What did you do with fakies as a kid?

[kellyponyfeathers]

I differentiated between real ponies and fakies pretty much from the beginning.  I didn't own any and no one *dared* to get me a counterfeit but if they had I would not have considered it to be part of my collection.  Yes, they were a "collection" by the time I was 8 or 9.

I remember one member here saying that someone got her a fakie for her birthday, and she threw it in the pool in irritation!  I probably wouldn't have done that (at least, not in front of the giver), but I would have wanted to!

[Sonata]

I had an adult Remco and a baby one. I loved those, even though they were obviously fakies to me ! I am quite sad that I gave those away, specially the adult one ! She was dark blue with rainbow hair and white hooves and I think the baby was hot pink... I used to paint them with golden and silver gel pens and decorate them with weird swirly designs

Nowadays, I still love fakies and I own a few I don't mind everytime I get a bundle on ebay and fakies are in the middle - I end up adding the ones I like the most to my collection <3

[MonstarNomNom]

I differentiated between real ponies and fakies pretty much from the beginning.  I didn't own any and no one *dared* to get me a counterfeit but if they had I would not have considered it to be part of my collection.  Yes, they were a "collection" by the time I was 8 or 9.

I remember one member here saying that someone got her a fakie for her birthday, and she threw it in the pool in irritation!  I probably wouldn't have done that (at least, not in front of the giver), but I would have wanted to!

I believe that was dear CapnChan. Lol xD Apparently she has a picture of the moment as well. Hahaha

[Einhornbaby]

I had some fakies in childhood and some of them got lots of love <3 I remember having some Remcos and I loved their rainbow-hairties a lot! And I had one which was able to change the color of hair and make-up. And I loved thos glow-in-the-dark donkeys <3 My very first pony ever was one and it got stolen in Kindergarten. I still have a soft spot for them <3

Well I have to admit, most of my fakies didnt get that much attention, because I wasnt very creative with names and wasnt able to make up 5 different ones for 5 ponies with the same symbol. That was the main reason why I didnt like most fakies. My friend for example had the same mother-and-foal pair, blue bodied with pink-yellow-blue striped hair and bird-symbols. Well, yeah, how to name them? Birdy, Birdy2, Baby Birdy, Baby Birdy2 ? ... boring

[egyptiondragon]

i only had fakies as a kid so they were payed with id only seen real my little pony at a friends house once when i was a child and i like my fakies better

[Sukeile]

As far as I remember I played just as much with the fakies.
I only had two official Hasbro ponies as a kid and the diversity of looks on the characters just added to the games

[lovesbabysquirmy]

They were cousins to the MLP... like, over the next mountain ridge-kind of cousins. 

My reasoning being that if the Care Bears had cousins of other species, the ponies could have slightly different-looking equine cousins.  :-p

[gabumon]

^ makes sense to me LBS!

We had a family of purple flocked fakies.  played with them alot.  we only had a handful of real MLP:  the baby bonnet ballet playset, two "softies" plush, and one or two real mlp.  ... and then fakies.

[HavACrumpet452]

I played with my Tex, Steamer, Remco and Buddy L pretty much equally. There were other ponies in my childhood herd but I don't remember doing too much playing with them. They could have been there as background characters.

[Rosencrantz]

I had Remcos and baby Tara Toy fakies. They were treated like normal ponies, given the same reason I gave for why Sister Ponies looked nothing like Brother Ponies/Earthling G1s/all the mold discrepancy. They were just from another region and had evolved differently.

[FlitterRose]

I remember one member here saying that someone got her a fakie for her birthday, and she threw it in the pool in irritation!

I gotta say this is pretty cruel

But still,I didn't have any boy ponies as a child,cuz I couldn't find them anywhere,so I used my fakies as boys. I slightly remember one of the fakies being a boss of a restaurant and he was flirting with Rainbow Dash all the time 

[Sonata]

OH ! How could I forget?!

I think I had other fakies at some point, but I remember clearly having an Edgar fakie (you know, the elephant) and I loved him ! Also, I have two Dollar General babies and I adore them to bits ! I called them Strawberry and Banana because of their colours xD Honestly, I only own Baby Cuddles so having two more babies was just perfect

[NoPonySpecial]

  I didn't play with my first fakie, a Remco donkey, along with two genuine MLPs, because their previous owner had spilled soda on them and they were sticky. (And it never occurred to me to clean them??  I was a weird kid!)
  My second fakie was a gift from a well-meaning Aunt, and I loved this one to bits. She was the only pony that was specifically purchased for me; my MLP collection was purchased at a yard sale from before I can remember.  Funnily enough, she never did end up with a name even though she was one of my favorite ponies! (eventually I named her Light Bright...about a decade and a half later!)
  To me, the fakies were equal to genuine MLP, but the other ponies didn't see it that way, and the fakies often felt like outcasts and would have to prove themselves worthy of whatever the goal was that day, from being invited to a party, to being allowed to be citizens!
  Today all ponies are equal, but the fakies still may get a few strange glances or rude comments from the rest of the pony population!

[Loona]

as real MLP was pretty darn expensive to us I had more fakies than real  ones as a child. even though I liked real ones more (mostly because their designs, poses, symbols were more detailed and pretty) I loved my fakies and played with them equally, they were parts of the family. as an adult I usually resell fakies I get in lots, but I would never sell or give away my childhood fakies. I am also planning to rehair some of them, or at least one (a Merry Go Round baby fakie) who has awfully messy hair, she was one of my favourites, even beating some real MLPs ^^

[hathorcat]

If I had been given one I would have showed it love as the gift it was...I was that kind of child However, my mum also knew I was a particularly fussy little girl so she managed to always only buy me MLP and ensure all gifts given were Hasbro ponies only...I must have been a nightmare for her!