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« on: January 11, 2018, 07:00:31 AM »
Hi have a nm starswirl for trade (will send pics to those interested) and skywishes (first release)
I am really wanting to trade one of the following seaponies THE MOVIE PINKIE PIE SEAPONY FIGURE, HAVEN BAY EXCLUSIVE SEAPONY or QUEEN NOVO with spike
Thanks
Nancy
I would love to see pics of Starswirl, if that would be an adequate trade. I have the Amazon exclusive Pinkie.
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« on: January 11, 2018, 06:51:10 AM »
Hello!
Personally, I am not a fan of the "real name game" on forums, so I refer to anyone that I speak to on the forums themselves by their screen name. I am a stickler for a sort of protected anonymity. I was a moderator on another forum for over 10 years, and it's ingrained in my psyche to keep my personal details to myself unless necessary, haha!
Don't be afraid of playing with your ponies, brushing their hair and keeping them in pristine, clean condition. Even as an adult it's still fun to let your imagination run wild.
I hope to see you around!
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« on: January 11, 2018, 06:42:32 AM »
I have been trying different things, like seeing if buttons with the loop on the back, lapel pins, silk flowers or even (Christmas) ornaments. It's not the same as the original jewels, but it does save them from having a kerplucked flank.
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« on: January 11, 2018, 06:32:45 AM »
I was born in 81, and my older sister was born in 79. Aging is inevitable. Maturing is optional :3
It's been reinvigorating to pull the ponies out and style their hair. I can't wait to see you around the forums!
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« on: January 11, 2018, 06:25:23 AM »
Welcome to the herd~!
The people here are really nice and are very helpful. I can't wait to see you around!
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« on: January 10, 2018, 03:46:33 PM »
I remember having something like this, or one of my younger siblings did. It was dubbed a "quiet toy", fold-out/fold-up, portable/travel dollhouse.
What are the tags on the bums of the bears? Manufacture origin tags?
OP said "no tags". the little tab things in the photo are Velcro bits so the bears stay put 
They alllllllmost look like Merryweather Bears but you can't always go by embroidered face design.
Actually, the little bears do have tags. Just simple plain ones though, that say 'made in china'. (Everything is made in china, it seems...)
To be honest, that helps a bit. Back in the 80s there were patterns and kits for this sort of thing by McCalls. At least that shows it's not hand-made from a pattern or kit. It doesn't do much to narrow what it is, though. I am not finding much else to define what it is aside from a "take-along fabric dollhouse with bear family".
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« on: January 10, 2018, 02:40:31 PM »
Spoiler-ish rant ahead.Spoiler That first line in the pic gives them more of a horse-like look, and I really like that. G4 took time to grow on me because of the designs, and the G4Movie designs are a step downward, in my opinion. They are breaching the uncanny valley, if not looking more like taller, candy-colored, slender pigs with upturned snouts.
Out of all of those designs, I am mostly not a fan of the change in the breeds of pony. Maybe even a little perturbed. They never gave a straight answer on how cutiemarks actually work, so naming a unicorn a name that more befits a flier is irritating. At the very least, if a pony is named and the talent accidentally fits the name, that's cool. I like that idea. That leads me to feel that it would be pretentious of Fluttershy's parents to name her something that describes a cutiemark that she hasn't gotten. It adds a whole new layer of confusion to what your special talent is in respect to your name and species. I really, really don't like that at all.
If I may~~~
Fluttershy seems like a really silly name to call a unicorn, regardless if she has butterflies on her rump. The name has more of a "flyer" ring to it, so stripping her of her wings is a bummer. I really like the idea that she was given a talent to communicate with creatures that was outside of what the show tagged as "magic", so it made her more special in general.
Pinkie being a pegasus annoys me more. Being that earth ponies have an innate magic in the current G4 show, it sets her apart from most earth ponies because of her story and growth- the magic to make people laugh. Same as Fluttershy, it made her more special as an earth pony. Making her anything else could make her completely insufferable because of her personality. Floating upside down having a manic episode or buzzing around like she is hyped on caffeine? No, thank you. We get enough of that from Rainbow Dash, and there are points where SHE even pushes that limit, and she's not the one who is designed to make people laugh.
Though, if Twilight Sparkle is losing her horn, I'd prefer her to be a different color entirely. Purple has always had "royal" connotations (Renaissance festivals and historical references FTW, yo), and if there is any reason to believe they will alicorn her again, that just wouldn't be a surprise. In that regard, Twilight being purple is rational, and is much more faithful to what the color signifies. At least with a purple unicorn the contributing factors make a little more sense. Her name also doesn't sound reasonable for a pony that doesn't have the power to actually sparkle- she has lost the "magic of friendship" so a name that sounds ethereal doesn't fit. Twilight Sparkle as a purple pony without any actual unicorn magic just doesn't suit her any more.
how do we know that they're keeping their g4 names, though? And isn't this all nothing but concept art, anyway? The MLP movie concept art looked nothing like the finished product. Just sayin'. Maybe your rant is a little too soon?
Not too soon, no. There are documents in there that state that most of everything is staying the same. That's what a "reboot" is- using most of the same elements but changing it "enough" where it seems fresh and new to a new audience. That indicates that the Mane 6 will still be a major part of whatever movie/series that they came up with. Thank of how Spiderman has had all of the same bits and pieces (a teen who got bit by a radioactive spider and mutated, then became a crime fighter out of guilt, using older characters as templates etc etc), but smooshed into a new movie universe with new elements with changes here and there. All generations and adaptations have run into the same issues because there has been more of an emphasis on the toys and less on the world and poniology. It's not a new problem for Hasbro.
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« on: January 10, 2018, 06:55:20 AM »
I remember having something like this, or one of my younger siblings did. It was dubbed a "quiet toy", fold-out/fold-up, portable/travel dollhouse.
What are the tags on the bums of the bears? Manufacture origin tags?
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« on: January 09, 2018, 02:40:06 PM »
Naw- I have a 15-year-old plush Sea World dolphin with a cracked eye that is my travel buddy. I have started switching him out for a Douglas pinto plush because I don't want to lose my dolphin or break the eye further.
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« on: January 09, 2018, 01:00:27 PM »
Spoiler-ish rant ahead.Spoiler That first line in the pic gives them more of a horse-like look, and I really like that. G4 took time to grow on me because of the designs, and the G4Movie designs are a step downward, in my opinion. They are breaching the uncanny valley, if not looking more like taller, candy-colored, slender pigs with upturned snouts.
Out of all of those designs, I am mostly not a fan of the change in the breeds of pony. Maybe even a little perturbed. They never gave a straight answer on how cutiemarks actually work, so naming a unicorn a name that more befits a flier is irritating. At the very least, if a pony is named and the talent accidentally fits the name, that's cool. I like that idea. That leads me to feel that it would be pretentious of Fluttershy's parents to name her something that describes a cutiemark that she hasn't gotten. It adds a whole new layer of confusion to what your special talent is in respect to your name and species. I really, really don't like that at all.
If I may~~~
Fluttershy seems like a really silly name to call a unicorn, regardless if she has butterflies on her rump. The name has more of a "flyer" ring to it, so stripping her of her wings is a bummer. I really like the idea that she was given a talent to communicate with creatures that was outside of what the show tagged as "magic", so it made her more special in general.
Pinkie being a pegasus annoys me more. Being that earth ponies have an innate magic in the current G4 show, it sets her apart from most earth ponies because of her story and growth- the magic to make people laugh. Same as Fluttershy, it made her more special as an earth pony. Making her anything else could make her completely insufferable because of her personality. Floating upside down having a manic episode or buzzing around like she is hyped on caffeine? No, thank you. We get enough of that from Rainbow Dash, and there are points where SHE even pushes that limit, and she's not the one who is designed to make people laugh.
Though, if Twilight Sparkle is losing her horn, I'd prefer her to be a different color entirely. Purple has always had "royal" connotations (Renaissance festivals and historical references FTW, yo), and if there is any reason to believe they will alicorn her again, that just wouldn't be a surprise. In that regard, Twilight being purple is rational, and is much more faithful to what the color signifies. At least with a purple unicorn the contributing factors make a little more sense. Her name also doesn't sound reasonable for a pony that doesn't have the power to actually sparkle- she has lost the "magic of friendship" so a name that sounds ethereal doesn't fit. Twilight Sparkle as a purple pony without any actual unicorn magic just doesn't suit her any more.
1) Yay for horsey designs!
2) This is not the first time ponies have changed species. Fluttershy was originally a pink Earth Pony. Twilight Sparkle's predecessor was originally a purple Earth pony named Twilight Twinkle. If you look her up, you'll see that Sparkle is nearly a dead ringer for Twinkle. Purple being a royal color means zip, zero, zilch in every generation of MLP. If the G3 kids can get over the species swap, so can others.
3) Maybe they're going back to the way the old symbols were. They're just there. Cutie mark=destiny was a dumb, rigid premise to introduce so late into the franchise anyway impo.
4) There are lots of ponies whose name would fit a different species. Skyflier would better suit a Pegasus, Flutter or Winger, but she's a unicorn and that's fine.
Wave Runner would better suit a sea pony or merpony, but she's a pegasus. And so on and so on.
G4 grew into its own, to the point where they are the most recognizable characters out of the entire franchise to a large group of viewers/followers of various ages. To laterally transfer the personality but only half of the current designs doesn't sit with me from a marketing standpoint. I do not believe that they did a great job of that in the first place with G4- they were just able to work around it really well. Granted, we don't have any of the sales data or reasons why they decided to shift the mane 6 species, but if they are going to do a reboot of the show I feel the direction they have already taken it is shaky, at best. I am not opposed to harking back more to the roots, but from a storytelling standpoint, they are losing a lot of potential. For instance, pre-90s G1 didn't have bakers- G3 did, but G4 did it better and more relatable as a human. In short: if this is how G4 started around the discussion table then it's left a lot to be desired. While G4 is not the longest-running line, it is the most recognized, so they will have an uphill battle when it comes to adult fans if they don't handle it with care. I can name off a whole lot of reasons why the current culture+naming schemes+poniological influences that the G4 just annoys me in general. The world was built pretty well in some cases, but others notsomuch. Like you mentioned, the cutiemarks being tied to destiny. In my eyes, all of the inconsistencies and plot points that have written them into a corner can be straightened out since they won't have to retcon already-established tendencies in older/current generations. While it's a neat idea that they are keeping the recognizable characters, haphazardly changing them without taking a new world they need to build into account is going to lead them right back to where G4 put them. Unless I am mistaken, I have not seen anything about the world these characters are supposed to live in, which is what my ranty-rant-rant is based on. Just rambling lol 
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« on: January 09, 2018, 11:26:39 AM »
Spoiler-ish rant ahead. Spoiler That first line in the pic gives them more of a horse-like look, and I really like that. G4 took time to grow on me because of the designs, and the G4Movie designs are a step downward, in my opinion. They are breaching the uncanny valley, if not looking more like taller, candy-colored, slender pigs with upturned snouts.
Out of all of those designs, I am mostly not a fan of the change in the breeds of pony. Maybe even a little perturbed. They never gave a straight answer on how cutiemarks actually work, so naming a unicorn a name that more befits a flier is irritating. At the very least, if a pony is named and the talent accidentally fits the name, that's cool. I like that idea. That leads me to feel that it would be pretentious of Fluttershy's parents to name her something that describes a cutiemark that she hasn't gotten. It adds a whole new layer of confusion to what your special talent is in respect to your name and species. I really, really don't like that at all.
If I may~~~
Fluttershy seems like a really silly name to call a unicorn, regardless if she has butterflies on her rump. The name has more of a "flyer" ring to it, so stripping her of her wings is a bummer. I really like the idea that she was given a talent to communicate with creatures that was outside of what the show tagged as "magic", so it made her more special in general.
Pinkie being a pegasus annoys me more. Being that earth ponies have an innate magic in the current G4 show, it sets her apart from most earth ponies because of her story and growth- the magic to make people laugh. Same as Fluttershy, it made her more special as an earth pony. Making her anything else could make her completely insufferable because of her personality. Floating upside down having a manic episode or buzzing around like she is hyped on caffeine? No, thank you. We get enough of that from Rainbow Dash, and there are points where SHE even pushes that limit, and she's not the one who is designed to make people laugh.
Though, if Twilight Sparkle is losing her horn, I'd prefer her to be a different color entirely. Purple has always had "royal" connotations (Renaissance festivals and historical references FTW, yo), and if there is any reason to believe they will alicorn her again, that just wouldn't be a surprise. In that regard, Twilight being purple is rational, and is much more faithful to what the color signifies. At least with a purple unicorn the contributing factors make a little more sense. Her name also doesn't sound reasonable for a pony that doesn't have the power to actually sparkle- she has lost the "magic of friendship" so a name that sounds ethereal doesn't fit. Twilight Sparkle as a purple pony without any actual unicorn magic just doesn't suit her any more. Applejack will forever be my favorite- she has barely changed since G1, and I'm good with that.
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« on: January 08, 2018, 07:27:39 PM »
Thank you! No one was hurt in the fire, thankfully. The ponies were more like puddles, but they were loved when I had them, and it just gives me an excuse to get more 
That's the spirit! I can't wait to see you around~
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« on: January 08, 2018, 07:24:35 PM »
Hello! I am excited to see you around~
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« on: January 07, 2018, 08:16:21 AM »
Roy G. Biv. ...once I get there, haha!
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« on: January 07, 2018, 08:03:10 AM »
I dunno... They resemble G4's head sculpts, but the bodies look like the leaked images from G5. Hasbro, or even GHX, may have something to say about it.
I am not a lawyer so I have no idea.
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