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Yes unfortunately you cant take the mechanisms out or replace the batteries. Or to be more specific you can...but you will have to pretty much take the pony apart and destroy a section of it in the process. You mention ponies going swimming, do you do that with G1s? Because if it does not bother you to do that with those ponies - which have tail washers and crimps - then I dont see any harm in it with some of those ponies either. Just make sure to dry them as completely as possible when they have finished having fun.
That makes sense Everyone has their own little quirks to collecting and what they like or don't like The part you want to take out is in a large moulded section which is inside the pony - part inside the head and part inside the body. Essentially like a large plug connecting the two parts. It is a different bit of plastic to the actual body/head but most of them are glued or welded in place originally [but some hot water, pliers and brute strength will get it out but normally you end up breaking the part or ripping a little of the plastic on the pony]. You will get it out but you need to separate the head body a little and then try and get the large section of plastic out of the body but still with the head; then separate the head and the part. It is very easy for some of the moulded plastic to snap and leave getting it out much trickier. Once you get everything out, you are not getting it back in and, even though it is no longer working, that in itself is going to rapidly devalue the pony. If you are curious why not simply try it out? Finding a baity pony and testing it out may be the only way to satisfy your curiosity unfortunately. Most people do not want to remove the parts which make a pony original so you wont find lots of tutorials on it unfortunately.