Thanks mlp4me. :) I think everyone that mentioned it being dye/pigment is right. I just tried wiping her off with a dry Kleenex and noticed there are several areas of pink/ light red on her although her overall color is very light pink.Yup, the pigment comes off really easy and sometimes is a very noticeable change to the entire body color once you do remove the bleed. I've had 2 bright eyes, both obviously red from the pigment bleed (and after a few wipe downs they started to look better). Definitely is becoming a more known issue...
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I believe the spots on FF Cotton Candy are supposed to be faint pink. I've never come across a FF Cotton Candy with white spots.
I believe the spots on FF Cotton Candy are supposed to be faint pink. I've never come across a FF Cotton Candy with white spots.
Ohhh, interesting! That would make sense, in a way . . . All the other Collector ponies have symbols that match their body or hair color.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this too, but the thing is it's so pale and against the pink body, it's hard to know if it's actually pink or if it's an optical illusion.
Kind of like Skyflier and Twist's mane streaks. Pretty much every site lists them as white, but after lots of peering at my MOC and loose ones, and comparisons against white paper, I'm pretty sure they're both pale pink, too.
But then again it *could* be colour transfer from the hair (unlikely since it's so uniform, but not impossible)...after so many years, we just can't know for sure with the colours of some of these ponies and their markings/mane and tail.
Blossom's flowers are white so she breaks the pattern.I believe the spots on FF Cotton Candy are supposed to be faint pink. I've never come across a FF Cotton Candy with white spots.
Ohhh, interesting! That would make sense, in a way . . . All the other Collector ponies have symbols that match their body or hair color.
Skyflier has white hair as far as I know . . . She's pretty common, and if she'd started out with fading pink hair than IMO there would be at least some around with the original hue, which is a very strong bubblegum pink. She has a white streak on the US brochures, too, which were quite accurate in Year 3.
Twist is more of a possibility because she was drawn incorrectly on her backcard to begin with (in Gusty's pose, with golden hair and no streak at all), probably based on some long-lost prototype.
I saw the picture, but the original fading pink color is much stronger than that. ;) Like this:
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IMO red hair stains her white streak. Just like I've picked up SS Surprises where her chatreuse hair has dyed parts of her shoulder to yellow.
As for Blossom, I often wonder about her and why the hair for Baby Blossom ended up white. Cotton Candy and Baby CC are all pink. Maybe Blossom was going to be lavender and white. It would also explain why someone got majorly confused and drew Minty in purple with white hair in the UK factfile, although that could just be garbled information.
As for Blossom, I often wonder about her and why the hair for Baby Blossom ended up white. Cotton Candy and Baby CC are all pink. Maybe Blossom was going to be lavender and white. It would also explain why someone got majorly confused and drew Minty in purple with white hair in the UK factfile, although that could just be garbled information.
All of the year 3 earth and unicorn babies have hair colors that are a shade lighter than their mothers'. Since there was no lighter shade available for Blossom's purple, I guess that is why they went with white instead. Also, it was the first set of baby ponies, and there wasn't any established rule yet that babies needed to match their parents perfectly. (Although for some reason the rule in this set was that unicorn and earth babies are lighter in color than their mothers, but pegasus babies are not. XD)
Anyway, this thing about Skyflier's streak is very intriguing and should be investigated further (maybe in its own thread)! It would blow my mind if it turned out to be pink, since every official illustration ever always clearly showed it as white. I also know that Skyflier's red hair is prone to staining if it is in contact with something for a long time (especially if it's white), so that makes the case even trickier.
I've never found that shade of red to be particularly bad about bleeding. Surprise's chartreuse shade, on the other hand, will bleed if you look at it funny.