What is the strangest way you've ever received a pony?

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Hi everyone! :)

Since this was briefly mentioned in another thread, I thought I'd start one.

So tell me, what's the strangest way a pony has ever been packed to ship to you? Or what's the strangest way you've received a pony at all?

Here are mine :)

1. Mountain Boy Ice Crystal came to me from overseas in a padded envelope, but when I opened my mailbox, his head was sticking out through a hole in the packaging, looking right at me! Fortunately he didn't sustain any damage, though how he got to me at all that way is a bit of a mystery.

2. I received a pony lot from Ebay this summer, and the box came covered in brown paper. I thought, that's strange, the box feels sturdy, I wonder why they decided to do that.

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:surprisepony: Ok ,then.


3. Several ponies have been sent to me in boxes for feminine care items :lolpony: They're a good size to ship ponies in, who could blame them?

4. I can't recall which My Little Pony Fair it was, but I was on my way out with boxes stacked in my arms, when @ashlyne's husband made a 3-point toss with a fakie that landed precariously atop my items as I was leaving the convention room. :tongue:


Now tell me yours! :winkpony:
 
I recently had a neighbour call and tell me to come get some fresh veggies from her garden. I walked down there, so eager for some numtastic tomaters! She gave me a big plastic bag full and said a few might be too tough to eat, laughing. I laughed too, not realizing she'd bought some Ponies at a garage sale and stuffed them in the bottom of the bag. When I got home I set them on the counter and went about my business. Later I went to wash them and saw little plastic faces pressed against the bags!

"Help! Help!"

Surprised they didn't eat up mah tomaters!


(You should've voodooed him, Marble! One big pin, right between his peepers!)
 
Can't say any ponies have arrived by any method other than plain box or bubble envelope, but must follow this thread for daily dose of laughter!
 
I haven't had any shipped to me in strange ways but I have found a couple in strange ways.
1) I was helping my sister-in-law clean out a rental property and walked in to the garage. There was a big silver garbage can that I went to use and laying right on top of a pile of dirt and garbage was a G1 Sprinkles. She had no tail and was in really bad shape (mismatched head, body covered in ingrained dirt) but I still snatched her up and took her home.

2) My husband and I were driving down a paved country road when all of a sudden he slammed on the brakes and started backing the truck up. Right in the middle of the road was a G3 pony that he had spotted when we went past it! I still wonder how she got there, perhaps a little girl was hanging her out the window and accidently dropped her? I don't collect G3s but it was still awesome that my husband was the one who spotted her and just knew it was a pony.
 
About a month ago I was awaiting the last couple of pony things I had ordered. Nothing major, just like a baby seapony float, a package from china with some new G4 brushables and some UK G1 Magazines. So when I got a note in the mailbox saying I had a big package to pick up at the postoffice I got abit curious. I did figure it was the G4s from China as Im used to getting them in small boxes and sometimes our mailman is just too lazy to bring it with him.

I asked my fiance to pick it up on his way home from work, provided him with the number on the note and waited.

When he got home he held a HUGE package in his arms. The size of a decent sized microwave and he was like: "What on earth have you ordered?!" I however had no clue what it could possibly be since I was just awaiting small things. So I tore into it to find what? Lots and lots of bubbleplastic, big airfilled plastic bags and a ton of silky paper.... And in the middle of all of this... The G1 Baby Seapony Float XD

I think its safe to say Ive never had anything packed so securely before in regards to what it is.
 
I haven't been collecting that long, and for the most part I've either hand purchased or collected ponies from their sellers. But I did have one interesting (and extremely frustrating) experience with shipping ponies a few months back.

For my birthday this year, my boyfriend gave me $200 to buy ponies from overseas with. I registered for an account with a proxy company, MyUS, and used my suite there as my shipping address for a lot of different purchases from different places – eBay, Amazon, and sellers on the Arena. I even had ponies shipped there from Australia to be consolidated with the others. There were about 13 G4s in total, along with two DS games that my boyfriend had ordered for himself. Once everything had arrived, the staff packed it all together and couriered it through as one shipment.

The shipping estimate had been $53, but the actual shipping cost me over $100.

Why? Because 1) they had ignored my directions to discard all original packaging material, and 2) where I had asked for bubble wrap, they instead filled the box with strips of large plastic air cushions. Together, this pushed the dimensional weight of my shipment up. The box that arrived on my doorstep was 15 in x 12 in x 8 in big.

Here is the box:
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Here are the contents of said box:
contents.jpg packaging.jpg bubbles.jpg

And here are the ponies in the box without the excess packaging material:
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I took a LOT of photos of everything and filed a very long, disgruntled complaint after this. They apologized and refunded me $45. This box is now where half of my loose G4 ponies currently live until I have a place to display them properly, so it actually turned out to be pretty convenient. :p
 
Extra fun fact: The ponies that I ordered from Australia came to me in an old cordless telephone box covered in bits of white paper, which came to me as part of the above package.
 
The strangest way I've had a pony come to me is at the end of a shovel! I just wrote about this in the dirtiest pony thread, but in 2005 I found a pony while helping my sister dig a garden in her back yard. Some nasty little brother must have buried it there or something because it was about 1.5 feet down in the soil which was very heavy clay. She has a cut on her hoof where the shovel hit her. I removed her head and found that the inside of the pony was very clean with no rust, surprisingly. She ended up cleaning pretty well, considering the fact that she was buried since the 80's! Her hair was so bright and pink (though still discolored from the dirt) that I don't think she was exposed to the sun for a long time before she was buried. I ended up giving her to my niece who really liked ponies at the time.

Here are pics:

Before cleaning:



After cleaning:



Look at how dark her hair is and how bright, bright blue her eyes are!
 
brighteyes said:
The strangest way I've had a pony come to me is at the end of a shovel! I just wrote about this in the dirtiest pony thread, but in 2005 I found a pony while helping my sister dig a garden in her back yard. Some nasty little brother must have buried it there or something because it was about 1.5 feet down in the soil which was very heavy clay. She has a cut on her hoof where the shovel hit her. I removed her head and found that the inside of the pony was very clean with no rust, surprisingly. She ended up cleaning pretty well, considering the fact that she was buried since the 80's! Her hair was so bright and pink (though still discolored from the dirt) that I don't think she was exposed to the sun for a long time before she was buried. I ended up giving her to my niece who really liked ponies at the time.

Here are pics:

Before cleaning:



After cleaning:



Look at how dark her hair is and how bright, bright blue her eyes are!
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Seeing how well some of these buried alive Ponies clean up, I think it's a real testament to their quality. You'd expect them to be ruined, but they aren't!

The will to live must run strong in Ponies.
 
My Ponies are definitely Sith Lords.

They look all sexy in black leather though. :cool:
 
MustBeJewel said:
Hi everyone! :)

Since this was briefly mentioned in another thread, I thought I'd start one.

So tell me, what's the strangest way a pony has ever been packed to ship to you? Or what's the strangest way you've received a pony at all?

Here are mine :)

1. Mountain Boy Ice Crystal came to me from overseas in a padded envelope, but when I opened my mailbox, his head was sticking out through a hole in the packaging, looking right at me! Fortunately he didn't sustain any damage, though how he got to me at all that way is a bit of a mystery.

2. I received a pony lot from Ebay this summer, and the box came covered in brown paper. I thought, that's strange, the box feels sturdy, I wonder why they decided to do that.

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:surprisepony: Ok ,then.


3. Several ponies have been sent to me in boxes for feminine care items :lolpony: They're a good size to ship ponies in, who could blame them?

4. I can't recall which My Little Pony Fair it was, but I was on my way out with boxes stacked in my arms, when @ashlyne's husband made a 3-point toss with a fakie that landed precariously atop my items as I was leaving the convention room. :tongue:


Now tell me yours! :winkpony:
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But he just wanted to say hello.
 
Not a pony but there was a little white shoe in our toybox that my sister and I pretty much ignored as kids because it didn't go with anything. When I got my G1 collectors inventory, Molly's shoes seemed awfully familiar. My next visit home I dug out that white shoe and sure enough, it's an exact match for Molly's. We didn't have a Molly doll and neither did our friend who also had ponies, so where the heck did it come from?
 
It's weird when odds and bods just show up unexplained, isn't it Far Dreamer? I have found things in my belongings that I literally have no idea where they came from. Maybe they spawn like video game items.
 
True. Like when I see barbies in a box full of ponies when I sorted Barbies in one box and ponies in another :surprisepony:
 
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