Hello, Aimee here! 32 going on 10 year old on-again/off-again pony collector, (it's back to ON) from Salem, Massachusetts. I possibly made your online Math course for college. I'm married to this guy: http://www.airforcejoyride.com/. I am frequently found in an unladylike situation, while wearing a vintage dress, sprawled on the ground with my camera and an assortment of toys. I've been a My Little Pony fan since almost day one, when my cousin got Blossom for her birthday, and I freaked out about her. A year went by and my aunt bought me Twilight. Followed by more ponies on my birthday, and even MORE for every holiday until those "My Little Pony Mommy" themed commercials came out, and I kind of lost interest (too much MTV). My last pony was a flutterpony, and I do not even remember which because soon after my mom threw out all of my toys for not cleaning my room. Then in the mid 90's I was volunteering at a thrift store around Christmas and found a completely trashed and disgusting Butterscotch in the bottom of the Toys for Tots barrel. They let me keep her and then "paid" me for the rest of my 2 years volunteering there in grubby ponies and vintage clothing, which worked out because they couldn't sell either, and I've collected ever since, and at one time had nearly 400 ponies. I am not a good collector, though, because I don't care about devaluing them. Even when I was a kid ponies wound battle Transformers. RNFB = an opportunity to gleefully rip open a package and get that plastic pony smell. I found out about MLP:FIM after several years of IGNORING my little pony (after the first My Little Pony Convention in 2007, which pretty much soured me to them, and I sold a bunch off, although I did keep my absolute favorites), but I follow Cartoon Brew and saw an article called "The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation". I a momentary dork freak-out because I saw Applejack, went and read as much as I could about it, was completely SHOCKED that the cartoon was watchable (while I have collected ponies, I have always HATED the cartoons, and only watched the original one as a kind of matching game, and because it came on sandwiched between Gumby and Jem). Not only watchable, but my new favorite cartoon since Metalocalypse! Most surprising was Pinkie Pie, who was the character in the previous line I most wanted to blow up. When I of all people want to hug Pinkie Pie, you know the writing and character development is great. I joined this forum today because my husband, while tolerant and supportive of my pony habit (which he calls "pony running" and alludes to them in the same way one would talk about cocaine at all times), has had enough; his eyes are starting to glaze over every time I mention them. Favorite FIM Ponies: Twilight Sparkle (poor clueless Twilight, so smart, but soooo clueless) and Applejack. Dash reminds me too much of a friend of mine. Other Collections: Blythe, Gumby, Moomin (Mumintrollet), the girls from 80's action figure lines aimed at guys, other 80's toy lines, small 70's dolls, Treeson. Other loves: John Arne Sæterøy, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, MST3k, Space Ghost, Camping, X-Men and related superhero-Soap Operas, The Legend of Zelda, Muppets, Paper Rad, Letterpress. Hi all!
