Il-Ji-Mae Pony
You can tell how obsessed I am with my San Diego Comic Con 2008 Exclusive Pony (I call her “Ninja Pony“) by the number of posts that I have devoted to her so far. She also won my inaugural “Top Favourite Toy of the Year” award in 2008. Do you know that your toys can become obsessed as well? Here’s a little trivia to share with you: -
Just last month, I was addicted to a Korean historical drama series called “Il-Ji-Mae”. It’s better known as “Yi Zhi Mei” in Chinese. It’s basically about the life and adventures of a young Robin Hood-styled chivalous thief who robs from the rich, and then distributes the loot to the poor and oppressed peasants.
He’s nicknamed by the peasants as “Il-Ji-Mae”, which literally translates to “a stalk of plum blossom”, because he always leaves a small painting of a stalk of plum blossom behind at each crime scene to taunt his rich victims.
Now my Ninja Pony also became obsessed with the show and she starts to believe she’s “Il-Ji-Mae” too. For weeks she had been pestering me to get her a stalk of plum blossom as her copycat trademark tool. Now that Chinese New Year is just around the corner, there are many stalls selling big branches filled with lots of plastic plum blossoms here, but I didn’t want to buy a big branch just to get a small stalk for her.
Hence I decided to be really cheap and scoured the grounds near the flower stalls to look for discarded small stalks. I was lucky to find one very small stalk with just one plum blossom attached to it. It looks good next to my Il-Ji-Mae pony and now she’s so happy with her little plum blossom prop that I have peace in my ears at last!
If you’re keen to purchase an “Il-Ji-Mae” pony, I have a MIB one (minus the plum blossom stalk) for sale at my online toy store. Go see how she looks like mint-in-package and with her original box!
Il-Ji-Mae DVDs (20 episodes in Korean & Chinese dialogue with English and Chinese subtitles), are now selling at our local TS VCD stores for only SGD 19.00 each. You can just go buy the DVD instead of watching it online!
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So that makes it a custom toy now?
Yeah in a way it is, by just adding a prop!
Oh, there is something ninja-like about that MLP.
Hee, that’s one reason I like her