Scandinavian Gusty puffy sticker (for all you sticker obsessed collectors, like me)

[Ponyland]

First, sorry for posting so much lately

A year ago an amazing MLP puffy sticker collection came into my hands. It belonged to the photographer of the swedish MLP line, or it belonged to his young son actually, who kept them after the photoshoot. He sold them to a friend of mine a while ago who later traded them with me. All puffy stickers is from the swedish sold ponies, so it has been an important mapping piece for me when trying to understand how it was, and what was sold here.

I found a very interesting difference with the Gusty sticker I got (that belongs to the green eyed Gusty in the "Fable Ponies"-set with yellow Moondancer)
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It's the one in the middle. Has anyone ever seen a copyright 1985 one before? I'm really excited about this one! 

[Lady Starflower]

Neat. You certainly lucky when it comes to ponies

[hathorcat]

Congrats what a great find! All the later puffy stickers in 1985 got a copyright stamp on them so this would coincide with the Euro lines being later than the US in manufacture. The copyright mark does not show up on Euro ponies normally until 1986 how odd this one set must have gotten something ahead of everything else.

It is a little out of the norm for where it was released. Euro stickers used a different font from the US ones - this sticker has the US font on it. Peculiar indeed.

I believe we have seen something with the copyright on it before but I dont believe we knew why it was that way...due to the font and the copyright not showing up over here until 86, I believe we assumed they were simply from later releases in the US.

[LadyGuinevere]

Very cool! It's the sort of difference that could easily be overlooked if you didn't know it was there. I checked my stickers and the baby ponies and ponywear from 1985 also have a copyright on it.

[Ponyland]

Congrats what a great find! All the later puffy stickers in 1985 got a copyright stamp on them so this would coincide with the Euro lines being later than the US in manufacture. The copyright mark does not show up on Euro ponies normally until 1986 how odd this one set must have gotten something ahead of everything else.

It is a little out of the norm for where it was released. Euro stickers used a different font from the US ones - this sticker has the US font on it. Peculiar indeed.

I believe we have seen something with the copyright on it before but I dont believe we knew why it was that way...due to the font and the copyright not showing up over here until 86, I believe we assumed they were simply from later releases in the US.

Great information hathorcat! Thank you!

This is the sticker set with the "Fable Ponies" that I have. Only missing Heart Throb from this set. As you see all except Gusty is on the yellow backing (that backing was also used for other ponies in the UK) I have a moc Powder from this set where you can catch a glimpse of the yellow backing of her sticker. Gusty is the only one that has a copyright date on it.
It would have been more easy for me to understand if it was a regular US sticker that got reused, but this one really confuses me as I have never seen one with a copyright date on it before. I have seen a updated US Gusty sticker with the red stripe though (but I don't own that one yet) but that one doesn't have a copyright date on it.

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Here you can see a difference from the Firefly that we got. On the sticker she has a white bow on her tail!
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Here is the powder sticker compared to 2 US versions. The scandinavian sticker is more intensely pink (hard for the camera to pic up.
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And here is a sticker from the earth pony set that we got. Lickety Split's sticker is also copyrighted 1985! And I have never seen that before on any of these earth ponies. We had White tootsie in this set to, on her sticker she is green though.
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[pinkkittywinks]

Interesting! I'm going to have to have a look at my stickers now

Love pkw xxx

[ashlyne]

Ooo! More stickers for me to hunt  

I have 3 Gusty stickers also, but none with the copyright. My two with the red in the hair are slightly different. The pink in the rainbow border is a different shade, the purple in the ribbons are also a different shade of purple.  Also, the one at the top left has a cross-hatch pattern to the surface.

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Post Merge: August 05, 2015, 06:37:24 AM

Interesting....

I have some with the copyright from the Twinkle Eye set, some without.   The ones without have text in a lighter blue color.

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[Ponyland]

Oooh! Thanx for showing us ashlyne!

All my swedish stickers has that pink shade in the rainbow border that your red stipe Gusty has (the one below the other). That one is your Movie Star Gusty sticker right? My camera just don't want to pic up the color, but it is a very intensely pink (almost like neon, but a coral-ish neon). So it looks like everyone got re-printed in a different shade.

I think that your puffy TE stickers copyright date has something to do about how those ponies were sold in UK. It looks like the later ponies just didn't get a copyright date.

[baby_gusty]

I have a puffy that goes with scandinavian Gusty and it has the copyright 1985 on it

[katrine2309]

Ooh  - this is so cool! I have quite a lot of stickers with the 1985(EDIT: sorry - this was a typo, I meant 1986!) copyright . It is the baby ponies from that year (I have baby Gusty and baby Firefly), and Cuddles as well as Megan and Sundance. So I guess I can assume that all those were US releases then?

[Ponyland]

Ooh  - this is so cool! I have quite a lot of stickers with the 1985 copyright . It is the baby ponies from that year (I have baby Gusty and baby Firefly), and Cuddles as well as Megan and Sundance. So I guess I can assume that all those were US releases then?

Baby Gusty is an european release with a puffy sticker (that one is a gem that you have! I'm still searching for it!). Baby Firefly wasn't sold with a sticker in Europe (we got them on a card with a bottle in Scandinavia, and UK didn't get them at all). I think that BENELUX (Belgien, Netherlands and Luxembourg) might have gotten the boxed US set of baby ponies though.
Megan & Sundance was sold both here and in Europe. In Scandinavia we got the 1985 US release of them, but one year later ( in 1986). UK got a different set, and I think the puffy sticker says 1986?



Post Merge: August 16, 2015, 07:30:41 AM

I have a puffy that goes with scandinavian Gusty and it has the copyright 1985 on it

It's the puffy for adult Gusty, not Baby Gusty? Cool! Then we know that more of them exist!

[LadyGuinevere]

Baby Gusty is an european release with a puffy sticker (that one is a gem that you have! I'm still searching for it!). Baby Firefly wasn't sold with a sticker in Europe (we got them on a card with a bottle in Scandinavia, and UK didn't get them at all). I think that BENELUX (Belgien, Netherlands and Luxembourg) might have gotten the boxed US set of baby ponies though.

BENELUX issue is also carded (like the German and Danish ones, but with French and Dutch language. I know that some areas of Europe did get US boxes though (possibly direct imports?)

[Ponyland]

Baby Gusty is an european release with a puffy sticker (that one is a gem that you have! I'm still searching for it!). Baby Firefly wasn't sold with a sticker in Europe (we got them on a card with a bottle in Scandinavia, and UK didn't get them at all). I think that BENELUX (Belgien, Netherlands and Luxembourg) might have gotten the boxed US set of baby ponies though.

BENELUX issue is also carded (like the German and Danish ones, but with French and Dutch language. I know that some areas of Europe did get US boxes though (possibly direct imports?)

Yes you are correct I have a MOC dutch baby blossom one as well, but I also have an dutch advertising for the boxed babies in my ad collection, so I think they got both versions a year appart the boxed babies first in 1985-86, and the carded babies in 1987 i think...

[LadyGuinevere]

It's certainly possible, especially since it seems they were released twice in Germany. I know a Danish collector also had a boxed one in childhood.

[baby_gusty]

Post Merge: August 16, 2015, 07:30:41 AM

I have a puffy that goes with scandinavian Gusty and it has the copyright 1985 on it

It's the puffy for adult Gusty, not Baby Gusty? Cool! Then we know that more of them exist!
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Yes, adult Gusty
Wish I had baby gusty too though