G1s in my daughter's pre-school

[Leave a Whisper]

Yesterday when I picked up my daughter from her pre-school she wanted to finish something so I looked around at the stuff they have there and in a box on shelf there was a bunch of G1s!! I didn't have the time to look more closely at them but there was one princess, a couple of adults and a few babies. It felt weird because on one hand I felt happy that they are still appreciated by kids but at the same time I wanted to rescue them from the kids! I wanted to tell the kids that they are not to be played with! Treat them well! The ponies actually looked ok. I don't know what I would have done if they had a pony I really, really want to have! 

At the underlined part. Why? They are toys for kids, they are durable and built to withstand playtime. I buy my kid G1s and I don't put them on a shelf and tell her she's not allowed to play with them. She's even allowed to play with mine.

[Pheasant]

Yesterday when I picked up my daughter from her pre-school she wanted to finish something so I looked around at the stuff they have there and in a box on shelf there was a bunch of G1s!! I didn't have the time to look more closely at them but there was one princess, a couple of adults and a few babies. It felt weird because on one hand I felt happy that they are still appreciated by kids but at the same time I wanted to rescue them from the kids! I wanted to tell the kids that they are not to be played with! Treat them well! The ponies actually looked ok. I don't know what I would have done if they had a pony I really, really want to have! 

At the underlined part. Why? They are toys for kids, they are durable and built to withstand playtime. I buy my kid G1s and I don't put them on a shelf and tell her she's not allowed to play with them. She's even allowed to play with mine.

^ Agreed; G1s hold up surprisingly well. Think about it, a good majority of G1s weren't purchased as collectors' items, they were what Hasbro intended them to be - toys for children. I'd much rather see kids playing with G1s, encouraging their imaginations, instead of wasting their brains away in front of electronics.

[LittleSpiffy]

I don't think G1s are much of a health hazard, really.

If they weren't rare I'd leave them there, personally.  The kids probably know the individual ponies.  And I think it's nice that they're still played with somewhere. <3

I think we had a discussion on this recently and decided that if you're not actually eating the pony, there's no harm

The health scare over older plastic toys comes from phthalates (http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=24), and unless a child is literally chewing and swallowing huge chunks of plastic on a daily basis, they're not a major risk, especially the small amount used in toys.

As is, we're still not even sure they DO cause cancer or endocrine problems, just that they're "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen".

LoL, I should have kept reading before I replied

[brittney_rochelle]

Yesterday when I picked up my daughter from her pre-school she wanted to finish something so I looked around at the stuff they have there and in a box on shelf there was a bunch of G1s!! I didn't have the time to look more closely at them but there was one princess, a couple of adults and a few babies. It felt weird because on one hand I felt happy that they are still appreciated by kids but at the same time I wanted to rescue them from the kids! I wanted to tell the kids that they are not to be played with! Treat them well! The ponies actually looked ok. I don't know what I would have done if they had a pony I really, really want to have! 

At the underlined part. Why? They are toys for kids, they are durable and built to withstand playtime. I buy my kid G1s and I don't put them on a shelf and tell her she's not allowed to play with them. She's even allowed to play with mine.

^ Agreed; G1s hold up surprisingly well. Think about it, a good majority of G1s weren't purchased as collectors' items, they were what Hasbro intended them to be - toys for children. I'd much rather see kids playing with G1s, encouraging their imaginations, instead of wasting their brains away in front of electronics.

I agree. The last time I seen my childhood collection, they were still very playable, and they were going on 10 years then (depending on the pony). A friend gave me a pony recently that was "tossed around from house to house and survived [her] 5 year old."  They withstand the test of time.

 I offered to exchange MY new toys for a few old ponies they had at my brothers old daycare (when I was still young). They accepted :3

[moonflower]

If they had a pony I needed or anything rare I would probably offer to buy it or exchange it for other toys. Other than that I would just think how cool it was that a new generation get to play with them.

[Mermaid]

*takes pony out of mouth*
Say wha?

[hathorcat]

How awesome to see G1 "out in the wild" and still being enjoyed for their original purpose...kids getting fun from them

[Kazzellin]

Hee! I recall a few months ago, a family with a little girl came in through work, and I smiled broadly when I saw she had a Windy softie with her.

Aww, I'd love to see this.
At the nursery where my mum works, they have a bunch of well-loved G3s who get a lot of attention. It just goes to show that appealing, well-made toys like MLP can stand the test of time & be enjoyed by multiple generations. ^-^

I just hope those G3s are magnet-free! (Granted I have no idea how old children in a nursery are, so don't know how likely they are to chew on the hooves and potentially swallow said magnet, so it might be a worthless concern.)

[Leave a Whisper]

*takes pony out of mouth*
Say wha?

Spit that outta your mouth! You don't know where it's been