Pony Stories

[Cerulean]

I just wanted to share a pony story, and hope others will share theirs.

This is sort of a funny/sad story. I was Christmas shopping with my sister and we were in the pony isle. She pointed to Pinkie Pie's Friendship Train and says, "I told my father-in-law that Kassidy wants this for Christmas, and he said it was too childish."
I'm like, "What?! I'd like the Pinkie Pie Train! But really, she's a child. What's the big deal?"
My niece is 7. I see nothing wrong with her wanting a pony train set. Makes me kind of sad when an adult is so judgmental. It's hard enough being an adult toy collector!

Hope everyone else has some happier stories.

 

[Angel_Foil]

Heck, I know a 12 year old who wants the Pinkie Pie Train. She's borderline collector/kid, I suppose. Keeps her ponies nice and on display, but still plays with them a bit. I guess I do too, in a way. Mine still retain their personalities from my childhood, and some of my newer ones tend to develop traits as well. If I had the train I know I'd be taking it for a spin once in a while.
Personally, I think the train is adorable. I never cared for pony vehicles, but it's definitely cute.

 

[Melissa]

Whatever, I love Pinkie Pie. I'm 24 and while I am not REQUESTING the train for Christmas, I'd be happy to get it. People can be so weird. He probably just didn't want to pay that much.

My dad flipped out when he came to visit and saw that I have over 200 MLPs... But a few weeks later, I think he realized that his reaction had hurt me. He told me he'd be on the look out and asked me how to tell the difference between genuine MLP and fakes.

 

[Inuranchan]

My mother and grandmother are the same way as your niece's grandfather..when I turned 7 or 8 most of my extended family and my mother tried to throw out my most favorite and prized possession: a fisher price stuffed puffalump horse. He was ripped and gray instead of white but he had been with me since I was born. :/ They all said I was too old to be carrying him around. And it went on like that for years: too old to be buying stuffed animals, too old to be getting Hess trucks for Christmas. To heck with them

Here's a happier story though: My mom had always wanted to get me ponies when I was little, but I hated them. Two decades later, after a two day marathon of MLP:FIM I decided I loved them enough to want to collect the McD's toys. After buying them all, I missed collecting. Bought a few blind bags afterwards, and then my mother came over and saw my small collection. "Why do you have ponies?", she asked, and so I explained about the show, bronies and whatnot. She thought it was weird but remained quiet. The next day she asked me to go to Walmart with her. As we're leaving, we pass the MLP aisle. She looked at all the ponies, and asked me if I wanted some. I said yes but did not have any money with me. She said she would buy me some. It had been years since she had wanted to buy me a toy, always complaining about them around my room and hating them but she picked out a rainbow dash pony with a scooter, rainbow dash fashion style, and a few blind bags. Smiled at me, and happily bought them. When I came home and told my father and friends, they were just as shocked as I. This was probably one of two nice moments I have shared with my mom. The first being when she tried to console me after I lost my beloved horse plush in a theme park She hated that horse, but she was nice about it for a few days.

 

[PrincessLyra]

Well... I don't have any real-life pony stories. ...Except for the one where I got Galaxy and almost cried because I had never even seen a G1 pony up close before that.

*ahem* Anyway, I do occasionally make up stories with ponies... Don't know if that would count, or if anyone would be interested in hearing them. I love getting underused ponies/characters and imbuing them with personality. I've been cooking up this story with Merry Treat, got it pretty well thought out, but I haven't written it yet - maybe it'll be ready for next year's Christmas.

 

[Taffy]

Wow, that is so sad to hear... 7? What is this world coming to?! Can't a child be a child anymore?!? I don not understand things these days....

Well, I'm 21 and almost all my Christmas wishlist was toys. MLP, Monster High, some Lalaloopsy... a Furby..... and many other "childish things". My family, while they do joke about how old I am and that all this stuff I want is for little kids, understand that I've always been a "toy person" and loved collecting. I'm a lot like that 12 year old you mentioned, Angel_Foil. I never did much 'playing' with my toys, but enjoy arranging and displaying them. Now that I'm older and earn my own money, it's just easier to accumulate more!

As a side note, to everyone who has been questioning me on my Christmas Wishlist this year, I've told them that toys these days have so much more creative/artistic design to them that they are more like collecting little works of art than toys! Needless to say... I'll be snooping around the house tomorrow for my gifts. I know I've seen some G4 package shaped presents so far.... ;D

 

[MLPMommy4Life]

I have a few stories from working with the middle schoolers and "coming out" as a "teacher" (I'm only a one on one assistant) who loves ponies....but I'll share this one right now:

I give my friend / coworker a break from her girl in a wheelchair daily. This little girl's friend comes over and shows her something. It turns out to be a Rainbow Dash BB figure. We end up talking a little about who our favorite ponies are and the little girl in the wheelchair doesn't talk, but she's smiling and enjoying looking at the pony. Next day comes and she brings over a McD's Rainbow Dash figure to show the girl. She must promise the girl my friend works with in class that she'll bring ponies to show her. Well, Christmas break starts next Friday and I have a TON of extra McD's ponies I can stand to get rid of just because I'm tired of looking at them. I'm already giving my girl and the other Downs girl each a full-size Cotton Candy with Disney gear, so why not give this little one some pony love as well?! ;-)

And as for the 7 year old.... I played with ponies until I was 13. She should be allowed to have whatever pony item she wants, whenever she wants. That's not right. When did people stop allowing kids to be kids?!

 

[TAF AJ]

So just out of curiosity, what does he think is an appropriate gift for a 7 year old girl? Maybe she needs a graphing calculator!

AJ

 

[Cerulean]

So just out of curiosity, what does he think is an appropriate gift for a 7 year old girl? Maybe she needs a graphing calculator!

AJ

LOL I'm not sure. I'll have to ask my sister.

Great stories so far.

 

[kirstinb]

My best friend got me into My Little Ponies. She was 16 and her family is really close... so when she started liking it (FiM), her whole family started to get into it to. So they watch My Little Pony together. When she started collecting blind bags, they started to buy them for her ALL THE TIME.

So then I started with blind bags and I showed my mom. She at first thought it was funny of course, but she did understand and doesn't think it's strange. By the way, I am 18. I've only started collecting since 2 months. But she does things like get me ponies and stuff. So that is a positive thing. She always asks me, "When are you going to get over ponies?". I can never understand if she jokes or not, but I know that she does support me or she really wouldn't buy them.

However, my father is a different story. I had a whole buncha McDonald's ponies in my car once and I showed him them, but didn't say anything else. I'm kinda afraid to tell him because he will think it's childish... He's not a very, um, understanding person...

 

[NamineEveningLightTheTrue]

I went to a huge flea market when I was 12. I was searching for ponies, I found a G1 "Paradise" She was a but tangles tiny but dirty, I asked mom she said no. I bagged ger she still said no because it was dirty. I cried and cried. Thats all I wanted was a G1 pony.. And to this day I want "Paradise" It Broke my heart..

 

[CandySwirl]

Yesterday my 2 year old cousin came over to my house. I'm the oldest of all my cousins, and a lot older than most of them. I also only have two female cousins- one doesn't care about ponies at all. Well, I had a Rainbow Dash plushie for my cousin to give as a Christmas gift. I was expecting her to sort of like it, but not really care. Well, as soon as she opened it, she hugged it and started yelling "Pony, pony, pony!" then she made it say "Neigh!" and made it run. I took her into my closet (where I store my ponies), and she was thrilled. She doesn't have any ponies except for the RD I gave her and some McD's ponies that her siblings got from Happy Meals. Her birthday's next month, so I guess I'll be getting her another one soon. It's sort of nice having somebody else who appreciates ponies, even if it's a two year old.

 

[MLPMommy4Life]

UPDATE on my story: I gave ponies to four girls at work today. All of them loved them! The girl in the wheelchair who doesn't speak grinned when I told her she now owns "her own Rainbow Dash!"

Another story....

I recently made a custom pony for a girl who is SUCH a huge help to me and the other assistant with our girls who have down syndrome. She provided the specs (I'm planning to post the photos of it in the coming days, now that I'm on winter break), and I showed her the progress as it went along. As she saw the progress, I was doing other little things like rehairing in front of her and some of the other girls who were in their gym class. I have nothing else to do, really, because my girls are capable of playing and doing what they do in PE, so I get bored. Well, on certain days, it's a free day, so the kids can do whatever, and I taught this little girl how to rehair.

Well, her doing this attracted other girls like magnets LOL... soon, I had four or five girls wanting to learn on free days. They did a good job, too. Anyway, while all of this was going on, I did her custom and gave it to her a couple of weeks ago as an early Christmas present. She was literally dancing and squealing when I gave it to her. She felt bad that she "couldn't pay me more than a dollar for it" (she tried to hand me a dollar, but I refused it of course)... I told her that her help with the girls for the past year and a half was all of the payment I needed. It is very much appreciated.

Of course, she told me the next day that her mom absolutely LOVES it and has taken it over and put it on display in her room... so it doesn't get wrecked. LOL.... So I made the kid a pony that both mom and daughter fight over who gets to display it. LMAO! What a trip!

 

[NichiTsukinoko]

That is sad. I still regret that my 10 year old nephew can't seem to enjoy toys so much anymore. If he ever did. He got halo 4 and Assassins Creed 3 for his birthday a couple of weeks ago. he's reading Steven King.

:weird:

When me and my Cousin Ryan were 10, we were still playing with my Ponies and his Transformers and crashing hotwheel cars. (Oh yeah. Cross overs in the 80's before it was cool.)

:nodno:

When did it become acceptable for kids that young to loose their innocence and live in the world of adults? I say, get her the train! Allow her to be a kid for as long as she can. She'll eventually loose that ability, and all too soon. And when that happens he'll be longing for the days she was interested in Ponies. Cause it was "easier" then.