Favorite Non-US G1 Pony?

[Mrs. Prospector]

Who's your favorite G1 pony not sold in the US?

Mine is probably Daffodil/Narzisslein. Daffodils are some of my favorite flowers, and her color scheme is simple, but very lovely and gentle. Her pose and symbol really suit it.

I also love Ice Crystal, but he's certainly not as overlooked!

[Leave a Whisper]

My favorites
Ice Crystal
Hopscotch/Baby Hopscotch
Thunder cloud
Sunburst
Mommy Sunbright/Baby Sunbright
Daddy Berrytown/Mommy Berrytown
Jazzy
Hip Hop
Baby Splash
Baby Splish
Gypsy
Clover
Bon Bon
Cascade
Rollerskate Melody
Baby Lemon Drop
Baby Ribbon
Baby Buttons
Bluebelle
Sweet Delight
Nice n Spicy
Love in a Mist
Music Time
Snowdrop
Nactlight
Regentropfen
Surprise posed Starshine
Patch
Tornado

[TheBeatlesPkmnFan42]

Probably Hopscotch and her baby! I love their color scheme so much! Hopefully I can add them both to my collection someday!

[Shaz]

Most of my favourites are ponies not sold in the US, perhaps because I'm not in the US 
Bright Eyes (Tales)
Gypsy
Baby Ribbon (Play n Care)
Tornado (and Mountain Boys in general!)
Wind Whistler (Movie Star version)
And of course my favourite Nirvana ponies, Argentinian Bride pony (Novia) and Greek Baby Bluebelle (who actually comes without a name, so I called her Yakinthi, Greek for hyacinth, because English bluebells are a type of hyacinth. Yes, I put too much thought into my pony naming ).

The US has Ribbon, though. Hasbro was very mean not letting us have her too!

[ridi]

I am very attached to the ones from my childhood, in particular Baby Candy and Baby Ruby  My only regret is that I never bought any of the rare pose baby ponies when I had the chance!

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[Artemesia's Garden]

I guess it's between Gypsy, Hopscotch and Ice Crystal for me. I have no idea how you choose.... Nope, it's too hard!

Post Merge: June 08, 2021, 03:50:51 AM

My favorites
Ice Crystal
Hopscotch/Baby Hopscotch
Thunder cloud
Sunburst
Mommy Sunbright/Baby Sunbright
Daddy Berrytown/Mommy Berrytown
Jazzy
Hip Hop
Baby Splash
Baby Splish
Gypsy
Clover
Bon Bon
Cascade
Rollerskate Melody
Baby Lemon Drop
Baby Ribbon
Baby Buttons
Bluebelle
Sweet Delight
Nice n Spicy
Love in a Mist
Music Time
Snowdon
Nactlight
Regentropfen
Surprise posed Starshine
Sweetheart
Patch

 

[Ponybookworm]

Faves of mine not yet mentioned: the final three Loving Family Ponies (two Baby Boys & Baby Sister Sweet Celebrations)
The mother & baby Family Friends
The Neste Babies
The Dutch lot
Lambaditsa & Ladybird (don't have Ladybird but I love Easter for reasons)

Faves of mine I used to have:
Hopscotch & Honeycomb
Baby Lemon Drop & Baby Applejack
Billie & Susie
Rollerskating Melody
Music Time
Stargaze & Sunset
Splish & Splosh
Tornado & Lightning

Faves I think everybody loves:
ALL the Mountain Boys
ALL the Jewellery Babies
The German Babies (Baby Hopscotch, Baby Honeycomb, Baby Buttons, Baby Cherries Jubilee)
Nachtlicht & Regentropfen
The Tales Characters
Snowflake & Gypsy

...You know, sod it, I love so many of the non-US Ponies I could be here all day!!!

[ponyprincess2021]

I’m not going to write down every pony because there’s so many ponies that weren’t released in the us. But here’s some of my favorites.
Nightlight
Raindrop
Honeycomb
Tornado
Sunburst
Daffodil
Sweet clover
Painting time
Vanilla treat
Hair-do starlight
Baby ruby
Baby sapphire
Baby licorice
Baby lolipop

[Tropical_Sunset]

There's so many wonderful ponies to choose from but I'm going to go with Dutch Diary pony. She's incredible.

[SpacePinto]

I don't really care much about non-american ponies, but I'd say it's Gypsy, I like her colors, her toy is cute (like all Gusty pose toys), and I really loved her in the UK comic series.

[tailrustedtealeaf]

Either Good Weather or Rosette. I love sunny ponies and Good Weather's coloration reminds me of the beach, but Rosette is SO darling with curls and has an unusual hair color that stands out.

[kingluke]

I like the bakery ponies, the 7 tales ponies, the flower set and hopscotch.

[PrincessKittyDragon]

I really love all the UK Pony Tales ponies    I really like the show and I'd love to have all of them one day!
Currently I only have Bright Eyes but I feel very lucky to have her

[Taffeta]

TBH I don't like this question.

 As someone growing up in the UK, I had a lot of ponies as a kid that also coincidentally happened to be sold in the US. I don't see them as US ponies, because I've never been there and nor have they. While I know what ponies were sold in which places, I don't like having to divide the ponies I consider childhood ponies based on their release on the other side of the world.

It needs to be remembered that there are no US ponies. Every pony sold in the US was sold somewhere else; to the children of that country that pony is theirs and not from outside.

[IceCrystal02]

I agree with Taffeta, I don't like the US / non-US focus either. Some of my childhood ponies were also sold in the US, while others were only sold in Europe or even just in specific countries. To me those latter ponies aren't "non-US" ponies or even nirvanas. They were sold here so to me they are regular releases. We mainly got Italy ponies in the first few years, so from my point of view, these ponies are the "normal version", while the HK/China versions with glittery symbols are a foreign variant. So it's very subjective and shouldn't be looked at from a purely US perspective by an international community.

On an international forum like the Arena it would be more neutral to ask "which is your favourite pony that was never released in the area where you grew up", but as it's been such a long time since the last G1s were available in shops and it's getting harder to find them second hand locally, I think this question loses relevance anyway. What's more, younger collectors didn't grow up with G1s so where they were sold initially doesn't hold as much relevance for them as it does for those of us who remember seeing them in our local toy shops and still have our childhood collection along with ponies bought as adults, somewhere on an international platform like ebay or here on the Arena.

What I'm trying to say is that to me the question is only relevant, in terms of "I would have certainly bought that pony during my childhood if it had been available in my area, but it wasn't so I now enjoy it as an adult, having bought it second hand or still looking for it because I like it".

The ponies I bought as an adult (even the ones that were sold over here but never joined my childhood collection) were all obtained on eBay or on MLP forums, so their initial distribution only came into play in terms of the price the seller settled on.