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My best ever pony find was Lullaby Nursery for free! They were going to throw it away but we rescued it! http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,393181.msg1739238.html#msg1739238Other favourite in-the-wild finds:- At the same charity shop as we found the nursery, on another occasion we found Bedtime Newborn Sunset for 50p!- Baby Lickety-Split was found in a charity shop on a day out. This was especially exciting as my gf always wanted Baby Lickety when she was little. 20 years later she finally found her!- Bow-Tie was my first ever charity shop pony find, and she cost 75p. I know she's not super-rare or anything but I was soooo excited to see a G1 pony in the wild! I grabbed her up and had trouble letting go when I got to the checkout .- We found a pony-themed blanket for a doll's crib in an antique shop which was super exciting. http://imgur.com/a/Z6Dv7SQ- My mum was helping a friend take some bags of unwanted stuff to the charity shop and spotted a dilapidated G3 Petal Blossom on top of one of the bags! She nabbed her for us, and Petal Blossom joined the herd as my first G3.
I was just starting to get into g1 and I went to a thrift store with my mom.First I found nothing but then, lo and behold, a tailless seashell was just sitting there. Her mane was so bad it had to get rerooted and she had no tail was gone but otherwise perfect. I immediatly picked her up, knowing she was legit. (Thanks internet) She was 75 cents. And from Italy. She is still my favourite to this day. Also later I went back to that same store to see the excact same fakie that was being sold at a thrift market the other week. Didnt get her tho.
The fakie wasnt seashell tho just a purper Unicorn with blonde mane.
All my great wild pony finds come from the 1990s.The biggest being when the local collector sold up and so there were 600 G1 ponies on offer. Some were £1 each, some 50p. In that sell up, we got 5 of the windy wings, the jewellery babies, a whole bunch of others including a few MIP. Also, Baby Gusty. I knew this collector had her, but couldn't find her when I went to their house to buy stuff...so I thought she'd been sold. But then later I found her hiding in the show stable and she's still the only PACS baby Gusty I've ever found in the wild.There used to be tons of ponies around here, though. I've had ten or fifteen Ice Crystals, and even found a Mimic once although she wasn't sold here. Now - you're lucky to get anything at all. Times change :/My sister used to get given stuff for free. Ponies. Carebears. Pony dragons. You name it. She never asked for anything, but when we began carbooting, my sister was aged around eight, and she was small for her age and deceptively cute looking. So she got a lot of free stuff. Some of which I traded for her online to get US ponies she wanted and couldn't get in the UK....Miss those days. Ponies were so much cheaper, so much more available, and it was possible to just trade, rather than having to shell out lots of money, because ponies were kind of a currency in their own right then.