Unknown pony in old Mlp comic.

[Heart Of Midnight]

(I couldn't find a suitable thread for this, so I made a new one.)

Teacher pony. Who is she? Does she only appear in comics? Completely new and unknown to me. I don't have that comic, I found this cover on the internet. 

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[Carrehz]

That's Lady Lessons!!

I wish they'd made a toy of her, she's so cute. I remember seeing a lovely custom of her once, I think PKW made it?

[Heart Of Midnight]

Carrehz, Thank you very much! 

It would have been really cool if she had come, for example, with that schoolhouse playset!

It would be great to see photos of the custom if anyone has one? 

[Leave a Whisper]

She's cute.  Wonder if anyone ever made a custom of her?

[Goanna]

Awww she is such a cutie! I love her glasses

[Carrehz]

Just picked through old threads and I found a pic of the custom I was thinking of KaibaGirl007 made her!

https://mlparena.com/index.php?topic=357345.msg1220353#msg1220353

I found several threads theorizing she was maybe meant to come with the Schoolhouse playset. We've never seen hard evidence that's the case, but the MLP comics didn't usually just make up characters, so you have to wonder!

[Heart Of Midnight]

Wow! KaibaGirl007's custom is really beautiful!

[lovesbabysquirmy]

oh wow. how fun that you were able to find a custom for a very cute pony that never made it to production

[Leave a Whisper]

What a cute custom.

[Ponybookworm]

The custom is cute & the globe painted exquisitely!!!

[Taffeta]

Ah, Lady Lessons.

The best circumstantial evidence that she was going to exist is...
The school comes with her glasses

BUT the box shows Sportstime wearing them.

THe only other evidence is really vague - the fact that the pony comic never invented a pony until the Tales series came out, and Lady Lessons is in the comic I *think*.

There's nothing I've ever found in Hasbro material to suggest she existed, and I think I've seen the Hasbro booklet for this set. I certainly have seen all kinds of schooltime baby variations in production photos, but never her. It's also interesting how Love Token is basically the same colouring but with a different symbol, as if they just shunted it over to her production instead.

All grasping at straws but still fun.

Miss Hackney I think was always a myth, but Lady Lessons? I dunno.

[Leave a Whisper]

Ah, Lady Lessons.

The best circumstantial evidence that she was going to exist is...
The school comes with her glasses

BUT the box shows Sportstime wearing them.

THe only other evidence is really vague - the fact that the pony comic never invented a pony until the Tales series came out, and Lady Lessons is in the comic I *think*.

There's nothing I've ever found in Hasbro material to suggest she existed, and I think I've seen the Hasbro booklet for this set. I certainly have seen all kinds of schooltime baby variations in production photos, but never her. It's also interesting how Love Token is basically the same colouring but with a different symbol, as if they just shunted it over to her production instead.

All grasping at straws but still fun.

Miss Hackney I think was always a myth, but Lady Lessons? I dunno.

Next time on Cryptid Ponies

[Carrehz]

Next time on Cryptid Ponies

 

I can't decide if I think Lady Lessons was ever meant to be a toy or not. On the one hand it's unusual they'd make up a new character out of nowhere (if they just needed a teacher character, they could've assigned the role to any other pony that was in production at the time?). On the other hand, I'm wary of saying "X is true, which means Y MUST be true too" you know, making assumptions based on patterns.. cause things don't always work that way, and Hasbro in particular don't usually make sense

I hadn't noticed that about Love Token, interesting.

I think IF she was a Hasbro-created character (and not just someone made up by the comic writers to fill a role), she was scrapped very early on, before they got to the prototype stage. I could see it maybe being the case that the early concept drawings for the Schoolhouse included a pony (makes sense - all these student ponies - someone's gotta teach 'em, right?), and then the decision being made during the design approval process to cut the pony to save costs. I don't think there was ever any sort of prototype made for her, I think if that had been the case we'd have some sort of evidence of such a thing existing.

Then again, maybe she was just made up for the comics. I dunno Fun to speculate though.

I agree Miss Hackney was probably just created for the cartoon and was never meant to be a toy though. Ditto Ace/Lancer/Teddy, while we're talking about Tales characters. (Though I wish they had made toys of them!!)

[Heart Of Midnight]

Lots of interesting new information! Thanks!  These speculations are also very nice to read. 

  Oh, the school house came with glasses... sounds a bit funny... They didn't bother to include the pony. So Sports-Time didn't come with school? It would have been preferable if a pony had been included, because it has not been a nice thing for a child who may have only had baby ponies.. 

Lovely sweet Love Token! That's right, it's exactly the same color! I haven't noticed or thought about that before either.

[Beldarna]

Ooh, that custom was beautiful.