The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Loa on June 19, 2018, 08:19:48 PM
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Where would you start?
By year?
Colour?
Set?
Generation?
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Hmm...gosh I don’t know. I kinda started with g4 for my current collection of cross generational ponies. But if I had to start again from square one... I think I’d start with colour. I like space themed ponies, so it would be a logical place to start. I tried collecting only certain ponies for some time, but it didn’t last too long. Not time for logic when one has ponies!
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I'd go straight for whatever really caught my eye first, and then fill in any holes later. I collect A LOT of different things, and that's how all my collections start. I find one thing that catches my eye, it leads me to look for more. Then I just pick up what I like as I find it during my searches. Later, if the collection turns serious, I go for sets, and branch out to other sub-collections.
So whatever catches my eye is my priority. And any good bargains I come across in my searches too:p I'll generally ignore anything that I'm lukewarm on until the collection gets big enough that I'm starting to have a hard time finding new stuff to get, or I find a particularly good bargain for something that I know I'll want later.
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I probably wouldn’t start! It’s not a cheap hobby, anymore! Ponies for a quarter, anyone?
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Probably by getting my favorites of the ones I have right now. Or thrifting, thrifting has been how I've gotten a large amount of my collection anyway.
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Well, I've always gone for white ponies, especially gen 1, and that wouldn't change if I had to start anew.
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I probably wouldn’t start! It’s not a cheap hobby, anymore! Ponies for a quarter, anyone?
100% agreed - even just a few years ago, I'd be able to pick up a pony for a nice treat or a reward for having achieved something, nowadays getting a pony is something that has to be considered a lot more because of the prices of some of them!
If I were starting over though, I'd probably set myself a theme, like weather or space-themed ponies.
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I'd still go after the orange ones.
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I would go about it exactly as I have done now:
1. replace lost childhood herd
2. obtain all ponies who I wanted desperately as a child but never even touched
3. any other pony who brings joy
I have no 'theme' and I have no need to complete sets except for what I mentioned above. So for example I will buy the princess ponies whom I love, but do not have to complete the set. However because I so wanted TE ponies as a child and never got to even hold one I do want to have them all one day. This makes sense to me in my own special way even if it does not to anyone else ^.^
This being said, I am in full agreement with regards to the increase in pony prices.
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I'd probably do a similar method as I'm doing now, since I'd be the same person; go by whatever grabs my eye, and is the cheapest. :P I miss buying BIG honkin' lots from eBay and needing every single pony in the lot! Nowadays, I'm lucky if I can find a lot under $300 that has more than a handful I still need.
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I would go about it exactly as I have done now:
1. replace lost childhood herd
2. obtain all ponies who I wanted desperately as a child but never even touched
3. any other pony who brings joy
Exactly this for me too. Except I’d be smarter as a thirteen year old and not get rid of my childhood herd in the first place!
Elf
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I'd do the exact same thing, except I wouldn't sell off my Shy Pose Army. It took me three years to realize that was a bad move on my part. Now I know I won't ever get some of those ponies again and it hurts my heart a little bit. :sad:
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By theme, totally. Ocean themed, bird themed. Maybe by pose, too.
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Where would you start?
By year?
Colour?
Set?
Generation?
Yeeps. That's a hard question since I don't even remember 'starting'...I haad ponies from the age of 2 and I never sold them :/
If talking about online and second hand collecting though...I think, knowing my personality, I'd probably do it in a disorganised and impulse manner, buying whatever I found at second hand sales and then randomly buying lots on ebay irrespective of the ponies...
Between 1995 and 1998, when we were online at home, my collection basically consisted of whatever turned up at carboot sales as I didn't know of any other resource, really. And although I began arranging my first online trade in 1997, it didn't manifest till 1998 and was a highly unrealistic trade in the modern sense since in that time we'd amassed about 100 UK release duplicates and she brought about the same number of mostly US release ponies to trade with us.
So many of the mundane collection gaps, and some of the rarer ones like Crumpet, Munchy, Mimic, etc were settled before I even really knew they were rare.
I genuinely think I'd have no clue how to do it now from scratch. Maybe I just wouldn't. :/ I am not so much of an obsessive completionist with collections I began as an adult. G1 MLP is the only one I feel like that about, because it was part of my childhood...
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If I had to start over, I'd stick with G1's and strictly MOC's/MIB/MIP.
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I'd start with G1 of course:
Year: Idk, what year did the TEs and SSs come out again?
Color: Green
Set: Twinkle Eyes.
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I probably wouldn’t start! It’s not a cheap hobby, anymore! Ponies for a quarter, anyone?
I remember ponies for a DIME!!!! D:
I agree, I don't think I would have started collecting if all my ponies had disappeared. Mom was picky about me keeping them and so I've always had a herd and added to it... but if I had ZERO? I don't think I'd start collecting MLP with prices the way they are now.
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Well, I would of course start with G1... I only buy from local sellers except for a few eBay purchases. I couldnt rebuild my collection exactly the same way if I only bought what local sellers had, and even then I don't really care what I get as long as I don't have it :P If I were to buy online I gues I would...
1. Pick out favorites and buy those first
2. Buy their set mates so they aren't lonely
3. Start with year one and move forward
4. Pick sets and buy!
Rebuilding my collection this way would probably take a lot longer... I would wait and wait and wait until a good deal, lol
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Haha, I would definitely not be able to not keep buying them. Ponies are my main SpIn, I can't be without them because they mean the world to me!
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If starting from the beginning, I would stick with my missing g1 ponies I had as a child, and then a few others that caught my eyes, but nothing over the top in price.
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For me, it would be G1. :P
Firstly, picking super-favourites from my childhood herd (looking at you, Honeycomb + Gypsy + Fizzy + Galaxy!)
then ones that I always liked but never managed to get during UK childhood - yo, Glory and German Baby Honeycomb!
Then ones that are "new" to me (never knew existed until joining the Arena) and catch my eye - Night Glider, TAF Buttons, Merriweather.
I am not too fussed about completing sets or getting pristine ponies, as I can pass the fun on to my kid without being too precious about how she handles them (within reason - no scissors or pens allowed near them!!) :lol:
I don't need a massive herd, nor do I desire to get every G1 character ever made, just the ones that I actually like the best :happy:
for example, I saw SS Scrumptious on ebay and just loved the colour combo - had to be bought! :cool:
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I think if I were to restart I'd have focused completely on G1 and abandoned most of my G4 collection, save a few favorites.
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I’d probably do it the same and just collect the sets/ponies I like in the ultimate minty condition I can find.
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Oh, dear where would I... I have a strong suspicion that even if I aimed to start out with like, one set at a time (which I think would be my choice here), I'd get sidetracked and do what I did when I started collecting anyway: buy all the ponies!
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I'm just gonna simply say generation. And that'd be G1, since I'm only interested in them.
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Oh gosh, I don't know!
I actually only collect G1 and G3, although i do have a lot of childhood G2 ponies.
If i was to completely start over I would still collect both generations but I think I would start by year, so G1 would be collected first :biggrin:
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I’ve always been so random in my collecting habits ... just who strikes my fancy. Tbh I can’t think of myself doing it another way or trying to apply a method to my madness ... but I’ve always admired those who do!
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Hmmm. I don't have much of a theme, just ponies I like, so really whatever I could come across first from my want list. I will say I wish I had gotten into collecting sooner! Maybe start with G3s first, since they're more common and I only want about three of them for myself!
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I would probably start in the same way.
1 Trying to get those I never got as a child.
2. Getting those who were in the movies
2. Getting those I think are pretty.