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Noticed your signature, are you the curator of the mlp scrapbook? its helped me tons with identifying and understanding the UK timeline
I was going to ask which rough area of the country you were in. I actually think the opposite to gabumon - that it is harder to find ponies in urban areas compared with rural. Charity shops as a rule tend not to be overly enthusiastic about toys - I picked up a large Rainbow Dash in a store recently and a BAB one at another store, but quite often they're predominately clothes. There's a local hospice shop in our area that has a large toy section but otherwise most of the others are predominately books, dvds and clothes. So shops are in my experience rarely that good for MLP, and even more rarely for G1.I grew up mostly on the English side of the welsh borders. That was a hugely successful hunting ground for me with ponies over several years until the carboot sale I frequented closed due to sale of land for building a hospice. This was back in the nineties of course so G1 were plentiful, but these kinds of carboot sale out on fields seemed to yield the better crops. Ones in more urban areas/on tarmac rarely did and charity shops hardly at all.I am now in London for a lot of the year. I have visited on tarmac carboot sales and they are fine but rarely produce much in the pony line, even G4. I have more often found Monster High at them, but pony stuff hardly appears. Very occasionally. I think I did get a float and an Applejack once.Within range of where I live there is at least one big field carboot sale outside of London. I find this a much better place to pony hunt albeit G1 are still rare to find.In terms of my home area, I stripped it out of a lot of ponies in the nineties, both for my collection and for trading to people overseas so I am somewhat responsible for the fact in that area ponies are probably less common than the average now Are there any toy and train or collector fairs in or around the Liverpool area you could try? I almost always see G1 at these and sometimes at good prices. Once got Spanish Strawberry Fair/Sugarberry at one of these for 30p because male vendors often underestimate girl toys. There are a couple of dealers who frequent fairs I know but their prices are competitive and not unrealistic, usually very reasonable. Also, any indoor markets or anything like that?I think we have to accept that time has moved on so far that the time of G1 being junk people just want rid of has passed. And the internet is now a lot easier for a lot of people. But don't give up! There must still be ponies hiding somewhere in your area Maybe it's worth finding out if there are any carboot sales on field which you can get to from where you are as the summer continues. Summer is the best season for collecting toys because of carboot sales and school fetes and such like, so you might have more luck then.Maybe you should come to ponycon in October in Nottingham A lot of UK people do sell and trade on this forum. I'm one of those, when I'm not in London (because my trade ponies are not in London) xD. Maybe we'll trade in the future.
personally, I get my hauls from ebay.But the websites gumtree and preloved could help? Their both uk websites.Good luck!
I just thought of another idea too, although maybe a bit expensive. Us Americans didn’t get a lot of releases that you guys did (lookin’ at you Tales cast) so if you maybe happen to have something like that you don’t want another way you can get new ponies is to trade them!....Or does that not make sense? Hm. Oh well it’s a thing to think about at least.