Did you ever take part in a mail order offer?

[Lorelei Redfern]

i  got goldilocks. with my pony points when i was little.   shes still in very much pritine  condition.  i also have camel crunch  but i never got her in a box or anyhitng she was wrapped up in tissue paper and i was never allowed to paly withher so i  always thought she was a   mail order pony. 

i know someone who got  rapunzel and a few of the  other mail orders.

[Flutterblossom]

I remember when I was little I got a poster with Star Catcher on it and a playmat through mail order. My sisters and I also some how ended up getting 4 Love Wishes because we had all of these pony points and didn't cash them in right away, and by the time we did, the only pony they offered was Love Wishes.

[Sternenstaub]

In Germany we haven't had the same Mail Order System like the US - but we were able to sent Horseshoe Points to get a free Poster - and that was what I did. 

[ShortyBoo]

My mom would hold onto the points for me and send in for the mail orders I wanted when I was a kid. I ended up with the full sets of both the pearlized babies and the TAF babies. Baby Dancing Butterflies was my absolute favorite when I was a kid. I'd love to have her again someday, but for now, she's above my price range.

[Marigold]

First of all, I was convinced these were scams.  I didn't understand why you had to pay anything for a "free" mail away pony, so that made me think something was wrong about it.  And I assumed they were not "real" My Little Ponies and I would end up with fakies.  I was little, I didn't understand.

Second, I never had enough points to get a mail away.  Any points I may have had were thrown out before I knew you could mail away for things.

I did end up getting the Christmas baby pony which I think was one of the last mail away offered in the 1st generation.  I remember using my saved birthday money for her and I saved up cereal points (I think?).  I LOVED her when she arrived and I wished I had taken advantage of the other offers. 

[Dewprincess]

I got Dazzle Surprise and Love Wishes   I had saved enough points to get Giant Plush Frilly Frocks, but was sharing a tiny dorm room with a roommate at the time, so it wouldn't have been a good idea to get her

[StarlightGaze]

Only mail order I ever did was for a LPS G1 husky.

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[Sternenstaub]

Only mail order I ever did was for a LPS G1 husky.

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Ohhh - sooo cute!!!

[lovesbabysquirmy]

My mom ordered a few ponies when I was younger with Horseshoe Points.  I clipped all my pony points and got the 3 main mail order ponies - ALMOST got Frilly Frocks but I was a few points short before they discontinued her. 

Wish they'd do the program again but I understand why they wouldn't want to.

[Sugar]

Yeppers - got the three colours of Baby Ember, six of the twelve Birthflower Ponies, and the 1986 (?) reissues of Minty, Snuzzle, Butterscotch, and Cotton Candy.  I think.  I can't remember now if my Butterscotch was from my first years or laters.  She's lost, so moot.

But I remember clipping the Horseshoe Points, and giving my mum the cash so she'd write me the cheques, and then being so over-the-moon when a tiny package would arrive from Hasbro.  Made my day/week/month when I was a tween/early teen.

[KarentheUnicorn]

Yea. I got almost all the unique mail order ponies from Hasbro, starting out with baby ember. I never ordered the duplicate ponies, I generally just go after unique ponies so I never saw a point to ordering reissues.

[Cinnabar]

When I was around seven or eight Hubba Bubba or Bubble Yum I cant remember which was running a promotion to win a She-ra doll in specially marked packs of gum. I ended up having a winning wrapper and was so excited to recieve a She-ra doll in the mail.  I sent the wrapper off and waited for her to arrive for what seemed like months. Finally a package arrived for me and instead of a doll they had sent me a She-ra comic. I guess they had run out of the dolls  

The only other time as a child anyway was when we sent away the horse shoe points for baby ember, I got the purple baby 

[medleysong]

I remember sending away for the original set of 6 when they were re-released and one of the baby embers. I also sent away for a birthflower pony as well. I started collecting the G3s when they came out so I sent away for Dazzle Surprise and Sunshimmer. After that I stopped de-boxing my ponies so had no more pony points lol. I remember feeling like the ones I got as a kid took forever. The original 6 I swear took over a month but Dazzle Surprise came really quickly. Sunshimmer took longer but still probably within a couple of weeks if I remember correctly. I remember them selling out of her and a lot of discussion on forums from people worried they weren't going to get one.

[ShortyBoo]

More recently, I've done a few LPS mail orders. I got the jaguar and the kiwi bird. I could have gotten the platypus, but I didn't think it was all that cute. I love the two I got, though.

Now if only MLP would do a mail-in program again. They could even do it online, similar to Club Nintendo. Like they could put little slips of paper with a code that you enter that would give you a different amount of points depending on what you bought. Then once you have enough points, you trade them in for prizes. It could be anything from stickers to brushables, to plushies. It would especially be awesome if they could offer playset ponies by themselves as prizes for the points.

[hathorcat]

Fantastic stories guys! Thanks so much for sharing - I really would have loved that feeling of getting a "new" and unique pony through the post.