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My Little Pony (& Summer Hayes’ MLP collectors price guides) featured on EcommerceBytes.com Collector’s Corner

Hillary — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:21:19 +0000

My Little Pony is the featured collectible over at EcommerceBytes.com’s Collector’s Corner today and they were kind enough to feature all of the My Little Pony price guides from Summer Hayes in their article.

Check out their overview here and thank you to EcommerceBytes for the shout out!

Summer Hayes & G2s on My Little Pony Radio Podcast

Hillary — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:31:34 +0000

The 6/17/11 episode of My Little Pony Radio was devoted on the second generation of MLP. This G2 discussion included talk of Summer Hayes’ The My Little Pony G2 Collector’s Inventory and more.

Check out the replay below:

Listen to internet radio with My Little Pony Talk on Blog Talk Radio

What’s the deal with the Super Secret My Little Pony Guide Sale?

Hillary — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:00:57 +0000

With the My Little Pony Convention coming up, Priced Nostalgia Press’s popular My Little Pony price guides for collectors from Summer Hayes are in high demand. Between Facebook, Twitter and the site proper, we’ve got such a great community here that I wanted to be able to do something to give MLP Collecting readers a little something extra. I pulled a few strings and was able to get Priced Nostalgia to agree to a VERY special discount just for readers of this site.

But here’s the catch: the discount is so good that we have to limit it only to readers so I’ve had to literally lock it down in a password protected post so the publisher doesn’t get in trouble with bookstores.

So here’s how you take advantage of this special sale:

DM us on Twitter (@mlpcollecting) to ask for the password or grab it from Facebook here.
Log into the password protected post here.
Purchase as many books as you want and take advantage of the combined shipping deals in addition to the discounts. But we can only offer it through July 1st so please get your orders in soon to avoid disappointment.

Even if you already have the books, you may want to check out these prices anyway. It might be worth it to grab a copy to use for trade later.

Sorry for the subterfuge but I think you’ll find that it’s worth the extra work.

Summer Hayes’ My Little Pony Guides are “SPECTACULAR” & “brilliant”

Hillary — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:47:55 +0000

I want to extend a big Thank You on behalf of Priced Nostalgia to Mark Bellomo. While doing an interview on a GI Joe’s fan site, GeneralsJoes.com, he gave high praise to Summer Hayes’ series of My Little Pony collector’s guides published through Priced Nostalgia Press.

GJ: When can we expect to see a fully dedicated My Little Pony tome? Inquiring minds (like my 5-year old) want to know!

MB: Unfortunately Justin, the total amount of pieces within the My Little Pony line is truly massive, with the size of a complete MLP collection rivaling the dimensions of almost every male-oriented toy line ever created. My Little Pony’s simple formula—selling a colorful, pint-sized pony with rooted hair and vibrant accessories to young girls—is testament to the line’s thirty-plus year endurance (1983-present).

Tell your daughter that I’m sorry, but due to the limited amount of time I have in my life, I’m more than likely not going to construct a My Little Pony guidebook (well… never say never). However, there is a SPECTACULAR guide out there for MLP fans which I don’t mind pimping one bit. For your daughter’s sake, check out Summer Hayes’ The My Little Pony G1 Collector’s Inventory—it’s quite brilliant: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Pony-Collectors-Inventory-illustrated/dp/0978606310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287961128&sr=1-1 .

What makes this even greater, in my mind, is the fact that the interviewer really seemed like he was kidding as if he had no idea there really were MLP guide books out there. The fact that Mark didn’t just shrug the question off with a laugh and gave such a nice endorsement makes him extra awesome.

You can read the full interview with him here.

Want to see what all the fuss is about? Grab your copy of one of Summer’s books here.

Win a free copy of The My Little Pony G2 Collector’s Inventory with our Goodreads giveaway!

Hillary — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0000

The first of many contests over the next few months, winning a copy of the brand new The My Little Pony G2 Collector’s Inventory price guide has never been easier.

Simply enter to win a copy on Goodreads before October 1st and one lucky winner will get a free copy. This contest is eligible to anyone in the USA, Canada, UK or Australia so don’t delay, enter now.

There is no purchase or other fancy requirement to join, simply click below to enter:

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The My Little Pony G2 Collector’s Inventory

by Summer Hayes

Giveaway ends October 01, 2010.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

The ultimate My Little Pony G2 Price Guide from Summer Hayes is on sale now!

Hillary — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Right now, at the 2010 My Little Pony Convention (MLP Fair) in Louisville, KY, Summer Hayes is unveiling her newest My Little Pony Price Guide all about the second generation. But for the MLP fans back at home, there’s no need to be sad! We can order the book starting today as well!

Would you prefer to order a copy from eBay?

Or Amazon?

We’ll be having some contests, trivia and other fun stuff in the near future related to the book release so stay tuned!

The My Little Pony G2 Collector’s Inventory
an unofficial full color illustrated guide to the second generation of MLP including all ponies, playsets and accessories from 1997 to 2003
by Summer Hayes

Product Details

* Paperback: 104 pages
* Interior ink: Full color
* Publisher: Priced Nostalgia Press
* Publication Date: July 17, 2010
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0978606329
* ISBN-13: 9780978606329

Product Description:

The My Little Pony toys released between 1997 and 2003 have long been shrouded in mystery. This second generation (G2) was unusual and, between a completely different style and a limited run, collectors didn’t know what they should be looking for, let alone what they were missing. Information about these collectible toys, released through Hasbro’s Kenner Toys arm, was scattered, confused and incomplete. . . until now! With the release of The My Little Pony G2 Collector’s Inventory, Summer Hayes has compiled the first illustrated guide of its kind with large, full-color photos detailing all the ponies, playsets and accessories to give many collectors and fans their first look into the lost generation of MLP. With checklists so collectors can keep track of their want lists as well as a price guide for both loose and mint in box sets to help with buying and selling G2 items, Hayes has collected all of the knowledge about this 6 year span together for the very first time. This new release is the perfect companion piece to the G1 and G3 guides from The My Little Pony Collector’s Inventory series.

My Little Pony as high literature?

Hillary — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:07:12 +0000

If you aren’t a member of Goodreads, you may have missed this hilarious review of Summer Hayes’ The My Little Pony 2007-2008 Collector’s Inventory. Created by Montambo and her friend David, this parody review should give any MLP fan a chuckle.

Montambo is one of the winners of our recent giveaway of the book on Goodreads so she’s set the bar pretty high for future reviewers!

You can enjoy the original review here but in case it gets deleted, I’m reprinting it below for your benefit.

Summer Hayes is a literary genius.

I was planning on reading this, but first I wanted to buy a copy of The Cambridge Companion to The My Little Pony 2007-2008 Collector’s Inventory, so that I understood the manifold literary-historical allusions and the stream-of-consciousness narration.

Jürgen Habermas wrote an interesting essay on Summer Hayes’ oeuvre a few years back in which he posited My Little Pony as a forcible diminution and reappropriation of the male’s psychosexual privilege in Western culture. He further describes an orange, purple-maned, doe-eyed pony as a ‘folding-over-upon-itself’ of the traditional hegemonic phallocentric aggression we find sublimated in our modes of commerce and social exchange. He also says he likes to comb their hair and kiss them before night-night.

I’d be remiss, however, if I didn’t note that my favorite work in the Summer Hayes canon is The My Little Pony G1 Collector’s Inventory: An Unofficial Full Color Illustrated Collector’s Price Guide to the First Generation of MLP Including All US Ponies, Playsets and Accessories Released Before 1997, in which she collaborates with the highly underrated Kimberly Shriner, who succeeds in tempering some of Hayes’ most gratuitously high-modern tendencies. Also, this is the first Hayes/Shriner work to address the problematic relationship between accessories/playsets and the notion of subjective pony-selfness which has so confounded post-structuralist thought (see Foucault, for instance); what’s most interesting is that Hayes and Shriner define the All-That-Which-Is-Other-Than-My-Little-Pony as ‘accessory’ and not integral to a symbiotic exchange between subjective ideation and so-called ‘objective’ context. Many little post-equine philosophers have rightly challenged this compartmentalized view, but the Pony/Accessories paradigm offers a rather nice model for isolating a subjective notion of subjectivity itself, as demarcated, for instance, from the My Little Pony Rainbow Corral playset.

Let us not for a minute neglect that fateful modification ‘my little’ in which, firstly, ownership and, then, diminishment are asserted — which purposefully counterpoises egotism (the appropriation of Other) with an implied lacking or insufficiency (little being less than that which is regarded as the normative manifestation of a fixed
– or central — ideation); My Little Pony is therefore defined by its belongingness to or of me (or as an accessory to a grounded a priori self, which is both apart from and the cipher which enters into the strategy of poniness on my behalf) and by its devaluation according to an acknowledged standard inherited by the self from the obscure collaboration of accessory identity (or ‘Otherness’). Thus, the tension which is essential to the MLP claim to existence (or, non-ontologically, to ‘mere’ expression) always already threatens to overcome and undermine the very motivations of that claim, thereby alluding to the futility of possession and the frustrated drive aspiring to transcendent satiation.

Massive bonus points if you can comment in the same style and refute/support the arguments presented!