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Nice work, detective! This is really interesting!Oh! I thought I recognised this one. I think this could be a prototype, I tried to find where I could have seen her before and I found this thread from 2012
It’s so odd that she has Celestia’s sun though
There have been prototypes listed on Taobao before.she's from Taobao
fakie
Eyes make me think of the G3 art ponies - it's possible this pony was some sort of paint test utilising a G3 styling pony they already had in the factory. Additionally her paint looks like it's unfinished - missing top/final layer if that makes sense? The fact the base is seemingly a legit Styling Pinkie makes me lean more into 'factory test' than 'fakie'
while it is true there were seemingly some early versions of G4 that were sold through taobao this is a G3 mold. There were also several G4 "errors" of head-body swaps that to me seem a bit more intentional once the hype became known these things sold to collectors on ebay... so again I would just caution folks that china has a history of knock-off resales given the creation period of this piece is after FiM launched.There have been prototypes listed on Taobao before.