Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: lalalei2001 on November 18, 2017, 10:31:11 AM
Title: What's your favorite backcard/box art?
Post by: lalalei2001 on November 18, 2017, 10:31:11 AM
I love seeing vintage artwork in 80s toys and MLP is no exception ^^ I really like G2's Pegasus Ponies and Unicorns too, as well as G3's ponies with unique colors, like Moondancer, Autumn Skye, and Waterfire.
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Post by: glitterball on November 18, 2017, 10:54:46 AM
Ah, G1 backcard artwork :lovey:
even as a child I found it so pretty that I didn't throw away my packaging (parents had a "tidy" and packaging sneakily vanished...)
I have fond memories of UK year 1 packaging from my Cotton Candy - I would look at the lovely pastel pictures of these gentle ponies and dream of one day being able to draw them like that too!
I also remember the first Twinkle Eye cards and the Flutter Pony boxes (I was so careful opening those and tried to keep them looking as-new... again they vanished...)
I am so glad that people have scanned them and shared them online so that I can relive my youth! :lol:
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Post by: Moonbreeze on November 18, 2017, 11:01:18 AM
G2! The art is so pretty! And the colours are always so dreamy. I might be biased tho :P They're my childhood gen. visitors can't see pics , please register or login
G1 is also very beautiful. I love that those are entire scenes :D
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 18, 2017, 11:24:07 AM
I love G1 art the most. For a long time I kept a lot of my backcards. I remember having backcards for Baby Pearly, Coco Berry, Baby Palm Tree. Mirror Mirror and a few others. I kept them for a long time in a backpack with my sticker books but the last couple of times I looked in there the backcards were gone. I don't remember throwing them away, but I might have when I thought I would never be in to ponies again. I'm also glad that others have scanned the backcard art so I can enjoy the artwork and stories.
Ponyfan
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Post by: LadyMoondancer on November 18, 2017, 11:37:05 AM
The G1 Twinkle-Eye packaging (first year) is my favorite. So beautiful, with all the ponies standing on fluffy clouds as rainbow waterfalls cascade around them!
They look so vibrant and lively! And it seems to be a night scene, which is unusual.
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Post by: ponycake on November 18, 2017, 12:12:17 PM
One of my favorites still visitors can't see pics , please register or login
but they did such a beautiful job on the majority of the work :heart:
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Post by: Sky_Rocket_Sammie on November 18, 2017, 12:19:01 PM
G1 becuase they always looked so magical and dreamy. As a kid I saved all my back cards. My favorites were the second set of Pegasus/unicorns and the first rainbow ponies. Thanks to the kind folks who are posting becuase mine are long one.
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Post by: Safflower on November 18, 2017, 12:40:10 PM
Any G1 back card, honestly! They are just so pretty, dreamy, mystical, pastel, and amazing. My favorites are the CP back card, the rainbow ponies, and both sets of unicorns and pegasi. So pretty :lovey:
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Post by: pinkkittywinks on November 18, 2017, 12:58:12 PM
I love G1 box art and backwards, especially the earlier years :heart:
Love pkw xxx
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Post by: northstar3184 on November 19, 2017, 12:09:23 AM
The backcards for the first year of TEs were my favorite.
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Post by: Shaiyeh on November 19, 2017, 03:35:51 AM
G2 is my favourite for box art, honestly. I just love the g2 art so much ^_^ g1 is a close 2nd however :)
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Post by: lalalei2001 on November 19, 2017, 03:51:10 PM
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Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 19, 2017, 03:55:12 PM
The Dance N' Prance backcard! visitors can't see pics , please register or login
It just looks so fun and full of energy!
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 19, 2017, 05:01:52 PM
Sea Ponies and Twinkle Eyes.
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Post by: ZeldaTheSwordsman on November 19, 2017, 07:05:43 PM
G1's box and card art is just beautiful in general, but I think the outright most gorgeous is the box art for Paradise Estate.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 20, 2017, 04:27:19 AM
I am biased. I love backcards, and I have a big collection of them; they are my Nirvana. I have a lot of pretty US ones as well but my favourites are obviously from the UK. I am less keen on the earliest US cards because of the forced nature of them being drawn in their actual poses which to me makes them seem stiff...I like the later US packages, Night Glider's card and the Princess Pony boxes from 1988 are some of my favourite US cards. But I must admit that the ones I like the best are the ones from my childhood here in the UK. And since there aren't any in the thread yet, let's rectify that with a few :D
Most of my absolute favourites come from 1987 because we had some amazing card designs in that year which just blow the competition from other years out of the water. One of the most exceptional is the Movie Star Pony card (Below Wind Whistler's):
Later G1 cards for the UK are classy but uniform and not so pretty. But the early stuff up to 1988-9ish are some of the most beautiful cards in existence. I'd like to add a couple of the pretty ones from 1988, such as Party Ponies and Adventure Boy Ponies, but I can't find the images in my folder right now so I'll stick with the above examples for the time being. Obviously in the cases of boxes the designs often go all around them, onto the flaps and everything...but I think above is enough to be going on with.
I have a lot more I could post here but the thread might explode. I don't have just one favourite. It's not possible when there are so many lovely cards.
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Post by: northstar3184 on November 20, 2017, 05:20:11 PM
Ooh, I'd never seen the Movie Star Ponies' backcard or the one of the princess with their dragons. I love both!
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on November 20, 2017, 11:07:19 PM
:heart:
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Post by: starstrider on November 21, 2017, 03:28:17 AM
All of the G1 back card artwork is wonderful. I love the soft pastels and rainbow palettes.
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Post by: Juliepants on November 21, 2017, 04:23:21 AM
What a beautiful thread!!
Luv Jules x
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Post by: Taffeta on November 21, 2017, 05:23:03 AM
Taffy's card story is hilarious. I never read it before <3.
I am not so keen on the art style on that card but I have to say the art for the Rainbow Curls on the US card is beautiful.
I think the bottom 2 has the same artwork as in the UK, we just had borders around the edge of the cards. I like both the maypole and the hot air balloon. I actually can't remember...maybe the Magic Message one is different...but the Sundae Best is definitely the same art and it's one I really like.
I need a lot of the later US release cards still.
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Post by: Broken Irishwoman on November 21, 2017, 08:43:30 AM
I'm not familiar enough with backcards and boxes to think of any, but I love this thread! G1 artwork is so precious. ^.^
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 21, 2017, 02:01:56 PM
I love all of the backcard art in this thread. :lovey: :lovey: :lovey: I'd never read Taffy's story either. :lol:
Ponyfan
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Post by: Mermaid on November 21, 2017, 11:00:07 PM
The magic message g1 backcard is sooooo darn beautiful! I also absolutely love the second set Taf pones, sundae best ponies, and perfume puff ponies back cards!
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Post by: mul-ta on November 22, 2017, 12:21:02 PM
I added MOC Baby Billie to my collection this past summer just because I fell for her card. Sorry about the less than perfect photo, right now it feels like work to plug in the scanner...
This thread is a delight. Many of the early UK cards have a distinct style.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 25, 2017, 01:22:17 PM
This thread is a delight. Many of the early UK cards have a distinct style.
They do. And they also have a distinct style between release years as well, which is also nice. The US ones tend to have more general styles. There's a difference between the early earth and unicorn/pegasus ponies and the Twinkle Eyes, for example, but there's a bigger difference between the sets up to 1987 and then the ones from 1987 when they stop forcing the poses on the cards and start expressing the ponies in actual settings (like parades, maypoles, balloons and stuff). In the UK, there are smaller distinctions between 1985 and 1986, but 1984 is quite distinctive, 1987 is quite creative and 1988 is very distinctive, with them all on bordered cards and the ponies gathered around the story in a ring. Then 1989ish are basically US package art with slight differences (like name bubble colours) and then we get regimented and dull, with the bordered cloudy pattern from about 1990 through to late 1992.
Billie's card is the last style - the bright pink and the shared stories between 1993 and 1994. I have to admit, I don't really like the bright pink UK cards from the end of the line. The 1992 10th anniversary cards from the US are a lot prettier for the most part. Especially the Paradise Babies, which if I remember right, has baby Palm Tree in her hammock ;)
I love backcards. This thread is awesome :D
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Post by: lalalei2001 on December 03, 2017, 01:49:40 PM