Crunching some numbers for G4 TaoBao ponies

[cloud_weaver]

Hi all!  Okay, so I'm needing some help.  I would really like to kind of figure out how hard those HTF TaoBao oddities are going to be to track down.  And also just establish an all around rarity of the items.

So...this is a WIP.  But I would love it if you could contribute specific ponies that have been on TaoBao, and approx, how many sellers had them and how many.  I'm just trying to get a grasp of how rare certain ponies are. 

Does that make sense...???  Hoping this will help some others out there as well.  Alright, here goes -

PONY     -     Date seen     -     How many ponies rumored

Regular sized Brushables
*Minty ("normal" symbol) - 2010? - 3 total, on taobao???
*Minty (black outlined symbol) - May 2013 - 1
*Glitter Applejack
*Glitter Wysteria - May 2013 -
*Glitter Pinkie Pie - May 2013
*"Black Tie" Pinkie Pie - May 2013 - 1???

Fashion Styles
*Ditzy Doo (two toned hair/large eyes) - March 2012? -
*White Celestia -
*Wingless Rainbow Dash -
*"Black Tie" Pinkie Pie - April 2013 - 4 sellers, approx...100 surfaced?

[nhal039]

I think there was 8 mintys

I would say there is alot of the sparkly ponies, I would guess around 100 each? I have 'brought' one of each off ebay but I haven't received them so until I do I can't confirm

[Shy Violet]

I was able to get 2 Black Tie Pinkies, 6 Glitter Pinkies and 6 Glitter Wysteria's from Taobao this month. I got 1 Glitter Wysteria from Ebay in April. Hope that helps

[Chinabun]

I got a glitter Wysteria and a glitter Pinkie otw from ebay . Havent gotten a hold of a Black tie Ponkie yet.


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[Sakuyamon]

If it helps with your info gathering, I'm the owner of the newest Minty with black outlines. I also bought 1 glitter Pinkie and 1 glitter Wysteria.
The seller of Minty was 威威机模. (Sorry if the chinese characters turns unreadable for some but I cant do much about it)

[BrightIdea]

*Minty ("normal" symbol) - late 2011 - 8, I am 100% certain on this
*Minty (black outlined symbol) - May 2013 - 1
*Glitter Applejack -Maybe April 2012- 4 or 5
*Glitter Wysteria - May 2013 - too many to count
*Glitter Pinkie Pie - May 2013 - too many to count
*"Black Tie" Pinkie Pie - May 2013 - 1 so far as far as I know

Fashion Styles
*Ditzy Doo (two toned hair/large eyes) - March 2012 - ~30?
*White Celestia - I want to say early 2012?  - ~30?
*Wingless Rainbow Dash - 2011? - Over 50
*"Black Tie" Pinkie Pie - April 2013 - too many to count

I think the only ones here that will remain in the prototype stage are the White Celestia, Ditzy Doo, Wingless Dash, the old Minty, and the Glitter Applejack. We will see, though.

Maybe we could use the manufacturing dates on the ponies to compare dates? People don't always sell them hot off the assembly line. That and I can provide exact dates for some of the older ones here. Otherwise the best idea might be to go through old threads here.

[Shiromisa]

I found an alicorn Rarity!

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Including mine (on order from Taobao, not yet received), there's 30 listed, not sure how many are already sold.

[Sakuyamon]

I found an alicorn Rarity!

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Including mine (on order from Taobao, not yet received), there's 30 listed, not sure how many are already sold.

25 were sold the past 30 days according to the sales page. But I dunno if they will be interested in this as its just a Rarity head on a Diamond Rose body and I got the feeling they just wanted info about specific odd version of ponies which might be released. But Im not sure, I could be wrong^^;

[Archer]

There were 21 prototype Find Another Name to Use Pony Hooves with the large eyes and two toned hair. As for wingless rainbow dash there was quite a lot. I think when i got mine there was something like 30-50 on taobao, however my friend got hers from ebay so there's a good chance there were a lot more

[Sarah-Bee]

Regular sized Brushables
*Minty ("normal" symbol) - 2010? - 3 total, on taobao??? I have one which I bought from ebay
*Minty (black outlined symbol) - May 2013 - 1 - I've only ever seen the 1 that was mentioned in a thread here
*Glitter Applejack - I have one, a friend of mine has one and I know the ebay seller we got them from had at least 1 more for sale
*Glitter Wysteria - May 2013 - I bought one of the ones from Lena on ebay when they were still expensive *facepalm that they're now a LOT less lol*
*Glitter Pinkie Pie - May 2013 same as my comment re Wysteria.
*"Black Tie" Pinkie Pie - May 2013 - 1???

Fashion Styles
*Ditzy Doo (two toned hair/large eyes) - March 2012? - I have one bought from a member here who got her from taobao
*White Celestia - I have the one with purple hair and one with the blue/light purple hair
*Wingless Rainbow Dash - I have her and I sold about 5 to others
 *"Black Tie" Pinkie Pie - April 2013 - 4 sellers, approx...100 surfaced? I have 5 en route from taobao for me and friends

[sd_dreamcrystal]

I would help if I could but sadly I don't buy from Tao

If it helps with your info gathering, I'm the owner of the newest Minty with black outlines. I also bought 1 glitter Pinkie and 1 glitter Wysteria.
The seller of Minty was 威威机模. (Sorry if the chinese characters turns unreadable for some but I cant do much about it)

Lol I translated that with google translate... it's an interesting username (found out for some reason that my translate was translated to dutch >.>)

[Lady Starflower]

Oooo good topic I'll definitely be watching this since I really want the majority of those ponies

I did have a thread not too long ago about the sparkle/translucent mane 6 (minus Twi). I'll see if I can dig it up.

[achab1984]

I was able to get one of the FS Big Black Tie Pinkie Pie, 3 Glitter Pinkies and 3 Glitter Wysteria's so far. I hope that helps

[Galactica]

There's a wingless Rainbow Dash on ebay right now- (overpriced but available).

I have one-  I think there may be quite a few out there-  same with the White Celestias.  I have one of the Celestias that has Rarity's body.

[Lady Starflower]

http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,329786.0.html

Found it!! Might help with some number