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(?) · by **Ecodynamics** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:13 am

I'm surprised at the ease with which most of you collected your fast food ponies- The McD's near me are definitely not doing the 'customer satisfaction boxes' thing.
It actually took me 5 trips to get the 6 main ponies. Due to a language barrier, they were seriously confused by my request to buy only toys. Luckily, middle school Spanish came to the rescue and equipped me to say things such as 'solo caballo blanco!' Yes, I was laughed at by old Hispanic ladies, but I feel it was worth it.

(?) · by **courtney_beth** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:10 am

Was able to snag Rainbow dash at a McDonalds today, but a trip to another McDonalds proved they were sold out.

Do you guys ever use the "this is for my niece" excuse, or do you proudly ask for the toys and embrace the weird looks from the 17 yr old kid taking your order?

(?) · by **zodberg** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:20 am

Do people _actually_ buying things for their family bother to specify?
no they don't.

Who is going to think you're lame for buying the toy ponys?
People who work at McDonalds.
And I am not so sure they are in any position to be superior to anybody else.

When buying toys in toy stores, try printing out a picture of what you want, that way you don't come off as somebody who has an intimate knowledge of ponies. yeah, it's a kid's wish list or something.

(?) · by **Beef Assistant** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:35 am

I'm not buying any toys but really, they shouldn't give a shit and neither should you. You give them money and they give you toys. It's just a transaction.

(?) · by **courtney_beth** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:37 am

Rainbow Dash has proudly been on display on my desk, joining Twilight Sparkle this week. No weird looks from coworkers yet.

Guess they just anticipate this from me after two years. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **KillerJunglist** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:00 am

I saw the mini ponies 4 pack (RD, Twilight, AJ and Rarity) at Meijer when I went shopping today and I'll be damned if I didn't stare at it for like 5 minutes thinking "It's $10... That's not that bad... but I have so many groceries and things... can I? No, I shouldn't. But I want it! But it doesn't have Fluttershy so... but it DOES have Rarity and Apple Jack! But..."

I had to settle on new windshield wipers instead of ponies. I will be going back on Friday when I get paid. :sadrarity:

(?) · by **Mediant** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:44 pm

zodberg wrote:...A week later she noted to me that she had seven of the eight, I promptly jumped on my bike and made sure to finish the set before she could.

Whoever dies with the most toys, wins.

Ponies here were a means to an end. But as time goes on it seems like the ponies are becoming the end instead.

Reveilled wrote:...You know, every time I see pictures of the old ponies, especially the artwork on the drawings and cartoons, all I can think about is how incredibly fat they look.

Pony body image issues are a serious concern. See your local :drpony:

(?) · by **Irilly Dunnoe** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:37 pm

Pineapple wrote:I collect G1 and G3 My Little Ponies. If you have questions about rehabbing a beloved childhood toy or a manky ebay pony, shoot and I'll try to help you.

Would y'all mind terribly if I started a separate thread for MLP mods (post your favorite, etc), since they're not technically toys once you spend what I imagine would be hours painstakingly sculpting and painting and re-hairing and such? Maybe open up a proper discussion on restoration and/or modification of pony toys? Or would most of that fall into this thread anyways? :dizzy:

(?) · by **Aethis** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:59 pm

I got some more, I'm a hopeless OCD collector type :smirk:

On the bright side, I found the apparently elusive tube-ponies. :skeptic:

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Irilly Dunnoe wrote:
Pineapple wrote:I collect G1 and G3 My Little Ponies. If you have questions about rehabbing a beloved childhood toy or a manky ebay pony, shoot and I'll try to help you.

Would y'all mind terribly if I started a separate thread for MLP mods (post your favorite, etc), since they're not technically toys once you spend what I imagine would be hours painstakingly sculpting and painting and re-hairing and such? Maybe open up a proper discussion on restoration and/or modification of pony toys? Or would most of that fall into this thread anyways?

Well, they would either be a toy (HERE), or a form of fanart in a way. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **inflatablefish** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:11 pm

Aethis wrote:

So why exactly is Spike on all fours?

Or do I really not want to know?

(?) · by **Melvitty** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:43 pm

killerjunglist wrote:I saw the mini ponies 4 pack (RD, Twilight, AJ and Rarity) at Meijer when I went shopping today and I'll be damned if I didn't stare at it for like 5 minutes thinking "It's $10... That's not that bad... but I have so many groceries and things... can I? No, I shouldn't. But I want it! But it doesn't have Fluttershy so... but it DOES have Rarity and Apple Jack! But..."

I had to settle on new windshield wipers instead of ponies. I will be going back on Friday when I get paid.

There's a 4 pack with AJ?! I got the one with Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity. And why is there no Fluttershy in any of these? Gah, I thought I was done shopping for ponies...at least for a little while. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Rocketfish** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:33 pm

According to the Hasbro website, they have every every pony in a little figurine EXCEPT for Fluttershy. I couldn't possibly order any if I couldn't have a complete set.

http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_U ... u?Items=50

(?) · by **kefkafloyd** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:48 pm

Although I probably wouldn't buy any of the toys, I do appreciate the design and consistency of the packaging. Their custom typography and visual elements are all well done. There's just one thing that bugs me, and it's almost all pink. There are other colors in the palette, designers... then again, the execs are probably hovering over them saying PINK IS FOR GIRLS and the Rarity-esque designer is sighing in frustration.

(?) · by **Obligatory Toast** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:17 pm

kefkafloyd wrote:Although I probably wouldn't buy any of the toys, I do appreciate the design and consistency of the packaging. Their custom typography and visual elements are all well done. There's just one thing that bugs me, and it's almost all pink. There are other colors in the palette, designers... then again, the execs are probably hovering over them saying PINK IS FOR GIRLS and the Rarity-esque designer is sighing in frustration.

That's the problem with toys for girls in general.

However, there are a LOT of ponies that are not pink, but are something like purple or blue.

(?) · by **Mediant** (?) » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:44 pm

kefkafloyd wrote:Although I probably wouldn't buy any of the toys, I do appreciate the design and consistency of the packaging. Their custom typography and visual elements are all well done. There's just one thing that bugs me, and it's almost all pink. There are other colors in the palette, designers... then again, the execs are probably hovering over them saying PINK IS FOR GIRLS and the Rarity-esque designer is sighing in frustration.

I have a friend who did some art for Hasbro for MLP.

I'm gonna try to find it.

(?) · by **Pineapple** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:40 am

Irilly Dunnoe wrote:
Pineapple wrote:I collect G1 and G3 My Little Ponies. If you have questions about rehabbing a beloved childhood toy or a manky ebay pony, shoot and I'll try to help you.

Would y'all mind terribly if I started a separate thread for MLP mods (post your favorite, etc), since they're not technically toys once you spend what I imagine would be hours painstakingly sculpting and painting and re-hairing and such? Maybe open up a proper discussion on restoration and/or modification of pony toys? Or would most of that fall into this thread anyways?

Not at all! I don't do customs but there are some amazing ones and a lot of really vomitous ones out there. You could probably run Regretsy for a year on terrible custom MLPs alone.

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:01 am

Dammit Hasbro, Celestia isnt pink!

(?) · by **Beef Assistant** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:04 am

synthorange wrote:Dammit Hasbro, Celestia isnt pink!

Season 2: Hasbro, official loremasters of the MLP universe, decide that none of the ponies are girly enough. Entire world and all ponies colored pink

(?) · by **KillerJunglist** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:26 am

synthorange wrote:Dammit Hasbro, Celestia isnt pink!

The worst part is EVERY Celestia toy is pink. I thought maybe just the McDonalds toy.. that would be okay. Then the official miniature... okay, sure, why not? Then the HUGE talking, light up one?!

Now I know she's a fictional character, but how hard is it to get the color right? I mean really. It would be like selling Spider-Man toys that are green and purple. It's just the wrong color, and there is little excuse for it. :rariwhat:

(?) · by **Aethis** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:59 am

Melvitty wrote:
killerjunglist wrote:I saw the mini ponies 4 pack (RD, Twilight, AJ and Rarity) at Meijer when I went shopping today and I'll be damned if I didn't stare at it for like 5 minutes thinking "It's $10... That's not that bad... but I have so many groceries and things... can I? No, I shouldn't. But I want it! But it doesn't have Fluttershy so... but it DOES have Rarity and Apple Jack! But..."

I had to settle on new windshield wipers instead of ponies. I will be going back on Friday when I get paid.

There's a 4 pack with AJ?! I got the one with Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity. And why is there no Fluttershy in any of these? Gah, I thought I was done shopping for ponies...at least for a little while.

You would rather an AJ than a Pinkie Pie? :gumout:

(?) · by **LASTCAR** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:13 am

Reposted from the previous thread. I've been on the fence about buying more pony merch for the moment, but the sentimentalist in me keeps telling me Rarity could use some company. The Power of Friendship is a tremendous force indeed.

[I was debating this one, as we aren't supposed to do Mcponies anymore, but you DO have something other than Mcponies in that pic, so... - Aethis]

(?) · by **ai-risa** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:27 pm

killerjunglist wrote:
synthorange wrote:Dammit Hasbro, Celestia isnt pink!

The worst part is EVERY Celestia toy is pink. I thought maybe just the McDonalds toy.. that would be okay. Then the official miniature... okay, sure, why not? Then the HUGE talking, light up one?!

Now I know she's a fictional character, but how hard is it to get the color right? I mean really. It would be like selling Spider-Man toys that are green and purple. It's just the wrong color, and there is little excuse for it.

As far as I know, the color difference is more so the show's fault, as the toys were created before the show(they were displayed last summer at the 2010 Pony Fair). I'm guessing that during production of FiM someone decided that Celestia looked better white, thus, the color difference. I'm not sure this applies to the McD toys though as I have no clue when they were designed. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Melvitty** (?) » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:34 pm

Aethis wrote:
Melvitty wrote:
killerjunglist wrote:I saw the mini ponies 4 pack (RD, Twilight, AJ and Rarity) at Meijer when I went shopping today and I'll be damned if I didn't stare at it for like 5 minutes thinking "It's $10... That's not that bad... but I have so many groceries and things... can I? No, I shouldn't. But I want it! But it doesn't have Fluttershy so... but it DOES have Rarity and Apple Jack! But..."

I had to settle on new windshield wipers instead of ponies. I will be going back on Friday when I get paid.

There's a 4 pack with AJ?! I got the one with Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity. And why is there no Fluttershy in any of these? Gah, I thought I was done shopping for ponies...at least for a little while.

You would rather an AJ than a Pinkie Pie?

No, of course not. I want all of them. That's the thing. I love Pinkie Pie too.

(?) · by **G&PTrixie** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:16 am

Hello I'm the gayest man alive

~~I might get the big Rarity later~~

Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash's hair are basically unstyleable and frizzy and curly. Applejack's hair is currently being held together with tape from her packaging but I thought it looked nice enough for the time being. I might put her hair in a braid later but first I have to learn how to do that.

Rainbow and Pinkie both came with a brush and a little animal friend that I don't care about. Applejack came with some hair berets and a cool ribbon.

I just wish their pony foreheads weren't so big. OH WELL.

(?) · by **ai-risa** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:22 am

G&PTrixie wrote:Hello I'm the gayest man alive

~~I might get the big Rarity later~~

Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash's hair are basically unstyleable and frizzy and curly. Applejack's hair is currently being held together with tape from her packaging but I thought it looked nice enough for the time being. I might put her hair in a braid later but first I have to learn how to do that.

Rainbow and Pinkie both came with a brush and a little animal friend that I don't care about. Applejack came with some hair berets and a cool ribbon.

I just wish their pony foreheads weren't so big. OH WELL.

I have the big Rarity and she is BEAUTIFUL! Highly reccomended! :ponydrugs:

(?) · by **KillerJunglist** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:14 am

ai-risa wrote:
killerjunglist wrote:
synthorange wrote:Dammit Hasbro, Celestia isnt pink!

The worst part is EVERY Celestia toy is pink. I thought maybe just the McDonalds toy.. that would be okay. Then the official miniature... okay, sure, why not? Then the HUGE talking, light up one?!

Now I know she's a fictional character, but how hard is it to get the color right? I mean really. It would be like selling Spider-Man toys that are green and purple. It's just the wrong color, and there is little excuse for it.

As far as I know, the color difference is more so the show's fault, as the toys were created before the show(they were displayed last summer at the 2010 Pony Fair). I'm guessing that during production of FiM someone decided that Celestia looked better white, thus, the color difference. I'm not sure this applies to the McD toys though as I have no clue when they were designed.

Well... She does look better white. :colbert:

I suppose this is a legitimate problem with designing a show around toys, any late decision that will improve the quality of the show won't trickle down to the toy line for a long time, if ever.

(?) · by **Liska** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:50 am

Is the 2" Twilight available as stand-alone, or does she come in a bundle (not that I'd mind owning several ponies)?

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:40 am

Welp, if you want to fix that pony hair, here's a few tutorials for you:

http://www.mlptp.net/tutorials/styling.html
Big pictures

http://www.ehow.com/how_5293259_style-h ... curls.html
Might be perfect for Pinkie Pie.

http://ponycustoms.com/my_little_pony_t ... nd-twists/
Entering expert difficulty zone here.

(?) · by **kefkafloyd** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:39 pm

Liska wrote:Is the 2" Twilight available as stand-alone, or does she come in a bundle (not that I'd mind owning several ponies)?

Hasbro appears to have the individual 2" ponies up on their site, including Twilight, for $1.99 each. All of them save for Fluttershy. Poor Fluttershy.

(?) · by **RevolverBunker** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:24 pm

My wife and I finally completed my collection of McDonald Ponies. Too 10 different McDonalds in my area and a friend in another state looking to collect them all. In the end Pinkie Pie was the hardest to find. Too busy partying to be found. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Pick** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:01 pm

My mother managed to nab the last of the McDonald's ponies for me. Next time I'm there, I'm definitely going to grab them for room decor!

(?) · by **Willsun** (?) » Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:17 pm

Pick wrote:My mother managed to nab the last of the McDonald's ponies for me. Next time I'm there, I'm definitely going to grab them for room decor!

Better do it today. I hear they're being switched out today. Again, ask for the "customer satisfaction box" because they'll most likely have them all in there. As much as I admire the people who go to lots of locations looking for what's left, chances are they might be missing out on getting them all in one place because the employees are too busy to open the customer satisfaction box or don't know about them (usually the managers do).

That said, this is how I got mine in one stop:

The customer satisfaction box looks like this:

A big box of ponies. Tell them to find that white box. Vamos!

(?) · by **emboggen** (?) » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:57 am

I told myself that there was no way I'd buy any of the toys because I was more interested in the animation and humor of the show rather than any "gotta corral them all" obsession, besides, the show and toys aren't even out in my part of the world so it should be easy to avoid the merch. Then I started checking ebay... oh wow those McD's Pinkie Pie's are pretty cheap... it was a slippery slope. But now that I'm willing to throw a few dollars down for a Pinkie Pie they're all gone -- or are being shilled by evil people who either won't ship worldwide or who want nearly $20 for shipping. Griffons, all of them.

Now I just sit and plot and curse the world. :colbert:

Let that be a cautionary tale to all of you.

(?) · by **G&PTrixie** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:17 am

I just bought big Fashion Rarity and she's so adorable oh my gosh. She has little ruby slippers and a bracelet and necklace and her hair is super soft and nice :awesomedash:

help meeee

(?) · by **Scuderia Ferrarity** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:57 am

There's this storybook thing, too.
http://mlparena.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=249726.html

(?) · by **Pick** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:11 am

Willsun wrote:
Pick wrote:My mother managed to nab the last of the McDonald's ponies for me. Next time I'm there, I'm definitely going to grab them for room decor!

Better do it today. I hear they're being switched out today. Again, ask for the "customer satisfaction box" because they'll most likely have them all in there. As much as I admire the people who go to lots of locations looking for what's left, chances are they might be missing out on getting them all in one place because the employees are too busy to open the customer satisfaction box or don't know about them (usually the managers do).

Oops! Thanks for the advice, but I meant that my mother got them all, and next time I was where my mother is (in the United States), I'd finally pick them up from her. Sorry, I was way unclear! :flutterdear:

(?) · by **Chedranian Girl** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:17 am

I've got thousands of the bloody things. I was born (and remain) a girl though so I just had them as a kid and never really stopped. STILL don't have ANY of the FiM set in the UK though, which is just about driving me batty. A friend has nabbed me the McDonalds ones though, so I guess it's not all bad.

You guys seen the newest three? Not background characters, sadly. I really want that carrot pony and the Doctor Whooves guy (not to mention Derpy, but I kind of don't see that one happening.)

(?) · by **ComradeCosmobot** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:19 am

The recolorings there are rather... unimaginative, to be honest.

(?) · by **DEC 9** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:20 am

Chedranian Girl wrote:I've got thousands of the bloody things. I was born (and remain) a girl though so I just had them as a kid and never really stopped. STILL don't have ANY of the FiM set in the UK though, which is just about driving me batty. A friend has nabbed me the McDonalds ones though, so I guess it's not all bad.

You guys seen the newest three? Not background characters, sadly. I really want that carrot pony and the Doctor Whooves guy (not to mention Derpy, but I kind of don't see that one happening.)

Those sure are recolors on that box... Wow. Really?

(?) · by **Chedranian Girl** (?) » Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:21 am

synthorange wrote:Dammit Hasbro, Celestia isnt pink!

Sorry to doublepost but I can't see my other post yet to edit it;

I'm not sure if this is a proper custom or digial (I think digital) but THIS is how it should be done. That's not so hard, is it?

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