Dolly Mix Ponies?

[Dreamer]

Well I already made a post about an "unusual" way of obtaining G1s (HQG1C), so I might as well ask about these "candy box" ponies.

What do you think of these ponies? Do you have any pics? Are they still available?

[Teddy]

I love them! I think they are super cute and have a small collection of them:

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I'm pretty sure they stopped selling them in stores years ago, but you can still get them from other collectors. I think Clipper still has a good stock of them if you check out his store on Etsy (Clipper's Sail).

[Mlp Sunsparkle]

I love the dolly mix ponies! They were sold in the uk in Asda (supermarket) for £2 in 2010 ish? I remember getting mine around that time. There are 20 to collect in the tiny g1 series. They came in a bag with a small pack of dolly mix and a tiny comb (a smaller or recoloured g3 comb I think?) and a collectors guide, showing all the ponies in a style that’s a cross between g1 and g3. They were manufactured by the little factory, under license from Hasbro.

 The core 7 was another set. They came in a box with a pack of sweets too. I believe it was around 2008 when they were out. I remember asking my parents for one of them but they said no I still wonder who was in that box I picked up lol. My mum surprised me with one one day, and then we bought another while shopping. I got snuzzle and gusty. I will add pics in a bit of them.

I have also managed to find 3 different hair colours for snuzzle, which I will show. I know there are a couple other variants too.

[Taffeta]

They haven't been in stores for a long time but people still tend to have them lurking around. I don't think I ever got a complete set when they were out but they are super cute, if a weird selection of characters (Mainsail?). I think they weren't exclusive to Asda, I am pretty sure they were out in several different stores around this time but mostly supermarkets if I remember rightly.

[cyberunicorn]

I got a load from Morrisons years ago. Though over the years they have moved from their storage box to all over the place 

There cute if not exactly the best quality haha

[Khoufu]

Wait, they're actually licensed? Cool! I'd only heard of them in passing. I have a similar lookin pony that came with some jelly beans but it's an obvious fakie.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

I would love to collect more of them, but they were a UK thing.  I have a tiny little Powder only by luck of an Arena swap...

[Carrehz]

Not the best pic of them (I really need to take a better one sometime), but here's all of 'em:

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(hmm, almost all of them, anyway. There's two versions of Glory - for some reason a lot of them were missing the horn - and earth!Glory isn't in this pic... huh. Wonder where I put her.)

They're long gone from UK shops (I got mine in late 2011/early 2012) but I imagine it wouldn't be *too* hard to find them for sale online.. since they were totally blind-packaged (no 'windows' or codes or any way of figuring out which one you were buying!) I'm guessing I'm not the only one who ended up with a hoard of extras I really need to dig mine out sometime, that reminds me..

They're soooo cute I love these little things, I wish they'd make another set

edit: ahah - found my old photos of the packaging, etc. Not the best but enough to give the idea, hopefully.

I should add - the original G3 Dollymix set was packaged differently, those came in a little rectangular box, but I don't have any photos of those (I do have one of the boxes hanging around, but it's pretty crushed ) so idk maybe someone else has photos they can share of those ;

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they all came w/ this checklist (note to self: scan this or something someday, geez.)
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aaaand here's what they came in! A little plastic baggie and a comb. (I don't have a photo of the dolly mixtures themselves. You're not missing much, they looked just like regular dolly mixtures but tasted pretty nasty )

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...usually the ponies' heads were facing forwards and not doing an Exorcist impression, but this is the only clear photo I have of one still in the baggie they came in...

[TheBeatlesPkmnFan42]

I've got one! The secondhand toy store I go to sometimes has a decent selection of them so I bought Shady a while back (think this was when that toy store was at a different location? So it was a couple years ago).

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She hangs out with some other small G3 figures, since even though she's a G1 character, the style of the Dolly Mix ponies is much more like that of G3.

[Taffeta]

I suggest Ebay UK as the best potential source for people outside of the UK. Although I did notice that the HQG1C group are giving them away as freebies in the custom bundles in the US so that's another source

I don't remember ever seeing the G3 ones here, but the others were here in the UK for a LONG time. But some were more common than others. I remember I had to get Shady from ladyG at ponycon because I hadn't managed to find her, but I had a few Heart Throbs.

I feel like they came with an insert that showed the images of all of them...?

And yes, they were licenced.

[Carrehz]

Whoops, looks like I edited my post at the same time you posted, Taffeta XP I added some pics of their packaging (and the insert!) to my earlier post.

I just noticed the bag refers to their symbols as "rump markings", makes sense since that seems to be what Hasbro called them, pre-"Cutie Mark" (ick).

[Taffeta]

It's fine, make me look like an idiot, I don't care...

I have to admit the only reason I don't have Princess Amethyst is because of that insert. I've boycotted every piece of merchandise featuring her in this country that uses that name. It offends me. But it is also why I remembered that the insert existed, because the ponies don't have any other name tag.

They were made in the UK, so that name should never have happened.

I still feel like it was a weird choice of ponies. Especially Mainsail.

[Khoufu]

I like that they chose seemingly random ponies, rather than the same old ponies that end up on all the retro merch. I also like that it has the g1 ponies drawn in g3 art style.

[Clipper]

I have most of them available in my ecrater shop. I love dolly mix, and surprised at how many collectors don't have them!

https://clipper.ecrater.com/c/1582705/g1-g3-teeny-dollymix

[LadyMoondancer]

I got some of them when they were new (from overseas) and the candy that came with them was terrible.  Just terrible.   The ponies themselves are cute.