The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Loa on May 21, 2022, 08:05:58 PM
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Here are the unsung heroes of those sets that need more love!
In TE's Bright Eyes should be more loved than Mimic.
Bangles should be praised!
Come, join me on this crusade on ponies that are over 30 years old, and show off your love for the sidelined!
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Sunlight is impo the prettiest of the rainbow ponies!
Skyflier is an underrated beauty.
Sweet Pop and Speedy have such perfect summer colors
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Angel is one of my favorites from the 2nd SS set. I love the colors even though fish kind of freak me out.
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Sunlight was always the hardest one of that original rainbow pony set for me to find anyway xD.
Umm. Lightning from the Mountain Boys. I adored him as a child but never saw him. I've still never seen him in package. I know Ice Crystal is the people's favourite, but I loved Lightning's character and his colouring. So Lightning :)
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Sunlight doesn't get enough love! She's gorgeous and was one of my two childhood ponies.
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Sunbeam. She is very pretty she just has an unfortunate pose.
Mail order Sky Rocket. I like her 10x more than her regular version.
Seaflower. I don't think she is the most sought after? She's the best of the group.
Raincurl, of course :P
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Sunbeam. She is very pretty she just has an unfortunate pose.
Mail order Sky Rocket. I like her 10x more than her regular version.
Seaflower. I don't think she is the most sought after? She's the best of the group.
Raincurl, of course :P
Seaflower is stunning
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Mountain Boy Ice Crystal or Tornado (seeing as it took ages for me to find either of these two)
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i love Sunbeam's colors! I think the Rainbow curl set is underrated in general.
I also think Dainty Dahlia is an underrated Perfume Puff pony. She's in my favorite pose :)
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Seaflower is certainly the most expensive of the Sunshine ponies.
Hmm. My the grail should be Beachball so I can find her less, she's certainly the most common!
Crumpet is my favorite so soft and should dethrone Angel.
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Seaflower is certainly the most expensive of the Sunshine ponies.
Hmm. My the grail should be Beachball so I can find her less, she's certainly the most common!
Crumpet is my favorite so soft and should dethrone Angel.
Crumpet is pretty pricy and very much loved. She's beautiful.
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I always though Crumpet was the grail from that set. but they all seem pretty hard to find at reasonable prices these days.
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Cloud Dreamer from Magic Message Ponies... She's so beautiful, love her colors and her pose of course..! :)
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I always though Crumpet was the grail from that set. but they all seem pretty hard to find at reasonable prices these days.
I'll say. :huh:
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Sweet Pop and Speedy have such perfect summer colors
A pro-Speedy message, you love to see it :sly: Speedy was one of the first ponies I Needed when I started collecting as an adult, and I still really love her. Very unusual colours for a pony and she just owns it.
Sunbeam is super underrated. I never thought anything of her until I saw her repro IRL at Target, now she's my favourite from that set. Kinda regret not getting her, but at least she isn't impossible to find.
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Cascade is hardly ever talked about but I think she's one of the most gorgeous ponies ever made :lovey:
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Tickle and Merriweather for me. Both easy to find, but I love their colors and designs. Peppermint crunch has great 80s colors too, and is a really underrated pony.
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I always loved Peach Blossom for the Flutter Ponies. And I also think for So Soft's that Skippety Do and Twist were underrated!
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Merriweather and Bonnie Bonnets for TAF! Magic Hat for MM.
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I don't know, that is such a hard question! Thinking back on my pony collecting days, I definitely wanted certain ponies more than others, more because I liked their colors or symbols, not really for any other reason. I think that's why people find the "grail" of the set, it's the one they really want to get.
I'm not sure why Mimic became a grail, honestly. I still remember getting her as a kid, my friend bought her for me for a birthday present. I really don't know if I'd have picked her out on my own, and I'm sure I saw her and decided on another pony for that purchasing trip.
I know I have sought out sets when I was in the height of my collecting days, but I don't remember wanting one specific pony from the set. It was kinda like once I got the full set, they all complemented each other and I wanted them all together or none of them. I know, I'm weird!
Grails for me were the uniques, like most people, especially Rapunzel. I found out later that my friend's mom had ordered her for the two of us, but they had run out and we got Goldilocks instead. :(
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Cascade is hardly ever talked about but I think she's one of the most gorgeous ponies ever made :lovey:
She is so gorgeous
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i'll second bright eyes instead of mimic! she's so unique, i love how her colors look together. though i suppose she's increasingly sought-after these days, as well.
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I had always thought Sea Flower and Crumpet to be already the grails from their respective sets. Maybe Crumpet alongside Twilight, given how hard it is to find one in good shape.
Sea Flower, like Shoreline, had a more limited global release than the other four, so that makes her more expensive. She wasn't part of our set here.
I would rather say Sand Digger should be the grail from that set, but I don't know...I've heard some people talk like she already is.
I like both Bright Eyes and Mimic. They're both beautiful ponies. The main difference between them for me is that I was able to get BE MOC, whereas thanks to the stupidity of people back in the collector past, the chance of anyone getting a reasonably priced MOC Mimic is impossible. Mimic isn't a naturally occurring grail, she's been artificially overhyped by 2 decades+ of collector behaviour, so I don't really ever see her as different from the other TEs in the set not sold in the UK.
All that said, she's one of my favourite TE ponies. But the way collectors have messed with her value frustrates me. I regret not ever being able to have a conversation about her just as a pretty pony, without someone seeing her as a status symbol or complaining about her price. :(
I also think Tic Tac Toe is a beautiful TE pony. TEs are one of my favourite sets, and I can pick a number of them out, but I really do love how TTT is put together. All the colours, down to the eye colour.
Going back to the main topic.
Tropical Breeze is best flutter :)
Strawberry Fair will always be my top TAF/Party Pony. I do love Dancing Butterflies as well, but nope, I think Strawberry Fair can even take on Night Glider in my mind's eye (acknowledging those are two sets of course :D)
If Princess Pearl isn't, she should be.
I also feel a bit put out about the Windy Wings, since Cool Breeze was my favourite WW pony from when I was just a kid, along with Starry Wings. And now as an adult, those two are the ones most people consider sought after....so it looks like I'm just jumping on the bandwagon, when in fact I always really wanted both of them!
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TAF buttons such a fun design and does not get enough love. :lovey: I also had the hardest time finding/ getting them, they escaped from me for three different auctions. I finally got them on the fourth try, in a random lot.
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I agree with so many of these merriweather, sunbeam, beach ball and cloud dreamer all certainly get my vote as underrated but my favorite from the set. I also really like swirly whirled but dont know how popular she really is and parasol