Sales/Trade List

 Updated 5th March 2010

 Hey every pony person out there,

Sorry but I'm not getting out of collecting. lol I'm just doing some pony housekeeping. I have heaps of extras and what zits lying about that I really want to sell or trade away for something I don't have. I simply have too many extras that I can't bear to let go, but I know I have to force myself or I'll become an old ugly hoarder. lol

Anyway here they are with description. I try to be as detailed as I can, but I am human and do left out details sometimes, so PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS.

***I don't do refunds sorry, so please make 100% sure before commiting to purchase.
-Some prices are negotiable, feel free to PM and discuss. I list what i feel is fair and you list what you feel is fair, I normally compromise if I can.

-I only accept PAYPAL (any mode of payment) for anyone out of Singapore
- I am based in SINGAPORE and do ship internationally.
- Shipping for 1-2 ponies is $7,  and $11.50 for 3 adult + 3 baby ponies
- Aussies & Kiwis automatically get $1 off shipping.
- Singaporeans can request for local cash and pick-up

Please note that I do not hold ponies unless given prior notice and I agree to it. I sell on a first come first serve basis, and as long as payment is not made, anyone is welcome to offer a higher price. Whoever confirms their purchase and pay up first - the pony goes to you. I really want to make space for new ponies, so I don't really want to hold a pony for 3-7 days and then have the buyer change his/her mind.

Right... the HOT stuff (ok maybe not so hot~lol):

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Mexican Moondancer - When I got her, she was YELLOW. I went through a lot of effort of cleaning her up, so if the offer doesn't match up, I'll just keep this pony. ^^ Letting her go because I have another one of her, and I'm trying not to be a hoarder. Please look at 1st pic compared against Sundance. She isn't 100% true white. She's still off white, and is somewhat like G3 Sunny Daze's eggshell white, so she looks a little creamed. Lighting makes her look maybe 25% more white than she should be. Mane is rough, tail is great,but tail end is rough even though it's combable. Symbols have factory flaws - one star missing head. Moons are intact but not perfect as I didn't know and carelessly ran through with Magic Eraser, almost ate off the paint!!! Eye paint rubbed. Has permernant body marks. The browns are faded age spots on display cheek and body. Non-display side has blue marker spots. Please make offer for this pony.



Mexican Blossom (CP) - is a little purple gray. Can't tell what she is exactly depending on lighting. All hair intact but rough. She has a weirdly painted eye. SOLD







Mexican Alt Pose Blossom - She's quite HTF as you don't see her very often. Mane is full but rough and tail is thin and frizzy. My other Blossom has the same thin tail problem, so it's probably a factory thing? She fair for a pony, but considered very nice for a Mexican. She would have been really nice and complete if it weren't for the blue highlighter marks on her non-display side. The lighting has washed out the colour a bit, but they're definitely there. You can still faintly see on the picture. Eye paint is rubbed and cheekblushes have faded to white. I tried repairing it a little so it looks a little pink now. Faint marker mark on symbol. SOLD




Brazilian Baby Cuddles - Mane and tail are rough but still very combable! Body is great but cheek blushes are gone. $45







Mummy Ribbon - This pony is DEFLOCKED. Is not 100% flock free. It's quite hard I think. Most glue and flocking are removed that this pony feels like a regular plastic pony. Symbols, eyes and cheekblush are the original and not repainted.



NBBE Baby Ribbon - Please see below for description.




Make me an offer. Not sure what price to ask. Prefer to keep mum & baby together, but willing to split up if price is right.







ONLY ONE BABY RIBBON IS FOR SALE. BUYER GETS TO CHOOSE #1 OR #2.



Baby Ribbon #1 - Used to have pink lightlighter on lower lip but it's so faded now it's hardly there, but if you want to notice, it's there (need to use a lot of eye power and white lighting). I decided that she looked quite bald when I first got her so I added 3 plugs of hair right up to her horn, so she does have more hair than any other Baby Ribbons out there. Symbols has minor hardly noticeable scratches. She has better symbols than #2.



Baby Ribbon #2 - Also the same as #1 except she doesn't have extra hair, in fact she's missing her first plug of hair, although you barely notice it as her mane is still quite complete. Symbols have more scratches than #1. #1 and #2 both have their own set of flaws so buyer gets to choose according to his/her preference.






Lil' Sweetcake - lovely baby excpt flaws on feet. See flaw pic for detail. Make offer.







Flaw on Lil' Sweetcake. This started out as a brown age spot. It was very small but it was VERY BRIGHT AND BROWN. I left this baby in storage for years and when I took her out, the brown spot has faded but spread over a large area. She was browner at first, but seems like it's been fading since as it's much paler now. I'm hopeful that it may fade completely with time. She's up for sale or trade. She's been in my collection for over a decade, so the sentimental value is there, if I can't get my price in mind, I'll continue keeping her.







Mexican Cherries Jubilee - hair frizzy. Symbols rubbed. Has very faint marks on non-display side like she used to have markers on her, but it's so faded that you can hardly notice they're there. Took me a while to notice she's got them. $6




Mexican Applejack - Most fantastic Mexican I've seen so far. Great hair, great body, great everything EXCEPT paint rub on the eye shown. Can be easily repaired with dark brown paint. I can offer my service if buyer wants. She looks almost just like 2nd release of long hair AJ except this baby has no curls. Plastic feels slightly different too.SOLD



Mexican Peachy - Great body, symbol has 2 rubbed hearts pictured. Hair is faded to white and is rough. Tail is poofy. She has crimps in her hair that I guess only an iron straightener can fix. I don't own one, so I can't fix her $8









Mummy Dancing Butterflies - GREAT, eye liner painting is chipped as can be seen from pic. 1 butterfly under wing slightly faded. Hair is good but feels flat.




Baby Dancing Butterflies - Very nice shape. She isn't problem free though. She has ingrained dirt around her feet corners and some on the bent leg shown above. Some marks under the wing on the other side. Overall, good condition, and looks fabulous on display. Still a rare treasure for any collection. Tooth paint is rubbed, and head turns, her tail was removed before as I got her with tail rust, the washer was beyond rusted, so it's gone. She's at least rust free! Tail is curly but slightly rough. Mane is fabulous!



Asking total of $65 for mum & baby duo.





Unico - MIB $15


Raspberry Jam - Good/Great $12







Tootsie - Good/Great - minor faults, tail slightly rough $5



Sparkler - Hair thin, body very nice, horn tip pinkish from playwear $5



Speedy - Great, but eyes iridescent coat is gone and scattered bite marks on her hind. Still great on display. Tail is uneven. $5








Sweet Pop - custom by Pink Kitty Wink. Badly scuffed jewel eyes were removed and hole filled and painted over to give her normal eyes. Legs were very yellowed, sun didn't work and ended up becoming my little sand papering experiment. Did make her look better, but has a powdery effect left on her leg as side effect. For the non-picky. $5



Mexican Peppermint Crunch - Head & body diff colours. Don't even think the head belongs to the right body as it is too heavy for it and pony keeps falling over. Great variant though, her head is the exact same as my Mexican Swirly Whirly/Butter Kiss' NOT US/Regular Pepp Mint's fat head. $5







Paradise - slightly off white, not gleaming white like pic. It's the lighting. Is missing small patches of fur in common areas like wings, lips, ear tips, feet corners. Generally clean and nice. Hair is curly but rough. Has a faded marker A on on foot. $5




Lavender Lace - dirty and possibly ingrained dirt. Hair is a mess,but hey that's why she's a Perfume Puff! Forelock is rough. She still smells a little like soap and other bad plastic smell, I think. lol $5



Shady - Head fur looks lusher and thicker than body. Body fur looks dry and lumpy, but she's generally good. Like Paradise, she has common So Soft woes like fue loss on regular areas. Hair is curly but rough.







Lofty - fur HUGELY INTACT, but bane to her, some parts of her glue has turned black :/ See the lip, knee, wing tips and feet corner? Yah, they're not the camera angle, it's the playwear. Quite a waste. She's nice still for any collection, and prolly a deflocking bait since I bet she'll look much nicer without the fur, but I just don't have the heart to strip her since SS ponies rarely come with their fur intact. Hair is curly but slightly rough. $6




Sundance - Has 1 brown spot on symbol. Has pink pearly paint over display eye, but doesn't affect her much. I haven't tried cleaning her hair, but feels okay, maybe slightly rough or perfectly silky. Will leave to new owner. $3



Banana Surprise - Dirty, and factory curls are still intact but messy. I got her in a lot, but I have so many Banana Surprises that I have to let this one go. No time to clean her but she's great. $5







SS Cherries Jubilee - Hair slightly rough but still very nice. Fur has missing bits in regular areas, but biggest flaw are the 2 missing patches on hind leg as seen on picture. $5




Magic Star - foreflock trim, missing flocking and red marker drawn on both cheeks, should come off if flocking is removed. She's okay condition but also a great deflocking candidate. $4



Sherbet - very nice condition. Reason for letting go is because I already have 3 MINT Sherbets, so I have to stop keeping another one before I build an army of her. I have no idea if it's on purpose but this Sherbet strangely stands on 3 legs on and kicks up the last in a very pretty way like she's receiving her first kiss. ^^







Baby Lofty - Discoloured. Is pinkish hue. Eyes are great and works. $2




Baby Frosting - Discoloured. Neck seam has a bright neon green but rest of body has faded to a duller green. Eyes are great and works. $3



Truly - flocking is like every other SS I have, regular problems. She has problems standing though, not 2 and not 4s. She needs pen therapy. Hair slightly rough. $5







Galaxy - Sucks to be this pony. She is GREAT everything except she has discolouration spots everywhere. Hair is fabulous, eye still has tons of iridescent paint. Great for a body paint over project. Body is quite hard as well. $4








Braided Beauty - Pink streak faded, mechanism works. Has ingrained dirt. They're not dotty like the regular ones are, you just see a light patch of dirt but magic eraser and acetone can't seem to clean up her completely. She also has quite a few faded age spots on her. Not really brown but spots nonetheless. Hair still looooooong. $5



Still trying to clean her up again, will update if she ever improves.

TAF Babies

Remember my old post of the first Singaporean pony meet 2 years ago in August 2007? Then, I only had Baby Dancing Butterflies and Baby Sweet Tooth, oh and a custom earth Baby Sweet Tooth. Last year, I acquired Baby Love Melody and Baby Milkyway when I visited the USA in 2008 June-August. Finally, after a loooong time of separation, I've finally COMPLETED my TAF Babies today 9th Nov 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Top row: Baby Sweet Tooth(custom), Baby Sugarberry, Baby Love Melody

Middle row: Baby Up, up & Away, Baby Sweet Tooth, Baby Milkyway (custom)

Last row: Baby Dancing Butterflies, Baby Milkyway

Mexican Ponies

I normally couldn't care less about variant ponies, but Mexicans are just some of those "other" ponies I need to have. I'm not out to get them all, and I think I am quite focused on what I want. I aim to eventually own the following:

Moondancer - rivals the US regular version because I like her pose better (owned)

Rainbow Medley - why, she looks just lovely with the rainbow hair! (owned)

Alternate Pose Blossom - when I saw her it was OMG, MUST HAVE, I love her 100 times over the regular US version (owned)

Blue Belle with sky blue eyes (Auriken)

Baby Moondancer - I love her darker hair colour than the US one

Rainbow Firefly - this is not a must have, but nice to have to go as a pair with Medley

Starflower & Pinwheel - I just love their hair colours!

MOONDANCER

Notable difference is that Mexi Moonie has a pink streak instead of lavender, and much longer hair that touches the ground. She has metallic symbols like Italian Moondancer does, and has a forelock. Considering how shitty Mexican ponies normally are, this pony is what a lot of people would consider as GREAT condition. She was yellowed when she came, but I think sunning did her some good. She's still off white, but much better than before. She has some stray marks, but still lovely!

BLOSSOM

When I saw Renee's Blossom in NYC, I feel in love with her even though Renee's Blossom is in terrible condition with the poofy hair and discoloured body. Mine's not the best, but she's pretty decent with some faded marks on her. Her cheek blush has discoloured to white, and has a nick on the display side. I tried to recover it with pale pink paint, so now she looks like she has baboon's arse for her cheeks. 

MINTY

 

This pony wasn't an intentional purchase. I was bidding on something else, and since she doesn't look too bad, I decided to buy her to bulk ship to save on shipping. She's not my favourite colour, but still a lovely addition nonetheless.

Twinkle-Eyed Ponies

Ok, I've decided to keep my post count down by grouping ponies up instead making individual posts for every character. I'll update the posts bit by bit as I get new pics of my ponies.

SWEETPOP

If I have a choose a favourite among the Twinkle-Eyed set, it has to be Sweetpop. Even though I was more well acquainted with TV featured characters like Gingerbread, Galaxy and Fizzy, I'd still pick Sweetpop over them any day. It is kind of funny since my friend and I deem Sweetpop, Sky Rocket and Speedy to be rather "Singapore" -ish ponies since unlike the other countries where they had a second set of TEs carrying later characters like Locket and Tic Tac Toe (even if they didn't get Mimic like North America did), all we got in Singapore were the first 6 TEs and these 3 additional mid-set ponies. The oddest part was that we had Sweetpop, Sky Rocket and Speedy  in abundance!!! I remembered walking into the shopping centre and finding no other TEs (or maybe a sparse one or two hiding right to the back of the peg), but just these 3 ponies. It made me wonder if they were just unpopular, or was Hasbro just pushing the sales of new characters. Anyway, their impression on me has cemented. I love Speedy and Sky Rocket, but they're less unique because they came out in Europe as well. In fact, I still love Speedy, but somehow Sky Rocket's colour just doesn't stick for me. Sweetpop must exude some mysterious charm of her own that made me fall for her. Normally, I will choose a unicorn as my top favourite since I am almost always partial to unicorns over pegasus ponies. However, Sweetpop's colours smoothly won me over. She had to be in my favourite colour - BLUE and a nice cool looking one at that, and her hair colours just shout "POPSICLE", coupled with a matching name and symbols. She is simply perfect. Mimic may have won the majority vote for mayor, but I'll always choose Sweetpop.

ALTERNATE SWEETPOP

I bought this pony off PKW on the MLPArena. She gave Sweetpop alternate hair colours that I thought were quite fitting as well. I purchased her in a wink. PKW also specialised in one thing - de-BBEing & de-TEing ponies. She can remove their flawed eyes, clay them and paint them to look like they never had externally implanted eyes before. I do not Sweetpop even without the jewel eyes but I still feel rather sorry for her. I don't why but I see the jewel eyes as a TE pony's most treasured asset, and to lose them is SHAME! How can I let my pony live in embarrassment for the rest of her life? She's plastic and can live at least a few hundred years down the road without deteriorating, so that's quite a few centuries of shame - BAD. Lucky for her, there's a craft store near my place that sells flat base rhinestones in many size. Seems like the a trend to buy these nowadays for sticking onto an iPhone. I don't own one, but I'm happy that my ponies benefit from its popularity. Sweetpop is now a TE again, and best part is that her eyes are detachable, so that I can choose to let her be TE or normal, according to my mood.

UNICORN SWEETPOP

FIZZY

NEON LOCKET

I'm not sure why my camera wouldn't pick up the right colour, but when I bought this Locket, she was so discoloured that she's evenly neon pink throughout. The photo makes her look normal, but really she's discoloured. Not the regular lavenderish pink you normally have. It's kind of a waste since Locket's hair and eyes are almost perfect, and she comes with her comb pick and original ribbon. I've decided to keep since seeing how interesting she looks ^^ I'm getting a new Locket soon, hopefully, that one won't be discoloured.

WHY Nirvanas?

This is actually my quick response to a comment on the MLPArena regarding nirvana. I know it's kind of long .... as said it's a quick response, so I used a lot of "quick language". lol

"I think a lot of the foreign ponies look cheap and kind of... crummy.So, apart from being rare, what's the appeal?"

Honestly, Hasbro produces every pony for about 8 cents each, so I doubt any pony is actually considered "good" quality. And some were made from recycled plastics. The good news is though, plastics last for a very long time! Bad news is, some plastics don't retain their qualities (such as colours...etc) for as long. Wherever the ponies are made, they all have their own fair share of problems.

Not expounding nirvana holy scrolls here, because even I don't favour all the nirvanas out there. I only care about those occasional ones I am interested in. Normally "nirvana" interest sets in when either you have most of the common ponies out there, or you come from the country that sold them, and hence directed relates to you in many ways more than one. IMO, nirvanas are more considered an "add-on" aspect of MLP collecting, but you won't die if you miss out on them. And nirvana is such a wide and blanket term used that it's meaning is somewhat inaccurate, because I normally refer to nirvanas as super grails that are extremely hard to come by and cost anything above a pair of limbs, however, some people use it to refer to ponies of exotic origin, and some of which like some Argie ponies or Italians, aren't neccessarily hard or expensive to acquire.I do agree that a lot of the nirvanas are not as durable to play, mainly the hair, which goes frizzy easily. Most of the South American ones fit that description, but definitely not the Greek and Italians. What I find interesting about collecting these ponies is that1) They're of a different make, and come with a "flavour" or style of their own that you don't normally find in mainstream ponies, and it's not always for the worse. Some I feel are actually made prettier than the US ponies.2) They come in interesting colours that the US normally wouldn't sell, and hence makes collecting a whole lot more interesting with a larger variety to choose from.3) They provide a new avenue of extra "new" characters for us veterans to collect, especially for those running out of ponies to collect, eg. owning all US ponies.4) They sometimes make characters that collectors thought should have been made in the 80s, but weren't done by the US. An example would be Baby Minty. Lots of collectors love Minty, and some wished she has a baby, and the Greeks answered that call. However, she's super htf, so those desperate to own her would pay through their nose just to own her. Maybe that's partially due to sentimental value, but hey whatever it is, it's called a "nirvana/grail" pony - if it is not, then you probably wouldn't care paying for one in the first place.5) It provides insight on how ponies were adapted to fit a different culture in the past, which from a cultural or marketing point of view are all equally interesting.

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Just in case anyone cares to know more, here's my little summary of each origin:

Italian - Normally easily available and quite cheap to obtain. A few select ones go for decent mid-high prices mostly due to popularity such as Italian Gusty, which has green hair very different to the US counterpart. All Italians have blue eyes, and normally have painted matte or metallic symbols instead of glitter in the US, and their colours tend to be more intense and vibrant. Only downside is their often shoddy paint job, eg eyes not painted within contours.

German - Some don't consider these as nirvanas as they are produced in HK/China. Commonly known as "German exclusives" and only extends to certain sets of ponies like the Nestie Babies, the Play & Care Babies with Baby Buttons, CJ, Hopscotch...etc, alternate hair colour Sundae Best & Princess Ponies and the 3rd set of Rainbow Ponies with Raindrop & Nightlight. Their prices range from $25-80, depending. The baby ponies are sought after mainly because many collector own the adult version of the ponies to later discover they have babies too. I don't know why, but collectors have a strong major inclination to reunite the mums and the babies together, which also explains why Greek Baby Minty is such a must-have!

Greeks - Only refers to early releases from Greece that were made by a factory called El Greco, and NOT Hasbro. Plastics are normally soft and squishy, and smell "sweet" - personally I do not find the smell sweet, but that's how a lot of collectors describe it. Eyes are thickly painted on with small pupils - some would describe them as "Egyptian eyes". Symbols are matte or metallic. Ponies have extremely intense and vibrant colours, which makes them very different from their US counterparts, some even come in different poses & colours. The Greek releases are a bit like G3 core 7s now. They will make let's say Firefly, but you can find the pony in many different colour combinations. It also seems they have a thing for releasing all the characters at least once in the colour orange, persoanlly, the only orange variant I like is Twilight. Very sought after Greeks are normally Baby Medley (baby never made in the US), "Ladybird", an easter Greek pony not sold anywhere else in the world, Baby Bluebelle and Baby Minty.

Basically what I love about Greek is them making all the ponies that I already love, but they make ponies like Sunbeam and Windy so much pretty in Greek style! Normally greeks are found in pretty decent condition, but the big killer for them is their symbols, which are paint that are known to "bleed" into the plastic through the years.

Argentinian - These ponies have normal looking pony poses, but their colours are all haywire, and the element of green seems like a favourite in their midst. Green body, green hair, green streak....it's green heaven for collectors. Green is a rare treat in US ponydom. These Argies use it like there's no tomorrow. These ponies were quite common at one point of time, and aren't as common now. A year or two ago, it was like a factory blowout on ebay, and I think that was pretty much all the MOC & MIB supply there is lol cos they're not as common anymore that prolly explains the slightly jack in their prices. Some US ponies are made in rather interesting colours in Argie. My fav has to be cream coloured Love Melody and first tooth Baby Moondancer, whom I'll own someday and call it Baby Nightlight instead.

Mexican - I used to think these ponies look horrible, not them really, just the condition they're often found in. I heard the Mexican sellers realy dig them out from the ghettos LOL don't know how true! However, we are starting to find rather decent condition Mexicans on ebay as of late, so that's a good sign! Quite a few ponies are made true to their US design, but they show characteristics of much longer hair, painted symbols, or even spotting a different pose!!! One of the favourite grails will be Moondancer who is made in Glory's pose. For those who find that the US version looks a bit deformed, the Mexican one is for you. Mind you, she won't be cheap, because there's more than 100 ebayers who want her just as bad as you! The Mexicans do have some very nice looking ponies, but they can do better with the hair. It is also note worthy that Mexican has some very odd looking baby poses, like what looks like a Baby Firefly's head on a Baby Cotton Candy's body for the earth baby pose, and what looks like a Baby Ember's head on a Baby Firefly's body for the baby pegasus' pose. Baby Cotton Candys are normally quite easy to come by on ebay, and range roughly from $9-15 for pretty good condition ones. The baby pegs tho....hmmm, you might get a chance at Baby Surprise, but if yu are aiming for pegasus Baby Blossom, please raise your credit card limit!

Peruvian & Columbians - I can't say much on these, we need other nirvana collectors to shed light on these ponies since I don't own or keep check on them. They do seem pretty similar to Mexicans IMO, and I think if you are to go for them, you might as well go for the Mexicans which are the cheaper alternative.Brazilians - Not made by Hasbro, but a factory called Estrela. Also notorious for frizzy hair - it seems like a common fare for many South American ponies. They are also very recognised for their "shiny" plastic, and extremely well loved for making some of the very popular characters such as Magic Star & Paradise as normal ponies instead of So Soft ponies with flocking in the US. Also, some characters end up as a different breed. Example would be Truly as a peg. Most notable is the lack of unicorns in Brazilian releases, all of them are converted to earth ponies, such as Ribbon, Twist & GUsty. Gusty seems like the most popular of all, and her baby receives no lesser attention - always expensive to afford. They also make unknown characters that collectors assume are hybrids of US ponies fused together like the rainbow pony in a sitting pose, which has the colours of Sunlight, but more aqua-ish, but has Bowtie's symbol. The Brazilians babies are rather popular as they are the non-BBE answer to some of the US ponies like Baby Cuddles, Baby Tiddly Winks and BabY Lofty. Baby lofty is the most sought after because she is the only one not to have a NBBE counterpart at all in the US or Europe, and set completers are all out to get her. I was one of them, and I finally own my own

Africans - last but not least, Africans. I can't remember what the last verdict was on them, but I know someone on the board is the expert on these. I'm not sure if they are real MLPs OR very well done fakies, because they come in all these hybrid poses and have tails sewn on in plugs rather than stuffed in as a bunch. All I remember was seeing an African Bubbles (colours are all correct, but she's in Moodancer's body with some other's pony's head) on Aussie ebay. I wanted it so bad, but it ended at $75, which is a no-no for me. The seller was in Sydney.

I hope this explains why some collectors collects nirvanas. Not everyone collects them for the value or is nuts over them to get heightened attention, but there really is something VERY INTERESTING about these ponies that nirvana collectors (or rather...pony archeologists) are crazy unearth and discover. Call us extreme pony fanatics, we're not only crazy about ponies, we want to know all and more about them.