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« on: March 17, 2018, 01:14:48 AM »
My husband bought me the subscription for Easter, because I told him I didn't want chocolate this year. They're pretty cute, and the art supplies are adorable (not that I need any more pony art supplies, but ponies, and scented pens woot!). We happened to be walking past the newsagent this afternoon and they caught my eye, so I bought the first two volumes, and when we got home, hubby grabbed the subscription leaflet and a few minutes later an email popped into my inbox with my subscription details! Love that man! Linkity link: http://mylittlepony.eaglemoss.com.au/
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« on: March 08, 2018, 02:41:04 PM »
When I first got back into collecting, I found a lot locally for $100, had almost 50 ponies and other vintage toys, but about 35 ponies, including most of the TAFs, rainbow ponies, and a bunch of htf ponies. I traded most of the other toys away, so ended up with pretty much 50 G1's for $100!
I also found a Baby Sugarberry in a cheap G3.5 lot, Baby buttons on ebay for $7, and there was another lot I picked up about an hour away for $1 per pony, a big garbage bag of G1 and G2 ponies. Epic score! For number 5, possibly my almost complete FS AJ, $30 in a huge lot of g4 ponies which I cleaned up, sold off and made a bunch on to buy other ponies with. Buying to resell isn't usually my thing, but it was a nice way to make some pony money as a once off.
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« on: March 08, 2018, 02:23:58 PM »
According to my checklist, which may or may not be up-to-date:
G1: 267
G2: 40
G3: 234
G4: 73 (plus another dozen or so I haven't added for sure, and there's about 150+ blind bags..)
So all up, about... 780-ish?! There's probably another couple of blind bag waves not included in the current tally, so up to 800 is more likely. That's also not counting the dozens of baits I have lying around looking for homes when I have the time to post them somewhere... I need to do some selling!
Oh, and I have a fakie collection too - vintage Simba and Lanards, and a few fun ones like the Concerned ponies, etc, there's probably another 50 or so there... These numbers are getting a little scary.
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« on: March 08, 2018, 02:04:56 PM »
I believe these would be considered Nirvana: this round of Lanard ponies were produced with a different look for the Danish market! More of a Nirvana Fakie than a fake Nirvana, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway!
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oh that's cool.
Just ordered some vintage lanards, thought I just needed some babies and the rest of the flocked guys and I was done, but looks like I was wrong! Danish Party Ponies just made it to my wish list!!
While there are some that are pretty hard to find, but I can't think of any others in particular that were region exclusive. Most of our fakies were available across different parts of Europe as well.
Oh wow, those Party Ponies are awesome! If I were actively collecting Fakies I'd be putting them at the top of my want list too.
@ Stormness - I would love to see your Lanard Collection, it probably puts mine to shame! 
LOL so would I! They've been in storage for years, I've been buying by lists and adding them to totes, they've never actually been together, because I haven't had room to display them! One day I'll have to pull them all out and do photos. I'm currently buying for my fakie collection, so maybe one day soon I'll pull them out and get some photos. I'd love to get the wedding set again, I traded them for MLPs, and regretted it ever since, they've become so hard to find!
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« on: March 07, 2018, 03:07:58 AM »
The FB group! I totally forgot it existed when I got my new FB account! I have requested to join again now, bring on the fakie goodness...
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« on: March 06, 2018, 10:37:42 PM »
I believe these would be considered Nirvana: this round of Lanard ponies were produced with a different look for the Danish market! More of a Nirvana Fakie than a fake Nirvana, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway!
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oh that's cool. Just ordered some vintage lanards, thought I just needed some babies and the rest of the flocked guys and I was done, but looks like I was wrong! Danish Party Ponies just made it to my wish list!! While there are some that are pretty hard to find, but I can't think of any others in particular that were region exclusive. Most of our fakies were available across different parts of Europe as well.
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« on: March 06, 2018, 12:32:19 PM »
I adore G2, just not a customiser, so I only pull apart the vanilla ones to clean/restore, mechanisms are far too scary for me!! The eye gems are a pretty common restoration, so that's probably why they'recovered, mechanisms not so much since most collectors possibly don't mind?
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« on: March 03, 2018, 05:20:41 PM »
Insurance can be funny, and it can depend on the destination country. For example here in Australia, any claim we file, regardless of when the damaged was sustained, has to go to the origin country, because of the postal agreements we have made with those countries. Not only does that often mean trying to fill out insurance forms in another language, it means getting foreign cheques for the refund too, and boy, is that an issue to have cashed or deposited, ESPECIALLY when they spell your name wrong! International post is a series of complicated deals between countries, so it definitely depends on where you are shipping to and what specifics apply, but it *should* be covered.
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« on: March 03, 2018, 05:03:18 PM »
Congrats, that's an awesome milestone! Hubby and I have been married for 6 years, but together for 10. People are always so surprised that I'm married. Then I tell them how long... I guess I can take that as a compliment, even though I notice new wrinkles every day!
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« on: January 28, 2018, 12:00:06 AM »
Welcome! As a fellow Aussie, I feel your pain finding ponies 'in the wild' so to speak, I very rarely find anything anymore. Although I did find a vintage pony book at the Lifeline bookfest today, super stoked!
As far as brands go, we do have things like magic eraser (Chux brand ones are called that), although they are more often just generically called a melamine sponge. I've never found things like 'dawn dish soap', I just use whatever I can get my hands on! I use cheap conditioners for pony hair, I keep a big pump bottle under my sink and just refill it when it's empty to use on my ponies. Oxy is just napisan or something similar, I use the Aldi brand stuff because it's cheapest I can find, and it works. If you're into customs, you can buy straight acetone at Bunnings, or just use nail polish remover with acetone, it's available pretty much everywhere. I hope that helps!
I'm pretty sure there's quite a few collectors in Perth and around that area, at least there used to be, and they held fairly regular meet-ups. Maybe try to find some FB groups? There is an Aussie collectors page at least.
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« on: January 24, 2018, 03:47:31 AM »
What sort of fakie is the green one with the shooting star symbol?
She's a Simba SHS baby fakie. She came in a set of three with the orange one (has the same symbol) and the green drink and wet fakie.
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« on: January 24, 2018, 03:44:02 AM »
Actually my real name is kind of suitable, so maybe just add something to it..? Stormy Skies? Actually a few people used to call me Thunder, and that's kind of okay as a pony name as well. Maybe I need a new OC?!
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« on: January 24, 2018, 03:26:50 AM »
Debit card mostly, but I do pull cash out to make change every now and then, the eftpos terminal on the vending machine at work is always breaking, so I carry change to grab a drink for lunch...
If I had a million dollar-i-doos... I'd have all the US and UK ponies... and lots of anime and books!
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« on: January 24, 2018, 03:20:07 AM »
She's not ringing any bells with me, but once you post a pic I could possibly help you out, I'm decently well-versed in what's available here in the fakie realm and where you can get them once I've figured out what I'm looking at.
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« on: January 07, 2018, 12:00:57 PM »
I know of a store that until recently, still had G3.5 stock! Last year at Christmas I picked up a bunch of early G4 non-mane 6 singles. It's amazing what you find sometimes, and the Christmas break is the best time to find it!
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