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(?) · by **reidransom** (?) » Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:57 pm

Aramek wrote:Rainbow Dash thinks smoking is cool.

You won't make me start again :applejargh:

I don't care how cool and glamorous it is.

(?) · by **Hollow** (?) » Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:21 pm

Saw the post on EQD about the "Eraseez". I wonder if they're any good as erasers. I'd probably draw more with pony erasers. :wat:

Kronos wrote:I believe the way Shapeways works is that it prints the stuff and sends it to you.

Oh no. Now I will have to order like ten of the rings on that site. :gonkity:

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:17 pm

Hollow wrote:Oh no. Now I will have to order like ten of the rings on that site.

They're a really cool (albeit spendy) company. That's where I got those custom bronze D&D dice for my brother as his Xmas gift!

So, yeah, order lots of cool, custom stuff!

(?) · by **Scuderia Ferrarity** (?) » Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:52 pm

Aramek wrote:She looks so...pissy!

That's kinda the point. Best Night Ever Octavia looked like she was having a bad day that was only getting worse as the night went on. :gotcha:

Is the material a kind of hard plastic?

(?) · by **latilati** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:12 am

Fluttershy arrived safe and sound today and joined the ranks :allears:

Thanks a ton, Hemoglobin!

(?) · by **Tallgeese** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:22 am

Hollow and I went to Toys R Us today. We noticed that someone has been opening the blind bags.

WHO WAS IT?! I know it was one of you!

We wound up getting a Glittery Pinkie Pie (still sealed of course). We saw a Glittery Rainbow Dash, but Hollow was all "nah".

(?) · by **Wylie** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:28 am

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:
That's kinda the point. Best Night Ever Octavia looked like she was having a bad day that was only getting worse as the night went on.

Is the material a kind of hard plastic?

If it really is the same process as Figureprints, and the look of that Octavia tells me it is, then yeah, kinda. It's not melted together like you'd think, though, it's glued together using an inkjet process.

Here, have a video that explains the process:

Click here to view video.

(?) · by **LiamA** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:09 am

Tallgeese wrote:Hollow and I went to Toys R Us today. We noticed that someone has been opening the blind bags.

Wow, nobody told that scrub the number for the pony is visible on the bag.

(?) · by **Bag of Magic Food** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 5:02 am

Or they opened the bags, then shoplifted the toys right out of them.

(?) · by **LiamA** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 5:17 am

That's less funny.

(?) · by **Tallgeese** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 5:33 am

Bag of Magic Food wrote:Or they opened the bags, then shoplifted the toys right out of them.

Nope, the toys were still inside. I looked.

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:01 pm

latilati wrote:Fluttershy arrived safe and sound today and joined the ranks Thanks a ton, Hemoglobin!

Hurray! I'm glad it made it there safely!

The last time I sent a parcel anywhere, it was to Professor Oak, in Pokemon red.

(?) · by **Casual Viewing** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:04 pm

Wylie wrote:The solution to pksage's pony puzzle, hidden behind spoilers for your pleasure:

1. The funky line spacing was the first tipoff. There was no need to break those lines there unless they were meaningful.
2. The emotes were keyed as numbers, based on their position in the Smilies list at the right of the posting window.
3. Two emotes per line: The first is a row number, the second a position number (or a column number, if you're using a monospace font).
4. Using that key, you get "ponypuz", which is a recognizable series of letters and a good hint that we're on the right track.
5. Putting that into tinyurl (tinyurl dot com slash ponypuz) doesn't work. We need to do something else.
6. The "drink your Ovaltine" clue is a reference to the Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring, which was referenced in A Christmas Story and also happens to be a real thing.
7. It's a decoder wheel, so we're using that sort of cipher. "ponypuz" is actually the ciphertext here, we need to "decode" it by spinning the letters around.
8. The most common cipher system like that these days is rot13, which gives us "cbalchm" as a result. That leads to the imgur link Gravenstein posted.
9. Putting that image into Photoshop and cranking down the brightness makes the following message appear:
10. "good job! pm me the word "snarfblat".

I (and possibly Gravenstein, and maybe even someone else) have already completed the puzzle, so please don't flood pksage with answers- someone's already a winner, we just need an official announcement from pksage as to who it is.

That was fun. I would love more of these sorts of things, with or without a prize at the end. Thanks for making me think!

Damn that's complex. If I didn't get stuck at the roadblock I did (4 hours later), I probably would have gotten stuck at ponypuz.
Gratz to everyone that figured it out. Gratz on being smarter than me...

It reminds me of those old website-wide puzzle/mystery campaigns that Neopets used to run back in the early 2000's. I hated those too.

(?) · by **DarkMatter** (?) » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:28 pm

What is this box that arrived in my mail today?

Hmm. Looks fabulous!

All the way from Equestria!

It's Rarity! :allears:

But of course! :vogue:

Only the most fabulous of people appreciate the lovely Rarity!

Thank you, Willsun! :ohboy:

(?) · by **Octavia** (?) » Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:02 am

Ban Willsun for shipping

(?) · by **Scuderia Ferrarity** (?) » Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:30 pm

Wylie wrote:
If it really is the same process as Figureprints, and the look of that Octavia tells me it is, then yeah, kinda. It's not melted together like you'd think, though, it's glued together using an inkjet process.

Here, have a video that explains the process:

Click here to view video.

Thanks, but I know a 3d printer works.
It's one of those "Sure that's pretty cool ... For 2004 :smug:

sort of things.
Having a website of models people can print off is what makes it a curiousity to a full on business.

I've seen the results of those come out looking like they were modeled out of corn meal, sometimes a sort of flimsy too-light plastic. I didn't know they could embed pigment into the plastic, and create color models.

You could build entire scenes with this setup, not just characters.

(?) · by **Hollow** (?) » Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:30 pm

I forgot to post, but I got my ponies two days ago Hemoglobin! Thanks so much! :yay:

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:55 pm

Yay! If anyone deserves to have a full set, it's definitely you! :yay:

(?) · by **WalrusWhiskers** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:54 am

Thanks for the fluttershy mcdonalds figurine, Hemoglobin! I really like it! :allears:

(?) · by **Paperback Writer** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:36 pm

Tallgeese wrote:
Nope, the toys were still inside. I looked.

There are a bunch of guys who do this with the little LEGO people blindbags around here. I've seen them poking holes in the bags to see what's in it, and if it isn't a figure they want, they just put the opened bag back. :-/

(?) · by **pksage** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:08 pm

Paperback Writer wrote:There are a bunch of guys who do this with the little LEGO people blindbags around here. I've seen them poking holes in the bags to see what's in it, and if it isn't a figure they want, they just put the opened bag back.

This reminds me of the Pokémon TCG at the peak of its popularity. Kids eventually figured out that the holofoil card stock would warp a bit under heat, so they'd go to 7-11, put booster packs under the hot dog heat lamps (or whatever), and try to see which packs warped.

I mean, I was one annoyed 14-year-old whenever I got a trash rare in a pack, but come on, guys. Just buy the minifigs online. :bluh:

(?) · by **Yolostar** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:58 pm

My mom put a pony in my easter basket yesterday! :3:

It was Honeybuzz, one of the brushable hair recolors. She wanted to add to my collection! :ohboy:

(?) · by **teriyaki** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:19 pm

When I went to Walmart the other night, I wrote down the numbers of the blindbag ponies I wanted. But when I got there and examined the packages there were 3 different numbers and they looked like they were all the same. Needless to say I bought 7 anyway and ended up with Fluttershy and Applejack among several of the pretty ones (Bumblesweet and Sugar Grape :awesomedash:

). Where exactly are these numbers at that identify the ponies inside?

(?) · by **Doctor Wheeze** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:42 pm

It's stamped into the package on the little foldy bit, I think. At one of the ends.

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:57 pm

teriyaki wrote:When I went to Walmart the other night, I wrote down the numbers of the blindbag ponies I wanted. But when I got there and examined the packages there were 3 different numbers and they looked like they were all the same. Needless to say I bought 7 anyway and ended up with Fluttershy and Applejack among several of the pretty ones (Bumblesweet and Sugar Grape ). Where exactly are these numbers at that identify the ponies inside?

Click here to view video.

Note: Pinkie Pie #1, even arbitrary numbers know.

(?) · by **teriyaki** (?) » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:17 pm

I swear I looked all over that packaging and couldn't find a single digit/two digit number anywhere.Thank you for showing me

(?) · by **Hollow** (?) » Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:32 am

It's hard to see! I strained to read some of the bags.

I can't wait for the other waves, I want the metallic Rarity. :vogue:

(which yes, I know I'll be waiting for, for a good while)

(?) · by **reidransom** (?) » Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:36 am

teriyaki wrote:I swear I looked all over that packaging and couldn't find a single digit/two digit number anywhere.Thank you for showing me

I think on the newest ones you're going to be looking for a 5 or 6 digit number. I was also looking for the 01-16 or whatever when I was picking some up last week but there was only one in the box like that. The others were like xxxx45 and so on, something like that. But there's a list out there to match up those numbers.

Also, there was only one Rarity in the box, and someone had already opened it. :ohrarity:

But I bought it anyway since it was one of the ones I was there for.

(?) · by **Kumquat** (?) » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:04 am

Are the blindbags reliably at Toys Я Us now? I can never find them at Wal-Mart, and there are only five Toys Я Us in metro Denver, and two of them require burning an assload of gasoline to get to.

Wait a minute, plastic ponies come from crude oil, too. Let's build refineries that turn oil straight into :ponydrugs:

! Think of how much less we'd use! Although we'd be like those people who have entire rooms with shelves full of G1-G3 ponies and/or waist-deep piles of them.

In any event there are clearly quite a lot of people out there who will go to any length to acquire these minature, plastic, multicolored horses. I am all at once comforted, amused, frustrated and scared.

(?) · by **Jupiter** (?) » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:21 pm

In the dark Mad Max future you'll have to choose between your ponies or the diesel fuel they can be refined into. HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE?!

The exhaust won't even be rainbow coloured. The saddest exhaust.

(?) · by **Kumquat** (?) » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:39 pm

Jupiter wrote:In the dark Mad Max future you'll have to choose between your ponies or the diesel fuel they can be refined into. HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE?

The epic pony war in the distant future ( = next Tuesday, naturally) won't be fought by or among ponies, but over them.

Ponies bring joy forever, but once you burn diesel fuel it's gone, so the choice is obvious. I'd happily enter Thunderdome for the last remaining Fluttershy. :butwhy:

(?) · by **VoodooTiki** (?) » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:22 pm

I just got a handful of blind bags (sparkly Twilight, WOOHOO!) and they didn't have the numbers imprinted on them - I also noticed the last batch at Toys R Us, one box had imprints and the other didn't.

(?) · by **Stuntwoman** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:15 am

You checked under the fold at the back and in the top corner, right? I just picked up sparkly Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie at mine, and I couldn't find the number at first.

(?) · by **ozone** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:47 am

Just got my McD Rainbow Dash from Hemoglobin. Now I have all the mane 6 McD ponies arranged on my desk. :awesomedash:

Thanks a bunch, Hemoglobin. You are seriously an awesome dude. :cool:

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:40 am

Hurray! I think that's all of them. I'm glad they all found good homes! :crack:

(?) · by **kitesail** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:56 am

Oh, forgot to check-in. Rarity arrived wonderfully, thank you so much for your generosity globin! :awesomedash:

(?) · by **Davyinatoga** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:59 am

Paperback Writer wrote:

DarkMatter wrote:

Dangnabbit Willsun, why you gotta scribble ponies prettier than I can?

So far I've gotten four of six sets delivered. Talks still resume on the remaining two, so people who still want one should keep notice if either falls through.

(?) · by **VoodooTiki** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:05 am

Stuntman wrote:You checked under the fold at the back and in the top corner, right? I just picked up sparkly Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie at mine, and I couldn't find the number at first.

Yeah, I was looking all over them. Unless the imprint was extremely faint, I wasn't seeing a thing.

(?) · by **Stuntwoman** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:59 am

VoodooTiki wrote:
Yeah, I was looking all over them. Unless the imprint was extremely faint, I wasn't seeing a thing.

If this ends up being true, I might have to become a scumbag who pokes holes in the bags.

(?) · by **Gravenstein** (?) » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:47 pm

Here's where the newer ones supposedly have the code:

And it's the same numbering as before, you just cut out the first, middle, and last numbers (pictured is 20445, or 04 (Rarity))

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