Build-A-Pony was a Disney-themed pony corner/display/experience thingie in a big Disney store inside Walt Disney World’s Downtown Disney (or Disney Springs, as it’s now called). People could come over and see the giant hot air balloon display full of ponies and accessories. The “dried flowers” are actually the pony outfits and accessories. They just filled up the tube thingies from the top so they’d spill out into a bin around the middle, like a candy tube! The ponies were in bins underneath. The ponies didn’t have magnets in their hooves, but instead they had non-magnetic plugs where their magnets would’ve been. There were also these touch-screen computer screens on the hot air balloon display that had some crude early-2000s 3D animated pony dress-up and other minigames that you could play. The whole Build-A-Pony experience was you pay for a little Disney-themed pony cardboard box and fill it with as many ponies and accessories as you could. When I was there for my birthday, an employee got me one of each from the 4 different ponies they had (Cinnamon Breeze, Golden Delicious, Spring Parade, and Piccolo (who I nicknamed Zip-e-dee Doo-da lol), 4 sets of each of the different Disney Princess outfits (Belle, Aurora, Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, and a few random pieces like Tinkerbelle skirts, a Jasmine cape, and 4 Minnie Mouse outfits) and a couple of Mickey Mouse hair clips. She put all this into the little box and the thing could hardly close! I don’t remember how much the whole thing cost, but I think it was $30 or less (Cause everything at Disney is always expensive). I still remember ever bit of the visits I made to the MLP display at that Disney store. I would do anything to go back and experience it again (and get a crap ton of more stuff from it too!!).
I can post some pictures of all the stuff I got from it in another thread if anyone would be interested to see them!