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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: BabyBlueRibbon on January 29, 2021, 01:24:28 PM
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Hi all. :)
I am wondering who also collects these? This is one of my big obsessions in the pony world. I am wondering who out there understands me. :)
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I do understand you ! I love collecting packaging and I would love to get older gens backcards and boxes !
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Oh yes. I have boxes for most of my G1 playsets and I love the look of them. Weirdly, one of the few things I still have from my childhood is the box for the Party Pack and the art on that is to die for. I’d really like to have more backcards, I love the stories about the ponies and art that’s included on those, especially the early ones.
Elf
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I would love to have a box for a G1 one day - the art is so beautiful!
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I do! I love the artwork and it’s cheaper than buying MOC ponies!
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This would be me :D I love the packaging :) I think if you include the MOC ponies, I've somewhere near 300 cards and boxes in my collection <3
I have several from the US release but my main focus is European and UK packaging, so most of the ones I have are from this part of the world. I like those best :) they're nostalgic to my childhood.
I call it compensating for all the ones I threw out as a kid xD.
Great to see someone else who also loves them =D
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This would be me :D I love the packaging :) I think if you include the MOC ponies, I've somewhere near 300 cards and boxes in my collection <3
I have several from the US release but my main focus is European and UK packaging, so most of the ones I have are from this part of the world. I like those best :) they're nostalgic to my childhood.
I call it compensating for all the ones I threw out as a kid xD.
Great to see someone else who also loves them =D
Was waiting for you to find this thread lol
That aside, I love all Pony literature, so for me the biggest draw to backcards is the stories. I know a few sites had a fondness for backcard stories too. i love all the different insights to Pony characters, even the way the UK & US ones can often vary (they do, trust me).
I also love the art on them, & my biggest want is either an actual card, or scan of, UK/ Euro Twisty Tail, preferably including the top image on the front of the card, which is of her.
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I have the backcard to the Tropical Ponies and the Sweet Steps Ballerinas, I particularly love the backcards that mention unicorn magic. I also like later sets that have four ponies and one story for them all to share because the backcard is part of the set if you get all four.
But I like them more for the art than anything else. The pony exists in art form, not just toy form.
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Threads like this make me wish that I still had my childhood backcards. :sigh: I thought I kept them but I must have thrown them away at some point. I didn't have all of them but I remember saying Coco Berry/Chocolate Chip, Mirror Mirror, Baby Pearly, Baby Palm Tree and a few others.
I love the art on the backcards and it it's always interesting to see how ponies changed from their prototype to the final toy like Hippity Hop. She's a pegasus but her backcard shows her as a unicorn.
http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:HippityHopBackcard.jpg
Ponyfan
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I love collecting backcards/boxes! I don't have any from G1, sadly, but I have one or two from G4. I'd love to have one from G1 one day, the artwork is so beautiful! I have backcards from other toys that I love, too. It's nice to know that you do, too. My family thinks that the boxes/backcards are just trash and should be thrown away. They don't think they're ugly, they just have always liked more room.
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I don't really actively collect them, but I have a couple of pony wear backcards and a bunch of pamphlets that came in the packages with childhood ponies. I'd love to have a couple of backcards/boxes to a few of my childhood favorite ponies, if I ever come across them at a reasonable price.
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I kept all of mine as a child but they got thrown out. I’d buy more but they’re easy enough to find scanned online and I’m ok with that.
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I don't actively collect them, but I love looking at them for sure! I do have a couple G2 backcards, but G1's backcard art is just so lovely.
Oh! I do have a couple of the Basic Fun retro boxes, though--that's probably about the closest I'll get until I come across something in the wild though :lol:
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Scanning and uploading my cards is one of the many jobs I seem to never get around to! I have photos of most all of them but my scanner died a long time back, so scanning them is more difficult to do and I'm lazy.
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I keep every piece I get my hands on, but...
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I keep whatever paper ephemera comes into my collection (ditto with packaging, etc for the other gens), but I don't specifically seek it out.
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I'm curious.
For those who collect boxes and backcards-- how do you display them? Do you just store them?
Boxes drive me up the wall because they take up so much room. But flat things I don't mind as much because they are easy to store.
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I love G1 artwork. Only have a few in original packaging, wish I could afford more. I am actively searching for play set boxes on my wish list...
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I'm curious.
For those who collect boxes and backcards-- how do you display them? Do you just store them?
Boxes drive me up the wall because they take up so much room. But flat things I don't mind as much because they are easy to store.
I don't have a pony room yet, but it's always been a kind of internal pipe dream to be able to display ponies with cards in the future if possible. Some of my cards have bubbles still attached, like Tornado, and so they can't be stored flat and have to be stored more creatively. Most of my straight cards and box backs that have been cut off are in lever arch files or if they're too big, loose in the same drawer with the files. It's a deep drawer, and some of my boxes are also flat packed that way. Those with bubbles are mostly in one of the Waterfall boxes (I managed to get both Waterfalls into the US box, so I have Satin Slipper in one UK Waterfall box and packages in the other) so they don't get crushed. Sometimes cards with bubbles are inside boxes with bubbles. Some of my newborn twins live inside Rattles and Tattles' box. Most of my MIP are behind cupboard doors so you can see them when you open the cupboard but not really go through them all.
...None of this does them justice. One day...I wish for better. :) But according to my spreadsheet I have 333 cards/boxes including the MOC ponies. So yeah, it's a challenge I can't meet yet.
I also have a folder of leaflets, inserts, and other paper bits, and one with stickers and such like in. But they're easier to store.
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HUGS all of the backcard / box collectors like me. :) I have been an adult collector of these since 1997 (when I originally figured out what eBay was). None of the cards/boxes are from my original childhood collection. Actually, I only have ONE pony in my entire collection that was actually something that I owned as a kid.
I have almost all of the G1 US released cards/boxes [EXCEPT any of the sister ponies, sea ponies, or ballerina ponies, and the few remaining cards on my want list]. Shameless plug.....I am looking high and low for those that I still need. Message me if you are willing to sell any of those. :)
I also have several G1 NON US released pony backcards / boxes. I try to keep those to only cards / boxes of ponies not available in the US.
I think that I have almost all of the cards for the G2 series [except I did not collect any of the changing hair ponies. I thought those were....interesting.....just not for me].
I keep the cards sorted by pony type [Collector ponies, Rainbow Ponies, etc] and card/box sizes in various sizes of vacuum space saver bags.
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I only have my childhood cards from 1992 onwards, plus sister's as she doesn't like backcards - but that also includes all the ones we got from the clearance store in 1994 and 1995. All the earlier ones got ditched :( I have bits of Sky Rocket's card somewhere, but only bits. I have my sister's loose Napper card (from the clearance store) and Sunspot, Skydancer and Napper MOC (from same store) but am still waiting to replace my childhood Sky Rocket's card :/
Some cards are definitely more obscure than others.
I would love to know if anyone has a 1987 UK Twinkle Eye backcard.
I'm only looking for Locket's for nostalgia's sake since I have one example in my collection already and I am fine settling for one of the set in the case of rare releases, but this set is stupidly obscure for some reason backcard-wise.
The others in the set are Sweetie, Fizzy, Speedy, Sky Rocket and Tic Tac Toe. The card is white with a rainbow motif up the middle. I'd love to know if there are surviving cards out there.
In my biased opinion Europe and the UK in 1986 and 1987 had some of the best packages, especially 1987. But for some reason several of the 1987 cards (as opposed to ones from 1988 dated 1987) are stupidly obscure.
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Looking back, I wish I had saved all my backcards (the boxes might be a bit more difficult to store, but the backcards would have been easy to keep), but that was just something I didn't even think about when I was 5-9 years old. I am glad that at least you can go online and find the artwork and stories for each pony on their cards/boxes. I've always loved the G1 artwork; it is so beautiful.