This mornings bootsale brag

[Gingerbread]

I usually go to a couple of bootsales, and normally just find G3s.


The first bootsale we went to, we were nearly at the end and all I'd found was a G3 Rainbow Dash keyring. Then I saw this -

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The woman immediately said 50p ($0.80) so I paid and picked the box up. Didn't really have a chance to look in there properly until I got home. I knew there were some party cups and plates in there so for me that was a bargain.

I did notice the postage label, 1986, and thought that it must have been the original box the party supplies came in.
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Then I thought...but party supplies don't come in a cardboard box which has been posted, not in the pre-eBay days of 1986, surely?

Anyway I emptied the box out - loads of stuff! All MIP apart from the crackers which sadly were pancaked I managed to kind of get them back into shape and managed to look inside the worst one without damaging it, all that was inside was the rather fetching xmas hat you can see in the pic
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You see the letter at the edge of the pic? That was at the bottom of the box.
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How cool is that? I'm going to email the MoS tomorrow and find out if I can get a copy of the competition I love MLP history and that box with the letter for me is a huge chunk of it!

The second bootsale I went to I found a medium plush Pinkie and the G3 dance school doodad -

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The party stuff was 50p, the keyring was 10p, Pinkie was 50p and the playset was £2 (Its just about the last G3 playset I need) so I spent a grand total of £2.60, that's just over $4.

[GazeboMouse]

Wow! That's a bit of UK MLP history you've got there! I'd have been so excited to find that box!

[coinoperatedgirl]

That's totally cool.  Reading the posts in this forum make me want to live somewhere that has fabulous bootsales with ponies, I hardly find anything at thrift stores and yard sales at all.

[HavACrumpet452]

That's awesome! What a great find!

[kiwimlp]

Oh wow!!  What a cool find.  How exciting that they even had the original box and letter as well.  Major congrats

[bigmlpfan]

Wow congrats

bigmlpfan xx

[Bergamot]

That really is a neat find! That sounds like it was a really cute contest, too. Too cool!

[Angelshy]

Awesome find! Congrats 

[Saja]

What a bargain! and such an amazing find! Im jealous!

[Mismatch]

Heh!  That's hilarious.  I love finding old books with interesting notes in them, but this really takes the cake (no pun intended!).

[kittybethy]

What a cool prize! Congrats!

[Mermaid]

Congrats! What an awesome find!

Are you going to keep the crackers intact? LOL! I am soo curious, that I would probably open them...who knows what in those bad boys! Maybe even MLPS!?! *Dies* Thats why I can't have surprise unopened things...

[Gingerbread]

Thanks everyone The only thing inside the crackers is a hat, unfortunately. I did manage to peer inside them and get the hat out of one without damaging anything.

I have been looking for some info on the competition that the prizes came from, unfortunately the company TOP Promotions has dissolved but I'm waiting on an email from the Mail so keeping fingers crossed I can get some more info

[partypony566]

That's so cool! I would have been jumping around like a loon if I got all those MIP party goodies!! Congrats on everything!

[lovesbabysquirmy]

OOOH!  Congrats at the awesome find!