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Thanks for the additional info! I'll update the Wiki to say something more generic like "early prototype" when I get a chance and, yeah, move early Collector Minty into her own section. Quote from: Galactica on April 30, 2019, 11:02:57 AMRe 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...Ohhhh, wow that makes so much sense! Yeah, photo editing was not really a thing in the 80s (at least without a lot of extra expense.)Hmm . . . if they were changed for marketing, are they still prototypes? I was going to add them to the section, but the TE line was probably already out in America at the time. But they are a unique piece of Hasbro history and it would be good for them to be on the Wiki somewhere in case someone finds one at a carboot sale someday. I guess we also don't know for sure that they aren't 'proper' prototypes either, but I think the brighter eyes being put in for their shine does seem like the most likely reason for the crystal eyes.
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...
Maybe the simplest fix would be to change the name of the category to "Prototypes and Production Samples".Yeah, the Wiki is not 100% perfect but honesty it's pretty good compared to the resources for most toylines.
Imagine bumping into this in the middle of the night... It's some kind of four-eyed sparkly lizard demon! visitors can't see pics , please register or loginI really like Twinkle Eyes, but this is not Fizzy's most flattering picture.
Yeah, the Wiki is not 100% perfect but honesty it's pretty good compared to the resources for most toylines. I was trying to look up the names of some Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters toys the other day, and there isn't a wiki or a centralized ID site for them or anything! I ended up looking through a page of someone's personal collection, circa 2007, which didn't have a search function and which put every family on its own page, so I had to click through a bunch of pages.
Hey guys, I was browsing the prototypes page on My Little Wiki and saw this early prototype:visitors can't see pics , please register or loginShe's listed as being a Bubbles prototype, but to me she looks more like she's based on Minty (since originally Minty and the rest of the Collector ponies were all going to have Cotton Candy's symbol . . . Her symbol looks more like Cotton Candy's than like Bubbles' to me.)My question is, did the Hasbro employee who brought her actually say she was Bubbles? If not, then I'm going to edit the Wiki to say something noncommital like "early G1 prototype", but I don't want to do that if someone from Hasbro definitively said "Yes, this is Bubbles."