I have never in my life seen a Cherry Treats in person that could be considered a pristine white. The highlights in her eyes and baskets always look whiter.
I'm in the USA and mine was purchased in the usa. Mine is still white; and she has always belonged to me, I purchased mine new back in the 80's. So she's never been played with or put in adverse conditions, other than I don't have my ponies in a cabinet, they're just on open air shelves in my bedroom. So she is exposed to dust, etc but no direct sunlight, etc.
Post Merge: August 27, 2018, 07:57:40 AMI have never in my life seen a Cherry Treats in person that could be considered a pristine white. The highlights in her eyes and baskets always look whiter.
Mine is.
@Uni -You know I'm gonna ask you know if they are HK or China xD.
@Uni -You know I'm gonna ask you know if they are HK or China xD.
I will take a look when I get home tonight. ;)
ashlyne, your HK one looks to have very thick eyeliner, like the eyeliner was double stamped?
Yes, I did mean the China one xD That's interesting then, I haven't seen that. Thank you :)ashlyne, your HK one looks to have very thick eyeliner, like the eyeliner was double stamped?
I think you mean my China one? I don't think it's double-stamped. It's all solid. I've seen other ponies with thick eyeliner like that ;)
That would be awesome if she's on the cover of the one with Blackberry/Boysenberry Pie. I will have to keep a look out for that one.
I had a quick look through the pictures I have of my pony comics (which are far inferior to the scans other people have) and she's on the cover of 128 and with Blackberry Pie on the cover of 138 as well. Here you go :)Spoiler
Ironically, she has a forelock ;)
But then most of the comic pictures were done either from the prototypes or the US release that was already out in stores. We didn't get Sweetberry ponies till around 1990ish I don't think...so a lot later than the 1988 release in the US. The second comic is certainly dated 1990 and that makes sense with my memory.
I am also now wondering how they are pictured on the insert/back of Cherry Treats' card. And whether it's 1990 or 1991 I have in Hasbro catalogues...
Wow, thank you so much, Taffeta! :) I love those! That's funny she has the forelock. That's interesting how you didn't get the Sweetberry ponies there until 1990. I'm not sure exactly what you mean regarding how they are pictured on the insert/back of Cherry Treats card. Do you mean US Cherry Treats? I can't seem to remember an insert that has her on it. Is there an insert she is on?I had a quick look through the pictures I have of my pony comics (which are far inferior to the scans other people have) and she's on the cover of 128 and with Blackberry Pie on the cover of 138 as well. Here you go :)Spoiler
Ironically, she has a forelock ;)
But then most of the comic pictures were done either from the prototypes or the US release that was already out in stores. We didn't get Sweetberry ponies till around 1990ish I don't think...so a lot later than the 1988 release in the US. The second comic is certainly dated 1990 and that makes sense with my memory.
I am also now wondering how they are pictured on the insert/back of Cherry Treats' card. And whether it's 1990 or 1991 I have in Hasbro catalogues...
Thanks for all the pics, Taffeta! :D I'd have liked them to make a petite CT. I'm saving all these pics and am so glad to have them! I love that new in ponyland photo one! The forelock in that one is so funny! It kinda looks like they took one without a forelock and tried to make a forelock.
The Chinese forelock pony is curious to me as well. I'm kind of glad to know she does exist and I didn't imagine her, but explaining why she does is really annoying xD. I think it must just be that Hasbro in the US wanted forelocks and Hasbro in Europe didn't care, and the HK ones maybe happened first and then manufacture shifted to China and the European ones (which came out a year later) were therefore all China.
The Chinese forelock pony is curious to me as well. I'm kind of glad to know she does exist and I didn't imagine her, but explaining why she does is really annoying xD. I think it must just be that Hasbro in the US wanted forelocks and Hasbro in Europe didn't care, and the HK ones maybe happened first and then manufacture shifted to China and the European ones (which came out a year later) were therefore all China.
I suspect that's the case.
By the way, the mail order pearly babies are another set of three variations like this: HK with forelock, China with forelock, and China without forelock. ;)
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but there's a Petite pony advertisement that has Cherry Treats in it (for scale.) I think she's the version with a forelock.
The baby ponies of 1990 - 1991 had forelocks, like the Baby Ballerina sets. But none of the adults that year. I think all the babies the next year didn't have forelocks, like the Tropical Babies.
The original Sweetheart Sisters, the Prom Queen Sisters, and the Glittery Sweetheart Sisters were for the year 1989 - 1990. I'm talking about the year after that (http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Category:Year_Nine_(1990-1991)), 1990 - 1991, Year 9.
It does get a little confusing when both have "1990" as part of them, but I'm talking about in terms of production years.