Year of G5, hopefully!

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Here's hoping it looks more like the silhouette than not!

There's parts of this I like, others I don't... I think Potion Nova looks the best. I had to redo Snuzzle and Sunny Daze over 3 times each and I'm still not happy with them...

A while ago I made a post about how Neopets was getting a reboot some time in the near future as well as a cartoon. With the end of Flash near, Webkinz has also been making some major changes such as moving onto an app, both for desktop and smart devices.

I expected them to keep everything as-is, the same as it was from 2005. Nope! They just announced a reboot of Webkinz. Still titled "Webkinz", but the 2005 Flash version will still be available and supported, titled "Webkinz Classic". The new Webkinz is available on smart devices right now but will be on desktop eventually.

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Some of the features:

- Totally 3D! The pets are three-dimensional and can be dressed as before.
- A baby system...? There seems to be some sort of genetics mechanic where two pets can have a baby, and the outcome of the baby can vary! They will grow up into "kid pets" and eventually adults.
- Advanced home customization. In the original Webkinz, you had items you placed on a grid and could rotate 90 degrees. You have that option here too, but now items can be placed off the grid in any direction. Also, your house is an actual house now with connected rooms you can freely move around in without loading screens, without a bunch of disconnected rooms.

Here's the post they made about it: https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/join-the-family/

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Also in video form because it's best when accompanied by music:
https://youtu.be/hQhpkcWI6CA


Based on videos online of horses using their upper lip to... pet... cats...? I've been doing little animations lately as warmups for drawing. Unfortnately for whatever reason the video kept messing up a frame or two of the animation so I had to clip those parts out, so Peachy's blink isn't as smooth and Twinkles doesn't blink at all! The way it exported the colours is odd too... not sure why it's so bright! The GIF version is the correct one.

I was doing my routine "looking at and brushing my ponies because I have nothing better to do" when I noticed something about my Cotton Candy.

I have two Cotton Candys. One I bought already loose, and one I bought MIB. The now out-of-box CC came with a pamphlet for the Butterfly Island sets, so this would've had to been released (or, re-released) in late 2004 at the earliest. She's also a duller shade of pink but I'm certain it's due to sun damage. She's in weird shape, a lot of the paint from the playset rubbed off on her feet, and there's some purple paint on her neck. Not sure if this was lazily made with little care for quality or it's a result of age... or maybe a mix of both?

The other CC I bought, pre-owned. I don't know where she came from or what she's been through. She's in better shape than my "MIB" CC for sure. Even though I'm sure these were both made around the same time in 2003, I'll call my pre-owned CC the "2003" one, and the other one my "2005" CC. I would call 2005 the "MIB" one but she's kinda out of the box now...

But anyway, onto the actual point of this post, I was playing with 2005's hair and I noticed these lines along her hair. The ones by her forelock were white so I assumed it was just... stressed...? plastic (I don't really know the terminology for this), similar to how G4s would end up. I thought it was just the plastic itself but nothing else. Looking closer, there are also pink and blue lines, right where the pink and blue strips of hair would start, respectively. Like a guide of how to root it.

After parting her hair you could see right in the middle there's a block of blue! I assume it's paint, but I haven't tried to do anything with it yet. The white is clear as day, but the pink is so pale it's hard to show up on camera. Towards the bottom you can see the blue lines as well.


2003's hair, like the rest of her, looks much better. You don't see any distracting white lines on her neck except for her forelock. I had a harder time parting her mane for this one, but you can see the lines are less visible as well. You can see the pink lines more clearly, including a block of pink. The blue seems to have rubbed off or bled into the plastic. You can see where it's coloured the plastic, looking sort of like a bruise. Now, I don't think I've washed 2005 at all, but I have washed 2003 a couple times, perhaps that caused the paint to fade or bleed in? I can't remember what she was like when I received her and I will never know what she looked like when she was brand new. Going back to 2005, I wonder if her lines are more visible due to her overall poorer quality as well.


I don't have many other Rainbow Celebration ponies— most of my 2003 G3s are Glitters. Sunny Daze is my one Rainbow, but she doesn't have any guides for her hair, either. It's weird how both of my Cotton Candys have these guides on them but not her despite both characters having multicoloured hair. The other ponies I have in my collection made later on don't have any lines on them either. It's purely a Cotton Candy thing, as far as my collection is concerned!

How common is this in ponies? Does anyone else have ponies with lines like this? ...or is this a problem exclusive to Cotton Candy?! Do you have a G3 Cotton Candy like this?

I feel like I've seen a Schleich thread before but it might have been old... or maybe they were just sales related? Anyway here's a dedicated thread if you want to show off anything Schleich! I really like the Bayala line but I don't need to buy any more horses... not right now, anyway. They're gorgeous, though.

So instead of horses I bought some dragons!

I need to take (better) pictures of the playset itself but here are the Island dragons I have now:

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I also bought the flower dragons, who haven't arrived yet. I hope they come out with more because there aren't enough cutesy girly dragons in the world! The other Schleich dragons are really cool but Bayalas are what I'd rather spend my money on, I think... I know Safari has some cool ones too that I might get in the future.

I'm American, I'm stuck with Calico Critters. And I just want to say: I hate all the houses we get. All we get are the same old red-and-white houses and add-ons to said houses. The layouts are all so boring. I know that's what everyone is getting right now but that's what I'm stuck with since all the sellers aren't American and shipping is expensive.

I've been looking at vintage/retired houses that were UK/Japan-exclusive and WOW they are so much better. Variety in colour, layout, shapes, you name it. All different kinds. They're also... much more expensive. I really wanted the Hillcrest house but it doesn't look like it would fit a lot of furniture in it. My current loves are the Larchwood Lodge and the Woodland Lodge (but I don't love it enough to spend $300+ on it...).

I guess I'm just ranting into the void right now because a lot of people here don't collect Sylvanian Families, and it might seem useless to ask, but does anyone know of anything that can fit Sylvanians? I don't like Woodzeez either. I know that there's dollhouse kits on Amazon and such but they never seem to be the right scale.

Results on Google say they're 1:16 but I can NEVER seem to find kits/houses that are actually that scale. Searching "1:16 dollhouse" on eBay is more successful, but Amazon only wants to show me 1:12 scale things. Ugh.

(Just to clarify, I'm not looking to buy, I just need to identify this if possible!)

I was a horse girl growing up. I played with MLPs, of course, but I also had Breyers, both Stablemates and the full-sized figures.

One year for Christmas (maybe around 2002-2004) I got this huge wooden stable. It was a full rectangular building, it wasn't "half-a-building" and it wasn't foldable. You played with it through the roof that had hinges. I remember the roof specifically because if you weren't careful, it would slam down on you and it would hurt! It had a couple stalls in it but I don't remember how many there were. I don't remember if it came with any accessories other than a foldable green wooden fence.

With Google's help, I found this Van Manen stable. It looks the most what I had as a kid but it's too small. This looks like it's for minifigures. I used my stable to play with full-sized Breyers.

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Breyer has a stable that looks similar to this, but it is still for Stablemates.  The fence to this one is plastic too, instead of wooden.

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I'm fairly certain it was for full-sized horses and not Stablemates, because I had a few Stablemates playsets and they were all plastic. I know Melissa and Doug makes a lot of wooden toys, but their stables are all foldable, which mine was not.

I can't remember if mine had "brick" on it like the Van Manen and the Stablemates ones. It might have been unpainted. I think the roof might've had shingles on it.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?