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The only pony I ever found while living in Australia was Hopscotch. She was in a thrift store by herself.
Quote from: Skeen on August 15, 2019, 11:50:28 AMThe only pony I ever found while living in Australia was Hopscotch. She was in a thrift store by herself. LOL! When I found her I did give her a serious side-eye like, "What are you doing here? Are you supposed to be here?"
Quote from: Skeen on August 16, 2019, 12:49:10 PMQuote from: Skeen on August 15, 2019, 11:50:28 AMThe only pony I ever found while living in Australia was Hopscotch. She was in a thrift store by herself. LOL! When I found her I did give her a serious side-eye like, "What are you doing here? Are you supposed to be here?" Expat pony! A lot of Britons seem to like emigrating over there
Surprisingly, most ponies traditionally thought of as being UK exclusives were released in Australia. We didn’t get Mountain Boys but a huge number of other ponies were also sold here. Hopscotch, Snowflake, Baby Billie/Katie/Susie all show up somewhat commonly. We had our own version of the Activity Club which released the same ponies and TAF babies were available somehow, though I can’t confirm if it was a mail in offer or not. A collector wrote to Hasbro about two decades ago now and got a full MIP set directly, long after they were released.I know people who remember seeing various UK ponies and the kitchen playset in store so it’s not a case of immigrating with them. Especially when you consider how expensive immigrating to Australia was at that time. Most families wouldn’t be packing a great deal of toys for their children and would be opting to rebuy them over giving up precious shipping container space.The most common ponies however are the three newborns Baby Sunset, etc. These were sold in Easter egg packaging and several Aussie collectors remember them but no photo evidence has ever appeared.
the alt birthflowers got released there
It's a long time ago now, and I may be wrong, but I believe the information came from someone in Aus that they had been sold there. But without a paper trail it's open to being debunked as a theory. It's also possible that it was a regional store or even an independant store that imported them, rather than Hasbro across the whole country. I know a couple of people who had SS ponies new here from that kind of store in the south west, but they weren't sold here formally.The problem with AUS is that nobody really documented stuff over there at the point MLP finished...so figuring out stuff like that is going to be tough :/
Hello! Chiming in quickly to answer an earlier question: Dream Beauties were 100% sold in Australia - I got Sheertrimmer for my fourth birthday obviously can’t tell you which ranges exactly, but they were definitely there.The other thing I can tell you definitively - since as I have mentioned before many of my ponies were inherited from my older sister, and my South African grandmother in Johannesburg would often buy me ponies, so sometimes I am a little unsure about the EXACT provenance of everything in my childhood collection - is that I have a distinct memory of going to Toys r Us and buying Petite Ponies there. I had a set from almost every collection and many of my friends did too, as well as playsets. They were very popular.