I haven't seen any topics about this started in the last week or so, so if I managed to miss one, feel free to merge this!

I went to the mall a couple of weeks ago, and as I was walking around, I noticed a little girl with a unfamiliar-looking pony plush sticking out of a D&B bag. No biggie, I figured, her arms probably got tired and it's a Beanie Baby or something. But when I saw a second little girl with a matching bag and pony, I started to get suspicious, so I went exploring!

Good thing I did! Apparently, Dave & Buster's (which is sort of like a Chuck E. Cheese/sports bar for adults, in case you don't have one locally!) now has pony plush as one of their prizes! I took a picture, then I decided: I MUST have one! (Or all!)

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975 tickets each, ouch! I guess ticket inflation has gone up since I was a kid, because I managed to make enough for 3 ponies in a little over an hour! (It took about $50 in gameplay though, aside from a few games of skee ball I played for old time's sake!)

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I decided to get Twilight Sparkle first, because there were only 2-4 of her in the entire pile of ponies!! (You can see her eye peeking out from the pile of ponies in the first pic!) Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy seem to be the most common, so I’m going to have to go back at some point and get Fluttershy!

Some nice details: Applejack has her little red hair ribbon! And each pony has a little description about them written in the tag!

According to their tags, they are made by “Toy Factory” and are part of the Cutie Mark Magic line (you can see that Applejack’s front tag vector has the extra apple mark over her eye)!

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Good luck on the hunt, girls! I hope these stick around for awhile, I don't get to Dave & Buster's very often!

PS, if you're wondering why there's a strange name on my pictures, it's my Tumblr URL!

Hey guys! So I've decided to try and whip up a G1 pony cosplay, and I'm curious to see how other people have pulled theirs off! Would you mind sharing? (Especially Big Brother ponies, please!)

Even if your costume is G4, G2 or G3 based, I'd love to see it! The more the merrier!

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I took a BILLION PICTURES for this, so I'll put them under spoilers from here on out! I haven't seen anyone else posting reviews of the newest castle yet, so I really wanted to get in-depth with this! This is also on my Tumblr, if you wanna see it there! (http://ponyguru.tumblr.com/post/123778721634/my-little-pony-cutie-mark-magic-canterlot-castle)

The newest castle just arrived yesterday, and I couldn’t wait to open it up and see everything! In case you’re curious, the newest castle was just listed on Amazon last week, and at almost three feet tall and priced at $100 (currently on Amazon for $90), it’s the biggest, most ambitious G4 building yet! (The newest castle just arrived yesterday, and I couldn’t wait to open it up and see everything! In case you’re curious, the newest castle was just listed on Amazon last week, and at almost three feet tall and priced at $100 (currently on Amazon for $90), it’s the biggest, most ambitious G4 building yet! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SOG4Q6G/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00SOG4Q6G&linkCode=as2&tag=alabmlme-20&linkId=HLPX2VGBNK72AYYF

First off, lemme assuage some concerns: the castle is not a plastic frame with a cardboard backing. Although there are some cardboard inserts, the majority of the castle is plastic, and feels very sturdy. However, many of the accessories are recycled from G3. Upside - it comes with a crown for you to wear!

To start off, it arrives in a huge box! Our size-model today is a G3 Blankie, rehaired in GITD white!


I really like the shading they used on the vectors for the back!


On the side of the box, we get to see some of the accessories!


“Here’s some ponies we didn’t include, so go spend some more after dropping $100 on this castle!”

Here is Celestia and Spike! Spike looks pretty standard, like the one we saw in the Rarity Drives a Car playset. Celestia however gets tinsel, clear glittery wings, and the new QR code on her foreleg!
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Here’s an in-progress shot of the castle! This was before I got all of the yellow railing on, which is a little tricky! (All of the pieces are supposed to have slots to fit together flush, so work on it until they click!)

I also had some problems getting the cardboard inserts to fit in right; they seem to be cut just a little too big, so I managed to bend almost all of them to get them to tuck behind the plastic tabs, damaging them in tiny ways.

Here’s something I love about this castle; the stained glass (which is gorgeous and so detailed) and the “thronevator.” When you turn the little knob at the base of the throne, you can lock it at whatever place on the track you want. So Celestia can ascend to the top floor, or just chill out a couple inches above the ground!


Here’s the cardboard inserts; they’re really cute!

ACCESSORIES!! Here’s all of the cool little doodads, which I tried to set up in their “designated” (I think?) spots in the first photo. The bed is pretty cool, but I think my favorite is tied between the blue flame candles (!!!) and the treasure box with Twilight’s letters! I love to see show canon reflected in the toys!

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There’s a fair amount of unique molds here (the little tables have stylized suns/stars molded into them, the scrolls, the bed, a bookstand!), but there’s also some repetition, like with the hair clips, the too-small tea set/sweets/table that’s from G3 Ponyville, the tea tray and wand, and of course this old favorite:

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The cake with the G3 logo left untouched. 

For anyone curious, here are the instructions! As you can see, the stairs are movable!

Overall, I really like this playset, and for $100, it does seem like a lot of energy went into engineering it well. I like that it’s more of a “building” than we’ve seen in past G4 castles, which I miss from G1/G3 days, but it’s a shame that you have to spend $100 to get a house that isn’t just a wall, as with the second G4 castle. I would have liked more ‘unique’ accessories (no more of the Ponyville dangit!!), but the ones we got were pretty great!

For it’s size, scope and attention to detail, I’d say this is a good buy!

If you have any questions, PM me!

Bonus: overly-caffeinated Celestia on the front of the box!

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I'm sad to make this post, because in all honesty, I thought very highly of this seller until I actually purchased something from her. Since it crossed the line from carelessness/laziness to actual nefarious behavior, I'm sad to say that I had to make this post here. I had really expected better of her, as an experienced seller with an Etsy shop, and someone I had spoken to for several months.

Very tl;dr version: Monsterhighclassof2014 on eBay/Bluebirddollshoppe on Etsy is a scammer. She sells items using outdated photos, often selling items she no longer has on hand, and drags her feet/tries to convince you not to file with Paypal with various excuses and delays.

She has an eBay account (http://www.ebay.com/usr/monsterhighclassof2014) as well as an Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/bluebirddoll?ref=si_shop), and both have a few (but not many) negative feedback, so it's clear it's not just me having these problems. 

I originally met Bluebirddollshoppe ("Seller") on Tumblr when I entered one of her contests, and we conversed in a friendly manner since then. I suppose my first tip-off was when it took her two months to ship out the prizes, and they were different than what she had first offered.

When she posted a picture of a pile of G4 ponies she had for sale (auction in question: http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Piece-My-Little-Pony-Friendship-is-Magic-Lot-/181707625298?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4e9e5352 ), I informed her that she would get more money by singling out the more 'rare' ponies for individual sale, and taking the stray G1 pony out of the lot. She informed me that she also had a bunch of G1 ponies she wanted to unload, and we started discussing pricing over email.

Now, unbeknownst to me, she had taken my advice, and sold several of the G4 ponies out of the lot to sell to another buyer on the side - without updating her eBay photos to reflect that most of the expensive ponies were already sold. http://lotsoftinythings.tumblr.com/post/115576122836/pony-mail-arrived-these-are-from-justabadapple I believe this double-selling is reflected in her latest "positive" feedback on eBay; "Was missing two ponies but I do think I got a good deal with this buy." The feedback is private, but you can tell that she has only sold one MLP item recently. Considering the price of a MIB G4 Applejack right now, and that she essentially sold the same ponies twice, I thought this was textbook scamming.

Over email, Seller sent me a link to a Flicker account (https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/129810986@N06/ ) with pictures of all of the ponies she had for sale, and I made an offer on the 80 ponies and one thermos - plus "some more ponies she hadn't taken pictures of yet," including Wigwam. I thought this was a pretty good deal, and I made an offer on the whole group. She accepted it, I sent payment out ASAP, and the ponies were in the mail to me within days. I asked her to put in some bubblewrap, if possible, to protect the So-Soft and winger ponies in the lot. Otherwise, I said not to worry about padding, I don't mind if they get a little banged around. The ponies arrived without any padding, and one of the wingers had a crease in her wing; whether from shipping or beforehand is unknown.

I didn't think much of the offhanded joke she had made about "I tried to count them but I gave up after 20," until the box arrived, I started to count ... and 23 ponies from the photos were missing.

Not one, or five, or even ten ponies. Twenty three ponies! How do you "forget" more than a quarter of the items you sold?!

I responded as politely as I could, because at this point I considered us friendly; But after three weeks of dragging her feet and nonstop excuses ("I have to go to an event! I'm too sick to clean! I can't refund you, I have no money! How about I trade my Barbie collection to the lady at the flea market for replacement ponies?" etc.), I started to get impatient. During the time that she told me she was "too busy" to clean her room and find the ponies (of which she brightly informed me that the thermos was "long gone" - why did you include it in your sales pictures if it's gone???), she managed to 1) start a raffle, 2) take photos of her raffle items, and 3) delete the evidence of any pony sales off of her Flickr account.

She didn't have time to find the ponies she sold me, but she did have plenty of time to hide any evidence of it!

After multiple delays, suggesting a Paypal dispute twice and almost a month later, I've finally received the replacement ponies that she was able to find. Of the 23 missing ponies, she found 13 to replace them - none of them are the original ponies I paid for in the photos, but they're all G1 at least. However, she still kept three of them, because of 'sentimental value' - so I've received 10 ponies out of the 23 I'm owed. I've received as much of a refund as I'm going to get (the difference between the actual refund and what I received is only $1.25), and the ordeal is finally over. To her credit, she didn't ask me to pay for the shipping for the replacement box of ponies.

Throughout this process, I felt a certain amount of pity for her - at first, she came across as very disorganized and overwhelmed. However, when I discovered that she had A) pulled the same 'selling expensive items she didn't have' trick on someone else and B) deleted the proof from Flickr, I began to realize that this was perhaps more sinister than mere disorganization. She also ignored my emails for multiple days until I mentioned a dispute with Paypal, a very bad sign, and had a tendency to 'go silent' unless I prodded her for a response or update.

Hopefully she can get her business under control, but as of right now, despite being "made whole" in my transaction with her, I can't recommend her to anyone else as a seller. I am 100% sure that if I hadn't bugged her for the better part of a month, I would not have gotten any kind of refund or replacement ponies. What I had hoped would be an easy transaction between friends turned out to be anything but.

Hey guys! If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm looking for one of these:

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They were very large, only given to artists who were going to design a pony for the MLP Project Art Show, and I want one!

I'm not sure if anyone has any for sale, but since I recently saw one that got sold, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask! Thanks for looking!

This was something I found 'new' about a month back, and I haven't seen many people posting about it, so I thought it bore making a new topic. (My apologies if I missed the previous topic on this!)

I finally got around to gathering up all my quarters to buy them, and I have an almost complete set of tattoos now! So here's almost all of the designs available!

The display I found looked like this:
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And after putting in what felt like a million quarters, I got these:
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Here's the image reversed, so you can see how it would look on your skin:
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Here's some closeups:
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It looks like these go in a certain order in the machine, and after getting the first nine designs, I was ready to get the tenth. Instead, the pattern started over again from the beginning, and after the first two doubles, I gave up. So if anyone knows what the tenth design looks like, let me know! (And lemme know if you wanna trade - I'm close enough already, might as well finish the set!)

They're only 50 cents each, so they're very affordable and cute! They look more 'ornate' than the similar, smaller tattoos we got with the trading cards, which is nice!

Hi guys! Well, wow, it's been a long time since I posted in here. I'm sort of a slow customizer, to say the least, but I had a great time trying to bust out these two in time for the end of the contest! These two don't even have sealer done on them yet!!

Ultimately, I wanted to make ponies that I would love to keep once the contest was over, and I succeeded - I really, really like how they both turned out! I've even received an offer to buy for both of them, but unfortunately, I like them too much to sell, I'm sorry!

So first up, my non-Hasbro fakie, who I have dubbed Lady Knight! My original 'vision' was for a very kawaii, hyper-girly and pastel mount for a female knight to ride. I put a lot of work into her 'armor,' because I really wanted her to look completely over-the-top with detailing! Her symbol is a 'halbeard', from FFXI, which I referenced and turned pink! http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:FFXI_Polearm_2A.png Her haircolors are all Dollyhair MLP-style nylon, and the colors I used are Fairy’s Breath (pink), Arctic Frost (blue), and Twilight (purple). If you'll note, I took great care to avoid using any black paint/detailing on her; her eyes are outlined in a dark purple to preserve the pastel look. Her tail was also widened, as it was quite small, but I otherwise did not modify the original fakie mold. I think it's a super-cute style of fakie!

Lady Knight came to me first in a bait lot, as she had been someone's airbrush experiment pony. This is how she looked at first!
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And after paint removal -
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This was right after I finished the armor, but before I finished shortening the reins. They were too long the first time! I also added a lot more detail later.
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Here she is with the final hair colors I selected for her.
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Once she was finished, I went a little nuts with the photos!

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Final shot:
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Owl Cameo was my Hasbro-mold fakie entry, and the first-place winner of her division! Woo hoo!!!

I basically planned her to be a complete opposite from what Lady Knight was going to be - while Lady Knight was multicolored, super-detailed, pastel and girly, I wanted Owl Cameo to be more simple, monochrome, and streamlined. (This was also to save me grief - I knew I'd have to spend a lot of time to finish Knight, so I wanted to have a simpler pony I could finish quickly, in case I ran out of time!) However, I spent almost all of the contest time trying to figure out what hair colors to give her!! I struggled, a lot, and forced my friends to listen to my endless ranting about 'what color to use.' Sorry guys! I only finally rehaired her the weekend before the contest ended! She was still getting painted the day before the contest end, which should tell you how badly I struggled with her hair combo! My "simple" pony became a bigger pain in the butt than my super-detailed and finicky one!

The problem was, I was basically going to give her Black Tie Pinkie Pie's haircolors, but in blue - but then I was told that black would be 'too harsh', and without a color to make it 'pop' it looked kind of boring, so I struggled to find an alternative! Finally, I went for a monochrome-themed blend of blues and white, with a splash of yellow-orange to spice it up! And I love her hair now!

This was her original hair 'concept':
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And then I came up with this one:
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Finally, I settled for a 'gradient' of blues, done in 5-9 plugs each, smoothly blending to the darkest blue-black, to orange, then back again to white. Her hair actually has a different pattern on each line of plugs - there is no Pacific Ocean in the 'top' line of plugs, and no Passion Fruit either. (Although you can see it peeking through from the bottom row, as seen here.) The colors are Blizzard, Daiquiri Ice, Mermaid, Forget Me Not, Pacific Ocean and Passion Fruit. I also punched a lot of new hair-holes and a much larger tail-hole, since this type of fakie only had one line of hair, and it ended up near her ears, giving her a bit of a high forehead. Now her hair is super thick!

Sadly, you can see in these pics that there is a bit of dark discoloration on her NDS ear - she got left with the hair baggies for a couple days, and the permanent marker stained her ear!

Top row (with Passion Fruit peeking through the Blizzard):
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Bottom row (underside):
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Hello world!
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Final shot:
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What's funny is, I wanted to enter both categories of the contest to 'push' myself, to try and finish two ponies in a month, but I really thought that Lady Knight had a much better chance of winning than Owl Cameo did. She's much flashier, and no one will vote for a 'simple' rehair and symbol repaint, I figured, so I put most of my effort into Knight. Imagine my surprise when my 'simple' pony completely obliterated the more detailed one in the voting!

Thank you to everyone who voted for my ponies!! I loved all of the fakies that were entered, and it was truly an honor to win among such stiff competition!