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Hey, guys, can one of you tell me what color the eyes on the Red Fire dragons are? My monitor’s a little wonky, and I can’t figure out if they’re bright yellow or a subdued orange.

And what color are their gems? The pictures are so small I can’t tell, and there’s no description.

Thanks, folks! 🙂

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Melody, I know this is kind of a store question, but I wanted to make is a squeek, too:

Will there be more White Spectrals in the store? Hopefully before Christmas? (I have just explained to my parents what I reallyreallywant for the holiday…) 🙂

Pleeeeeease?? I haven’t had a chance at them (they were out of stock by the time I knew they were in the store), and aside from one of the Royal Hatchers, they’re the only ones my White collection is still missing! 🙂 So, more White Spectrals please?

I’m dreaming of a White (not white!) Christmas this year!

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vanquish wrote:

, that some sellers will advertize whether or not a particular peice still has it’s original box and tag.

I’ll weigh in on the other side, here, I guess — I don’t keep (usually) the original boxes for my Windstones, aside from the PYOs I purchased to paint as gifts for friends.

I guess because I never, ever plan to sell my Windstones, and the main reason, as I see it, for keeping original boxes is because the custom-fitted cardboard “bracers” are the safest way to get a Windstone through the mail.

I have moved a lot, but I don’t mind boxing them up myself in impromptu packing for that. I trust ME to transport them safely; but that’s a very different thing from the post office. (I used to handle the mail; I KNOW what it’s subjected it to!)

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I find that keeping box’s is a little bit quirky even for collectors, or is it just me.

This is actually something I thought was fairly standard with collectors — I also collect model horses, and keeping them in their original boxes generally adds a bit to their value. MIB (Mint In Box) can fetch a little more, usually, than a loose Mint horse. Maybe because, if it’s in the box, there’s less chance of it being accidentally damaged before shipping, or having damage that was overlooked when it was described as mint?

Kind of like the way some WE sellers note how the piece was kept/displayed — “displayed in curio cabinet” or “kept in the box except for photos” or “smoke free home” or “original owner” and so on.

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vanquish wrote:

I started to have a hard time in even seeing them any more in stores and was shocked to find out that I had missed the boat as they had been retired.

I know exactly how that feels! I had most of the White dragons I needed when they were retired, but only one Oriental in Peacock, and by the time I got around to looking for the rest they had been retired for a year or so!

At least the Peacock ran for a longer time, and was retired more recently than other colors — there should be a lot more of them out there, and the prices ought to be more affordable than, say, Emerald or White.

If I run across any, I’ll let you know! Me, now, I’m still looking for White spectrals and a White hatching emperor…

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YAY!! 🙂 I can hardly wait to see pictures of the Rainbow Lap… ::Drools::

Susie wrote:

Yes, we will have pictures of them eventually.

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I’m not sure that it’s really the “jade” of peacock — that seems to be the “Dark Peacock”/”Light Peacock” of the Orientals. 🙂

Honestly, though, peacock has a LOT of variations, I guess because it ran so long. I have seen “heavy grape” peacocks, “heavy champagne” peacocks, “blue chest” peaocoks, and really really old peacocks that are much darker all over (more antiquing? different paint?), and, honestly, if you compare the “peacock” color of the original family (like your Youngs, there) with one of the newer sculpts in “peacock”, they don’t even look like the same color!

Actually, I think it would be really neat to start a “Peacock Photo Thread” asking members to post their Peacocks IF they look different than the ones already posted… I might just do that!

Zelda wrote:

The one on the right, the brighter one, is an older less glossy dragon. The darker one on the left does have very dark midnight blue paint on his ventral side, but none of the lighter blue paint.

So have I found the ‘jade’ of the Peacock color? 😆 or have the colors of the blue paints changed that much over time? I was surprised I hadn’t noticed the difference before, but that’s what I get for keeping them across the room from one another.

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She’s beautiful, and I love the customized felt pad! 🙂

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Are the picture-less items going to eventually have photos posted, once you’ve got all your stock unpacked again? Or are we stuck with “Image Not Available” forever? Buying stuff sight-unseen makes me a little twitchy; and it definitely counts as a disadvantage on things I’m undecided about (a picture really is worth a thousand words — one hundred iterations of “should I buy this one or should I skip it?”)!

I know you guys have a million things to do, but maybe at some point somebody could aim a camera at the store stock… with the lens cap off, this time? 🙂

(Hey, send ’em to me, and I promise I’ll take pictures!)

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Sounds like what you want are “faux rhinestones” (also seen them called “acrylic gems”) — any craft store ought to have them, though finding the smaller sizes is a little more difficult.

Most craft stores also carry real crystal ones, which tend to look nicer (smooth edges, more sparkle, never scratched up) made by Swarovski, the same company that Windstone uses, and these come in sizes as small as 5 mm wide, though the cabochon shape (smooth round ones) seems harder to find than the faceted kind.

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I always end up liking weird minerals no one has heard of.

I do love opals, especially the ones with highly-changing, blue-green fire. I love blue and green sapphires, and star sapphires as well. Hematite is also way up on my list.

Topaz is another favorite (the golden kind, not the blue; “topaz” to me is always yellowy). It’s hard to find in silver settings, but I love it that way! (I just Don’t Do gold, never have.) Pretty much everything else on my “favorites” list is in the green to purple side of the spectrum; I’ve never cared for red or orange, and I’m picky about my yellows.

Of those eccentric never-heard-of minerals, well, go skim Ebay for some good examples of these:

Tourmaline, kyanite, and apatite, in the blue-green shades; Tanzanite and iolite in the blue-violet range; aquamarine, too. And there’s a gorgeous light blue chalcedony up on Ebay right now… 🙂

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Hee! It looks like he’s asking his pet where the ball went! “Did you eat it again, Fido? Or bury it in the backyard? It *must* be around here someplace…)

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All right, lots of pictures!

The Muse arrived safely in Southern Illinois, and gained many things.

First, of course, she gained some paint — and three Swarovski crystals, because all Muses need a little sparkle.

Then she gained some travel experience! She traveled eco-friendly:

She came to school with me:

She found Statistics much more interesting than I did — too bad she can’t stay and take my final exam for me! Then, since Carbondale, IL is pretty low on entertainments, she accompanied me on my favorite 10-mile bike ride through the heart of the area, to see the region and its activities.

What southern Illinois mostly does is grow things! She saw soybeans, newly planted:

She saw corn…

and tried an “all-natural hairstyle”:

She saw the wheat-fields that had already been harvested:

and did a little gleaning for a free sample:

Then we went home, where she posed for one last close-up:

After that she packed her bags with some new souvenirs and stickers, and headed off to visit Romeodanny:

(Yes, even the airport here grows corn! The Muse was a little worried that they’d mistake her for a vegetable, and refuse to grant her security access.)

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Photos to follow — my day has mysteriously vanished, and tomorrow I’m working, but on Tuesday I should have time to upload pictures of the Muse-In-Progress and our little “bicycle tour” of the area!

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Well, in that case, let me add my two-cents as well! 🙂

I absolutely *love* the color, I just wish the eyes were more contrasting — straw or light yellow, say, or even red, maybe.

More monochrome-y dragons, please!

Melody wrote:

This Lavender blue dragon is nice but he has the monotone problem = a little too much of one color I think, but he is a test paint after all, so whether you like him or not is what I am testing

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[Nightcrow]

…I actually can’t remember seeing any Laps with the dichroic eyes!

I voted “love them in all” because I love the *idea*, I really do — but that doesn’t mean there weren’t times I winced. For example: I really, REALLY love the colors of the “Twilight” dragons… except the reddish/orangey tones of the dichroic eyes in all the pictures. Something about the shades involved just seriously put me off them; at this point even if I had the money I don’t think I’d buy a Twilight unless it was released with different eyes.

Phoenix wrote:

I was just curious how many people liked the Dichroic eyes in the Lap Dragons, so thought I’d start a poll…

This is my first poll, so if I should change a category or add one, let me know!

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