20 years ago when I was a little child, my parents got me my first pony.
It was blue with a golden mane and a pink saddle with golden flowers on it... or maybe the other way around, I don't clearly remember.
I loved this pony so much I would play all day with it. Which is funny because I usually was much more into cars and stuff. But that pony... oh my. They got me a lot more from the same collection later (the „before 2010“ collection....) I also got the white „wedding“ pony, in bodytype looking a little like princess celestia. She had beautiful silver glittering hair and all the girls wanted to have her because she was so pretty.
The reason why I am writing that is the funny fact that in my childhood, ,My Little Pony' - toys, TV show, cassette tapes - was only „in“ as long as we were little girls. Between 5 and 10 years old. I got a lot of them and even collected different variants of them later. However, when I was around 20 I gave most of them away, keeping only my favourite ones and my very, very favourite which was a violet pony who carried a bee on its side.
Then, 20 years later from the moment were I got my first pony, it was suddenly cool to be into „My Little Pony“ again, as the internet discovered the new animated series and with it the bronies and a lot of other fandom appeared. Being an 'Old School Fan' those first attempts to make toys matching the new TV show looked very alien to me. But I must say that now, 2 years later, the toys have become much better and so even I can like them.
This whole new hype is so very funny because I got a fullgrown man besides me yesterday, a big dude with a lot of muscles and ALL, going nuts and squeezy about a nice toy of Rainbow Dash that we found while browsing the child corner out of fun.
In fact, this brony was sooooo EXCITED that I decided to buy Rainbow Dash and carry her home just to see him unbox it in JOY. (He would have loved Pinkie Pie much more, but they didn't have her at the store.)
It was really funny to watch how this fullgrown man asked in a squeezy voice of joy if he could have the pony box once we got home from shopping. I gave it to him and he opened it with most care not to damage anything. When he started pulling her out we were all like
,Careful, girls toys are packed different from boy toys! Take care of the head!' XD
Then he had her on the desk in front of him and said ,and now I have to brush her hair!. :3'
I snatched the comb from him 'Don't do it! The curls will get damaged!'
He looked at me like O_O and I said ,Trust me, I got experience with those toys! XD'
Man that so feels like time travel... he got all the little extras from the box and decorated her and I was like OMG... almost like little girls arguing who could play with her first. Hahaha this is so wrong in a way but also so funny on the other. Seeing a man going crazy over those toys for real – and suddenly collecting them is cool again. OK the new show IS cool and exactly what this brand needed, because now you can finally like it again... oh trends can be so funny!
