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Further to yesterday's posting, some more details:
The "charity lot" (more on the inverted commas below) are a mixture of G1, 2, 3 and a variety of fakies as well, plus as many of their surviving accessories as I can find (and a few Barbie ones thrown in for good measure). There's also a G1 Dream Castle, a G2 Ponyland Palace and Wedding Chapel, and a G3 grocery store and Cotton Candy Cafe. And a Keyper - with its Finder. And two Sky Dancers with launching devices. And an art set, but that's not important right now!
The bait - for custom or restoration, whatever you see fit - are all G1 bar one G3 (an attack of felt tip measles - probably only needs a decent bath and she'd be fine, but I never got into the restoration end of the MLP business) and one fakie (which I suspect was turned out of a Hasbro mold; it looks very similar to the G1 babies).
Photographs can be provided, although I haven't taken any as yet.
Current plan with the "charity lot" is:
1. Match the playsets to their surviving accessories (plus any extras that fit)
2. Match ponies to their surviving accessories (or any accessories that I think suitable - for instance, I've put all the baby ponies with the baby accessories, although the babies are a mix of generations and the accessories are all G1)
3. Match a set of ponies to the playsets. The smallest playset grouping at the moment's three.
4. Divide the rest into sets of two, three or four, depending on numbers.
5. Provide notes on each group for potential new owners. Yes, I know I'm thinking about this too much, shut up :P Names, personalities, relationships, what the stuff is that they come with. Any kids'll probably ignore it but I'll feel like I've given them a primer.
6. Box up in their groupings.
7. Send... somewhere.
There has been debate on point 7. Charity shop? Playgroup? Creche? There are too many tiny parts to entrust them with small children, but I'd like to know that they're going to be played with and enjoyed.
There has also been debate about them going to charity at all. I have zero experience in selling online. This is due to (a) laziness, (b) being out of touch with the MLP community large and (c) lack of PayPal - the latter due to being scared off by horror stories about payments lost or taken out by mistake etc. In the past I've done on-line business mostly by trading A for B, but since I don't want any Bs right now... *shrugs*
(And yes, yes, I know I'm making pathetic, whiny excuses :P I'm like electricity - path of least resistance.)
Besides, I'm not interested in making a profit. The ones I've picked out as potential bait are just shaved/marked in such a way that I'd feel guilty about dumping them on charity.
The "charity lot" (more on the inverted commas below) are a mixture of G1, 2, 3 and a variety of fakies as well, plus as many of their surviving accessories as I can find (and a few Barbie ones thrown in for good measure). There's also a G1 Dream Castle, a G2 Ponyland Palace and Wedding Chapel, and a G3 grocery store and Cotton Candy Cafe. And a Keyper - with its Finder. And two Sky Dancers with launching devices. And an art set, but that's not important right now!
The bait - for custom or restoration, whatever you see fit - are all G1 bar one G3 (an attack of felt tip measles - probably only needs a decent bath and she'd be fine, but I never got into the restoration end of the MLP business) and one fakie (which I suspect was turned out of a Hasbro mold; it looks very similar to the G1 babies).
Photographs can be provided, although I haven't taken any as yet.
Current plan with the "charity lot" is:
1. Match the playsets to their surviving accessories (plus any extras that fit)
2. Match ponies to their surviving accessories (or any accessories that I think suitable - for instance, I've put all the baby ponies with the baby accessories, although the babies are a mix of generations and the accessories are all G1)
3. Match a set of ponies to the playsets. The smallest playset grouping at the moment's three.
4. Divide the rest into sets of two, three or four, depending on numbers.
5. Provide notes on each group for potential new owners. Yes, I know I'm thinking about this too much, shut up :P Names, personalities, relationships, what the stuff is that they come with. Any kids'll probably ignore it but I'll feel like I've given them a primer.
6. Box up in their groupings.
7. Send... somewhere.
There has been debate on point 7. Charity shop? Playgroup? Creche? There are too many tiny parts to entrust them with small children, but I'd like to know that they're going to be played with and enjoyed.
There has also been debate about them going to charity at all. I have zero experience in selling online. This is due to (a) laziness, (b) being out of touch with the MLP community large and (c) lack of PayPal - the latter due to being scared off by horror stories about payments lost or taken out by mistake etc. In the past I've done on-line business mostly by trading A for B, but since I don't want any Bs right now... *shrugs*
(And yes, yes, I know I'm making pathetic, whiny excuses :P I'm like electricity - path of least resistance.)
Besides, I'm not interested in making a profit. The ones I've picked out as potential bait are just shaved/marked in such a way that I'd feel guilty about dumping them on charity.