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Hi all! You can call me Lofty. I'm a 24-year-old longtime pony fan from New England. You can thank the custom pony artist Keet for referring me to the site!I got into poines in the early '90s when I was a very young child by way of the original cartoon show and immediately started collecting and playing with the figurines. It was by far my favorite show (until Sailor Moon came along, but that's a story for another forum) and I loved the toys, the show, even the comic books which I acquired thanks to a friend with family in the UK. I think the start of my truly becoming a collector of poines, though, started when I found some at a tag sale and immediately begged my family to take me to more to see if we could find more poines. For a time whenever we passed a tag sale on the street I'd make my mom stop just in case there were ponies to be found.Over the years I grew up, and while ponies still kept a very special place in my heart I lost my strong passion for collecting them. A few years ago, though, there came a trend in the cosplay community (I'm a cosplayer/costumer, you see) to make costumes inspired by ponies. I didn't get around to one until this year (my friend solicited a group of us to dress as the Sundae Best ponies) but it really rekindled my love for MLP.My main drive now is finding a figurine of my favorite pony: Baby Lofty. I made mention of this to Keet while I was admiring her artwork at a convention earlier this summer (as I was in my CocoBerry costume I might add) and she suggested I check this place out. I am excited to really get back into collecting and to better learn about the figurines. I am partial to G1s because that's what I've got in my collection. Little interest in G2s & G3s and no interest in G4s, though I do enjoy the new cartoon show (just not the figurines).