Do you play with your MLP merchandise or do you use it as decoration?

[Lord Midnight Madness 1,544]

I was wondering how many of you guys actually play with your Ponies or are they more just decorative. I have a shelf in my room under my tv where I keep mine but don't play with them often. 

[Lord Midnight Madness 1,544]

Thank you for the correction @Venomous

[Steve Piranha 29,432]

Decor, since I wasn’t one to play with toys anyway 

[O-78 28,607]

I just like to admire all of them beautiful mares and sometimes pick them up and look at them from different angles.

[Live Spark 163]

My pony merch mainly sits on my shelf, but I do occasionally like to brush the manes of my brushables ponies.

[Star Petal 215]

All of my ponies are NRFB, except my pinkie pie 4th dimension which is greying and is my bedtime friend. Everything else is nrfb on top of each other stacked on book cases. 

[Lucky Bolt 35,085]

I used to play with them, but now that I'm older I just use them as decoration. 

[Mirage 24,771]

My Luna plushy kisses my nieces and nephews. But that's it! 

[Savy 5,092]

I used to play with them, but now that I'm older, they just sit on my shelves :3

[Cyclone 1066 3,621]

6 hours ago, Lucky Bolt said:

I used to play with them, but now that I'm older I just use them as decoration. 

Same

[Sunlight Glisten 368]

This is my decor in my classroom. Rainbow has been through a lot. It was brought to me after one of my students ran it over with a lawn mower. 

[Shigaraki 289]

Well l kinda like to goof around with my rarity doll, but l hardly play with my other pony toys. My ponies usually just sit on a shelf, but l do like to play with few of them time to time.

Edited March 25, 2021 by Shigaraki

[CypherHoof 26,483]

23 minutes ago, KingMorgana said:

because her tail can come off so l keep her on a shelf

I have a tiny Fluttershy intended as a pencil eraser, whose mane and tail are interchangable with the others in the range (although why they would want to do that defeats me) . She sits on top of a "cutie mark crew" blind packaging box as a pedestal, on the unit closest to my bed, but at about eye height when I am standing up.  She doesn't get played with, but I do check she is there and watching fairly frequently

[Moonlight 7,288]

Nah, just decoration, I don't keep anything in their packaging though... I just like how pony merchandise just seems to really brighten up a room

[Shigaraki 289]

7 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

I have a tiny Fluttershy intended as a pencil eraser, whose mane and tail are interchangable with the others in the range (although why they would want to do that defeats me) . She sits on top of a "cutie mark crew" blind packaging box as a pedestal, on the unit closest to my bed, but at about eye height when I am standing up.  She doesn't get played with, but I do check she is there and watching fairly frequently

oh nice, l would do the same checking on my twilight because my brother likes touching things and l don't want him touching twilight. 4 or 5 years ago my mom found the Twilight figure by a store or l think it was in a church and it was a lost toy, also yes of course l cleaned it.

also this was the time before her tail broke off

[Justin_Case001 4,903]

Decoration.  I have the big brushables of all the ones that they make.  For some stupid reason, they never made Luna in that particular line.  I carefully styled each one's mane and tail to be show accurate, and once I had them to my liking, I put them on display around my room.  Fiddling with them would only mess up the meticulously styled manes.  I arranged them so that I have one or more ponies looking at me wherever I'm sitting in the room.

[CypherHoof 26,483]

34 minutes ago, KingMorgana said:

oh nice, l would do the same checking on my twilight because my brother likes touching things and l don't want him touching twilight. 4 or 5 years ago my mom found the Twilight figure by a store or l think it was in a church and it was a lost toy, also yes of course l cleaned it.

also this was the time before her tail broke off

These are my two - the CMC flutters usually lives "in" her blind package, with the less chibi figure on the left on top.  For scale, the left figure is about 5cm tall, to the top of her mane (3cm at the shoulder)

I had spares, but my (now ex again) special somepony adopted them while we were together ,so down to just these two now.

As I live on my own, I don't have to worry about anyone else messing with them, so... safe and sound (but need regular dusting :D)

[Steve Piranha 29,432]

1 hour ago, Zero said:

Nah, just decoration, I don't keep anything in their packaging though... I just like how pony merchandise just seems to really brighten up a room

Not to mention the extra space 

[Shigaraki 289]

6 hours ago, CypherHoof said:

These are my two - the CMC flutters usually lives "in" her blind package, with the less chibi figure on the left on top.  For scale, the left figure is about 5cm tall, to the top of her mane (3cm at the shoulder)

I had spares, but my (now ex again) special somepony adopted them while we were together ,so down to just these two now.

As I live on my own, I don't have to worry about anyone else messing with them, so... safe and sound (but need regular dusting :D)

oh wow l never saw that fluttershy figure with a sandwich and l really like the fluttershy eraser. Anyways yep safe and sound!

here is my twilight figure l was talking about, and yeah l'm sorta in the dark so the photo will look a little bad. I still don't know what toy that had this twilight figure comes from.

 

is there a way l can trim images before upload them

[Light Blade 8,673]

Stuff I collect is either for display (figurines, signed pics, and plushies), for reading too (comics, books), or hugs when feelin' blue or especially attached to your favorite pony (plushies)

[ToastedScone 397]

I don't PLAY with them, as such, but I do bring them places with me for photoshoots. Ikea is a surprisingly photogenic place for ponies, I've discovered 

[Pentium100 2,176]

I use them as decorations. Kotobukiya Twilight Sparkle, Funko vinyl figures and "Fan series Tempest Shadow vs Twiligh Sparkle" are still in their boxes as well, though the boxes were opened a couple of times. Blind bag figures are without their bags. 

I have a MLP themed keychain, I have it on my keys. I also have one MLP themed shirt, I wear it sometimes.

Edited January 27, 2020 by Pentium100

[Lucky Bolt 35,085]

I used to play with my ponies once upon a time but now I just use them as decoration. 

[chaosprincess 1,067]

My collection is display only so they remain on bookshelves or anywhere I can find a spot to put them.

Edited March 15, 2020 by chaosprincess

[AriaTheLovely 578]

My collection either stays on the shelves or within its packaging that is pinned to my wall. When I was a child though I used to play with a few of them but that was probably 25+ years ago so now they sit on my shelf along with other gen 1's.