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Quote from: LadyMoondancer on February 06, 2014, 06:01:20 PMA combination of parents buying them and forgetting them and old store stock!People keeping ponies MIB / MOC on purpose was not really a "thing"in the 80s. I mean, I'm sure there were some individuals who did that with MLPs (I think there's board member who kept her Summer Wings MIB?), but that was really, really, really rare. They were regarded as toys, be opened up and played with.Well, one size doesn't fit all because I was a child of the 80s and when my parents bought stuff for me I was forced to keep most things "in the box" because it might be valuable some day. This is sad but some times I would sneak the toys out of the box, play with them and ended up being a pro at "putting things back". I thank my parents for this today but as a child I only got to play with half my toys.
A combination of parents buying them and forgetting them and old store stock!People keeping ponies MIB / MOC on purpose was not really a "thing"in the 80s. I mean, I'm sure there were some individuals who did that with MLPs (I think there's board member who kept her Summer Wings MIB?), but that was really, really, really rare. They were regarded as toys, be opened up and played with.
I actually have a MIB G1 pony completely by accident thanks to my fiancé. Apparently someone got his mom a MLP toy as a baby shower gift because at the time no one knew if she was having a boy or a girl. Once he was born, the still-packaged-pony was just put in to a box along with the other girlish stuff and put in to the attic in case his parents had another kid that ended up being a girl. That didn't happen, so jump forward twenty six years. After my fiancé and I had and been dating for years, he apparently made an off handed comment to his mom that I like MLP, which made her think of the toy, and she just went ahead and dug it out and gave it to me So I can say that, in my experience, the pony is MIB simply because it had indeed been forgotten about.