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Skandydandy

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Greetings! I’m Skandydandy and fairly new to this all. Though I’ve been lurking as a guest for a while, I was finally able to officially register :D

My history with MLP is actually closely tied to my French family. My first real introduction to MLP was through the G2 magazines in the early 2000s.

They were my one constant comfort when I travelled to Europe to visit my grandparents, and they actually helped me learn French as a child. My other resources, apart from my Family and French television programs, were the Astérix, Les Schtroumphs, and Tintin comic books.

But I loved the G2 magazines the most and remember always wanting the toys of the ponies on the back cards of those magazines xD

Unfortunately, that was around the time G2 was fading out, and they weren’t quite easily found in the areas I stayed at in France.

Equally as unfortunate, once I returned to the USA, the G2 line seemed almost non-existent.

As a result, I was already obsessed with drawing and collecting MLP when G3 began, and I figured I could collect the G3 “American ponies” as I coined them back then.

I do have a substantial collection of most of the start of G3 (ponies, DVDs, coloring books, how to draw books, play sets, etc.) up until a little after the unicorns came out, when I started to lose interest in playing with them.

But I’ve always longed to complete my G2 collection, and I started seriously doing so last year. The G2 were my first ponies and are near and dear to my heart. After losing my French grandparents last year to cancer, my collecting has partly become a tribute to that part of my childhood.

I’m always browsing Ebay, etsy, and other places for any of the G2 ponies or magazines I’m missing :) Please let me know if you are aware of other great G2 resources.

Let me see if I can attach a picture of my current collection (please excuse the awful lighting).
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(New to this so I hope I did that right ^^’)

The ones I received as a child (some from my grandparents, others after dragging my parents to various toy-stores in France, etc.) and thus have my most fondest pony memories are:

- Melody
- Dancer
- Festive
- Glittery Heart
- Magic Butterfly (Green)
- Petal Blossom
- Dainty Dove
- Copper Glow
- baby Flitter
- changing mane and tail Sundancer/Sunsparkle
- keychain of Ivy
- Miss Chef
- Bubble

And the ones I lost over time (mainly because they belonged to my sister though she had little interest in them):
- Honey
- Muse
- Berry Bright
- changing mane and tail Flora
- Glittery Skater

Fortunately I managed to find them online, though I’m still missing accessories.

As for the other generations, I own about a 100 G3s (recently cleaned and groomed everyone and packed into storage), 2 G1s (my only attachment to G1 is through the French cartoons that aired on VHS and DVD during the G2 era). I’ve also watched the G4 series to completion but currently don’t have any collecting interest in that generation.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope to meet and befriend you all <3
~Skan
 
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Nice to meet you. What a great story! Welcome to the mlptp. I hope you like it here.
 
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Thank you! I wanted to display my unicorns and was running out of room in the cabinet. I’m thinking i might try using risers in the cabinet, as I’ve seen others do on Instagram.

I would buy shelves like that or even Heart Shaped, if I had a condo but I live in an apartment...
 
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