Interesting variants I picked up accidently

[NinaMarie]

I have 3 sparkle pony Sunspots that I have acquired from various sources. I'm not really big on the sparkle ponies so I've been preparing to sell these. While photographing them I discovered they are ALL different! I feel like I've heard somewhere it is common for sparkle ponies to have subtle variants but not sure where I got that info. Any way I thought I'd share my discovery for anyone else who interested in this kind of thing to see and discuss.

Here is A (green yarn) and B
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A's hair instead of being just faded white actually seems more golden or maybe it's just yellowed. She has gold tinsel in mane and tail.
B's hair is faded white with her tail still having pink in it. However her mane tinsel appears to be silver while her tail tinsel is gold.
Their symbols are noticeably different in color and smiley face placement.

Here is C who has the pinkest hair
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And C appears to have silver tinsel in both mane and tail

All three together
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This probably is something not too uncommon and perhaps the tinsel is faded not factory error? It just amused me that I had 3 of the same pony and they were all different!

[Sweet_Stuff]

Oooh, this topic is always fun.

I was told it's because the tinsel has faded..and yes it's not too uncommon.

Thanks for sharing! Love the sparkles!

[Baby Sugarberry]

I don't believe it's fading (other than the hair's pink, which is) - I've seen the same thing crop up time and time again for Sunspot and (a bit less commonly) Napper - both of which have either silver or gold tinsel, in some combination.  If it was fading, you'd expect to see gold left in the root of the tail where the light doesn't reach for the silver tailed ones or only the mane tinsel fading since it's less covered.  Instead both ponies seem to show up regularly with tinsel colour in four variants - gold/gold, silver/sliver, silver/gold and gold/silver.  You can often spot batch differences between them as well - such as your A and B, B has a much darker yellow sun paint.

Sparkle ponies that have been exposed to heavy UV are usually obvious - they tend to acquire a brown tinge / be off-coloured to their original look.

Oh, and another point against tinsel fading - you'd expect to see the same thing in princess ponies / other sets that have tinsel.

[Mareacooda]

See the different Variation of Sunspot is one the reason I have multi of same ponies because some differents....

[Taffeta]

I am a long way from my ponies so may be remembering wrongly, but I thought they had gold on one side of the tinsel and silver on the other on some ponies? I think it's Napper I'm mostly referencing here, but not sure, maybe Sunspot too? Definitely seen ones with mismatching mane and tail tinsel though.

This set has discolouration issues through plastic decay and fading so all other actual variations between them often get blurred in with those flaws. There are definitely minor differences in colour of batches, in glitter and plastic density and also symbol print with some of them, though. And the tinsel thing is definitely a thing, not fading...although that doesn't rule out that faded ones might also exist...sigh.

[ghouldilocks]

I have two different versions of Sunspot - one with silver tinsel in both her mane & tail, the other with silver tinsel in her mane but gold in her tail. 

[NinaMarie]

If I was a bigger fan of sparkle ponies I'd be loving have these gals on display but I just don't like that the plastic seems to break down more on this line.

[RainbowQuartz]

There are two Sunspots in my house. Mine is gold mane/gold tail and my daughter's is silver mane/silver tail iirc. Maybe her's has one gold one silver. I'll have to check. I prefer the gold, personally.