I wouldn't say regret. I suppose my example would be years ago, when I was trying to get MOC versions of my childhood ponies (which I still am), I bought a MOC "Sugarberry" - ie on US card. And I had her for a good few years, but I could not accept her as the pony I grew up with, because the card was different and the name was wrong. So I ended up selling her maybe ten years ago. No idea where she is now, never regretted it.
A year or two ago I stumbled on a UK carded "Strawberry Fair" and somehow managed to win her for a very reasonable price. I guess the card didn't matter to the other bidders as much as it did to me (since the US carded one is quite cheap, her price on UK card didn't skyrocket).
So now I have the pony from my childhood memory, with the right card and the right name. And "Sugarberry" is out there somewhere being appreciated much more than I could have done.
I don't have a photo of my original to hand, though I do have some pictures of US carded ponies I later sold somewhere at home (on actual photos. Yes, that old, that they're actual processed photos O.O not digital ones). But I figure everyone knows the US card for this set, they're quite common - it's white.
And this is the more recent replacement :)
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Well, imagine my surprise when I totally ended up falling in love with Medley!
I have a couple so soft ponies I love. Despite not being able to touch them...because flocked things feel gross.
I got a Baby Beachball for a swap once, and adored her. Nowadays I have my own!
Post Merge: May 02, 2019, 05:25:10 AMI have a couple so soft ponies I love. Despite not being able to touch them...because flocked things feel gross.
Couldn’t agree more! Flocking is the worst!
I got a Baby Beachball for a swap once, and adored her. Nowadays I have my own!
Post Merge: May 02, 2019, 05:25:10 AMI have a couple so soft ponies I love. Despite not being able to touch them...because flocked things feel gross.
Couldn’t agree more! Flocking is the worst!
flocking is not my favourite either, but I couldn't deflock my best wishes for she in near mint...
Oh yeah, Sweetheart Sisters as well! I don't want any more (except maybe the one that looks like a giraffe)
Pfft. Someone should photograph her with Creamsicle. Also, was the "spot" pun intended?Oh yeah, Sweetheart Sisters as well! I don't want any more (except maybe the one that looks like a giraffe)
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Spot the difference. xD
I never thought of that comparison before, but when you said it it rang so true...
I just realised that I have another example of this, albeit one that goes over a long span of time!
When I was around three years old, I had Cherries Jubilee. I can't remember for sure how I got her, or whether I was involved in choosing her, or if she was a present. But I had her. She was my third pony ever.
As a kid I really didn't like that pose. I also had Snowflake and felt the same about that. Snowflake had the prettier colours, though, and a sparkly symbol, so I think I liked her more. Also she was Pony Christmas one year in the stories so that helped :) Although I did have a 'friend' try to steal her, I was still glad when she was returned to my fold.
So I had these two ponies and I wasn't hugely in love with either of them. But they were part of my herd so obviously they stayed. They just tended to get the least fun jobs in games, or they'd go exploring more because I wasn't so attached to them. And Cherries Jubilee most of all. Although she had the song tape song and there was a Cherries Jubilee in the cartoon and she was in the comic, I still didn't totally connect.
When I was a kid I was obsessed with Magic Star. But after a while it dawned on me that she was also in that same pose. So I knew I had to do something about my pose-hate and my Cherries Jubilee hate. By this point (I was nine?) my Cherries Jubilee's hair was all over the place and resembled a cross between a loofah and bunny ears...which did nothing much to endear me. But at that age I was writing stories about ponies, so I thought I'd write about Magic Star and make Cherries Jubilee (CJ) her best friend, so I'd get to like her more.
...So fast forward to now.
The strategy worked. It worked so well that now I not only have my (now beloved) childhood CJ (whose hair is a bit hippyish now but no longer bunny ear loofah style), I also have an upgrade CJ, a symbol variation CJ from the US, the UK 1986 one with straight hair, the So Soft, a NC one, an Italian one, and two Mint on Card ones - UK 1985 and UK 1986. From really disliking this pony I now have what probably counts as an army.
All because I decided to write about her when I was nine.
I now have Magic Star too. Her pose doesn't bother me any more. In fact, weirdly enough, although I hated the pose so much as a kid, I love her in that pose much more than the SS. While she's pretty, I have a disconnect with the SS Magic Star - she's too pale because of the fur, and she just isn't 'right' to me, as I never grew up knowing about SS ponies. So now I guess my pose-hate is well and truly cured, thanks to CJ.
(And now I think Snowflake is beautiful, and have her MOC too. I'm really now proud that the UK made ponies like her which broke the rules and gave glitter symbols to ordinary earth ponies!)
I think my biggest realized disliked pony is my reproduction Moonstone since she's starting to yellow (because of the scented plastic?) and it's a huge yellow blotch.