The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Ember1 on February 28, 2013, 05:58:01 AM
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So. When I was 7 years old hasbro stopped making g1s.
Ever since I was born my mother had bought me ponies. They
We're my favorite toy and they had always been with me as long as i could remember. They were the ultimate conquest of every birthday holiday or toy store trip. Now,
I was a confused 7 year old wandering down the isles
Of toys r us eternally looking for my discontinued toy not
understanding that they (g1) would never be made again.
It took me 3 years to stop looking for them and when I hit
my teen years, the pony forums had begun so those of us with
unresolved pony issues could unite. I also had no idea that ponies
Were made in many countries.
Tell me your stories. How old were you? Also did you have any idea
Ponies had been made in many countries? If so which countries?
[Moving to Pony Corral - thanks, LadyG :) ]
[topics merged ~ many thanks ~ hathorcat
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...G1 ended before I was born. :blush:
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I was so young that I barely remember it ending. My grandmother and I always went to garage sales, so even after the line ended, we would go to garage sales in the neighborhood and buy up even cheaper G1s. I remember one time finding the entire (or what I thought was all of it) perm shoppe minus the pony and even though it was used, I was so excited to bring it home and clean it up. But we just went from one christmas having ponies to them not being their. I don't even remember G2s, but G3s showing up made me kinda upset because I missed my plump, happy ponies.
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I would have been about 19 or 20 years old when they stopped making ponies in the USA.
It was around 1996 or 97 when I got online and found out about other collectors and also when I found out about ponies made outside of the USA. I think 1998 or 99 would have been the first pony meetup I ever attended.
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I beleive I was also 19-20 when G1's were no longer in production. I do not remember G2 at all and for whatever odd reason I barely remember G3. I recall seeing the G3.5 which I thought and still think are an awful representation of the much loved G1 line. It was not until G4 that I fell in love with ponies again.
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I was 9 when the G1's were discontinued. I was hugely upset since ponies were the only toys I wanted. For birthdays and Christmas and any other presents I only ever got ponies. And I have fond memories in Toys R Us and K mart standing in front of the wall of ponies trying to decide which one to choose. When the G2's came out I was really happy ponies were back but they looked so strange and not MLP-like that I was totally turned off. That's probably why even now I don't pay any attention to the G2's.
I started hunting thrift stores when I hit high school. I got excited and bought any ponies I came across. So my collection slowly grew from just my childhood ponies to any I found at thrift stores or yard sales.
Then I found the online community and found out there are other people who are just as crazy about ponies so I was thrilled. Then of course eBay was getting lots of ponies. And that's about the time I discovered Nirvanas and whoa the pony world exploded for me lol I was soooo thrilled to find out there were other variations of Starflower.
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I was... 8 I think when G1s stopped being made? Because we still had them in the UK until 1993 or 1994. I don't remember them stopping being made, but I do remember seeing G2s and hating them. They weren't the right shape. I think I also remember seeing G3s and them still not being the right shape! I went on to collect Breyers and china horses and all kinds of other horse-related stuff, so that filled the gap for the rest of my childhood years until I discovered music :lol:
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I was about in my late teens early twenties when the G1s ended. At the time I wasn't a collector. I think I would of been sad about it. I really don't remember what happened to the end G1 line. I really didnt know about the G2s either. When I got back into collecting there were only G3s and I was at the end of the line of that almost.
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When G1 ended, I was about 12 years old. It was kinda "ok" for me, since I was growing out of playing with toys at that time... but it still made me a bit sad to see them going out of stores and not being replaced :(
I got into serious collecting when the G3 line starte in 2003.
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I was older and by that time my mom wasn't buying me ponies anymore. I still would go down the aisles looking for them and admiring, so I saw all the new releases. I also remember being disappointed that most of the ponies near the end were so gimmicky. I didn't like the Pocket ponies for example. I think they, the mermaid ponies, and the Sweetheart sisters ( all of which I disliked) were the last ones I remember picking up at the stores. I wanted more regular ponies! Then they just stopped making any new ones.
I also remember when the G2s came out and how very upset I was over the new design. I hated them. Ironically I like them now and want specific ones, but at the time it felt like mlp just ruined the line.
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I was about 13 or 14 when MLP (G1) stopped being made. I had stopped buying ponies by then, but I stilll adored the ones that I did have. Sadly, I didn't even notice when they disappeared from stores because by then I was looking for "cool teen things". However, I do remember being about 18 when I saw G2's in the stores for the first time. I was horrified to see what had been done to MLP. I wish I hadn't thought that then.....because I could have had so many MOC G2's! lol
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I don't remember then going out of stores since I was in college...I just kinda figured that Ponies would always be there. They always had been in the past. Thankfully I'd saved all of mine from when I was younger, so my nieces could play with them. I remember seeing a pony from the G3 line and thinking they were such an abomination...they were cute, but I thought they looked anorexic compared to the chubby sweetness of the G1s, and I thought "God, this obsession with being skinny has affected even them!" I was ticked off and sad, that's for sure. At least the G4s don't set a bad prescident for young girls with the way they look and act.
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I was sad as I was old enough to earn money from babysitting and buy my own ponies. I haunted the toy aisles for a long time afterwards. I did encounter G2 and even though I didn't fall in love immediately, they were still ponies and I loved that. When I saw G3, I was happy they looked more like G1 and bought a few of those. But I didn't follow the line very well at all. When G4 came out, I thought they were cute, but did a good job resisting them until I saw Granny Smith bb sized. I've been thinking a lot about my own grandma and somehow it touched me that they not only made a grandma toy, but she actually looks elderly. Just adorable and nice somehow.
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I must've been arround 10-12. I wasn't okay with them simply stopping with their production. Still remember how I saved my pocketmoney to buy some of the rests in the store. Got four of them for 4 bucks.....I was so sad :cry:
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I remember that sad time. I was probably about 8 or 9 when I started to realize ponies weren't showing up in the stores anymore. I was shopping at Kmart or somewhere similar with my dad and raced to the pony aisle as usual only to find a pathetic selection of some 10th anniversary ponies left and a couple others. Then the last couple times we went shopping noticing less and less, I was crushed. I think my Rainbow curl Raincurl and Sippin Soda Strawberry Scoops were the last 2 ponies I ever bought in the stores:(
Years down the road I remember running into the same lonely dream beauty at a very busy TRU. It was marked down to $9.99 but since I hated orange and her super frizzy curly looking pink hair, I never picked up that Shimmering beauty...that still haunts me to this day because I had her in my hands at least 5 different times. It's almost like I went to the store just to visit her lol.
I remember when G2 came out and my mom called me from the store going you'll never guess what I found! I was beyond excited...then she came home, lol. I raced to the laundry room to go check them out and just went what the HAY are those!? Ugh, I was horrified and I'm sure that reaction is why I just never could look at them as actual ponies:/ I tried to buy a few more but they were just too different.
I was in college when G3 came out, fell in love and bought them all till they killed that line with core 7. If G3 had had a show to back them up like FIM, it might have been a bigger success but the cutesy 3-5 year old target audience was just too young.
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I don't know I think I was into Hot Wheels at the time.
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I don't remember for ponies per say, but I do remember when I got A's on my report card and dad finally agreed to buy me some Dino Riders toys, which I had been dying for (cuz a little girl can love ponies and dinosaurs too, ya know! ;) )
Well we went to Child's World, which was an awesome big toy store back in my youth that even competed with TRU at the time, and we searched that whole store and only found a couple small Dino Rider toys in the clearance section. We got two of them, but dad warned me that it meant they probably wouldn't make any more. That was my first time realizing toys could go out of style, and I was very sad.
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I was 12/13 about the time they stopped making G1 in the US. By then I didn't buy ponies too much anymore as I was more interested in Breyers. But I did go through the pony isles for nostalgia's sake and I remember there were less and less and finally the pony part of the girl's toy section was just gone altogether.
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I wasn't bad into ponies when they ended. Sure I had some ponies but I was into Sylvanians and also more realistic animal toys like Puppy in my Pocket, LPS, Grand Champions. I just don't remember noticing when G1 ended. I did however notice when Puppy in my Pocket ended and I was so very sad. I'd sift through all the clearence end caps in stores trying to find any remaining packs.
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I guess I was around 10 years old when G1 discontinued, and I remember the G2 line and that I hated it. Really, really did not like it. But then again, I was walking the isle of toy stores looking for the early G1s so I had been sad about those not being available for purchase anymore for awhile already. The last G1s was just not the same as the first lines (Glory, Firefly, Posey, Bowtie, Gusty and Blossom - those were the days!)
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I would've been around 11-12 but I don't think I noticed. I was really into Barbie at that point.
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I don't really remember the G1 line ending here. My last childhood pony was Sanddigger, and at the time my mum said to me: 'I think this might be your last pony, ok darling?'. :( I think I might have been 10 or 11.
I guess with that notion laid upon me I didn't look out for new ponies. Ponies were special birthday or christmas presents every now and then, so I grew up appreciating there wasn't an endless supply of them. Which is probably why i didn't dispute Sanddigger being my last, as well as starting to wonder then too, if I was getting too old for them....
Now however.... I can have as many darn ponies as I want!!! :P (within $$ reason, of course ;))
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I was about 10 when G1 ended, though I had "grown out of" My Little Ponies, and most non-electronic toys in general, a few years earlier (That mentality really lasted, lol). I believe that my last childhood pony was a Sippin' Soda Chocolate Delight. I don't think I really even noticed Hasbro had stopped making G1's until the first time I stumbled across a G2 in stores.
I was tagging along with my mother while she was out shopping for a birthday gift for one of her friend's children, when I heard her make a comment about "the new My Little Ponies." I quickly glanced over the aisle and wondered what she was talking about until the logo finally jumped out at me. I just really didn't know what to make of them.
I find G2's more endearing now, but I remember thinking they were absolutely hideous at the time and I was a bit surprised by the radical change in design. I had so many G1's growing up, and although I was past playing with them at that point, they were still such a huge part of my childhood that it was enough to bum me out.
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I wasn't alive in the 80s. :( But I did suffer the "no more G1s" idea. Simply because I KNEW there was a G1 cartoon and I KNEW there were G1 toys but they didn't make any new episodes and I couldn't get my hands on the toys. I was "meh" about G2 and later on HATED G3. (my teen years were very nasty and I'd rather not talk about them) I have since warmed up to G2s and G3s.
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i was 11/12 and had a load of 'hand me down' G1's from my aunt but I was more into collecting My Beautiful Horses and Grand Champions at that age. I didn't know they had stopped making then until i saw the G2's appear in shops and wondered what had happened to MLP as they were a bit funny looking
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oooh... I don't know old I was, I was pretty young.
I remember being at Toys R Us, and seeing G2s-- and saying "Those aren't ponies, they look nothing like ponies" (exactly that quote). My dad pointed out the logo, and I got very angry and refused to believe it. ... I am pretty sure I through a fit in the store, and my dad got veeeeeery mad at me. D: I never misbehaved in a store again.
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Alas I had grown out of ponies by the time G1 stopped showing up in stores. Thankfully a decade later I grew back in to them again. :) But because I wasnt buying or having them purchased for me at the time the line ended, the lack of ponies in stores was not something I was aware of.
As for ponies being made in other countries. To be honest when I started collecting I was more amazed by the general HK/China releases which the US got but that we didnt over here - so many pretty ponies which I remembered from my comic books but which my mum and dad couldnt buy me in store, were suddenly available for collecting.
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I was about 9 when the G1 line ended in the US. I didn't really notice because I just wasn't paying attention (although I was still playing with ponies at that time). I wasn't taken to toy stores very often as a kid anyway, so I really didn't have any concept of what was available when. The latest of my childhood ponies were from year 9.
I do remember one time, though, when I was in the toy aisle at a store (early '90s) and I saw some of the CPK Magic Meadow ponies. I mistakenly thought they were MLP, and I remember thinking, "What happened?!" :lol: I was glad to eventually learn that I was wrong!
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I was about five years old when Hasbro discontinued the MLP line here in Europe. The last two ponies my Mom got for me from a regular store were Little Giggles and Stardazzle. The rest of my childhood herd plus the incomplete show stable came from one of the carboot sales my parents went to while we were in the UK.
While I still did get to experience the joy of having the original G1 toys and accessories, a part of me felt kind of sad: I remember looking at the illustrations in one of the storybooks that I had and pointing at ponies such as Sugarberry or the Big Brother Ponies and asking my Mom, "Mommy, can I get this one next time?". Little did I know, I won't be getting any of these until much much later... :(
I also remember that when I was a kid I used to hate the G2 line: back then I thought they looked absolutely ugly. This also made me really angry, that they dared to replace the ponies I used to grow up with, with "these things". XD
Incidentally, I remember that at the same time G2 premiered, one of the big TV stations here in Poland began airing the "My Little Pony and Friends" and "My Little Pony Tales" (up until that point, the only way you could watch these shows was on VHS tapes available at your local video rental). I find it really funny, because the show was meant to market the G1 line... I beat this disappointed a lot of kids. XD
Actually they did this quite a few times with other shows intended to market some line of toys: this is why, even though I wasn't born in the 80s, I still consider stuff like "He-Man", "She-Ra" and "Carebears" to be part of my childhood. I may not have had the toys, but I still did get to see cartoons with them. :D