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.
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This was a birthday gift for @/anniemeep, the book dragon and board game dragon. Annie is one of the sweetest people I know, and her favourite colour is purple 💜
It’s Toy Time Tuesday!
With ShimmerCorns Sparkle Makeover Galaxie!
Not only is TTT on time this time, but it’s got a real digging in review. First to note is that this IS a ‘kiddie toy’ and I only got her because she was 5 dollars. If she looks big, she is, she’s a bit over 9 inches tall. To sum up the whole line and the idea of this:
An Interesting Idea That Didn’t Quite Do It
You can SEE what they were going for, first in the name “oh a shimmering unicorn” but they broke up the word and YES everywhere will try to sell you literal ears/cobs and cans of corn when searching. It makes “Corn” too much a part of the label. So the name idea but then it didn’t execute quite right.
The Eyes
There is a ‘crystal’ faceted shape of transparent plastic over the eye paint which was an attempt at being ‘Twinkle Eye Pony Like’, however it distorts the eye’s details when viewed right-on, and looks like odd goo from the face-on direction. It makes the eyes confusing to look at.
The hooves:
They’re pointed like a high heel shoe, but they have random faceting all over to make them ‘crystal like’ but making the only very-smooth and elegant part of the horse be lumpy for any reason isn’t...the best?
The face:
At least the eyes are on the side of the head! It may have the face of a silly fish, but at least they weren’t trying to make it into a dog. (Finally)
The name:
They tried to name her but then they just spelled Galaxy in a different way that manages to sound exactly the same as if it was spelled normally. Again it’s another ‘not quite’.
The gimmick:
It’s a kids thing, so you use the greenish stencil to use the markers on the paper wings. However, they’re taped into the box plastic & they are simple thinner cardstock so 1 wing will always have tape on it, or rip. You can then store the stencil behind the wing (last photo) and mount the colored paper over the wing as seen.
Box differences:
Notice the horn was originally green (did it glow?) And the eye makeup/stars were pink instead of gold.
Also if you have to display part of the toy behind itself so that people can see the toy better...it might be something to think of. I kind of mind how close this got to being something really cool? Like the dark purple with glitter plastic is fantastic, 2 colors of spray that goes with it really well (ankle & nose) the almost mechanical look of the removable wings, the neck symbol, hair tinsel/amount of hair, and added 3D detail for the tail and neck. It’s all great! A gimmick that doesn’t ruin the toy (infinitely replaceable paper & re-use-stencils that aren’t attached) They’re all really good.
I consider this like a ‘fairy horse’ where it’s a totally different thing that isn’t/shouldn’t expected to look like a horse, but a “horse-creature”. I would not have bought if this was whatever the suggested retail was, like 20 dollars or something (comes with lots of parts, markers, etc) because I don’t like the sculpt that well, but for 5 dollars I wasn’t going to say no. (Always the question: What is so wrong with horses that they want to make toy horses that DONT look like horses? What is the point of this? It happens all. the. time. “I want a horse toy that doesn’t look anything like a horse”--then what are you wanting! )
Magenta Sparkle Moon Heart got an essential sparkledog upgrade: angel and devil wings!
I was originally going to make her wings as a wearable harness type thing, but decided to just sew them on instead. She also got a few new accessories!
tangerine dream 🧡
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