I have restoration videos!
I've gotten into it because I felt that youtube needed more such G1 related content, since most of it seems g4. None of the videos I have ever have sounds or music, but maybe it could be relaxing if you had another window doing music. (I never add it because of all that fake copyright garbage they're known to do) Everything is subtitles.

Restoring Princess Sparkle 5 Flaws in under 10 minutes
(Rose Noir finds it!) You can ignore the 'secret word' bit in there / it was for a tumblr contest where I gave away the pony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKJrAGCtlM

How To Rehair G1 Baby Dangles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey1K8ysfXp8
This has illustrations too

Fix the hair on giant TY plush Twilight Sparkle
(It's just more curling iron time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680nv2_tBrI

I want to add more videos in the future like removing tail rust or other things that people can think of that they want to do or fix about a pony.

A while ago at thrift...
There was a bag with a huuuuge Tokidoki Unicorno in there. So of course, I had to buy it.
Tokidoki is usually tiny though, right? It's like keychains and little vinyl figures and stuff usually, I think. I have like 2 or 3 of the little figures simply from picking them up with ponies and thrift bags and things over time. But this plush is the largest one of these that I've seen. It's actually too big for me to keep it though, because my Basicfuns are taking up more room. But when I went to sell it on ebay, I have no idea what to do because nobody has one at this size to even know how much to put it at.

Its this white one, in perfect shape
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It's like 16 inches or so high, though it's almost all 'head'.

I don't even know how to find out the name of this one.

Any help is appreciated, because although she is fluffy soft and neat, I just don't have the space.

"What is so bad about horses or ponies that their every feature must be eliminated"?

Terrible!
I will never own one of these. Collecting OVER.
I didn't particularly like the 'movie styles' or g4.5 whatevers, but I got that fashionstyle shimmery Luna because Luna. I didn't get anything else out of it though because the sphere heads and the way they're not on the neck 'right' any more bothers me more. They're not going to see another dime out of me with this style. However, that doesn't matter because I'm 1 person and Hasbrew doesn't care. (oh no someone is complaining on the internet!)

How did this get created? Answer stolen from Tumblr:

Hasbro "Have u ever seen a horse"
Designer "No wat dat"
Hasbro: "Ok ur hired now make ponny"

These......are not ponies?
Why can we not have ponies in our my little pony?
Why?
Why?
What is so hideous, ugly, stupid and awful about horses that EVERY SINGLE HORSE FEATURE must constantly be eliminated?
Why are ponies so bad that nothing can be allowed to look like them?
I just don't understand. They've got hooves. That's about it. There's no horse-like joints, they've even put a goat knee on the rear leg to eliminate pony-like-ness. Nothing at all horse like about the head, nor the neck which is almost non existent and also a tube. No hair on the neck...which is where horse hair IS...tail better positioned but still meh. Shortened the body again...short neck. It's opposite day. Everything these days seems it has to be stylized into almost unrecognizability for whatever reason but, stylization is one thing and morphing into an unrecognizable creature is something else.

It's like, this toy could be considered cute.
People are allowed to like it, that's fine.
It looks like that Gizmo Gremlin from Gremlins, and people like that.
The quality can be good, paint good, eye detail good, hair good etc. It can be a perfectly ok toy.
But it isn't a pony.

It's like every single thing they could possibly get wrong with the face, they got wrong.
But how?
The ears going all the way down the sides of the head? Flat eyes, eyes on the direct front of the face, nostrils on the front like a pig, total elimination of....face? Yes the lower jaw is out, but no pony has a completely flat face like a Persian cat. Whoever said they're trying more and more to look like emojis is correct...as it seems like the entire end goal of every single toy now is to look as much like a smiley face as possible.

Here's their friend in real life the Damascus Goat*
https://images.app.goo.gl/7i3uxSQrnN7YLwnJ9
Have fun with a great beauty
https://images.app.goo.gl/A4J5iApGVjCqa4qi6

They are breeding these to eliminate the fact that the face was long, so now it is short and good and the eyes are migrating to the front.


G4 could never have an accurate toy anyway, because the show was done with flash so they had 'eye flounder'* going on 100% of the time.
The eyes always migrated around to whatever side of the face was shown, like a flounder fish who is flat but both eyes are either on the left 'side of the coin' or the right. When faced forward, the eyes didn't foreshorten, they just...migrated to the front of the head. G1 cartoon was guilty of this too. The art done by Ragamuffin was actually done looking at the toys and shows the point. It's probably also why that new G1 art is always 100% in profile--because any other angle actually induces difficulty and perspective into art because you're not drawing a flat featureless disk any more.

*Eye flounder is caused because humans think that both eyes must be visible at all times or emotion is impossible to portray. That's because humans have front facing eyes and are meant to only be seen from the front when engaging with one another. You can see this on eeeeeverything, Sven the reindeer, every Disney horse imaginable, Chicken Run, those Spirit Stallion Cimmaron horses, shopkins ponies, etc everything looks like it was either crossed with a chimp or is a big mutant dog with the front facing close-together eyes. ("Emotion impossible to portray"---this is so clearly a lie / wrong belief but here we are)

*Nightmare inducing goat in many opinions

Because they have been saying for a while now 'g4 is ending'...
What do you think the FINAL G4 item will be?
A plush?
A brushable?
Some stupid licensed ugly thing?
Something else?

Since they're still clearly letting out all kinds of things it's not about to happen yet. Even odd "Movie" branded things like those smaller than a bb but carded and transparent cheapo toys are just now appearing. So this final item, will probably be a while in coming. So, a whole year from now? Maybe longer?

If you're placing bets, now's the time to do it.

Also, if you're collecting G4, would you buy the final item, no-matter what, if you knew for sure that it was?
I.......miiiight.
If it's something rubbish like those horrible RADZ or that PP who had a Rubik's cube for a head or something like that, I think I'd skip it. But if it was a no-quality hair brushable or something I'd consider it/just keep it moc or whatever.
Like, I was talking the other day if that 'twilights 2 pak' where it has that odd 'retro' one in the spinner box with the normal G4 was the LAST item, I would have bought it even at the 30 dollars or whatever they have it at. But since it's not...idk...I just can't see spending 15 dollars for a trash twi you can get in any dollar flea bucket and another 15 for a 2 inch teeny 'retro' whatever. I guess. It'd be the significance that would cause me to collect. But, I'm curious about what everyone else thinks when the situation will arise. 

How do you dye Dollyhair Virgin Snow to green?
It would seem like a simple matter: just take the brand that works on Virgin Snow in any other color...then simply buy a green one and do the same thing. But, I can't get it to go?

I am using RIT Dyemore Dye (every other color works on VS)
AND IDyePoly Dye doesn't work either.

The RIT loses (it seems) the yellow out and it goes either gross army greenbrown or a sad dark dull blue that fails.
The IDP loses the yellow out and gets blah gray instead OR it'll turn yellowish rotten color
I've tried dip & rinse (quick) and also leave it in the boiling dye for like 20 minutes and still don't get much. Also the color barely takes anyway, it's extremely feeble unless it's left in for an age it seems like.
What's so odd is that all the other colors will work just fine on VS. And it's the same hank of VS too, not like DH did something weird to only some of the hanks or something. Every other condition is the same, except this bad luck green dye color.

Has anyone ever dyed DH VS to green for a custom?
How did you do it?
If this doesn't work, how else do you think hair could be colored?
I have a great green pony who simply neeeeds a lovely green to white fade to make her perfect before the holidays.

Thanks for any info or hints on this difficulty (which will make a xmas surprise come true)

This is actually really great!
I am VERY glad you made this discovery! A candylocks doll is not something I would have bought (not a doll collector) and this is such an interesting discovery. It has been attempted to discover what is PP hair for many years with no success. There has not been anything on the market that is comparable. Customizers use currycombed yarn, combed wool, and sometimes mohair to do those 'fan puffs' that can look very good.
However, none of that is nearly as sturdy or long as real PP hair. Yes, some pp hair will come off as it is de-tangled and can't brush like ordinary hair, but it doesn't simply fall apart like natural OR artificial yarns do. PP hair is guaranteed to be synthetic, but no one knew how the fiber could be so long yet so sturdy and also have that texture.

How does the candylocks doll hold up to combing or styling?
Is it easy to use?
If you brush it a bit to style it into (say, a smaller braid) does it come apart any?

This is def. cool stuff, I'll have to get my hands on a candylocks for sure now...

Lately, I've been customizing the HQG1C blank ponies.
They're better for dye because they don't have weird glue or regrind. Also, since they are blanks you aren't taking away a character to create another. Using dye, doing rehairs, adding paint and dying the hair too I have been having lots of fun. So, this post has the ones I've worked on so far.

A Magenta unicorn!
Bold...80s...and up to her new home to name her and give her a symbol.
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She has pearly green eyes instead of blue.

Pastel Rainbow Friends:
I decided to do a whole series of these babies who have pastel rainbows for hair. The pastel colors look nice with the white body and silver glitter. Their symbol can be almost anything and still look good.

Sparkle Brother
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Teeny Tiny
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Baby Pegasus
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Rearing Baby
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Baby Little Moonbeam
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She was meant to be a Baby version of Sky Rocket, my favorite sparkle pony. However, the blue didn't turn out right. So, she ended up as an all new character. The dark blue is a nice contrast with the bright white hair like a moon beam. Then, it was the perfect excuse to use glow in the dark glitter! It made the symbol a little 3D but it really does glow in the dark.

Sparkle-Z Rainbow sitting pony
Glittering rainbow of zebra stripes! But what sort of hair wouldn't be too 'busy' with the stripes? Dip-dye-rainbow, because that way it's white at the base where she's stripy so nothing clashes.
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Dip Dying hair is harder than it looks though...

If there's a sitting one, there has to be a unicorn also
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What she looks like without the hair:
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These are 2 of my FAVES thus far...Awesomely Aqua sisters
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Seafoam Shores (daiquiri ice and matte white are SUCH a combo!) and her sister Sealight Sparkle. Sealight Sparkle's uses a blend-together for her stripes to simulate depths of water. (No dye) Seafoam Shores has jelli-z stripes while Sealight has sparkle-z stripes.

The images are imgur now instead of lamebucket, so they should be click-able to make it larger to see the glitter better.
Everyone here is also for sale in the AHorseOfEveryColor Etsy, except the Magenta Unicorn who already is in a new home. (And if they have gone, they can be redone)