Soooooooo, update.  Ponies have been picked up, total is 20 ponies, 2 babies, 2 breezies, 3 fakies, a lovely castle, a scooter, several brushes, mirrors, shoes, a vanity, a wishing well, 2 strollers, a pet basket, a berry picking basket, and a couple other things I can't remember at the moment.  All for the low low price of $20!  They even showed me how to work the castle and that it has magnets to make the ponies dance on the ballroom floor!  Now, on to the details!

I do feel mislead by the seller. 'Some ponies may have magic marker on them' apparently means different things to different people.  They were in a large bag when I got them, we didn't check them out until we got home.  Every. Single. Pony. Is drawn on.  Some very heavily, some entirely colored, some covered in patterns, some with just random lines or designs, a very few have it very sparsely (like eyeshadow and bracelets).  Here are some pictures, but they don't do it justice as the lighting in the picture is not great.  For example, Goody Gumdrop is entirely boldly colored, her top half is bright pink and her legs are flourescent orange and she has a blue beard?!   She does not look like that in the posted picture so what, they knew they were getting rid of them so they colored them MORE?  Also those were not stickers, they are random small patterns drawn on.  I am also bummed because Dream Drifter, one of my favorites and that I was excited when I saw her in the picture, has the whole orange section of her hair cut out to the base.  Like not even a bob, just completely shorn.  I discovered it after removing the hair ties (they all had old disintegrating hair ties on random hair chunks, partial braids, etc.)  One of the other ponies (I don't know her name yet, she is purple with blue) has her tail cut shorter but it is long enough that it has a curl and isn't totally gone like DD's middle hair chunk!   They are the only instances of haircuts though.

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I have attempted to scrub up a few, the breezies were ok, Lily Lightly had just a bit on her face and it came off with a magic eraser, and the transparent sparkle ponies ended up having it blend into their skin color well enough after enough scrubbing.  But I started on those baby ponies and oh my goodness.  I scrubbed with Dawn, then magic eraser, then acetone, then alcohol, and it *may* have lightened the color a tiny tiny bit.  I'm talking an hour of scrubbing (I accidentally removed Gumdrop's symbol, we will have to do something one she is clean again.) 

The castle was just dusty and after a good cleaning is sparkly, and it is in perfect working order (the top pops up!)  The accessories all look fine too, they will get cleaned this evening.  I will start on some of the other ponies tonight as well, wish me luck...

Thanks, everyone! I am excited to be here!  I get to relive the childhood I didn't experience  with my daughter in many ways, and this is something we both are enjoying together.  It's awesome!

Hey, OleGrayMane!  Glad to find a neigh-bor... 
 NE Ohio here, and thankful for such a mild winter!

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Also may be an odd question but... why does it say I am a Bratz Pony under my name?  I am not a big Bratz fan, can I just be a pony?  Lol

Thanks so much, friends!  I will try the magic eraser and some acetone, and a coworker recommended hand sanitizer/alcohol.  If those don't work I will attempt sunfading with a couple if my daughter will be patient enough to wait for results (and if I can be patient)    Many look brightly colored so I am hesitant but we'll see how it goes.

I will let everyone know the results!  This is all new territory for me because my little one is very good with all of her toys and has never drawn on them or put stickers on them or tried cutting their hair or anything like that (which I am thankful for because it isn't in our budget to get new toys often.)

If I can get them to load, here are the pictures from the listing!  I am eager to start identifying and cleaning up our new friends!
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Thanks so much!  I had a talk with her and Bowtie is going to have a spa day on my day off this week in which she will be all spiffed up and get ribbons braided in her tail to feel fancy, and then be put on her shelf in her room to watch over all of the other toys.  I had to explain to her that Bowtie was so old that her plastic just wasn't very safe anymore, and that she is still a good pony but might get unhealthy stuff on our hands if we play with her just because her plastic is an old kind of plastic.  She understood and was a bit disheartened, but agreed that as long as she still got to keep Bowtie it was okay.

I did some looking and Ebay had some new ones in a box.  Everywhere else was sold out, even Amazon!  So I paid an exorbitant amount for a pony plus shipping, but this way I knew it was for sure a new Bowtie and not an older one.  Having not much experience I don't know if I could tell the difference if they were both out of their box and I wanted to be safe rather than sorry!  None of her ponies are sticky yet, their plastic all feels nice and smooth, but Bowtie does have that old plastic smell if you give her a strong sniff, even after having been washed well when we got her, that I think just comes with the age and the material.  I am sure if it is not degrading now it will start to.  I hope she is surprised and pleased when New Bowtie comes next week!

Howdy, all!

This adventure all came about because my child asked me if I could teach her how to braid...

I then shared with her how I learned how to braid when I was 6 on my My Little Pony's tail!  She started asking about my pony and I told her my story: she was blue with pink hair and was a hand-me-down from my cousin.  I never knew her name, I just called her 'Pony'  I took her on many adventures and we had lots of fun together until my mother sold her at a yard sale for drug money because she decided I was 'too old for that darn horse, anyway.'

I have recently begun research into the wonderful world of ponies because my daughter has started enjoying them.  I have found out that the pony I owned was Bowtie, and I found one in great condition for her on Ebay for a very reasonable price, her bows are just faded but that is to be expected for a gal well in her 30s!  My little one was so pleased to have the same toy that I had as a kid (I don't have much from my childhood to pass down.)  Well, Bowtie had to have some friends...

She likes the 'regular ponies, not the alien looking ponies' (her description of the newer ones,  she is 5) which I have come to learn the ones she likes are the G1 and G3, and so they are older now, but I have found some bargains for some of the ones she wanted.  I recently found one of her favorites, Minty from the Christmas movie, but her hair had faded (every single one I saw on Ebay had white hair instead of pink, apparently a common problem called fading pink?) so I have now started my adventure in pony hair coloring.  Her Scootaloo also has a small part of her marking missing, I will try to touch that up in the future.

Any advice, tips for care or simple restoration tricks would be appreciated, and also just education and chatting about ponies!

Thanks, from Ohio
~Draconis