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Quote from: Leave a Whisper on April 01, 2021, 01:49:21 PMQuote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 08:27:45 AMQuote from: Leave a Whisper on April 01, 2021, 06:27:38 AMQuote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 05:50:18 AMI think I'm going to try to make one...I have an HQG1C blank in her pose laying around, and if I can get the green dye right I'm going to give it a go. While I'm still hoping to randomly find her in the wild for like, $1(keep dreaming, right?!), I'm not paying $400 for her on Ebay.Can't wait to seeI'll post her for sure! I'm just really leery about getting the color right...usually when dyeing a pony I have another pony to compare it to so I know I get it right...wish I had a local friend I could borrow a Mimic from for a day! And Rit dye doesn't have a real great shade of green in their Dyemore arsenal...I picked up a neon green. Maybe if you combine it with pale or neon yellow? Mimic never seems to be one color anyway. I've seen her white tinted with green, honeydew green and a light sickly yellow.I know, every picture I see of her looks different! The one on the wiki site looks almost neon, or at least a bright lime, but then some look whitish or almost yellow green, you are right. I chalked it up to differences in photography/lighting, like Taffeta mentioned, but fading could be a factor, too. Is your neon green Rit dye, or a different brand? I think I saw on their website they carry neon green in regular dye but not for synthetics, but it might still work. I thought about using Koolaid, but I've never heard of anyone using that to dye pony bodies, only hair, so I'm not sure. I'll have to try it on a bait pony first...
Quote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 08:27:45 AMQuote from: Leave a Whisper on April 01, 2021, 06:27:38 AMQuote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 05:50:18 AMI think I'm going to try to make one...I have an HQG1C blank in her pose laying around, and if I can get the green dye right I'm going to give it a go. While I'm still hoping to randomly find her in the wild for like, $1(keep dreaming, right?!), I'm not paying $400 for her on Ebay.Can't wait to seeI'll post her for sure! I'm just really leery about getting the color right...usually when dyeing a pony I have another pony to compare it to so I know I get it right...wish I had a local friend I could borrow a Mimic from for a day! And Rit dye doesn't have a real great shade of green in their Dyemore arsenal...I picked up a neon green. Maybe if you combine it with pale or neon yellow? Mimic never seems to be one color anyway. I've seen her white tinted with green, honeydew green and a light sickly yellow.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on April 01, 2021, 06:27:38 AMQuote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 05:50:18 AMI think I'm going to try to make one...I have an HQG1C blank in her pose laying around, and if I can get the green dye right I'm going to give it a go. While I'm still hoping to randomly find her in the wild for like, $1(keep dreaming, right?!), I'm not paying $400 for her on Ebay.Can't wait to seeI'll post her for sure! I'm just really leery about getting the color right...usually when dyeing a pony I have another pony to compare it to so I know I get it right...wish I had a local friend I could borrow a Mimic from for a day! And Rit dye doesn't have a real great shade of green in their Dyemore arsenal...
Quote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 05:50:18 AMI think I'm going to try to make one...I have an HQG1C blank in her pose laying around, and if I can get the green dye right I'm going to give it a go. While I'm still hoping to randomly find her in the wild for like, $1(keep dreaming, right?!), I'm not paying $400 for her on Ebay.Can't wait to see
I think I'm going to try to make one...I have an HQG1C blank in her pose laying around, and if I can get the green dye right I'm going to give it a go. While I'm still hoping to randomly find her in the wild for like, $1(keep dreaming, right?!), I'm not paying $400 for her on Ebay.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on April 01, 2021, 02:00:56 PMQuote from: Taffeta on April 01, 2021, 01:54:44 PMAdmittedly I've only ever had three or four in person, but I don't think there's a variation in her body colour so much as it's a really difficult colour to photograph well. It's a yellow-green colour, but the exact way to describe it otherwise, I'm not sure. I can't think off the top of my head of a pony with the same colour scheme (although I could go look...I can't think of any off the top of my head, they're all a shade or two out).The Mimics I've had in my possession were all exactly the same colour, anyway. And I know people sometimes say she looks whiteish, but that's a trick of the lighting imo.Only 3 or 4 she says. But yeah, I hear ya on some ponies being difficult to capture the color of.3 or 4, including mine, in 25ish years? And honestly, all of them were at least 20 years ago xD.
Quote from: Taffeta on April 01, 2021, 01:54:44 PMAdmittedly I've only ever had three or four in person, but I don't think there's a variation in her body colour so much as it's a really difficult colour to photograph well. It's a yellow-green colour, but the exact way to describe it otherwise, I'm not sure. I can't think off the top of my head of a pony with the same colour scheme (although I could go look...I can't think of any off the top of my head, they're all a shade or two out).The Mimics I've had in my possession were all exactly the same colour, anyway. And I know people sometimes say she looks whiteish, but that's a trick of the lighting imo.Only 3 or 4 she says. But yeah, I hear ya on some ponies being difficult to capture the color of.
Admittedly I've only ever had three or four in person, but I don't think there's a variation in her body colour so much as it's a really difficult colour to photograph well. It's a yellow-green colour, but the exact way to describe it otherwise, I'm not sure. I can't think off the top of my head of a pony with the same colour scheme (although I could go look...I can't think of any off the top of my head, they're all a shade or two out).The Mimics I've had in my possession were all exactly the same colour, anyway. And I know people sometimes say she looks whiteish, but that's a trick of the lighting imo.
Quote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 08:27:45 AMQuote from: Leave a Whisper on April 01, 2021, 06:27:38 AMQuote from: LadyAmalthea on April 01, 2021, 05:50:18 AMI think I'm going to try to make one...I have an HQG1C blank in her pose laying around, and if I can get the green dye right I'm going to give it a go. While I'm still hoping to randomly find her in the wild for like, $1(keep dreaming, right?!), I'm not paying $400 for her on Ebay.Can't wait to seeI'll post her for sure! I'm just really leery about getting the color right...usually when dyeing a pony I have another pony to compare it to so I know I get it right...wish I had a local friend I could borrow a Mimic from for a day! And Rit dye doesn't have a real great shade of green in their Dyemore arsenal...There's an HQG1C Mimic custom on Instagram! Maybe you could ask them what combo they used for her?
I find Mimic to be fascinating. I have always heard that her production run was small and that's even mentioned in her Wiki page, but I have always been weary of that. Has that ever been proven? And how would anybody know if it was smaller unless there's some fact based behind it?
It's all so very muddled by this point - I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure unless someone finds an unopened Hasbro case of 1987 TEs. xD.
Quote from: Taffeta on April 02, 2021, 12:01:19 PMIt's all so very muddled by this point - I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure unless someone finds an unopened Hasbro case of 1987 TEs. xD.Oh, if only! Basically as far we know, every factor that might make Mimic rarer than any other TE also applies to Bright Eyes and Quackers. What we're left with is that Mimic was the only one out of these three to appear on the cartoon. She's not the only Year 5 pony to get a brief appearance, but there might've been something special about her depiction and the episode itself that made it stick out in people's minds. And there's been some mythos building around her in the collector community ever since it was first formed on the early internet.
Oh goodness, I hope we don't see Bright Eyes and Quackers, or even Tic Tac Toe skyrocket in the future...they are on my want list and and hope I don't regret not paying the $30-$70 people want for them now instead of the $200 they might be next year...
Quote from: LadyAmalthea on April 09, 2021, 02:14:09 PMOh goodness, I hope we don't see Bright Eyes and Quackers, or even Tic Tac Toe skyrocket in the future...they are on my want list and and hope I don't regret not paying the $30-$70 people want for them now instead of the $200 they might be next year... Unintentional pun there?? I'm not so surprised about Bright Eyes. She always seemed to be hit and miss on the price depending who was buying. Quackers it usually depends on the whiteness - also don't see her come up MOC that often either? I doubt TTT will go through the roof though. Unlike the others she had a more global release.