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Title: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 07, 2016, 08:53:04 AM
Hi ponies :)

We all love seeing MOC ponies ^.^ there is a lot to learn from the cards as well as them just being pretty to look at ;)

However there is even more we can learn from the backs of the cards, yet they are rarely shown. The cards show who made the ponies and distributed them.

Here are some pictures of the backs of some of my MOC ponies ^.^

German Starshine

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French Starshine on Duel language card

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Greek Starshine

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Not nirvana, but vertical UK carded Starshine :)

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I have some others I must take pictures of ^.^

Do you have pictures of the backs of your backwards you can share?

Love pkw xxx



Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: snyfez on August 07, 2016, 04:44:18 PM
These are what I have on photo bucket.......

Here is a Macau backcard

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Here is the Argie Bride's Box

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Snyfez
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Artemesia's Garden on August 07, 2016, 04:46:51 PM
These are amazing, thank you!
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Honeycomb on August 07, 2016, 09:31:44 PM
They are so beautiful!

Here are mine, from my childhood. Sherbet isn't really a Nirvana, but I bought her in Spain.

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 (http://s1193.photobucket.com/user/VJG27/media/MLP%20G1/spanish_texas_backcard2_zps582e6d3b.jpg.html)

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 (http://s1193.photobucket.com/user/VJG27/media/MLP%20G1/sherbet_backcard2_zpsedeb9d4b.jpg.html)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: daffodil101 on August 07, 2016, 11:33:09 PM
Wow, i LOVE checking out back cards!!  Great thread!
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 08, 2016, 01:16:31 PM
Fabulous!!! Thank you all for sharing :) I've not seen the backs of those cards before.

Honeycomb what are the hoof marks on your Sherbet? There are NC versions of Sundea Best ponies. I notice on the backcard it says "made in Spain" in the bottom corner.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: LadyGuinevere on August 08, 2016, 01:31:14 PM
Love looking at backwards! They can certainly useful when finding information (like confirming their were Danish language card!)

Currently on holiday, but let's see what I have in on pb

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Hmmmm, apparently that's it. Italy Seashell on Danish card and Spain Tootsie.









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And this, but can't tell what it's from on this device!
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Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: BethMcBeth on August 08, 2016, 05:08:21 PM
Oh wow!! So neat!!! Love seeing all these!! :D
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Honeycomb on August 08, 2016, 05:43:26 PM
Fabulous!!! Thank you all for sharing :) I've not seen the backs of those cards before.

Honeycomb what are the hoof marks on your Sherbet? There are NC versions of Sundea Best ponies. I notice on the backcard it says "made in Spain" in the bottom corner.

Love pkw xxx
I know, but she isn't NC or Made in Spain, just plain old HK (or China). I don't have her with me, so I can't check. But definitely not Spanish.
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 09, 2016, 10:05:28 AM
Love those backcards LadyG :heart:

Thank you for replying Honeycomb :bigups: I was curious to know her hoof marks due to the "made in Spain". I know that regular HK/China ponies were sold on foreign language cards. It's confusing it says "made in Spain" when the pony actually wasn't :)

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: LadyGuinevere on August 09, 2016, 01:33:01 PM
Yeah, although cards can help, they can sometimes hinder too! I have a part of Baby Cuddles box from childhood that says 'Baby Cuddles and her buggy Made in Spain' but th  pony is clearly marked Hong Kong and there are no typical Spanish features.
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 09, 2016, 01:45:59 PM
Yeah, although cards can help, they can sometimes hinder too! I have a part of Baby Cuddles box from childhood that says 'Baby Cuddles and her buggy Made in Spain' but th  pony is clearly marked Hong Kong and there are no typical Spanish features.

Yes! The Baby water colour Seaponies say "made in Mexico" on their boxes and yet they are of HK/China origin.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: katrine2309 on August 10, 2016, 12:49:55 PM
Love looking at backwards! They can certainly useful when finding information (like confirming their were Danish language card!)

Currently on holiday, but let's see what I have in on pb

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That is awesome, I have never seen a Danish language card before - I am from Norway, so that is as almost as close to Norwegian you can get on a MLP backcard. Fantastic! Although, a tad bit sad that they didn't translate the story, just wrote something not related to Seashell at all...

Kat
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: LadyGuinevere on August 10, 2016, 02:15:59 PM
Yeah, it's the same story on most (all?) the Danish cards. I'd have o double check Tootsie's card when I get home to be sure. I love different language cards :)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 10, 2016, 02:40:53 PM
Here is part of the backcard of my Italy Seashell :) it's a duel language card.

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Here is the front

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I need to sorted out and upload my other back card pictures to share with you all.

Love pkw xx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Vettefromm on August 12, 2016, 08:15:06 AM
Gorgeous backcards :heart: I have this one from Spain:

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I do suspect it to be a print put on an empty card, but where would the print come from?  :blush:
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 12, 2016, 11:55:28 AM
Love it!

From what I have seen and what I remember some Spanish cards had a back glued on. In some cases it becomes separated and you get a card with out a back.

I'm sure I've seen it with other countries too.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Vettefromm on August 12, 2016, 01:47:13 PM
Thanks for sharing that info, PKW :) It seems very likely!
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: hilamb on August 12, 2016, 10:24:41 PM
ooh I love backcards. The spain one is so pretty. :)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Vettefromm on August 13, 2016, 12:05:09 AM
My favorite part is that Mascarada is pictured in Whizzers pose - I hope to one day own this rare girl :heart:
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on August 18, 2016, 09:00:24 AM
Lots of lovey yet different art there.
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Babydoll on August 18, 2016, 01:11:35 PM
A few of my faves from my collection! :heart:

Brazilian Paradise
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Spanish Baby Bow Tie
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Brazilian Love Melody
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Brazilian Baby Lofty
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Babydoll~
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 18, 2016, 03:15:53 PM
I've never seen those Brazil backcards before! It's interesting to see the sets they were split into!

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: LadyGuinevere on August 19, 2016, 12:37:48 PM
Loving those Brazil backcards! And the fact that the pegasi are all above the rainbow

If I get a chance this weekend, I'll try and find some more of mine, I'm sure I do have them somewhere
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Priggipopoula on August 22, 2016, 01:51:19 PM
Anypony have mexican backcards? :blush: I only seen the Principe Ruby card and the Lily Ledy Salón de belleza
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 22, 2016, 02:11:12 PM
Anypony have mexican backcards? :blush: I only seen the Principe Ruby card and the Lily Ledy Salón de belleza

:) there are the standard release Seaponies on Mexican cards in the nirvana gallery

 http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=431215

Here is Mexican Baby Cotton Candy's backcard ^.^

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=462167

I recall seeing a MIB Mexican Bowtie a long time ago, I only saw the front not the back.

I too would love to see more Mexican cards :)

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Priggipopoula on August 23, 2016, 01:55:16 PM
Anypony have mexican backcards? :blush: I only seen the Principe Ruby card and the Lily Ledy Salón de belleza

:) there are the standard release Seaponies on Mexican cards in the nirvana gallery

 http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=431215

Here is Mexican Baby Cotton Candy's backcard ^.^

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=462167

I recall seeing a MIB Mexican Bowtie a long time ago, I only saw the front not the back.

I too would love to see more Mexican cards :)

Love pkw xxx

Thank you so much!!!
It is very curious that the baby pony's box has the hasbro's logo and the baby sea pony's box the Auriken's logo.
I have a photograph of the Apple Delight Family (auriken box) and a black and white photo of Swirly Whirly!
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 23, 2016, 03:01:44 PM
You are right!! I had never noticed that before, very well spotted!

The Apple Delight family will have been HK/China, but Mexican boxed. We do know some ponies were imported and packed in Mexican packing, the baby Seaponies are an example of this :)

I'd love to see Swirly Whirly on her card :heart:

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Einhornbaby on August 25, 2016, 04:32:59 AM
Oh awesome cards everybody !!
I could share an italian ponys card with german writing, but the same card has already been posted with spanish writing I think. So not too special :P
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 25, 2016, 04:50:17 AM
Oh awesome cards everybody !!
I could share an italian ponys card with german writing, but the same card has already been posted with spanish writing I think. So not too special :P

Please share them :) there may be other difference ^.^

I found a thread with pictures Mexican Newborn Twins MIB :bigups:

http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,341985.15.html

Love pkw xxx

Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 26, 2016, 10:35:44 AM
I finally sorted out pictures of my Starshine backcards!

Italy Starshine and double language card
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Horizontal HK Starshine
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Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Priggipopoula on August 26, 2016, 01:59:08 PM
Oh awesome cards everybody !!
I could share an italian ponys card with german writing, but the same card has already been posted with spanish writing I think. So not too special :P

Please share them :) there may be other difference ^.^

I found a thread with pictures Mexican Newborn Twins MIB :bigups:

http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,341985.15.html

Love pkw xxx

Oh my!!! they look so cute!!!!
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 26, 2016, 03:10:57 PM
I knew you'd like them :D

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on December 29, 2016, 05:44:52 PM
I;m sorry if digging this thread up again was a bad thing to do, but I've recently come across some weird card features relating to the 2nd set of Rainbows.

I have a Spanish Pinwheel which has the same kind of card as the Italian set that includes Parasol with year 3 hair...

And someone sent me some images of a very similar card but with one major difference - Flutterbye is on one and Starflower on the other.

http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/1985_rainbowponies.htm

I have front pictures of these here, I can't really post the back pictures without permission of the owner of these ponies (Flutterbye and the other Pinwheel) but the back of my Pinwheel's card looks like this:

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My Parasol (Italy) card matches. I've seen this card in Spanish and in German, although the stream on the front of the German card is not the same as the stream on the Spanish one.

The second type of card is almost the same as this, mostly same ponies in same positions, but there isn't a stream on the front of the image (see page link) and the back has Moonstone instead of Starflower and Flutterbye instead of Parasol (but in the same walking pose, with wings). I've seen this card in English and in French.

I'd be curious to know if anyone knows anything about these, ESPECIALLY the release of the Flutterbye card in English.

Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on December 30, 2016, 12:38:58 PM
I don't mind you digging up this thread :)

I think I might be able to help. It would seem there are indeed two backcards for the Spanish rainbows :) this is because the ponies were released in two sets. One with Moonstone instead of Starflower and the second set with Parasol instead of Flutterbye.

Set 1. Tickle, Flutterbye, Moonstone, Confetti, Pinwheel and Trickles

Set 2. Tickle, Parasol, Starflower, Confetti, Pinwheel and Trickles

You can see pictures of both back cards in the nirvana gallery:

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=228069

I *think* the Italy made ponies sold on German cards has a similar release pattern from looking at their cards (the front at least). I have yet to see the back of one of these cards to confirm my theory.

Italy Parasol on German language card:

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=397098

It matches the art work on the Spanish card:

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=472666

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on December 30, 2016, 12:47:47 PM
That makes some sense, this is the same card back as the Flutterbye-version card in French and in English that I was sent images of:

http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=472406

That's obviously Spanish and not the same as my Pinwheel's card. And there are 2 versions of a lot of these ponies too, I know, with the glitter/non-glitter symbols.

My German parasol's card has Starflower and Parasol (obviously) on the back, no Flutterbye. Art is more or less same as the Spanish except when I compare the front the stream is slightly different.

I am most curious about the English language one since we didn't get Flutterbye or this set. The owner said she got it from Australia, so maybe from there...?
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 07, 2017, 02:37:49 PM
There is also Spain stamped vs. NC stamped, along side the glitter vs. metallic symbols. I vaguely remember trying to find a pattern between those things and failing.

What is the information on the back of the card? I know at least some of my back cards say "made in XXXX for sale in XXXX". I am thinking if you had that information you wouldn't be asking :P

I've been thinking about Flutterbye too and the conclusion I keep ending up with is that she was destined for sale in Scandinavia, South Africa or Australia. This is already mentioned on your website.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 07, 2017, 03:09:49 PM
Well, I am mostly working from photos. Even with my own ponies as they are away in the cupboard and not immediately accessible. I admit I haven't looked, although I think it does say Hecho en Espana on the back of my Pinwheel card. I will look at that when I have a chance since backcards always make me interested :) Especially the gazillion European variations of them in 1985-7.

Thanks for your help, as ever :)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 07, 2017, 03:23:07 PM
:hug: I do try and help, even if it's a tiny thing.

I have done some reading tonight and all Spain and NC ponies were made in Valencia, Spain. I think it would still be worth checking them just in case though :)

In the mean time here is the back of Peru Starshines card ^.^

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Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 07, 2017, 03:31:56 PM
My Spanish is so horrible so someone correct me, but the Peruvian card seems quite generic? Are all Peruvian cards with the same paragraph?

Spoiler
My Little Pony

In a pretty land, on the other side of the Rainbow, there can be found a place full of fantastical, lively and happy characters. You have encountered the world of My Little Pony, where life is full of light and bright colours, represented by a wide family of little ponies; each of which are decorated with a symbol that corresponds to their name. They are sold separately, collect them all.

(If I'm wrong do correct me >.>)

I ask because one thing I do remember is that my Spanish Pinwheel has a proper story that's her own and so clearly stories didn't travel, even when card art did..?
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 07, 2017, 03:56:53 PM
Peru Parasol has the exactly the same story on her back card, so it is generic.

You Spanish is much better than mine!

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Ponyland on January 07, 2017, 03:58:40 PM
I have a Flutterby moc originated from Sweden (I'm the third owner since she was purchased here in the toy store). We got both the American second release rainbows with the reissue of 4 the first characters + the standing card with the second release rainbows (with a little time span in between).

I haven't concluded if we ever had skydancer and sunlight here in Sweden, but otherwise it looks like we had the full cake. :)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 07, 2017, 04:08:38 PM
I have a Flutterby moc originated from Sweden (I'm the third owner since she was purchased here in the toy store). We got both the American second release rainbows with the reissue of 4 the first characters + the standing card with the second release rainbows (with a little time span in between).

I haven't concluded if we ever had skydancer and sunlight here in Sweden, but otherwise it looks like we had the full cake. :)

So wait a minute. You got the US release and the card with the UK artwork, while the UK got nothing? Hasbro genuinely hated us here, didn't they? ;)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Ponyland on January 07, 2017, 04:15:08 PM
I have a Flutterby moc originated from Sweden (I'm the third owner since she was purchased here in the toy store). We got both the American second release rainbows with the reissue of 4 the first characters + the standing card with the second release rainbows (with a little time span in between).

I haven't concluded if we ever had skydancer and sunlight here in Sweden, but otherwise it looks like we had the full cake. :)

So wait a minute. You got the US release and the card with the UK artwork, while the UK got nothing? Hasbro genuinely hated us here, didn't they? ;)

But we missed out on the  TE ponies, we just got loads of rainbows as a compensation, and Fizzy was my all time favorite growing up while watching The Movie over and over.. I had a hard and unjust childhood too!! ;)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 07, 2017, 04:17:32 PM
I have a Flutterby moc originated from Sweden (I'm the third owner since she was purchased here in the toy store). We got both the American second release rainbows with the reissue of 4 the first characters + the standing card with the second release rainbows (with a little time span in between).

I haven't concluded if we ever had skydancer and sunlight here in Sweden, but otherwise it looks like we had the full cake. :)

So wait a minute. You got the US release and the card with the UK artwork, while the UK got nothing? Hasbro genuinely hated us here, didn't they? ;)

But we missed out on the  TE ponies, we just got loads of rainbows as a compensation, and Fizzy was my all time favorite growing up while watching The Movie over and over.. I had a hard and unjust childhood too!! ;)

They just hated Europe in general, but I still feel you got the better deal ;) We only had 2/3 of the TE ponies, and none of the pretty 2nd year Rainbows, Pegasi and Unicorns that were all over our comics...
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Ponyland on January 07, 2017, 04:34:53 PM
I have a Flutterby moc originated from Sweden (I'm the third owner since she was purchased here in the toy store). We got both the American second release rainbows with the reissue of 4 the first characters + the standing card with the second release rainbows (with a little time span in between).

I haven't concluded if we ever had skydancer and sunlight here in Sweden, but otherwise it looks like we had the full cake. :)

So wait a minute. You got the US release and the card with the UK artwork, while the UK got nothing? Hasbro genuinely hated us here, didn't they? ;)

But we missed out on the  TE ponies, we just got loads of rainbows as a compensation, and Fizzy was my all time favorite growing up while watching The Movie over and over.. I had a hard and unjust childhood too!! ;)

They just hated Europe in general, but I still feel you got the better deal ;) We only had 2/3 of the TE ponies, and none of the pretty 2nd year Rainbows, Pegasi and Unicorns that were all over our comics...

I'm very happy that we got the fable ponies here, since I have had Firefly with me my whole childhood to comfort me from my lack of a Fizzy. ;)
I'm truly sorry you never had the unis and pegs, I'm working trough some heavy cataloging of the whole US/european range of ponies (including nirvanas) with the proper release year for each country...  And I'm just about to puzzle together 1986... (It will be heavy). It occured to me how much you was left out of in the first years compared to the US release (but hey, we didn't get ponies at all untill 1986 over here in Sweden!) ;)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 07, 2017, 04:48:04 PM
It would've been fine if they hadn't been in our stories. I don't mind at all that we didn't get So Softs or some of the other US ponies, but I mind that they took so much time to advertise these characters. They made us love them, packaged them and then...sent them to you guys to sell there instead. Bitter? Why yes, yes I am.

But it's nice to know that Flutterbye was sold over there. At least it ticks an information box in my brain about releases (and continues to add to demolishing the myth that "Europe" is a block entity where MLP is concerned.) People have sort of bypassed those questions in recent years with all the different Nirvanas, but they're still there and interesting to me...
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Ponyland on January 07, 2017, 05:00:37 PM
It would've been fine if they hadn't been in our stories. I don't mind at all that we didn't get So Softs or some of the other US ponies, but I mind that they took so much time to advertise these characters. They made us love them, packaged them and then...sent them to you guys to sell there instead. Bitter? Why yes, yes I am.

But it's nice to know that Flutterbye was sold over there. At least it ticks an information box in my brain about releases (and continues to add to demolishing the myth that "Europe" is a block entity where MLP is concerned.) People have sort of bypassed those questions in recent years with all the different Nirvanas, but they're still there and interesting to me...

Yes I can't understand why they didn't just release them in UK too, everything was prepared for it. It looks like they really had something agains the magical breeds. Like some old man sitting at Hasbro UK sales deparment proclaming that "ponies should just be ponies here, we can't twist little childrens minds with magical fantasy creatures (-to bad we just ordered all those comics)". ;P

Edit:
At least you finally got the first set of rainbow haired mixed breeds, and majesty in 1985. I think that maybe they were delayed a year just because they were unis and pegs..
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 07, 2017, 05:09:04 PM
We had the Rainbow Ponies in 1984 :) I had Windy for Christmas, 1984, and you can tell by the style of their card that they are more like the cards for Bubbles's set in art and layout than the year 3 earth pony set.  And there is nothing cultural in the UK to prevent unicorns or pegasus ponies. If that was a concern, they wouldn't have been in the comic. I don't know what did happen, but it seems to me like a massive cut back on the intended line and the resultant ponies got shipped off to other places, maybe due to cost. Hasbro UK was still in its early stages, maybe they didn't want to push too much too soon. But they didn't need to put them in the comics if that was the case...

But this is off topic, so back to Nirvana backcards ;)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: wizzer218 on January 07, 2017, 06:51:52 PM
fun I have some as well just gotta take pics
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 08, 2017, 05:56:45 AM
My Spanish is so horrible so someone correct me, but the Peruvian card seems quite generic? Are all Peruvian cards with the same paragraph?

Spoiler
My Little Pony

In a pretty land, on the other side of the Rainbow, there can be found a place full of fantastical, lively and happy characters. You have encountered the world of My Little Pony, where life is full of light and bright colours, represented by a wide family of little ponies; each of which are decorated with a symbol that corresponds to their name. They are sold separately, collect them all.

(If I'm wrong do correct me >.>)

I ask because one thing I do remember is that my Spanish Pinwheel has a proper story that's her own and so clearly stories didn't travel, even when card art did..?

I need to share the Rainbow ponies stories from the leaflet that was in with Starshine (customs pulled her off the card......)

Some of the other stories can be read here

http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,383470.0.html

It's a mix of stories that the Peru factory created and regular US stories.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Pierlala on January 17, 2017, 10:32:51 AM
I wish cards like this were still common use on nowdays toys. The water paint is so nostalgic and just pure art compared to nowdays computer made designs and copy/paste type of packaging design.

It was simple and classy. Not nowdays where the packaging itself looks like an actual toy and milions of colours used and flashy-ness. Back then you bought a toy and expected to get what you saw inside. Nowdays the packaging of toys is designed as if they are a part of the toy. Sometimes fooling you because the package looks so fancy and has a background so rich that once you open it you acvtually find out it wasn't that special of a toy.
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 17, 2017, 11:03:38 AM
Sorry for the late reply, PKW - thanks for that. I am in danger of adding nirvana cards to my backcard habit. I am going to blame you for that, and will be sending you the resultant bill ;)

@Pierlala - I agree 100%. The old cards are amazing. Sometimes, I admit, I think some of them are more special to me than the ponies they came with, because they're a rare little piece of the toy's history and so often do not survive in the same numbers as the ponies themselves.

Not that I don't love the ponies, but the cards are special.
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 19, 2017, 02:45:20 PM
Taffeta it is another rabbit hole  :P

Perilala the art work is just beautiful isn't it?  ^.^

German Starshines backcard

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I guess you may have noticed a theme ;)

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Taffeta on January 19, 2017, 02:48:35 PM
Taffeta it is another rabbit hole  :P

Perilala the art work is just beautiful isn't it?  ^.^

German Starshines backcard

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I guess you may have noticed a theme ;)

Love pkw xxx

You like Rainbow Ponies!

I have that card. It's a really beautiful one. 1987 produced some lovely card art. Although mine is Hummelchen, so different story. She is still on it.

I sort of feel that I should be comparing these stories in more detail but that involves a lot more brain work than I am currently capable of.
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: daffodil101 on January 20, 2017, 03:47:36 AM

I need to share the Rainbow ponies stories from the leaflet that was in with Starshine (customs pulled her off the card......)


THEY DIDN'T  :ack:   :dumbpc:   :dropjaw:
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 20, 2017, 04:42:34 AM

I need to share the Rainbow ponies stories from the leaflet that was in with Starshine (customs pulled her off the card......)


THEY DIDN'T  :ack:   :dumbpc:   :dropjaw:

They did -_- thankfully the pony wasn't damaged, she just had black hand prints all over her and since the card was old the bubble just came away, so the card wasn't too damaged.

I still don't know how she managed to arrive safely without loosing her accessories since the packaged her back up poorly.

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Priggipopoula on January 29, 2017, 10:45:53 AM
Quote from: pinkkittywinks
I'd love to see Swirly Whirly on her card :heart:

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Maybe isn't the backcard but I think this is still interesting! I found this old advertisement in the Newspaper library of my University

The Sundae Best Ponies was called "Dulce Helado" (Sweet Ice Cream) and Swirly Whirly's name was "Durazno" (Peach)

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Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: Carrehz on January 29, 2017, 01:23:49 PM
German Starshines backcard

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*drool* Such beautiful art.. especially Nachtlicht and Regentropfen :heart::heart::heart:
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: daffodil101 on January 31, 2017, 05:25:14 AM
Quote from: pinkkittywinks
I'd love to see Swirly Whirly on her card :heart:

Love pkw xxx

Maybe isn't the backcard but I think this is still interesting! I found this old advertisement in the Newspaper library of my University

The Sundae Best Ponies was called "Dulce Helado" (Sweet Ice Cream) and Swirly Whirly's name was "Durazno" (Peach)

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Hey that's really cool!  Thanks for sharing! :)
Title: Re: The back of backcards
Post by: pinkkittywinks on January 31, 2017, 12:01:09 PM
Taffeta alllll the rainbow ponies (especially Starshine and Moonstone)

Quote from: pinkkittywinks
I'd love to see Swirly Whirly on her card :heart:

Love pkw xxx

Maybe isn't the backcard but I think this is still interesting! I found this old advertisement in the Newspaper library of my University

The Sundae Best Ponies was called "Dulce Helado" (Sweet Ice Cream) and Swirly Whirly's name was "Durazno" (Peach)

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That is amazing :wow: thank you so much for sharing :heart:

Love pkw xxx
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