Holly Blue будет дома!!

Re: UK PonyCon's 2012 special pony «Holly Blue», Announced and FOR SALE!
« Reply #44 on: September 05, 2012, 12:50:24 AM »
Thank you all so much for your lovely comments about Holly Blue! We are SO excited to be able to offer her to you this year and we are so pleased that you like her :D I can't tell you how long we spent agonising over her!

In regards to questions about her legitimacy:

This year has been especially hard for UK PonyCon as this year we have had absolutely no support from Hasbro. In past years we have had a certain amount of contact from them however this year we have felt pretty isolated. We have tried contacting our contact many, many times and each time either our question gets ignored or we get slightly fobbed off with a bit of a «skirting the problem» answer. So, this being the case and after having no contact from Hasbro for about 6 weeks (despite our continued efforts at communicating with them) we took it upon ourselves to sort out a pony for our attendees… even if she isn't an «official» release ;)

We did even look into engraving and «Friscoing» a pony, and I went round to what felt like every engraver in London with a pony waving it in their face, trying my best to get them to try engraving and sadly… no luck. Many tried, and many failed. Even more raised their eyebrows at us, but we weren't going to give up. After weeks of debating what to do for our attendees this year as Hasbro weren't communicating to us and weren't budging on their 10,000 pieces minimum order for :muffin: Pony… Holly Blue was born. Immediately, when Haze/Archer (I can't remember who it was) came up with the idea, the WHOLE committee was sold. I don't think I have ever seen us all agree on something so quickly and so unanimously! :D We instantly loved her and Haze's gorgeous name (Fun fact: «Holly Blue» is a kind of butterfly ) and knew that she was the convention pony for our attendees. It was pretty much a win win situation as not only could we get all of these without having to go through the agro of ordering through Hasbro (not their fault, it's the customs that always get us) but we could also offer a more personal pony to our attendees at a fraction of the cost! That's why she is our cheapest Convention pony to date :D

So there you have it! Holly Blue's story. :D In short, no she is not an official release… but we love her more because of that reason. She represents the dedication that all the staff and volunteers put into PonyCon to make it a success year after year, even in the face of adversity.

We love her loads and we hope you do too!

Love mlplaura for UK PonyCon! xxx

P.s Archer and myself shall be packaging her up all this weekend, we'll post a picture of the finished article as soon as she is sorted :D

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