Hello!!
My name is Finn, I am 21 years old and from Wellington, New Zealand. I recently quit my job to chase a tattoo apprenticeship! I have been collecting ponies since I was 7 (about 2006). I had a single mum who went back to school in a different city to get her law degree so we lived with her best friend who was also a single mum with a daughter my age. We were best friends but raised as sisters for about a year or two (and still are very close). To save money on toys, our mums divided the different types between us for birthdays and Christmases etc (one kid would get MLP, the other LPS) but my friend was super fussy so I let her pick all of my favourite toy brands so she had ownership over the toys I wanted and I never really got to play with them. I am a huge sucker for nostalgia and that feeling calms my anxiety a lot so I have found myself collecting a lot of stuff from my childhood, and a lot of it seems to be from that period of my life (and the toys I wasn't allowed to have)!
Ponies:
How long have you been collecting?
I was a kid as G3 were released so since 2005/6 but didn't have many of my own ponies until I was 17/18.
Prior to 2017 I only had a Wysteria and Baby Sparkleberry Swirl that my nana sneakily bought me knowing only my friend was allowed mlp and I wasn't. Tragic times. Now I only have 15 or so ponies but the collection is growing rapidly.
Which generations of ponies do you collect? G1, G2, G3 or G4?
I am only interested in G3 but like to have a couple ponies from each generation to round out the collection
What made you want to collect ponies?
Honestly, it's kind of an impulsion, they just bring me a lot of happiness and comfort me a lot.
Tell us about your collection!
Most of my ponies are in storage! I have been moving around a lot this year but as soon as I have my display set up, I will be posting!