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I'd say a lot of it is also gifts that were hidden away to be wrapped later but forgotten/lost, then years later rediscovered and donated or yard-saled.
Quote from: PinkRosedust on February 06, 2014, 03:33:03 PM I'd say a lot of it is also gifts that were hidden away to be wrapped later but forgotten/lost, then years later rediscovered and donated or yard-saled. I think this is more common than people might imagine. My mother recently had some foundation damage due to an icestorm in her basement and had to renovate an area that had last been re-arranged a couple of decades ago - she found a hidden wall shelf that ended up behind a layer of office shelves. On those hidden shelves were about a year's worth of toys that she'd bought to give as gifts that ended up in the wall for years. No ponies in that case, but some Star Wars and Muppets toys - all in their original condition.
A combination of parents buying them and forgetting them and old store stock!People keeping ponies MIB / MOC on purpose was not really a "thing"in the 80s. I mean, I'm sure there were some individuals who did that with MLPs (I think there's board member who kept her Summer Wings MIB?), but that was really, really, really rare. They were regarded as toys, be opened up and played with.