to lovesbabysquirmy: I've got some of those on order.  I figure I'm sort of saving those from the landfill anyway so I totally agree with you on that. 

However I'm in Canada, those shipments take forever to arrive and I'm an impatient brat    I've picked up the odd pony at dollar stores and a few blindbags and I was worried about ruining something someone else would want.  I'll take your suggesting into account though.  It IS the safest bet.


(I'm in the middle of modding a recently purchased Fluttershy - the one with the single stripe of constantly shedding pink glitter down the back of her head.  She'll be my Pony when I'm done with her.  I'm pretty sure she's not rare, and she's slightly annoying as there's now pink glitter all over my desk.)

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to Uninu: Thank you!  I'm also using some factory seconds like LovesBabySquirmy suggested, but any help with the new ponies would be greatly appreciated!

The hair is especially nice on this one.  She makes an adorable pony.


And I agree with you about the lipstick.  It'd be hard to twist up a tube anyway with hooves.

This is my first attempt at modifying a blindbag pony. 

I learned about a billion things while making her.  For example, when the folks who do this say to lightly sand your pony first, they *mean* it.  Mold lines attract paint.  Must get finer grade sandpaper!  Also I think her wings ended up a little too far forward.  Obviously I need to brush up on my pegasus anatomy.

I picked up several of the Applebloom and Babs Seed/Sweetie Babs sets at a local dollar store for a song.  I kept one set as they were, but I couldn't find the other two Cutie Mark Crusaders anywhere (okay, I did find some Nightmare Night sets but they were out of my current price range for now and I didn't want spooky ponies, just regular ol' blank flanks).  So I decided to modify Babs the second into Scootaloo.

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Sorry if this is off-topic but I wasn't sure where to direct the question.

I've just started dabbling in modifying FiM blindbag ponies.  Of course this means I'm slowly amassing a herd of the wee things.  I'm not collecting them for profit or resale - just for the fun of it.  The modding is fun and I hope to eventually recreate some of the background ponies from the show.

What I don't want to do is accidentally mod one that another hard core collector would want, or make a fan have a heart attack because I cut the head off a hard-to-find model so I can add it to my Nerd Herd.

I don't have any plans on using any obvious character pony figures - like Cheese Sandwich, for example.  I've also noticed a few figures are expensive - such as the Zecora from 2013 - and I wouldn't take an exacto knife to anything that (relatively) pricey.  I've found lists of ponies available, but nothing to say if they're a dine a dozen or rarer than hen's teeth.

IS there such a thing as a "rare" or "bait quality/common" blindbag pony, or are they distributed evenly so every one is equally easy/hard to find?  The Main Six seem easy to get ahold of, but are there ones I shouldn't use if I get duplicates?  Is the going rate generally a good indicator of what not to hack into? 

Any info you could give me would be welcomed.