I like Buttons better for her name, symbol and pose. 

WingedDragon, I think you're right It really does seem like instead of wondering WHY the first few toys didn't sell, they just went "Oh well, we'll just pull out the old stand-bys, people always want Minty"... like, just assuming cuz Minty's popular that people will just mindlessly buy her up... stuff like that.
(alright, to be fair, when I saw that set I DID think "Okay, I might be tempted by this one if it turns up over here", but... xD still!!!)

I wish they'd try more G5 characters instead of redoing the "G4 model" as Snapdragon said... I mean, I don't like G5 much. I don't like the style. But I felt that way about G4 for AGES too and then eventually it grew on me! So maybe G5 could grow on me too if they'd only give it a chance. Because my other main problems with G5 are a) ENDLESS SUNNY and b) poor distribution/same few things everywhere. Maybe if we had less Sunny (and... Izzy? Izzy's the purple unicorn right?) and more of a variety of characters then I might be more interested in it.. Gah, I dunno. I'm rambling, sorry.

The UK weather right now:     it's supposed to be Spring but we've had dull cold days and rain/sleet/hail etc  for months and months and a ton of storms.. I think we got 2 weeks of nice weather in 2 years ... . Every weekend is bad apart from last weekend  ( it was sunny for once *faint* but back to normal now though  )

Its very autumnal at the moment!
I swear we have 9 bleak winter months, then 3 months where its mild. Maybe 4 days of summer.

Did you move to the UK Loa?! sounds like it!!

She's pretty, I like the glitter! Can't wait for May the 4th!

this page specifies that it's from her uk variant manufactured in china, which is supported by this listing (see the front of the box)
and i guess this leaflet uses that dress pattern, which is pretty neat.

in terms of other country variants, i think they're all on the wiki.

Okay I have to point this out:

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That leg holding the mirror??!!