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Hi everybody!
I was very fortunate to have added this into my collection this week, and I wanted to share it with all of you!
This is an original factory mold used for the very first of the My Little Ponies ever made. The head is made of copper, which you can see in a few places as well as the green bettina it has obtained over the past 30+ years.
The way these were used, is that molten plastic was injected into the mold, and the mold was spun to create a layer of plastic around the inside of the mold. They were then pulled from the molds before completely solidified, and that's how pony parts were made.
This is what the body portion looks like (as shown by Hasbro sculptor Kirk Hindman at the 2008 My Little Pony Fair in Providence, Rhode Island) :
There was also recently a unicorn version of the same kind of mold up for sale:
I was very fortunate to have added this into my collection this week, and I wanted to share it with all of you!
This is an original factory mold used for the very first of the My Little Ponies ever made. The head is made of copper, which you can see in a few places as well as the green bettina it has obtained over the past 30+ years.
The way these were used, is that molten plastic was injected into the mold, and the mold was spun to create a layer of plastic around the inside of the mold. They were then pulled from the molds before completely solidified, and that's how pony parts were made.
This is what the body portion looks like (as shown by Hasbro sculptor Kirk Hindman at the 2008 My Little Pony Fair in Providence, Rhode Island) :
Kirk showed us the copper/bronze mold of a Collector's Pose pony. Shared with us a few facts and properties of plastics. He was saying that if you soak a pony in a bucket of acetone, it can grow a few times bigger than the original size. He described pony plastics as plastics with "no memory". You can soak it in boiling water, take it out remold it and it adheres to your manipulation when it cools. Another tidbit was that, the plastics are extremely porous, so if you get a marker smear on it and try to rub it with a solvent like acetone, the colour goes deeper into the plastic and stays permernant there. To get rid of marks, it is better to "scrap" it off.
Another trivia from Kirk was that about 80-90% of the original pony molds have been MELTED AND RECYCLED to make molds for other stuff. Most of what was left from the 80s were actually saved by packrat employees like him. ^^
There was also recently a unicorn version of the same kind of mold up for sale:
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