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Pony Talk => MLP Nirvana => Topic started by: Taffeta on May 02, 2015, 05:41:01 AM
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So I got fed up of calling these ponies by (insert colour here) (insert English pony name here). I have very few Nirvana ponies, and those mostly from car boot sale fluke, but I would still like to know the real names of these. Because they don't look the same as the "mainstream" versions, I'd like them to have their proper identities.
I am pretty sure I am right that this one is called Jenny (Macau).
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I have no idea about this one, I've been calling her Yellow Minty for years, but now it's confirmed she isn't a one off freak pony, and that there are other different yellow Mintys as well as her, I really want to know what she's actually called (and my one sole Italian insert doesn't show her..)
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Do the Arco Iris have individual names?
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And, finally, my very wrecked Greek Bow Tie:
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Thanks in advance:)
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OMG you have Jenny! *grabby hands* she's my namesake!!! GAAH
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OMG you have Jenny! *grabby hands* she's my namesake!!! GAAH
Hey, gimme my pony back! Lol I got her a longtime ago when a local collector sold up her ponies. I think she cost about 50p...no such thing as Nirvana in those days. I am right, then, that her name is Jenny?
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OMG you have Jenny! *grabby hands* she's my namesake!!! GAAH
Hey, gimme my pony back! Lol I got her a longtime ago when a local collector sold up her ponies. I think she cost about 50p...no such thing as Nirvana in those days. I am right, then, that her name is Jenny?
Yes, her name is Jenny. I'm not sure her REAL name but I know she's known as Jenny.
~Jenn
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Yes it's her name :)
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The brown pony is Jenny. I have her MOC. :bigups:
I've never seen an official name for the yellow Minty.
The Argentina Rainbow Ponies have turned up MOC on several different backcards, but they don't have a name printed on the front of the card like their US/UK/European counterparts.
Greek Bowtie does have an official Greek name. It's tough to spell (for me, at least). I'll see if I can find it...
(Edit:) Found it! Xionoyla, loose translation: Snow Girl or Snow White)
...personally I just call her Greek Bowtie since I have no idea how to say her correct name. :blush:
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Me either, but I could always call her Snow White instead. May have to make something up for Minty, though...poor pony.
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Jenny :heart: I adore the Macau names :)
According to the backcard:
Minty = Minky
Blossom = Bonny
Butterscotch = Jenny (Brown Peachy/Snuzzle is always found on a Jenny card)
Snuzzle = Rosy
Cotton Candy = Candy
BlueBelle = Belly
According to the Macau Pretty Parlour cards
Lemondrop = Folly
Peachy = Nelly
Yellow Minty is an interesting one. I know that SoSilver found the "odd coloured" Italians for sale loose in cardboard boxes (official DAG boxes) rather than on a card or in a "stable" box. I remember his story as he was young and told the shop keeper they didn't look like real ponies! I have a picture from a catalogue of the regular coloured Italian CP ponies in one of these boxes. They are Polly (white Snuzzle) Cannella (Butterscotch with white hair), Minty (do I need to explain?) and Blu (Blue Belle).
I don't know if that answers the question of what yellow Minty's name is :P
The Baby Greek ponies are another fun one. They didn't actually get names! In Greek tradition you didn't name your baby until it was christened at a year old :) so even though the ponies are Babies of adults, they didn't come with a name so to speak.
Love pkw xxx
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Wow! Thanks for all that, PKW! That thing with the Italian yellow Minty reminded me of something...the girl I got Minty from considered her not real and so didn't want her. She wanted a 'real' Minty. I don't remember if she was in Italy -for some reason I think she wasn't - but it reminds me of the wacky princesses here, as well as ponies in the grey tagged bags...maybe that was an equivalent release?? It might explain why more than one mane version exists, and why so sscarce,
I am going to go dig my Italian insert out again.
Edit: Got it. Link is here:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/italyinsert.html
Cannella, Polly, Blu and Minty are all on this, but on different sections. Or it might be one section that spread onto two folds, not sure. They're not titled. Nothing relating to yellow Minty though.
This insert is 1987. It is the only one I have and I think it covers all ponies from the year, not specifically Italians, because it has TEs and stuff on it...
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Jenny :heart: I adore the Macau names :)
According to the backcard:
Minty = Minky
Blossom = Bonny
Butterscotch = Jenny (Brown Peachy/Snuzzle is always found on a Jenny card)
Snuzzle = Rosy
Cotton Candy = Candy
BlueBelle = Belly
According to the Macau Pretty Parlour cards
Lemondrop = Folly
Peachy = Nelly
The Macau gray Lemondrop is Rosy according to her MOC version and the purple Butterscotch is Bonny. :heart: it appears that they went by colors rather than symbols when putting the names on the front of their cards. :)
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Does anyone have a scan of that backcard? Just for curiosity, since I know of some UK release pony cards/inserts with names muddled up, and it might just be that they planned one thing and ultimately did it differently. Or, it could be that the ones found MOC are the factory error ones (like Fizzy on Sunshower's card) because they were wrong they didn't go out on sale?
I don't know how many of these are still floating around though, so...I actually don't even know if I have any other Macau ponies bar Jenny, so I'm just guessing.
I think my sister has the Cotton Candy one. She has a small Cotton Candy army, so I think that she does.
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The brown pony is Jenny. I have her MOC. :bigups:
So it's Jenny on the card? Wow I'd love to see a photo of her MOC if you have one!!! I always thought it was a name the community gave her, like the Beachy Keen's :P
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Thanks KKV :) I had forgotten to mention Butter-Blossom :P
Please check the nirvana gallery :D all known Macau variants are shown there as well as a couple of MOC ponies and a backcard image (sorry it is a bit blurry due to poor image quality, I really need a new picture of that!) ;)
http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=216553
I have seen a number of Macau's MOC and Jenny is always on a Jenny card.
Lemondrop and Peachy were sold with play sets (pretty parlour and the show stable) I *think* Macau Lemondrop was sold in the UK as she is quite common (well... Peachy and Lemondrop do seem to be ones you come across the most) to find in the UK. I am speculating I have not evidence :blush:
Back to the names; the Macau pretty parlour card names all match the back card :)
I do have all sorts of pictures, but I am reluctant to share since I don't know who the pictures belong too as I have had them such a long time.
Love pkw xxx
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Here's my MOC Jenny. She was a grail for some time since we share a name. ;)
https://m.facebook.com/KitkatvintageMyLittlePonyCollection/photos/a.509247069126809.124772.508038065914376/511645552220294/?type=1&source=56
And here is a clear pic of the back card:
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=511645708886945&id=508038065914376&set=a.509247069126809.124772.508038065914376&source=56
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Beautiful :heart: thank you for sharing KKV.
Love pkw xxx
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Ah, awesome. Thank you for sharing that. It now makes me want to ask Babydoll if her Bluebelle is Macau or if it's HK...
Edit: Checked the picture and it's probably Macau, since it's called "Belly".
This thread has taught me a lot. I'm going to check my pony hooves to remind myself what Macau ones I have (sister's got Cotton Candy, I was right, but other than Jenny, I'm now curious because I have a feeling I've got Lemon Drop - or she has.
Hrm. Not in my cupboard so must be Naynie's. I haven't got Macau peachy, just the Indian and the Italian ones as far as I can see. I am pretty sure that we got all of these in the UK, though, although I'm not 100% if Jenny was car boot sale or trade with Cookie in Paris now I think about it- so maybe you're right, PKW - at least about Macau LD.
It also struck me that the Argos images I have for Bluebelle have dark symbols, like the Macau one, or at least, much darker than any Bluebelle I have. I know Argos often deboxed to photo the actual item, and that's why the accessories they have in their images are often accurate to the pony - but either Bluebelle is photo edited or there are dark symboled early Bluebelles from the UK in some way or other...
Or I'm completely mad.
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Ah, awesome. Thank you for sharing that. It now makes me want to ask Babydoll if her Bluebelle is Macau or if it's HK...
Edit: Checked the picture and it's probably Macau, since it's called "Belly".
This thread has taught me a lot. I'm going to check my pony hooves to remind myself what Macau ones I have (sister's got Cotton Candy, I was right, but other than Jenny, I'm now curious because I have a feeling I've got Lemon Drop - or she has.
Hrm. Not in my cupboard so must be Naynie's. I haven't got Macau peachy, just the Indian and the Italian ones as far as I can see. I am pretty sure that we got all of these in the UK, though, although I'm not 100% if Jenny was car boot sale or trade with Cookie in Paris now I think about it- so maybe you're right, PKW - at least about Macau LD.
It also struck me that the Argos images I have for Bluebelle have dark symbols, like the Macau one, or at least, much darker than any Bluebelle I have. I know Argos often deboxed to photo the actual item, and that's why the accessories they have in their images are often accurate to the pony - but either Bluebelle is photo edited or there are dark symboled early Bluebelles from the UK in some way or other...
Or I'm completely mad.
Check those feet! They are pretty sneaky since they look so much like their HK counter parts, they can also sneak as Italian ponies too, due to their lack of a forelock AND there are the Macau like AB eye Italians too.
It wouldn't surprise me if you picked Jenny up at a car boot here :) people have found all sort of strange goodies which have been brought back from holidays.
Did you say Indian Peachy or did I misread that? :wow:
I know which Argos picture you mean and I always thought the symbols looked suspiciously dark, but I just figured it was the picture or my eyes :blink: you might be on to something though.
Love pkw xxx
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I'm pretty hot on hooves, but the thing is all the Macau ponies we have we got way back in 98 or thereabouts. I think that all but one (Jenny is the one I don't remember for sure) came from the local collector here when she sold up, so where she got them I have no idea. She was a kid but her mother was really into MLP so got a lot of stuff from abroad too. She had a bunch of US ponies as well. I also picked up some random things here outside of her collection - Italian Surprise, Peachy, Heart Throb, Diamond Dreams, Baby Leaper, Mimic, Hippety Hop, lavender Woosie - so you're right, anything could happen.
At the time we knew they were Macau because of visiting her house and seeing them, so when she sold up we went after them on purpose. I'm fairly sure Elena had Lemon Drop because she didn't have a LD at the time, and Cotton Candy for her army. I'm actually going to go check her boxes tomorrow to make sure that's right. I don't know if she has any others. I seem to think that, aside from Jenny, Elena had them all...will find out!
Apparently I'm completely mad. Just found Macau LD in my cupboard, so not in Elena's at all. I am going to check her stuff tomorrow, while it's downstairs. I know she has Cotton Candy but I thought she had 2.
As for Indian, blame that on my muddled brain. Going through old Scrapbook files, found some stuff I did on the old site in 2003 that had Peru, Mexican, Indian ponies on and got them scrambled in my brain. I meant Brazilian xD.
Though now I am tempted to ask my friend in Delhi to start looking for them...>.> I wonder what she'd say if I did xD
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I'm not sure about Macau LD being sold here, or Macau Peachy, though I have one of the latter from childhood (may have been a carboot, or might have been inherited from my cousin in NI). Could always have been one of those importing from other countries for cheap things though.
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I dug through Elena's boxes, and she has Bluebelle (Belly) and Cotton Candy (Candy). Cotton Candy definitely came from the other collector here. Not sure about Bluebelle because I didn't remember she had her xD.
The interesting thing about her is that she has "COTTON CANDY" written by someone on her hoof - but someone has scribbled through the COTTON, so she actually has her proper name on her hoof, "Candy". I also have a vague recollection of them showing her to us and saying she was Candy, not Cotton Candy. That implies someone knew something about her when they got her - but sadly I don't know the origin of a lot of the other collector's ponies, except that she had family in the US who sent her stuff.
Unfortunately her dad junked all the packaging that didn't contain ponies (sob) and (allegedly) *burned* Paradise Estate, so I never got to find out if they had them from new. I did ask about backcards and packaging at the time, but he was quite proud of the fact he junked them.
...He was not a nice person.
So between us, Naynie and I have Candy, Belly, Folly and Jenny. That sounds like a good lineup for a bad 1980s pop band xD.
Thanks for this discussion, guys. I've learned something :D
Edit - looking at the Wiki, I just learned something else: there are more than one version of Cotton Candy made in Macau. Elena has this one:
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Is she still part of the same set?
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There are variants of variants with the Macau ponies. Particularly Cotton Candy and Peachy. Please take a look in the nirvana gallery as they are all shown their :bigups:
http://mlparena.com/archive/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=216553
I believe that the Macau variants are easier to find than their Italian counter parts (for example lilac blossom butterscotch hybrid)
Love pkw xxx
PS burned the Paradise Estate? :shocked:
PPS I was wildly speculating on Macau LD being sold in the UK with the show stable, I just find it strange so many crop up, along with Peachy.
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This is where I admit that unless someone has posted a link to the gallery somewhere in the thread, I can't always find it >.> I did look for it, but apparently my navigation fail spread to websites. Thanks for the link :) I have now located the proper link for it, which is in the place it really, common sense, ought to be, but that's another story (common sense and Taffeta are not always friends!)
Hrm, I dunno. We had China and HK Lemon Drop, and so I suppose there's room for something else to slip in there - but then ponies do travel, especially in Europe...so...?
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That's ok ^.^ there are over 30 different forums and sub forums listed in the navigation panel :faint: I'm glad you've got it saved, i do my best to keep it up to date and I know it needs some more work after being offline for almost 2 years.
I do wonder if nirvana got sold off here at the end of the line along with the princess and flutter variants? I know a lady who had bluemoon (Italy Moonstone with blue hair) from childhood and she remembers buying her in a toy shop in Ireland.
So many questions are still unanswered.
Love pkw xxx
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That's ok ^.^ there are over 30 different forums and sub forums listed in the navigation panel :faint: I'm glad you've got it saved, i do my best to keep it up to date and I know it needs some more work after being offline for almost 2 years.
I can't really judge it on that basis, since the Scrapbook rework was begun in 2005 and all the pages only just got completed this spring, so over the course of 10 years XD.
I do get lost in navigating stuff though. You have to be gentle sometimes, I'm quite stupid with things like that xD.
Do we know what ponies Ireland got, in relation to the UK and Europe?