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Pony Talk => Pony Brag Arena => Topic started by: Sunshine on January 20, 2013, 07:34:54 PM
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So I went out of town this past weekend to visit a friend, and to basically go flea market-ing, thrift store-ing, etc. We all love to do that (there's a group of 4 of us that like to go and we all look for different things...) and I've been on kind of a hot "pony streak" lately - I'll find one at the Goodwill or some place almost every time I go (though, mostly McDonalds ponies or ones I don't personally collect, but I rescue them!)
And FINALLY the flea market and thrift store gods shined down upon me and granted me a TON of things!!
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I did get two fakies... the big one in the back and the purple Magic Meadow/Cabbage Patch pony (though, it has glass eyes so it's a fakie of a "fakie" right?)... then I was lucky enough to find several G1s, the BBSoD shell, a like 85% complete Show Stable (has almost everything, just missing some tiny stuff and Lemon Drop/Brandy), a G1 Bubble bath container, a G1 McDonalds Bookmark, a Mommy charm - a bunch of pony clothes (though the star thing on a rope is something else... Moondreamers maybe??) one G3.5 that my friend picked up for me, and a bunch of G3 ponies (most of which I didn't have yet)... It was crazy! I NEVER EVER EVER get this lucky... and some of the G1s will be upgrades to my own which is amazing! They all have pink hair (look at that Baby Tiddlywinks, shes CRAZY PINK!) I also found two G3 little hardcover books with Kimono and Minty, they each have brushable hair.
All of them are a mess, and I did notice one I picked up has some ink marks - but otherwise, I'm getting them all ready for their spa treatments to defrizz and decrinkle tinsel, etc. I can't wait until they're all cleaned up! :D
Anyway, it was amazing. I just had to share because this was a haul that I'll never forget lol! (And probably won't happen again for a LONG long time!)
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Whoa! Congrats! That is an awesome haul. I wish I could find stuff that awesome when I went thrifting. :D
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Congrats on your awesome pony luck! The star thing looks like Lady Lovelikocks/Pixie Tails to me :)
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congrats!! thats a nice haul :)
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Congrats! Those are nice finds!
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Awesome Pony Streak!! Love the color swirl g1!!!
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Oh wow. I am still dreaming about having a find like yours! So many ponies and accessories!! :frolic: YOu found some really nice G1s btw. It took me ages to find a nice condition Starflower to complete my rainbows. Major congrats :cheer:
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The flea market gods threw me to the pit xD
But congrats on your finds, i'm so jelly!
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Thanks everyone! It's so out of the ordinary that I find something huge like this, heh! :lovey: it was actually kind of sad... I had to leave behind about 8 G1 ponies from the vendor that I actually got the Starflower from... because he had ponies like Cotton Candy, Applejack, Firefly, Yr 2 Rainbow somebody... and every single of one of them was priced at $18 or more. He had firefly, in nice shape, with a little saddle from the Pretty parlor ... for $25.
It wasn't worth it to me to haggle for all those ponies because I felt his prices were 5-10x too high, and that's too hard to haggle down for. But for some reason, the Starflower and the Posey weren't in plastic bags, and were marked at $2. Go figure??
Congrats on your awesome pony luck! The star thing looks like Lady Lovelikocks/Pixie Tails to me :)
Oooh that's a good call, I'll have to look that up! Thanks!
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WOW!!! You did great!!!!! I have yet to find a pony second hand anywere :(
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Talk about a successful trip to the flea market!! I hope to have a find like that myself one day, but I'm always glad to see it happen to others, too. The entire lot looks fantastic, but DOUBLE WOW on the Colorswirl pony, Starflower, and the play sets! Congratulations! ^.^
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Nice finds!!!
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Congrats! Nice haul!!
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Congratulations :frolic:
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Thanks all! I will emphasize that this NEVER happens to me, so I was as shocked as most of you would be to finally find G1s and things second hand! I /RARELY/ find G1s (my first was this past week actually, before the flea markets, lol) - and I actually missed the Show Stable... I was looking through a bag of random McDonalds toys just hoping to find some pony ones, and my boyfriend looks at me and goes, "Did you miss something?" and points up. I almost had a heart attack, and then nearly ran my friend over when I saw the BBSoD playset nearby. No ponies at the place where I found the playsets though, weird!
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Well done! :)
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That is phenomenal you found so much great stuff. Huge congrats and actually a lot of times I see playsets with nothing. Sometimes the playsets go before the ponies since they take up more space or other times I think when we see someone got to the ponies before hand. But still wonderful super finds.
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That is phenomenal you found so much great stuff. Huge congrats and actually a lot of times I see playsets with nothing. Sometimes the playsets go before the ponies since they take up more space or other times I think when we see someone got to the ponies before hand. But still wonderful super finds.
That's what I always wonder too Diamond - were the ponies here /before/? or have they yet to get there? I'm hoping the latter, as I will go back and check that place out again, probably not for another month or so, it was kind of a drive...
But part of me thinks they were there and already gone, since the playsets had things inside them, just not ponies? Who knows! Such is the mystery of the pony hunt, lol!
Thanks again everyone! I'm working like crazy in my "pony spa" to try and get them all nice and pretty!
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WOW, that's an awesome haul :D!
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WOW that's an amazing find!
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HOLY MOTHER OF SCOOTALOO. GIVE ME YOUR LUCK PLEASE.
Haha congratulations!
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*spreads luck around*
Hey I'm totally willing to pay it forward! I hope this coming weekend I see posts about someone having a big find!!
Thanks all! Most of them are finally cleaned up and out of the spa - some of them took a heck of a lot of work but it was worth it!
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wow!!! great haul :)
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congrats that is a super awesome haul there , may I have some of that luck?
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Wow!!! What awesome luck, I'm so jealous :D Niiiice Colorswirl and Starflower :lovey:
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:shocked: Awesome haul! Congrats on your finds :cheer:
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holy pony luck! Congrats on all your goodies, that's awesome! I could use some of your pony finding luck :D
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Wow! Great Luck! Congrats on your find :)
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What a haul! Look at all the accessories! I think my favorite thing in your lot is the Rockin Beat Ponies Shampoo bottle. I love that! I wish I had one in my collection. :D
And you also got Pretty Pop, my signature pony. ;)
Super congratulations on the find. :D
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Wow so many ponies! Congrats! ^.^
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Oh what a great haul, grats!
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What a haul! Look at all the accessories! I think my favorite thing in your lot is the Rockin Beat Ponies Shampoo bottle. I love that! I wish I had one in my collection. :D
And you also got Pretty Pop, my signature pony. ;)
Super congratulations on the find. :D
Ahh yes I did! Yay one G3 ID down - a bunch to go, lol! :biggrin:
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What a haul! Look at all the accessories! I think my favorite thing in your lot is the Rockin Beat Ponies Shampoo bottle. I love that! I wish I had one in my collection. :D
And you also got Pretty Pop, my signature pony. ;)
Super congratulations on the find. :D
Ahh yes I did! Yay one G3 ID down - a bunch to go, lol! :biggrin:
Seriously!! There are a gazillion G3s, it's so hard to keep track of them all. ;)
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Wow, that is an awesome haul! Major congrats! :)
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Fantastic! I have yet to find one pony "in the wild", so this haul makes me slobber. I hope your lucky streak holds :thumb:
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Thanks all!
And I hope you can get some of my luck too Twilight... I actually went to Goodwill this week and ended up finding the brand new Christmas G4 FIM bubble bath set (the one with 7 little containers, one for each day of the week). It was there, marked $1, and the other 5 that were there were all Dora the Explorer. Definitely hope I can keep this streak going a bit more - but this haul was one in a million I'm sure!!
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stunning!! how many hours did it take you to gather all of this??
the starthing is from the lady lovelylocks-dogs
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Oh wow! The flea market gods really were smiling on you. xP Congrats on the awesome haul!
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Holy awesome haul, batman. :shocked: That's amazing! It's such a thrill when you find G1's (or any ponies, really) out there in the world. Especially so many! Congratulations!
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Thanks!! I've been back to the fleas a few times now, nothing even CLOSE to this spectacle, so I do hope that I at least passed my luck along to someone else, heheh!
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Wow! You are a winner! :) Congrats.
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Nice Haul !
Jealous !
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Holy smokes that's awesome!!! I love all the G1 stuff!
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Congrats! They did more than smile on you! I hope they come visit me sometime. lol
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Well they're obviously off visiting someone else right now because I haven't seen any site of those "Pony Blessings" since then! But I do hope they're off visiting one of you guys and you find something amazing at the flea!
The season is upon us here, I can't wait to be pony hunting more often! :)
And thanks everyone! :biggrin: