Glowing Magic/Glow N Show Ponies Question...

[hilamb]

^ Woow. She looks awsome!

[Galactica]

Wow that Starglow...

[BlushingBlue]

BlushingBlue, it seems there are at least 3 of them in the collector community, since Eurocoin also seems to have one,  but I am sure there are more! Can I ask where you would have bought yours?

I can't say for 100% certain, but she was very very likely just an ordinary US release. We occasionally saw ponies on Canadian cards in the toy stores around where I lived, but I don't think my Brightglow was even that special. 

That white-and-yellow haired Starglow is really intriguing! I didn't think it sounded very pretty compared to the pink, but she's quite lovely in that picture. Her body color looks paler too, more of a mint green than the teal-ish color I'm used to seeing. Unless that's just an optical illusion a la The Dress. It would be neat if her white hair glowed in the dark along with her stars!

[princessluna11706]

WOW that Starglow!

[Taffeta]

BlushingBlue, it seems there are at least 3 of them in the collector community, since Eurocoin also seems to have one,  but I am sure there are more! Can I ask where you would have bought yours?

I can't say for 100% certain, but she was very very likely just an ordinary US release. We occasionally saw ponies on Canadian cards in the toy stores around where I lived, but I don't think my Brightglow was even that special. 

That helps. It's my general theory that ALL the different "variations" on the GnS ponies were released in the States, whereas only a few of those variations were issued in Europe/UK because we got them later after the experimentation had mostly been done!

The image LM posted is the one I was thinking of. Hathorcat mentioned she knew ofsome loose ones, but I confess I have only ever seen the MIP one, I've never seen a loose one up on sale which is why I assume her to be a one off. I did hope someone would have one when I raised this discussion, since the Arena community is so huge and wide ranging, ad we might learn more about her or of any others, but not so far.

Remembering that DazzleGlow can have fading pink hair or normal pink hair, Starglow can have coral pink hair or magenta pink hair - but what if they made a factory error and Starglow got the pale pink hair instead? That might have faded since it is possible for a MIP pony to fade. I was hoping someone might shed light on it, but I guess nobody in the community currently owns her, which is a shame!

[hathorcat]

I dont know if the couple of people who had them loose still have them but there was certainly a current member who posted about having another one recently...I think it was in one of those other recent threads about the G&S girls. 

[Taffeta]

It would be so awesome if that collector could post pictures

[BlushingBlue]

I dont know if the couple of people who had them loose still have them but there was certainly a current member who posted about having another one recently...I think it was in one of those other recent threads about the G&S girls.

Ah, you're right! Songtoisis posted about her white-haired Starglow back in 2012: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,311615.0.html
Here's one of the comparison pictures from that thread:
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Gorgeous!

And Clipper won a MOC one from the Delaneys back in 2013, but no pics in that thread. 

You have a great memory, hathorcat!

[Taffeta]

Ah, brilliant Thanks for digging that up, BlushingBlue

I wonder, then, how many of them there are floating around.

From that picture, it also looks as though she doesn't have hearts, only stars - but surely that's just her opacity vs the image??

Or I'm hallucinating.

If the MOC one came from the Delaneys in 2013, good chance it came originally from Helen (pinkember)'s collection. If I'd known, I'd have spoken to Helen about it back then, but sadly the subject never came up :-/

[BlushingBlue]

She looks like she has the same hearts, they're just a bit hard to see from that angle.
They are more visible in the "rear view" comparison shot:
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She's definitely greener than normal, like the one in the MOC picture, so I think it's safe to say they came from the same batch, but the batch size must've been tiny to have so few pop up over the years... If there are only a few left in existence, that's like Reverse Gusty territory, isn't it? Songtoisis is a lucky lady!

[Taffeta]

I'm still really sceptical that Reverse Gusty exists/ever existed, because of a spate of custom Gustys by a particularly dishonest seller some 10 years or so ago, but this is a completely different thing to me. I see the hearts now, thanks for linking that image.

She really is very pretty, and you're right. Her owner is very lucky indeed.

[hathorcat]

I am on the same page as you with Reverse Gusty

As for how many - from notes I have seen pictures of 2 loose and heard claims of a third. But I only know of who used to own a couple (the only current active member I know if is song's); one has never been active on forums and the other has not been about for years unfortunately