Thanks for the links    StoryDreamer

I was at Disney's D23 Expo this weekend and they released an exclusive doll set for the upcoming film "Frozen" that will be in theaters in November. Here are Elsa and Anna, the main characters of the film. Similar dolls (probably styled a little differently) will supposedly be released in September to the Disney Stores as well as two male characters from the film.

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My ponies are in semi-storage. I have most of them in clear plastic roll around drawers or boxes, so while they are packed away they are still visible. I have a few play sets on shelves above them and a few ponies sitting out around the play sets as well as a few on my desk.

Personally, my husband has no right to talk about my ponies because he has a half a closet (about 31/2 maybe 4 feet across) closet full of Transformers packed in floor to ceiling.

"I do think that our children are having a harder time with imagination if they're thrust in front of screens at a very young age."

This is a very real statement that is affecting both genders of children. I won't say which relative of mine did this, but I went to babysit his kids one day and the 3 year old boy was watching firetruck videos on youtube. And his dad smiles and laughed and said "Child rearing/babysitting is so different nowdays."

To me, the biggest thing that I see with toys and it doesn't' have to be dolls, it can be any toy, is the expectation that children "know how to play". That if you dump a toy out in front of a kid they magically understand how to use it and what can be done with it. "Play" and "Imagination" is something that is learned, taught or observed. A fair amount of adults are just buying their kids toys, opening them, and walking out of the room. The idea that "they get bored" and the solution is a NEW TOY!

In regards to dolls though, I was one of those kids who was never allowed to go to anyone elses house, so I played with my MLP, or my Strawberry Shortcake dolls and later on Barbie and other dolls by myself. I did have a couple playsets though and that may make play more interesting or I also used building blocks or Lincoln Logs to build furniture or castles, houses etc. I will say though, that Barbie back in the 80's is so not the same as she is now. Now everything is bright bright pink and EVERYTHING is pink and glittery. She used to have a wider range of colors for herself, her clothes and her accessories.

Another thing to mention perhaps is that we rarely got new toys. My parents couldn't afford it. So it was maybe on an occasion like Christmas, or a Birthday or occasionally maybe Easter or Valentines Day that we had new toys. So having less toys gives one a few less choices of indoor activities. We did have an Atarii and later Nintendo but my mother was VERY strict about how much time we could watch TV or play video games.

You know.... now that I read this thread, I think I had the same set as a kid. I TOTALLY forgot about it existing. I am going to have to go on a closet/garage search to find out what happened to it. The last time I saw it (gosh I'm guessing around mid 90's) I know mine was still in it's box. I vaguely remember it being removed from my closet and boxed in with puzzles and colorforms and stuff when I was in high school and moved to I think (well, I hope) my parents garage (this was long before I had gotten back into MLP). There were lots of magnets in the set from ponies to flowers to butterflies and I want to say squirrels or rabbits (I'm not sure, been too long).

I just collect button-type pins.

That is what my husband does as well. So between us there are loads of Disney buttons and Disney pins.

Thanks for all the comments on the Ariel pins.
I should actually organize the other ones I have. I have a bunch more pins stashed away in bags in drawers, as well as collector sets. Only problem with collecting things like that is they get expensive over time, which is one of the reasons I basically stopped buying them.

I can't say I go to many yard sales    StoryDreamer, but I would be surprised to find Disney pin collections at them. They tend to be at swap meets sometimes or at collectable trade shows or convention type events or at least around here that's where they are findable if not direct from Disney. Other than online of course. Almost all of the pins I own I have bought in person, with only a couple from online. I am kind of picky about my collectables and like to handle them and look them all over before buying.

YES! I have a small number from other places/events/things but I have LOADS of Disney pins. Some I had as a kid, but the majority of the Disney pins I have been collecting in the last decade or so as they became increasingly popular in the parks. I have various princess ones, other characters, parade pins, just really sort of whatever I thought was cute or was part of a theme I was into. I have not bought any in a long time now, but I do have pictures of a fair amount of my Little Mermaid ones. At one point I started organizing them into some pin binders, but well, life happens, and that was short lived. I have quite a few more Little Mermaid ones than are in these pictures, but you get the idea.

Ariel page1
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Triton & Ursula
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