Which generation of ponies first drew you into collecting them?

[Opalescence]

G4, cause I'm an FiM bandwagoner.

Sadly, that's how I started too before I noticed the train stopping at weird stations.




The thing that got me into collection were the blindbags. Mostly because I wanted a Rarity to use as a keychain. Curse them addictive blindbags! lol

[StarDragon]

I grew up with G1 TV show (re-runs in the 90's). As soon as I discovered the toys, I felt a great deal of nostalgia and decided to start collecting!

[Salli]

Since I'm old (35), I was sucked in during my youth with the original version, the G1s. Perhaps not-so coincidentally, that is also my favorite generation.

When I got to my pre/early teens, I quit collecting. I can't remember if it's because I "grew out of them" or because my parents said "ENOUGH already!" Either way, no ponies for a very long time.

It was the G3s that got me back into collecting.

I'm 35 too! And I had the very first pretty pony in '82?. I think my second was Firefly. My 2 little sisters inherited my ponies as I moved on to Breyers. I got back into it when I discovered customizing and got me and my family hooked on FiM (I have a husband and 2 boys). Well, you know how it just snowballs...

[Marlin]

I was, and always will be a G1 mummy    My daughters have some G3's, but truthfully I have no inclination to collect them or the later generations. The G1 thing is both a sentimental and aesthetic thing for me!

[Margos]

I was an FiM-only fan for a while.  I didn't want to get into the toys, because they'd cost too much!  But I did pick up the blind bags of the Mane 6 (minus Fluttershy) when they used to have them at Big Lots.  That was all I wanted, then.
But then my boyfriend and I watched the original G1 specials for laughs.  Turns out they were awesome.  We watched the movie and the G1 show.  Then we watched Tales.  Then we watched all the G3 specials and Twinkle Wish Adventure; we couldn't get enough pony!
And then we met... her.  A lovely G3 Pinkie Pie in almost perfect condition with tinsel like a dream, being sold by a little boy behind a table on the main street in our town for 5 cents.  My boyfriend dropped a nickel in his jar, and we ran away home with our first older gen pony in our hands.  We set her on our coffee table and stared at her with a "what now?" expression on our faces.
"Billy?" I asked.  "What if we just picked up a couple more whenever we find them?"
"OK!  They're so pretty!" said he.
And that was the beginning of a beautiful obsession.

[Shenanigans]

I was addicted to G1s. They had me hooked and still do! I always loved them, but the G3 line rekindled my love for MLP and I started collecting again   G1 is still my favorite and they will always hold a power over me :p

[Mana_Mihara]

G1s ! From my childhood, and even now I get such a sense of nostalgia when I see them. I just love them.

[hyenacub]

G1s...there are other gens? 

[Princess-Sparkles]

G1 drew me back into collecting because I wanted to get my childhood ones that got thrown away back

[Dragonflitter]

I was torn on which way to vote, since I had a bunch of G1's in the '80's and loved to play with them as a kid, but for actual 'collecting' (as in buying just to have them and display them lol) it would be the G3's I found as a college student that I fell in love with the brand again.

But my G1's were mine first and foremost, so in the end I voted G1. ^_^

[Angelshy]

For me it started with g4, my crazy friend got me into FiM and I bought Fluttershy when I saw her in a store because she's my favourite character.  Later I picked up a Pinke Pie, then my sister bought me a Shine Bright Fluttershy and the rest, as they say, is history .

I wasn't really into MLP as a kid, which Mum keeps telling me every time I buy a new pony ("You just weren't interested when you were little, or we would have bought them for you!).  I only really got into the idea of collecting non show ponies after getting on the forums and now I'm starting to appreciate other gens and am considering diversifying the herd. 

[ZennaBug]

G1 for me    I had them when I was a kid and then got back into collecting years later when I went online to look up cleaning and restoration tips and found the Arena 

[StarZetRaven]

G2s. Grew up with them and was devastated when the line ended in 2002, and I'm always on the lookout for them.

[Einhornbaby]

G1 for me too

[Ice Crystal]

Hate to say it, but I'm another one who jumped on the FiM bandwagon. Collect all gens now, but I focused solely on G4s for quite a while.