Hillary DePiano.com » The She-Ra Collector’s Inventory http://www.hillarydepiano.com official site of fiction, non-fiction author and playwright Hillary DePiano Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:15:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A few random disconnected thoughts http://www.hillarydepiano.com/2010/01/27/a-few-random-disconnected-thoughts/ http://www.hillarydepiano.com/2010/01/27/a-few-random-disconnected-thoughts/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:58:38 +0000 Hillary DePiano http://www.hillarydepiano.com/2010/01/27/a-few-random-disconnected-thoughts/

I have a lot of thoughts I want to blog about but not a huge amount of time so here are some quickies to hold you over. Here they are in gloriously illogical order.

  • Really enjoying the Discworld series. Only on book 3 but I may have read them too fast as I totally dreamed about being a wizard last night. Also, I know people say they are the series that J K Rowling ripped off for Harry Potter but, so far, I don’t see any ripping off. That said, I am only 3 books in. I love them, they are hilarious. Comparing them to Douglas Adams isn’t fair because Terry Pratchett is a WAY better storytelling. I love Adams, he is hilarious, but his stories don’t really, you know, make sense. Pratchett is funny AND tells a good story. The first book took some time to get into but from that point on, they are awesome. I love The Luggage. I want to marry him and have little baby handbags.
  • I am so loving all this new Muppet content. Please do not stop the glorious tide!
  • My husband and I made all our food reservations for our upcoming Disney trip and I am embarrassingly excited about the food. I keep thinking about it at odd hours. 
  • I am so glad that Facebook, Twitter et al didn’t exist when I was a teenage. I was able to make a perfectly good fool of myself in public when public wasn’t, you know, the whole planet Earth. 
  • Husband and I totally downloaded ABBA: Number Ones last night upon learning they will be the band for the alumni ball at our college this year and listened obsessively. Husband is very excited. He wants to grow, and I quote, “a really bad mustache.”
  • I’m trying to make a concerted effort to not say the phrase “I’m stressed.” I apparently say this way too often, according to those close to me. I’m hoping that if I don’t say it, I will, in turn, not actually be stressed. Stay tuned for if this works.
  • Would a weekend in Kentucky be fun? The My Little Pony Convention is there this year, not sure if I want to go. Convince me.
  • Facebook has made me very territorial about my friends and family. Whenever someone comments on something posted by a close friend or family remember and I don’t know who they are I feel all, “And who the hell are you???!!!” It’s like, they are my people, back off random person. If you were all that close with them, I’d have heard of you by now!
  • If they release a color Kindle, I should totally do a Kindle version of The She-Ra Collector’s Inventory. Maybe I should do it now anyway in advance of the inevitable release. Hmmm.

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A reader of The She-Ra Collector’s Inventory emailed me today for some help. Here is her email:

Hi I was wondering if you could give me some info to help me authenticate a Spinnerella doll I have bought from ebay. I want to make sure it is the genuine article as I have paid a lot of money for it. . . It is a loose doll with a reproduction outfit. The paint on it all looks very similar to the one in your book but I have noticed it has two holes in the back of the torso. Is it meant to have these? Or could this be another doll that has been painted to look like Spinnerella. I know that Flutterina has a similar torso mold. Or does the torso just have the holes as it has been made from the same mold as Flutterina and this is where the wings would attach. Is the spinning base meant to attach to the holes? I notice in the picture it looks as if it has some round nodules on the base. Can I send you some pics of the doll so you can have a look?

I told her to send along the pictures and I will post them when I get them. Unfortunately, I can’t be of a huge help here because I don’t actually have a loose Spinnerella (the one pictured in the book was taken by another collector) so I can’t check mine. From the description, it sounds like a repro but that is just a gut feeling and not based on looking at the figure.

Do any She-Ra collectors with a loose Spinnerella figure handy want to help out? Photos of the back of your legit Spinnerella, hints about telling a fake from a real one, whatever info you can share on this topic would be much appreciated.

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