What was your first exposure to MLP?

[Snoopy Fan 2,145]

And it doesn’t have to be FiM, it can be any generation. For me, it was the toys that my sister had as a kid.

[Sparklefan1234 173,245]

My first time watching anything related to My Little Pony was watching "My Little Pony Tales" I don't remember anything except the theme song.

[Mothra 715]

An advert on TV for the toys from an older generation, I specifically remember the phrase "Based on the television show" and I sat in the house with my parents and said: "Who would ever watch a show about girly ponies?"

...Then over a decade later, I did.

Edited March 3 by Mothra

[OverTheStars 219]

When I was a toddler my sister owned some G3 ponies. I vividly remember chewing on their legs. Sorry ponies

[abronymouse 5,951]

toys my sis had as a kid, too  many, many years later the memes hooked me in

[tomatopotato 99]

I don’t really have any memories of MLP when I was a kid, I just knew it existed. However, the day before Thanksgiving last year, a female friend of mine (who watched FiM as a child) sat me down and made me sit through the first two episodes of Season 1. I don’t know what happened, but I was hooked. I’ve been binging MLP since then

[Iforgotmybrain 5,856]

I suppose it was the G3 toys, I remember seeing them as a kid in Walmart when I was with my parents buying a gift for a friend. I didn't take much note of them, they were just "girl toys" to little me.

[Silly Druid 7,257]

I think my sister watched the G1 show when we were kids, but I don't remember that very well.

Edited March 4 by Silly Druid

[Dreambiscuit 10,178]

I had a couple VHS tapes from G1, which were pretty good. I never knew the MLP franchise would become such a life-changer. 

[Snow 7,562]

I could swear I saw the 1986 MLP movie with my sister when I was very very little, (the one with the witches and smooze) 

13 hours ago, Mothra said:

"Who would ever watch a show about girly ponies?"

...Then over a decade later, I did.

That sounds incredibly familiar.

 

13 hours ago, OverTheStars said:

I vividly remember chewing on their legs

Gracious I got a good chuckle out of this, thanks very much for sharing 

[KPackratt 381]

I think I saw the commercials for the G3 toys when I watched Cartoon Network during my childhood. As for my first exposure to G4, the earliest I can recall was when I started seeing MLP profile pics on the internet communities I visited in late-2011.

[Fluttershutter 2,555]

I don't know. I was always aware of it, I knew it was a cartoon and toys aimed at girls. Then I heard there was a My Little Pony show that a lot of guys love. I figured it was a joke but I checked out FIM and loved it! 

[Sondash Studios 4,855]

I was 7 years old when they started airing season 1 on Saturday mornings (I believe it was on "The Hub"... God bless them for introducing me to the masterpiece) 

[Mraznik 1]

I wanted my brother to jump from a great height into the water and promised him that I would watch a couple of episodes of my little pony, because he knew that such animated series frankly pissed me off. After months of denying it I watched the first couple episodes while my brother laughed at my reaction. Later, I just wanted to know what all the action was about the cartoon and the fandom. Before that, the only thing I knew was that there was some purple dude (Spike) and a Mexican kid with a toaster and I didn't even think about the other stuff.