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That section has some issues for sure.
Re the twinkle eyes-They probably decided that the plastic twinkle eyes did not reflect well enough for marketing photos so they used something different.I have a few dolls that were used for marketing photos during the same era- (Rainbow Brite dolls) they are stuffed extra thick, are ever so slightly larger, and have thick hand-rooted hair, and any paint on their face was drawn slightly more clearly/exaggerated.So I'm sure with ponies they did a lot of the same things- used extra hair/extra-reflective crystals for the eyes- anything that would make the pony look better in photos. Remember photos back in the 1980s were pretty bad...
That section has some issues for sure. There's no way a Bow Tie posed Bubbles could evolve into an early Collector pony without time travel. The copy in that catalog picture even says it's Minty ("Menthe"), so...? A lot of [citation needed] there IMO. (Other nit-picks: She was at Hasbro HQ and displayed during the 2008 facility tour, so she wasn't brought to the Fair exactly, and she's made of clay not wax.) Minty's symbol would have already gelled into clovers long before they started work on the second set of earth ponies, so I don't really see the connection there personally. All they have in common is white hair?
Like this "Bubbles" description as mentioned. Unless any of this came from someone with connections to Hasbro, that seems like a lot of assumptions made.