I gotta say I was excited to hear an excessively violent knocking at the front door and opened it in time to see a UPS henchman swiftly leaving the scene in his little brown shorts. At my feet lays a large box covered in pony stickers.

It has arrived.

Inside is a note accompanied by Gummy's more personable doppelganger. There are very specific instructions on how to unwrap the gift, and thus I begin with caution. The first thing I see is a cowboy hat, and I am already twitching with excitement. I carefully raise out the object inside, with slight flashbacks to a scene from SE7EN. It's a head. But not just any head! An Applejack head.

Godfather references aside, I admire what I am looking at. There was obviously a lot of time put into this (which I soon found out was probably 6 times as much effort than what he surface showed). Impressive so far! Despite being hesitant to pull the eyes and hat off, as per the instructions, and telling poor Applewrap this would hurt me more than it hurt her, I proceeded to begin the unraveling.

And unraveling. And unraveling.

Small trinkets and candy begin to fall out. Sour apple flavor, naturally. The orange ribbon ends and the white ribbon begins, dotted with little stickers. I'm a little slow on the uptake, so only upon reaching the third blue layer do I realize each layer is themed after one of the Mane 6. The stickers match the character (gems and tiaras and other fanciful stickers on the white Rarity layer, rainbow stickers on the blue Dash layer, etc)

Deeper and deeper I descend into the wrappings. More things fall out. Blind bag ponies! More candies and toys and knick knacks! I read each and every Laffy Taffy joke out loud, much to my sister's chagrin.

Finally I find I am reaching the end of my arduous and colorful journey. A colossal pile of paper ribbon snakes around me, my lungs coated with a thin layer of confetti, my fingers equipped with candy rings. I can see the end in sight. The last strips of the purple Twilight layer fall away to reveal the core of this whole project. It is nothing less than the very thing that AJ (a.k.a. Best Pony) loves most.

An apple!

Thanks for this gift, it was very creative and unique! I can tell a lot of time was spent on it, if at minimum twice as long as it took to unwrap it. And I've got enough Laffy Taffy jokes to last a good few years.