 PEPPERMINT CRUNCH My Little Pony Sundae Best Ponies |
| Costume Stats: |
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Costume Completed: 2009 Debut: Dragon*Con 2009 |
| Convention History: |
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Dragon*Con 2009 PortCon Maine 2011 Dragon*Con 2011 Katsucon 2014 Dragon*Con 2015 |
| Photo Castmates: |
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Banana Surprise: Majodere Coco Berry: Kurthy Swirly Whirly: Chinako Sherbet: Ellystar Crunch Berry: Scarlet |
| Photo Credits: |
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Sketch Lionel Lum Eurobeat King |
Construction Notes:
I wasn't into My Little Pony as a kid but someone gave me Peppermint Crunch from the Sundae Best series as a birthday gift. I loved her color scheme and she smelled fantastic - more like vanilla cake than peppermint. When I first decided to go to Dragon*Con in 2009 I was asked to join the My Little Pony costume group there; I thought the designs were cute and decided I had to make Peppermint Crunch. I chose to make her out of mint fleece to give the costume a horsehair-type look, and paired a corset top with a circle skirt bottom. I gave her bell sleeves and leg warmers edged in thick ribbon to suggest hooves and acknowledge the "pony" aspect a little more. Since her cutie mark was raised as opposed to painted on, I made it from craft foam to give it a more three-dimensional appearance. I made her wings from matching foam, deciding to make them pink and white so they'd stand out more against the green. Finally, back then most of the tails were made from feather boas or not included at all; I was adamant my tail would be made of hair and match my wig, so I safety pinned a matching wig to my corset to make the tail, which I was pretty proud of at the time and is now a common way of making pony tails. I no longer owned Peppermint Crunch when I made this so I was going from memory and just assumed she had a horn; she doesn't, but I like how it looks so I stuck with it. The ears and horn were originally handmade but years later I upgraded to the Yaya Han versions. I loved how this came out so much that I later recruited friends to pull together a full Sundae Best group, designing three of the other costumes and making two of them.
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