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**ONLINE EMBARGO TILL 00.01 16TH NOVEMBER** PIC BY DUNCAN SIMPSON/CATERS NEWS – (PICTURED: Ian Taylor on a walkabout in Birmingham creating some attention) A man spent tens of thousands of pounds and dressed in a pony suit – all to satisfy his My Little Pony obsession.Ian Taylor, 32, from Ripley, Derbyshire, has accumulated the mammoth collection over the past four and a half years and has a house bursting with memorabilia as a result.While Ian is not dressing up as a pony to attend Pony conventions around the world – where fans of MLP go to meet – he works as a chef in a fish restaurant, but admitted that the addiction has taken over his life. SEE CATERS COPY.