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Pony Brag Arena / PJ's Pony Herd + flea market finds!
« on: September 21, 2015, 05:06:20 PM »
For someone who started collecting My Little Pony brushables sometime around June, I realize that I've amassed....quite a few ponies, mostly G4. I believe I counted 39, but I could be wrong. :P

This is my entire collection, as of today, 9-21-2015:
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With the exception of G3 pinkie pie, the 2 G2 happy meal toys, and all of the G1s, ALL of these ponies were acquired this summer. :P I  even bought a little bakery playset (which isn't pictured here) :)

I guess you can say my summer was FULL of ponies.  There was even a point where I stopped for a few weeks because I was collecting so many a bit too quickly. :blush: That being said, I'm pretty happy with what I have! I keep telling myself that I have enough, but I just can't help myself when unicorns are involved. ;P

This weekend I checked out several flea markets around the Chicago area. It was my first time going to flea markets, and I was pretty excited!

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My first big find was this Lemony Gem. She's in relatively good shape, although she has some scratches above her eye and the colors of the decals are a bit dingy. Not bad for 1 USD, though! She's getting her hair done.

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All of these G3 ponies were 4 USD all together, which certainly isn't a bad deal in my opinion. I love Wind Drifter's 3D symbol and colors! Chilly Breezes is adorable as well. I love white ponies! And with the addition of those G3 and G3.5 happy meal toys, I now have a representative for every generation of MLP. How about that? :P

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And if getting all those from flea markets wasn't enough for one weekend, I also picked up this Water Cuties Princess Luna. My sister saw that Pinkie Pie this evening and picked her up for me! She knew I didn't have her yet, and that Pinkie Pie is one of my favorites. What a sweetheart :)

I apologize for the blurry/dark photos, I have rather shaky hands. Thanks for taking a look at my collection! I was super excited to share it with you folks!

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Customs / Help with G4 Neckplug NIGHTMARE.
« on: August 23, 2015, 05:26:01 PM »
Hey everyone. :(

Just yesterday I picked up a duplicate tall-body alicorn twilight sparkle at a cheap price in hopes of making a show-accurate princess luna custom. This is the first custom I've ever attempted.

After looking at several tutorials, I tried a my plan of attack on the neck plug with an exacto knife....and....well....I botched it. BADLY. I even broke the neck peg.

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In addition to cutting in the wrong place, my accursed shaky hands made it extremely difficult to not slice up the plastic.  Pictures below show further damage.

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At this point, I have little hope of retaining a moving neck (I kept the peg, though, just in case), but I would like to remove the plug, if possible, to try  to remove the remainder of the old tail and possibly insert a new one later.

With it this damaged, I'm reluctant to do anything else without consulting you customs experts :P Is there any hope of salvaging the plug and getting it out? I've tried running it under hot water, but the broken peg makes it really difficult to wiggle it back and forth, not to mention all of the cuts make it hard to tell whether or not I've removed any glue. I haven't tried boiling the pony yet, though.

Please, if anyone could help me, I'd really appreciate it. If nothing can be done, I can glue the head on, paint everything, and just do some model magic for the mane and tail, but I don't want to give up hope for a brushable custom yet if someone has advice! Thank you for reading.

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Introductions / Hello everyone!
« on: August 05, 2015, 08:53:00 AM »
I'm PJSparkles and I'm relatively new to the pony world :P I recently graduated from college with a degree in Biology, but I haven't really been motivated to look for a job since my last semester was so exhausting. So instead, I've been occupying myself with different hobbies--and I got into ponies!

I recently started buying G4s in the store with the intention of getting one of each type of pony--alicorn, pegasus, earth, and unicorn. I then remembered that I had several old-school ones as a kid (G1 mostly), and that they were somewhere in my basement! Now, I'm hoping to restore them to their former glory  ^.^

My sister and I had several very cute G1 ponies--sea shell, bubbles, snuzzle, bowtie, and babies glory and ember! We also have two G1 ponies that stand out--Sweet Sundrop, a Sweetheart sister Prom Queen, and Bouquet, a Brush n' Grow pony! Those two are my sister's favorite and my favorite, respectively. :) I'm in the process of cleaning some schmutz off of them and I'm considering repinking Sweet Sundrop. For being in a basement for at least 15 years, they're all in pretty good shape, if not a little dirty!

Oh, I nearly forgot. I also have a G3 pinkie pie (she's sparkly! My mom loves her) and some G2 happy meal ponies :)

Whew! Sorry, that was a very long introduction! But thank you for sticking through it! I hope that I made a good first impression!  :)

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