What are some of your pony misconceptions?

[Leave a Whisper]

Having literally never seen G2s in stores anywhere, I used to believe that MLP had rebooted with G3 and that it was the second gen. 

I never knew that some ponies used to have pink hair. Tornado, Princess Serena, 4-Speed. Just to name a few.

I never knew until some of you lovely pony people showed  me, that Windy was supposed to be lavender. Even as a kid, mine was white.

[kissthethunder]

I thought G2 had largely bombed until I realized it had gone on way longer and with far more success overseas in Europe. They got some G2's I would have bought

[LunaMoonCustoms1212]

my greatest misconception was that g1s were ugly, until I got one in my own hands of course!! 

[dragonfly]

I thought G2 had largely bombed until I realized it had gone on way longer and with far more success overseas in Europe. They got some G2's I would have bought

I thought the same! I was very surprised to learn otherwise.

[nhal039]

I always thought g1 daffidol was white, it wasnt until i got her i realized she is a greeny/ blue, still blows my mind after thinking she was white for many many years

[Duenia]

I thought G2 had largely bombed until I realized it had gone on way longer and with far more success overseas in Europe. They got some G2's I would have bought

I thought the same! I was very surprised to learn otherwise.

Same here lol. I was so happy to find out that wasn't the case though.

[northstar3184]

Until I got back into collecting as an adult, I had no idea nirvanas and European exclusives even existed.

[kissthethunder]

Until I got back into collecting as an adult, I had no idea nirvanas and European exclusives even existed.

Funny thing- A loved the pamphlets as a kid, but I always found it odd that I had acquired a baby apple jack through a school friend and I had never seen them in any pamphlets. Fast forward to the age of the internet and I learn my little ponies had been released around the world and that I had by chance gotten a Euro release! I was quite chuffed!

So yeah, same! International and nirvanas? News to me!

[Leave a Whisper]

Until I got back into collecting as an adult, I had no idea nirvanas and European exclusives even existed.

Same here.

[McKinley]

I spent my whole childhood and adolescence convinced that SS Scrumptious (my first pony) was called Lickety-Split, and didn't figure out her actual name until I started collecting as an adult in 2003. 

Also, I had no idea that MLP had rebooted into G2 in the late '90s until after they had been discontinued in the US.

[invaderhorizongreen]

For me it was nirvana ponies, I now know they are a thing, and gen one went on far longer than I knew.

[Taffeta]

Until I got back into collecting as an adult, I had no idea nirvanas and European exclusives even existed.

Funny thing- A loved the pamphlets as a kid, but I always found it odd that I had acquired a baby apple jack through a school friend and I had never seen them in any pamphlets. Fast forward to the age of the internet and I learn my little ponies had been released around the world and that I had by chance gotten a Euro release! I was quite chuffed!

So yeah, same! International and nirvanas? News to me!

The same but in reverse for me with ponies from continental European countries and the US. Before I found Dream Valley in the summer of 1997 I thought that Firefly and company were just storybook characters.

Also, when I first found Baby Heart Throb I didn't know what she was because in the UK stories she has winged hearts and the one I found here in the UK didn't. Took a while to work that out.

The first time I saw a So Soft I thought someone had done something crazy to her. I also when I saw So Softs on Dream Valley, thought they were plush ponies because the term so soft was used here for those and the pictures on DV were mostly from inserts.

The first perfume puff we found, my sister and I both thought something tragic happened to her hair, because we never saw those in the shops. It was only the pony comic's way of drawing hair that made me realise who and what she was.

[SkyCakes]

Until I got back into collecting as an adult, I had no idea nirvanas and European exclusives even existed.

I also was the same never knew about them until I reached this forum. I still find them fascinating and weird at the same time.

[CactusBloom]

When I was about 10 I would play with my BFF with our G3s. One day she showed me her "old" ponies (which were G1s) and I thought they were knockoffs because I had never seen G1 before. I thought the only "old" ones were G2 because I had those as a kid.

Later I saw a G1 and realized it came first and was true MLP!

[Haruna]

Until I got back into collecting as an adult, I had no idea nirvanas and European exclusives even existed.

Mine is kind of a variation of this -- I collected pretty consistently until I was 16-ish (the beginning of G3, more or less), and then when I got back into collecting about 10 years later I was very surprised to learn that there were so many more exclusives than the European exclusives I knew about. I learned there were Indian ponies, Argentinian ponies, Venezuelan, Peruvian, the Australian birthflowers, and then European exclusives like Spanish piggy ponies and Greek ponies. I still don't know very much about them and feel I need to study up, ha ha.

The same but in reverse for me with ponies from continental European countries and the US. Before I found Dream Valley in the summer of 1997 I thought that Firefly and company were just storybook characters.

That's really interesting, just because it's such a different way of growing up. Almost hard to wrap my mind around because Firefly was such a central character (at least in the books and movies I had, like Firefly's Adventure) and she and other classic ponies were readily available in thrift stores.

The first time I saw a So Soft I thought someone had done something crazy to her . . . .
The first perfume puff we found, my sister and I both thought something tragic happened to her hair, because we never saw those in the shops.

These reactions make a lot of sense. Those gimmicks are weird concepts if you think about it.