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Title: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: misskindle on June 04, 2016, 11:46:05 AM
Inspired by the other thread going on, and those of years past, where is the strangest place you've found a pony in the wild?
Mine would have to be when I was in middle school. It would have been around the start of FIM, and my math teacher had a G1 parasol plush on his filing cabinet. Mind you, it had a haircut, a spiked dog collar, and numerous stains, but it was legit. Turns out some students threw it on top of the portables and he rescued it.
Anyone else?
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Taxel on June 04, 2016, 11:53:25 AM
Its not particularly weird for most people, but the strangest place I've found ponies was my own toybox from childhood! Apparently I had some McDonald's ponies I didn't remember at all. I remembered a few when I saw them again but I had no idea they were MLP.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: tiggerkitn25 on June 04, 2016, 12:10:06 PM
We have found a G3 Breezie pony buried in the sand at the beach before.  I was really surprised to dig that up!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Tracks on June 04, 2016, 12:39:12 PM
So far mine has to be todays addition!

Hubby and I had gone to a fancy rat show in a quiet country village.  I'd popped to the shop and saw a lady putting up signs advertising a yard sale.

Turns out it was just up the road so I had a walk up, not expecting to find anything and I was delighted to find a plush G3 Fluttershy for the bargain price of 50p!

Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: lunar_scythe on June 04, 2016, 12:46:37 PM
My dad found some G1 ponies for me at a car swap meet back in January, and at that same swap meet last year, i found a Megan doll.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: zombienixon on June 04, 2016, 01:02:54 PM
I don't know if it counts, but I remember going to an interview at a shop that worked with industrial gearboxes, and I saw a McDs Rarity hanging from the rear view mirror of a truck.  Did not expect to see a pony there.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: DalaPony on June 04, 2016, 01:09:43 PM
Its not particularly weird for most people, but the strangest place I've found ponies was my own toybox from childhood! Apparently I had some McDonald's ponies I didn't remember at all. I remembered a few when I saw them again but I had no idea they were MLP.

This happened to me too! When I went to rescue my childhood ponies from their cardboard box at my parents' house I found Lemon Drop in there. No idea where she came from, don't remember ever getting her, but there she was!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: NovelNerd on June 04, 2016, 01:19:49 PM
Inspired by the other thread going on, and those of years past, where is the strangest place you've found a pony in the wild?
Mine would have to be when I was in middle school. It would have been around the start of FIM, and my math teacher had a G1 parasol plush on his filing cabinet. Mind you, it had a haircut, a spiked dog collar, and numerous stains, but it was legit. Turns out some students threw it on top of the portables and he rescued it.
Anyone else?
Sounds like something I would have in my classroom. The students know I love unicorns and such and give me unicorn figures all the time. I've never brought a pony there because I wouldn't want t damaged. I wouldn't be against having one there though.  :lol:
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Pierlala on June 04, 2016, 02:08:58 PM
In the middle of the city center, there is this closet where people can put stuff in that they don't want anymore, for other people to pick up for free. There are usually blankets, old books, old toys, old shoes etc. But I walked by and found a TAF Night Glider G1! She was all dirty and her tail had been cut short. It was just so sad, I had to take her home. I gave her a bath and she smells nice now. Not sure if I should fix her tail. I might just keep her like this because it makes her special.
I will post a picture of the darling soon.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 04, 2016, 02:34:43 PM
Do pony items count? I was getting my computer fixed and someone had decorated their computer with My Little Pony stickers.


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Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Pierlala on June 04, 2016, 02:35:29 PM
Here is the poor baby. But she's happy now :)

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Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Strawberry Swirl on June 04, 2016, 03:05:21 PM
In a pile of clothes or in a bag of Barbies.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 04, 2016, 03:07:20 PM
In the trash or left on my desk for me to find...
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 04, 2016, 03:29:21 PM
Well does my forehead count?Because a little girl threw her mcdonalds pinkie pie at me once.And it's not the worse... she threw her dolls at me, and even a stapler.Yes you've read right, she threw a stapler at me.Pinkie was nothing because a monster high lagoona went right near my eye.Result : a one of the glass from my eyeglasses was broken.And the best is that i still managed to save this pinkie.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: lonewolf on June 04, 2016, 03:34:00 PM
A few G1's in an antique store including Baby Moondancer (you know you're getting old when your childhood toys start appearing there -_- ).
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: lilimyu on June 04, 2016, 03:39:47 PM
well for me it was in the bathroom (my room is nearby so it's not really surprising) and i found one in my backpack one of my blindbag fall into it XD but that was not the first pony to visit it in my old school i use to sometime brong my pinkie pie plushie with me :D
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: northstar3184 on June 04, 2016, 04:25:05 PM
I can't think of any weird places I've found ponies. But, if we get into related Hasbro toys, I found a Glo Butterfly behind a piece of furniture when I rearranged my bedroom. I think she was behind my bookshelf. This was like 6 or 7 years after I'd sold all my other Glo Friends.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: scarletjul on June 04, 2016, 04:43:21 PM
At a tiny thrift store in the middle of nowhere, I once found a g1 birthflower.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: CupidStrikes on June 04, 2016, 04:49:07 PM
Do blindbags count?

I found one on the floor today outside a huge shopping centre in a city I don't live in. Stepped on/kicked it and looked down thinking I had dropped something but, nope!, blind bag PeachyPie!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 04, 2016, 04:54:32 PM
I remember another thing, it was not a pony figure but still mlp related.While walking near in Montmartre, a famous neighbourhood in Paris, i saw a g4 mrs cake sticker on the ground.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: SkyCakes on June 04, 2016, 05:08:55 PM
Ive found a g3 butterscotch in a toy isle of a toy store department. I did ask if some left it behind I was about to leave it there but they said no. I took it home. I think shes around here somewhere. I have found G1 MOC ponies in a flea market. They don't sell them no more its sad or I never saw any in their booth.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Motion-Paradox on June 04, 2016, 08:35:47 PM
The Disney Store; I actually have a photograph of this somewhere, at the beginning of the year I went to the Disney store in one of the more high-end shopping malls in town and there was a (G4) Pinkie Pie sitting behind the counter on the box they keep the giant key in.

Another one doesn't seem like it would be weird, during the first year or so of G4 when they had those ones with the scooters I saw a Fluttershy in the box for the Fluttershy one, the reason why this is strange is because it was a McDonalds Fluttershy
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Goanna on June 04, 2016, 11:17:58 PM
I saw a G4 Rainbow Dash blu-tacked to the top of the cash register in an Indian restaurant once. It was so cute, like she was their little mascot  :P They'd given her a hair cut so she had a short mohawk looking thing going on!

Edit: Oh! Actually now that I remember: I've also seen a G4 Rarity in the window of an.. optometrist's I think? Either that or a Dentist, I can't remember which. She was there with a bunch of other toys.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: AlmostApplejack on June 04, 2016, 11:37:21 PM
We were at a flea market (not too out of the ordinary) but in a beauty salon shop at the flea market, there was a G1 pony that the woman had put product in her hair to style it! There were only two and I already had one of them, but I took the blue-green pegasus home with me  :lol: waited in line for about 15 minutes to ask how much the pony was but it was worth it
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Lucky_Ladybug on June 05, 2016, 01:19:55 AM
Here is the poor baby. But she's happy now :)

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That's so wonderful that you were able to rescue her!

Well does my forehead count?Because a little girl threw her mcdonalds pinkie pie at me once.And it's not the worse... she threw her dolls at me, and even a stapler.Yes you've read right, she threw a stapler at me.Pinkie was nothing because a monster high lagoona went right near my eye.Result : a one of the glass from my eyeglasses was broken.And the best is that i still managed to save this pinkie.

That is freaky! That kid sounds completely disturbing! Her parents should have paid for your eyeglasses' repair.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: tebrighteyes on June 05, 2016, 04:50:18 AM
I found Firefly and Surprise in the middle of the sidewalk about
half a block from my house.   They were in a box with a few other
random things.  I think they tell off a moving truck.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: princessluna11706 on June 05, 2016, 06:14:20 PM
I found three G1 babies in a plastic bag on a sidewalk in Brooklyn!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Brightglowpony on June 05, 2016, 06:43:37 PM
For me the most unexpected place I found ponies was in a "decade display" case at a Disney World hotel!  The hotel featured display cases to highlight different decades and in the 80s case were three G1 ponies, including a UK Gusty! 
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Post by: dragonfly on June 06, 2016, 08:49:38 AM
not a pony, but I "found" a fellow collector in the wild on a shopping trip one time! We recognized each other from photos we'd posted here!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 06, 2016, 09:01:49 AM
About a year after I moved into my current house (in the middle of nowhere) my nieces and nephews found a G3 Triple Treat buried in the yard.  One side is faded and the mane is cut really weird, so it made me wonder if the lawn mower gave it a trim and miraculously avoided ruining any other part of it.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Lucky_Ladybug on June 06, 2016, 03:48:19 PM
not a pony, but I "found" a fellow collector in the wild on a shopping trip one time! We recognized each other from photos we'd posted here!

How fun! That is awesome. Makes me wonder how close some of us live to each other without knowing it.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Terra on June 06, 2016, 05:11:00 PM
My ex found some in the trash??? This is after we broke up n stuff and we were in different states. I think he might of been looking in peoples garbage cans?? I have no idea what the circumstances there were and probably don't wanna, but I ended up getting them through a mutual friend. A couple of g1s and fakies; and I think it was indicated that there were more left behind in the trash. ANYWayyy, its a pretty weird story, but that's how I got my dazzleglow variant with blue confetti.

Another unusual find was at the flea market. I mean, finding ponies there is pretty normal, but this was at a lot that didn't have any. But in a pile of baby toys I found a baby sea pony float - the pink crocodile one. Nice! My partner thought it was weird I swooped up what looked like a baby's teething toy at the time.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: slyons on June 06, 2016, 05:19:21 PM
Had to be when I turned the corner in the bookstore I worked at and saw 4-Speed laying in the middle of the aisle, what a crazy scene!  Turns out the little girl had just dropped him and was just around the corner so I didn't get to keep him  :pout:
Wildest place I ever found one... But not as strange as some of your stories!!!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Shy Violet on June 06, 2016, 10:35:20 PM
I don't think I've found a pony anywhere weird but I found a MIB Pound Puppy at Goodwill 2 weeks ago and after I got in the car my kids were looking at it and found Princess Sparkle's wand inside!
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: BlushingBlue on June 07, 2016, 10:01:08 AM
One evening in 2008, I went with my mom to her jeweler's to get her engagement ring cleaned. It had been a long day for me, and the only place to sit down was in the little kids' play area in the corner. Since I was bored and naturally nosy, I opened the toy box, and I was surprised to find five or six dirty, matted G1 plushes looking back at me. Diamonds in the very rough! :lol: The jewelry shop was privately owned, so I thought about offering to exchange them for new plushes, or at least clean them up so they weren't so gross, but I chickened out because the owner was a very posh and intimidating lady. :blush:
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Einhornbaby on June 07, 2016, 10:30:37 AM
I found G1 Beach Ball all alone in a box of old and used dishes. The owner had no idea where the pony came from, lol.


edit : gosh just thought of another one, I totally have to tell...

Years ago, I bought Italy Bowtie and Baby Blossom on eBay. My eBay account had my old adress because I had only moved a few weeks ago. It was the adress of my parents house, so packages for me sometimes arrived at theirs. Well, one day then, my mother called telling me my dad had found two G1 ponies in the gutter right on the main street. I freaked out in excitement lol. We visited them a few days later. I was happily thinking about picking up my package with Bowtie and Baby Blossom which should have arrived by then aaaand I was soo excited to find out what ponies my father had found. To my surprise, no package had arrived in the meantime and guess what?! When my father pulled the ponies he found out of his pocket... it was Italy Bowtie and Baby Blossom o.0 He told me they had been lying in the gutter with a cardboard box next to them but he didnt pay attention to the box. Wow... they must have had a very lazy postman... I cannot think of another way how my package has ended up on the mainstreet in the gutter.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: UrocyonFox on June 07, 2016, 10:37:59 AM
My partner found one at a pull-a-part (a junk yard where you bring your own tools and can go and pull your own car parts from a bunch of wrecked ones they have sitting in the yard)

It was a MCD Butterscotch underneath a car in a dried mud puddle, he had to dig her out for me.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 07, 2016, 11:41:36 AM
I found a gen 3 pinkie pie in one of the snow piles after they plowed, just her head and tail were sticking out. I thought it was gonna be a hacked up pony but nope she was dug out intact and covered in grime. Now her hair is a very light pink, and she has some road rash if you look close enough. Other than that she is fine, and cleaned up nicely. I work at a grocery store, and look through the snow piles as they melt.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Purpleglasses on June 07, 2016, 03:31:22 PM
Well does my forehead count?Because a little girl threw her mcdonalds pinkie pie at me once.And it's not the worse... she threw her dolls at me, and even a stapler.Yes you've read right, she threw a stapler at me.Pinkie was nothing because a monster high lagoona went right near my eye.Result : a one of the glass from my eyeglasses was broken.And the best is that i still managed to save this pinkie.

Whoa, where you babysitting this kid? Did you know her at all? That's pretty intense.

It's not so strange but I found a Dancing Butterflies at a salvage store that sells a lot of used building equipment. They have a toy section, too, but this particular pony was in very nice shape.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Lucky_Ladybug on June 07, 2016, 08:17:49 PM
I found G1 Beach Ball all alone in a box of old and used dishes. The owner had no idea where the pony came from, lol.


edit : gosh just thought of another one, I totally have to tell...

Years ago, I bought Italy Bowtie and Baby Blossom on eBay. My eBay account had my old adress because I had only moved a few weeks ago. It was the adress of my parents house, so packages for me sometimes arrived at theirs. Well, one day then, my mother called telling me my dad had found two G1 ponies in the gutter right on the main street. I freaked out in excitement lol. We visited them a few days later. I was happily thinking about picking up my package with Bowtie and Baby Blossom which should have arrived by then aaaand I was soo excited to find out what ponies my father had found. To my surprise, no package had arrived in the meantime and guess what?! When my father pulled the ponies he found out of his pocket... it was Italy Bowtie and Baby Blossom o.0 He told me they had been lying in the gutter with a cardboard box next to them but he didnt pay attention to the box. Wow... they must have had a very lazy postman... I cannot think of another way how my package has ended up on the mainstreet in the gutter.

That's cool about Beach Ball! But oh wow, that is just awful about your package! At least you still got your Ponies, but I hope they weren't damaged from lying in the gutter! Did you complain to the post office?
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 07, 2016, 09:25:05 PM
Well does my forehead count?Because a little girl threw her mcdonalds pinkie pie at me once.And it's not the worse... she threw her dolls at me, and even a stapler.Yes you've read right, she threw a stapler at me.Pinkie was nothing because a monster high lagoona went right near my eye.Result : a one of the glass from my eyeglasses was broken.And the best is that i still managed to save this pinkie.

Wow! What a little brat!

I found some G3 stickers at a dollar store earlier this year.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Einhornbaby on June 07, 2016, 10:29:54 PM
I found G1 Beach Ball all alone in a box of old and used dishes. The owner had no idea where the pony came from, lol.


edit : gosh just thought of another one, I totally have to tell...

Years ago, I bought Italy Bowtie and Baby Blossom on eBay. My eBay account had my old adress because I had only moved a few weeks ago. It was the adress of my parents house, so packages for me sometimes arrived at theirs. Well, one day then, my mother called telling me my dad had found two G1 ponies in the gutter right on the main street. I freaked out in excitement lol. We visited them a few days later. I was happily thinking about picking up my package with Bowtie and Baby Blossom which should have arrived by then aaaand I was soo excited to find out what ponies my father had found. To my surprise, no package had arrived in the meantime and guess what?! When my father pulled the ponies he found out of his pocket... it was Italy Bowtie and Baby Blossom o.0 He told me they had been lying in the gutter with a cardboard box next to them but he didnt pay attention to the box. Wow... they must have had a very lazy postman... I cannot think of another way how my package has ended up on the mainstreet in the gutter.

That's cool about Beach Ball! But oh wow, that is just awful about your package! At least you still got your Ponies, but I hope they weren't damaged from lying in the gutter! Did you complain to the post office?


they were fine all over thankfully :) And yes, we did complain but the postman claimed he had delivered it to the doorstep... someone must have stolen it because they thought there might be something expensive in the package and then threw the ponies away in disappointment or something lol. Im still glad my father found them :)
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: StarZetRaven on June 08, 2016, 03:27:51 AM
When I was a teenager I found a g2 Copper Glow sticking out of a garbage can on the street outside a house. I grabbed her, and I wish I had been brave enough to just peek inside the can to see if there were more there but I was afraid someone would see me :P
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Post by: brighteyes on June 08, 2016, 03:44:07 AM
I found a Cotton Candy buried in my sister's yard while putting in a garden.  I will try to dig the photos out of my photobucket later and post them.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: C-Puff on June 08, 2016, 09:48:40 AM
Who are these people throwing all these ponies in the trash? D:

Weirdest place I ever found a pony, maybe not technically weird but still, around the early 2000s I found the year 10 Birthday Pony at a doctor's office in the waiting room among the other toys for the kids. The weird part is that apart from puncture marks on her ears where a little girl presumably gave her earings, she's in really good condition! She still has all her streamers, her hair is uncut and she has no fading or symbol rub!

And this from a doctor's waiting room! You'd think she'd have been damaged long ago!

The doctor was nice enough to let me buy her :D so she's on my shelf now.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 08, 2016, 12:13:41 PM
Well does my forehead count?Because a little girl threw her mcdonalds pinkie pie at me once.And it's not the worse... she threw her dolls at me, and even a stapler.Yes you've read right, she threw a stapler at me.Pinkie was nothing because a monster high lagoona went right near my eye.Result : a one of the glass from my eyeglasses was broken.And the best is that i still managed to save this pinkie.

Whoa, where you babysitting this kid? Did you know her at all? That's pretty intense.

It's not so strange but I found a Dancing Butterflies at a salvage store that sells a lot of used building equipment. They have a toy section, too, but this particular pony was in very nice shape.
Nope, i wasn't babysitting her.If i was it would have been positive because i would at least have got some money...I was at a birthday party from someone in my family, and went in her room to recharge my phone...Bad idea.I knew her before, and we kinda hate each other.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: DazzleKitty on June 08, 2016, 02:04:00 PM
How about in prison? Because I work in a prison and my coworkers have brought me ponies there before.
Title: Re: Strangest place you've FOUND a pony in the wild?
Post by: Lucky_Ladybug on June 09, 2016, 06:27:11 PM
Weirdest place I ever found a pony, maybe not technically weird but still, around the early 2000s I found the year 10 Birthday Pony at a doctor's office in the waiting room among the other toys for the kids. The weird part is that apart from puncture marks on her ears where a little girl presumably gave her earings, she's in really good condition! She still has all her streamers, her hair is uncut and she has no fading or symbol rub!

And this from a doctor's waiting room! You'd think she'd have been damaged long ago!

The doctor was nice enough to let me buy her :D so she's on my shelf now.

That is awesome! Pictures?
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