Sushi. A spider roll in particular but just sushi in general. And a huge chunk of red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and white chocolate shavings for desert.

   I won Tornado this morning! I'm still giddy!!! <3<3<3<3<3

I've gotten that "look" most often when I decide to go in a metal band shirt and pants with all the chains and maybe even a spiked collar then stroll down the pinkest aisle in the store.    It's fun for me to see which of them is brave enough to ask me if I need help so I can cheerily reply that I require no assistance past knowing if this was the extent to their stock.  One aggressive old lady called me strange to my face but I tack that down to her being older than Methuselah and not caring anymore. But maybe I am weird for enjoying myself making them uncomfortable. Meh. 

So here's an update.    I've decided to go with BlackCurtains'(s?) idea that the cancer is a bacteria that is breaking down the plastic.

I opened up both QB and an Applejack with more pindot than orange and took off their markings but not any eye/blush/freckles with some acetone. Then I separated out the bodies individually into bags but kept both heads together (thrifty me).

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They sat in double baggies for nearly a week in a Bar Keeper's friend/Palmolive Free&Clear/water paste mixture. Every couple or few hours I would squish the bags to provide some man powered cleaning and let out excess air.

The only real casualty seems to be to the blushes. The eyes and freckles remained perfectly fine. QB is significantly lighter both in body and in the cancer marks. His age marks on his head faded just as significantly as the cancer even though the head was in the solution for markedly less time... because I waffled about doing his whole body. The center dot is now a faint orangey color I have to look close to find.

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The Applejack came out brighter and a little cleaner (and without her blush...) but the pindot remained relatively unaffected. The exposed hair feels cleaner and almost conditioned now. So, plus.

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This seems to be something I'd recommend mostly as an alternative to sunfading.    I have a few lighter colored ponies I'm going to try this on to see how they do. I proclaim QB as done with my current line of investigations and ready for his departure into custom-pony land. 

How will we know what the new eggs will look like? :o

I think same as last month : http://forums.dragcave.net/index.php?s=ea61fb200b52c2c276aa5226f33baa7b&showforum=1

They should post them soon I think, maybe in a few days or so? 

So this stuff isn't quite as caustic as I was lead to believe from the label...  and there is little to no visibly discernible difference in the coloring of the spots:

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This was after considerable application of elbow grease before and after upwards of 30 hours worth of "facial masque". Perhaps the straight acid would do better but I'm loathe to try that. I will though, as soon as it arrives. For Science! 

Quote from: archidraca on July 15, 2013, 01:28:26 PM

Quote from: BigHicks1977 on July 07, 2013, 09:38:35 AM

Tip #2 If you are at the flea market yard sale or even the thrift store after you have looked around for what they have for sale find an employee or the person running the spot and ask do you have any ponies.... remember IT NEVER HURTS TO ASK

I remembered this today when I visited a new Antique store that opened up last month. It may pay off next Monday when he told me to check back as the man is trying to get one of his vendors to commit to selling her collection. He said she didn't believe anyone would want to buy them but he said that he has seen a marked interest. I am excited just thinking about the potentials! 

Well I really hope it works out for you I am excited now as well LET ME KNOW PLEASE 

Well I suppose it worked out. 

He overstated the idea of "collection" I think. This is what I got from him today:

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Not very exciting although pretty good as baits since most are missing tails. The McDonalds toy is the one I like the most. I had better luck looking through a musty bin in a yard sale recently.

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All in all, not bad. I want to find more though and hope to Thursday/Friday when the helpful Goodwill cashier said they were putting more items out for the end of their half off event this week. (^w^)

I'm collecting G1 boys and have almost all of them. The only G2's I have are the McDonald's toys I got for my girl to expand the collection I'm doing for her. I have enough G3's MIB that I'm seriously considering selling off a good chunk of them. I don't really like the look of the G3.5 or G4's enough to start serious collecting of them... and I'm so behind on collecting the blind bags as to discourage me from trying to nail all of them down.