Another line of thought is that the SA ponies weren’t actually licensed. It is possible that a mould was made using a Hong Kong pony and that this mould was used to produce a line of “My Little Pony’s’”.
I absolutely love sa ponies my dream is to own them all one day!
There is cotton candy as well she doesn’t appear to be in the list?
The SA ponies are intriguing. I have given up on ever owning one, they are just too htf and out of my price range. I will probably end up making a custom. Has anyone ever tried making a custom rooted tail?
The SA ponies are intriguing. I have given up on ever owning one, they are just too htf and out of my price range. I will probably end up making a custom. Has anyone ever tried making a custom rooted tail?
Yes!
I kept the regular tail hole in the middle and rooted around it to disguise it :) of course there is a tail in the centre or it wouldn't be so thick ;)
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Love pkw xxx
Thank you for compiling all of this information and keeping up with it! The South African ponies have been so mysterious to me, I'm happy I was able to learn a bit more about them. I hope more continue to be found and shared; I love that there are so many international ponies, and that discoveries are still being made.
With all of the languages in South Africa, I wonder if these ponies ever had names in these languages, or if the English names were used by default. It would be so cool to find out, especially if they do have non-English names!
So, just to check, we're not sure if SA ponies were produced under official license from Hasbro? They may turn out to be bootlegs, technically?
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South African Ponies
Hi there!
This page is dedicated to South African MLP variants .......
I was given these two South African ponies when I was a little girl!
I despirately wanted Seashell and Applejack, and so these are the "Seashell" and
"Applejack" I was given......
You can imagine my disappointement at the time, I'm sure! - they were not what i
was expecting!
Anyway...take a look at these ponies........
This is a SouthAfrican variant "Applejack"
She has the body pose of Moondancer and the head of prancing pegasus, Firefly!
They must have just used the moulds and created pony-variants!
The hair of these ponies is of poor condition....it was never as silky and
shiney and regular MLP hair.
Also, the tail hair does not go in through one hole as in the regular MLPs,
instead it is threaded in through many small holes.....
This is a SA variant, "Seashell"
She has the body pose of unicorn Glory and again the same pegasus head of
Firefly's!
The hair is also not nice and shiney and is inserted through many small holes.
This Seashell was called "Seashell" on her packaging, but she has the different
colouring!
The symbols are painted on or stamped on, often badly.
These versions were fairly common in South Africa and many people got these
versions since they were MUCH cheaper than the regular My Little Ponies......but
of course, they LOOK much cheaper too!
Here is the backcard of SA "Seashell".
The cards have the real MLP pics on them and say:
"c 1985 Hasbro Bradley, Inc., Pawtucket R.I. USA All Rights Reserved"
They were made by "Prima Toys", a South African toy company, but nowhere does it
say WHERE they were made...
On the underside of the pony hooves is the same imprinted writing, presumably
just from the original moulds. The back two hooves say (rather illegibly),
"c 83 Hasbro Pat Pend." and "Hong Kong"
On the back of the backcard is written:
"Hello, I'm a cute pony.
I love adventure and making new friends.
Please be my friend, and comb and braide my long
silky hair and tie it with ribbon."
then this is repeated below in the Afrikaans language...
So, basically, these are cheaply made variants of MLP's.
The original moulds were obviously used but joined incorrectly, the heads
obviously
not fitting the bodies since the head is of one pose and the bodies of other
poses.
They are made of a much harder material than the vinyl of the regular MLPs.
These ponies do have similarities to the Argentinian and Mexican variant ponies,
which were also made by local toy manufacturers under the Hasbro name, and are
also not quite as well made as the US and other regular ponies.
I have also come across SA variant Moonstones, Windys, Sprinkles (white with red
hair....!)
and others
Here are some pics of SA variants i have received from various collectors:
(appollogies for not referencing these pics, please contact me if these are your
photos,
as i have lost your email and would like to give you the proper credit!)
SA variant Bowtie
SA variant Moondancer
SA variant Windy
These SA ponies were very common in their day, however, any MLP's are very rare
in South Africa these days and SA variants even less common for some reason...
They are therefore quite special and rare collector's items! and worth quite a
bit!
Please e-mail me if you have any other info on these....I'd love to know if they
were sold anywhere else other than in my country, or if they are indeed, All
South African variants!
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Katrina aka Seashell
Pics from Crazy Jack's: http://www.moondancersdream.com/DQfreepics.htm
"My Little Pony" is copyrighted to Hasbro
QuoteI have also come across SA variant Moonstones, Windys, Sprinkles (white with red
hair....!)
and others
@Skyline - interesting o.O. Do you remember if your friend in the neighbourhood had dragons or bushwoolies or neither of the above with her princesses?
pinkkittywinks, that was another confusion from my childhood. On my webpage I referred to a Sprinkles. But it was because my Neighbour when I was a kid had her and mistakenly called her sprinkles...she was in fact HeartThrob. But the symbols were not clearly stamped in and looked more like Sprinkles symbol than heartthrob’s :P
Nice to reconnect with you all after all these years!! :)
pinkkittywinks, that was another confusion from my childhood. On my webpage I referred to a Sprinkles. But it was because my Neighbour when I was a kid had her and mistakenly called her sprinkles...she was in fact HeartThrob. But the symbols were not clearly stamped in and looked more like Sprinkles symbol than heartthrob’s :P
Nice to reconnect with you all after all these years!! :)
Thank you NightGliderSA for posting and assisting with my technological incompetence 😂 haha!
Oh, love the Fairytale cards! The back art is just so different with the rainbow :)
Which pony did came on the SA card? Is it africaans as the other language?
And those ponies are just stunning! :heart:
:lovey: Awesome pictures.
The Surprise/Gusty etc card breaks my heart every time I see it, with the UK stuff on the bottom. We were meant to have those and they took them from us and gave them to everyone else instead :'(
I have never forgiven Hasbro for that decision :P
:lovey: Awesome pictures.
The Surprise/Gusty etc card breaks my heart every time I see it, with the UK stuff on the bottom. We were meant to have those and they took them from us and gave them to everyone else instead :'(
I have never forgiven Hasbro for that decision :P
I knew that would upset you :hug: If the Flutterbye card had been vertical it would have just rubbed salt into the wound :hug:
Love pkw xxx
Hi everyone
So I just recently found something that proves that Prima Toys was licensed by Hasbro in the 80s :) https://photos.app.goo.gl/H8dGpFR7hXyVr8sLA
I posted in the corral, but I wanted to post this here too.
The stamp used to make money box Blossom looks almost identical to the one use on actual SA Blossom.
The Bubbles symbols appear the same, but not as detailed, they money box is lacking the smaller dots.
Love pkw xxx