Comments on: Myth Busted: Taobao Derpy Hooves Not Official

By: Sakura

Sakura — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:35:06 +0000

Does anypony have a link to where I can buy it. I really want it.

By: DerpySquad

DerpySquad — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:40:54 +0000

Well the factory worker theory is what I call “half assed” as I didn’t put any thought behind it. Double agree with Hasbro and their information, I’d put money down they’d say the same about the other ponies that were for sale.

As for the Celestia figure, they said that, but also people bitched up a storm, and not just G4 fans. Somewhere in the summer there was a meeting and a Q&A that we posted here, where someone asked about the pink Celestia and the fact she paid $100 bucks for someone to paint her figure white.

In the end, we’ll probably never know about the Derpy toy, I’m kind of hoping it was a promotional set for a convention somewhere, or something.

By: Clover Patch

Clover Patch — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:19:53 +0000

A factory worker who managed to whip up a batch of plastic in a color they don’t use normally, cast a bunch of pegs and run them through the hair machine, print on custom eyes and mark then smuggle them out. That’s a whole lot of looking the other way. And if it came from another factory who knocked off the mold, why have they only made 24? Wouldn’t they at least make a bunch of other knock-off ponies with the molds?

Hasbro doesn’t have a very good track record for information. One person who asked was told that the G4 Mintys had already come out the previous Christmas and we know that totally isn’t true. They also said Celestia would never be white.

By: Hoppip

Hoppip — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:29:04 +0000

yeah, must’ve been made by a factory worker then, apparently them making their own variations and then selling them on taobao isn’t uncommon