Bumping the thread.

Great! Thanks, pinkkittywinks and LadyGuinevere! This is my first Nirvana, and the lot I bought her in included 4 other ponies and cost $25.00, so it looks like I got pretty lucky.

I managed to get the silver-starred version of her for a great price in a surprisingly high-quality "bait" lot. I already had Merriweather (my only childhood TAF) and Dancing Butterflies (the first TAF I found in a thrift store as an adult), and when I decided to add a unicorn to the group*, I set my sights on Milky Way, and I've had no regrets about getting her (although now that I've seen her in person, the white-starred version of her would be a bit nicer).

*I don't complete sets of G1s very often, but if there's one that I particularly like, I like having one pony of each species to make the portion of a set that I do have feel more complete.

While this episode wasn't one of my favorites, there are still some parts about it that I like.

For one, this episode features an (initially) evil princess, which throws a wrench in the "queens=evil, princesses=good" idea that (if I recall correctly) was why Celestia's title wound up being "Princess" rather than "Queen" in FIM. I also can relate to Shady on some level. (Hmm...why does it always seem to be Earth ponies that have these kind of self-esteem issues?)

I don't think there was a single overt fat joke made throughout the episode (yes, Porcina is pretty big, but to be fair, pigs aren't exactly known for being svelte), and Porcina doesn't magically become "truly beautiful" at the end, either -- she just stops becoming overly obsessed with her appearance and gains a group of friends who accept her regardless of her looks.

(Bump.)

I collect some fakies, though I tend to be pretty selective, since not all of them interest me and I don't have a lot of pony space.

Here's the bulk of my collection...
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And these two are my most recent additions, though I doubt I'll be keeping them. The pink Lanard's mane and tail are attached to her legs with elastic bands, as if she was just taken out of her packaging.
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Something which I don't see brought up very often is that Ember isn't the only G1 pony without a symbol -- the Merry-Go-Round, Ballerina and Secret Surprise ponies (most of which are adults) don't have any either (unless you consider their "wardrobe" to be their symbol).

(I actually also had the same idea that baby ponies' symbols and names would change as they got older, a bit like how people in some cultures have different names as babies, children, adults and seniors that reflect who they are.)