Which G3s are soft liike G1s?

[lostpony]

When I got Star Catcher with the soft wings I was surprised to find her body is soft like G1s and I just got a box of failed custom bait and one is a G3 that is also soft....too covered in paint to figure out who she is....

So this got me wondering which other G3s are soft like G1s?  Are there any soft G2s or are they all hard? 

[dragonfly]

I haven't met any G3s with soft plastic. I'd be interested. I know that when I was a kid, some G1s would come out of the package with soft plastic and some were harder, it wasn't necessarily an aging issue.

[lostpony]

Yes some G1s softer, some harder but so far I've not met any hard plastic ones like G2 and G3...I really like the varying hardnesses and the G1 squishiness was such a nice surprise to me after Funko G4s (which I love the hardness of)

Star Catcher is squishy and when I strip the paint off the gopped-up painted bait G3 I have, I will try to identify that one too...if you like G1 squishiness as I do, Star Catcher would be a great G3 to have.

[LadyMoondancer]

Is interesting your Star Catcher is soft, because the ones I've found I would have considered more on the hard side of G3 (except her wings).   The first one I got, brand new, had literal gouges in her plastic; I don't know what happened to her in the factory, but something took a big chip out of her.

I wonder if yours was left in a sun a long time or something, and under it effected the plastic.

Anyway, open-mouth Sparkleworks was one of the softer G3s IMO.

[Mermaid]

I have a soft and a hard star catcher! I thought it was weird, but maybe just a batch issue? My G3 sweetberry was soft right out of the package! Not soft like say g1 twilight, but much more squishy than my minty and kimono!

There are some hard g1s! I've had several sweet stuffs pass through my hands that were hard as rocks! Also the secret surprise ponies and sweet talking ponies from the g1s are def not sof let it squishy. I've had some hard princess ponies too!

To me the first few sets of g1 ponies are extra soft, and then they get more firm. But ponies like moondancer, posey, firefly, gusty and such are always so soft! I love the squishy-ness!

[lostpony]

Wow so even this one pose (with the soft wings) of Star Catcher is made both ways, so interesting!  I bought 2 of them and they are both exactly like a G1...soft plastic and made that way.  I gave the better condition one away to a friend in a bit of a pony-shadow area that gets mostly fakies and only overpriced real ponies. 

Yes I have noticed there are some hard G1s too; there are all sorts of G1s! 

One of the things I like about G1 is the soft plastic (that most of them have), and though several G3s are really nice (for me, white ones in particular it seems), I don't particularly like the solid hard plastic as much....so I was quite surprised when I received Star Catcher and she was soft.  I thought she might be unique but there is at least one more soft G3 because I got her hairless and under a ton of paint so I don't know who is under there until I get some acetone...hence my question.  I just scrubbed up a pony out of my custom/bait lot I just got ...strawberry reef says she's Sweetie Bell 2008 "Core Friends Single"...interesting, my first G3 regular size unicorn I guess...that is somewhere in between, has thin body plastic kind of like a G1 and has a hardness somewhere in between a regular G1 and a G3.

Well, let's see if anypony knows about any others!

[Mlp Sunsparkle]

One of my 3 honoluloos is soft(her leg can fold up she's so squishy) but the other two are not. My round n round is squishy, and so are a couple of my pink sunsparkles, Sweetberry (I got from new), kimono and starbeam. My wing song is also quite squishy.
Myself I prefer the squishy pony plastic (hugs squishy ponies) 

[brighteyes]

I think the squishiness or hardness of a particular G3 depends in part on the conditions it was stored in.  Ponies that are kept in hot or even quickly varying temps tend to experience more plasticizer breakdown and become very hard overtime.  Even ponies that were once relatively soft can become really hard after being boiled to help remove the glue that holds the mane in.

[Yukiru]

The squishiest G3s I can think of are the build-a-pony ones they had at the Once Upon a Toy Shoppe in Downtown Disney in G3's hayday. Those were almost like a squeeky toy they were so soft, which is one of the reasons I never picked one up, they felt kinda cheap compared to the denser plastic of retail G3s. (Though now I regret it since the the display isn't there anymore ^^U)

[Jorgito93]

I think it depends , but my applejack is squishy while my lovey dovey is hard as a rock, and they came from the same seller.

[lostpony]

My first couple G3s were rock hard with the swiveling head (desert rose for example) and I assumed from they way they look in pictures that they are all hard, and I thought that was one of the generation differences...seems many are squishy...thanks for the responses!

[sd_dreamcrystal]

In the G3 line I have noticed that the ponies with the turnable heads are a lot more solid than the ones with the non-turnable heads. The ones with the shimmer bodies are also a lot more forgiving in being squished than the matted solid colored ones (with some exceptions)

[Foxtale]

In the G3 line I have noticed that the ponies with the turnable heads are a lot more solid than the ones with the non-turnable heads. The ones with the shimmer bodies are also a lot more forgiving in being squished than the matted solid colored ones (with some exceptions)

I've found this as well. The more metallic ones seem to be softer but the bigger difference is the head turing. The ones that turn heads are harder to accommodate for the joint. I don't think there is a correlation (besides the head thing and the pearlyness) but the earlier ones seem to be softer than the later ones.