Catching Up with MLPs

I thought I'd catch up and show most of the ponies I've picked up since I moved here. I think I've shown a few before, so I just grabbed the ones I didn't have pics of. 

I got a great deal on Princess Taffeta, one of my faves from the second set of Princess ponies. She's my most recent arrival. 

These others I picked up cheap a few years ago. 

Princess Primrose

Princess Royal Blue

Princess Sparkle is back home. She's the one I had when I was a kid. 

Princess Starburst

Princess Tiffany

And the completed Bushwoolies. 

Cheery, Hugster, Chumster, Wishful, Eager, and Friendly. 

Caramel Crunch I've had for a bit. 

But I just got Molasses. 

Sunnybunch is my fave Merry-go-round pony. 

Wildflower. I love her colors. 

Springsong. 

Bright Night

Cha Cha

That's it for now! I definitely plan to add more. I've cut back a lot on my buying, but it's easy to pick up a pony here and there. Unless you go for the rares or internationals, they're quite reasonable. 

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Vintage Buys

I've been pretty bored with current playline. I'm waiting to find Jem someday and for TLS to give us the rest of Rainbow Brite and SSC. I'm looking forward to Fearbook Abbey and Venus, as well as Nefera (though she's a bit too G1 for me), but other MH hasn't caught my eye. 

So I've been dipping into my vintage want lists and buying up some pieces from those. 

First up, Boysenberry Pie from the Sweetberry ponies MLP line. 

I also picked up So Soft Twist. I've always loved Twist, though in my original collecting days, I held out for the Brazilian one. Wish I still had her! But I love this one. Her fur is super soft. 

Eager and Cherry complete my set of Bushwoolies, which I never took a picture of. I'll have to do that before I put Cheery on the shelf. 

I gave these guys a scrub, so they look a little wet still. Poor Cheery has water inside him that I need to dry out before he goes on the shelf. 

I can't remember if I posted these here or only in Insta, but I got Seaflower and Skippity Doo from the local toy store months ago. 

I have more ponies coming that I'll add once they arrive. I don't think I ever photographed the other ones I've bought in the past handful of years either. 

I also grabbed Flutterbug from Glo Friends. 

And just realized there are no photos of any of my Glo Friends. 

So here's Flutter with Nuttybug and Bashfulbug. 

Nutty has been beside my bed for decades. Wherever my alarm clock sits (or these days, my phone), that's where Nutty is. Bashful has been with him for years, though not as long as he's been in that place. 

I have a couple others somewhere that I'll have to locate. 

But yeah, bored with playline? Turn to vintage. I'm not spending big bucks on anything (yet), just trying to cross some of the lower-priced items off my want list. 

Ooh! I almost forgot to add this! I got these a week or so ago. Soma fakies on the card!!! My favorite fakies of all time. 

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REVIEW: My Little Pony 40th Anniversary Rescue at Midnight Castle Set

 
I got my Rescue at Midnight Castle set a couple days ago and finally have the time to share the pictures.

This was the first MLP special, airing in 1984. It's the one where Tirac is trying to turn the ponies into dragons to pull his chariot. There are so many other sets I'd love them to make. Tirac, Scorpan, Megan, the seaponies. Spike is shown on the box and said to be released separately, so there may be more coming.

 

The figures are about 2" tall and are simple figures with a brushable tail and a fabric tail ribbon. 

Moondancer and Twilight represent the unicorns. 

Applejack and Bowtie are the earth ponies. 

And Medley and Firefly are the pegasus ponies. 

The eye placement on most of these is a little off. I think the pegasi fared the best. The others are just a smidge too high. 

They're cute figures, but I'd like to see something we haven't had before. Every one of these has a regular-sized repro already. Still, more G1 nostalgia is always good by me.

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.

REVIEW: Basic Fun 40th Anniversary Fancy Swirl "Celestial" Ponies Part 3

My fourth Celestial is here!

This is Aurora. 

Not initially one I thought I'd love, but the entire set grows on you. 

I think she has the best symbol. 

Love the bright green eyes, too. 

Aurora and Polaris. 

And all four!

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REVIEW: Basic Fun 40th Anniversary Fancy Swirl "Celestial" Ponies Part 2

Here's the third in the Celestial collection. 

This one is named Polaris. 

I like her a lot more than I was expecting to. 

I think it's the pose combined with the really pale gray-blue color. 

Something about the colors works well together. Except for the symbol. The yellow is throwing things off. White would have been a lot better.

I might like her best now? I'm not sure. 

Three down, one to go!

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.

REVIEW: Basic Fun 40th Anniversary Fancy Swirl "Celestial" Ponies Part 1

My first new repro ponies since December 2021. 

I know it's the 40th Anniversary, but did we really need yet another repro of the original six? No, we did not. Thankfully, Basic Fun is doing more than that. I have their plush Glory, and plan on getting some of the minis when they come out. 

They also did something a lot of pony collectors have been wanting for eons. They brought the Fancy Swirl ponies to life!

Basic Fun calls them the Celestial Ponies, but their original Hasbro name was Fancy Swirl. 

These ponies were supposed to be part of the original vintage MLP line, but never made it into production. 

To be totally honest, I wasn't thrilled with this. I do love that they're producing something that never got made, but I also wish they had given us a set of ponies that everyone really wants: reproductions of characters you can't get for less than $100. Mimic. Munchy. Nightglider. Crumpet. Scribbles and Dabble. Rapunzel. TAF babies. Ponies like that. 

Now that I have these in person, I see their charm, so I would have kept these and replaced the four billionth repro of the original six with the repro rares. 

I'm still not a huge fan of their basic design. Nothing about these colors really says "space" to me except for the blue. Maybe a yellow for a not at all realistic but definitely familiar star color? Deep purple would have been cool. 

Milky Way with her reused name fit in the least for me. Peach? Do you look at peach and think space? 

However, she is very, very cute. And her colors are pretty. 

What works in her favor is that she reminds me of Wild Flower from the Year 7 Sweetheart Sisters. The peach body and hair, the symbol colors. Even the pattern of the stars here reminds me of a flower bouquet.  

Can't say 'til I see them all, but Milky Way here might actually be my favorite of the four. 

Oh, this pony's original name was Starswirl. That's also a reused pony name. I don't think I like it better than Milky Way. They're about equal. I like both G1 Milky Way and G1 and G3 Starswirl. 

The blue one is named Nova. Her original name was Swirlabout. No, thank you. Good change. 

(I'm just going to leave the other names here, because I probably won't look them up when the other two in the set arrive. The blue with pink hair was Mistyglow and the pink with blue hair was Pearlshine. Both also got name upgrades.) 

I initially thought this one might be my fave, due to being the most evocative of space and celestial for me. 

I like her, but her clunky, poorly colored symbol holds her back. It's just not cute. 

The third pony in my order should be here tomorrow, and the fourth has not shipped yet. I'll take more pics as each arrives. 

I like them a lot and I'm glad Basic Fun did something so different and something the fans have wanted for so long. 

But I still want my rares!

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MAIL CALL: Dolly Mix MLPs

In 2009, there was a small series of My Little Pony G3 characters that were sold blind-packed. They were called Dolly Mix. Their next release was a series of 20 G1 characters. 

These are small figures with combable manes and tails. They each came with a comb and candy. The G1 series has a checklist poster. 

I've had Heart Throb probably almost since 2010. I know I bought her when I lived in Buffalo still. I never pursued more of them, which I now wish I'd done. 

I remembered them recently and then got lucky enough to spot them in a sales post on Facebook, so my tiny collection is now 4 ponies. 

Shady is my favorite of the new ones. 

Then we've got Main Sail and Tic-Tac-Toe. 

I'd love to find Glory, Princess Sparkle, Powder and Gusty. 

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.