Friday, June 27, 2014

Derpy's Scrapbook Reviews! #3: Derpy Ornament by Kurt Adler Company

This will be my third edition of:

Derpy's Scrapbook: Reviews! 

All of my items feature Derpy in some way, but occasionally I will do a random pony that I was really interested in. I wanted to review this so people could be better informed of a nearly duplicate product.

My scoring system is based on Muffins, 1 being the lowest, and 5 being the highest. I look at Packaging, Detail, Quality, Fun, and Rarity.


 Read my review below the cut!


Packing: When I obtained this, it was packed in a box to avoid breakage, but that could've been due to the third party seller I got it from. The ornament itself is packed in a plastic bag, airtight. Nothing fancy here.


Detail: The detail is identical to the Hot Topic Christmas Lights. It IS the exact same mold to a tee. So, it's a lovely stand-alone, but still suffers from the bad paint job on the hair. The cutie mark is excellent, but only on one side. The eyes were printed well and accurate.


 Quality: Worth the $12? Well, it did come with Dr. Hooves as well... so let's say $6? Sure. Especially if you wanted to own one of the "lights" without having to buy the set. This will look cute on any Christmas tree by far. If you already own the lights, though, I don't reccomend this product.

Fun: There's a lot of fun with this product. Maybe you just want a Derpy ornament to go with your other MLP goodies. She also makes a good standalone figure, but I don't reccomend her for play with kids... she's hollow and chips/breaks fairly easily. Normal handling is fine. She would be great for any bait/custom work, too.

Rarity: I have never seen this item advertized. I don't think it's been mentioned on Equestria Daily, either. I would say it's fairly rare, especially because I CANNOT confirm that's its officially licensed without consulting Hasbro directly.

The hangtag included does include the "liscensed by Hasbro" mark, it uses the same mold as the HT lights, but... it's just so reused and cheap looking that I can't garuntee it's officialism.

and with that I give it:

Score: 3 out of 5 Muffins

2 comments:

  1. Kurt Adler put out a bunch of Mane Six ornaments around the same quality last Christmas. (Nowhere near as awesome as the ornaments of Twilight and Pinkie you could find at Toys R Us, and even the globe ornaments just had stickers of RD and Fluttershy pasta'd on) A quick search tells me they also did G3 ornaments as well. I don't see any paticular reason why this can't be real.

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  2. Thanks for the info! Glad to know it's legit :)

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