Their physical shape would resemble real ponies or horses, but with longer hair, because BRUSHABLE, & their colours would be rainbow colours, mixed with white. Not TOO much pink, there'd be males with slight but noticeable differences from the females (we could even have beards on adult males). And since we're in this day & age, some Ponies who are neither male nor female, again with a slight difference.
There would be younger Ponies of several age groups, including babies, toddlers, tweens, & teens. There would be Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasi, Sea Ponies, & some kind of fairy Pony (I love the Breezies & the butterfly wings on the Wingers). There would be pets, playsets, friends of other kinds of animal, & some kind of gnomes or elves & fairies who could all interact with the Ponies.
Variety & collectability would be the focus, & any QR codes would be linked to videos or downloadable images, artworks, colouring pages, & background scenes. 3D printing options would be included for accessories, with the Pony website giving options to "print for you" for a small materials & postage fee, plus enough to pay the supervising workers. I totally agree with clothing patterns being made available too.
Their world would be magical, & feature adventures & challenges as the Ponies explore the world. No silly "tea parties all the time". Each Pony would have their own character, magic, & colour scheme. The symbol would be there, but not in the "Friendship Is Magic" way of restricting a Pony's career choice. There would be groups of Ponies with particular themes & gimmicks, but not outright gimmick for gimmick's sake (yep glow in the dark, nope pocket on one hip). Articulation maybe, but not at the expense of looking pleasant or feeling uncomfortable in the hand.
Minis, yep, with their own mini playsets, but not at the expense of the normal-sized Ponies (3 inches is too small, so I'd go for at least 4). Plushies, yep, some.
Bring it back to building the world for your Ponies to live in. That's one of my fave parts of collecting

That's amazing!

I normally do dunk my ponies and let them dry upside down standing on their tail hole for 3 days or so. Normally that works getting all the water out again
But with the talking mechanism I am really afraid to destroy it because it still works well after so many years!
Thank you for your advice

Hello everyone.

So I don't have a single MOC image of a Magic Message pony from the UK. I also have no translated cards for this set - so none in German, or in French, or any other language.


So what I want to know is


Whether cards exist for this set in German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian.

Whether anyone has a UK carded Mint on Card Magic Message Pony (it will have an orange border and the names MAGICAL BREEZE and TEDDI on the back instead of WINDY and CUDDLES). (Any pony is fine, I want to corroborate accessories.)

Whether anyone has a UK backcard (as above) with the name MAGICAL BREEZE on the front.

Whether any UK or European collectors had any of the Magic Message ponies from new, ESPECIALLY Magical Breeze/Windy.

Also, if you are in the UK and did the mail in offer for Magical Breeze, do you remember whether she had a comb/brush or ribbon with her?

And what cards were used to sell this set in Canada, in Australia, in anywhere else not mentioned, OTHER than the USA.


...This is a massive longshot as I suspect the evidence I need isn't out there, and it's more a case of disproving rather than proving a theory, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

US Collectors, if you have a UK carded or European carded pony in your collection, feel free to drop in. I do have images for all the US carded set, though, so have no questions about their release

Note - US cards with Dutch/French import labels on them count as European in this exercise.

Thank you all

I'm just amused every time I accidentally stumble on some brony conversation and they're all reaffirming themselves that they invented the pony fandom and that there were no ponypeople before G4 happened.

Although in seriousness, given how fandom has moved around platforms, and given how these are mostly kids who weren't around to use earlier platforms like newsgroups...it's not surprising that they think this. There are a lot of older collectors who aren't so keen to throw themselves on social media or only use one. A lot of older site stuff has also disappeared for one reason or another. Things like the Ring of Rainbows, which was probably our answer to G4 fandom, albeit in the tech restrictions of the time, are basically gone. There are relics of it on very old dead site fragments floating around the internet, but why would younger pony fans know about that?

I've been sorting old stuff in my room and I kid you not, I found floppy disks with pony fanfiction on it. Goodness knows what else is on those disks. One day I might pinch my Dad's disk reader and find out.

It's obviously true that the angle of the G4 fandom moved in a different way to G1, but I remember a lot of fanfic writing, newsletters, artwork, and other stuff and sites set up specifically to promote those things - alongside the collecting. There are a lot fewer websites now for G1 that are not information about the ponies. In fact, do any still exist? It's hardly surprising that there are G4 fans who don't know about the fandom before theirs, because of how much the internet has changed.

I have been thinking about this especially since I've been spring cleaning/renovating my site, and one thing I've been trying to include is character material for each pony if I can. And it made me realise that that's not much different from the G4 fandom wikis and their biographies of characters from the cartoon. True, I'm mostly working from backcards and comics (and some have nothing to write about)...but it strikes me that the origins of our fandom were not that different from the one they think they invented. And in ten years, theirs may have completely vanished as well, to be replaced by whatever the new thing of the time is (if there is still MLP by then).