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There are a few Euro only such as this pony from my own childhood Vanilla Treat;visitors can't see pics , please register or loginHere is a wiki page that might help you; http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/G1_Exclusive_Ponies
She is my childhood toy so a gift from my family in the 90s .
Scotland would have uk release stuff so anything the UK had. Both Scotland and Norway would have had a lot of the same sets.
Quote from: Taffeta on March 14, 2019, 06:44:05 AMScotland would have uk release stuff so anything the UK had. Both Scotland and Norway would have had a lot of the same sets.Noted, but do you look for ponies? If so, can I ask about your experience in finding them? Where did you find them? How many did you find? Ect?
Quote from: freezestime on March 14, 2019, 04:28:05 PMQuote from: Taffeta on March 14, 2019, 06:44:05 AMScotland would have uk release stuff so anything the UK had. Both Scotland and Norway would have had a lot of the same sets.Noted, but do you look for ponies? If so, can I ask about your experience in finding them? Where did you find them? How many did you find? Ect?I'm not in Scotland, though I am in the UK so I can't be specific about Scottish locations. But I can talk from a Uk perspective. G1 stuff is pretty hard to find anywhere any more. These days I personally have luck at toy fairs, sometimes at a carboot sale (field ones are normally better but mostly it's g3 and g4 I see there now) and charity shops. That's probably not different in Scotland but it might be that they have some things more than others in their region.I have found lots of G1 ponies here in the past but I started recollecting in 1995 and back then there were a lot of second hand G1 ponies floating around. Now it's totally different. Last year I think I found 2 G1 ponies total at a carboot and that was a good haul. In comparison in the nineties I might find 100-150 ponies each summer. But also because I had that luck then, I filled in gaps really quickly and so maybe didn't spend as much time hunting as I would have done before. Also a lot of ponies got traded overseas in those years. I imagine a lot of areas are now somewhat devoid of ponies.But on the flipside of this, if there are auctions on ebay uk that you wanted to bid on maybe your family would take those packages for you? I don't imagine they'd want a pony stampede but it might be an easier option for them as well?There are a few ponypeople up in Scotland who may be able to give specific good advice on pony-find locations, although it might also depend on the region. You mentioned second hand stores - charity shops are pretty common in most towns in the UK. Maybe less so in the heart of big metropolises, but on the outskirts they are there too. They are hit and miss, and I also wonder whether some ponies don't make safety screening, but I have found G4 stuff in those (and one G3) quite a lot this past year.
I'm not anywhere near Scotland (I'm in the south-west of England), but I just want to let you know that there's still ponies to be found in the UK. The 90s were indeed the golden age of pony-hunting (my gf still reminisces about her car-boot sale finds) - but my casual visiting of charity shops, car-boot sales, and events such as car shows and Steam Fayres have turned up several G1 ponies (including my beloved Bedtime Newborn Sunset, only 50p!), a Lullaby Nursery, a cute blanket for a dolls' crib with Bow-Tie on it, and of course ponies from G2, G3 and G4 too. I don't know what G2 was like in Australia, but I know the UK had G2 ponies for longer than the US, so it's a good place to hunt for the later European-exclusive G2s.There's also various shops specialising in vintage/retro toys. The two I know of are in Cornwall and Hampshire, respectively, but I'm sure there's some in Scotland too. Antique shops may be worth a look too.Ponies are still out there, waiting for you! Good luck and happy pony-hunting! Also, if you collect Monster High, charity shops are inundated with them at the moment.
....Tip scavenging is not a thing. Not for ponies anyway. Not here.I think it;s just the extended passage of time means they're less available now than they were immediately after they ended. And more people are also aware because of FIM and the publicity it's had that ponies are now collectable instead of just being old toys so more end up on ebay.But I am sure there are still ponies in the UK somewhere.On another note, while the UK had a lot of ponies not sold in the US, that's not necessarily the case with Australia. I know Aus. got some of the ponies we did in the later years, even ones the US didn't get. If you're going to peruse ebay uk, that might be something to bear in mind. Maybe some Aussie collectors can be specific as to which ones, but you might save yourself some trouble if you know what you might find over there and what you might not. Better to buy something that you can't get in your homeland, right?Also a lot of ponypeople ship overseas
Just speaking from the toy fair I know here, over the last few years ponies have increased in their presence there a lot. Now you tend to see 20 or 30 G1 on a good day, and a bunch of G3 and sometimes G2 and G4 as well. Whereas in the past you would be lucky to find one or two lurking. I hope your toy fair has some hidden gems for you to take home. Good luck with your pony hunting!