What's your ideal collection?

[Safflower]

I'm curious If you could have any collection, what would you want? Do you want only one gen or a mix? How big? Specific ponies and/or sets? How would you display it? Condition?

I'd like a smaller collection to save space, only G1. Just some specific ponies whose colors work well together. I'd love for them all to be mint. I'd also give them a nice rainbow-y shelf to be displayed. A separate thing for all the G1 prototypes ever made would be the unachievable dream

[Mewtwofan1]

Ideally, assuming I have the space, one of every pony and play set ever released. Every gen. It’s a long shot though, and probably won’t happen due to space and just the money I’d be throwing at the collection. Realistically ideal would be to have a collection of space themed ponies. With stars, planets, all that. And decorate their display with the glow in the dark planets I have in my room now.

[Einhornbaby]

Every Pony (+ playset, accessory, merchandise...) ever released Every gen ! Wont happen lol but I can dream!

[Rychu]

Right now it would be every g3 large/giant plush. Im sure ill want the smaller ones sooner or later too.

[Miniature Sheep]

I'd like a small collection of G1s and G2s, neatly arranged on a shelf with some dreamy props like moons, stars, clouds and the like, accented with soft pastel shades of blue, pink, purple and yellow. I'm kind of part way there already but it needs work due to having recently moved to a smaller place, I've been too busy with other things around the new place to work out how to display my ponies. Once everything's settled down, though, it's definitely pony time!

[Carrehz]

I'm happy with the one I've got - I just wish it could organize/shelf/etc itself!

[brightberry]

I love all of the earliest G1 ponies the most, years 1-3.  They're the ones I longed for when I was a kid and I still feel that way when I see them now.  If I ever had to limit my collection, it would be to those ponies.

But I'm glad I won't have to.

[Taffeta]

This will be a lame answer maybe, but I can't imagine any other collection than the one I have. It's been built up over so many years, some from childhood, some from finds as a teenager, trades with people (some of whom are no longer in the community or have passed on)...and I just feel like that makes it precious. I consider myself to have been really lucky and so many of my ponies have trading or buying or finding memories attached to them (which is another reason why downsizing and so on is not ever going to be a thing for me).

Yeah, I guess if it was an ideal world I'd like it if my childhood mountain boys had never suffered damage when I was a kid, and if some of the less mint ponies were more undamaged, and if I were greedy, there are a bunch of MIP things I would still want, as well as cards for my collection and baby sugarcake. But on the whole it wouldn't be my collection if it wasn't the one I had now. So I'm happy enough with this one. I wouldn't really change it for any other because it wouldn't mean the same to me as this one does :/

Sorry if that is a pathetic cop out kind of an answer.

I WOULD like to have a proper pony room to display them though.

[banditpony]

I think I'm pretty close to an ideal collection, minus a grail. I'm under 20 ponies and all of them mean something to me. (And a few might be in the chipping block). It's fluid and it changes.

What I don't have down is a more elegant way to display them. I don't like them all together on a single shelf. Anything more than 2-5 in a space feels too much to me. I want it to feel less collector-ish.

[milkywaymochi]

Ideally, one of every gen 1 pony, gen 1 only. No Nirvana's, just ones released in the US and UK. Well, actually, there are a few European ones I love, like the Dutch star pony and some German variants. I'd like to collect the playsets too, but I haven't got anywhere to put them.

[poniesthatsparkle]

Every pony and playset from every gen. Mostly just US releases but a few Nirvana here and there wouldn't hurt, and maybe some customs and prototypes as well. Of course that would be hard to achieve and would take years but I guess that's part of the fun of collecting, that there's always something to look for.

[BlackCurtains]

All the orange ponies! All of them! *hoards*

[HollowZero]

All of the so softs, and princesses. For some odd reason I've really taken a liking to the princess ponies lately.

[SpacePinto]

Ideally, I would love to have as many G1s as possible, and especially the ones that appeared in animation. Each in a number of one, maybe except for some particularly interesting variations (like brazilian Wind Whistler) I'd also love to (as unrealistic as it sounds) have a complete Paradise Estate, Lullabye Nursery and Dream Castle, plus maybe a few other playsets. And quite a few ponywear costumes, especially the space ones. I would also try to get as much other G1 merchandise as possible, like books/magazines, vinyl/tape recordings, mugs, puzzles, canteens etc. As for other generations, maybe a few G3s (like Minty or Thistle Whistle) plus maybe something from G2 like that PC game or one of those cute jigsaw puzzles. I think that pretty much covers it. It would also be nice to have somewhere to store it all, but since one day I will probably live on my own, I would most likely just end up placing it all in random spots all around the place, because I'm not the kind of person to invite people over anyway.

[Esbayne]

As dorky as it sounds, my collection is my ideal collection! I have gens 1-4, and the My Pretty Pony- minus G3.5- and almost all of the ponies I've always really wanted! But I'll always just keep collecting! All of them have sentimental value and a story behind them, I remember where every one of them came from and they have all traveled with me across moves from two countries and several states.

The only thing more ideal I suppose would be even more of them! Lol.