Who was the first pony you bought as an adult?

[Noasar]

So I was thinking back to when I first started collecting as an adult (well, teenager) and who was the first pony I bought.

I got into collecting because I found out that my Mum had taken my ponies to a car boot sale when I was about 13 and sold them all! I was so upset. I had some ponies that are now very sought after - Nurse Tenderheart with hat, Glow n Shows etc but I didn’t know this at the time obviously! So the first thing I did was go on eBay and try to search for them to try and buy some of them back.

This led me down a deep pony internet wormhole where I ended up here and addicted to searching eBay to replace my long lost ponies!

The first pony I bought from eBay as an adult was Cherries Jubilee! I saw her and remember thinking she was just soooo pretty and I had to have her. She wasn’t even a pony I had as a kid, but for a long time she was one of my favourites and I ended up buying many more ponies from eBay with money from my part time job after that.

The irony is, now I don’t really like poor Cherries Jubilee at all! I don’t have her in my collection any more, but she was the pony that got me into collecting as an adult so I do have a bit of a soft spot for her!

What was the first pony you bought as a ‘grown up’? And why?

[Leave a Whisper]

Well when G3 came out, I got a 4 pack with Stardasher, Denim Blue, Rainbowdash and Sparkleworks as a gift. I was also buying for my daughter when she was old enough to start playing with toys.

The first one I bought for myself was Styling Starcatcher. I found her at the swapmeet. I bought her because she was pretty and only $3.

[Ragamuffin]

I bought Galaxy, Speedy, and Flower Dream at the same time, but Galaxy arrived first! So I'd consider her my first pony I bought as an adult. I bought her because I love her colours and she's one of my favourite characters from My Little Pony 'n' Friends!

[brightberry]

I think it was Baby Moondancer from Ebay.  Why is because I'd always wanted her.  I had only seen Escape from Catrina once as a child, and Baby Moondancer just became more and more important to me.  I thought I would never see that special again.

[Heartcease]

Pretty sure that it was a scruffy looking Glory from a flea market, bought at the same time as a bunch of He-man and She-ra figures.

[RoseNoire]

I honestly can't tell. During my mid-late~ish teenage years, I was asking my parents to pick up ponies for me in flea markets, then stopped for a couple of years and then started collecting again, going to the flea markets myself and buying ponies like crazy. Now I'm 20 so that's not like I'm an adult adult.. heh.  So yeah, I'm only able to tell my childhood herd apart from all the others, but I can't precisely tell who were my first ponies "as an adult".

[Marlin]

Powder.

I'd just nostalgically pulled out my childhood collection after years of storage and it didn't take long before curiosity got the better of me and I started investigating where 'vintage' ponies were at nowadays... and then looking at what might be on the local online auction site...

Powder just captivated me for some reason, and I thought, what harm can it do? Adding just one more pretty pony to my herd...?

Nearly 500 ponies later.... 

It's a bit hazy after Powder.... but the herd grew rather quickly!

[silverfall]

I think it was Snuzzle. I never had Snuzzle as a kid. I thought, get one or two ponies, just a few, oh how silly I was. But, yeah, I had a wish list since I was six. I never forgot a pony I didn't get, haha. I still have backcard cutouts of the ponies I needed. Snuzzle, Twilight, Cherries Jubilee, Powder, Gusty, Sparkler, those were all part of my first hunts.

[Galactica]

I bought a huge bag of G1 ponies at a thrift store- I guess I was technically an adult. 18.  I was so freaking elated.  I don't remember who all was in there, but it was a HUUUUGE bag.  There were ponies in there I didn't even know existed (of course I do now)

[Kiwi]

G1 Powder, found her in a thrift store, just before G3s came out.

[Baby Sugarberry]

Really depends on what time frame you identify as 'adult'.
I collected most of my G1's from early teens all the way through well into adulthood, so it's pretty tough to say.

[Noasar]

Really depends on what time frame you identify as 'adult'.
I collected most of my G1's from early teens all the way through well into adulthood, so it's pretty tough to say.

I just mean as in...not a kid, when I guess it would no longer be acceptable for you to buy a children’s toy! I was 13 when I hit up eBay for the first time, so not an adult either but it was the first time I was consciously looking for vintage MLP, not just being bought them as a child.

[Sunset]

I honestly can't tell. During my mid-late~ish teenage years, I was asking my parents to pick up ponies for me in flea markets, then stopped for a couple of years and then started collecting again, going to the flea markets myself and buying ponies like crazy. Now I'm 20 so that's not like I'm an adult adult.. heh.  So yeah, I'm only able to tell my childhood herd apart from all the others, but I can't precisely tell who were my first ponies "as an adult".

This is me also.  Once I got into collecting as an “adult” in my late teens there was a lot of garage sells and flea markets where I or my parents picked them up.  For me this was in the lat nineties.  I was not at all interested in G2.  But I will say that I was very excited when g3 was announced and looking at the first characters and picking out the one that I wanted to purchase as my first pony to buy new in store since childhood.  That would be Wisteria.

[Gator]

Finding baby YoYo at a thrift store in 1995/96? when I was in college started it all for me.

[SkyCakes]

I guess that would be Twinkler and Curly Locks. I just loved their pose and colors. Sadly they were my last pony purchase as a teenager. Then I went through the huge pony purge but I somehow managed to keep these two girls for whatever reason. I wish I would of kept my baby surprise but I didn't. I wish I could of said they restarted my collection but it wasnt until I was in my 30s did I take up collecting again.