The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: MnDancer on October 28, 2012, 02:03:51 AM
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I only had one fakie as a kid because I just didn't like them even then. I knew the difference between a real MLP and a fakie and I just did not tolerate counterfiet ponies! But one friend's mother must not have known this and gave me Remco unicorn that was purple with a white horn and hooves and the standard rainbow hair for my birthday. It also came with a rainbow pony tail holder which I played with far more than the pony! That rainbow ponytail holder almost immediately went around Baby Moon Dancer's neck and became the Rainbow of Light when I was playing! The unicorn, didn't see much play at all, but when I did play with her she was always an imposter spying on the ponies for some evil purpose!
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Mine became the villains too! I also used their accessories for MLP. :lol:
I do not remember what fakies I had.
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I played with them and loved them. Equally as the Hasbro Ponies.
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Mine didn't live in the Dreamcastle but in the stable and went to school with the others too... *hihi*. Great childhood memories!
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I had some Chap Mei's, but I cannot remember playing with them much. They weren't real ponies to me.
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Didn't have any fakies, only real MLPs :cool:
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Well... I and my sister shared our toys, and because she was older she decided that the ponies were hers, the fakies were mine. So fakies and Mlps were equal in my eyes :P
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I refused to play with them. I remember which I had, no idea who got them for me, but I hated them with a passion, so they went into a toy box never to be seen again. My friend and me used to call them "turn-your-head-ponies" because real ponies in the 80s couldn't turn their heads.
The only fakie I ever wanted to own was a yellow Takara fakie my parents bought me at a souvenir shop in Spain. Happy days! :) Still have her! My brother loved her too because her nose smelled so good back then!
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I had two, one of them being a pretty good Buddy L fakie and it took me ages to realise she's not legit :P so she is still a regular part of my herd. The other one was a cute glow in the dark fakie so she was also equal to the others ^^
Basically, I didn't make any difference between them.
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I played with them alongside my real ponies~! :3
Granted this was probably because I only owned a handful of hasbro pones when I was a kid and most of my collection consisted of fakies anyway... But even so, I liked them just as much~! I had two Lanard fakies, the yellow ones with sunflowers on them, that were my favorites~
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Play with them, I loved (and still do) all kinds of horses and ponies. So I didn't care :)
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I loved my fakies as well :) Granted I played with my real MLPs a lot more, but I did play with the fakies too ^.^
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I played with them and loved them. Equally as the Hasbro Ponies.
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Same here. I think my takara fakies were even some of my favorite ponies. I loved how they had a sitting pose and looked so cute.
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I love my only fakie, and when I had my other g1(I had four but I only have 2 now, but I never had ember as a child).. When I played the fakie was the outsider and she was rejected.. Lady Flutter ruled the three other ponies I had at the time, she decided who lived on THE SHELF. (and now thats Celestia's job. And the fakie is rejected. Still XD)
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I spoiled my fakie. XD She would get her hair washed and styled all the time. I think I actually played with her more than most of my other toys.
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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!
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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 :D
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
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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
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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 XD
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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
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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 :)
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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
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^ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 :huh:
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. :lol: I slightly remember one of the fakies being a boss of a restaurant and he was flirting with Rainbow Dash all the time :biggrin:
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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 ! :D 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 :)
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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?? :lol: 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!
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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 ^^
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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!
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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)
awwwww, I had one too :D :D It just came to my mind, I totally forgot him <3
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My sister and I were convinced that the Tara toys fakie family we had were original MLPs. That being said they were usually the outcasts of pony society when we played. Poor things...
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I had many MLP's as a kid or so I'm told, I actually don't remember any of them specifically, I just have some very fuzzy memories of playing with them with my friends.
But I remember I had a unicorn fakie (It's horn lit up and it was white) I played with that a lot. I took it in to infant school once and it's tail came out, I was so sad, but then my friend said she could fix it because her mum was a doctor haha.
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i felt the same way about the imposters LOL, i never had any as a kid but i would tell my friend who did to keep them at home when she bought her ponies over to play :P what i wicked child i was LOL
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I wasn't big on ponies as a kid (I was more of a Barbie girl... :blush:) and I didn't even realise the 2 G1 babies my sister and I had were indeed MLP until I started collecting this year XD.
I had a handful of fakies and I played with them about as much as I played with my other toys :)
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I had Buddy L's. I made them Daddy Ponies :)
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I played with them just like I did with my little ponies. I can't remember all of them but I used to have Remco fakies. I was pleased to get a few a year back so now I can say that I have some. Though they don't come with those cute little rubber band rainbows accessories. :/
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I only had two fakies, if you consider Enchanted Land horses as fakies. I remember clearly being in the store and begging my mom for them. I loved their cute accessories. She said, "Wouldn't you like a My Little Pony more?" I turned around and, sure enough, the other side of the aisle was all MLPs. And I WOULD have liked one more. But for some reason I decided that I had to stick with my first choice so I said, no, I would like the Enchanted Land horses more.
I never really played with them--in fact, I actively disliked the peach horse. To this day I wish I'd picked out a real MLP instead! As for Remcos and BuddyL fakies, I scorned them.
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I love reading all these stories! It sounds like some of you actually had some pretty cool fakies! Glow in the dark ones, light up horns! If I had one as cool as that I might have liked them! I remember even being opposed to Dream Beauties as a kid because of the claim that they were all grown up ponies, I was actually offended by that! I thought if my ponies weren't all grown-up then they wouldn't be having babies! Which of course, they did. Although there were a few of them that I secretly really wanted, but wouldn't say so on principal. Lol
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I liked some of them, but mostly they were the evil ponies or evil step-moms and dads or something like that. :biggrin:
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I played with mine, but they most of the time stayed back at home while the others went out to play :)
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I had a white/rainbow hair Remco baby and didn't like to play with it, but I always kept it with my "real" ponies because I felt bad for it being unloved. When I first started seriously adding to my collection (but still hadn't entirely stopped playing with them), I somehow ended up with a white/rainbow hair Remco adult, so that became the baby's mommy. I still didn't play with them, but at least they weren't lonely! I still have them, and every so often think I should get rid of them because I don't like them, but I just can't bring myself to do it!
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I never had fakies, only real ponies.
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Mine always became bad guys..... alas, that is what happened to poor Cindy too when she came to play with Barbie...
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If I ever owned any fakies in my childhood, I don't remember it.
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I was never given a fakie was a kid but i could tell the difference at the store and i think that had a lot to do with it. My family knew i liked the MLPs not just ponies in general. Now when i win a lot on ebay, or buy a bag at the thrift store they normally come with at least one fakie, but my 2 year old loves all her ponies equally so i buy her MLP and when i get a fakie it goes into her collection. (but i dont buy fakies at the store for her, she only gets the tag alongs) Its funny tho, i've got my family trained to spot a fakie lol, my husband has gotten really good at it.
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I never had fakies as a kid. I actually only had a few Hasbro ponies, and they were all purchased second hand. I'm sure if I did have fakies I would have loved them the same, since I would have been so happy to recieive any colourful horse toy.
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I had one Buddy L fakie that lit up and made galloping noises. I treated her well.
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I never had a fakie. I didn't know they existed until adulthood.
My mother's a little OCD, and apparently didn't like the fact that fakies didn't match the Real ponies. So, since the real deal cost more I only had a small handful of ponies.
Now, however... I de-hair them and let my 7 month old use them as teething ponies!
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As children my sister and I never received fakies. I think it was because we liked the stories on the backs of the cards so much that my mom and grandma (the two present buyers) knew to get only real MLPs.
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I wouldn't let your 7-month-old use fakies as teething ponies. Some brands have had recalls for lead and other nasties. They exist largely under the regulation radar.
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Another thing I did with fakies - as a child, I had about 3 petites, IIRC, given to me by my sister, and the fakies, the only other pony I had with the petites at the time (I got rid of my other ponies by then) was their god and they worshipped her. If I am correct, one of the ponies (one of the pizza mark ones) saw her and shortly went insane and was put in the mental asylum (aka the top of the shelf.) I hated pizza and I hated pizza pony. I felt bad and she soon became the kind princess of the other two petites. (both GID I think)
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Ohhh fakies! :-) My very first pony was a fakie...she was al white with middle blue hair. I still know how i got her...it was around this time of the year when the toystore cataloguses came out and i really really wanted to have a pony for Sinterklaas (the Dutch variant of SantaClaus...and we celebrite his birthday on dec 5 with presents for the kids) but they where a little expensive in the beginning. So by the time another store has a cataloge out with "fake" ponies and much cheaper i got one from my parents! I even still know how we get to the store and bought it! And my first real mlp i got when i was at the hospital for my asthma, that was Skydancer and when i got home my granny got me Blossom. I also remember i had a little fake donkey glow in the dark and a fake Edgar, but those i keep with my glowbug doll's.
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I loved the fakes we had I had a magic meadow and a remco one who was an earth pony who was mint green , with light pink hair and pink hoofs. I loved her and somehow lost her .... I would love to find one again in those colors I miss her dearly.
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I remember playing with my fakies as much as with the 'real things', I especially liked my Lanard ponies and I also had (actually still have) three weird cabbage patch fakies that had bendable legs. Those are actually quite awesome :D At some point I got rid of most of my fakies, while only one MLP was put away (still regret doing that..) so perhaps they weren't as dear to me as MLPs after all.... but now I wish I hadn't let them go...
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I knew my Remco's weren't MLP, but I still loved them, since they were unicorns. I loved their hairbands too. Wish I still had them...
I know I had one that was a glow in the dark pony/horse, but no idea if it was Remco or not.
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I wouldn't let your 7-month-old use fakies as teething ponies. Some brands have had recalls for lead and other nasties. They exist largely under the regulation radar.
Eeeps! Thankfully I just started this yesterday. :cry:
So I guess one of the Sophie giraffes will have to be purchased. It's almost a pony.
Thank you for being candid.
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I think how I treated my fakies depended on who they were to me.
I had one or two Takara fakies and at least four (possibly six, or eight) neon coloured baby ponies with string hair. My Gran got me them at different times that she took me to the shops and I would play with them for hours. Since I didn't have any of my real Ponies with me whenever I picked out fakies I didn't really notice the difference, and by the time I got them home I had bonded with them. Also, because the babies were from MLP moulds it was only their hair that I found glaringly fake.
I also had three or four neon-coloured fakies that my parents bought me at the hospital shop when my younger brother was born. I can't really remember how they looked other than the colours, but I'd been told they were from my baby brother because he was excited to see me (or something like that). I just accepted them and liked how bright they were.
I had a My Little Angel horse called Dallas that came with a charm I wore everywhere. The horse was chubby like a pony and had clear wings with glitter inside! I was/am a big fan of kiddy cups with liquid and glitter inside, so although a little different this pegasus was loved.
I had a shiny white horse (maybe a little smaller than a Barbie horse) that was made by Crayola or PlayDoh or somebody and came with various gems you could stick to her. I don't think she had hair, just gaps to put playdoh maybe. She had a teardrop stone that I always stuck on her forehead. Most of my herd were MLP Princess Ponies so although she was a realistic horse the gemstones made her fit in. I think I tended to make her Princess Tiffany's noble, loving mummy who was adored by all the baby ponies, fakies and dragons.
Not technically fakies, but I bought some of the Strawberry Shortcake pets secondhand as friends for Brandy the Dog and Peachy's cat. I didn't know they weren't fakies until a few years ago!
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I only had one as a kid myself and I loved her dearly and miss her. It was a small bright yellow glittery glow in the dark pony. She was one epic pony and I'll never find her again.
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I only had one as a kid myself and I loved her dearly and miss her. It was a small bright yellow glittery glow in the dark pony. She was one epic pony and I'll never find her again.
She sounds gorgeous!
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I didn't have fakie MLP, but I bet I would've used them as the villian ponies too. In the show the villians kind of look like fakies!
I did have a fakie Barbie... and I made her be the maid :blush:
ps Honey Bunches, my son has a Sophie the Giraffe to teeth on and LOVED it, best teether we had. Don't let the squeaker get wet though, as it will kill the squeak (ie, don't boil it)
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I hated them with a passion and they either accidentally got lost or got left at a neighbours house forever.