Please could anyone help me to price My Little Pony Tales Clover? She is in excellent condition 

[moving to the corral for you love pkw xxx]

I was visiting family this weekend and we went to a couple of charity shops. I rarely find anything, but was amazed to see six G1 ponies, including a Princess Royal Blue Variant! Only 99p each - I grabbed them pretty fast. They are in really nice condition, they just need a wash.

Any idea of the Princess Pony's value? 

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Hey guys,

Like many of you on here, I collect several different types of toys. My rule to myself though, is that I can never actually spend any money. So I will never buy at 'full price', but purchase toys in lots where I can sell some of them on and know that I can break even, or sometimes even make a little profit when I re-sell. I don't do it for 'business' - it's my way of justifying my purchases on a budget, as it were 

I've actually made over £1000 this year, which I'm surprised at. Not all of it is toys though - some of it is furniture we sold, clothes we cleared out, homeware stuff etc. The question is, do I need to pay tax on these sales, even though the money is pretty much levelling out? If I calculated it all, my profits would be small overall vs what I paid, or else non-existent.

E.g, I recently bought a nice lot of 60s Barbie items for £75. I will probably sell a few outfits and shoes and make that back, but keep the rest, so will break even and thus feel happy that I can keep the rest of the bundle for my collection.

If anyone else justifies their collecting habits by buying in lots and selling back some of it as I do, do you worry about paying taxes on these sales? I've never thought about it before because I've never made this much in a year on eBay, but I think with the virus this year, I've been buying more toys than usual, being stuck at home a lot and everything 

Any advice is much appreciated, thank you!

This is something I think about a lot, and I'd love to know what other people think 

I feel like society we're conditioned to believe we should behave in certain ways and like certain things based on our age and gender. Surely this starts from before we even know what is happening: girls are dressed in pink and boys are dressed in blue.

In a similar way, we're told that we should 'grow up' and stop liking toys at a certain age. In fact, I recently bought a Gazelle (from Zootropolis) doll from an eBay seller, who told me she was selling it because her 8 year old got it for her birthday but she was 'too old for it'  Personally I was very surprised at this, because I was still physically 'playing' with my toys until I was probably 12.

Now toys have a different purpose and meaning for me. Part of it is nostalgia but a lot of it is aesthetic. I suppose in the same way that someone might want to display a collection of antiques or collect spoons, I like to collect and display certain toys.

Throughout my life I have been made to feel like this is bad/weird by several people because I'm 'too old'. Toys are not my only hobby though - I also love vintage/antique clothing, sewing/making (which I do for a living now as a professional doll maker) and I also see caring for my two rabbits and playing with them a hobby, as it takes up so much of my time  Renovating my new house has also become a hobby and something I invest a lot of time in. Sometimes toys will only get a fraction of my time per week or month compared to the other things I like doing, but the point is I always come back to them. They will always bring me meaning and enjoyment.

I'd like to know how other people feel about this topic, I'm sure similar things have been discussed before but it has been on my mind a lot lately so I'd like to open a discussion about it 

Does anyone know the value of this G1 LPS playset, complete? Apparently it is quite HTF.

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(this picture isn't mine, it's from the internet, but this is the set I'm talking about)

Thanks guys 

Has anyone else ever received a package with damaged toys in? I bought a lot of Grand Champion horses from the FB Marketplace App and was really excited to receive them. I gave away my childhood collection along with my childhood G1s, and of course I regret it.

Well, I got the package in the post today. The ponies were all loose with a sad layer of bubblewrap surrounding them. There were some misc/cheapy resin horses in there, all broken to smithereens.

Luckily, most of the GCs are okay. But the one model I was really excited and happy to get is so badly broken. Her neck is off and her face is split.

I can't believe it I've messaged the person who sold them to me about this. I feel like I should get at least a partial refund for the rubbish packaging.

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20171102_114802 by Rachel Brown, on Flickr

Who else here used to collect 'Grand Champions'?

As a child I had a huge herd of them, now I just have one left, but they were really special to me and I always keep an eye out for them. I was doing some browsing on the 'ol net and came across something quite surprising:

http://buyusatoys.com/product-category/grand-champion/

New Grand Champions that look very much like these models when they were in their prime owned by Marchon/Empire/Revell. Anyone who knows a lot about these models will be aware that they got sold off to another company, repackaged, some *terrible* new poses were made that looked anatomically awful, and the whole line went down the pan. This was several years ago and I never dreamed they'd make a come back, so I'm very excited!

Some of these models look really lovely and I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a few. Has anyone in the US seen these in the shops yet (I'm in the UK) - I emailed the company asking where they can be bought but haven't heard back.

I hope this excites anyone else who has a soft spot for Grand Champions 

Does anyone have any sweetheart sister ribbons or brushes to spare?