"Pink highlighter" - really?

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Now that I've become interested in pony restoration I've noticed that a good number of baits have pink highlighter on them. Not blue, yellow, or green - pink. Always hot pink. Lots of different colors of pony, too.

Is this really caused by an army of little girls armed with pink highlighters or am I looking at a particular type of vinyl degredation or regrinding? It just seems too constant an occurrence for all of these instances to be coincidental.
 
I know what you mean - see alot of pink too! once I did get one with purple on it and I have a camel with yellow - but overall - mostly PINK!
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I don't think it's actually caused by highlighter. it just looks like it. regrind/deterioration is more likely. in some cases, leaving that pink saddle on ponies caused pink marks.
 
buddafly said:
I don't think it's actually caused by highlighter. it just looks like it. regrind/deterioration is more likely. in some cases, leaving that pink saddle on ponies caused pink marks.
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That makes a lot more sense to me.

...and that means that one cannot Oxyclean the spots out. Hmm.


I may have to get really good at acrylic paint mixing.
 
I'm fairly sure it's from bridles/saddles, I found Peachy at a garage sale with a saddle. Upon yanking it off, wherever the saddle had touched had turned a bright pink!
 
I've always wondered this as well. I have one with pink highlighter that doesn't look like a bridle or saddle, and as she is yellow, I highly doubt it is regrind.

The only thing I could come up with is maybe lots of little girls liked pink, and wanted to decorate/ make-up their ponies?
 
My daughter colored several of her ponies the other day. She was very ninja about it, and hid those ponies, but I found them (obviously ;D Every week I do a head count, but she doesn't know that). Some ponies, she COATED them with scribbles (she turned her G4 Rarity nearly completely blue >.>). Others only had 1 mark or knick. I have no idea what her methodology was, LOL. Luckily, it was a very waxy crayon, so I could take it off fairly easy. I imagine for every pony with one stray mark, there's another that was painted with color!
 
Yeah, I don't have much experience with the dreaded "pink highligher" myself, but from the photos I've seen, regrind is a lot blotchier than you described. It might be some kind of deterioration, though, I'm no expert.

And I'm just glad that crayon came off easily, Woodbines! If I had kids and they did that, I'd be so upset! My boyfriend and I were saying just last night that, until they have proven themselves responsible and caring pony owners, our future children will recieve only Fakies to play with! Ha!
 
Ahaha, I was upset! And I took a deep breath and reminded myself "This is why I buy her play quality/baity ponies!"

Except her Rarity was one she had gotten new from her grandma! So I was a little more displeased about that one, LOL. I told her if she ever colored on her ponies again I would throw them away. THAT made an impression ;)
 
It is good that you got that crayon off right away! My Salty had a brick red scuff that was most likely accidental crayon - and, over the years, it stained the vinyl underneath. :(
 
So, pink on the outside is a sign of mold on the inside? So, should pink-stained ponies be boiled?
 
Ooo, THANK you, Dava!

Poor ponies, full of mold vomit! Interesting quote from the forum linked:

"I had a few places like that. Cleaned all the vinyl with Dawn and magic eraser where needed. Then on the pink spots, just left some dawn on those in the sunlight. Can't explain it but the spots were gone the next day. Keeping that vinyl from mildew type spots and a few of the pink ones has been a chore."

...but most say that there is no cure. I think that I might have a bait coming with this pink on her; I'll treat her like a mold pony first and then play around with fading the spots.
 
I'm now looking up information on the bacteria (Serratia marcescens) responsible for staining. It's pretty nasty stuff and can cause pneumonia, UTIs, and other infections. I wonder whether that is how ponies were exposed to it.

Most sites state that bleach or vinegar or baking soda will get rid of the stains. No magic bullet, though.
 
Dava said:
Let us know what you find out!
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Well, the bait with pink on her looks a LOT like scribbles; it is joined by blue scribbles. (I put pictures in a thread in Show and Tell.) I still haven't popped her head off yet to examine the inside but she seems to have no external signs of mold (as I asked for due to mold allergy).
 
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