Finished rehairing pony today! Ooh, she's gonna look so fiiiiiiine. Now I just gotta get some paints going on, and we're good to go!

Oh, and thanks to Cookhuman for the eye-scuff tip! I'm not sure if it was a problem with this particular fakie or what, but unfortunately the emery boards didn't do much but "even up" the fogginess in her eyes. It made the scratches less noticeable, I think, so it was definitely a gain! But not as clear and shiny as I'd hoped for. Hopefully, it will make her look more rough and tumble, instead!

Did you guys like the Hub? You have to like it and allow them to post on your wall and yadda yadda before they will let you play it.

Yep! I liked it, and I even unliked then RE-liked, to see if it was a problem of it not loading my 'like' properly. It used to give me an error message, now it just bounces me back to the 'click on this image to play the game!' screen.

I've heard people saying that the 'banged' variations (first releases) of Twilight Sparkle, Applejack and Rainbow Dash are becoming more sought-after, since it looks like their re-releases won't have the bangs. It's a shame I already baited my first two Rainbow Dash baits.

Also, I'm predicting that banged Cheerilee and Lily Blossom will become harder to find, because those two didn't seem to be available for very long. :/

I'm having the same problem as some other people on here! I go to play it, and it originally just sat there, blank - and now it takes me back to the Hub page, over and over. :I Wow, so much fun, you guys! /sarcasm

Seriously though, what do I need to fix? I updated Flash player, I updated Java - what else can I update?!

Quote from: SpikeTheDragon on February 05, 2012, 08:30:02 AM

Old enough to feel nostalgic about Dream Valley when it was still using illustrations instead of photos for its pony guide: http://web.archive.org/web/20010606093926/http://dreamvalley.freeyellow.com/ponies_list.html

LOL!  Yes, I was just getting into actual collecting as a teenager at some point in the 90's when I found this site.  I didn't have regular access to the Internet.  In fact, the only way I could get online was for my mom to allow me to use her work computer during her lunch hour when I wasn't in school.  Dream Valley was the biggest MLP resource I could find at the time and so in order to have access whenever I wanted, I talked my mom into letting me print it off.  Yes, the whole thing!  I printed it all out and put it into a three ring binder.  And I had to print in black and white so I went back in and colored in the images! 
 
In fact, I still have it.  I just dug it out.  Here are some pics.
 
 

 

 
 
I would make notes in it about particular ponies and mark off the ones I owned.

OMG. ARE YOU ME? I was just getting back into ponies in the 90s too, and I even printed off the whole Dream Valley website too!!! Went through reams and reams of paper, LOL! I still have it, tucked away in my room somewhere... I would study it like it was a text book, learning all of the pony names, finding out about all of these new ponies I'd never seen in stores (Summerwings, sea ponies, Secret Surprise ponies)... man, it takes me back!

Quote from: Snapdragon on February 16, 2012, 01:43:57 PM

OMG, the Yahoo alt.toys.my-little-pony group!! I remember that now! Wow, I joined on there ages and ages before I joined the Arena ... but I tried to make some funny post like, "Wow, what's up with this Shrine to Mimic page, huh? Some people sure are loopy!" And EVERYONE GOT BUTTHURT.

Oh welllllll, that Church of MOC Mimic was a joke that came out of Ponypalooza.  And the long and short of it was that Icefeather (who made the Mimic thing as a joke) and Taffeta didn't get on well - back then there were a lot of pecking order things going on from so many different folks in that group.  You just probably got caught between it all, and back then, stepping on the wrong toes meant fur and feathers everywhere.  Was always better to keep the head down.

Ahhh! Okay, that makes sense. At the time, it was like, "Wow, here is this funny thing I found, let's all have a laugh!" And the response was "OH. MY. GOD. YOU DO NOT MOCK THE SACROSANCT HOLINESS OF THE MOC MIMIC PAGE. WE TAKE THIS PAGE VERY. SERIOUSLY." And I was just like "... okaaaaay time to give up on making any pony friends, THEY HAVE ALL GONE NUTS FROM THE PLASTIC FUMES!" I'm glad the crazy isn't quite so intense, nowadays.

You guys do know that Ice Crystal one wasn't originally an Icy, right? It's the wrong pose to be him. The Fireball one on the other hand... could have been a real Fireball

ETA: The 'Ice Crystal' isn't even in either of Salty's possible poses, so that one must really have been a baity boy, possibly Barnicle, since I don't know if 4-Speed can quite match that color.

That's what I realized too! I was like, "where's Salty? I see Barnacle?" That's what I get for posting before looking at the picture.

Also, since I'm here anyway: I agree that people get to decide what they want to do with their own ponies. If you wanna customize your Mimic - go do it, it's your property. (I wouldn't do it, but it's your pony, your choice.) But she didn't customize her own pony for herself; she customized it for sale. Her 'right' to customize exists, yes, but because she's put it into a public arena, she no longer has any right to say that people aren't allowed to be upset by it. And if you're just customizing a rare pony for the sake of money ... yeah, I can't agree with that. It's unwise, first of all (destroying a rare pony AND lowering its value, much?), and it's - I dunno, I hesitate to say 'unfair to the community,' but I would say that it's upsetting to people who collect these items.

You wouldn't take a vintage video game that you hacked apart and turned into a clock and try to sell it to the video game collectors, would you? They want the game as it WAS, in a possibly-playable condition; they don't want some fancy clock you made with it.