As for my favorite non-existing pony which I once believed in, it has to be the Finnish BBE Baby Lemon Drop which was listed on Dream Valley back in the late '90s.
And people wonder why I call Dream Valley unreliable. The miracle about that screen capture is that that's the improved version of the page, which formerly said that all of these were UK ponies...a myth a lot of people still apparently believe -.-.
Anyhow, going back on topic, I have a list from my notebook compiled in 1998. I'm going to go see if I can find the image again as I posted it before a while back but it is interesting and relevant. It was a list of all the ponies people said existed but hadn't categorised or identified yet. Some of the ponies on the list we now have identified. Some have never surfaced and were probably myths...
I don't know if I believed in them all. But they were in discussion so I noted them down...
Some were ponies I had seen/found at carboot sales myself (Seagull is the nickname I gave german Skydancer because I found one at a carboot sale and she wasn't online at that point). With Bobbie, Sel/Reaperfox was the one who found her first and her name for the pony (Syntax Error) was better, the Bobbie name tag written down in that book was meant to be my personal note because that's what my sister and I called her, I never intended the name to become her official name
And I don't remember now why that name, although there was one, and it bugs me all the time
The Argentina/Peru/Brazilian babies belonged to my first trading partner who I met in April 1998 in person and she brought them to show me. That was a long time before any of those ponies were known online.
Here it the list
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There are painted symbols for Babies Moondancer, Surprise, Glory and Firefly. They're definitely European. Certainly in Scandinavia, Germany and maybe a few other places. But probably not exactly like the prototypes. I've noticed the eyeliner on SS prototypes is mad. I love it. It's so eighties somehow.
I commissioned a custom of that prototype Baby Shady as well. If Hasbro had made her it would have made five year old me really happy, as I had and loved my beautiful movie Shady and really loved reading about her and the baby in the comics. I never understood why the UK set lost babies Lofty and Shady along the way. So I guess add them to the list of those I believed in as a child. Because the comic and fact file said so, and that was all the evidence child me generally needed for ponies existing.