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Cool Although I would cross reference it with store catalogues for consumers. Since things in toy catalogues don't get picked up.
Quote from: banditpony on April 24, 2019, 02:11:33 AMCool Although I would cross reference it with store catalogues for consumers. Since things in toy catalogues don't get picked up.Yeah, but there's no online records of the catalouges during that time so this is a major breakthrough.
Quote from: freezestime on April 24, 2019, 02:24:27 AMQuote from: banditpony on April 24, 2019, 02:11:33 AMCool Although I would cross reference it with store catalogues for consumers. Since things in toy catalogues don't get picked up.Yeah, but there's no online records of the catalouges during that time so this is a major breakthrough.This is a great stepping stone to knowing more about the release there. Well done and please keep going!It is the case some catalogue stuff may not have got to stores but with the complete lack of evidence for Aus this is definitely important.For any country outside the US which didn't have DV to do the work for them, most of what we know comes from playing detective with small pieces like this.
The AUS/NZ numbers may not indicate they were only sold in one or other place, it may be that they appeared in Aus the year before, and now in NZ, or vice versa. But it might also indicate that they have separate line releases.
So interesting to me is the images used here. Does anyone know if the Glowing and Curl pony images are common to the US catalogue? I only have one UK catalogue for Hasbro, 1990, but it definitely uses US proto photos in some examples so I wonder if this is the same. I have not seen that image of the Glows before but Starglow's hair struck me in light of the variant prototype one floating around.
More interesting still is that these are US set and pony names. That implies that, although we know AUS and NZ got some ponies from the UK/European release lines, these weren't among them. We had the Glowing set in the UK under the name Glowing Magic, but this lists Glow & Show and the names for the Curl ponies and Secret Surprise ponies are also consistent with the US release, suggesting it's more likely these were US packaged.
Cool find! The other puzzle is the Dance 'n Prance Ponies, if you were wondering.
Re: TV ads.I have no idea, but what I do know is that some old UK shows that don't survive here have turned up on Australian archives...Youtube has a variety of adverts for the US, France, a couple for the UK and so on...I think they're more likely to survive on old vhs tapes but finding them, there's the problem. A lot of US tv adverts survive. I know Kim from DV had a lot of them from her own childhood recordings of MLP and Jem episodes off air over the eighties and it seems like other people did similar. But with many of the surviving UK ads (of which there are far fewer) they were on commercial VHS releases of MLP episodes. If pony VHS were released in Australia, that might be more obtainable?
So some geek detail things I noticed which may or may not be of use.The AUS/NZ numbers may not indicate they were only sold in one or other place, it may be that they appeared in Aus the year before, and now in NZ, or vice versa. But it might also indicate that they have separate line releases.So interesting to me is the images used here. Does anyone know if the Glowing and Curl pony images are common to the US catalogue? I only have one UK catalogue for Hasbro, 1990, but it definitely uses US proto photos in some examples so I wonder if this is the same. I have not seen that image of the Glows before but Starglow's hair struck me in light of the variant prototype one floating around.More interesting still is that these are US set and pony names. That implies that, although we know AUS and NZ got some ponies from the UK/European release lines, these weren't among them. We had the Glowing set in the UK under the name Glowing Magic, but this lists Glow & Show and the names for the Curl ponies and Secret Surprise ponies are also consistent with the US release, suggesting it's more likely these were US packaged. In terms of relevance for what you might find second hand, it means there's a chance blue heart Dazzleglow was sold over there as well, rather than just in North America.Without other catalogues it's impossible to know how many of these are new and how are repeat sets. My 1990 catalogue has some which are designated NEW and others not. We don't know what's on the missing pages, either. But we can speculate based on what you've seen on sale and the other sets around at this time that probably on one of those pages is the Pocket Friends/Precious Pocket set. If there is any European stuff in 1991, then it may well be school related since that was what was in the European release in 1991.