At what point would you decide to behead a pony?

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For cleaning.

I myself am uncomfortable to behead the ones with glued on heads because they’re all my childhood ones and I feel it’ll be damaging to my own ones because of that. I am fine with the idea of doing it with my ones with turntable heads which is what I’m doing but the ones with glued on heads, especially my first ever pony, are filthy inside. I can see it through the skin as dark patches. My Amberlocks (first pony) has a stain that I think she’s always had through her non-display side but it looks like rust somehow did it...

So in an attempt to help me feel more comfortable with doing it, at what point do you think it’s time?

If I went ahead with it, I would wanna glue their heads back on so they were as I remember and I think I saw somewhere that superglue is not the right thing to use?
I wouldn’t want to be messy about it either. I know what to use to do this, a blunt knife and warm water (I think)

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Here is my Amberlocks. I’m assuming at some point rust must’ve come off her washer while she was laying somewhere after a bath and sunk in to her skin. Maybe little kid me thought it was a birthmark. Inside, she has so much dirt I can see through and she could be so much brighter if I was brave enough to go for it
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I feel the same way with my childhood collection. So far a bath of boiling water and some acetone has gotten mine off easily. I don't want to resort to the exacto knife like I have with some baits I have bought. I don't feel as bad when they weren't mine. I have only done it to 2 of my original ponies and only because they had noticable tail rust. Otherwise I will leave them alone. I have noticed one more I may have to do and hopefully that's it for my own. I don't plan on regluing the two I have done because when I line them back up they still look great. All of mine are G1 though so I can't vouch for the other gens. I would ask @Skybreeze for gluing advise for sure before you use super glue. Good luck!!
 
OctoberMoon said:
I feel the same way with my childhood collection. So far a bath of boiling water and some acetone has gotten mine off easily. I don't want to resort to the exacto knife like I have with some baits I have bought. I don't feel as bad when they weren't mine. I have only done it to 2 of my original ponies and only because they had noticable tail rust. Otherwise I will leave them alone. I have noticed one more I may have to do and hopefully that's it for my own. I don't plan on regluing the two I have done because when I line them back up they still look great. All of mine are G1 though so I can't vouch for the other gens. I would ask @Skybreeze for gluing advise for sure before you use super glue. Good luck!!
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Thank you! There’s just something special about childhood ponies. If they weren’t mine I would be more comfortable also. Quite a lot of mine have tail rust because bath time was pony pool time and so was the actual swimming pool... well, little kid me had plenty of fun with them anyway
 
See, I'm just the opposite. I wanna scrub that pony clean inside and out! If it's a pony with no issues I won't just do it for no reason but if I can see funk on the inside either through the pony's body or bad tail rust type stuff I clean them out. I feel like no good will come from leaving it and worry that eventually it will cause more discoloration or issues so "off with her head"! I only collect G1 so I don't have experience with taking the heads off other gens. but I have a tool, it looks like a plastic flat head screwdriver and I very carefully loosen that seam. I do not care for spinning heads though so I will put a couple tiny dots of craft glue on after.
 
Gingerbread said:
See, I'm just the opposite. I wanna scrub that pony clean inside and out! If it's a pony with no issues I won't just do it for no reason but if I can see funk on the inside either through the pony's body or bad tail rust type stuff I clean them out. I feel like no good will come from leaving it and worry that eventually it will cause more discoloration or issues so "off with her head"! I only collect G1 so I don't have experience with taking the heads off other gens. but I have a tool, it looks like a plastic flat head screwdriver and I very carefully loosen that seam. I do not care for spinning heads though so I will put a couple tiny dots of craft glue on after.
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I want to scrub them inside too, I’m just a worried I’ll do something to damage them even though they’ll probably be perfectly fine. If I do make their heads to turntable it could be a benefit I guess, they got a new ability!
Craft glue... I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks! :smile:
 
I’m with gingerbread. Better to clean now and prevent future issues. A little warm water is a it takes. Unless the head has been removed before, it should come off easily.
 
Tak said:
I’m with gingerbread. Better to clean now and prevent future issues. A little warm water is a it takes. Unless the head has been removed before, it should come off easily.
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I am thinking more and more like this is a good idea

Come on me, do it. Before I know it, poor Amberlocks is going to be Mouldylocks.
 
Personally I would use hot water just like everyone else but if i could not get the head off. Id have to result to drastic matters. Anyhow, if the pony had rust inside then I would take the head off. I used to do that alot with my ponies but I think Im lazier so I just look for any rust and then move on.
 
So an update on Amberlocks.

She is partially beheaded but I can get inside. I’ve began cleaning but what confuses me is she’s actually surprisingly rather okay inside... even though dark patches are visible outside. Not only that but her washer is actually plastic? Hasbro why didn’t you do this for all ponies?! Strange how there is dirt inside like my rusted ponies and she doesn’t even have a metal washer
 
my 25th anniversary sweetie belle with words on her came dehorned. I beheaded a extra henna sweetie belle to replace her head.
 
Ology said:
my 25th anniversary sweetie belle with words on her came dehorned. I beheaded a extra henna sweetie belle to replace her head.
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I think I remember seeing her on I think one of the Show and Tell threads? That’s such a pretty combination :smile:
 
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I admit to a couple of beheading mishaps with some g3 ponies. Oops. I have actually beheaded all the ponies I have now and am fairly pleased with the results. I had a billion rusted tail washers, rust down into feet, cut mails and tails to be replaced, etc. I only had a small collection to start and all recent ponies have been ebay or opshop bundles and holy moly have there been some mega filthy ponies amongst them! I've used polyurethane glue to repair the couple whom I damaged their necks. Oops.
 
Thank you all for telling me when you would decide to behead ponies or if you would at all

I took the decision to open up Amberlocks from how dark those marks were. She wasn’t as bad as I was expecting and I learnt a bit too about the inside of a pony. Turns out she had a plastic washer so no rust but she was a little dirty and she has thicker layers of plastic in some places than others meaning I could see that from the outside being darker!

When looking for glue from suggestions, I remembered I was given some model kit plastic glue a while ago. It has a needle thin nozzle for precision and it dries clear. It works really well!
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Her head is glued on here but some bits didn’t have enough so here she is drying again. She has string around her so I don’t have to sit there for a while holding her until she’s dry

Thank you, all!
It went really well but it was still a nervous time to open up a pony like that but I’m glad I did it. I have a few others who need opening and I’m very sure it’s dirt inside those and not thicker plastic
 
Looks like you doctored her back up good. Glad it was successful and now you don’t have to worry something is festering away in there.
 
I've never beheaded a pony or done any other intense restoration because I'm too scared of messing it up lmao
 
CocoChipooRocks said:
I've never beheaded a pony or done any other intense restoration because I'm too scared of messing it up lmao
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I can’t handle most of the chemicals, so just basics for me.
 
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