We Love Fine has Hasbro's blessing to put MLP fanart on T-shirts and sell them, but that doesnt make whats printed on the shirts as canon. Its still Fanart.

I do not know who Sea Swirl is. I do know that Doctor Hooves is a time lord.

The most adorable Dalek

Paper ponies

Bottom of the Unicorns.

It should be possible to take those pony models and just print them out with a 3d printer then paint them. Anyone have experience with 3d printing?

Thats what Shapeways does, it does the 3d printing for you.

I wish I had a 3D printer, they are still a bit too expensive for me to invest in one right now though.

I ordered a Discord figure from them to see what kind of quality they have to em. If they're nice maybe I'll order a few, paint em, and stick em on Ebay

edited 20th Aug '12 7:45:18 PM by Turtlebutter

I've heard the Reprap project is trying to develop cheap 3d printers, but unfortuantely I don't know anything about them.

@ATC: Still don't know her.

3D printing is probably the only way we'll get perfectly show-accurate figures, although I can't paint that well at all.

What would be really cool is if the printer could be configured to print different colors directly.

finished reading Off the Edge of the Map. While the character development was fantastic, the world building left something to be desired. Tia coming in at the end to tie up a few loose ends was woefully insufficient. You can't just throw out the remains of an extensive, lost civilization like that and wrap it up at the end with Tia just going "Oh yeah, they were precursors."! and Cantrot! Even Tia didn't have an explanation for that!

It was also rushed at some points, particularly during the encounter with the island spirit. Instead of Fluttershy just monologing it into submission in the space of 2 paragraphs, there really should have been some proper back and forth.

overall, while it was a certainly good story, I dunno if its worth the 6 stars it has on ED.

edited 20th Aug '12 8:00:10 PM by Blissey1

Shapeways can print in something called "Sandstone" that gives different colors, however they are grainy colors.

Vinyl Scratch

Octavia

Intuos Pony

It isn't canon, but it isn't just fanart either; it's basically at the bottom of the ladder of officiality, liable to be contradicted by canon and/or other more-official materials at any moment.

Speaking of WLF, they're now using both "Dr. Hooves" and "Time Turner" which I guess means that the two names coexist rather than being an Adaptation Name Change.

edited 20th Aug '12 8:11:31 PM by Whatshisgame

I'm not sure CEQ deserves it's 5 star rating, but then again I don't know what the general standards of the fanfiction ratings are.

@Story The star ratings are more or less worthless, and have actually been done away with recently.

What standards? It's just a popularity contest, nothing more.

Speaking of merchandise, I saw a wristband with a picture of Rainbow Dash and the word "Brony" on it.

I didn't buy it, but I chuckled XD

Also the stars start coming in when a story is first posted, so if the ending of a multi-part story sucks its too late.

When did they get rid of them?

About a month or two ago.

Yeah, the stars suffered from 2 problems: 1. It's purely based on popularity rather than quality, so good stories would get downvoted based solely on premise regardless of writing ability and vice versa, and 2. as noted pretty much any multipart story gets its rating locked in within the first few chapters, so it could initially be a six star even if it sucks after the first three or four chapters.

edited 20th Aug '12 8:40:23 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Why not rate per chapter?

Each story only has one blog post, which had only one voting mechanism. It would have been really complicated. And it wouldn't solve the problem of people just upvoting or downvoting things based solely on whims. You could write a really great story about say, shipping, and still get a bunch of one star ratings from people who just dislike shipping stories and never even read it. And on the flip side a lot of 6-star stories were less "this story is amazing" and more the premise was non-controversial and the writing was decent enough that nobody bothered to downvote it. Pretty much nobody gave out 2, 3, or 4 star ratings.

Yeah, there were several occasions where a story post would actually be prefaced with a disclaimer to ignore the star rating because the story was about M/M shipping or something.