34 dollars!?! man, plush is expensive.

@Background Pony #330F
 
That was surprisingly informative and detailed. Thankyou.

From someone who regularly works with things like this it looks to me like it’s probably juice damage - drips from a drink or some kind of ice-pop type deal. Pretty common in toy stores on account of those utter ***** who think it’s perfectly a-okay for their children to be going around eating/drinking in-store.
 
Maybe if they got charged for every product a child damaged in such a way (or, indeed, in any other way) they’d learn. But they’re not (and probably wouldn’t anyway).
 
 
If i wanted to be nicer it could have been done during shipping or delivery - but that’s usually just rainwater (though given this stain is colored it isn’t that) and, unlike kids in store, most employees in such places would be schafted six ways from sunday for eating/drinking near product.
 
If i wanted to be nastier then it could potentially be blood, either from a customer or (more likely) whoever unboxed this stuff. But that’s way, way less likely than it just being juice.

wtf is on applejack

… For a bit I thought someone tied down the plushie to the shelf.