I have a few special ponies, aka, my grails-- that I think I'd prefer in boxes.

I put them individually in some generic acrylic boxes, then I started to worry about them as if they weren't getting any airflow. So I drilled some holes into the boxes....

That's a good question about airflow. I have wondered/worried about that myself this last summer, but with my childhood Barbie dolls. I have never put them in acrylic display cases before and wondered what effects it could have (especially on my ones that have the plastic leg spots).
 
Anyone have any thoughts in regards to long term use on vintage ponies?

Can't stop collecting......too many cute things.....must resist......nope, giving in.

has anyone gotten the new Frozen dolls?? They look AMAZING!!!! I love everything about them. If you do photos would be awesome 

I have both of them boxed together. I was at Disney's D23 Expo back in August and they released an exclusive doll set of Anna & Elsa at the event. I really like their different looks. Here is the picture of the two of them in their box.

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To my knowledge, there is not an official "Eilonwy" doll. There are people who have made custom ones from other dolls and these are the ones you find on Google. I know that there are a few official Disney pins of her though and a "Magic Memories Figurines" group from the film that has her in it.

There is very little Black Cauldron merchandise in general. While the movie did poorly, I think that the lack of merchandise originally has more to do with when the movie came out. The "Black Cauldron" was released in 1985, so early on in some ways of all the great toy marketing pushes that came later on. We get so used to them in today's world, that we forget that it didn't used to be like that every time a film was made. Now the lack of merchandise in later years (other than a few pins) is more than likely because of the lack of interest and perception. It did eventually get a VHS release FINALLY in 1998, and then the 25th anniversary edition on DVD in 2010.

Does anyone know when Disney started to market Ariel more as a human than a mermaid? I've seen a lot of things with Ariel in a green dress and less items of her as a mermaid. 

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Yes actually, I can answer that. As someone with an enormous Ariel collection that spans over 20 years, I can say that overall Ariel has typically been marketed as a mermaid with a small amount of merchandise across the years that depicts her in her human form. While over the more recent years there was getting to be a little more of her in human form here and there, the big change happened in 2012. In the late summer/early fall of 2012 the princesses were redesigned with all new looks (some of you may recall the Cinderella redesign change, most noticeably her hair) and at this time is when Ariel started being marketed on merchandise wearing a green dress.

For those of you who may not be aware of it, this change over for the princesses is not limited to merchandise alone. They are blending the character design brand with the park character identity. So slowly over time, each park princess is getting redesigned to match the new branding. It has already occurred with Cinderella, Belle, and Aurora as all three of them have received new looks in the parks. Ariel in the parks has been depicted off and on over the years as both forms. Traditionally as a mermaid, but she has also been represented in human form wearing various green dresses for various parades and also for meet & greet situations.

Some early 80's Barbie dolls also have those same kind of brushes as in your pic 1, which makes sense since She-ra was made by Mattel. My earliest Barbies from the 80's have those style brushes.

The blue locket in pic2 is from "Perfume Pretty Whitney Doll" (friend to Barbie).

The 4th blue comb from the left is from "Teen Looks Cheerleader Jazzie" (cousin to Barbie) I have this doll, but I think that same comb also came with some other Jazzie dolls as well.

I know I have seen that purple comb, the 6th one from the left, but I just can't think of who it belongs to.

I'm still confused about Anna's hair color.  She looks more like a dirty blonde in the movie frames but her dolls give her really red hair.  Almost Merida red. 

From the clips they showed us, the movie looks like it will be very good, and I can't wait for it to come out in theaters.

I think Anna's hair color is somewhere in between blonde and red, somewhere in that sort of strawberry blonde or even a slight auburn range. Even in the various concept art and film clips they showed us at one of the seminars the colors were inconsistent between everything (sometimes blonde and some a slight red) but that can be fairly normal in concept art and finished product. Here is a picture of Anna and Elsa that was a large display board at the convention.

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