Geek Cave Tour 2020 Part 9

The multi-week virtual tour of the Geek Cave continues.  I'm going to post pictures and discuss one shelving unit a week for the foreseeable future.  I'm also going to switch up generations, areas of the Cave, and even types of collection as I feel like it.

We're back to G4 this week, and even more castles.

The G4 playsets, while beautiful, are often gigantic and one solid mass of plastic.  This makes displaying on shelving units difficult, unless one is prepared to remove all but two shelves from a unit (not a practical use of space).  This is why I hacked many of the playsets, taking them apart and/or repositioning bits and pieces.  This is how I ended up with the Canterlot display on the half height shelves.  I've mimicked the multi-level look of Canterlot in the cartoon here, and managed to squeeze three relatively large playsets into a relatively small area, along with Rarity's Boutique.  The majority of my G4 ponies are displayed on these shelves.

In nearby Ponyville, there are some shops borrowed from the Li'l Woodzeez toy line.  The general store and bakery were just too good to pass up, and as you can see they fit perfectly with the G4s.  Both these playsets came with upwards of 70 highly-detailed accessories, which I've used in many dioramas.

After some shopping, the ponies can head home using either the train or Pinkie Pie's helicopter.  I've never yet had the entire train track set up in the Cave, but I plan to use it in a holiday display at some point.

Of course, Cheerilee's schoolhouse and Sweet Apple Acres are also in Ponyville.  These two playsets are perhaps the cheapest in pony history.  Both are flat, minimal structures with few interesting features apart from some of the accessories that came with them.  They might almost be flat cardboard backdrops, which is more or less how I'm using them in the display.

Finally, under the sea is Seaquestria and the few sea ponies made in G4 (mostly mane 6).  This is the bottom half of the Canterlot and Seaquestria playset, that I had to take apart because it was too damn big! It's nicely detailed, and came with some fun accessories, but I don't think I would buy it again if I had to do over.  I do love the pufferfish Spike, though.

We're nearly through.  Next time we leave Ponyland for the last time.

Elf