Here they are when they first arrived. Tropical Breeze is laying on her tail in this picture. I'll give you close-up pictures of these guys' (guys's?) flaws.
I was happy to see Sundance actually doesn't have tail rust like I'd predicted! She has a blue mark that's sorta shaped like a heart (you can't tell in this shitty pic) but at least it's on her NDS. She also has some scattered age spots and some rubs on her eyes. She's got some small dots on her legs on her DS but you'd have to get close to see them. Her hair is the driest out of all the ponies I've ever gotten, but she's way cuter than I'd expected so that makes up for it. She also had some surface dirt on her underside for some reason and I tried to scrub at that.
There's nothing that wrong with Tropical Breeze--especially not her hair! I don't know if you can tell in this pic or not but her hair is actually very curly--I'm wondering if it's a factory curl? Either way I'm keeping it like that because I love it. Her DS symbol has been rubbed and in the spot where it's rubbed there's an age spot. She also has two other age spots but her hair covers one of them up. She also has some very faint blue marks on her DS front leg but I don't really notice them that much. A lot of these ponies have flaws I don't notice that much that I forgot to mention about in my Tumblr post about them haha. :P And, typical of Flutters, she's lacking her wings. However, unlike my other Flutters she actually doesn't have any shards from the wings still stuck in the holders.
Now we move onto Curly Locks, the poorest condition pony in this lot. I don't know if you can tell in this pic but she has a brown stain on her lip and also some faint remnants of what looks to be red and blue "eyeshadow" that some kid must've given her a long time ago. She only has the "eyeshadow" on this eye though, which is strange. Maybe the kid found out they didn't like it so only did it on one eye.
She has lots of marks on her NDS that I wasn't able to remove. She has lots of age spots scattered on her NDS, back, and on one of her DS legs but her hair covers that up. Her bent front leg also bends in a little bit but it doesn't affect the way she stands so it doesn't really bother me that much. Of course, her tail mechanism doesn't work anymore and her tail is a lot shorter than it should be. Oh well, at least she has a tail at all! Her hair was also very disgusting but I was able to fix that thankfully.
Here they are after I washed them. Tropical Breeze didn't need anything and Sundance needed a little surface cleaning and a hair brushing. I tried to get some of the marks of Curly Locks but of course I couldn't, but I was at least able to clean her hair so it looks nicer. Here's a picture I just took of them today all nice and dry:
On your right you will see Barbie's legs being sniffed by a white monster toy.
I'm really happy with how Curly Locks' hair turned out. It's very nice and soft and it's a lot thicker than the average pony's hair. I've had a lot of fun playing with it and styling it. Playing with pony hair is my favorite thing to with the MLP so of course this ranks Curly Locks as one of my new favorites.
So even though these guys were sold as a bait lot I'm still happy with them. I'm not a picky collector and I basically got them for around $4 each which isn't that bad at all.
Well, that concludes this long-ish post. Bye for now!
