G1 TE Gingerbread

[Mirakat]

Hi everyone.

I thought I had a nice, not mint Gingerbread and noticed after taking mine out of storage from a move it has cancer spots all over. Every Gingerbread I have ever had is gross.
Does anyone have any nice ones? I guess I am in the market for another one for my collection.

Hey, I might even start a poll for this.

 

[CJ Thimble Bright]

I didn't vote because I don't really see a category I'd put mine in. But I'm biased. I'm sure someone else would look at my Gingerbread and say she's a bait. She is a childhood pony. She was one of my absolute favorites. She was the first TE I ever got and was a gift from a family friend. Her hair has been braided, hairsprayed, curled, double braided, triple-braid-braided. She's been in the ocean, rivers, ponds, snow, grass, dirt, maple trees, in the barn... She's very clean, but as I look at her with a collector's eye, she is full of age spots/regrind. She's hard and her hair is a bit dried out. I would never replace her, ever. She's in my collection for better, or worse.

With that being said, I've had a few Gingerbreads come through my hands in lots that I've acquired over the years. They always have some kind of flaw. Usually age spots in that white body. Don't know what type of plastic they used for her (and Quackers too), but it does not age well.

 

[DerbyGirl]

I got one for my mom from someone on here-and she was in really good shape, save for slight cutie mark wear and the hair a touch dry. Not that my mom could've cared, lol.

 

[Gingerbread]

My favorite of ponies does seem to be a hard one to find in minty condition. Mine is from my original childhood collection and though she was very well loved I'd consider her to be in good condition. She has turned a sort of off white but fortunately in a "even all over" way. I've considered buying her MIP a few times but I'm not big on duplicates and I could never bring myself to replace mine.

 

[pineapple]

In my experience a soak in a weak bleach solution seems to stop the spreading. I try to do this with all recently acquired G1s, so far the only visible cancer victim is Bonnie Bonnets, with a big cancer stain right on the alignment marks for her neck (and a couple inside the neck flange which I experimented on). A shame cuz she's in really nice condition otherwise, although I can hide it with a ribbon around her neck.

 

[PonyLove1984]

When I had mine, I didn't know too much about her at first. Instead of white, she was an off white. I thought gingerbread, so duh, she would be a creamy color. She was still very pretty though.

 

[Mirakat]

So by the looks of it, I have bad luck with Gingerbread. I also have bad luck with Majesty and still don't have a good one which would seem common. I should do a poll for her too.

 

[stacescotty]

With that being said, I've had a few Gingerbreads come through my hands in lots that I've acquired over the years. They always have some kind of flaw. Usually age spots in that white body. Don't know what type of plastic they used for her (and Quackers too), but it does not age well.

I've had the same thing sort of with the Gingerbreads and Quackers that passed through my hands. My Gingerbread and Quackers both look just fine but they're both hard as rocks (well not quite that hard). I think that has something to do with the plasticizer warping? I don't know. They display fine but they're so stiff.

 

[stacescotty]

So by the looks of it, I have bad luck with Gingerbread. I also have bad luck with Majesty and still don't have a good one which would seem common. I should do a poll for her too.

I've had 3 Majesty ponies and they've all had different heads from their bodies and thin hair that looks choppy at the ends. Also the receding hairline isn't great but it's not a flaw. If someone were rehairing her it'd be easy to give her some new plugs up front

 

[ilikebothg1andg4ponies]

I don't have a gingerbread. BUT most of the ones I see on ebay are in fair condition.

 

[PrincessLyra]

I had Gingerbread in my wishlist at one point, but then I started noticing how HARD it was to see one without cancer, and gave up. The same thing happened with Sweet Stuff, and the only reason my first G1 was Galaxy was because I was pretty pony-illiterate at the time and didn't know how prone to issues she was (mine has both cancer and regrind).

Come to think of it, out of the original TEs, only Fizzy seems to be generally devoid of inherent problems (that I know of). Whizzer is regrind bait, Masquerade gets cancer easily as well... Poor TEs.