I personally think Basic Fun has great reproductions, although they'll likely never have the same value due to being just that. But I admittedly find their Rainbow repros hard to tell apart from the originals without seeing the stamps!
A lot of people replace metal washers with plastic clamps/ties just to eliminate the risk of it rusting again. I definitely think having metal parts inside toys that could potentially get wet is just asking for something bad, lmao
New info about character trademarks:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/03/pipp-petals-is-probably-pegasuss-name.html?fbclid=IwAR0atCfMiHRYJNouJsTIdLbHYtBYbofVvi95l9GToZKGGrejyXzu4-j1g2A&m=1
Important question: is her neck sealed all the way? Her squishiness might be impacted by her neck coming unglued. My first G1 was a Windy whose neck was almost completely unglued, making her more squeezable.
I completely agree with the nature thing!
There are also a bunch of other human names that I totally forgot about. Dawn, Ace, Ember, Tex, Serena, Primrose, Bonnie, Pristina, Taffeta, Rapunzel...
That's fair! I just feel like most of the time, the names were meant to convey concepts (whatever they may be) instead of resembling human names.
But there have definitely been names that seemed (or just were) human before, even in G4 - Mi Amore Cadenza is a big one.
I agree, two-word names in previous gens meshed together a lot more naturally. I think it's because the first word in each name typically wasn't human-sounding, and the two words were meant to form one name instead of a first and last name. You could often shorten them to the first word (Tempest...
It's crazy to think that G3 is nearly 20 years old at this point, having begun in 2003 O_o
Of course it ended in 2008, but even that was over 10 years ago!