*raises hand*
I was born in '96, so G2s did come out when I was small, but I was too young at that age to play with things like that. G3 would have been what I would have been into, but as a kid I was more interested in the toys my younger brother had, mostly Hot Wheels. I knew My Little Pony existed, but I just wasn't interested in them. I was quite the tomboy growing up. Because of that, I didn't get into My Little Pony until 2011, when I was in between Jr. High and High School.