. They go so well together.
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Secondly, the Movie Star ponies here in the UK generally have black eyeliner, not brown. I mention this because it's the only release of Gusty in the UK - although I would be interested in whether BabyDoll's two MOC ones both have black eyeliner or brown or one of each, as I don't know how consistent this is or whether it's batch related.
Again, I;m not sure what that says about any version of RG, but it's just something to take into account.