The translucent blue comb in the first picture is a G3 Styling Pony comb, and the purple brush/mirror came with G2 Princess Morning Glory.

In the second picture, the yellow, purple and blue combs with holes in the handles are G3 combs, but I'm not sure which sets they came with.

Ooh, interesting!  I love G3-style fakies!

Funnily enough, I just wrote on my blog about some fakies my sister bought in Menorca.  They came in the exact same boxes but the ponies inside are completely different to yours... and they don't look anything like MLPs!  There are quite a few photos of them, so I'll just post a link to the blog entry - http://rainbowharmonyvoiceactress.blogspot.com/2012/02/after-rain-goes-there-are-rainbows.html

I saw fakies in that style packaged with dolls at Family Bargains.  I couldn't justify buying the dolls for one small pony though so I had to leave them behind.

Thank you for pointing me over here, Aret!

Yes, it is the same buyer I've had problems with.  Her name's Mandie1986 over on the UK Ponycon forum but I'm not sure if she has an account here or not.  She's just had a baby so it's possible they're short of money?  I'd like to think it's just a problem with her credit card, but I'm not sure if it's even possible for Paypal to do chargebacks without somebody specifally going through and opening disputes?

Anyways, I sold her five items back in October worth about £16 with postage, she left positive feedback and now I find the chargeback message in my e-mails.  Rubymew has also received a chargeback from her today.  She doesn't post here much anymore, I don't think, but I've linked her to this thread from Facebook.

I've never had this problem before, and I'm not sure what I have to do to proceed - what information I have to give to Paypal etc.  Can anybody advise?  My parcel was shipped via ordinary second class mail so I obviously don't have tracking info.  I do still have my receipt, and since she left positive feedback clearly stating she received the items, they can't really have a case against me, right?

Okay, last comment and I'm sorry I've de-railed this thread.  I just want people to understand that I for one am NOT attacking bronies in general!

This, this, this! They are passionate and that isn’t something that people should get mad about. That passion has inspired them to throw great charity drives (Not to mention the big thank you package they put together for MLP staff) and that deserves something. Yes there are some bad apples but judging them all based on that is not only rude but completely hypocritical from a community I thought was so loving. Honestly, I've seen more self entitled whining from the “true collectors” on these boards than I’ve ever seen from a brony and I think it has a lot to do with jealousy so people need to give them a break.

Have you checked the MLP Facebook page?  Every time Hasbro dares to post a non-G4 toy or one of the So Soft newborns, the more immature of the brony fans attack them forcefully.  "We don't like these toys, they shouldn't exist" and "this toy gives me cancer" (what a stupid, STUPID comment and offensive to anyone who has watched a loved one suffer with REAL cancer)  But no, I realise most bronies are probably not like this.  I think the noisy ones who keep lashing out at everyone are just kids...many only ten or eleven years old.  Where are their parents in all this?!

Quote from: Malicieuse on February 11, 2012, 02:31:33 PM

Last time a G3 pony was posted on EQD sethisto called it a hippopotamus pony (oh, such nice love and tolerance : P).

And this is different from the people on the arena calling G4’s “mouse ponies” how?

I've never seen G4s referred to as "mouse ponies" in a negative, insulting way.  I may have said at one point that they look like deer (come on, some of the toys really do have a Bambi feel to them!), and they do have big ears like mice.  I've not seen comments on how the "ugly mouse ponies should be destroyed" though, like you see the G4 fans say about G1 "hippo ponies".  Nor do I really see how G1s look like hippos.  They may be chubby but they look far more like horses than G3.5 or G4 (and no, that's not to be taken as negative - some people like ponies that look like cutesy mice or deer!  It's not criticism like Seth's endless jibes at previous gens, it's a general comment on their body shape)

Really, can we just let this go now?  I think it's sad that the community has been split up like this.  I don't like G4s, I'll be the first to admit it, but mainly because of the hate mail they've brought my way.  I can't look at them without thinking about the e-mails I have to delete every day which is sad in itself.  But I don't go out of my way to attack people who do.  I realise that with a huge fandom like this has become, you will get the immature freaks (and all sorts) moving in.  I just wish the whole hype would die down, the people who want to be genuine fans of the show or collectors of the toys would stick around and the little kiddies who have just jumped on the bandwagon for an excuse to attack people would run off and find a new place to play.  That way we could ALL live in harmony, and enjoy our respective MLP generations!

Ugh, seriously?  This is getting a little much.  Hasbro had clearly stated that white Celestia was not on the cards.  Now they've gone back on their word, proving again that if you whine, bully and send enough hate mail, you can get what you want even if the powers that be said "no".

For years, we have asked for Sea Ponies, boys, or ANYTHING that wasn't Core Seven?  Did they listen?  No, of course not.  I guess we were too polite.

Okay, there are more "bronies" than there ever were of us.  But, from what I've seen, most of these guys do little to support Hasbro.  Many don't collect the toys, some even think the G4 toys are "UGLY OLDER GENS" because they "don't look like the cartoon".  A lot don't even get the Hub and download the show illegally from sites like Youtube.  So what possible benefit can they be to Hasbro (except maybe publicity for the MLP line...but if I were a parent and stumbled upon some of the clopfics/hate mail that come with those fans, I'd run a mile and take my pony-loving kids with me!)

Sorry for being negative, I'm glad G4 collectors, bronies and non-bronies alike, are getting some of the things they want but already I'm seeing the whiny "Where's teh Pony and Doctor Whooooooves... *SOBS*  We can't have everything we want - Hasbro are so meeeeean!" comments popping up online.  Seriously?  You've got far more than we ever got in G3 days.

I dread to think what the next few hours and days hold for myself and my friend, who are already getting so much hate mail from self entitled bronies.  I wish Hasbro wouldn't continue to boost their egos by giving them what they want.  Hey, I know, maybe Hasbro's next trick should be to make a cute little playset out of the clopfic some sicko wrote about my persona being enslaved by her "husband" (my friend, who the self proclaimed "brony nazis" decided they despise for no reason) and my parents being killed in a horrific car crash.  After all, that should please the many "brony" fans who spread the story across the internet and drew fanart to go along with it...and that's all that matters nowadays. >.<

Once again, sorry if this offends anyone.  Feel free to delete or edit as you see fit.  I know I'm not a part of the G4 collecting community, and it's not really my place to comment in this thread anyway.  I'm just a little upset that MLP, the one thing that used to bring me so much pleasure, has become such a big source of stress.

There's a blog I found earlier that had photos and more details about the new G4 toys shown at the New York toy fair this year (which I had totally forgotten about...I don't know if there was a thread about it on the Arena, or whether it took place during the change over?)  Anyways, I was just commenting to Mum about it earlier, and it really does seem they plan to just release the same ponies again and again.  The main six characters are going to be released AGAIN, this time with a "wedding themed accessory" (looked like a plastic wedding invite), then possibly AGAIN as bridesmaids (couldn't really work it out from the description on the blog).  The flower girls were Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie-Belle again.  I can't remember the link but if you Google for "New York Toy Fair My Little Pony" in the past week, you'll probably find it.

They did say there would be "18 ponies" in the singles set with wedding themed accessories.  Perhaps they'll re-release the main six three times?!

I don't know if there was a specific reason.  Lancer was my absolute favourite pony as a kid and I specifically had my mum write to Hasbro to ask them if the three Tales boys existed as figurines but we never got a response.  For years, I hoped I'd find him at a car boot sale - I'd read on internet pages that he and the other boys didn't exist but refused to believe it.  Many tears were shed over the lack of those boys when I was a little girl!

The whole Tales thing was rather strange really.  Hasbro had obviously decided to end the pony line, MLP production for the states had already been cancelled before the show even aired.  So why the heck did they spend all that money making the TV series in the first place?  That show had so much potential for further seasons and accompanying toys (I'd have loved to see a Schoolbus or Ice Cream Shop playset, for instance, let alone all the additional characters in the show!)  The only specific Tales toys they made were the seven main female characters and those were never available in the US and Canada.  Eventually the MLP comic here in the UK went over to using Tales characters, but they were all wrongly coloured as if even the illustrators were not given pictures of the characters to work from!

Hasbro missed a great opportunity in my opinion.   It's like they'd just decided "it's time to throw the MLP line away and focus on Nintendo and video gaming!" and were determined to prove MLP was a flop.  Of course, I realise that's not the case, but it certainly looked that way! >.<