I think most of my most memorable ones I've shared before - Gypsy at the school fete, taking the baby sea ponies swimming at my friend's country club, and abseiling ponies down the house wall out of the window on shoelaces to make sunshine pony hair change colour.
I also like to hear about people's pony stories, though...I often wish I could ask my ponies their stories when they come live with me, especially when they have names or whatever on their hooves.
When I was a kid, a lot of other kids had ponies at school, so when I started going to hunt at carboot sales in the mid 1990s I had hazy memories of some of them and what they looked like. The two friends I most remember playing with, though, I remember their collections very clearly. One of those friends later gave me her ponies
so they are like my childhood adopted ponies.
One of these ponies was Tic Tac Toe. I had Baby Tic Tac Toe as a child, so they used to have sleepovers - sometimes Tic Tac Toe would come stay with me, and sometimes baby would go stay with my friend Alex. I also liked having Hopscotch and Gusty for the night, but I think reuniting the Tic Tac Toes was my favourite. I am so happy that now that Tic Tac Toe lives with us, and so they're reunited permanently.
When we were kids, my sister and I often took a pony on walks. When we went walking in the winter with parents up to the forests, I was worried they'd get cold so I'd make them scarves and legwarmers.
Considering I didn't like them so much, I have a lot of memories of Cherries Jubilee and Snowflake. O.o. Snowflake got ponynapped on one occasion. She ended up at a friend's house when I didn't take her there, and at the time (I was 5) I thought it strange she could've walked there on her own.
Other ponies of mine had adventures at school. Masquerade learned to fly on the playground and C.J swam in the puddles. Braided Beauty was part of a hair salon where we put pencil shavings in the hair then brushed them out, believing it 'helped' them get shiny hair!
I was totally in love with Braided Beauty for a long time. I really wanted her and Curly Locks but the distribution in my area was really bad and mostly I didn't find the ponies on the top of my want list and had to make do with others. But Braided Beauty was one of those I actually found. It was after Christmas, I think 1991? And I had Christmas money. We were in Woolworths and she was the only Braided Beauty on the shelf. My mother and I both remember this because we argued over me getting her. Her box was damaged but I was adamant it had to be that pony, not one of the others. In the end I won
And Braids came home with me. Despite the pencil shavings and the enthusiastic brushing and growing, she's actually not in bad shape even now
I never cut pony hair, and I never drew on ponies except to write my name on their hooves, so although a few have stray ink marks from accidents where they fell in with my pens, they're mostly loved but not abused played with ponies
I also had an electric railway. My petite ponies and the one Mummy Charm I had used to ride in the goods trucks. They were the most frequent passengers on the railway. It was only a small loop, with one station, but the ponies apparently liked it.
The Mummy Charm came as a stowaway in my Show Stable. It was second hand, and Mum and Dad wrote to hasbro to get a Lemon Drop for it. It was when the 2nd release stable was out, so Lemon Drop was in production and they were able to get one. Hasbro used to be nice and helpful back then
I also got Princess Aquamarine in that stable. She had only one symbol and faded hair. But the comics always said that she was absentminded, so eight year old me decided she'd just left her symbol somewhere, and that was that. I never thought about it again. I was just super excited to have another Princess Pony.
I have a lot of memories of playing ponies with my sister and we have some film and photos of it too. It's nice that we grew up with them together. I am not sure either of us have grown out of them
My Mother knows more ponies than my Dad, who did mind you manage to pick out Windy from a literal wall of ponies when Wondermint's collection was on display at Dudley museum. (Windy was my first pony). Mum also remembers very clearly being made to watch Ice Cream Wars and Revolt of Paradise Estate over and over and over. She still hates it
I also used to play the song tape over and over. Now, whenever anyone says 1, 2, 3 in our house, someone invariably answers with "Cherries Jubilee."
My little pony live at the edge of the Rainbow Forest. Theirs is a magical world where everyday brings a new adventure....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4cyTCvrjhg(Yes. Any excuse to get that in
It was hugely influential in my childhood. I could recite/sing almost the entire tape with the exact phrasing of the singer and narrator, that's how much I played it. Posey's song intro even got a bit chewed up in the tape recorder from overplay).
I was mostly a pony comic girl, not a pony animation girl and I stay that way now.
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