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« on: December 11, 2020, 05:49:24 PM »
Firefly: "Ponyfeathers"
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« on: December 05, 2020, 02:48:45 PM »
For most long time collectors like myself the term brushable walks the line of being an insult. I don't feel like it's a secret in how the male-dominated toy lines tend to be more focused on how much an item is worth. There have been TV shows devoted to 'toy' collecting but it all seemed to boil down to how much money the guy could sell or buy someone's collection for, as in how much profit could be made off of whatever toy was that week's focus.
My Little Pony collectors in general, sure, we have folks who come in and want to make top dollar on their collections. However, I have noticed that ponypeople that tend to stick around are a bit different, a lot of us tend to lowball prices. We, at least in the past, were more active in discouraging super inflated prices. I've had more true ponypeople at a convention give me free pony stuff than try to rip me off or sell me on something being worth a high price. Heck, a lot of ponypeople would rather trade you than to make tons of money off something.
Not to say we're suckers, I mean I want to get a fair price for anything I sell, but I'm not greedy and I don't believe in telling some novice pony collector some bullcrap, that these ponies are right out of a leprechaun's golden earhole and is worth so much money.
So I don't know if within the collectors here you're going to find a lot of people focused on the 'price or worth' or people insisting on our value being supreme.
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« on: December 05, 2020, 11:58:44 AM »
Opinion on the value of a item is just that, it's an opinion.
Being a collector in regards to what you are willing to pay for an item is subjective and varies depending on the individual.
Being a collector can also give one the opinion that the price being charged is too much and thus, we will complain that X item isn't worth said value.
And then some collectors feel like they're items are way more valuable because someone somewhere insisted the value is a certain amount. However, wanting something to sell for a certain price and actually selling it for said price are two different animals.
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« on: November 19, 2020, 11:33:38 AM »
Don't quote me on this because I don't have any pamphlets in front of me. I think originally the baby ponies may have been advertised as, as taff says, baby ponies or beautiful baby pony but then sometime after the pamphlets changed to read 'baby ember' for the mail order ponies.
Because I knew the pony as baby ember before I ever saw a special and before I ever saw the cassette tape version in the store. And for some reason, I do believe this was discussed on the forums before among collectors, that there are multiple versions of the original mail order forms/pamphlet thingie.
Again, I'm working off memory right now so don't shoot me if I'm mixing something up.
But just like with the mail order birthflower and other mail order forms, there was multiple versions of some forms.
I'm thinking maybe over the years when they did the printing, it's possible they ran out and then printed more, but sometimes they'd change it or they'd add new mail orders, so thus they'd update the pamphlets to reflect that. The mail order programs usually had an end date but it was usually months to a year beyond when they originally started putting them in the packages. And sometimes even though the end date hadn't passed yet you'd sometimes be unlucky as they would run out of whatever pony you were ordering. As I had that happen to me with baby Gametime and Sugarcake as I got one of them but the other they sent me a post card to tell me they were no longer available.
So I have a feeling that originally Ember may have been baby pony but then changed at some point to Ember because they were having the TV special and had decided to give the baby a name.
I don't remember ever watching the special on tv originally, I saw it on video that I rented at the video store, etc. Then at some point I did see it again when I was able to watch the episode tv show they eventually re-showed the specials on tv. But this was back in the day when you could only watch things like Wizard of Oz on TV once a year. So I have no clue what year/dates I actually was first exposed to all the specials, I know it was later than when they originally aired.
I think maybe it's very possible that originally the mail order program was an attempt to see how 'popular' the ponies were. Back in the day there was no internet to tell you. But if you could see results from people actually WANTING to mail in to get a pony, you knew that hay...people do actually want this item. It's not just mom or grandma buying a kid a toy off the shelf. Kids actually do wanna save the points and order these 'special edition' ponies you can only get through the mail.
It's one reason you can go back and see the Original 6 were already being described as 'collector' ponies, even back in the 80's. Hasbro knew apparently that both kids and adults were already seeing it as a collection, not just some random average toy.
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« on: November 19, 2020, 08:35:09 AM »
I think star Ember is the real Ember.
The others were not always marketed as Ember, so they're questionable 
Well, as I said in an earlier post, the one I ordered through the mail was the all blue one. Which I deemed a boy. But going back to then, thinking, there were no actual photographs on the pamphlet, only a black and white drawing/artwork. So we that ordered her/him through the mail had no way of knowing what the baby pony was really going to look like. I don't know for sure when the cassette and baby pony combo was sold in stores but I don't remember seeing it till much later, I already had my blue ember, but this is me going back in memory to 84-85, so as a kid, a lot time could have only been a few months. But I do remember already having blue baby ember. (shrugs) But originally if you ordered the mail order version you really didn't know what you were going to get other than going by the drawing. So it was sort of a surprise when you got the baby in the mail. I had no way of knowing what 'kind' of shade of blue the pony would be till I got it. And this was obviously pre-internet so nobody had a way of sharing their toys online, showing them off. So, it was kind of 'fun' to expect an unseen item in the mail, etc.
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« on: November 19, 2020, 08:25:52 AM »
The cassette story really had nothing to do with Baby Ember getting a symbol/cutiemark.
It was a story about ember dealing with her feelings of envy but also of her having a prophetic dream about the RB ponies being in danger and having their rainbow hair stolen and being turned into wigs, which would be sold in a place called....NewYorkCity...
LOL's, oh the memories.
And I want pink angel pony...hasbro never made her (sad)
Baby Ponies are sometimes very wise and grown up ponies are sometimes very foolish...(best words of wisdom angel pony)
So the story really had nothing to do with Baby Ember getting a symbol, it was all about prophetic dreams and some dude stealing rainbow pony hair to sell it in newyorkcity.
Wait, my biggest question is, why does Majesty know someone from new york city who she'd invite to the castle LOLs!!!
And at the end of the story the narrator says, You'll have fun creating your own stories an adventures with Ember and all of her friends in the world of My Little Pony.
If we go back to original Baby Ember, the mail order version. There are 3 versions of this toy. A all blue, a lavender with pink hair, and one is pink with lavender hair - This was kinda the first thing I remember we could get through the mail so If memory serves me right this was the start of the mail order system. Pretty sure it would have been in the 84'ish time frame so it was probably to see how well the mail order system would work, see if baby ponies would be something to make in future and also to promote the first special. She had no symbol in the first special and thus that's why she didn't have one on the toy.
As to why she has a symbol in the cassette/pony package. Well, she's also a different color from all the original embers. She was a dull lavender body with lavender hair and a white star on her flank. I feel like the more important question is which baby Ember is the REAL baby Ember?
Edit: And Fire Repunzel is my go to when a thread is on fire. Cause I'm silly.
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« on: November 19, 2020, 07:22:47 AM »
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« on: November 18, 2020, 02:01:40 PM »
Meanwhile, we all spend our time on a forum dedicated to us talking about plastic toys made by hasbro, while at the same time some of us accuse the 80's cartoon of only being an advertisement to sell toys.
Somehow, I'm feeling like the manipulation seems like a 30+ year success. Apparently, I'm not the only sucker round here.
It is what it is. I'm not saying it was a bad thing, that's just what they did in the 80s.
In case people are interested, I'm going to leave this here.
https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/20-amazing-cartoons-created-to-simply-sell-toys/2900-2623/#1
meh, actually I don't need a refresher, as I was there and from just scrolling and looking at the pictures I probably watched a majority of the cartoons. I'm pretty sure anyone that grew up in the 80's watching those, even at the time we knew it was to sell toys, however it was because we liked the toys that we watched the cartoon. Maybe that isn't always expressed so well (At least with MLP it's not, since the cartoon came a while after the toys were already popular, regardless of what some of the FIM centered forums and fandoms suggest); It was because the toyline was successful that there was a cartoon about them, not the reverse.
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« on: November 18, 2020, 01:16:23 PM »
Meanwhile, we all spend our time on a forum dedicated to us talking about plastic toys made by hasbro, while at the same time some of us accuse the 80's cartoon of only being an advertisement to sell toys.
Somehow, I'm feeling like the manipulation seems like a 30+ year success. Apparently, I'm not the only sucker round here.
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« on: November 17, 2020, 03:39:15 PM »
How did baby Ember get her cutie mark?
By sacrificing the souls of the other ponies...muwhahahah..
OR
My original Ember was the blue mail order ember and was I decided a boy. He never got a symbol, he was sort of the class clown and he and baby moondancer were boyfriend and girlfriend.
OR
It was left open for you do decide because at one time toys actually gave you the ability to dream up your own ideas about each pony, instead of strictly following along someone elses ideas. Even back in the day the cartoon for G1 didn't play a huge part in how I thought about my ponies. It was an accessory, take it or leave it, my ponies were nothing like the ones portrayed on the cartoon.
Which was technically what MLP was created to do. It was the idea of a child being able to have their own ponies. Even the backstories invented didn't fully flesh out the personality of ponies. Although since the UK sort of had the comics it might have been a tad different...but I can only speak from my own experience with MLP back in the 80's.
I can still remember getting my first ponies and that it was my mom who bought me Moondancer and Firefly. Then we went to visit my cousin the same day and she had also purchased Moondancer!! It was so funny, we bought looked over the backcard and all the other ponies and were totally IN. We both wanted to collect all the ponies pictured there. I was 11-12 and that would have made my cousin probably 7-8 years old. We were sorta bff/sisters instead of cousins.
We also both took super good care of our ponies, we did play with them a little but we were never really abusive. Although I do remember that one time I'd gotten to the point of having almost 50ish ponies and for some weird reason I could not leave any of them at home while we went on our week long vacation to Florida...YES, all my ponies came with me. So it was me and 50 ponies piled up in the backseat. (haha)
I remember it was around my birthday the year I started collecting ponies and my dad taking me out of town and we went to a store called Woolworths where to my surprise they still had the show stable. And I really wanted it and dad got it for me for my birthday. I didn't have many ponies then, maybe a handful but I thought it was so awesome I'd have a house for my ponies. I still remember how it felt sitting in the truck on the way home with the box in my lap.
It really wasn't about a particular 'character' in G1. I felt like the ponies were one big family and I, as the caretaker needed to collect all the ponies and bring them home. So, even at that age it was a 'collection'. But in that I was always seeing the ponies how I wanted, not how hasbro said the ponies had to be, which again, I never felt like Hasbro originally was pushing for the ponies to be set in stone as far as their personality goes, it was supposed to be about play and imagination and your own ideas.
Back to the symbols on each ponies. Clearly back at the origins, Hasbro wasn't going for some kind of coming of age, your life MISSION if you choose to accept it and too bad if you don't as you'r stuck with a purple cupcake on your flaks. It was more a way to identify the pony and make it 'different' from the other ponies. Which to a certain extend does give the ponies a vague personality. But was Moondancer a space pony, was she a magical wizard unicorn? Or was it just a way to reflect the name and color sceme back then?
I mean ya know, newborns already had their symbols/name in package. (haha) Maybe G1 ponies were just so far advanced of their G4 decendants they knew out of the Hasbro womb who they were and what they're future would be. But I have a difficult time imagining the newborn twins as adults. What exactly is a job profile for Bunkie?
or Tattles...maybe she's a FBI or CIA informant...
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« on: October 01, 2020, 02:42:54 PM »
I've managed to watch all 12 of the EvolxLove episodes. While I did like it and I think if they managed to do the english version I'll rewatch it. However the ended for the last episode was...strange. It seems like a big change from the game (but I don't want to put any spoilers). I think the one thing I realized at the end of 12 is that there is something missing from it. I feel like the romantic side of the story is missing. There are little hints in it but overall the game feels like there is more of a connection. By the end of 12 I kept thinking, well I feel like I didn't get out of the show what I got in the game and then it hit me. In the game you can choose to go on these dates with the guys and you sorta build a relationship with them. I don't feel quite like in anime she built that same relationship with the guys. I think the first few episodes started off great but then it's like after they introduced the audience to each character, it felt almost like you were supposed to accept that missing bit of affection/romance/love. It's like the one episode where Spoiler MC and lucien, she finds out he is part of black swan and is called Ares. When she's running away from him in the anime and she's very emotional in tears and saying Lucien wouldn't hurt her, etc. etc.
It feels a bit forced and makes you think, wait...it doesn't feel like the connection is that strong yet for her to be this upset. It's probably because in game by the time you get to that point it's taken you a lot longer and more events go on inside the game so maybe it's becasue of that it feels more developed between the characters.
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« on: September 13, 2020, 06:33:48 PM »
@Uni -Eraser or Erased? (If the latter I know it well, if the former, do tell what it is about!)
I haven't gone back to EvolxLove since ep 7, I don't know what to make of it overall. On the TV I discovered I can mostly ignore the subs except when they superimpose names in awkward places, so it's not too bad. But I haven't been watching a lot of anime lately.
I have in my mind to rewatch a bunch of series but haven't got around to them yet. Just haven't had time since I now gave myself some extra homework to do, sigh...
Duh, yea, Erased not eraser. I just watched the second episode tonight. There is stuff in Mr. Love/EvolxLove I don't even remember from the game. I happened to load my game on my work computer as I had downloaded it on there when my ipad was being worked on and I played a couple levels and I completely forgot that bit in the storyline. I think maybe it's hard to condense the storyline to the anime as they've left some stuff out. They seemed to totally skip some story line with Lucien and the Orphanage that is in game. But I can also see how it'd be hard to squeeze everything in, considering the game we can play at our own pace. Whereas in the anime an episode has to 'work' in a certain amount of time so that they can get enough of the story in to get to the desired ending for the show. About Shaw: Spoiler I am curious why they would change Shaw from the one who might have tried to kill Victor, however, we did get that scene between Gavin and Shaw, which I can't remember if that happened in game? So maybe that was the trade off? But then since some stuff has been left out or smoshed together we may still get something.
In game right now, I spent all my dang free draws and some gems and still didn't get any of the 'new' SSR cards. So i'm sad. And as much as I want the Kiro/Helios new SR card, I'm not spending fricking $10 top up for that...it's just an SR and the last SR I tried really hard to get, the date made me to sad. Why are they making Kiro/Helios so mean. I guess Helios is the 'mean' side of the sunshine that gives you terrible sunburns.
But I would like to either have Victor or Kiro of those 1930's-40's designs. They look pretty. And now it's time after a spoiler for a random Victor karma. Since I just got this one recently. Hopefully the image will show up below. visitors can't see pics , please register or login
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« on: September 13, 2020, 08:10:20 AM »
I've got children of the sea in my list on netflix but haven't watched it yet.
I'm a little disappointed with Evoxlov, but mostly because it seems a little rushed in the last few episodes or well, on one level I play the game so I know certain events so maybe because I already know it doesn't seem as 'shocking' in the anime as the game.
Plus in game it takes a while to get to stuff as you play where in the anime it's just rolling along at a faster pace. I am interested to see the next episode as it looks like it might show some of Victor's perspective when he goes forward in time.
Also, I just watched the first episode of something called Eraser, it's on netfix and dad and I watched episode 1 while we ate breakfast. Even he seemed like he thought it was interesting. How I know...he asks questions during the show instead of just sitting there thinking OH NO another cartoon. LOL!
So I've put eraser in my list to watch.
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« on: September 02, 2020, 02:23:44 PM »
Generally hasbro has deemed MLP to be for ages 3 and up. While I don't see a huge problem with giving a 2 year old a MLP, I think there is something to consider since babies tend to put 'EVERYTHING' in their mouths. That's why most infant toys are made the way they are and you don't see a lot of the synthetic hair on toys for babies/infants.
Maybe give it as a gift and the parents can either use it as baby room decoration or put the pony away till the child is old enough to have a mlp.
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