Any pony regrets?

[invaderhorizongreen]

For me not getting the pink baby mermaid gen 1 pony when I had the chance. I have the other two but not her, and I am still looking.

[northstar3184]

My biggest pony-related regret is not in regard to MLP but instead pertains to my Fantasy Fillies. I wish I had kept my childhood herd, especially since at their current market value they are now out of my price range.

I also regret not keeping my childhood MLPs, but have replaced most of the ones I really liked.

[DazzleKitty]

My biggest pony regret was selling my first collection of 150 ponies, my childhood collection, to go on a cruise. I also sold my Lady Lovely Locks, Keypers, Sweetie Pups, etc. My brother encouraged me to do so. I sold a lot for the cruise and was very sick on it.

But now that my brother is passed away, I kind of happy my collection funded a trip and memories for us, even if I was sick for most of it. At least it gave him some good memories.

[Ponyfan]

Giving away my childhood Pina Colada and Baby Palm Tree to a little girl when I thought I was done with ponies. Throwing away my childhood Lullabye Nusery for the same reason even though it was broken.

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[lovefromsirius]

I totally regret not having my childhood ponies. :/ sadly giving them away was NOT my choice but I regret it even more now that I'm an adult collector and g2s are so hard to come across

[vira]

i also miss my childhood ponies! :'-) i dont even remember what became of them; all i know is that they arent with me! i hope theyve found homes that love them :'-o

[Haruna]

Losing my Li'l Giggles, one of my favorite babies, when I was younger; I had taken her and a bunch of ponies on a trip with me and I think she got lost somewhere at the last hotel we stayed at. She's so tiny it's not surprising she got lost. I hope my original one was discovered by a child or someone who had a child who loved her. On a happy note, a year or two ago, my mom and sister sweetly got me another one.

[scarletjul]

Selling Ice Crystal.  It was a few years ago; I needed the cash, but I still wish I'd been able to keep him.

Other than that, the only thing I wish was that I'd gotten into G1s earlier.  I'm a child of the 80s and I've been going to the thrift store at least since the mid-90s but I didn't start collecting ponies until 2006.  To think of all of the ponies I potentially missed because I wasn't an active collector...

[Annie]

Waaaay back when I first got into collecting I found the set of Gen 1 International Surprise Baby Newborns in the toystore while they where having a clearout.
I bought one of each MOC. I kind of regret not buying more of them but what I did next was even dumber. I removed them from their card and also wiped away their dipers. Go me!

[Tracks]

It's a common one, but getting rid of my childhood collection when I thought I'd "outgrown" them.

Same here!

[Strandperle]

Aw, so many people here who lost their childhood ponies

[SnorkMaiden]

  to all of you who lost their childhood herd. I'm lucky because even after I didn't play with my ponies anymore, my mum kept them in boxes, so when I got back into collecting, they were all still there.

I don't have a lot of pony regrets, but one that I do have is not buying the FiM Boxed Set when it first came out. I worked out later that I must have been one of the first people to find it in a store (I was on holiday in the US at the time), and yet I didn't get it. Why? I don't even remember the exact reason, but I certainly regretted it when I was back in Europe and couldn't get anything G4 for what felt like ages!

[KookyRaccoon]

Before I started collecting I stubbed my toe on my childhood Show Stable, got frustrated and asked mum to take it to the op shop because it was in the way. Wish I'd just found a place to store it instead! But I didn't know any better, certainly didn't realise I'd end up collecting mlp's. I eventually got another show stable years later and even though it's in pretty rough shape, it made me feel better about the whole thing.

Also Wigwam's headdress! He's a childhood pony I still have thankfully, but I remember having his headdress at the old house and haven't seen it since. Part of me hopes it's somewhere stored in a box, but more than likely it's gone. I'd love to replace it someday, give my guy his hat back. 

[millenium0chi]

I still regret not keeping my ponies from my childhood. They may come back, like Flurry did, but how will they be?
As Cannibalism said, I let them fade away because they were to girly stuff and I had already many troubles at school without them... but now I regret not being stronger and try harder to get more ponies.
The first one I got is Twinkler and I remember having her and Starhopper in my hands and I took the pegasus instead of the unicorn.
But I was really happy when I bought her early this year from
australia ^^

You had a childhood pony make its way back to you?  Please share that story!

[Khayman81]

I still regret not keeping my ponies from my childhood. They may come back, like Flurry did, but how will they be?
As Cannibalism said, I let them fade away because they were to girly stuff and I had already many troubles at school without them... but now I regret not being stronger and try harder to get more ponies.
The first one I got is Twinkler and I remember having her and Starhopper in my hands and I took the pegasus instead of the unicorn.
But I was really happy when I bought her early this year from
australia ^^

You had a childhood pony make its way back to you?  Please share that story!

To make it quick I would say that when I was little I lived with my parents in Africa, and I had ponies there, when I was 17 I left there to go to Spain to go to University, and left all my toys (long before that) in Africa. after thinking the ponies were no longer interesting.
When I started collecting them a year ago, I asked my mother to look if they were in her house in Spain somewhere, but she could only find Flurry and a floater from our sea baby ponies.
The rest of my herd should be in some boxes in Africa, but I have to wait for my mother to go there to look for them, and maybe she will find them, or not...The fact is I don't know if the ponies were kept there or if I gave then to the poor...
Last month I asked her to send my Flurry back so I could restore her, and so I did this weekend, and now he (I like changing their gender and for me he was always a boy) has wings back! pics are on my thread.