The straight up weirdest thing you’ve seen while pony hunting?

This one isn't from a thrift store, but . . . Back in the late 90s I was arranging to buy some ponies from their original owner. The ponies were in immaculate condition. Original curl, nary a mark to be seen, just amazing. So as we arranged things I mentioned in passing that people also bought ponies with flaws.

This surprised the girl. She offered to throw in two flawed ponies she'd been going to throw away, thinking no one would want them.

One was an unremarkable Lemon Drop with pink stains from the Show Stable accessories.

The other was "Troll Pony".

Troll Pony was a grubby Magic Star with red paint on her hooves, her original hair cut off, and fuzzy yellow hair superglued in its place. She also had some odds rubs on her flocking, a result of childhood attempts to shave her flocking off with a Gillette razor. Troll Pony had been the villain of all pony games in this little herd, so she was one of the most played with, most beloved ponies.

I put Lemon Drop in my custom box, but I could never customize Troll Pony. She sits on my pony shelves to this very day.

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LadyMoondancer said:
This one isn't from a thrift store, but . . . Back in the late 90s I was arranging to buy the ponies from this girl in her 20s, who was the original owner. The ponies were in immaculate condition. Original curl, nary a mark to be seen, just amazing. So as we arranged things I mentioned in passing that people also bought ponies with flaws.

This surprised the girl. She offered to throw in two flawed ponies she'd been going to throw away, thinking no one would want them.

One was an unremarkable Lemon Drop with pink stains from the Show Stable accessories.

The other was "Troll Pony".

Troll Pony was a grubby Magic Star with red paint on her hooves, her original hair cut off, and fuzzy yellow hair superglued in its place. She also had some odds rubs on her flocking, a result of childhood attempts to shave her flocking off with a Gillette razor. Troll Pony had been the villain of all pony games in this little herd and therefore was one the most played with, most beloved ponies.

I put Lemon Drop in my custom box, but I could never customize Troll Pony. She sits on my pony shelves to this very day.

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Even though it sounds like Troll Pony may have had a bad time, this sounds like a really nice story because Troll Pony was still played with and not hated any less. Troll Pony still had a role and attempts were made to ‘fix’ Troll Pony, not thrown away
 
The Munchy story sounds like an urban legend-- the name works too well for that to be true. But if it is? Absolutely LEGENDARY.

I love seeing the absurd mistakes in eBay names, like labeling a set of some g4s and a fakie as Vintage 1980s G1. But my weirdest buying experience... it was technically a Monster High purchase, but it was so funny that I'll tell it every chance I get. I bought some doll shoes for customizing, and the seller was one of those considerate people who packages small gifts with the goods. Pretty cool when it's wrapped candies or stickers and such! Pretty weird when it's a blister pack of cranberry supplements for urinary health. I even reached out to make sure he hadn't sent his own pills by mistake, and he said "No, I just work in a pharmacy and I know that women have more UTIs than men and thought it would be a nice treat."

...very...considerate of you...
 
feelysonheelys said:
The Munchy story sounds like an urban legend-- the name works too well for that to be true. But if it is? Absolutely LEGENDARY.

I love seeing the absurd mistakes in eBay names, like labeling a set of some g4s and a fakie as Vintage 1980s G1. But my weirdest buying experience... it was technically a Monster High purchase, but it was so funny that I'll tell it every chance I get. I bought some doll shoes for customizing, and the seller was one of those considerate people who packages small gifts with the goods. Pretty cool when it's wrapped candies or stickers and such! Pretty weird when it's a blister pack of cranberry supplements for urinary health. I even reached out to make sure he hadn't sent his own pills by mistake, and he said "No, I just work in a pharmacy and I know that women have more UTIs than men and thought it would be a nice treat."

...very...considerate of you...
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That's utterly insane!

I don't know how it works where you're at but in my country- all online pony purchases coming from abroad- odds are customs would have returned the package to sender because the protocol when it comes to pills of any kind is very, very strict. To the point even people buying prescription medication often need all sorts of documentation and even then, it can be very tricky.
 
feelysonheelys said:
The Munchy story sounds like an urban legend-- the name works too well for that to be true. But if it is? Absolutely LEGENDARY.

I love seeing the absurd mistakes in eBay names, like labeling a set of some g4s and a fakie as Vintage 1980s G1. But my weirdest buying experience... it was technically a Monster High purchase, but it was so funny that I'll tell it every chance I get. I bought some doll shoes for customizing, and the seller was one of those considerate people who packages small gifts with the goods. Pretty cool when it's wrapped candies or stickers and such! Pretty weird when it's a blister pack of cranberry supplements for urinary health. I even reached out to make sure he hadn't sent his own pills by mistake, and he said "No, I just work in a pharmacy and I know that women have more UTIs than men and thought it would be a nice treat."

...very...considerate of you...
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She was bought from an estate sale, not sure what that is exactly but no not mailed.
 
Yes it was on the arena. Don't remember who bought her but the main complaint was that she smelled like pot and rabbit poo no matter how many baths were given. Then she opened her up and uh...found a leetle something extra to compliment her purchase, that presumably had been forgotten. We all had a pretty good laugh.
 
Ha! I used a little google-fu and investigation to find it. And it actually WAS sent through the mail!

My friends and I love chasing down these sorts of stories, the internet is a goldmine of real time storytelling

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crowbrains said:
I'll just leave this here..

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pictured are the euro exclusive baby brothers from the Apple Delight and Bright Bouquet families, both are without bodies and have been turned into earrings
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Ive see those around esty. Not recently though. Now I know why my husband used to call me the pony witch doctor but I always made sure the head went on the right pony. lol
 
In 2015 I was at a convention and in the vendor’s hall someone was selling both custom ponies and official ponies. All G4, some in the box some not.

Heard her talking to a person “There was this little girl looking at this set, I didn’t want her to get it because I knew she would open it up and play with it.”
 
yourpinkoverlord said:
In 2015 I was at a convention and in the vendor’s hall someone was selling both custom ponies and official ponies. All G4, some in the box some not.

Heard her talking to a person “There was this little girl looking at this set, I didn’t want her to get it because I knew she would open it up and play with it.”
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Boooooo. Not to be stereotypical, but if that doesn’t sum up the height of mid-g4 fandom…
 
feelysonheelys said:
Boooooo. Not to be stereotypical, but if that doesn’t sum up the height of mid-g4 fandom…
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It was some stereotypical collector crap. The kind of stuff you see on TV. There’s this Powerpuff Girls episode where this guy (a bit like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons) was obsessively collecting every bit of PPG merch out there. Once he got everything, he still needed more, so he ended up kidnapping the real PPG and trapping them in these toy boxes. The town ended up defeating him by tearing open all his PPG toys until he told them where the real PPG were. The episode has some classic lines like “Uh, hello? Earth to kid, toys are not meant for playing with. They’re an investment! And opening it would destroy its collector’s value!” That was the first thing I thought of!


My dad ended up buying my little sister a set the vendor had in-box…and because he can be a little petty he loudly said “I know you’ve been wanting these ponies for a while. I know you’ll have fun with it.” As he handed it to her right in front of the vendor.

Once you sell it, it is no longer yours and it shouldn’t bother you what the new owner does with it. If you want to keep it in the box, good for you, I sometimes do too, but it’s no longer yours! Let the kid use it for its intended purpose!
 
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