Hi everyone!

I have been absent from this group for some time due to life getting in the way lol! But I'm back and have been sorting through my large MLP collection!

I wondered if anyone would be interested in an SA Moonstone that I have for sale? She is a double that I have and I'd love her to go to a new home where she will be loved and cherished!

I am considering putting her up on our local auction site 'Bid or Buy', but thought I'd ask here first if anyone might be interested? I'm not sure if you can purchase on Bid or Buy from overseas? Anyone had experience with this?

I am located in Cape Town South Africa.

I'm struggling to attached images here...not sure why? so let me know if you are interested and I can email to you directly perhaps?

xxx
 

Wow Taffeta thanks for the reply and all the info! I must say it again - your website has been super helpful! I spent hours the other evening straightening out my lists and grouping UK and Euro ponies into proper sets. It makes so much more sense.
And yes its so sad that everything has in the past revolved around the US sets and hence the rest of the world's ponies just lumped into silly categories if they did not fit the US releases. (eg NSS and NBBE).

Anyway lets hope that going forward we can keep the various countries separate and embrace the individuality of what was releases where... if that makes sense 

It really is a most interesting topic and makes for wonderful research! Well done for what you have painstakingly achieved over the years!

Ive always had a special interest in 'variants' and ponies from less common counties. I guess it all stems from being from a less-common country in the first place. The US ponies are of course wonderful, but relatively common and mainstream. The Euro's and UK sets were much more interesting and complicated.
For example I love that I have Posey from so many places . All different but all standing next to each other in my collection of 'international ponies' (I have US, UK magenta, Italian, Spanish, NC Spanish etc)

Anyway thanks so very much for all the help! I finally feel like this is making sense after all these years!

xxx
 

Who runs the MLParena Gallery? If you need any pics you are welcome to use my African pony pics that NightGliderSA posted.

Post Merge: May 16, 2018, 06:02:17 AM

PKW - Yes I'm so interested in the euro/Uk releases. They really seem to answer so many of the questions I had as a kid as to why we never got full sets and why the ponies shown on the backcards were sometimes never seen in the flesh...

I have also many many ponies from my parents thrifting days in France (they lived there for several years and went thrifting on the weekend to look for ponies for me back home). Most of them are Spanish, Italian, French, No Country, Some Macau. Some strange variants...

I so wish I had kept them all not only a few!
I used these as ‘backdrops’ in my big dolls house that my ponies all lived in as a kid... fortunately no cutting up was needed!

thanks PKW
Yes Taffeta’s website is awesome... I spent hours today researching on it (I should’ve been working haha) -and I’m so excited to have pretty much classified all my ‘NSS’ ponies (variants is a better word).
I think it was so long ago since I’ve been active in collecting that knowledge and info has come up and improved. Back then everything was just ‘NSS’  or ‘variant’ but no one really knew from where or when.
How awesome to finally discover where my childhood Gusty originated from!
(But now I need US Gusty haha)

SA really did get such mixture of ponies! It certainly seems likely that we got the same ranges that were destined for ‘other countries’ like Scandinavia and Australia. But I have many from the US releases in my childhood collection too... so interesting! This really is becoming a science 😄

Yes it seems awfully complicated! Especially since many of them seem to have been released multiple times in different sets.

I do still have my Gusty backcard. NightGliderSA is going to post pics of all my old backcards on the SA thread (the one about SA play sets I think) so keep an eye out there...

Thx
Yes I have realized that since spending a few hours googling and researching. MLP scrapbook is very comprehensive and I think I’ve made a lot more sense out of things now...
And learnt a lot of new stuff too! For example my Gusty from childhood that I always thought was a regular UK release (because she had a UK backcard) is actually a Scandinavian Gusty with green eyes and glitter symbols and Glittery Gusty was never released in UK!! I never realized they never got the unicorns and Pegasus in the early years...
How interesting!
Thank you Tafetta and your amazing page! (I believe MLP scrapbook is your page)

Hi knowledgeable pony people!

I k ow this isn’t truly ‘nirvana’ but I’m not sure where else to post it...

I hope you can help me with categorizing some of my pony variants.
Most were found whilst thrifting in France (my parents lived there for several years) and the rest I got as a child growing up in SOuth Africa.

My question is this:
I always kinda assumed all ponies with a SS version but with no flocking and non glittery symbols were from a NSS set released in the UK. I assumed this set was the same as the SS US set but just with no flocking. This would explain all those ponies with non glittery non metallic darker symbols. But whilst doing some googling I came accross Strawberry reef and see only very few ‘NSS’ on there under UK ponies.
Was there ever an official NSS set released and sold? If so what was it called? And who was in The set? Or was it just variations sold in various sets?

Because many of these ponies were found in France I am guessing they could be euro releases or UK releases purchased whilst people visited UK or other countries in Europe on holiday?

The ones I have from my childhood (bought in SA) are:
magenta tulips Posey
Cupcake
Truly
Shady.
But I understand cupcake truly and shady were sold in SA and Scandinavia in an entirely unique set along with Hopscotch so that could explain them.
(Cupcake confuses me though as Strawberry Reef puts her as a UK NSS but My Little Pony Scrapbook claims Cupcake was never ever sold in UK in any form...)

I also have (from thrifting in France):
Wind whistler
Gusty (Blue painted leaves)
North Star
Cherries jubilee (darker symbol)
Buttons
Which  I assumed were all NSS from one big set.
Am I wrong?

Any assistance would be most welcome... I am really wanting to get these ponies correctly classified.

Many thanks!!
Xxx