I'm not that fond of the Sweetheart Sisters either. I never took to the characters when they were introduced in the UK comic, and that bled over into me not liking the toys very much either. I still think they look a bit weird.

Put me down as another person who loves the Tootsy pose. I think it looks really cute, especially on Cherries Jubilee.

I don't like European Princess Sparkle at all. All the glitter and fibre optic lights and whatnot are just too much. She reminds of a cupcake that's been decorated by someone who doesn't know where to stop and has piled heaps and heaps of icing and glittery sprinkles on it. Looking at her kind of gives me toothache

I have her. She's really pretty in person 

I just received my Genie the other day, and she is beautiful   Can't wait for Puppy Love to be available, she looks gorgeous! 

I have an army of her, including CF, FF, Italian, Greek and Macau:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFzHTeLuoEs/

I love all the variations. No two of her are the same!

I was usually quite good to my ponies, but there were one or two things I did to them that I really shouldn't have...

Lickety Split got a really frizzy mane and tail, and at age nine of course I didn't have any idea how to deal with frizz, so I trimmed out the frizzy bits. So my childhood Lickety Split has a thin-looking, shortish mane and tail. She doesn't look too bad, but you can tell some hair's missing 

I got Baby Seashore at a jumble sale somewhere, and as I had never heard of Watercolour Baby Sea Ponies I had no idea that her soft, thin mane was made of special colour-changing fibre... so I dyed it. With food colouring and nail polish. All these years later I could kick myself for doing that - I got the food colouring out, but her forelock is still dark pink from nail polish that stubbornly refuses to come out 

Apart from that, most of my childhood ponies are in fairly good condition. If only I could say the same for my dolls 

I've told some of my friends about my collection, and I sometimes tell new people that I meet, if I think I can trust them. My husband is supportive of my collecting, even if he doesn't really understand the appeal of ponies, because it makes me happy. He's even beginning to recognise some of the ponies now - he knows Applejack and Peachy . Our closest friends have been quite supportive, even if they do take the Mickey sometimes.

My ponies have become quite important to me, as they've helped me through some difficult times this past year. I've been seeing a therapist for a while, and she agrees that it's good for me to have the ponies around, as they cheer me up so much and give me something good to focus on. I've started caring less about who knows about my collection now, and it's been liberating

It seems I'll never get my hands on a G4 Snowcatcher

Other than that, I'd love a blue Lickety Split or Posey, and one of the TAF babies, but I highly doubt any of those is ever going to happen...

Probably a Brush and Grow, as my hair is pretty long and very thick. I would also love to have multicoloured hair like a BnG, although sadly it's just not practical for me in real life