Hello! Chiming in quickly to answer an earlier question: Dream Beauties were 100% sold in Australia - I got Sheertrimmer for my fourth birthday obviously can’t tell you which ranges exactly, but they were definitely there.

The other thing I can tell you definitively - since as I have mentioned before many of my ponies were inherited from my older sister, and my South African grandmother in Johannesburg would often buy me ponies, so sometimes I am a little unsure about the EXACT provenance of everything in my childhood collection - is that I have a distinct memory of going to Toys r Us and buying Petite Ponies there. I had a set from almost every collection and many of my friends did too, as well as playsets. They were very popular.

Amazing! Funnily enough, I had a pony from each of those collections on that first page (aside from the rainbow curls). There's a photo of me unboxing Posey Rose on my third birthday (which was in 1991) soooo that tracks. Pony Bride was big in Oz - almost everyone I knew as a kid had one. Secret Surprises too - I can remember about two or three friends who had those ponies, plus Eyelash princesses.

I knew about a lot of the ponies in that 1988 catalogue (only had Seashore, who I inherited from my sister, who's 4 years older than me) from various bits of merch but I don't recall them being as widespread; of course, that's probably because I was a little younger, so the early 90s ponies loom larger in my mind.

Anyway obviously that's all anecdotal... some great finds!

This is obviously a too-hot-to-sleep late night thought, but indulge me haha...

Do you guys ever think about how strange it is that we’re now almost 15 years out from the debut of G3? When I got back into collecting properly in 2003/2004 it felt like the gulf between the end of G1 & the present was totally unbridgeable. 1993 to 2003 was such a leap, and all those ponies felt... gone. I can’t believe an even longer stretch has passed between G3 and today, but there are so many factors that make it feel less remote, I guess: as a kid you don’t have the agency to drive yourself to the store and buy ponies, so they’re already much more precious, and the internet/rise of eBay and collectors’ communities meant that so many more people were consciously buying G3 for the purpose of storing them or selling them on. I feel like we have much greater stock from that generation — a MIB g3 Dazzleglow isn’t the same find as a MOC g1 Dazzleglow. And yet it’s been so long. It’s crazy!

Anyway, just a little ramble. Feeling my age, clearly!

Love it!! Well done!

Well, you have 19 ponies there - and supposing they're all in good condition and worth about $8 on average, the combined value of the ponies alone is about $152 USD, or maybe around £113. Some of them are obviously worth a bit more than $8/pony but (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) none of them are SUPER rare. Then you have the playsets, which probably bumps you up another £75-£100 depending on their condition, maybe more, maybe less.

So to me it depends: do you want the majority of these ponies? Would you sell those that you didn't? It's not a small sum of money, you're right, but in terms of value for money it's a good deal. Really up to you.

Also - pony on top left end looks like Banana Surprise to me.

Thank you all for your kind words - my grandpa was 92, and I had a good 30 years with him, so I feel lucky in a way. It's nice to see these pictures after so long and be reminded of that.

Good grief! What a haul? Do you mind if I ask which app you found all this on?!