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Title: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Haruna on November 27, 2016, 07:45:55 PM
We had one of these a while ago and I thought I'd start one up again. It's a place to share your random pony thoughts of any kind -- what ponies are you thinking about, what questions do you have, who are you trying to find or who have you just bought, did you have a terrible day when someone snatched a Mimic out of your hands or a wonderful one where you found the whole TAF baby set MIP? Anything pony-related is fair game. This is the place you post a thought when it doesn't merit a thread of its own but you have to get it out of your brain. :P

I'll start with a random thought. I just realized that I take it for granted that the flutter pony toys have no wings. That's just how they are. But really, they're all technically broken . . . I noticed it when for the umpteenth time a seller on Ebay described a flutter as having had its wings broken off, and I was like, "oh, yeah, I'd pretty much forgotten." It's kind of sad, really. They look so pretty with their wings.

^so there's my very random thought of the day. Add yours!
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Kanchii on November 27, 2016, 08:59:46 PM
I like this idea! Thanks for starting it.

Today I was looking at my small shelf where I have some of my ponies displayed (the rest are still in a couple tubs because there's no room at my current place, sad) and I wondered if they all got along! Hahaha. Because, I have 8 kinda random G1's, and then one baby G1 with a fakie baby next to it (I found them together, couldn't leave the poor fakie), one G3, one G4 (Princess Luna, who is bigger than the rest), and then this weird dragon/unicorn thing I found recently.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: northstar3184 on November 27, 2016, 09:06:13 PM
We had one of these a while ago and I thought I'd start one up again. It's a place to share your random pony thoughts of any kind -- what ponies are you thinking about, what questions do you have, who are you trying to find or who have you just bought, did you have a terrible day when someone snatched a Mimic out of your hands or a wonderful one where you found the whole TAF baby set MIP? Anything pony-related is fair game. This is the place you post a thought when it doesn't merit a thread of its own but you have to get it out of your brain. :P

I'll start with a random thought. I just realized that I take it for granted that the flutter pony toys have no wings. That's just how they are. But really, they're all technically broken . . . I noticed it when for the umpteenth time a seller on Ebay described a flutter as having had its wings broken off, and I was like, "oh, yeah, I'd pretty much forgotten." It's kind of sad, really. They look so pretty with their wings.

^so there's my very random thought of the day. Add yours!

So true. I always wonder why the fragility of the wings was never remedied by Hasbro. You'd think it'd be obvious during production and certainly after the first set of flutters was released.


Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: nhal039 on November 28, 2016, 12:44:15 AM
I have decided that a line up of the back sides of ponies is just as good as the head end, its nice to get a good view of the symbols for a change
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Gingerbread on November 28, 2016, 02:17:58 AM
I'm still doing my pony room three years after moving house. Why did I start doing the G3s first? I want more G1s out  >_<
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on November 28, 2016, 08:26:28 AM
I wonder if I'll ever find some of my childhood favourite G3s in second-hand shops
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 28, 2016, 09:07:25 AM
I have too many G3s.  I really need to go through them and get rid of any that I just don't have room for.  But I'm Paypal illiterate and I really don't want to pay fees on eBay.  So that kind of keeps me from going through them even though I REALLY need to.  (I think I have 5 or 6 Banker's boxes full of them-not including the baity ones that I've set aside for customs.)
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: scarletjul on November 28, 2016, 07:40:59 PM
Nice idea.  :)

I finally found the other pearly G4s at Target today and I really want Colorataura.  But, I'm on a "no buying myself stuff" freeze until after Christmas. 
What's a pony collector to do?  :D
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 28, 2016, 09:33:31 PM
Nice idea.  :)

I finally found the other pearly G4s at Target today and I really want Colorataura.  But, I'm on a "no buying myself stuff" freeze until after Christmas. 
What's a pony collector to do?  :D

Put a note on it that says it's from Santa and put it under the tree?
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: daffodil101 on November 28, 2016, 11:15:30 PM
I haven't watched the cartoon for a long time but....  did the 3 kids (Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle) ever get their symbols?  As a G1 collector, it just doesn't seem right!
(I know we had Ember and Baby Pony, but still.)
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 28, 2016, 11:17:21 PM
I haven't watched the cartoon for a long time but....  did the 3 kids (Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle) ever get their symbols?  As a G1 collector, it just doesn't seem right!
(I know we had Ember and Baby Pony, but still.)

Yes.  I think it was in Season 5.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Olympus on November 29, 2016, 03:02:09 AM
I haven't watched the cartoon for a long time but....  did the 3 kids (Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle) ever get their symbols?  As a G1 collector, it just doesn't seem right!
(I know we had Ember and Baby Pony, but still.)

They did get their symbols! Like Pokeyonekenobie said, they got them during the fifth season. I personally don't like them all that much. They just don't look... right to me? I dunno. *Shrugs*

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...That last one is really more of a silly conspiracy theory than anything else.  :P
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Gingerbread on November 29, 2016, 04:05:05 AM


  • How are ponies able to (sometimes) pick up things with their hooves?
  • Are Twinkle Eye Ponies able to see at all? If so, how good is their vision?


I am always wondering how ponies pick stuff up with their hooves. Are they magnetic like some of the G3 ponies? Is it hoofmagic? Do ponies with stinky feet get paranoid when they are wafting their hooves around other ponies faces? Do ponies even get stinky feet? Or athletes hoof? Do ponies get BO?

AS for twinkle eyes I always imagine they have amazingly good eyesight and that everything is just a little bit sparkly :) Then I think, what if the sparkles induce migraines? Do some TE ponies have to have an eye op to reduce the sparkle so they don't get migraines? Who does the op? How does the surgeon pony hold the knife? Can only unicorns be surgeon ponies?

And that is the state of my brain when I am trying to switch off.  :lol:

OMG can ponies wear contact lenses? How do non-unicorns get them in? Is there a unicorn contact lense insertion service in Ponyville?
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Haruna on November 29, 2016, 04:57:43 AM
Put a note on it that says it's from Santa and put it under the tree?

I second this! :thumb:

Are Twinkle Eye Ponies able to see at all? If so, how good is their vision?
Maybe they can hardly see . . . and they bump into things . . . at least that's how I would be, if my eyes were made out of/covered in? crystal . . . Mainly for this reason the idea of twinkle-eyed ponies has actually always seemed strange to me, although I like them in general :blush:
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 29, 2016, 07:26:05 AM
AS for twinkle eyes I always imagine they have amazingly good eyesight and that everything is just a little bit sparkly :) Then I think, what if the sparkles induce migraines? Do some TE ponies have to have an eye op to reduce the sparkle so they don't get migraines? Who does the op? How does the surgeon pony hold the knife? Can only unicorns be surgeon ponies?

I always figured that they had the multifaceted eyes like bugs so they just see a hundred different things at once like bugs.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Ponyfan on November 29, 2016, 07:50:16 AM
What happened to all the flutter ponies we see at the end of The MLP movie ? When we see Flutter Valley again in the tv series there are only a few flutter ponies left. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Olympus on November 29, 2016, 08:39:45 AM
What happened to all the flutter ponies we see at the end of The MLP movie ? When we see Flutter Valley again in the tv series there are only a few flutter ponies left. 

Ponyfan

Maybe there was a secret Flutter Pony war that we don't know about?  :wonder:
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Ponyfan on November 29, 2016, 11:45:36 AM
What happened to all the flutter ponies we see at the end of The MLP movie ? When we see Flutter Valley again in the tv series there are only a few flutter ponies left. 

Ponyfan

Maybe there was a secret Flutter Pony war that we don't know about?  :wonder:


Poor flutter ponies.  :sad:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: DazzleKitty on November 29, 2016, 01:16:47 PM
Nice idea.  :)

I finally found the other pearly G4s at Target today and I really want Colorataura.  But, I'm on a "no buying myself stuff" freeze until after Christmas. 
What's a pony collector to do?  :D

I wish I had that kind of self control. I've been buying so many ponies lately, it's ridiculous. But, I'm been uh....."blessed" with the funds. And barely put a dent in them, but still. XD  I have another brag thread I've got to put up with my latest acquisitions. Photobucket has been such a pain lately that uploading and posting the link the images sucks.

But dang, I got a pair of babies I am so in love with. They must be shared. <3
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Gingerbread on November 29, 2016, 01:19:42 PM


I always figured that they had the multifaceted eyes like bugs so they just see a hundred different things at once like bugs.

Now I am wondering if bugs get migraines....


I'll go now.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: zombie85chick on November 29, 2016, 09:47:27 PM
I keep wishing they would make a mlp show that resembled the original animation from the 80s. I also wish they made mlp trading cards with the original art from the 80s. I'm just not into the new mlp.
I wish my husband would stop asking me to sell my ponies. Don't really want to part of any of them.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: northstar3184 on November 29, 2016, 10:15:09 PM
I also wish they made mlp trading cards with the original art from the 80s.

This would be so cool!
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: ladybastilla on November 30, 2016, 06:10:49 AM
On Feb. 21st I'll have been collecting for two years. In January, once the holiday madness has died down, I want to buy myself a new pony to celebrate this. I'm not sure who that will or should be yet. I don't buy myself many ponies--I usually prefer getting them in swaps. This will also ensure I know who I got for Christmas so I don't wind up with a double.

Some of my ideas:

-- A g1 boy if I don't have one by then. Likely either Barnacle, Tex, Chief or 4-Speed.

-- Princess Starburst, if I don't have her. She's the last of the first set of princess ponies that I need and if / when I get her, I will have completed my first set. I'm generally not a big set completer; I don't have the space. But the princess ponies are an exception.

-- Dazzleglow: every time I look over at my Starglow I swear she's trying to say "Where is my sister?" :lol:

-- Crumpet or Munchy, since I love food / tea themed ponies.

-- FF Minty or Gusty since they, along with Parasol, were my "original herd" when I joined the Arena years ago. I grabbed them randomly at Value Village and eventually got rid of them before I actually got into MLP. I don't remember my childhood ponies, aside from Shady (I was more of a doll person) but I have pictures of those three ponies and I still need two of them to correct that.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Olympus on November 30, 2016, 10:04:33 AM
I also wish they made mlp trading cards with the original art from the 80s.

This would be so cool!

I would be in so much trouble if those came out!

Who does the G4 cards again? Not the Magic the Gathering style cards but the actual trading cards. Enterplay? Maybe they could do a wave of G1 cards. For MLP's anniversary, perhaps?  That would be kind of cool.

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Maybe they can hardly see . . . and they bump into things . . . at least that's how I would be, if my eyes were made out of/covered in?

Now all I can imagine is my poor Gingerbread bumping into walls and narrowly avoiding falling off the table. I might try to get or maybe even  make some pony-sized glasses for her. :lol:

What happened to all the flutter ponies we see at the end of The MLP movie ? When we see Flutter Valley again in the tv series there are only a few flutter ponies left. 

Ponyfan

Maybe there was a secret Flutter Pony war that we don't know about?  :wonder:


Poor flutter ponies.  :sad:

Ponyfan

Or maybe they migrated somewhere else? That's less depressing and more plausible.

Another thought (though more like a headcannon,  really) I had:

So Soft ponies get super, super fluffy during the colder months. The toys are them in their spring or summer coats.
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2016, 10:20:00 AM
i just realized that in Bright Lights there are more than 6 Flutter Ponies. Maybe they're really shy but that doesn't explain why Bumble was only interested in capturing 6 of them in the honeycomb prison if there were more.

I  liked the trading cards when they were just trading cards. I haven't bought any since they went to the game style. I'd buy G1 cards too.  :).

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Random pony thoughts thread -- post here!
Post by: Haruna on November 30, 2016, 11:26:59 AM
Right now I'm sunfading a Glory whose nostrils were colored purple. When I first set her out in the sun, I could swear those were the only significant marks on her. Now she has a purple mark up and down her leg and one on her neck :blink: Why is she getting more marks instead of losing them? Ai yai yai . . .

Another thought (though more like a headcannon,  really) I had:

So Soft ponies get super, super fluffy during the colder months. The toys are them in their spring or summer coats.
Hey, that makes sense! :lol:

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