@ allymer I hoped you would see this and post. Really interested to know more about ponies over there!!!
@allymer, ponies in Israel sound totally fascinating, I hope you get a chance to put together some pictures and facts for us to look at!
hello guys i manage to write some... i hope you find the information informative you can help by asking questions. im away from my own computre but when i can ill add some pic for fun.
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In Israel everything arrive a little bit later- so with ponies
the years ponies were sold in Israel vary – some sets were sold in Israel later than in other countries.
Although some rumors from 15 years ago- there were NO Hasbro factories in Israel so there were no stamped or unique ponies for the country.
Alas there are many variation of ponies importing from all over the world- ponies sold in Israel were range from UK/US and some foreign
My first pony was as early as 1991 – it was Spain stamped Hopscotch- I got it MOC.
I guess Israel did have the first line of MLP can't find evidence either way but its ok to assume the Year One – 1982-1983 ponies were sold in Israel.
Year 2 – 1983-1984
We had most of the ponies in this line
Including the Show-Stable with Lemon Drop.
I've never seen sea ponies nor adult or babies in the country in my many years of collecting.
And sure – no MO ponies.
Year 3- 1984-1985- Year 4- 1985-1986
Again most of the ponies were sold in Israel- including lullabye nursery with baby tiddly winks.
Rainbow and Unicorn/Peg from those sets were sold in Israel from US/UK and many NC stamped.
Year 5-7- 1986-1989
So Soft ponies were sold here with most of the other ponies in those years; including the slumber party gift pack.
Princess ponies were UK sold in the country with dragons.
We had loving families – all sets MIB
My Apple Delight was with Mom from China and dad NC it goes vise versa and on…
You can find the NC vs China adult ponies
We had all 3 baby siblings, sold moc, in stores.
Year 8-10- 1989-1992
Baby Sparkle Ponies-
We had the set with the unoriginal names we were really like sparkle ponies- with the Gusty n northsatr in that set
But lucky for me we also had the UK baby Sparkle ponies – more pearly than sparkly with Stella, Nightsong, Mischief n Explorer. Again those had different stamp
You could buy a NC / HONG KONG or CHINA baby. The card grafics also vary.
Pony Bride came in the flat box.
Secret Surprise UK were sold with the box you actually can see the pony itself.
Birthday pony did made the way here
Also the SweetTalking ponies were sold MIB in Israel- talking English.
The G1 line run its cores in Israel until late 1994 maybe even 1995. Those later ponies were mix of very old ponies from the early years n some Europeans ponies or new edition. G1 line was the most successful line sold in Israel. We had a lot of different ponies and got the enjoy the Europe market as the American market. That’s how the mix stamped pony diversity you can find occurred. Because Israel import from all over the world we always had until today some oddity with toys.
You could buy ponies stamped CHINA /HONG KONG/ NC/ SPAIN / ITALLY and the ponies themselves arrive from all over with many ponies having several different cards because where they were imported from,
Delicacy with Hebrew stickers on the top were sold- mostly ponies from years 5-7
Shirts with MLP were sold
We had an Hebrew Sticker Album and the Tv show itself was shown on TV dubbed and all.
writing case with papers and envelopes in many variations also were sold here- the ones with good smell and regular.
We had a lot of fakies diversity – including Princess rise n Spit (MOC/MIB) , Crumpet pose, Remco fakies and the real Gem- we had TAKARA ponies back than.
Israel is not a country filled with flea markets or second hand toys (its not a big country at all) so searching for ponies – especially G1 is one in a million- believe me I do check every place and every corner twice.
I don’t have the knowledge but it seems some sets didn’t make it to Israel- like the Mountain boys or Perfume Puff. Its align with the Israelian market- usually in toys we don’t get the all stuff the line has to offer- hence why im not sure about some lines of ponies In Israel…
G2 was very minimize here to some sets and that’s it.
The G3 line had all the earth ponies- for some very very weird reason- we didn’t get any unicorn/peg until the line was about to die and got stuck with those same 6 ponies…
G4 came here – as the rest of the lines a little bit later than America/Europe. But it did in the beginning had a lot of ponies. Later on Israel got mostly mane 6 ponies with some exceptions.