So there's my aha moment for the day 
Feel free to share your pony aha moments, please!!!!
Always creeped me out, the elephant footpaint. I painted my pony hooves as hooves. Some of them still have traces. But never creepy elephant toes.
Its a small picture, but it's on the box too.
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loginThat one has Uk text but I am sure it's the same as the US box because the pony who thinks she's an elephant is a (strangely misposed) Squeezer and she was only sold here on import. Thankfully the UK comic advert didn't show them with such horrible hoof manglings. Nail polish came with the Brush & Grow Princesses here as well, but I have never seen a carboot sale pony with elephant paint feet.
Years back people kept believing that Baby Sundance existed as an actual release. I think that the general consensus now is that the prototype probably met a sad fate.
I have a few of these.
I wanted pegasus Songster. She was always a pegasus in the comics. I was so sad the real one didn't have wings. I don't think I ever totally got over it, because she was my favourite and one of those I really liked that I actually got...just not with wings :/ So my ahah moment (ie my >< :'( moment) was when I was about eight and first realised that nope, she has no wings :'(
When carboot buying in the early years I had no access to the internet. We're talking '95 onwards. I didn't know any ponies not sold in the UK back then. And we found several. Until I saw HK Surprise I thought Surprise had blue eyes because the only one I ever found was Italian. It was only later I realised blue eyes were an Italian thing.
Baby Heart Throb. UK one has the same symbol as the US one, but in comics she was always drawn with winged hearts, like the one more common on the continent. So when we first found her, we weren't sure who she was. It took a while to figure it out. Also, Dainty Dahlia. We were sure her hair had got damaged somehow
When online...my ah-hah moments came often with things like looking at the lovely pose-centric US illustration and going, hang on, our Confetti isn't in the walking pose...hang on, those sea ponies are looking up...hang on, these are different versions?! This was a time before there were many actual pony photos online so I had so much fun trying to convince my trade partner what I was talking about.
And then there was the fact the So Soft term was used in the UK for plushies. So I thought they were all plushes. Then we found a rogue Hippety Hop at a carboot sale here, and I was like, what the heck has happened to her! Took about three days and some squinting through her fur to realise how much she resembled the Hippety Hop mentioned on DV, and it dawned on me what So Soft meant in American terms. (At which point I wanted them all
So cool
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The only pony hair brush/combs I ever use are the long handled ones that came with the B&G or Romance type ponies. The others are frizz magnets. Sindy brushes work better.
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