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No, your wall of text was amazing. I shall doubtless respond with a wall of my own, since it's been a long day and I'm liable to be incoherent. But what you said was important and really true. I'm glad that someone from Canada came in on this and I admit, I'm guilty of this one as well. The problem I have being in the UK is that I have genuinely no idea what was or wasn't in Canada. And I feel in this quandary where if I say US only, I feel people think I don't know Canada is not the US, but if I say US/Canada, am I making an unfair assumption?
But you made me think of something I hadn't thought about before.... Of course, I mean the Commonwealth. This is a trade relationship Canada has with these countries that America doesn't.
I'm also fascinated that Hasbro Canada's french name is Ma Petite Pouliche, I think? And France it's Mon Petit Poney.
@Raindrop, I think you make a lot of sense with what you said.Re: terms - I don't know what other people think or feel about those. I know that things like Euro, Nirvana, and even "variant" for non-US versions of ponies I can tolerate, but I genuinely find NBBE and NSS offensive because they are generally targeted only towards ponies who are "foreign" and not all ponies who meet the same characteristics. You don't hear people talk about NSS Cherries Jubilee, for example. In a global community there should be no "foreign".
Quote from: Taffeta on September 26, 2017, 10:27:57 PM@Raindrop, I think you make a lot of sense with what you said.Re: terms - I don't know what other people think or feel about those. I know that things like Euro, Nirvana, and even "variant" for non-US versions of ponies I can tolerate, but I genuinely find NBBE and NSS offensive because they are generally targeted only towards ponies who are "foreign" and not all ponies who meet the same characteristics. You don't hear people talk about NSS Cherries Jubilee, for example. In a global community there should be no "foreign".Actually, right now every pony with "NBBE" in the title on eBay is Cuddles or Tiddly-Winks. I've seen ponies like Sundance and Surprise get advertised as NSS. IMO it's just a way to quickly get across "this is the one without flocking" / "this is the one with normal eyes".
I think your checklist is a great idea Taffeta and I look forward to it. I did know that your site has better information on different country releases but I seem to always default to the US sites.
@ShyViolet, the olny thing I can suggest re G1 in Canada is that Canadian collectors start a discussion about what they remember, what things they had, what things they have found second hand. It sort of begins there.
Oh! Going back to Canada a second (I wish I could, I've always wanted to visit Canada!) I remember years ago there were quite a lot of year 3 adult sea ponies coming out of that part of the world. More so than in the States. I remember there was a discussion about it on a mailing list. I remember this only because at the time I was obsessed with these ponies - I actually think some of my shells and ponies came from Canada, although Sea Breeze I know came from the US.
Taffeta, I'm very grateful for your site, your hard work and all the questions you continuously bring up. I think if it weren't for you we wouldn't have half the knowledge that we do about releases in the UK and how things differ. It makes us as a community think about it and want to fill the gaps and gather more information.
Thank you Although as I said before it's more about creating a focal point. A lot of the info we have now and a lot of work has been done by a lot of people in the UK to pass on information, or images, or scans, or do research into things like Lady G did Princess Accessories. So it really is the case that I've done what I can and dug up what I can and collected stuff but without all the other UK people putting stuff in to help me there would be a lot more gaps in knowledge. Again with the weird and your shell comment - Lady G's research and surviving MIB examples of Princess Amethyst and Spiny (2/2 known) show that she was sold mostly here with Princess Sapphire's hat, not the one she was pictured having or that she had in the US. There are some examples here with the pink hat, but mostly she had Sapphire's hat. And all the wands are also quite muddled up - my childhood Sapphire had an aqua wand, the MIB one Lady G has had a blue one. I know that wand belonged to Sapphire as I had one Princess and one wand and it was the aqua one...and since then we've seen French MOC Sapphire with an aqua wand. But I have the dragon, so I definitely had mine in a UK box. And the Hasbro logic continues...