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I was reading along and I saw my name, ahhhhhhh! Hi there!!
HQT ran Dream Castle website and I still have one of her fanfictions saved on my computer (the one about the fairy tale princesses), and I wish I'd saved the other one about Lord Dale. The Ice Palace was run by . . . IceFeather, I want to say? I think she also ran the Church of the Holy MOC Mimic, which was hilarious.
I had forgotten about Pretty Bow and Argentina Flutterbye! I remember when I got her and I thought I had this super rare pony. Then once it was discovered she was from Argentina and she wasn't uber hard to find her price plummeted. It took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that she wasn't Pretty Bow
The sites I miss most are actually customizer sites... Lady Minty's Customs *cries* I wish there was an archive somewhere of ALL her photos... I was fortunate enough to obtain one of her customs.
I remember when the German Babies pulled in the big bucks:p I paid $295 for my Baby Cherries Jubilee, and that was a bargain at the time! I also remember when you could pretty easily pick up a Mimic for $30-$40, and Rapunzel sold for under $100.. . . I remember the "Shadow Wars" that happened when the G2s came out. I remember all those "love all ponies!" banners that people had to try to stop the flame war:p
It seems like it was much more common then for people to have their own MLP-themed websites, which in hindsight were often quite primitive. Lots of text that often shifted around as you scrolled the page, and the text was often quite small. I guess now people have many more outlets to share their interests and don't need to build a website from scratch. I still have a Word document that is the text for the website I wanted to create. One of the features was going to be the backcard stories. I think I got scooped on that by . . . the Paradise Estate Library? There was some site called that . . .
About the auctions without pictures--YES, and if they did have pictures they were from a scanner! Ponies floating on a greenish-black background, and Lemon Drop's hair always looked pink-ish.
So many memories in this thread... I don't even know where to start. I remember probably 98% of everything mentioned, though I was still young and didn't really get "involved" with things, I was collecting and watching everything pony going on around me on the web. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever that other people were into ponies too! I used to be BabyBrightbow(Baby B), then for a while here PonyWisp. Oh how things change...
Red roses! I blame tuneful for the price increase on her! She was some what hard to find, but not impossible! I remember I bought mine from a user named Michelle for $7. That was in 99. I also bought two moc Greeks on ebay for $40 a piece. Orange sunlight and pink parasol. I decarded them both, because there were literally a dozen of them on eBay, and what seemed like an endless supply of Greeks. Does anyone remember when everyone started decarding their argies because a few members were finding the cardboard was staining them? It was a pretty big fiasco with the decarding versus not decarding.