So gravitationalTim and I were talking more and we decided that we really really want to go and we are going to be disappointed if it doesn't happen

I noticed you had posted, Eskara - that was a good idea to ask for clarification on the location. I'm just hoping the ponies end up on eBay or CL and not in some local shop where we have no chance of seeing them

Hey, guys! So Summer Hayes just posted this on her blog and I thought I'd post it here too, so that more pony people see it.

Just adding this bit of info to make it easier to find: this happened in Spring, TX which is near Houston, TX for those who are keeping an eye out OL1

Dear Summer,

I am writing to let you know about something awful that happened to my daughter. She is 30 now, but played with her beloved My Little Ponies when she was a child in the 80s for hundreds of hours. They have been stored safely in a box in her room for years while she has been teaching overseas.

At Christmas, her brother came home, supposedly to help me clean out the garage, as my health is not good. I told him and my daughter told him that her My Little Pony collection was NOT to be touched, but he was in a very angry mood. He not only threw out my entire DVD collection and about half my CD's, he ripped the box of My Little Ponies, anywhere from 50 to 100 of them; I can't remember, from my hands, saying he just talked to his sister in Finland and she didn't want them anymore. I instantly called her in Finland and she practically had a nervous breakdown. I ran out and he had taken my car and was gone. I assumed he donated them to Goodwill, like he did the DVDs, but they have been very good and very honest with me, giving me back about 60 of my DVDs they hadn't sold yet, and they told me they hadn't received any My Little Pony donations, and indeed, there were none for sale in their store.I then went tearing back home, thinking my son put the pony box in the Bagster, and sure enough he did, but as I drove up, I saw a woman grab them and drive off with them.

She came back day after day and I asked her for my daughter's collection back, but she says she doesn't know what I was talking about. I finally told her if she returned I would call the police.

This woman was driving an expensive car and dressed expensively, so it is my belief she is going to try and sell this collection, perhaps on ebay, maybe through private channels. If we could recover even three or four, it would go a love way toward healing my daughter's heart.

My daughter always wrote her initials, MES for Meghan Elizabeth Smith, in permanent marker on the bottom of one hoof, and the pony's name on another hoof, so that is how they can be identified as hers. Can you help me spread the word among the My Little Pony collecting community, and if anyone runs across a pony with the initials "MES," written on the hoof, could I be notified so I can buy it back for her? She is just brokenhearted and in tears at the thought that her most beloved childhood toys were taken from her, and I am brokenhearted not only for that, but also for the cruel and heartless and dishonest behavior of her brother.

My son got the garage clean alright, but in the process I lost priceless family heirlooms and thousands of dollars in antique lace and pearl buttons. (I used to design and make doll clothes.) To see these wealthy women dumpster diving in my poor little neighborhood just made me sick. I would chase them off and and bring as much as I could back inside, but they just parked around the corner, and the moment I went inside they were back stealing whatever they could grab from the dumpster. It was pretty horrifying.

But the thing that is killing me the most is my beloved daughter losing her carefully preserved My Little Pony collection after all these years, for no reason other than the meanness of her brother, I will never understand it.

Can you help me spread the word and maybe, if my prayers are answered, and with the help of the good people of the My Little Pony world, we can get her at least a few of her ponies back.

Thank you,
Pat Smith
writing as Fat Cat on Blogger
 




This is sad and ridiculous - I just hopes one of us ends up with the ponies so we can send them back!


(Not sure if Summer's blog is competing - please delete if so - but this: http://mylittleponycollector.blogspot.com/2012/01/while-on-vacation-i-received-following.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MyLittlePonyCollector+%28My+Little+Pony+Collector%29 is Summer's original post.)

If okapishomapi is going, there is a good chance I will be able to tag along!

OMG YAY!!!! I didn't even...YAY!!!!

You won't find that kind of dissent here. This a My Little Pony community, not just a Friendship is Magic community. If you want to stir that pot, post it somewhere else.

qft. Seems like we try to have this conversation once every couple of months. Not worth the stress imho.


edit:

No I mean...even on here! i see mainly G1 collectors venting that G1 character names are popping up on FiM with an air of 'oh silly G4 fans. You don't even KNOW.' And I'm just sitting here like...What? I wasn't even ALIVE during G1 and didn't get into ponies seriously until FiM, by which point I was 21 years old. I'm just...endlessly confused.

Where have you seen that? I don't ever remember any of the Arena folks dissing bronies. I think most of us want to expose bronies to G1 as well as G4!


And if you're 21, you were in fact alive for G1. I am 22 and I had a few of the later G1s when I was little

Gorgeous!! Wish I had that many outfits - all my dolls just wear what they came with ^^

We played Fakie Baseball (not sure what we called it?) at the Ohio Meet this summer and it was SUPER FUN.