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I've been thinking. Thinking about cutie-marks. And one thing i've check out is that all ponnies got double-cutie-marks on botch flanks. 0.o Im not pretty sure if it's something that every-one know and im just a blind person, or everyone is blind and i've found something? Somepony can help me with that? >.< derp
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@winterthim Well we only usually see one flank at once, but I think all ponies have two cutie marks.
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@thelastgherkin They do, it's the toys that lack them on both sides.
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@leonkfox Nope, definitely on both. No matter which side you see, the cutie mark's thre. Plus, there are a few scenes where you can see both sides at once.
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@starshine Really? I must have missed those scenes (or rather the specific detail in them) which ones off the top of your head show them on both sides?
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@starshine Apart from when that isn't true. http://ur1.ca/4wzfy
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@thelastgherkin That scene is an error, clearly. @leonkfox I'd have to look for them, but I do remember seeing a still frame at some point and going "oh!"
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@leonkfox From "Suited for Success": http://ur1.ca/4wzg0
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@thelastgherkin I'll be DAMNED, how did I not notice that before?!
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@leonkfox Because you always see a cutie mark, no matter which side of the pony is facing the camera.
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On the subject of cutie marks, here's a thing. Rainbow Dash's cutie mark goes in the same direction as her hind legs. That is, the left side has the lightning bolt pointing down and left, and jotting out to the right, and the right side goes in the opposite direction. Incidentally, the toys (at least the $5 brushables, as I haven't seen the fashion style ponies out of the boxes, and have never seen a blind bag in person) fail because not only is Rainbow Dash's cutie mark backwards, it's also only on one side. Moreover, *which* side isn't even consistent - it's whatever one is facing forward when packed in the box. Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Applejack have their cutie marks on the left; Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity have them on the right. #themoreyouknowaboutcutiemarks
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@starshine The toys are pretty much a fail in general. I saw some in Tesco's the other day, my reaction "I am dissapoint."
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@starshine Well, that's good for a coherent collection layout. Have three ponies facing left and three facing right. Lovely, and even!
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@leonkfox They don't suck completely. At least all the proportions are right and everything, and after a good #brushiebrushie they're quite presentable.
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@starshine Hm, the proportions looked really off to me, and Celestia wasn't even the right COLOUR for crying out loud. http://twitpic.com/64zg53
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@starshine On the subject of #brushiebrushie: I'm going to have to find a really tiny curling wand if I want my Pinkie Pie looking presentable.
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@leonkfox Yeah, those play sets are kind of lousy, and I would have nothing to do with anything besides the ponies themselves (and I guess the animals, too - I have those all lined up on top of my monitor). Just get the brushables. I'm not buying Celestia until I can get one that is either not pink or at least easily repaintable.
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@rotation They're expensive as hell for what they are. I love FiM and love being a Brony but I refuse to spend that much money on that garbage.
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@thelastgherkin Cut up a drinking straw. Soak hair in water, wrap hair around bits of straw. Secure in place with those hair clip things, the name of which I cannot remember at the moment.
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@rotation I haven't found the Celestia is a troll joke funny since the second time I heard it, and I take issue with it because...well...it isn't Celestia!
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@rotation There's no crown or neck thing on one of them; the talking one is just horrible on so many levels that I refuse to pay money for it; and she's pink, which is easily solved but still stupid and on top of those other things is enough reason not to spend money on it. Plus there is no Celestia toy that is in correct proportion to the brushables.
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@starshine This is why I totes love RDN. I will totally do that, tank you! :D
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@leonkfox It's not? youtu.be/OHEum_eCLDw
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@starshine They're embarassing, if I want to come home to my family with FiM toys to embrace my fandom, I don't want them to look like chinese knock offs (which with how off they are to FiM they may as well be)
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@leonkfox There's a couple bits that aren't quite perfect, and you're acting like they're trying to sell Fluttershy without wings or something. They're $5, they're more or less the right colors, and with about 15 minutes of work you can get the hair looking good. Stop being ridiculous.
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@rotation I'm willing to bet those were worth it to a collector though. I've spend a lot of money on collectables before, because they were quality and looked like they were made by people who watch/play the franchise/s they came from.
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@starshine They're expensive for their quality, at least where I am. So no, I don't feel I'm being ridiuclous. I don't want to buy them and won't. I'd rather have no FiM merchandise at all than bring the stuff in that picture home.
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@starshine They're not $5. They're more like $8.054858.
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@thelastgherkin Oh, and by the way, be careful, because there's a little stupid metal piece in there that holds the tail in, and that'll rust.
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@thelastgherkin Seriously? Ugh, that's robbery.
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@starshine Yep. It happens with all Hasbro toys. They see the American price and then change the $ to a £, which is why I've been paying twice as much for all my Transformers as you would for the past few years.
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@thelastgherkin Sheeeeesh.
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@leonkfox By the way, in case you have not seen this: tinyurl.com/3dm4tfb
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@thelastgherkin @starshine Pink Celestia is £14.97 (so pretty much 15 quid) here, not what I would consider cheap given how poor she is, and Twilight + Balloon is 18 quid. (19.67 to be exact) If this currency converter is trustworthy that makes Pink Celestia $24.37 and Twilight with Balloon $30.39.
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@starshine For the record, the "sticker vector things" are called tampographs.
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@thelastgherkin Interesting term. (I didn't make that, though.)
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@starshine I've seen it, and I say this as usual, the McDonald's toys look better than the retail ones, and aren't even a FRACTION of the price.
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@leonkfox And neither of those toys are at all on my list of things I want. Pinkie's RC car is, but only because I think it'd be hilarious fun at a meetup.
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@starshine It still proves my point of how much more expensive the toys are here, which makes me want them even less.
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@starshine I wasn't sure if you had! But you posted it before so I thought maybe it was yours.
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@leonkfox Well, move. I'm sorry, I don't know what else to say to you. I will reiterate that I don't think they look bad once you get the hair styled right, though before I shut up and BOUGHT one of them, I was similarly whiny about how they looked. But I'm going to drop this conversation now, because it's not going anywhere.
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@thelastgherkin Did I? I know @rotation posted it once. (rainbowdash.net/attachment/9950)
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@starshine I'm not being whiny, I don't like them and have my reasons, and as a result haven't bought them. Just how is that whiny? It's just my opinion on the toys.
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@leonkfox im really sad that McDs doesn't have those toys anymore. (sorry a bit late)
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@madflavors heh, the UK hasn't gotten them yet, REALLY hope we do. I'll happily buy Happy Meals to get them all XD
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@starshine I just want to add this as a final note to that conversation, I can't resist and it does fit. http://b1t.it/v7o
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@starshine Sweetheart, do I need hot or cold water for this?
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@thelastgherkin I just used room temperature water. I've read that hot water works better though.
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@starshine Thank y'kindleh.
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