I like my ponies to be made of solid plastic, with nylon hair... The G4 blind bags never appealed to me, and these things even less so. They don't feel like ponies to me at all. I don't want something that looks like a cereal box prize... and like it'd break if you so much as looked at it funny. I never liked these kind of toys when I was a child either, they couldn't hold my attention for more than five minutes. I'd put it together, look at it for a bit, and then discard it immediately. The assembly is the fun part, and after that it's just not interesting anymore. It's not lasting, and therefore probably not worth the money, unless it costs like a dollar or less.