Every day for a couple weeks, I've been saying, "when will my New Zealand chocolate arrive?? " (really, you can ask my family about how much I was anticipating this ). Well, a couple days ago, it finally did arrive! Thank you, Loa!!

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I cannot emphasize enough how BIG those chocolate bars are. They are huge! And Loa even threw in some gummies since I mentioned living with people who can't eat dairy. The Tweats chocolates have fizzy candies inside, which is not something I've ever had in chocolate before. I love them!

I thought my photo on the old shipping crate chest was a bit sad-looking, so I set up a little photo shoot with the new HQG1C candy boy, too.

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Now that looks properly festive!

Thanks again, Loa!! I'm glad to have been part of the arena for so long.

1/22 - Added So Soft ponies and Polly Pockets!

Hey all! I just posted a bunch of G1s on my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/deerandmagpie

I have more G1 ponies to post in the coming days/weeks, in addition to a bunch of accessories and playset parts, so stay tuned! I'll keep this post updated/bumped as I add stuff. I sell all kinds of other various vintage toys in the shop as well! I'm based in the U.S. but can ship anywhere.

I am NOT currently looking to buy ponies. Right now, this is just for trades and personal reference.

I don't mind flawed ponies. In fact, I'm actually looking for many ponies with specific flaws - you will see these noted by the pony's name. For the rest of the ponies, I do of course like ones in nice condition, but I'm pretty accepting, so feel free to run anything by me!

G1

Adult US Ponies

-Birthday Pony
-CF Blossom (MO version with pinkish body)
-TE Bright Eyes
-Bright Glow
-TAF Buttons
-Confetti
-Cool Breeze (without wings/with very damaged wings)
-Flower Belle (with hair faded to white)
-Galaxy (pink body rather than lavender)
-Lavender Lace
-Lemon Treats
-Locket
-Love Beam (with cut or very bad hair)
-Mainsail
-Medley (original short hair version)
-Milky Way
-CF Minty
-Paradise (deflocked/NSS)
-Quackers (a lot of symbol wear/no symbol)
-Red Roses
-Ribbon (deflocked)
-Sea Mist
-Skyflier
-Spring Song (don't mind if earrings are missing)
-Stardancer (version not important; don't mind symbol damage)
-Star Glow (with cut or very bad hair)
-Starswirl (with pink stripes faded to white)
-Streaky
-Sunglory
-Sweet Sundrop (don't mind if earrings are missing)
-Tootie Tails
-Tunefull
-SS Twilight (with hair faded to white; deflocked)
-Wind Drifter

Baby US Ponies

-Baby Princess Sparkle (with hair faded to white)
-Dibbles (with hair faded to white)
-Gusty (sparkle) (with cut or very bad hair)
-Rainribbon
-Rattles and Tattles
-Sandcastle and Shovels

Mail Order

-Baby Sugarberry
-Clipper

Petites

Pony Parade - blue with orange hair and umbrella symbol
Pretty N Pearly - blue with yellow hair and moon symbol
Pony Tails - pink with blue hair and brush symbol
Twinkle - All

International

-Baby Diamond
-Baby Gusty
-Baby Nightsong (hair faded to white)
-Baby Ribbon
-Baby Ruby
-Baby Sapphire
-Bright Eyes
-Brillitos (Argie sparkle ponies - all)
-Cascade
-Dutch Diary Pony
-German Starshine
-Ice Crystal
-NSS Magic Star
-Mexico Blossom (Tootsie pose)
-Nightlight (preferably small symbol version)



G2

-Princess Crystal
-Copper Glow
-Magic Diamond Glow
-Princess Golden Light
-Water Lily

G3

-Anchors Away
-Silver Glow
-Port-o-Bella

G4

Blind Bags

-Cherry Spices II
-Electric Sky
-Magnet Bolt
-Minuette II
-Tea Love
-Waterfire

This requires a little bit of backstory: my partner's uncle is a trash collector and both her aunt and uncle often frequent flea markets (I never thought about the perks of being a trash collector until I saw their house – it's full of amazing antiques and vintage items that all came off the curb!). A couple years ago, I asked them to keep an eye out for ponies for me, and gave them a brief description of what to look for. For two years, there was nothing, except one story of how someone beat them to a Show Stable full of ponies at a flea market.

Last week, my partner got a message from her aunt asking if we were still interested in ponies, because she had a “big bucket of them.” Of course I had my partner call her back right away to say YES, definitely, and also to hear more about them! She started off saying that they found them in the trash, and my hopes fell a little, because I was sure any large amount of ponies in the trash these days would be G3s. But then she went on to say that there was a baby carriage with a pink umbrella, and that some of the ponies were flocked, and I was like... wait a minute! Those sound like G1s! Sure enough, she described a few of them, and read dates off their hooves, and they were all G1s. 41 of them!

Today they arrived in the mail, just in time for my birthday! I've never gotten this many ponies at once before, and it was so exciting to keep pulling pony after pony out of the box!

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(I have no clue what the bathtub is from; it doesn't seem to be MLP. Anyone know?)

I have to say, in my 12 years of collecting, I've never had a huge amount of pony luck, and I never imagined this would happen! It's been my pony collecting dream for years to find a bunch of G1s in the trash, but with so many people these days knowing they're collectables and selling them on ebay (not to mention the fact that by now most people have already gotten rid of their 80's childhood toys), I thought my chances of this happening were over. Well, I'm totally amazed, and this is the best birthday present I've gotten in a long time!