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One thing to keep in mind, especially this late in the day, are travelling ponies.Ponies that came with families who moved into country, and also ponies that have gone back and forth across the border in online collecting over several years. If you built a list from UK ebay of ponies sold in the UK you'd get a very warped list of pony availability because so many ponies have shifted over borders in the last 20 years. The same is true for US ebay. Not that that's a bad thing for you if it improves your availability, but it may or may not determine what was officially sold in Australia.
Maybe it would be helpful to find some old catalogs? (I'm sure that isn't 100% but it could be useful)20+ years of online trading does skew things. (Which doesn't account for 30+ years of people traveling w ponies)
It would be genuinely awesome if someone did the legwork and put together a definitive list of Aussie releases (and perhaps NZ ones as well) as it's one of those gaps...
the alt birthflowers got released thereI am 90% sure the year 8 taf babies where all hong kong releases. I also feel the uk family ponies got released there, the did in NZ (berrytown etc)Some Scandinavian ponies also got released in au, yellow moondancer, gusty and co. Not sure about Nss truly and cupcake
Quote from: Taffeta on April 17, 2019, 05:30:54 AMIt would be genuinely awesome if someone did the legwork and put together a definitive list of Aussie releases (and perhaps NZ ones as well) as it's one of those gaps...I'm hoping to achieve that, although it'll probably be speculative for a long time. I'll try to find old employees, find vintage catalouges, go to the state library and that kind of stuff.
Quote from: freezestime on April 17, 2019, 05:55:51 AMQuote from: Taffeta on April 17, 2019, 05:30:54 AMIt would be genuinely awesome if someone did the legwork and put together a definitive list of Aussie releases (and perhaps NZ ones as well) as it's one of those gaps...I'm hoping to achieve that, although it'll probably be speculative for a long time. I'll try to find old employees, find vintage catalouges, go to the state library and that kind of stuff. Speaking just from the position of someone who's been working on the UK line for about 20 years and where there are still gaps and things we can't explain due to lack of evidence, you have my sympathy But I absolutely support you trying to get what you can together. If it's any help, one of the first international trades I did in the late 1990s was for 3 Dream Beauties from Australia - Morning Glory, Crystalline and Dream Gleamer. Because it was so early in online trading terms, I wonder if that indicates DBs happened in Aus.The information I put together for the UK comes partly from stuff I still had from my childhood, partly from inserts, partly from a list Hasbro UK sent to me in 1995 (before their customer service became autobot annoying as it is today), partly from old catalogue scans from things like Argos, partly from the memories and bits and pieces of other collectors, partly from the comics...and so on. In short, there are lots of potential avenues for investigation.The challenge I think you may have is that I think most of Aus's pony line was through import of either US or UK packaged items, which means your inserts may not help you determine what was sold there.It is probably a hard task but please don't give up on it I feel like there are a lot of different pony release combinations around the world but most sites only focus on the US vs other. I work with the UK and try to bring some Euro stuff into it, but it really needs people in those countries to put stuff together as well.
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