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Submitted by B Mackin
My Little Pony was introduced in the early ’80s, and even outsold Barbie at one point in the decade. Like all popular toy franchises of the era, it spawned a television series and eventually a feature-length film, which had Danny DeVito among its voice cast.
One thing I never understood — why do some of the ponies have wings? Also, doesn’t that make them Little Pegasuses or something?
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Yep. The ones with wings were pegasuses, and the ones with horns were unicorns.
Wow. That intro was so much cooler when I was a little girl. Still have fond memories of the show though.
The winged ones were indeed called Pegasus ponies. I LOVED those things, and you can still get them. My husband has caught me in the toy aisle at Kmart sniffing them just to remember Christmas morning when I was 10.
God yes, the smell is intoxicating.
OMG! I LOVED these!!! I still remember that smell. I told my husband to get me the anniversary retro-edition pack for Christmas but he didn’t.
I had the castle, the house (with a bed – since when do horses fit in beds??), and the dressing room stall thing – complete with hats and shoes and all sorts of things. It was the WEIRDEST thing ever – but we were horse mad….and adored every minute of it!!!
I had the castle and house too! …Still do, actually, haha… and about a billion of the ponies themselves. While they do still exist, they’ve been changed to look anorexic and huge-headed. The old ones were much better.
THIS!! The new ones are so UGLY. If I ever planned on having kids (which I don’t), I would be sure to find them the old ones that were cute. The new ones are revolting. It’s like they tried to make bratz into a pony. Ugh.
I rather enjoyed the Flutter Ponies. Thier wings actually moved. I still had a bucnh until last year when I finally sold them in a garage sale.
The flutter ponies were my favorite too, but the wings always seemed to get torn off for some reason…
i friggin loved my little pony! i had two sisters, so we had like a zillion of them. now i have two girls who love them too.
I loved these little things. Had a bunch of them and the little stall carrying case and everything. I kept them all in really good condition. Got older and don’t even know what happend to them. Kicked myself later after I had my daughter. She would have loved my ponies from back then.
LOVED them!!! I had over 40. I sold them all at garage sales, but kind of wished I’d kept a couple. I’m 30 with no kids by the way
I loved these girls a billion times more than Barbie when I was growing up. Recently I’ve gotten into the hobby of customizing My Little Ponies, which is really fun! It’s great to look on art sites and see the creativity in all the different customizable ponies.
this was the movie opening, and it just gave me chills. used to watch it every day with my sister. don’t forget about the sea ponies, for when you’re in distress.
Helpful-as-can-be ponies, simply signal SOS!
I watched this movie recently on YouTube, and… holy crap. It’s TERRIFYING! They turn into monsters, and get captured by this evil guy made entirely of DARK. Seriously. HOW did we grow up SANE?
We grew up sane??? O_o
We DIDN’T grow up sane.
Ahhh…yes. My Little Pony. There is at least one picture of me as a 3-4 year old in the backseat of the family car with my collection traveling with me. First thing unpacked at a hotel dontcha know?
I’m 22 and still remember an episode of the series I saw when I was a little kid- I finally own it on DVD (just this one episode- and one more that came on the DVD but I don’t watch that one nearly as much) after searching a better part of last year for the title “The Golden Horseshoe” as it turns out. Mimic, a unicorn, gets sick because she was a direct descendant of some unicorn with enchanted golden horseshoes that had blown away and gone missing over the years, causing their magic to disappear. Anyway, great quest ensues, you learn the answer to the great riddle “What walks on four legs in the morning, two @ midday, and three in the evening” and all turns out sunshine and rainbows.
Love the Ponies- wish I’d kept mine. -_-
Oh, this win is so epic, I can’t even stand it. I had a metric ton of those as a kid, and all I’d ever do was brush their mane and braid their tails. Good times!
i think all the thumbs down are stinky boys! :0-
Not true, I still have and play with these and I am a guy.
Epic, epic win. Don’t forget the trademark “butt tattoo”
symbolizing each pony’s name. Don’t call it a tramp stamp, hater…
The flutter ponies and seahorse ponies were the best. The latter
had a weight in their tail so they would bob properly in the water,
and also squirted water from a little blowhole.
It’s just sad how anorexic the MLP lineup is today… they all
look like the fairy flutter-pony body type! Oh my little pony,
you gotta love yourself… we liked you with junk in the trunk.
HELLS YES! My Little Pony was SOO much cuter with a little soft plumpness to her.
The skinny ones make me sad.
They’re supposed to be rounder, they’re ponies! Ponies are short and stocky! Not all leggy and thoroughbredy.
I loved my I-haven’t-a-clue-what-it-was-called-one with the key you stuck in her chest and her saddle popped up to reveal a not-very-secret-compartment in her back. Plus they had sparkly manes and tales and plastic jewels… It was great for those of us with magpie tendencies.
OMG, I TOTALLY forgot all about the seahorse ones!! LOVED!!! And yeah – ITA about the new ones – or the big-ass stuffed-with-giant-plastic-head ones?? CREEEEEEEEEEEEPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I LOVED them~I got them as rewards for good behavior on long car trips
I was always very confused by the winged ones~when I grew up, I used to pretend that they ALL thought they could fly, so the ones without wings were jumping off of my swingset thinking they’d be safe. bwahahaha
LMAO!! Oh, that’s just evil… but I love it!
I remember the opening song, and I remember Applejack, but that’s about it. I think I was too Smurfed out at the time…
I had about 40 of those. And I used to get up at 7:30 on weekends to catch the TV series on satellite. I didn’t know English very well at the time, but I taped the shows and watched them over and over and over again… Best way to learn a foreign language ever.
they are the little whores of the pony world. they had tramp stamps!!!
They’re not tramp stamps! The mark was on their flank which is the horse equivalent to the side of a human thigh!
I loved and still love my little ponies. I have a ton of the 1st generation ones. 2nd generations were sooo ugly, but 3rd gen were pretty good.
Right?? It’s like, say, a BRAND??? dur…
Ah, that beginning I never saw, but they had the animation roll during the credits and have different music playing, and none of the ponies talking. I always wondered why the blue-and-pink one had freckles and why why the white-and-purple one wore roller skates…
I don’t know about you guys, but when I see Little Ponie nowadays, they look nothing like ponies at all. They are just colored pices of plastic vaguely ressebling an horse, too thin, too much make up, horrible colors… My sister and I loved our ponies, but whenever we walk in a toy store and see the new ponies, we can’t help but notice they are really ugly now.
I remember my mother used to offer me a pony when I was about to leave home for hollidays with my grandma or summer camp. I once had baby ponies who were twins, and who smelled like vanilla. Although they were kinda cute, I hated her for putting vanilla because I coulnd’t smell the famous fragrance !
Ah, the memories…
they did change the ponies a little a while back but the other night i was in the toy aisle and they have changed them AGAIN and i want to blow up hasbro for ruining yet another beloved toy.
It’s called changing it for a new market. Girls (supposedly) want trendier patterns, bright colors, and I suppose that the new ponies were supposed to have a more fashionable design/mold, possibly to keep up with Barbie, Bratz and the girls’ ideas of ideal body shapes. It’s not that bad, although they seem more cheaply made and smaller.
I had a quadrillion My Little Ponies when I was a little girl. I had a My Little Ponies tent on my bed too. We weren’t the wealthiest family so my Parents couldn’t get me the castle. Instead I cleared off my book case and turned that into my pony palace. I stacked different sized books to make stairs leading up to a raised platform for the unicorns (seemed only natural that they were the queens) and stole Little People play ground toys from my Little people school to make a pony play room for the baby ponies.
I would also line them up in the floor and give them make shift instruments (crayons for woodwinds, caps for drums, combs for strings…) and conduct pony orchestras. Good times!
Wish I still had them, but I was never very careful with my playthings. The boy ponies would probably be worth some coin if I hadn’t decided they were to plain and prettied them up with glitter nail polish.
If you still had your big brothers, you could probably easily clean them up with nail polish remover, you just have to be careful to not rub too hard around their symbol and eye decals and keep their hair away so it doesnt dry out so much from the chemical.
Such an epic win! I had still have a ton of these in storage somewhere. I would make up epic adventures in which Ponyland was in some sort of danger, and play out these lengthy sagas for hours on end. Barbie could never compete!
I was one of the least girly girls and even I had a couple of MLP’s! I loved them! Especially the purple one I had with a tail that ‘grew’ (you cranked her neck and it got shorter and then pulled it back out). I miss her!
I remember her! I got her as a b-day gift when I was in kindergarten. Man, I miss my ponies! I didn’t have many but i loved them all…. and now they are gone… =(
I had a TON of My Little Ponies. When we were playing by ourselves, my friends and I played with Barbies and other stuff; but when we were together, all we played with were My Little Ponies LOL
I was born in ‘77 and my sister was born in ‘78. We were the PERFECT age to love these and we SO did. My sister even had a MLP sleeping bag that we kept for years in the trunk of one of my parents’ cars for emergencies.
My daughter had a ton of these. They are now in the basement. I bronzed one in my advanced sculpture class. It was a tongue in cheek homage to sporting bronzes of horse and hound. I felt so guilty *killing* that MLP!!
I collected My Little Pony throughout my childhood. ^^ I had a few special-edition ones you could only get through mail-order. What can I say, I was obsessed.
Like the babies, and wasn’t there a unicorn one?? I think we (my cousins and I) saved up together for each one and “shared” them – one week at one house, the next at another!1 LMAO!
Never gave a toss about these things, but Amanda Palmer
(from the Dresden dolls)’s reaction upon discovering their feet were
magnetic, was priceless.
I remember when the very first boy pony came out and you had to order it through the mail, so I ordered it for my daughters. The name was a big secret and you wouldn’t find it out until the pony came in the mail. When it came, my girls were opening it and I was explaining to my husband why they were so excited, and he said, “Fifty girl ponies and this is the only boy? Its name is Lucky, I guess.” Sure as heck, when the girls got the package open, the boy pony’s name was LUCKY! I wonder if the corporate guys who named it were thinking the same thing my husband was thinking! Then, my husband said I had better make sure Lucky had his own stall or we would be hip deep in My Little Ponies.
LOL!!!
Lucky was the ringbearer for Satin’n'Lace’s wedding…so, Lucky being THE FIRST BOY PONY…we couldn’t figure out who Satin’n'Lace was supposed to be marrying.
Sorta like Baby Smurf – Whatzername Smurf being the only girl smurf but she wasn’t his mother (as far as they said, but I never saw any DNA evidence or anything). So where did Baby Smurf come from and who was his mother?
Oh, wow, I just made a teeny short film with ponies today for a friend’s birthday–she runs the site Kimono’s Townhouse!
http://puppatoons.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/for-my-pal-dava/
I still have my two favorite ponies sitting on my shelf next to all my more “grown-up” knick-knacks. One is Little Flitter, who I got from my parents when I had to have surgery at age four. She still has her butterfly wings. The other is Cool Breeze, who is the same mold as Little Flitter, but her wings are gone. Ah well, I love her just the same.
I need a neutral thumb, not up, not down, I love horses and have all my life, and at first My Little Pony seemed just too cool….then they started making clothes for them (erhm…horses don’t wear clothes guys. Ever.) Then there were houses for horses….(um more bad news there….)
Oh come now, have you never seen a horse show? Horses totally wear clothes!!
Oh and as for the houses, yes, some do live in houses. Do not doubt the power of the love of horses
Surely you would know this!!
I can’t believe no one has said “OMG Ponies!” as they love to say on cuteoverload????
Lovelovelovelove MLP!!!!!
My sister loved these more than me but they were fun to play with. I’m still trying to find one of the movies, not on DVD, it was one cartoon me and my sister both really liked.
Does it really count as a Blast from the Past if we can still buy them in any toy shop or decent-sized supermarket? I think Barbie is awesome, but I wouldn’t say it’s a nostalgic win. Sorry, not meaning to be sarcky, just trying to figure out why this counts!
The OLD-school ponies are the nostalgic – check the other replies about the new ones, how creepy they look, etc….
Same goes for Barbie too – the new ones look like aliens…
I remember that I had a My Little Pony movie on tape, and I loved it because one of the few human characters had the same first name as me! I also thought it was awesome that when the ponies’ hair was cut off (too make a magic cape or something), the hair grew right back! Fortunately I was old enough to realize that that wouldn’t work in real life, and I never cut the hair off my toy ponies.
I used to own a My Little Pony lavender purple bike with training wheels! It was my first bike and had pictures of ponies all down the side. Some one stole it though, right out of our back yard!
I must have cried for weeks over it 
I can still remember some of my favorites (the teenage-type pony who was green but had purple glitter markings and purple glitter hair, and her less fancy friend who had pink markings and pink hair) but the one that I loved most of all was a Translucent blue pony with silver glitter, red glittery hair, and a rocket on her hip. She looked like the fourth of July (“makes me want a hot dog real bad”). Guess what happens to the translucent ponies – their colors fade. You can still buy “Rocket” (my name, don’t know the real one) on eBay, but she’s no longer sapphire blue, she just kind of clear.
PS: For ALL THINGS My Little Pony you have to check out this site:
http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/
My little pony eats all the pepperoni
then poops out gold bricks
My Little Pony is just as popular today as they were once upon a time. That’s why they are back in stores! Over a million ponies have been made and sold as of 2008, and 2008 marked the 25th anniversary of the line. Collectors today will pay a very pretty penny for a mint condition pony. Me, I just dropped almost $400 for an in box set of “the slide twins”. And I’d do it again, too! It makes me laugh to see people say “sold them at a garage sale”. Foolish people, you sold potentially hundreds, if not thousands of dollars worth of ponies for pittance. But oh well. That sort of lure is what makes the hunt more interesting.
omg! I LOVED this movie! I watched it so many times that my brother crossed out “Pony” on the VHS and wrote “Cow” instead, in hopes that it would confuse me and that I wouldn’t watch it again. This is right up there with Pound Puppies as flashbacks for my youth.
I was a little scared by some of the episodes, like where some of the MLPs were turned into demons, or some sort of scary monster?? Or that one episode where they were locked in a tower and they kept getting their ever growing hair chopped off… Man I loved that show. I wish I knew what my mom did with the ponies
I want the one that smells like coconut again…
My Little Pony Tales FTW!!! I used to like the other franchises a lot, but MLPT was my fave.
I used to have so many of these and dress them up in their little costumes…I miss My Little Ponies.
Also, My Little Ponies: Escape From Catrina is WIN.
Ooooooooh yeah. I had these, at least the first run or two of them (Peachy, Butterscotch, Applejack, etc.). My bff and I actually divided up the ponies and associated play sets: I’ll ask for these things and you ask for these. That way between us we had the full set and no confusion over duplicate ponies when we got together for epic MLP sleepovers. I think I still have mine somewhere, though I doubt they are anywhere near mint (except for Minty, lol). I think my favorite was Seashell. I just loved the green mane and tail with the purple body, even though she was in a somewhat useless sitting down pose.
I still have the My Little Pony The Movie on DVD… when I get really depressed I watch it to cheer me up
I love these. I started collecting them again about 11 years ago and I’m kind of picky so only have about 350 or so.. But i love the variety.. and They work on young boys as well as girls for entertainment when company brings them over. Epic win! and who doesn’t love braiding all that hair.
I had the little waterfall set. You filled it with water, splashed your ponies around in it, then pressed a button that pushed the water through a tube and showered the ponies from above. Ah, the days when your cool toys didn’t all need batteries!
I always eyed the special mail-order ones in the little booklets that came with the ponies and begged for the one with my birth month flower on it, but I never received one. Did anyone ever get the ones with the flower for your birth month?
Yes, I had all 12 birthflower ponies. I gave some away to my friends though when I was little.
I still have 136 of my original childhood ponies. I had that many as a kid because they were the only thing I ever asked for as a child, and they were only a few bucks each. I played with them endlessly.
They are now enjoying a relaxing retirement on a bookshelf in my home office.
I remember a preschool I went to had three of the My Little Pony toys in a box with a complex locking mechanism. The tot who could get it open got to play with the ponies. I must have spent hours struggling to get that thing open.
I loved my little ponies. But have you seen the new ones?! Aug!…. It’s like.. my little anorexic ponies. Their not as chubby as they used to be.
*paws at the minty Glow in the photo* Waaaant minty Glow! I have a not so minty but well loved Glow ( the Summer Wing pony shown in the photo up there ), as she’s part of my childhood collection, but I’d love to get a MOC of her.
Hm, almost 300 ponies in my collection. A lot, but not as much as so many other collectors I know.
I do, admittedly, have SOME of the new big headed “G3.5’s” ( what they’re unofficially known as in the MLP collectors world ), but those will be the only ones I purchase from that line UNLESS Hasbro puts out some new characters or brings back some of the older ones. The Core 7 line is boring MOST of us to death.
Uh… sorry, my inner pony fan is showing. ^^;
~~Bee
It’s GLOW!! That pony brings back memories.. T_T I had mine stolen at an old country buffet when I was little.