Velvet Bow is a new pony to me. We never had any of the winter ponies/holiday ponies for G3 in the UK and I gave up trying to collect them. She is super nice, though, her colour scheme is gorgeous.
I also had to stop and go, why would it be Minty? before I realised that referred to the G3 Minty and the Christmas special thingy not the G1 Minty...
My answer is different now than what it was for most of my childhood, when it was Powder. Now it's Snowflake. I love them both, but gained a new appreciation for Snowflake as she was one of my childhood ponies and I didn't realise as a child what I know as an adult about her unique characteristics (glittery symbol, freckles) compared with the others in her set.
I also remember - and still have, but it's at home, not here - the Christmas selection pack pony story book. The UK comic didn't have a set Christmas pony until Merry Treats came out - the only Christmas pony ever to come out in the UK in G1! - so ponies took it in turns to be "pony Christmas", delivering the presents. I think that the selection box story has Snowflake in this role. I have some of the ponies from the box as cut outs still, too. Snowflake is one and Baby Tiddly Winks is another. It might be only those two that I still have after so many years.
I also remember the comic making Masquerade it once (another childhood pony of mine) because she liked to dress up in costume, and also, later, Flurry...ponies with seasonal themes from earlier years often came back regularly...
But for me it's Snowflake. And as is appropriate, here's my childhood pony to seal it
She was my fourth pony and I got her in 1986, so she's 30 this year
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