Hello all!  I mostly lurk here in the forum, enjoying other people's brags and finds.  But I've finally got one of my own now.  A few weeks ago I went back to the ancestral home and was able to find some of the stuff I'd been thinking about recovering, including Kenner LPS and Puppy in my Pockets...and some of my childhood ponies!

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They're super dirty, but there is little damage to the symbols and no chew marks or trauma or anything.   Sky Rocket is pretty hard and may have a couple of spots of mold/cancer and the baby sea pony does too.  I've given them all a preliminary bath and condition.  The hair is very frizzy and there is a lot of ingrained dirt, so I'm thinking an oxyclean bath and some heavy duty conditioner is the next step.

My childhood favorite, Medley, has seen better days.  I'm pretty sure there's tar all over her, her symbols are almost all gone, and her tail is pretty shot.  But, maybe I can customize her into some sort of Super Medley?

The only one that may not be savable is Majesty.  She's got, uh, skin issues.

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Thanks for reading!  I'm pretty excited to get these girls looking as good as they'll get.

Hi everyone!

I'm sparklesculpin, and don't ask about the name, because I came up with it on the fly and it doesn't mean anything except perhaps an amusing image in my brain. 

I was a G1 fan as a kid, and I'm a big G4 fan now.  In the intermittent years, I would go by the toy aisle and look at the ponies and think about buying them, but I would always talk myself out of it, until G4.  Recently I've been watching pony blogs and...getting a little too much into it.  There are some ponies that caught my eye and a few I regret not buying (Blossomforth?? How many times did I talk myself out of buying that pony??) so that led to looking at auctions and then to here and...probably down a road I shouldn't be going! 

I have a few G4 toys, and my G1's are still at my childhood home (I'll be organizing a rescue trip sometime in the future for those and my LPS, although who knows what condition they'll be in).  I have small collections of other things-ceramic animals from childhood, accurate dinosaurs, hedgehog stuff, and, uh, some bones/vulture culture type things. 

So I guess I'm just a casual!  Here to browse and see what things are like and maybe buy a thing?  Nice to meet everyone!