Year 2 Hasbro catalog scans

[LadyMoondancer]

I don't own this catalog, but I have some scans of it from an eBay auction a long time ago.    Such pretty ponies!

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Windy and Moonstone are prototypes in Moondancer's pose!  But there's another Rainbow pony who's different from her store release.  Can you spot her?

Hint #1:

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Look at their symbols.

Hint #2:

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Doesn't it seem like someone has a different colored symbol than usual?

Hint #3:

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Sunlight has a silver cloud and gold sun instead of a gold cloud and silver sun!
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ALSO look at the distribution amounts of the Earth ponies!

6 Cotton Candies
5 Applejacks
5 Bow-Ties
4 Blossoms
2 Bubbles
2 Seashells

No wonder Cotton Candy turns up so much, she is literally the most common pony in that set.  Plus she was also released as a concave pony the year before, AND as a mail order.

[Lucky_Ladybug]

Old ads are so neat! These pictures are lovely and the blurbs are fun to read. Such nostalgia!

[Bibinettepony]

  so cute!!!! and also so interesting!! thanks for sharing such pics!! 

[Baby Sugarberry]

The uneven packing numbers on the earth ponies is really interesting.  We've always sort of suspected that Bubbles and Seashell were underrepresented but that's pretty conclusive; they were short-packed as well as being in only one set.

[Rainbow Revolver]

These were really cute to look at and read, thank you for sharing!!

[Juliepants]

These are excellent! It's also funny how they just show them with any old puffy sticker, doesn't matter who it belongs to

Jules x

[pinkkittywinks]

Does anyone else think Blossom puffy sticker looks funny?

Love pkw xxx

[Taffeta]

I guessed which one it was before I looked at your hints (is proud). Am also amused by the mismatching stickers, though. Starshine has Firefly and Windy has Moondancer and there are a few Bubbles stickers floating around there too. Guess Hasbro hadn't finished making Rainbow ones at that point...

I also wonder whether that prototype image was somehow inspiration for the Italian production when they were looking at what they were making....

I love catalogue scans Thanks for sharing I agree that the capacity thing is interesting too.

(And I'm pretty sure Cotton Candy has Blossom's sticker? Not content with just eating her flowers...)

[Ponyfan]

I love looking at stuff like this.

[pinkkittywinks]

Taffeta yes Cotton Cany has Blossom's sticker.

I honestly hadn't spotted the Rainbows all have the wrong stickers, I was too busy looking at Windy's symbol

Love pkw xxx

[Taffeta]

Taffeta yes Cotton Cany has Blossom's sticker.

I honestly hadn't spotted the Rainbows all have the wrong stickers, I was too busy looking at Windy's symbol

Love pkw xxx

With my deep love for Windy as my first pony, I really would have loved her to have had a symbol that swirly...

[pinkkittywinks]

You'll like Greek Windy then as the symbols are almost identical

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=384353

I do wonder if the Italy factory got this image as Windy and Moonstone are in the walking pose

Love pkw xxx

[Taffeta]

You'll like Greek Windy then as the symbols are almost identical

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=384353

I do wonder if the Italy factory got this image as Windy and Moonstone are in the walking pose

Love pkw xxx

*cries* I know,a nd I am trying to pretend she doesn't exist, because Greek ponies are too expensive!! (But she is absolutely stunning as a pony >< I often drool at pictures of her and of French Windy both. Thank goodness for photos and collectors who post them online!)

And it would make sense with the walking poses, definitely. And then they had other pics of them in the other pose and thought, what the heck, let's make them too Rainbow army

[NigheanRuadh]

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All the Rainbow Ponies are missing their forelocks/bangs. 

[Taffeta]

If you think about it, maybe the Italian brushes not having stickers is also to do with this...since there are star brushes but no stickers here.