I know this theme is really old, but I would like to ask a question. Do we need to use the sun? It's the UV we need to sunfade and I figured an UV lamp would work much better. We don't have a lot of sunny days in Russia so sunfading is almost impossible. Are UV lamps dangerous? Have anyone used an UV lamp instead of the sun?

It makes me wonder if you have a baity G4 Cupcake you could sell... I just bought a big lot and there's Cupcake's head with no body!  It's my first Cupcake... well, two thirds of her and I wanna fix her. It's funny how her hair is perfect with no frizz in it and the only problem she had is a small blue mark inside her ear that was easy to remove with acetone.

My G4 Skywishes has a bite mark on her muzzle. Rainbow Dash that came with her had cut messy hair and a lot of scratches. When I got them I had a story in my head where Fluttershy wandered into the Everfree Forest to get one of her animals and she was attacked by timberwolves. Rainbow Dash heard screaming when she was flying together with her friend Skywishes and they flew straight into the forest to help Fluttershy. They got into a fierce battle and Rainbow was the bravest so that's why she got so many scratches. But Skywishes saved her from a certain death when one of the timberwolves knocked her down and was about to strike the final blow - Skywishes covered RD with her own body! That resulted in her badly injured, but bought Dash time to recover and knock out the timberwolves. Her and Flutters took unconscious Sky to Ponyville hospital. Nurse Redheart patched her up pretty good

Sadly, I parted with that Rainbow so story ends with Skywishes moving to another town...

Thanks, everyone! I've already started repainting scratches and fixing their hair since I thought even if they were fakies they still need love too. But now that I know they're real I'm keeping them all even tho they're not perfect I was going to sell fakies and ponies I wasn't really attached to but I just can't, I love them all ;_;

By the way, have anyone tried fixing frizzy hair with an iron? The usual iron for clothes, not the one for hair. Sadly, I can't afford hair straightener. I've seen someone talking about it, but I've never seen actual guides to fix frizz with iron. Mine is also kind of old and all the printed numbers on it erased so I don't even know what temperatures it has. I have a fakie who's hair is terrible and cut so I'll try it on her first. I'll turn her into a custom so she needs a rehair anyway.

Also, that AJ's green strand is like 2 inches longer than the rest of her hair. Wut

piinkypiie, SLH stands for Super Long Hair, those are G3 ponies with, well, really long hair

(extra points for getting that reference in title)

So I've bought a big lot of G4 ponies and I want to know if they're fakies. In Russia 80% of ponies OOB are fakies because we're friends with China and many people buy stuff from Aliexpress. That's why I need a person who owns these ponies to send me pictures from both sides and what's written on their hooves. Or just tell me if those ponies are fakies.

Blind bag sized:
Mrs. Cake looks pretty original with her apron and good paintjob. The number on her hoof says just what googles for her playset so I'm sure she's original. Mr. Cake, on the other hand, looks really dim and has greyish color insted of bright yellow, his main color is visible through the paint and the plastic is more like rubber, it's very soft. Numbers on his hooves are "32561" and "#A6003".
Apple Bumpkin also has a lazy paintjob: some of her hair isn't colored and some parts of her body are colored instead of hair. Her hoof with numbers is damaged and it's impossible to read what it says. But her backhooves lack the number of her series. She's from wave 13. I don't have any other pony from that wave to check if their hooves don't have the number too.

Those ponies' hooves don't have any writings at all. I know this doesn't scream fakie - some international exclusives like Skywishes brushable don't have any numbers and they're still legit...
...but this poor paintjob does. I mean whoever made those didn't even try. Rainbow's hair colors run into her face, the yellow on her wing is almost transparent. Lyrica has the same problem with her hair.


That Pinke's face is seriously damaged and it looks like a factory mistake - it looks like it has been ruined by something very hot. A bit of her head and muzzle melted and her eye paint came off. Her hooves don't have any numbers printed on them and I know for sure they should.

Brushables:
This is "doll with a pony" Fluttershy. I've bought her from a person who actually owns that doll. So she may be original.
But look at this ugly seam on her head! Her plastic is also different from original ponies I have. It's a bit harder and dim.

I'm pretty sure this Cadance is a fakie but I want to make sure.
She's shiny as hell and her head has a huge seam. She don't have any numbers on her hooves.

That Applejack also has a seam on her head and is too shiny, but the numbers on her hooves say the right thing. I also saw the new brushables from the Rainbow Power line and some had seams. She also has a weird head/body mismatch which yellow ponies aren't supposed to have. It's almost like her head is made from different material...

I know what you're thinking - "wait, they even made fakies of these?!". Yes they did. This Twilight is too shiny, her head has a seam and her hooves lack serial number. But maybe it's just those ponies with huge wings. I don't have any other to compare.

And last but not least - Crystal Princess Twilight Sparkle.
The stamps on her hooves seem really bulgy. She's also really shiny.

I know there are people who have every single G4 pony and I hope they can help me

To be fair I don't like the idea of customizing a pony that's not an ugly fakie. Be it super rare or common pony. I'm fascinated by the idea of restoration and I'm in the process of restoring some regular G4 ponies at the moment. Twilight Sparkle may be common, but the unicorn one with bangs is kind of rare and if I didn't have one already I would kill for one. So if I'd ever see G4 ponies with bangs being customized I'd be a sad pony But to each their own I guess. People are free to do whatever they want with the stuff they bought. I've seen videos of ponies being burned or crushed in a meat grinder. And while I think destroying any useful thing is disgusting I can't stop them. I just tend to ignore things I don't like.

We didn't have g1 or g2 in Russia, so no wonder I've never seen them in the wild. And it's really weird I found some on Russian sites for selling old stuff (one of them called Avito).
My pony luck is great. I found g3 Rainbow Dash, g4 Sunny Rays, Cherry Berry, Cupcake, three Skywishes and a talking Pinkie Pie. Also soft princess Skyla for 7$.