Did you re-buy your childhood ponies?

[moonflower]

I had sold all my childhood ponies but when I started collecting they were some of the first ones I tracked down!
They were, shy pose Applejack, shy pose Bow Tie, Posey, Cherries Jubilee, Lickety-Split, Lemon Drop and Show Stable, Snowflake and Forget-Me-Not.

The only MLP item I have from my childhood is the Surfdancer and the Little Mermaid cassette (just the cassette, although I replaced the book pretty quick).

Also, my cousin had Cotton Candy, Peachy and the Grooming Parlour, the first MLP Annual and Panini Sticker Album. These were also items I tracked down quickly because as I played with them as a kid I have a soft spot for them too.

[Sarah-Bee]

I bought all of mine back... and then a few hundred friends for them


I'm definitely a G1 girl; they're the ones I grew up with and they are MLP to me. I do however LOVE G4s and also collect them

[hathorcat]

"Re-purchasing" the same ponies as I had when I was a little girl was the only reason I started collecting - I only had about a dozen-ish and they were all commons [Majesty, Windy, Sunlight, Cotton Candy, Apple Jack, Bow Tie, etc]...and those honestly were the only ones I intended to have but then...well the pony force took over...and everything just snowballed from there! 

[xkappax]

I'm actually finally starting to get my collection back. My parents accidentally threw out my favorite ponies, baby gusty, baby shady and baby moondancer. I got them back...

In college, I stupidly sold half of my collection for 100 dollars to a girl in south africa. I lost mimic, tic tac toe, bright eyes, a bunch of the animal friends like oakley the moose... a ton of the baby ponies... ALL my boy ponies... it breaks my heart to think how dumb I was...

[mlp4me]

I still have all of mine, yay!
Over all of these years I've only come across one double of the 10 that I had growing up... and that one wouldn't even be an upgrade...
Glad to hear pony peeps have been able to reclaim ponies from their childhood collections.

[Shaiyeh]

I didn't have to re-buy any ponies, as I kept all my childhood ones. I'm so glad I did, because Tuneful would have been irreplacable.

[xkappax]

I think I'm kicking myself the most for selling my Mimic and getting rid of Paradise Estate. For free.

[Eskara1862]

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones! I still have my childhood ponies; all 100+ of them.  If I had sold any of them, I totally would have re-bought them!

[Opalescence]

Not that I had any ponies in my childhood, but I probably wouldn't rebuy them if I had.
When I was around twenty I started looking on eBay for old He-Man and Ninja Turtles figures that I had. Most of them my parents gave away while I wasn't there, others were stolen...

Well anyway, I wanted them back and when the first couple packages arrived... The nostalgia just wasn't there anymore. Or maybe it just wasn't the same. As in "that particular one that I had"


Dunnoh, I just get overly attached to things like that.

[michelle53]

I had a huge childhood herd that I gave away to a cousin when I was a teenager.  In the last few years of collecting, I've only bought a specific type of pony.  I had these ponies when I was a kid, and they were my favorite.  Twenty year later, they are still my favorite ponies!  Although I had tons of G1's when I was little, I'm not interested in rebuying them all.

[AmethystDefender]

I kept most of my childhood collection (you'd have to pry them from my cold, dead hands, XP )but when I was a kid, I managed to lose Baby Sparkle North Star...which I traded Baby Sparkle Glory to a friend who had one to get back, since I loved Baby Sparkle North Star more than any other for some reason. I later went to a pony meet and was able to buy the other sparkle babies, including Baby Sparkle Glory.

Also, I managed to lose a newborn twin when I was a kid (orange peg, swan symbol...I forget the name), but haven't been able to find her again.

One of my second-hand-aquired princesses may have also gone missing. (Royal Blue, I think)  Or maybe I just misplaced her and she's still with me...I'd have to go look.

[Chi]

I'm still trying to hunt down some of my childhood G2s. I did buy back Sky Skimmer MOC and have managed to keep her on the card! I still have to find Sweet Berry (All I know is she wasn't the Magic Motion one and she wasn't Basket Surprise) and Light Heart. She also wasn't the Magic Motion version. She might have been the birthday one since I vaguely remember having Sundance but I might have gotten her separately. I also remember Ivy somewhere in there. I'd probably only get them if I could find them MOC as well since they were pretty special to me and I'd like to try and preserve the few childhood memories I have. I don't feel like this about any other ponies, just those. ;~;

[Lon-san]

I figured out that the baby pony I remembered from my childhood was more than likely a Dangles and bought a new one a while back. Paid more than I normally would have but she was a special circumstance