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Title: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 04, 2013, 03:22:00 AM
 :party:Thankyou everyone who wished me congratulations and who participated in my little giveaway and celebration! I really enjoyed seeing your pictures and hearing your stories on what pony or ponies are your favorite.
Random.org has spoken and the winners are:

invaderhorizongreen
Loona
Hollowzero
 :accomplished:
Congrats you guys! I'll be working on the prize boxes and will get them mailed off to you in January.
Thanks again to everyone who participated!



:party: :party: Well my 1,000th post has finally come upon me! Time to think up a custom title name. :wonder: It's been almost 2 years since I've joined and I've loved every minute! :hearts: :hearts:

So to celebrate this milestone I want to do a giveaway! I'm thinking of doing 3 gift boxes  of a few things like ponies, accessories, candy, or a mini crocheted pony. It will be a surprise! :whoa:

Anyone can enter! It's free although I will ask international winners to pay for postage. I will determine 3 winners by entering everyone's username into a randomizer. I'll figure out the winners 1 week from now, next Wednesday the 11th.
Because Christmas is almost here and I'm swamped with those preparations I will not be able to send out the prize boxes until January.

Here is how you enter! Show me ponies! Specifically show off some photos of your favorite pony (or ponies) and tell me something about them!
 :newpony: :newpony:

Alright I think that covers it! Now come my fellow pony-mad arenians (arenaites? arenaese? arenish?) come and show me pretty pony pictures and hope the pony gods smile upon you and grant you a prize!
 :happy: :silly: :frolic: :accomplished: :lovey: :good: <--- my fav G3
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: achab1984 on December 04, 2013, 03:58:08 AM
Congrats on your posts :)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Fisha Seabreeze on December 04, 2013, 04:00:59 AM
Congratz on your 2 years here, I'm so happy for you! :lol:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 04, 2013, 04:02:23 AM
Thanks guys :hug:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: MikeysGrrrl on December 04, 2013, 04:11:13 AM
Congrats on making 1000 posts :cheer:

So I guess I'll start off the entries :P

This is my Rarity army, she's my fav G4 pony out of the main 6 and I think that I've acquired a few more of her since this picture was taken 3 weeks ago :blush:

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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Shiromisa on December 04, 2013, 04:11:38 AM
Here's my favorite G1: A particular Sweet Delight (I have three now, hehe).

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She's been badly stained, but I think I don't really mind. She's special to me because she lived most of her life a couple streets over from my boyfriend, who lives in the UK. Really neat coincidence! :D

Next, one of my favorite blind bags.

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She has the most serendipitous paint flaw I've ever seen! I think some paint from her hair got misaimed and landed on her butt...

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...in the shape of a heart! :D
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Marigold on December 04, 2013, 04:22:54 AM
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Rapunzel is one of my favorite ponies.  I love the color combination and Rapunzel has always been my favorite fairytale.  Plus she has very long hair just like me!!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 04, 2013, 09:04:53 AM
Mikeysgrrrl: Love your Rarity army and the custom dark Rarity. I love her color scheme, white body with purple hair.

Shiromisa: That Sweet Delight just looks like she has been getting into the sweets and has yellow frosting all over. Your blind bag pony has the best "error" ever!

Marigold: I like my super long hair G3 ponies so Rapunzel is right up my alley. That's neat you share the same hair :lol:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Bekuno on December 04, 2013, 09:25:50 AM
Congrats on 1,000 posts!  :cheer: :party:

So here are my favorites from my collection only to share with you :) (I only have an Ipod to photograph with so sorry for the bleh photo quality ^^; )

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First meet Scoops and Baby Glory! Scoops was one of the first G1's I ever purchased in a lot. Baby Glory was purchased from my second lot and she is my first and currently only baby pony. Scoops is currently her adopted mama until I can get Glory!

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Here are my favorite G4's! Vinyl Scratch is my favorite pony, I take whatever merchandise of hers I can get my hooves on. Cadence is my favorite Princess, and Luna is second best. Also She was so much fun to color ahah. The wedding blindbags are included because I just love how they look. Flitterheart and Cupcake are my pony girlfriends. I thought they'd make a cut couple and never separated them.

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And last but not least are my favorite G3's. I have a weird love for Rainbow Flash just because she was Rainbow and not Rainbow Dash. And my blindbag Minty taking the place of a real G3 minty because well... I dont have one yet! I have a McDonalds one but just not in presentable condition.

 :)

Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: nollilols on December 04, 2013, 10:14:08 AM
Congrats on 1000 posts! I'll definitely enter when I have a chance to put together a post
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: mlp4me on December 04, 2013, 11:28:39 AM
Woo hoo post party! Congrats!

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Nightglider is my Favorite adult, her body color is pretty and I really like her symbols! Baby princess sparkle totally rocks my socks, sparkly symbol and tinsel in her hair-win!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Cumberbatch2012 on December 04, 2013, 12:37:34 PM
This isn't my photo because I don't have them right now, but I really want them in my collection.  I've had them both in the past.  I really love their color scheme.  They also bring back memories of a childhood friendship that was based on MLP.  Congrats on 1,000 posts as well!

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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 04, 2013, 01:51:21 PM
Bekuno: I love seeing your favorites from each generation! I recently got a Rainbow Flash too and I love her!

mlp4me: Baby Princess Sparkle is awesome! I'd love to add her to my own collection, the sparkly castle symbol and forehead star are so pretty. I'm a sucker for shiny and tinsel that is still tame.

Cumberbatch: I had Tic Tac Toe growing up and I thought she was the prettiest pony in the world. Sadly she was lost in one of our moves. :cry: I've acquired baby and I can't wait to get a new Tic Tac Toe someday. I hope you get yours soon too!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Rhini on December 04, 2013, 02:11:01 PM
Congrats Nina!!  :biggrin:

Here are some of my prototype Diamond Rose girls as well as a custom of her by Tiella. I don't know why I love her so much, but the minute I saw her she just struck me as the most beautiful pony I'd ever seen!  ^.^

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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Mkia on December 04, 2013, 02:18:01 PM
Here's my favorite gal at the moment :). My custom pony made for me by TexasGal, but given to me by Sunshine in the mug swap.

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 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/67306154@N03/10712438145/)
image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/67306154@N03/10712438145/) by haileymarie93 (http://www.flickr.com/people/67306154@N03/), on Flickr

Isn't she pretty? :)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Rhini on December 04, 2013, 02:31:08 PM
Waahh adorable! Sunshine gives the best gifts  ^.^
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 04, 2013, 02:33:58 PM
Rhini: I am very fond of white ponies with colorful hair so I totally see Diamond Rose's appeal. And Tiella's custom gal is gorgeous!

mkia: AWWWWWWW! She is ADORABLE! I love her autumn-y feel!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Cumberbatch2012 on December 04, 2013, 03:18:05 PM
Cumberbatch: I had Tic Tac Toe growing up and I thought she was the prettiest pony in the world. Sadly she was lost in one of our moves. :cry: I've acquired baby and I can't wait to get a new Tic Tac Toe someday. I hope you get yours soon too!

Thanks, me too!  I have noticed Mommy seems a little harder to get than Baby.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Sunshine on December 04, 2013, 04:28:30 PM
Congrats on your 1000th post!!

I'd love to enter your giveaway, here is one of my favorite ponies:
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 (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/SublimeSturgeonQueen/media/My%20Little%20Pony%20Life/DSCN9175_zpsb1a41146.jpg.html)

Skyflier - I have a rehaired "army" beginning, it's a lovely reminder not only of my favorite G1 pose pony, but also it reminds me of all my friends here on the Arena because the rehairs come from other members :heart:

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And my German Rainbow Ponies - these gals are just... I dunno, eye candy. They always make me smile.


Here's my favorite gal at the moment :). My custom pony made for me by TexasGal, but given to me by Sunshine in the mug swap.

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Isn't she pretty? :)

G'awww I'm so happy you love her!! :blush:


Waahh adorable! Sunshine gives the best gifts  ^.^

Lies! You give the best gifts too!! :biggrin: I should know!
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Another favorite of mine - a Sea Pony Sunshine custom from Rhini! :inlove:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: UrocyonFox on December 04, 2013, 11:09:03 PM
shoooooot man, even if I don't win, getting to see these looovely ponies is awesome. Everyone has just lovely pictures and they're so neat to look at.

I am in the process of moving so I can't take any new pictures of my favorites so I'll just have to go with who I already have pictures of on my work computer.

This gal Crimson Gala
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I love the Apple family, her colors, her hair, everything about her. :3

My main 6 as BBEs
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I adore BBE ponies.

Can't forget Applefritter, Tealove,and Feathermay!
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And my Applejacks!! I love AJ in all generations (I need to get a custom g2 AJ!)
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I need to take more pictures of my ponies!!

Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Teddy on December 05, 2013, 12:38:11 AM
Congrats on hitting 1000 posts!!! :D

Well, I've always been a huge fan of Gusty. She's a beautiful pony, and I just loved her attitude on the original MLP series as well. Hence, the Gusty Army was born:
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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: WrittenEmber on December 05, 2013, 01:00:18 AM
Congrats on your 1,000th post! I love post counts, it's so fun to watch them grow. (Even if my own grows a bit slowly, lol!)

A drawing?! What fun! I'll have to get some pix up on photobucket so I can post them. G1 darlings coming soon!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Marigold on December 05, 2013, 01:25:53 AM
Here's my favorite gal at the moment :). My custom pony made for me by TexasGal, but given to me by Sunshine in the mug swap.

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Isn't she pretty? :)

She is and I am going to steal her from you.  ;)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 05, 2013, 02:58:28 AM
I wold love to enter and here, my favorite are weather/season/holiday symbol ponies.  Here are some of my ponies helping with the leaves
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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: kaoskat on December 05, 2013, 04:36:50 AM
Congrats!!!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 05, 2013, 08:32:15 AM
Sunshine: I like Skyflier's hair colors they were nicely chosen and the German ponies are quite pretty. And the custom seapony is so cute, what a sweet gift.

Urocyon: Your BBE main 6 are AWESOME and slightly terrifying aat the same time. I used to hate G4 when they first came out because they were so radically different and tiny and now I think they are so cute! Flitterheart is one my favorites. I'll have to show your Applejack army to my sister. She loves Applejack and the Apple family too.

Teddy: Wow nice Gusty army! I liked her in the MLP series too. I still haven't got my hands on one yet.

WrittenEmber: Look forward to your pictures!

Invader: Fall is my favorite season so yeah fall ponies are awesome too. Cute pic, thanks!

And thanks for the Congrats kaos!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: WrittenEmber on December 05, 2013, 02:02:58 PM
Not the most impressive photo, but here it is:

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These ponies are special because they are my childhood herd. Few though they are (and in need of a spa day; look at those curls!), I have had most of them nearly my entire life; some of them are actually a year or two older than I am, and were given to me when I was a wee bitty kidlette knee-high to a grasshopper. So they are very dear to me. :lovey:

And congrats again on your postcount! (Which continues to climb, I see! Woot!) :frolic:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 05, 2013, 03:24:39 PM
Awww lookit all the teenie tinies! My childhood herd consists of 3 and a Remco pony, technically the Posey and Remco belong to my sister but I'm the collector so I got to keep Posey. We got them second hand from cousins.

I like to comment on everyone's photos and show my appreciation so that helps the post count :lol: Usually i'm not terribly talkative around here. I remember when I wanted to join my first swap and having 300 posts was a requirement and I frantically went around welcoming every new member and commenting on every custom and brag post. :biggrin:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Sunshine on December 05, 2013, 04:48:16 PM
Childhood ponies are so lovely to see! :heart: Beautiful ponies.

The Mane 6 as BBE's are quite impressive!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Bibsy on December 05, 2013, 11:45:55 PM
Congrats on reaching 1000 posts!  I have a long way to go, since I only joined a few weeks ago.

My ponies threw you a party to celebrate! They are from my childhood herd and I still remember the Christmas that I got them.  Five ponies at once seemed huge to me!
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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: WrittenEmber on December 06, 2013, 12:55:02 AM
Awww lookit all the teenie tinies! My childhood herd consists of 3 and a Remco pony, technically the Posey and Remco belong to my sister but I'm the collector so I got to keep Posey. We got them second hand from cousins.

I like to comment on everyone's photos and show my appreciation so that helps the post count :lol: Usually i'm not terribly talkative around here. I remember when I wanted to join my first swap and having 300 posts was a requirement and I frantically went around welcoming every new member and commenting on every custom and brag post. :biggrin:

Oh, yes indeed! I love the little bitties. *hugs them!* I used to have three more, but...  :sad:

I'm not especially verbose (I don't think), either. My post count hasn't even reached 50 yet! So I still have the daily limit, but don't mind because I haven't felt it. *shrug*
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Majesty on December 06, 2013, 07:14:10 AM
I wish I could enter.  I've tried taking pictures and saving them to my computer but they don't work.  My Dad even tried to email them to me and they just don't load.  Congrats though and good luck to all who enter. :)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Loona on December 06, 2013, 08:36:11 AM
congrats on your post count NinaMarie! I can see we have joined the Arena in just the same month - but you beat me, I still have more than a hundred to go :)

as the lights are quite bad now that it's past midnight, I decided to show you a picture back from summer. the picture was taken on the beach of Barcelona, where I've been on vacation.
meet Szepi (meaning "Freckles" in Hungarian), a childhood pony of mine. she was the only freckled pony I had as a child, so this feature seemed special enough to name her after her freckles. back then I had no clue about that ponies actually have names (I could read already, and also learned some English, but... dunno. didn't look at the packaging - or maybe Count-a-lot didn't really seem like a name XD ), so they were named by me. Szepi was a tomboyish little girl with a big mouth and a big heart, always ready for adventure and quests. she was the daughter of Pony Bride (whom, speaking of names, I simply called Bride Pony XD ), who was sort of a ruler in the world of my ponies, and thus, Szepi continuously had a high pressure on her, as her behaviour was not too appropriate for a ruler's daughter. still she always remained happy and positive, so such "small" things never seemed to bother her, because she usually turned out to be right, and was always able to sort out problems.
this is all I remember of her background :) she was one of my favourite ponies - if not the one. I do remember there were ponies I liked more, for instance, in colour, but together with her self made-up background story (I don't know what inspired me in making it up), Szepi was, and still is an especially dear one.
...and she is still ready for adventures, so she often comes with me if I go somewhere, just like she did when we visited Barcelona.

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Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Shiromisa on December 06, 2013, 12:07:23 PM
That's such a sweet story, Loona! I like that.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 06, 2013, 05:27:57 PM
Bibsy your photo no longer shows.


Aww Majesty you can tell me a story! I'll accept that too since you are having photo issues.

Loona: Loved your story! So much imagination! Reminds me of when my sister and i made our ponies and teenie beanie babies go on epic adventures. Freckles is a much cuter name than Counts-a-lot  :lol:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: melodys_angel on December 07, 2013, 02:59:03 AM
Aww hun <3

Congrats on the milestone :)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 07, 2013, 03:00:59 AM
Thanks! ^.^
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: HollowZero on December 09, 2013, 02:08:07 AM
Congrats on a thousand posts. :)

This picture is old as the hills, but it's of one of my (many) favorites.. Crumpet and her baby.
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I won them in an Arena contest many years ago. They're back at my parents house, otherwise I'd get updated photos.
They were one of my first "expensive" ponies, so I tried to clean them up... I ended up accidentally leaving a printed page leaning against Baby Crumpet for a few minutes in my absentmindedness... Let's just say I panicked when words ended up on her face, but I got the ink off at least. :P

...and I'll post my childhood Shady's for the heck of it
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I know a lot of people hate BBEs but, they're just so sweet when they lay down and "sleep".

So Softs are my favorite. :)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: nessy_86 on December 09, 2013, 02:20:57 AM
I keep forgetting to post my pics!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: MikeysGrrrl on December 09, 2013, 04:12:48 AM
There are so many awesome pics of people's childhood favourites, army ponies and customs :) This thread was a great idea, I love reading the stories behind them as well.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Majesty on December 09, 2013, 04:53:09 AM
Bibsy your photo no longer shows.


Aww Majesty you can tell me a story! I'll accept that too since you are having photo issues.

Loona: Loved your story! So much imagination! Reminds me of when my sister and i made our ponies and teenie beanie babies go on epic adventures. Freckles is a much cuter name than Counts-a-lot  :lol:


OK thanks very much.  I'll give it a shot.

Post Merge: December 09, 2013, 05:16:24 AM

Here's my entry:

OK I have a few favorite ponies:  For G1 one of my favorites is of course Majesty.  I chose her a long time ago to be my pony persona when I was a member of the message board pony finders.  After I learned of the Arena I just kept the name.  I didn't know until after a while she was technically Queen of the ponies.  I just picked her because I like blue and a lot of my favorite ponies are white ponies.  Also, the top reason is she's a Unicorn and I love Unicorns.  :)

I also like the G1 rainbow ponies and rainbow babies.

I am not into G2's but I do have a couple thanks to my kind pony pal, CuteyStorm.  When I bought ponies from him a long time ago he sent me a couple G2's because those are his favorite generation of ponies so he wanted to share his love of them with me.  Although I'm still not into them I can see why people like them.  ;)

My second favorite generation are the G3's.  I had stopped collecting ponies when I was around 13 or 14.  I gave away my 7 or 8 G1's to a childhood friend, thinking I was too old for them and I lost interest in them.  I regret that now, moreso because of losing the memories I had with them.  So, one day I was on the computer and I had the TV on and I heard "My Little Pony, My Little Pony" on TV and my head almost did a 360 to the TV.  It was the commercial for the Cotton Candy Cafe.  I watched the commercial and was glued to the screen.  I was so happy to see MLP back and I sort of wanted them but I was 18 I think at the time and thought I was way too old for ponies.  But, one day I went to a place that sells toys like Toys R Us or some place and saw almost a complete aisle filled with G3's.  I was in awe.  I decided to secretly buy a couple, I think they were Rainbow Dash and Sunny Daze that came with charms.  I was sort of a closet pony collector for a while.  I eventually opened up to my parent's about collecting MLP again, because I figured they would find out about it eventually.  Even though I've been collecting for a while still to this day my Mom disapproves.  I mean, she's used to it but still doesn't accept it.  My Dad seems to be OK with it.

So, since I only had a few ponies as a child I decided to make up for it by getting tons of G3's.  I had a couple of the playsets too---Celebration Castle and Twinkle Twirl's Dance Studio.  I also had all the movies.  Then, I had another phase of "I'm done with ponies" and gave away most of my G3's to a little girl next door and donated my plushes and some misc. G3 stuff to the salvation army.  Yet again I ended up regretting this and I found out that my G3's that I gabe to the little girl next door were never touched and some years down the road were given away to another little girl.  I am happy that someone is playing with them but I kind of wish they had asked me first if I wanted them back since I would definitely never see them again.  But, it was my fault because I waited too long to ask for them back.  I should have kept them in the first place in case I decided I wanted them again.

So, I have taken a vow never to give away my ponies again, in the off chance I want to collect again.

So, my favorite G3's are:  Autumn Skye (because fall is one of my favorite seasons), Rainbow Dash (because blue is my favorite color and I love rainbows), and Aurora Mist, (because again of the blue and the pretty blue stone on her hip).

Now, we have G4's.  I guess out of all the G4's my favorite is Rarity.  I'm not into fashion or anything but I just think her colors are really pretty and she's a unicorn.  I am not crazy about the dramatic shrinkage we've seen.  I mean, if you take a G1 and compare it in size to a G3, they have shrunk some but I feel it's still OK.  Now, compare a G3 with a G4 and there is a huge difference.  Also, the ponies seem to have gone up in price a little bit.  I watch F.I.M., because I do enjoy the show and I do have a few G4's, but I can't foresee myself going crazy.  So, yeah I'm a bit disappointed.  I also feel as though Hasbro has completely forgotten the collectors.  During the times of G3's, they made a point to do the fair pony for collectors and they did the art ponies and the ponies that were smaller versions of the charity ponies for collectors.  Now, it seems that pretty much from now on we have to share the same pony with comic con and the hair is molded.  It's like saying, here's a big block of wood--go ahead, have fun.

When I buy ponies from members here, I am after G3's at the moment to make up for the collection I wanted.  I never got all the ponies i wanted, because I figured I had lots of time.  When you buy ponies, you don't consider them ending the line (or generation).

So, long story short, here is my pony story--listing my favorites and why I consider them my favorite.  :)

I hope my entry is acceptable.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Bibsy on December 09, 2013, 07:12:17 AM
Sorry about my photo issues  :yikes:, it should be back now.  I'm still getting used to photobucket, but I think I have come up with a system for keeping all the photos organized so that won't happen again (fingers crossed).  I love hearing everyone's stories and glad that others gave ponies original names as children and it wasn't just me calling Baby Tiddleywinks Baby Bibsy on my own  :biggrin:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 09, 2013, 11:30:08 AM
Bibsy: Thanks! I love the party! And Bibsy is an adorable name for Tiddleywinks and it makes sense!

Hollow: I like the baby/momma pics especially the Crumpets' nose touching, so cute!

Majesty: "I hope my entry is acceptable" made me laugh, even if I didn't like your story I'd still enter you. I am with you on G3 being second fav generation because they got me back into collecting too. I never did buy too many in stores because I was a poor college student, but I LOVED visiting the pony aisle and seeing what new beautiful ponies they came up with next.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: WrittenEmber on December 09, 2013, 02:58:00 PM
Congrats on a thousand posts. :)

This picture is old as the hills, but it's of one of my (many) favorites.. Crumpet and her baby.
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I won them in an Arena contest many years ago. They're back at my parents house, otherwise I'd get updated photos.
They were one of my first "expensive" ponies, so I tried to clean them up... I ended up accidentally leaving a printed page leaning against Baby Crumpet for a few minutes in my absentmindedness... Let's just say I panicked when words ended up on her face, but I got the ink off at least. :P

...and I'll post my childhood Shady's for the heck of it
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I know a lot of people hate BBEs but, they're just so sweet when they lay down and "sleep".

So Softs are my favorite. :)

These Mommy/Baby pictures are adorable! Awwww, I just want to hug them!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: nollilols on December 09, 2013, 05:21:39 PM
Okay, I'm going to include two of my favourite ponies! They're both important to me for a similar reason.

First up is Italian Gusty:
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Gusty (in general) is my favourite pony - as a child, she was my favourite character in the cartoon, possibly because she was always quite tough, and I really wasn't. I never had many pony toys as a child because they weren't available widely where I'm from - you certainly never saw any cartoon ponies. So, when I grew up and discovered EBAY, and when I decided to get my own, regular US Gusty was the first one I purchased. I was still living at my parents house at the time, and I still remember the morning she arrived - I was in bed when mum came up with a package for me. I tore it up to rescue Gusty from inside it. I think I sat there for about 15 minutes just turning her over in my hands, utterly in awe of this little plastic toy. I've since sold that particular Gusty on, and currently the above Italy Gusty is in my collection. Of all the colour variations I've seen, Italy Gusty is my absolute favourite.

Honorable mention to Rollerskates Melody:
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I bought this girl for the exact same reason as Gusty - MLP Tales was the one that actually aired when I was a tot, and I was OBSESSED. And, Melody was my favourite. As a child, I saw this Melody in an advert on tv, and what I would not have given to have her. Naturally, I styled her mane in the way seen in the advert I pined over for so many years! (A French version of the ad used to be on Youtube, now there's only a shorter one where you can't see the plait :( )

So that's it. The two pony toys that were my favourites from the cartoons, which I spent about 15 years wanting before I finally had the pleasure of getting them.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: Majesty on December 09, 2013, 10:28:53 PM
Bibsy: Thanks! I love the party! And Bibsy is an adorable name for Tiddleywinks and it makes sense!

Hollow: I like the baby/momma pics especially the Crumpets' nose touching, so cute!

Majesty: "I hope my entry is acceptable" made me laugh, even if I didn't like your story I'd still enter you. I am with you on G3 being second fav generation because they got me back into collecting too. I never did buy too many in stores because I was a poor college student, but I LOVED visiting the pony aisle and seeing what new beautiful ponies they came up with next.

Thanks so much.  Sorry you didn't get many G3's.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 10, 2013, 07:51:41 PM
nollilols: Your Gusty is quite pretty. I love her tail in ringlets. I never remember seeing the Tales cartoon just reruns of the original one. I love that you did Melody's hair just the way you saw her when you first wanted her!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: nessy_86 on December 10, 2013, 10:50:48 PM
Here is one of my favorites (although not technically a pony :) )
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I had no idea pony friends existed until I saw this girl on an image search a while back. I watched a few auctions on eBay go for really high until I finally was able to snag her for a decent price. :) Now thanks to her, the only pony friend I am missing is Edgar :D

And although I don't have an individual picture of him... I love Baby Paws! He reminds me of my dad as his name is Scotty and we buy him Scotty Dogs for his birthday/Christmas!

(Please let me know if the picture worked... I'm at work and they don't always come through)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 11, 2013, 09:04:12 AM
nessy: Your photo wan't showing but I was able to get the image link and follow it to photobucket. That's cute that your favorite is a pony friend. My sister used to be obsessed with scotty dogs. I wonder if she has ever seen Baby Paws, I'm going to have to show her a pic.
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 13, 2013, 03:47:30 AM
Winners are announced! Thanks again to everyone who participated! :hug:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: Cumberbatch2012 on December 13, 2013, 04:36:07 AM
Congrats to the winners!   :biggrin:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: MikeysGrrrl on December 13, 2013, 05:47:30 AM
Congrats to the winners :) Can't wait to see what you get  ;)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: Loona on December 13, 2013, 06:46:22 AM
oh my, oh my! thank you so much! I have never won on a raffle or giveaway before :accomplished:

it was so exciting already just to participate, as well as read other's cute stories and see the pictures, but now I'm even more excited, and can't wait to see the surprise prizes - not only mine, but also others'!

congratulations to the other two winners, invaderhorizongreen and HollowZero as well!  :green:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 13, 2013, 07:55:28 AM
Wait ....I won.... this is a fist for me !   :drunk:  :newpony:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: Mkia on December 14, 2013, 08:02:56 AM
Congrats to the winners!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: WrittenEmber on December 14, 2013, 12:22:19 PM
Congratulations, invaderhorizongreen, Loona, and Hollowzero! And congrats again to you, too, NinaMarie!  :accomplished:
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: HollowZero on December 17, 2013, 01:39:22 AM
oh my, oh my! thank you so much! I have never won on a raffle or giveaway before :accomplished:
Me neither, we're on the same level. ;)
Thanks so much NinaMarie, not only for the giveaway but for the idea of members submitting stories along with the photos. :)
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: NinaMarie on December 17, 2013, 02:06:18 AM
Glad you all enjoyed it! I sure did!
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on February 11, 2014, 07:40:00 PM
Have you shipped yet?
Title: Re: 1,000th post Celebration and Giveaway! Winners announced!
Post by: NinaMarie on February 12, 2014, 09:56:35 AM
Haha you've noticed.. :blush: No I have not. I've just got the boxes pulled together. I've had some...financial distractions. I've not forgotten that is for sure just super delayed beyond what I had originally planned.
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