Why did you start collecting?

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What made you consider yourself a collector? Was it gradual, or more specific?

I started when my daughter decided she liked them with season one of fim. Very quickly, they became more important to me and I remembered the ones from when I was young. So I started gathering the g1's and g3's. I even found out about cute little g2 babies. They make me smile every time I see them. So for me it was gradual, but the love from childhood had never gone away.
 
I loved them when I was young and they just kept coming out as the years went on and even as I grew older and of an age that I should have grown out of that sort of thing I would ask if I could get one. Then when I was married I decided to sell my one double pony on eBay. She actually went a lot higher than I anticipated and so I did a search for other ponies and found a whole other world that I couldn't pass up. I hadn't realized there were so many and from so many countries! I was hooked.
 
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Because at the time I was a 13 year old girl, and many American girls at that age love horses.

The longer answer is that my childhood best friend collected them and I liked them too, so I started collecting. This was when Goodwill's were just littered with g1s. I also took riding lessons with my bff at that time, only fueling our love of horses. This was also when eBay started getting popular, but I know the majority of my collection was from Goodwill's and thrift stores. Sadly, I Lost touch with my bestie when she got married. I'd be surprised if she was back into collecting like me. Last I heard, she's off hardcore adulting , having had her first kid. Probably still married since I didn't hear differently.

Anyyyyway, I'll probably always have a love for MLP and horses. Just hope my future boyfriend, whoever he is, can accept this quirk and doesn't see it as childish or tease me about it. :unsure: Same goes for any future friends!
(As we got older and reconnected, my bestie didn't understand that I still enjoyed stuffed animals and the like at the time. It hurt.)

As to re-collecting as an adult, I missed
My Pony bride and Crumpet after giving my original collection away to goodwill because my family was moving. I regretted giving away so much collected stuff, because I got back into two childhood fandoms eventually. Live and learn!
 
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I have had MLP most of my life. I played with G1 as a kid and kept a lot. Growing up I did not have many friends and even the 3 I did have were not as invested in toys as I was. I was always a odd one kinda and did not do the Social things at school etc. So my ponies became very important as companions as I got older. I have a younger sister whom I did not like to play with nor share with. So there was no bonding over toys. I was fiercely protective of all my toys but my ponies and Barbie horse were my most important.

I pretty much was throw away by the so call 3 childhood friends by the 5th grade so Instead of doing whatever you do at that age I played with ponies and collected more and more. I was bullied more in school so my ponies again became super important. When you hear oh your acting is causing this. Why don't you stop being so weird and act like other people. This was my parents well my mom mostly.

I pretty much decided then and there that I would collect my silent friends along with other toys and stuff that interest me. So my collection started as a way to fill a void of not having friends and not getting along with others.
I was later found to have Asperger and anxiety and a host of other things which finally explained to my mom why I was the way I was and got her to Shut UP about how her grown daughter like toys.

So I collect now to enjoy them but also so that I am a little less lonely I guess too. Sound strange but when you have tried to make friends and are throw to the side so many times you just tend to move to other things. I still cant get over the bullying in school and this is memories from years ago.

I like the idea of a never ending childhood too. I don't what to grow up. Outside in the real world I can put on a act and all but really I don't know how most people can go around and do as they do. I don't make a good adult.
I am glad I am asexual as well so I don't have to worry over other issues.

But my collection also brings me more joy then just silent and pretty things. Every time I put a castle together or set up a display I feel a bit of pride that it looks good or at least to me it does. When Your a glass half empty person little things like that help.
I love my toys and my ponies so much . I collect now for the fun of it.

Ponies also lead me to this Forum where I have met some super nice and accepting people. I can honestly say I have spent more time talking with the online world about brightly colored ponies they all the times I have been force to talk to people at a job or in social issue in real life.

SO I collect not only for the joy that the ponies bring me but for the wonder door they open to find people whom I can feel normal around and know I am not going to be throw away by so called friends when they are bored hanging around me.

Also collecting has in some way saved my life. I know that sound strange but when you are depressed and dark thoughts creep in all the meds in the world don't help as much as knowing my ponies are there. They don't judge you yell at you call you name and each new herd member can be picked up and brush and hug and yes even talked to. There is something about braiding and brushing a ponies hair that is almost zen like.

So I have collected for years and I will keep going as long as I can and hope to make new friends with more pony people. Also hopefully to open more doors in real life.
 
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I got into MLP after watching season 1 of FiM during the summer between my last year of Jr. High and my first year of High School, summer of 2011. I enjoyed it, and thus wanted to at least get some of its toys, the first thing I got was the G4 Pinkie Pie/Sweetie Belle set, but I wasn't planning on actually collecting, it just sort of happened. I remember seeing some G3.5s still in stores since it was only the second year of G4, and I started buying them as well since they weren't going to be available in stores for much longer. I then started looking at ponies on My Little Wiki and fell in love all generation of ponies.
 
Grew up with G1s. G3s got me into collecting again and of course DD was the perfect age to start getting ponies, so I started getting her some too. :) I wanted my G1s again, so I started buying them and I have a little of all gens except for G2s. Don't have any yet and I don't like 3.5s or the reboot G4s.
 
Long answer is: Okay so when I was about 12 I started babysitting all the little kids that had MLP. We spent hours playing with them and I fell in love with them. I was especially drawn to the sea ponies. When I got old enough to purchase MLP myself I bought an entire collection at once. For some reason I didn't bond with them and sold them. Later I felt nuts for getting rid of them so I started collecting G3 to keep me busy until I could get my G1's back. Well, now I have those g1's plus hundreds more. So my short answer is: Insanity. Baaaa I have always loved toys and that is never going to change. Not even when I am 80.
 
I guess it was more specific. I oringally started collecting in 1982. I believe I was 8 or 9. When the ponies first came out. I had close to 100. Then I gave away all of them except 2 random ones.
I started re-collecting in 2006. The real reason behind it. I just wanted the ponies I had as a child. Then I found more and more. I am very happy with all the ponies I do have. I doubt all I ever stop collecting all ponies if its a pony I get excited about it especially one I dont have.
 
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I like to say me and My Little Pony came into the world together in 1982. As a kid they were my favorite toys and I can't remember a time they weren't in my life. Even as a small child I had ponies, I guess as old as you are to retain memories is old enough to play with ponies cause I can't remember before then. When I was in my mid-teens they took a back burner to other cooler, teenage things but even before I left home they were pulled back out and I guess it's at that time that I started collecting as an "adult". In the late 90's when people were starting to get computers in their homes and eBay was discovered was when I had the opportunity to buy ponies again and seeing all the different ones just made me more committed. My childhood collection consisted of about 60 or so ponies and several playsets and accessories, all of which I still have. They just make me happy and remind me of simpler times in my life. Sometimes it's nice to get that feeling of getting a new pony, that feels the same now as it did when I was 6. I guess the day I don't feel like that will be the day I know I'm not into it anymore but so far at 35 I'm still going strong!
 
It was 2008 or so and I bought a copy of left 4 dead for the computer because I wanted custom maps and stuff and you cant do that on the xbox, but it would not work on any computer we had at the time so it sat. Fast forward to 2012 I was a senior in high school and I bought a laptop and managed to finally install left 4 dead and then I bought left 4 dead 2 a little later and started to mod it and while looking thew the mods I kept seeing ponies, I ignored them for a bit, and I kept seeing them. So after a while I decided to see whats up with the ponies and found the first episode on youtube and watched it, and I was like okay I like this, then I found one of the g4 toys (McDonald's rainbow dash) at a crappy yard sail and convinced my mom to get it for me because it felt weird to ask for it, and after that I slowly kept getting more of them.

I blame left 4 dead 2 for my pony collecting.
 
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