G1 Basic Fun Retro Ponies: A Collector's Guide

Ooo, that does look much better!!
 
The more visible stripes is lovely! I like how they pop more. :purpleheart:
 
Polaris is back at $14.99 on both Amazon.com and Walmart.com! (Scalpers had her price up to $30+ for a while.)

Walmart is out of Nova, but has raised Milky Way's price to $35?? Anyway, the entire set is available / at $14.99 apiece on Amazon. I'm curious to see if Novas coming from Amazon will now have pink stripes.
 
Interesting to see how different the prices are around the world. German amazon has them for around 22€, which is about 24$ currently.

I have three but missing the last one (light blue with pink hair) :)
 
I bought Polaris off Amazon and they are currently the darker blue one (more visible stripes). Also, the box art has been changed to show Nova with pink stripes. I didn't order Nova, though, so I don't know if Amazon has started sending out pink-striped ones. It's possible they still have old stock of the previous batch that they're working through, idk.
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LadyMoondancer said:
I bought Polaris off Amazon and they are currently the darker blue one (more visible stripes). Also, the box art has been changed to show Nova with pink stripes. I didn't order Nova, though, so I don't know if Amazon has started sending out pink-striped ones. It's possible they still have old stock of the previous batch that they're working through, idk.
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Back to the original art… more or less? The pink looks rather light on the box compared to:
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I think the shades have been edited all over to be more toy accurate
 
I can't think of any other unreleased full sets other than the Aristry ponies (which HQG1C made) and the dolls that were meant to come with the Pony Friends. I'd rather have ponies than dolls, though . . . There are some one-offs like NBBE Baby Sundance that would be great!

I'd love it if Basic Fun invented their own new designs. They're making new molds and pets for the Littlest Pet Shop reboot so I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.
 
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LadyMoondancer said:
I can't think of any other unreleased full sets other than the Aristry ponies (which HQG1C made) and the dolls that were meant to come with the Pony Friends. I'd rather have ponies than dolls, though . . . There are some one-offs like NBBE Baby Sundance that would be great!

I'd love it if Basic Fun invented their own new designs. They're making new molds and pets for the Littlest Pet Shop reboot so I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.
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There’s that playset though, right? For the Flutter Ponies? Would be cool if they did their own flutters like they traded years ago and added the playset.
 
I don't think they would ever make that one due to the BF Pretty Parlor flopping so hard. It was only $20, which is a really good price considering it came with a pony. (Like, that's less than a single Rainbow High doll.) But it was a shelfwarmer. At one point I was checking Target every day (waiting for the Rainbow ponies to appear) and the Collector ponies were flying off the shelves while the Pretty Parlor sat there. Really sad. BF reproduced all the accessories and everything.

I'm curious if they'll ever make the flutter ponies, because they did have a prototype box mock up for them at one point. (But no retailer was interested, so they weren't made.) If they did, though, they would haaaave to change the materials of the wings. The originals are just too breakable. I wonder if collectors would accept that or be mad.

They haven't made any baby ponies yet, I'd love to see babies! Either reproductions or new ones.
 
LadyMoondancer said:
I don't think they would ever make that one due to the BF Pretty Parlor flopping so hard. It was only $20, which is a really good price considering it came with a pony. (Like, that's less than a single Rainbow High doll.) But it was a shelfwarmer. At one point I was checking Target every day (waiting for the Rainbow ponies to appear) and the Collector ponies were flying off the shelves while the Pretty Parlor sat there. Really sad. BF reproduced all the accessories and everything.

I'm curious if they'll ever make the flutter ponies, because they did have a prototype box mock up for them at one point. (But no retailer was interested, so they weren't made.) If they did, though, they would haaaave to change the materials of the wings. The originals are just too breakable. I wonder if collectors would accept that or be mad.

They haven't made any baby ponies yet, I'd love to see babies! Either reproductions or new ones.
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All good points, but I do wanna point out about the material for the wings, basic fun and HQG1C all use material that are already different from what we had when we were younger for G1s, so hopefully it shouldn’t matter much if they did something different with the wing material. <3

Also OT: but Rainbow High dolls look extremely worth it for the price anyway. Not like the first year Equestria Girl dolls. I love them but yeesh.
 
Good point about the material!

The Rainbow High dolls have such beautiful nylon hair. <3 I actually ordered 30 RH heads from Mercari to customize with. One head has enough hair to reroot several ponies. They're missing their eyes so I assume they're some kind of factory overstock that was never put use.

Either that or their former owner has a big bottle of eyes somewhere, ha ha!
 
Never know when extra eyes will come in handy. ;)
 
I just found the 40th anniversary mystery minis at Books A Million! The codes are hard to read but I think I got all 7!

So the codes that are posted are correct, I ended up with a duplicate Starflower because I looked at the wrong digit lol. Going to go back tomorrow to see if I can find Moon Dancer! Spike & Ember were towards the back of the box, there was A LOT of Bubbles in that particular case. They're so cute!!

Edited to add: they were $5.99

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Neelah said:
So the codes that are posted are correct, I ended up with a duplicate Starflower because I looked at the wrong digit lol. Going to go back tomorrow to see if I can find Moon Dancer! Spike & Ember were towards the back of the box, there was A LOT of Bubbles in that particular case. They're so cute!!

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Where did you find those!?
 
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