Posted by Hillary on July 15th, 2010
Second generation MLP items. G2. Let’s talk about them.
Saturday, July 17th, at the 2010 My Little Pony Convention, Summer Hayes is going to release her new guide to this unusual generation. What does this mean for you, the average MLP collector or seller? Simple.
G2s haven’t been as collectible as other generations in the past for one main reason: Very few people knew much about them. Most US collectors have never even seen the G2 items that were available only in Europe and even European collectors missed out on some of the smaller and harder to find sets. What it boils down to is this: lots of people didn’t collect this generation because they had no idea where to begin or even what was really in it. The info was incomplete and scattered. Until now.
Starting tomorrow, the general MLP collecting public is going to go from knowing a little bit about the second generation to knowing a whole lot about the second generation. Instead of only a few devoted G2 collectors having all the info about these toys, suddenly anyone with a copy of Summer’s book is going to know about every single playset, pony, accessory and whatnot from the second generation. Collectors are going to see whole sets of ponies that they didn’t even know existed before. And when they realize how cool some of these sets and ponies are, they are going to be a lot more interested in collecting them. The more people collecting something, the more it drives up prices. That is just a simple rule of supply and demand.
So, if you want my advice, whether you are a G2 collector or just an opportunistic collectibles seller, start stock piling G2 ponies now. If you are a collector, this will let you snag them for a better price before the rush of new collectors get involved. For sellers, this will let you snag ponies for less and then resell (or trade) them later for more when new G2 collectors start to drive the market up. Either way, don’t be surprised if G2 prices start to change and change drastically in the next few weeks as knowledge and interest in the generation spreads.
Now if you have a G2 collection that you were looking to sell, I’d bide my time. Once the copies of the book have had a chance to circulate, you should be able to get a better price for your items than you would have been able to get ever before and they’ll be more interest in the items overall.
But that’s just my 2 cents. . .
Tags: g2, mlp, my little pony
Posted in Articles and Editorials, Posts from Hillary DePiano, Products: Offical and Unofficial
Posted by Hillary on May 8th, 2009
Secret Sauce sent us this personally on Twitter so I feel obligated to post it even though it’s kinda weak. There are a few cute parts and it definitely had some potential but I was really hoping to laugh out loud and the most I did was smile once. I actually rolled my eyes a few times which is never a good sign. My literal first thought after seeing this was “weak sauce” so perhaps putting sauce in their name was a poor idea on their part.
Rise of the Buttercup Sprinkles? I mean, if you are going to take the time to make a whole video, you can’t just take the time to Google an actual MLP name? Jamie Oliver did! And it was too long. It would have been a cute gag at half the length but after seeing the same Photoshopped colored horse gag several times I felt like we were beating a dead horse. Or pony.
I think it probably meant to be funny to people who have never really heard of My Little Pony before as it is mostly a bunch of spray painted horses which impeded my enjoyment of the video. As a long time horsewoman, this actually totally upset me for some reason because all I could think of was that I hoped they used something that would be safe for the poor horses and whether it would give them a rash. I imagine this hang-up is mine and mine alone because of my years doing horse health care and I am willing to acknowledge that.
But, hey, it is hard to make a video and comedy is never easy and very subjective, I definitely understand that. They obviously put a lot of work into it and it was a good effort and shows some potential for future videos. I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and posting it either way because I think it was a bold idea for them to try even if it wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be.
That said, did you enjoy the trailer? What did you like or not like about it?
Better yet, what would you have put into a Live Action MLP movie trailer? Someone want to make one?
As for me, I still prefer Robot Chicken’s Apocalypse Pony.
Tags: art, celebrity, chef, g2, google, jamie oliver, live action, mlp, movie, my little pony, my little pony the movie, trailer, twitter
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Posted by Hillary on April 28th, 2009
This story is a few weeks old but I missed it and I am sure some of you did as well so I figured it would post it anyway.
Jamie Oliver, best known as TV’s The Naked Chef, just named his most recent daughter (born on April 3rd, 2009) Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver. Never mind how incredibly awesome this name is, the bigger question is why aren’t Poppy Honey and Daisy Boo, the names of his other two daughters, also My Little Pony names?
So my question for the community at large is, if you were going to name your child after a My Little Pony, which one would you name it after?
Secondly, if there were ponies named Poppy Honey and Daisy Boo, what would they look like?
Oh and if you don’t remember what the MLP Petal Blossom looked like in the first place, there were actually two Petal Blossoms, one was a G2 and one was a G3. Both, oddly enough, were purple with pink hair. Look at both Petal Blossom versions here to jog your memory.
Tags: celebrity, celebrity chef, chef, custom, daisy boo, ebay, g2, g3, jamie oliver, mlp, my little pony, petal blossom, poppy honey, rainbow, the naked chef, toys
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