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« on: July 15, 2022, 04:46:00 PM »
I have him and love him! Even my husband likes Tex, because of his theme. I don't have his original accessories, but I bought him the clear glitter repro HQG1C hat and dyed it...it isn't identical to his original, but the closest I'm likely to get, and I like it!
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« on: July 15, 2022, 04:42:18 PM »
What am I up to today? Hmmm...the world is my oyster today! My husband took the kids out of state to visit my in-laws and left me here to 'get my rest'. The only thing I really HAD to do was go to my radiation treatment this afternoon. So I did that, then went to the store and bought a bunch of food that I love but my family would never eat, then came home, poured myself a forbidden glass of wine (not really...no one said I couldn't...it just feels forbidden, somehow!  ), and sat down to contemplate how on EARTH am I going to sell my home in the state that it's in? I googled some articles about how to find a good realtor, and then got overwhelmed. Decided to work on that dilemma tomorrow. Should I...take a bath? Play video games? Read a book? Dye a pony? Clean? (Nah on that last.  ) I think I'm so overwhelmed by the prospect of having all this luxurious alone time that I'll probably end up sitting here piddling around on the information super highway until I finish half the bottle of wine and it's time to go to bed and I wasted a whole evening pondering how to spend it, haha.
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« on: July 12, 2022, 08:36:03 PM »
Yeah, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole myself this morning with it. I found an old video from before they were divorced where she looked all early 90's and he was talking all weird about how she was 'a little girl at heart' or something like that. So weird!
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« on: July 12, 2022, 09:19:40 AM »
That's a crazy story...she and her husband are a hot mess. Now I want to go Google pictures of her and the bizarre things described in the article...her funhouse-colored house, the company building, etc. Sounds like a house of horrors.
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« on: July 11, 2022, 08:38:47 AM »
I got mine super cheap in a bait lot. She cleaned up beautifully! She's my favorite flutter pony. I need to buy or make some colorful wings for her...she deserves something bright, I think!
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« on: July 11, 2022, 08:27:24 AM »
Just joining the thread because I am interested in knowing more about them, too. My son wanted a Pocohontas doll for his 4th birthday, so I ordered the Animators Pocohontas for him. She has such a beautiful, expressive, melancholy face. Unfortunately, these were apparently not designed to be play dolls, because she had the worst quality hair I've ever seen on a toy in my entire life! Within 4 days, it was in dreadlocks. There was some substance applied to her hair to keep it neat and shiny in the package, but when combed through, it turned powdery and clumped up. 3 years later the hair is just destroyed. My son is very bothered by it and wants me to fix her, and I've looked into a few options, including rehairing her with nylon hair or buzzing her existing hair and finding a kanekelon wig. But her head is bigger than the standard size of most doll wigs, and she is very tightly rooted, so buying enough nylon hair to re-root her would cost more than I paid for the doll! So I'm kind of at an impasse. My son just now turned 7 and still sleeps with the doll, so I probably won't go to any drastic, expensive measures to restore her hair until he is done doing that. I recently saw a Merida animator doll at Goodwill and was tempted to buy her, but she was naked and I don't have any clothes to fit that scale of doll. Her hair was a mess, but wasn't the same crappy quality of Pocohontas's; if I had wanted to take on another project, I could've fixed Merida's. A woman I talk to on IG has a Pocahontas doll, and claims her hair is nice, but she's a collector and likely hasn't played with the doll. I saw a review online about someone with a Mulan Animator doll who seemed to have the same problem I did with her doll. Maybe it was just a bad batch of the black hair used on these dolls. ETA: pics! visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login
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« on: July 11, 2022, 07:59:50 AM »
Another vote for taking ponies in the bath/pool...possibly even the lake...yikes! My Baby Surprise was my go-to, take-everywhere pony for the longest time; I'm really amazed that she cleaned up as nicely as she did for me. Her head is still intact, so I can't check her insides, but I shined a flashlight through her and can see no evidence of mould or tail rust inside of her.
A dumb thing I did as an adult (but not a collector yet), in 2009 or so, I had let my stepkids play with all my childhood ponies...80 or so of them...when they were with us on their summer visitation with us. When they went back, I decided to clean them up before putting them in storage indefinitely. So I filled up the laundry utility sink and just dumped them all in there before individually shampooing and conditioning their hair, not thinking about water getting inside them. Then I took them all out and spread them in the sun to dry without regard to what damage the sun could do. Then once they were dry, I braided each of their tails into a twist and secured them with a thin, neon rubber hair tie, thinking I was preserving their hair for storage. When I got them out a decade later, the hair ties were dry-rotted to bits in their tails, and the ends of the twisty braids were super frizzy. Thankfully, despite their unfortunate dunk in the laundry tub, no evidence of mould/rust was present.
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« on: July 01, 2022, 07:13:50 AM »
Yeah, how do you not see a 400lb tortoise in the road? That's just insane.  I'm glad someone was able to save her eggs.
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« on: June 29, 2022, 03:21:11 PM »
I thought of another thing. Turtles and tortoise on the road.
It's common and expected to stop traffic to help a turtle or tortoise across the road. You always take them in the direction they were heading. They sometimes need to cross streets to get to a new water source, or in the case of tortoise, they're just traveling. Turtles are way more common. There are some streets that have turtle crossing signs. There is also duck crossings and Sandhill crane crossings. Sandhills are illegal to kill, even in an accident and I think almost every turtle is protected too. Not sure about the ducks.
I'm glad people help them. I actually cry when I see turtles smashed in the road. You don't see it super often here, only a couple of times a year, but it makes me so upset that people around here won't stop to move them off the road.
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« on: June 26, 2022, 11:28:28 AM »
I could see myself being done at some point. I've scaled my collecting way back to focus on my health this past year or so. With a cancer diagnosis last year, I started to feel like my collection was more of a liability than anything; what if something happens to me and no one bothers to rehome my collection? It just really shook up my collecting mentality.
Also, it just seemed like prices and shipping went way up very suddenly a year or 2 ago. Paying for shipping is the bane of my existence, especially as my collection grew and it's getting to the point where I can't buy inexpensive lots of ponies anymore and still get several that I don't have. I can't afford to pay shipping on individual ponies off of Ebay, and there is really no local market for ponies here. So any collecting I've been doing lately is for another collection from which I can find things locally.
As for ponies, I'd prefer to focus on the customizing aspect more than acquisition. I have lots of ideas...just not a lot of time. If I ever see any G1s in the wild, I'll probably grab them, but I'm pretty much done with Ebay.
I have no interest in G5. I watched the movie with my kids, as well as the one episode that came out recently on Netflix, but the toys don't appeal to me one bit. For that matter, I'd really like to scale back or completely get rid of the G3s and G4s I have, as they really hold no nostalgia for me and I'm running out of space. I only have one G2, but I like him, so he stays for now.
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« on: June 26, 2022, 10:47:42 AM »
Has anyone tried Dharma acid dye for dyeing ponies? After having the page saved in my browser for over a year, I finally sucked it up and ordered 2 different neon colors to try in the hopes of getting the color right for a custom I've been working on forever. Spent $20 between the 2 colors and the shipping...man, between the cost of the HQG1C blank, the several different colors of Rit dye I've already tried that didn't work, and the cost of the hair, I might as well have just found the pony I'm after and bought it outright, but if it works, I'll consider it a cost well-spent for, you know...pony science.
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« on: June 26, 2022, 10:33:04 AM »
1) A house exploded one day a couple blocks from me. It was during summer break, so I was home that day. I felt it more than saw it, but I saw the immediate aftermath. A gas line blew, and the house disintegrated. All that was left was a smoking crater, and scorch marks on all the surrounding buildings and cars. The owner was away in the hospital, so nobody got directly hurt, but the residents of the old folks home across the street got a big scare.
The same thing happened in the town I grew up in! I was about 5 years old and was playing on the floor when it rolled underneath me. I don't remember hearing anything, but I sure remember that feeling. The neighbors were walking toward one end of the block and my mom took me and we went with them. It was the house at the T intersection behind us. I clearly remember standing with my mom's hands on my shoulders and I was staring at a janitors' sink in the middle of the road. There was a fireball in the sky and a huge crater where the house was. Just like in your story, no one was home when it happened so no one was hurt.
I asked my mom what had happened and she told me the stove exploded. That started an extreme phobia of stoves and other appliances for me that exists to this day.
8 or 9 years ago when I was living out west, a house exploded a couple blocks away from my work. I guess some bored college kids were sitting around smoking weed and trying to light their dog's farts. No joke. I guess there was a gas leak in the house or something. They were blown out of the upper duplex they were in, but not seriously injured, somehow.
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« on: June 22, 2022, 02:48:33 PM »
I put blue, because those were always the ponies I was drawn to as a kid, but green is a close second. Maybe because they are few and far between.
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« on: June 21, 2022, 08:48:08 AM »
Sleeping in. Not having to get up at 6:30 to schlep kids off to school.
Longer daylight in the evenings. (But I hate that it starts getting light out at 4:30am...I have a skylight right over my bed.)
Getting to wear flip-flops comfortably. I hate closed shoes; they hurt my feet because of my high instep, so I wear flip-flops year-round, at least in the house, but it's more comfortable in the summer.
Garage sales, flea markets, etc.
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