Saturday 18 April 2020

Pony Tea Party

The ponies have been socializing.

This weekend I decided to work on my pony catalogue.  I have an excel sheet, but in the last year I have largely been depending on my Flickr account as a resource for checking accessories and merchandise. I've not finished my photo catalogue, so I thought I'd do a bit of catch up on picture taking.
And then, since I'd gone to the trouble of lifting down the giant Crystal Rainbow Castle from the top of the bookcase, flipping it on its side, putting in batteries, and opening the darn thing, I figured I'd also have some fun with it.  The Unicorns are having a little open day at the castle.

This set is enormous! It's three feet tall and slightly wider, although it collapses down by quite a bit.  Actually, it's probably the last truly collapsing playset in the MLP line.  And there is a tonne of detail on the building itself in the form of sculpted design and sticker backgrounds.
The set didn't come with a lot of accessories (of course there was a tea cart - G3 ponies love their tea parties) but there were three large accessory sets you could buy separately.  I have two of them.  If memory serves me right, the third one (the bath set) was not available in stores in Canada, and I didn't like it enough to go hunting for it.

For this display I didn't develop a story line, I just set out the accessories and chose a few favourite ponies to go on the display.  Naturally the unicorns are all there, because it's their castle.

Elf

Friday 3 April 2020

Sticker hoarder

I'm a sticker hoarder.

I love MLP merchandise, but I try to focus my collection only on certain types of merchandise, mainly smaller, flatter items like stationary, colouring books, birthday party supplies, and stickers.

The stickers, however, have gotten out of hand,  When you're considering recent merchandise, stickers are easy to come by and inexpensive.  They also don't generally take up a lot of space, so they're easy to store.  They're also often a popular inclusion in trade and swap packages among collectors, which probably explains why I have doubles and triples of some of my sticker sheets.

I've recently gone through all my stickers, photographing every individual sheet and separating out the doubles to be passed on to other collectors.  Here's a few images:
Vintage scented G1 sticker sheets

Vintage G1 stickers from an Argentinian sticker book

G2 stickerss

Puffy and fuzzy G3 sticker set - one of my favourites

G3 sticker set with highly detailed background

G4 sticker set from Target
A rare Luna sticker is included  in this set.


Elf