Wednesday 11 November 2015

Old school My Little Pony: a trip into 1980s nostalgia

I can't tell you how much I love the fact my Mum kept many of my childhood toys. A firm favourite in our household are the My Little Pony figures dating from the early 1980s. I loved them as a child & would save up my pocket money to buy a new pony to add to my collection as often as I could. What is truly amazing is seeing my own daughter play with them & love the ponies just as much as I did.
Old school My Little Pony: a trip into 1980s nostalgia
The ones pictured here are commonly know as 'generation one' ponies. My Little Pony continues to exist in many more forms and has been rebranded more times than I care to think about. My daughter watches the latest version of the MLP cartoon and I find it a bit fast paced for my liking. Must be getting old and I'm probably just being nostalgic about my ponies, but I feel like the G1s were the best. I only have to hear the My Little Pony theme tune from the 1980s & I get misty eyes.

The first pony I ever bought was Cotton Candy. One birthday or Christmas I was given the twin baby ponies, complete with nappies, bottle and necklaces. I used to imagine Cotton Candy was their Mum.
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Cotton Candy was soon followed by Apple Jack. I spent many hours coming her golden mane...
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Over the next couple of years I added to my collection. The ponies evolved to have glittery logos on their flanks, their heads were positioned to look up more & there were even unicorns towards the mid-1980s. I owned Moonstone & she was secretly one of my favourites. My head was turned by her rainbow mane & the shiny planets on her bum. I thought Cotton Candy looked a bit glum in comparison. Children can be so fickle...
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Despite being over thirty years old, Magoo loves playing with the My Little Ponies from the 1980s. She gets completely lost in a world of mane-brushing just like I did when I was her age.
Old school My Little Pony: a trip into 1980s nostalgia

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2 comments:

Katy (What Katy Said) said...

I cannot tell you how much I love this!! I want to go up into my mum's loft and get my ponies down!!! Thanks for sharing in #HappyDaysLinky x

Jaime Oliver said...

oh my goodness .. how amazing your mum kept them! i had masses of my little ponies and am sad to say non were kept! :-(
Thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments xx

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