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Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« on: March 30, 2022, 02:38:15 PM »
Recently found Surprise, which was unexpected. I've been eyeing her though because that hair color and the possibility of staining. Likely will end up unboxing her because of that. But it got me wondering as to what you all are doing with yours. Are you keeping them in their boxes? Opening them to display / photograph? A mix of the two depending upon the pony?

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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2022, 03:43:28 PM »
I keep them in the box unless they're dupes, I rehair the dupes. :)

I know the Confetti I unboxed shortly after release had staining already.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2022, 09:09:18 PM »
I'm also interested to hear what others are doing with these! I have both...I have duplicates of both the Gusty/Sparkler set and the Twinkle Eyed set, and I only unboxed one set of each, but it feels kind of excessive as I am in purge mode these days, so I'll probably end up selling the NIB ones at some point. I just get more enjoyment out of my open ones!

Stranger Things Applejack is going to be stuck living in her box, though.

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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2022, 10:05:32 PM »
I unboxed my Surprise long enough to wrap her hair in Kleenex because her hair had already left marks on her.  She looks like someone took a yellow highlighter to her.  It's not overly noticeable, but I know it's there.  I've put her back in her box so that her hair doesn't stain anyone else.  Otherwise, due to lack of space, I've unboxed them.

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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2022, 07:42:07 AM »
I haven't decided yet.  There is the possibility of keeping these MIB while bringing out my childhood ponies to pose next to them.  Space is the eternal issue, though. :(

I don't have many of this set, as I don't go out anymore...like most of the world! :)   While I love looking at them and enjoy the nostalgia of seeing the G1s again, I don't think I can justify buying them all.  I'm just picking the favorites for now.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2022, 07:53:01 AM »
I mostly only keep brand new toys MIB if I particularly like the box design, and I do really like the Basic Fun boxes. That being said I dont have many, if I had a whole bunch keeping them in-box would take up way too much space in my tiny apartment. I already dedicate a bit more space than I probably should to my collections.

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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2022, 08:10:09 AM »
They're your ponies, whatever you want to do. I open mine.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2022, 08:26:19 AM »
I've kept mine in boxes and bought a few just to open.  But at this point... there are a lot in box and it's hard to find a place to display them.  :blink:
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2022, 08:27:51 AM »
I've never really been an NRFB-ist so I debox mine, that said I don't have a lot of the Basic Funs anyway. Only set I completed was the collector ponies, after that I've just been picking up ones that I'm missing the original 80s version of - don't have the money/space/desire to get everyone again.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2022, 03:28:21 PM »
I usually take them out of the box. I have a limited amount of space and boxes take up SPACE. Also, I like to touch my ponies and play with their hair and display them in groups, ect.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2022, 04:46:18 PM »
Out of all of mine, I opened Surprise just to take her tail off her leg, but put her back in the box.  But it was too late, she's already stained.  Now after reading about Confetti above, I guess I need to open her too.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2022, 08:27:01 PM »
I keep mine in their boxes because I don't know what else to do with them. They look nice on display as is.
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2022, 02:43:17 PM »
Non-white ones stay boxed. White ones are awesome for Customising
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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2022, 03:47:17 PM »
So far all of mine are still in their boxes. I did buy an extra set of Collector Ponies to debox but haven't gotten to them yet.



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Re: Basic Fun Ponies, keeping them MIB or opening?
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2022, 09:38:50 PM »
I bought Blue Belle to unbox, but kept the others in box. I kept a few G4 playsets in box too. So if I ever did do a big display I would have some items with packaging to look at the artwork.
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