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It’s Toy Time Tuesday! With ShimmerCorns Sparkle Makeover Galaxie!  Not only is TTT on time this time, but it’s got a real digging in review. First to note is that this IS a ‘kiddie toy’ and I only got her because she was 5 dollars. If she looks big, she is, she’s a bit over 9 inches tall. To sum up the whole line and the idea of this: An Interesting Idea That Didn’t Quite Do It You can SEE what they were going for, first in the name “oh a shimmering unicorn” but they broke up the word and YES everywhere will try to sell you literal ears/cobs and cans of corn when searching. It makes “Corn” too much a part of the label. So the name idea but then it didn’t execute quite right. The Eyes There is a ‘crystal’ faceted shape of transparent plastic over the eye paint which was an attempt at being ‘Twinkle Eye Pony Like’, however it distorts the eye’s details when viewed right-on, and looks like odd goo from the face-on direction. It makes the eyes confusing to look at.  The hooves: They’re pointed like a high heel shoe, but they have random faceting all over to make them ‘crystal like’ but making the only very-smooth and elegant part of the horse be lumpy for any reason isn’t...the best? The face: At least the eyes are on the side of the head! It may have the face of a silly fish, but at least they weren’t trying to make it into a dog. (Finally) The name: They tried to name her but then they just spelled Galaxy in a different way that manages to sound exactly the same as if it was spelled normally. Again it’s another ‘not quite’. The gimmick: It’s a kids thing, so you use the greenish stencil to use the markers on the paper wings. However, they’re taped into the box plastic & they are simple thinner cardstock so 1 wing will always have tape on it, or rip. You can then store the stencil behind the wing (last photo) and mount the colored paper over the wing as seen.   Box differences: Notice the horn was originally green (did it glow?) And the eye makeup/stars were pink instead of gold.  Also if you have to display part of the toy behind itself so that people can see the toy better...it might be something to think of. I kind of mind how close this got to being something really cool? Like the dark purple with glitter plastic is fantastic, 2 colors of spray that goes with it really well (ankle & nose) the almost mechanical look of the removable wings, the neck symbol, hair tinsel/amount of hair, and added 3D detail for the tail and neck. It’s all great! A gimmick that doesn’t ruin the toy (infinitely replaceable paper & re-use-stencils that aren’t attached) They’re all really good.  I consider this like a ‘fairy horse’ where it’s a totally different thing that isn’t/shouldn’t expected to look like a horse, but a “horse-creature”. I would not have bought if this was whatever the suggested retail was, like 20 dollars or something (comes with lots of parts, markers, etc) because I don’t like the sculpt that well, but for 5 dollars I wasn’t going to say no. (Always the question: What is so wrong with horses that they want to make toy horses that DONT look like horses? What is the point of this? It happens all. the. time. “I want a horse toy that doesn’t look anything like a horse”--then what are you wanting! ) 

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