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ahorseofeverycolor · 1 year

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It’s My Little Monday! With...Old Catalog Ad for Earth Ponies! This is a pretty common photo that lives around on the internet. It is from a toy catalog that would be seen by retailers, not by the general public. It announces the debut of the turn-head pose (shy pose) and the sitting pose. (Do click the image, the resolution is such that you can read it) It shows you how they’d come with the puffy stickers and flower combs. It also has to mention ‘forehead designs’ because with how these prototype’s hair is combed you can’t really see them. Do you notice anything? Cotton Candy is sitting on her sticker, and her hair color is wrong. Why not make the art sitting for the......actual sitting ponies?? There is also something slightly amiss with Bubbles & Seashell’s eye position. It is suspected that these are painted prototypes. Why did they choose such an unflattering angle for all the photo? It’s difficult to tell that Bow Tie & AJ are cute. The other thing is in the text: Bubbles and Seashell WERE short-packed (that means in the mandatory case-by-case of ponies order, there were only 2 of each of her) Despite Cottoncandy and Blossom already being released they’re still doing 6 Cotton Candys per box. It is interesting to see a fact backing up the rarity of some of the characters, and the common-ness of others that reaches all the way to this day in 2023. Well why not the sitting pose? A simple aside that has nothing to do with the ad: they were the only 2 ponies who sat, but why? It’s supposedly because they couldn’t wear any of the ponywear clothing. Ponywear was meant to be a much bigger deal, more like Barbie outfits where you’d have a few dolls but could dress them so many ways. That’s also why Firefly’s pose didn’t appear again after the Rainbow set (except once...can you name her?) she couldn’t put on all 4 of the shoes! *This is actually fairly ridiculous when looked back on, because other Pegasus ponies like the Masquerade pose couldn’t wear several outfits too because the wings made them too wide. It made no sense to skip the sitting/foot up poses forever because of one decision ages ago.

#My Little Monday #My Little Pony #g1 pony #mlp g1 #advertising #toy catalog #product catalog #1980s toy

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doctorbeth · 18 days

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A happy colorful monster

Have you heard of My Pet Monster? It's a cartoon from 1986, which had one season (also apparently there's a live movie). You can stream it if you like. But for the purposes of this story, the most important fact is that the star was a very colorful smily, monster. And in January of last year, one of the cuddly plush versions was discovered in the back of a closet (so I guess he was a moonlighting as a closet monster?).

In any case, his original person found him, and wanted to gift him to his own daughters, but this monster had clearly had a rough time in the closet. Here is one of his diagnosis photos:

You can see the wound on his chest, and that his teeth are coming out. His feet and hands were vinyl, and had gotten that sticky feel that old vinyl sometimes gets.... and he needed a bath!

It took almost a year, but in December, the monster's family wrote again. Could we schedule treatment and an appointment for him?

Of course! The hospital was pretty full at the beginning of the year (not uncommon) so we scheduled his appointment for early March.

He arrived and the first step was a spa. He's quite large, so he got the large pink tub. :-)

Next he got restuffed, with a heart of original stuffing included ... who knows where his magic is stored, so it's important to keep at least a bit of original stuffing!

For his feet and hands, I can't replicate the printed nails on vinyl, but we didn't really want to do vinyl again anyway for the feel. So his person and I agreed to recover his feet and hands in new black velvet and then give him new nails from felt in the same teal as the originals. Here he is showing off his manicure and pedicure:

And here he is all better... even his fabric surrounding his tusks has been reglued:

and so he flew home to Colorado!

#my pet monster #1980s #1980s cartoons #stuffed animals #stuffed animal repair #stuffed animal hospital #stuffed animal cleaning #monsters #closet monster #monster toy #plush monster

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yodaprod · 9 months

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Angry Birds in the 80s...

Tomy Waterful Ring Toss (1976)

Source : Youtube/LGR

#tomy #toys #childhood #1970s #70s #70's #1980s #80s #80's

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goobersplat · 1 month

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1984 Pink Sanrio Tuxedo Sam Phone

#png #transparent #kidcore #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #toycore #toywave #toys #pink #phone #novelty phone #penguin #tuxedo sam #Sanrio #Japan #kawaii #vintage #1980s #80s #kitsch #novelty

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atomic-chronoscaph · 4 months

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Return of the Jedi toys fold-out - Kenner (1983)

#return of the jedi #star wars toys #kenner toys #vintage toys #80s toys #vintage action figures #1980s #1983

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kidcore-nostalgia · 7 months

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Argos Catalogue 1987 - toys ✨

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gifmovie · 24 days

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#gif #gifmovie #film #movie #animation #Toi #1980s #80s #animated #dreams #dream #Mamoru Hamatsu

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tvneon · 6 months

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#Thundercats #Lion-O #toys #80s #1980s

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cinematicwasteland · 8 months

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#transformers #1980s #80s #80s toys #80s nostalgia #80s pop culture #80s gif #80s gifs #vintage #retro #nostalgia

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ahorseofeverycolor · 1 year

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It’s My Little Monday! With..Restoration (sort of) of Dazzleglow Pony! It’s no secret: I LOVE the Glow n Show ponies. I would army these if I could, but as you also know, they’re quite expensive. A lovely set of 4 ponies who appeared toward the end of the G1 line, they were full of little heart shaped confetti and real glow in the dark stars. This made each pony different from any other (bits inside placement is random) of the same character. However, there were also variants such as the hearts being pink or blue, and Happyglow having either a stronger blue or a more bluegreen hair.The body colors varied a little too, so people end up keeping more than 1 of the character if she looks different enough. The darker purple one here started off as a badly bleached and yellowed one that was of course, shaved. She’s supposed to be a bolder purple than the one on the right, but not so dark as the restored one. (Though that one will lighten over years as the dye migrates slowly toward the interior before balancing out) As the intent was to have a variation of her, I didn’t care that she was bolder, and then selected frostier hues for the hair. This pink doesn’t fade, and the blue is more icy. Of course, it had to be a lot longer too. I wanted a more contrasting look with super pastels for the hair and bold dark color for the body. She still glows just as brightly, too! This is another keep forever pony, she is on the favorites shelf, with the other GNS variations I’ve managed to get over time.

#My Little Monday #My Little Pony #mlp g1 #g1 pony #dazzleglow #glow n show #glowing toy #purple unicorn #vintage toy #1980s toy

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obscuredollz · 23 days

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