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There are some things I do need to keep confidential but here's what I can tell you!Woah! Just learned about this product and it sounds really exciting!
I'd be interested to hear about the logistics, like how many people are on the team/which company although I'd understand if you wouldn't want to share just yet. I'd be curious to hear how/how not similar it was to the process HQG1C uses.
Also you mentioned Pony Friends, did g2 have any pony friends or are you considering making your own / making g2 versions of Cha Cha or others?
The team is currently:
Myself: Project manager overseeing the production and website and lots of other things, essentially it's my little business
Darklys: Project investor who made it all possible by getting the production funded and actually happening! I also go to them to double check ideas and get a second opinion / pair of eyes on things! I won't tag them again because they've been tagged enough on this thread haha their poor notifications but they're a really lovely member of MLPTP
and......that's pretty much it! Special shout outs go to Uftaki for helping to name the project, Glistening Rainlight if they end up helping with the website, and the couple of people who have already come forward to be international distributors! Also my partner for being very cool with the fact that one day soon 1000 ponies are arriving at our house.
In terms of process, what I can tell you is that Daniel aka Clipper from HQG1C was extremely kind and open to offering advice when we were planning all of this out and did give me a little peek behind the curtain there was no gatekeeping which was really lovely. I can say that from what I know our G2 reproductions and HQG1C will share a lot of similarities - both being hollow and moulded from PVC with similar production processes. Ours are being rotocast but I can't speak for HQG1C. Rotocasting works by having steel moulds in which the correct amount of molten PVC is poured to create the right thickness of vinyl. The moulds are then spun around by a machine VERY fast so that the PVC evenly coats the moulds surfaces as it cools, leading to a hollow pony coming out when it is opened. The moulds are HUGE and extremely heavy, like, unbelivably heavy, and are the most expensive part of production - but once the mould exists it can make many many ponies!
G2 didn't have any pony friends but I do dream of expanding on this eventually! G2 seaponies and pegasi are definitely something I'd like to do and some other non-horse animals eventually would be so fun. Like everyone, I'm a big Cha Cha fan. I feel like with some scuplting a base G2 Redo pony could be llama-ified! New styles will be the biggest challenge every time as like I said, the mould making is the big expense! Once the first moulds are made in the Sky Skimmer pose, that mould exists forever and can be used to make pony blanks, coloured blanks, all new pony characters, but when we want to add a new pose / style / body it's essentially the whole process and cost from scratch again - so the future depends a lot on sales and supports of the first batch!