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Title: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: mlp4me on March 13, 2018, 09:17:30 AM

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I have her. :o)

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: ringwraith10 on March 13, 2018, 09:30:22 AM

This is a pony that I really, really want but she keeps slipping through my fingers. I actually really want all of the ponies in this set. And if I could get their pets, too, I would be in heaven!

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on March 13, 2018, 09:38:42 AM

I want her, but she's expensive on eBay.uk

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 13, 2018, 09:41:18 AM

New to me! I'm amused by her name being less pony-ish and more human-ish.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Taffeta on March 13, 2018, 09:44:06 AM

Yes and yes :D

I had her as a kid, so did my sister, so we had Susie and Sue and a dog each too. The dogs ended up with initials on the feet I think...

In 1997 we found a market stall seller selling MOC best friends babies, MOC family babies and the odd baby ballerina MOC, all on german cards. They were basically £3 each or buy 2 get 1 free. So I also have Susie MOC on German card.

And of course, I have THAT Susie. :) The one in baby blossom's pose. She came off ebay in 1998 or 1999 for $21. Susie in that pose is in the Hasbro catalogue for 1993. It's possible that my Susie is that one, maybe more likely there were originally a handful of them for promotional outings and mine is the only one so far that has come through and survived. Still live in hope that one day Katie will appear :)

So here are my girls :D

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Alt Susie, childhood Susie, Spot and MOC 'Susi'. I just noticed they have three different eye colour shades between them O.o.


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And then childhood Susie and Alt Susie :) hanging out with a fan. :D Bad pun intended :D

It's like having twins :D

The image on the Scrapbook is the one in the gallery so I thought I'd post some different ones for a change :)

I don't have a picture unfortunately of them with my sister's one too :/ she's in storage :(

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Miniature Sheep on March 13, 2018, 10:17:40 AM

She's new to me, I quite like her. Blue and yellow ponies in general appeal to me, it's a very uplifting colour scheme. :)

Quote from: Taffeta on March 13, 2018, 09:44:06 AM

So here are my girls :D

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Alt Susie, childhood Susie, Spot and MOC 'Susi'. I just noticed they have three different eye colour shades between them O.o.

This picture made me do a double take, it looked like there were three ponies on one card at first! :lol: They all look really cute, and those pink clouds on the card are gorgeous!

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Taffeta on March 13, 2018, 10:20:16 AM

Yep >.> Pony cloning >.> Dats what I do >.>

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: LadyMoondancer on March 13, 2018, 10:27:11 AM

Love the "pony with pet pal" concept and her bold colors, but don't like her name.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: northstar3184 on March 13, 2018, 02:23:44 PM

Want her.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: achab1984 on March 13, 2018, 03:48:36 PM

She is very cute but don't want her.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on March 13, 2018, 04:09:13 PM

Want her, what an adorable symbol! I'm sure I'll be saying that with every pony in this theme, haha.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: zombienixon on March 13, 2018, 04:23:48 PM

I find it very odd that she has a normal name, unlike nearly every other pony. It's like they couldn't think up a cutesy name for her, so they just decided to name her after somebody's kid.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: tebrighteyes on March 13, 2018, 06:41:50 PM

She is very cute!  I have her but I still need her pet.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Safflower on March 13, 2018, 07:08:32 PM

Want! She is cute, plus those colors! I don't actually find her name weird.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Goanna on March 13, 2018, 07:46:20 PM

She has a puppy dog for a symbol, so want!  :biggrin:

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Taffeta on March 14, 2018, 03:18:17 AM

Quote from: zombienixon on March 13, 2018, 04:23:48 PM

I find it very odd that she has a normal name, unlike nearly every other pony. It's like they couldn't think up a cutesy name for her, so they just decided to name her after somebody's kid.

It's a gimmick of the set. For some reason, Billie, Susie and Katie seemed appropriate names. It's a bit twitchy for me too, to be honest, but anyway >< Let's not forget that the US uses Princess Tiffany as a name, and while Tiffany does mean white, that's also a human name.

Then again, technically so are Pearl and Ruby, also Amber. And Primrose.

You could split hairs like this for ages I guess. Where does the human end and the pony begin? I guess it's fine.

Better than Tinkatinkatoo anyway ;)

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: SkyCakes on March 16, 2018, 05:28:21 PM

I have her. I dont have her dog but oh well I hear they are hard to find. :/ Her name is strange I always thought that of this set.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: NightGliderSA on March 17, 2018, 01:58:08 AM

I love her colouring and symbol and the fact that she has a pet. Not mad about the name, but as Taffeta said it isn't the worst out there (looking at you Tootie Tails - sorry and all that).

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: LadyMoondancer on March 17, 2018, 03:48:10 AM

To me Susie is worse than Tink-a-Tink-a-Too and Tootie Tails, because those are dumb names but at least they're trying to be something and aren't just names picked from a baby book. 

I think they should have called her Baby Scout.  It still has the alliteration with Spot, and it suggests a baby pony who likes to explore with her puppy pal and doesn't mind getting a little muddy.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Taffeta on March 17, 2018, 04:03:04 AM

Quote from: LadyMoondancer on March 17, 2018, 03:48:10 AM

To me Susie is worse than Tink-a-Tink-a-Too and Tootie Tails, because those are dumb names but at least they're trying to be something and aren't just names picked from a baby book. 

I would love to know what Tinkatinkatoo is trying to be xD. And I don't WANT to really ask what Tootie Tails is, aside from a name from a Fairy Tail O.O.

I think that it's too blurry a line. I don't like the human names but then again, I sort of understand it. These are Best Friends babies, and I wonder whether that's part of the point. A kid in the playground won't have a friend called Tinkatinkatoo (probably, we can only hope!) but I definitely had friends called Katie as a child. Perhaps that's why human names? I don't know.

But I'll say it again - Pearl, Ruby, Tiffany, Primrose are also all human names which you can find in baby books. So is Fifi, though I admit that sounds a lot more like a French cartoon hairdresser. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang uses Truly as a name and I don't think it's an accident that the SS set has Truly AND Scrumptious. In Greece, too, many of the ponies have human names. In Italy, it's also not uncommon. I have a couple of ads which give human names to many of the early ponies. Even back in English, we have Flutter Pony Lily, and several birthflower ponies with human names (Rose, Poppy, etc). Plus in G2 there's Ivy and Crystal, just off the top of my head.

Overall point - the human names are stupid, but it's wrong to single them out as bad given the large number of other potentiall human names that ponyland puts forward.

We also live in a world where a growing number of parents are naming their kids other things, such as names of countries, cities, etc. So what is a human name and what isn't is really a grey area nowadays.

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: LadyMoondancer on March 17, 2018, 06:25:32 AM

Tinkatinkatoo's name is meant to reference her tinkering (according to multiple G3 sources she is the handiman of the G3s, with a workshop where she invents things) and also imitates the sound of a hammer lightly hitting a piece of metal (tink, tink, tink.)   That is what I meant by "they tried."

I don't think anyone is arguing that there weren't some stinkers amidst the other names too.  (Pillow Talk, lol.)  I'm not saying the names should universally be reviled;  merely that I personally find them to be the most jarring and cringey names.  Obviously different people have different tastes, or we wouldn't have ended up with Italian ponies named things like "Ben" and "David."

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Taffeta on March 17, 2018, 10:07:55 AM

Basically, the moral of the story is...MLP often have stupid names :)

I would say Pillow Talk, Pink Dreams and baby Nightcap in the same set is cause for serious concern actually ;) Not to mention Kiss & Tell. I mean what does that tell kids, morally speaking?!

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on March 18, 2018, 01:09:29 PM

I would love to have them and their little pet too.  :lovey:

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: starstrider on March 19, 2018, 08:18:49 AM

Don't have this little cutie yet.  Love her colours and symbol!  Can't wait to add her to my her  :)

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Strawberrysweets on March 19, 2018, 10:54:53 AM

I have her and the dog but no clue where she is when I looked for my G1s last years.
It frustrats me that I somehow placed her in another toybox which is unlike me, just hope is in the attic somewhere. Maybe among my two trash bags filled with plushies.
I always called her the Swedish pony(try and guess)

Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Taffeta on March 19, 2018, 11:08:00 AM

Quote from: Strawberrysweets on March 19, 2018, 10:54:53 AM

I have her and the dog but no clue where she is when I looked for my G1s last years.
It frustrats me that I somehow placed her in another toybox which is unlike me, just hope is in the attic somewhere. Maybe among my two trash bags filled with plushies.
I always called her the Swedish pony(try and guess)

I'm guessing the reason has to do with this...

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Title: Re: POTD 3/13/18 Susie
Post by: Carrehz on March 19, 2018, 04:24:04 PM

Missed the poll but I have her :) I love this set, and their weird (well, weird for ponies!) names :)

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I do have her dog too, just don't seem to have a photo of them together..