Well, maybe not yet, but I am certainly doing my best to make it that way. I just received in the mail today, the last 3 ponies I needed to complete Year 2 of the vintage ponies. Excluding the sea ponies, who I will one day collect, just not yet.
I started this wonderfully joyous journey (more like restarted) with vintage MLPs last Spring, I had no idea I would have this many ponies! I have under 60, granted, but still. That's a lot of ponies! My first ponies were a well priced lot of very good condition mules. Also known as the collector's pose. I think mule is cuter, and just easier to say. I got Peachy, Cotton Candy, Minty, Blossom, and Butterscotch. I soon added a Lemon Drop, though that one is not in good condition AT ALL. Way worse than pictured. I need to upgrade that one. After that I finally got my hands on a Snuzzle. All I needed was Blue Belle to finish the CF group. And I for the life of me could not find one that was either - I'll be honest - way more than I wanted to pay, or in bad shape. The selection was pretty scanty whenever I felt moved upon to stalk eBay. (I'm sure there were quite a few I missed out on.) After a year of off and on looking, I finally found a lovely one for a good price, and bought it just a few weeks back. :D
When I realized all I needed was 6 ponies to complete the non sea ponies of Year 2, I re-focused my efforts on finishing that year instead of finishing sets. I needed Bubbles, Sky Dancer, Apple Jack, Sunlight, Parasol and Bowtie. Some of the prices for these ponies were quite a bit more than I had thought they would be. $20.00 for Apple Jack? :O When did that happen? The prices were similar for Sunlight, Parasol and Bowtie. I was lucky to grab an excellent conditioned Sky Dancer for $6. I lucked on a lot of 4 ponies that had Hearthrob, and Sundance, both of which I already had although not is as good of shape, but it also included Sunlight and Bubbles, for $20. I jumped on it.
Still, that left me in a desperate search for the remaining 3. I was literally starting to drive myself crazy. I ended up finding a Bowtie for a good price, but upon opening her, I discovered I had just bought myself a curly haired Bowtie, which is a Year 3, not a Year 2. (I honestly couldn't tell the hair was curly in the photo. I'm still thrilled with it.) So back I was to searching for Bowtie. It came over me late one night to check eBay once again for the elusive 3. And that's when I seriously lucked out! I found a seller who had a Parasol for $5 in great shape. I tried to buy it, along with a couple of others, but eBay wouldn't let me add them to cart and pay for them, saying the seller didn't offer combined shipping. The listing description said otherwise, so I wrote the seller to ask about this, hoping that the ponies I wanted would stay available until she was able to get back to me. Luckily, she was listing at the time I was writing her, and she said not to worry she had more Parasols in comparable condition in case that one sold before she could fix the problem. So I took the opportunity to ask her is she happened to have either an Apple Jack or a regular release Bow Tie. She did! She let me have each for $5. I also grabbed a $4 Tootsie, because, well, I just had to.
I haven't opened my package yet. I will do that in just a little bit. It feels like there should be some sort of pomp and circumstance when I do this, as this is a mile stone in my pony collection. I'll do a photo shoot of all of my Year 2 ponies when I get a chance.
