The flea market gods smiled upon me...!

[Sunshine]

So I went out of town this past weekend to visit a friend, and to basically go flea market-ing, thrift store-ing, etc. We all love to do that (there's a group of 4 of us that like to go and we all look for different things...) and I've been on kind of a hot "pony streak" lately - I'll find one at the Goodwill or some place almost every time I go (though, mostly McDonalds ponies or ones I don't personally collect, but I rescue them!)

And FINALLY the flea market and thrift store gods shined down upon me and granted me a TON of things!!
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I did get two fakies... the big one in the back and the purple Magic Meadow/Cabbage Patch pony (though, it has glass eyes so it's a fakie of a "fakie" right?)... then I was lucky enough to find several G1s, the BBSoD shell, a like 85% complete Show Stable (has almost everything, just missing some tiny stuff and Lemon Drop/Brandy), a G1 Bubble bath container, a G1 McDonalds Bookmark, a Mommy charm - a bunch of pony clothes (though the star thing on a rope is something else... Moondreamers maybe??) one G3.5 that my friend picked up for me, and a bunch of G3 ponies (most of which I didn't have yet)... It was crazy! I NEVER EVER EVER get this lucky... and some of the G1s will be upgrades to my own which is amazing! They all have pink hair (look at that Baby Tiddlywinks, shes CRAZY PINK!)  I also found two G3 little hardcover books with Kimono and Minty, they each have brushable hair.

All of them are a mess, and I did notice one I picked up has some ink marks - but otherwise, I'm getting them all ready for their spa treatments to defrizz and decrinkle tinsel, etc. I can't wait until they're all cleaned up!

Anyway, it was amazing. I just had to share because this was a haul that I'll never forget lol! (And probably won't happen again for a LONG long time!)

[Yurusumaji]

Whoa! Congrats! That is an awesome haul. I wish I could find stuff that awesome when I went thrifting.

[Lygeia]

Congrats on your awesome pony luck!  The star thing looks like Lady Lovelikocks/Pixie Tails to me

[ponybanker]

congrats!! thats a nice haul

[brightberry]

Congrats!  Those are nice finds!

[gabumon]

Awesome Pony Streak!! Love the color swirl g1!!!

[kiwimlp]

Oh wow.  I am still dreaming about having a find like yours!  So many ponies and accessories!!    YOu found some really nice G1s btw. It took me ages to find a nice condition Starflower to complete my rainbows.  Major congrats

[bagheera86]

The flea market gods threw me to the pit xD

But congrats on your finds, i'm so jelly!

[Sunshine]

Thanks everyone! It's so out of the ordinary that I find something huge like this, heh! it was actually kind of sad... I had to leave behind about 8 G1 ponies from the vendor that I actually got the Starflower from... because he had ponies like Cotton Candy, Applejack, Firefly, Yr 2 Rainbow somebody... and every single of one of them was priced at $18 or more. He had firefly, in nice shape, with a little saddle from the Pretty parlor ... for $25.

It wasn't worth it to me to haggle for all those ponies because I felt his prices were 5-10x too high, and that's too hard to haggle down for. But for some reason, the Starflower and the Posey weren't in plastic bags, and were marked at $2. Go figure??

Congrats on your awesome pony luck!  The star thing looks like Lady Lovelikocks/Pixie Tails to me

Oooh that's a good call, I'll have to look that up! Thanks!

[achab1984]

WOW!!! You did great!!!!! I have yet to find a pony second hand anywere

[lochnessmomster]

Talk about a successful trip to the flea market!!  I hope to have a find like that myself one day, but I'm always glad to see it happen to others, too.  The entire lot looks fantastic, but DOUBLE WOW on the Colorswirl pony, Starflower, and the play sets!  Congratulations! 

[kittybethy]

Nice finds!!!

[Honeycomb]

Congrats! Nice haul!!

[cyberunicorn]

Congratulations 

[Sunshine]

Thanks all! I will emphasize that this NEVER happens to me, so I was as shocked as most of you would be to finally find G1s and things second hand! I /RARELY/ find G1s (my first was this past week actually, before the flea markets, lol) - and I actually missed the Show Stable... I was looking through a bag of random McDonalds toys just hoping to find some pony ones, and my boyfriend looks at me and goes, "Did you miss something?" and points up. I almost had a heart attack, and then nearly ran my friend over when I saw the BBSoD playset nearby. No ponies at the place where I found the playsets though, weird!