They kind of stopped doing it for later years. For example, Boisenberry Pie. Later years had mostly theme and gimmick sets rather than just unicorn, pegasi, and earth sets too.It's interesting to see how they line changes as the years go on! I suppose from a business standpoint you have to keep the kids with pounds of ponies interested with new gimmicks and not just new characters.
Maybe they grow it during puberty, or once they really get a grip on their magic powers, or simply when their magic abilities mature to their full (adult) power.I'd like to think of it as the latter two, sort of like G4's idea of cutie marks. Imagine if Rattles and Tattles got their stripes at different times! That'd be interesting for a story.
I love the magic hair stripe. When I draw the later years unicorns, I sometimes add the stripe Hasbro denied them in real life.She looks really cute with the yellow! Maybe that's why her design feels a bit plain to me otherwise. I mean, she does come with the yellow hair pick, but that's an accessory, not a feature.
Here I gave Tabby a yellow stripe:
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I have Rattles, and love the idea of him and Tattles having different hair stripes so that they're not entirely identical. Like, if Rattles got blue and Tattles got red.
On the stripe note, the Mountain Boys and Big Brothers also have this stripe feature. :) I don't know if we should consider that as them all being descended from unicorn blood or not though?
They can always dye their hair.I have Rattles, and love the idea of him and Tattles having different hair stripes so that they're not entirely identical. Like, if Rattles got blue and Tattles got red.
Now that's not much fun for mischievous twin babies if they can be easily recognised apart :) :) :)
I love the stripe.
This is one of the reasons I love Gypsy. She's a complete social renegade :) Aside those with rainbow hair (TE and Rainbow Ponies), the stripe in the unicorn hair happens all the way to 1987 (So Softs - Bangles, TAF Milky Way, and here, Buttons and Gusty from the movie line). All except Gypsy, who came out in 1986 but apparently stuck two hooves up at the idea of convention and didn't bother to have a streak. She had freckles instead ;)
On the stripe note, the Mountain Boys and Big Brothers also have this stripe feature. :) I don't know if we should consider that as them all being descended from unicorn blood or not though?
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Gypsy: Fashion Rebel :)
If you want to play genetics with the newborns, maybe stripes are recessive genes or maybe they grow into them as they get older...
I like the unicorn stripe! I guess the reason they got it originally was because in the first set every unicorn had either white hair or a white body. So the streak was added to have some more color variety. Later we got unicorns that didn't have white anywhere, but they still kept using the streak for a while. But white was still used for unicorns a lot, for the first few years with the exception of Minty they were the only ponies with (intentionally) white hair.You forgot Snowflake. Though she's another fashion rebel, as she breaks the glittery symbol rule.
You forgot Snowflake. Though she's another fashion rebel, as she breaks the glittery symbol rule.
You forgot Snowflake. Though she's another fashion rebel, as she breaks the glittery symbol rule.
Yeah, her white hair is kind of another unicorn trait she appropriated, along with her glittery symbol. :biggrin: But all the ponies in that set break away from the patterns US ponies were following at the time. With the exception of Honeycomb. I don't think there's anything that sets her apart from other pegasi at the time.
As PKW would say, It's 1986! A lot of weird happened then. You're right. Hopscotch and Honeycomb are pretty regular to their breeds and Cherries Jubilee and Posey change symbol (CJ hair as well to straight) but are basically themselves with no additions. It's Gypsy and Snowflake who are the troublemakers.It's a subtle detail, but I believe Hopscotch is the first regular adult earth pony whose symbol is a single image, and not a small collection of the same object.
As PKW would say, It's 1986! A lot of weird happened then. You're right. Hopscotch and Honeycomb are pretty regular to their breeds and Cherries Jubilee and Posey change symbol (CJ hair as well to straight) but are basically themselves with no additions. It's Gypsy and Snowflake who are the troublemakers.It's a subtle detail, but I believe Hopscotch is the first regular adult earth pony whose symbol is a single image, and not a small collection of the same object.
On the topic of streaks, what do we think of the fact that Magic Star and Truly both had a streak in their manes in their prototypes? Could they have been intended as unicorns at some point? Truly had a prototype baby that was a unicorn, and these ponies' symbols also seem to go along better with the themes unicorns/pegasi usually followed.
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What's so strange about Snowflake? Is it that her symbol only has one color?I think it's that she's a pony but still has a glittery symbol, as glittery symbols were kept for pegasi or unicorns at first.
Huh. Sunlight was also an early Earth pony with a glittery symbol.
On the topic of streaks, what do we think of the fact that Magic Star and Truly both had a streak in their manes in their prototypes? Could they have been intended as unicorns at some point? Truly had a prototype baby that was a unicorn, and these ponies' symbols also seem to go along better with the themes unicorns/pegasi usually followed.
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Huh. Sunlight was also an early Earth pony with a glittery symbol.
I'm the opposite. I think it's too many bright colors on Magic Star, but I like Truly's stripe. Probably because I just love pink and blue together in general.As PKW would say, It's 1986! A lot of weird happened then. You're right. Hopscotch and Honeycomb are pretty regular to their breeds and Cherries Jubilee and Posey change symbol (CJ hair as well to straight) but are basically themselves with no additions. It's Gypsy and Snowflake who are the troublemakers.It's a subtle detail, but I believe Hopscotch is the first regular adult earth pony whose symbol is a single image, and not a small collection of the same object.
On the topic of streaks, what do we think of the fact that Magic Star and Truly both had a streak in their manes in their prototypes? Could they have been intended as unicorns at some point? Truly had a prototype baby that was a unicorn, and these ponies' symbols also seem to go along better with the themes unicorns/pegasi usually followed.
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Hmm. I like it on Magic Star. She looks really bold like that. I don't like it on Truly.
I think it may be true that Hopscotch has the first one object symbol for an earth pony...at least, she doesn't, but she does if you are talking about ponies without fur.
What's weird is that Brazil Truly kept her blue streak even though she's a pegasus! Though there are no unicorns in the Brazil line, all the unicorns that changed species still have the stripe - Ribbon, Gusty & baby, Milky Way, Twist. Magic Star appears unchanged (aside from hair color variation of course), so it looks like Estrella got confusing info about what Truly looked like, or that maybe Hasbro didn't approve her final design until the last minute (maybe when they dropped the baby?).