My mom came to visit me for my birthday today and was able to bring up some of my pony stuff! I used to be obsessed with collecting the back cards that came with each G3 pony to put them together and have scenery to set behind the windows of my playsets. 

Unfortunately there were definitely some that I missed and I think I'm missing two or more backdrops to connect this set that I have together. I know for sure I was missing Wisteria and Sweet Berry. (But their back cards might not be the ones I need?)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/stBu5qaaKHrhe1XY9
(Hope the link works, lmk if it doesn't!)

The 4 cards (pink and purple tree) are from: Minty, Kimono, Pinkie Pie, Sparkleworks

The 2 cards (peach and yellow tree) are from: Rainbow Dash and Star Swirl

Does anyone
A) Know which ponies' cards I'm missing, and
B) If you have the missing cards, would you be willing to scan them and email them to me to print them out? I would really hate to debox some MIB ponies just to get their back cards. 

Hello! I've decided to part with these ponies (and pony girl  ) since I've never been particularly attached to them. Please feel free to message me over here if you have any questions! Each is currently listed on eBay for easier sale ^^

These items come from a non-smoking home with kitties. As far as I can tell they don't have any damages or major issues other than a need of hair restyling.

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/302268668718?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/302268668632?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Thanks for looking! c:

I just saw a new ebay listing go up that had several obviously-very-played with condition ponies (Seashell, Firefly, Gusty, some McD ponies), none of them variants, and the person who has them is asking that bidding start at $1,000. Or, for the super desperate, you can buy them now for $1,100!

 

So what other kinds of ridiculously crazy prices have you guys seen for ponies on eBay? 

So far I've only managed to find two for sale, one covered in pink highlighter and another SUPPOSEDLY for sale from a person who has neglected to show me any pictures of said pony though I'm interested in buying it. So, I'm on the hunt!~ If anyone has one for sale or knows of one for sale, pm me! Please and thank you! 

Thanks stilettomlp for selling me yours! She has gone to a very loving home I can assure you! 

While pen ink on something like G3 ponies (since they're newer so the pen ink usually is too) can be removed by the suggested ways on mlppreservationproject, what about a G1? That pen ink's probably hella old  so more time for it to sink into the vinyl and the harder it is to remove right?

Magic erasers and acetone are suggested on the mlppreservationproject, but for something that's seeped into the plastic, would sunfading take care of it eventually?

Or at least says my fanatical classmate who is in love with Big Macintosh.

Some of you may remember I mentioned her in my "Crazy Collectors?" topic, but for those who don't, she's an insane brony who seems to have a fetish for Big Mac and constantly obsesses over him claiming him to be "her" Big Mac.  Anyone who even looks at a picture of him in her presence gets hissed and yelled at.

So long as I don't get her on the subject of said Big Mac, she can be fun to talk to about pony collecting in general. However a week or so ago she invited me to join the Montana Bronies forum which I declined because, well, I'm not a brony. Today she was sitting next to me in our new seats in class and I made a light joke that our new seats weren't so bad because we could talk about ponies- at which point she started to yell at me and say "NO I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT PONIES WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE THEM."

I challenged her on the topic and basically it boiled down to the fact that I had supposedly backstabbed the brony community by never being one. She says that all pony collectors, whether or not they watch FiM, anybody who likes My Little Pony who isn't a little five year old girl, is a brony. And I heartily disagree with her.

I've only watched a few episodes of FiM, I'm not a die hard fan, nor am I of the original 80's tv series though I did love the movie as a kid. I just collect the toys and occasionally draw art of my ponies. I don't think that classifies me as a brony at all. The whole term "brony" was coined specifically to go along with FiM and therefor covers merely generation 4 in my opinion, the same way many of us refer to the G1 and G2's symbols as "symbols" and not "cutie marks" as they are with G3 and G4. A brony to me is specifically a fan of the FiM show who watches it and participates actively in the brony community and refers to themselves as such. Also, is it so bad of me to not want to be associated with that fanbase? I know there are some perfectly wonderful bronies out there as there are in every fandom, but then again there are those who are... Not so nice. And those are the ones who are receiving the most attention from the public right now, and those are the ones who are contributing a large portion to the image of the fanbase in general. That image is not too pretty.

So I'm curious what YOU guys think of my classmate's oversensitive response to my apparent "brony status." Do you guys feel that all people who like ponies, whether they like G4s or not, are bronies? 

Lots of us have favorite generations, especially if they were a huge part of our childhood, but I thought of something: what if they weren't another MLP generation, and just another line of fakies? Would you still collect them?

For example, my favorte generation is G2. When I first saw them I seriously thought they were fakies, but.... I liked them anyways. I still have my first two, Berry Bright and Petal Blossom. So since they're so cute, even if they were fakies, I'm sure I would still pounce on one if I discovered it in a thrift store.

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After weeks' worth of hard travel in their plastic and cardboard box aircraft carriers, Lieutenant General Nightmare Moon's army reached the bed shores of Fort Kitties, and they wasted no time in beginning their attack. The forts were built against the two cliffs, and Nightmare Moon had the foresight to send in her troops from the remaining three sides in an effort to trap them against the cliffs. Supply routes were cut off and the battle of attrition lasted five long and gruesome minutes before Fort Woody surrendered, with Fort Chibi soon to follow. It was a well-earned victory for all of Ponyville that was celebrated with much drinking, furry earthquakes and falling off of the forts that will go down in pony history.

My cats were very good sports for these pictures. Actually I take that back. Chibi (the chubby gray one) was a huge brat but Woody (the yellow tiger kitty) was actually pretty calm about it once he stopped sniffing Pinkie Pie. Apologies for the bizarre story but I thought it was ironically funny, and we've been covering the civil war in my history class lately, so...