edit: Taffeta posted first :lol:
Here's a nice list. I think Europe got some of the prettiest ponies! Like the Mountain Boys, Mom and Baby Hopscotch, Rollerskating Ponies, MLP Tales characters, Baby Splish, Splash and Splosh, Cascade, Bluebelle, Gypsy, The Sunbright, Berrytown and Meadowsweet families. :3
I sometimes wonder if even with G1 it wasn't intentional that any ponies were exclusive to one country other than the ones made in that country and it was just who happened to order them.
Seaspray and Surfdancer you mean I presume :) Wavebreaker is the same pony as Wavedancer. Only her shell is different.
I'm not sure about Baby Bow Tie, either. I'm not even sure why. There is at the very least the Spanish version in the other pose, and she came with a stroller and on card...I have been investigating this for so long now, and I haven't ever found any evidence about her being sold elsewhere (except the spanish variation). And I'm able to exclude her from quite many countries pony range now. I have sort of put her as an UK exclusive until proven otherwise that she was a official part in another countries pony range.
QuoteSeaspray and Surfdancer you mean I presume :) Wavebreaker is the same pony as Wavedancer. Only her shell is different.
I think of her as a own character rather than a renamed US one. :)
But I couldn't ever use a nice Wavebreaker as an upgrade for a poor Wavedancer. That would feel so wrong, they simply are different ponies that can't take each others place. ;)
(And Wavebreaker is still a UK exclusive just as Megan in the different outfit is ;) )
QuoteSeaspray and Surfdancer you mean I presume :) Wavebreaker is the same pony as Wavedancer. Only her shell is different.
I think of her as a own character rather than a renamed US one. :)
But I couldn't ever use a nice Wavebreaker as an upgrade for a poor Wavedancer. That would feel so wrong, they simply are different ponies that can't take each others place. ;)
(And Wavebreaker is still a UK exclusive just as Megan in the different outfit is ;) )
Of course, Wavebreaker is the original and Wavedancer is the rename. *runs away innocently before someone kicks her*
The ponies are the same pony, though in terms of issue release they came with different stuff. I see it like Princess Pearl came with different stuff but is still the same basic pony as Princess Tiffany. In this house, there is only one of the two. She is Wavebreaker, as she came from here. I don't have any interest in acquiring Wavedancer xD. I don't have her box, but on Seaspray's and Surfdancer's she's Wavebreaker and that's good enough for me. The purple shell is Seaspray's anyway.
If I remember correctly Wavedancer is from 1984 and Wavebreaker is from 1985. ;) And in that way Seaspray could have been inspired by High Tide or the opposite (pink hair/yellow body) ;)
I sometimes wonder if even with G1 it wasn't intentional that any ponies were exclusive to one country other than the ones made in that country and it was just who happened to order them.
I think you have a really valid point with this. The fact certain ponies were promoted here, or packaged (probably) here and then not sold here really does suggest that happened. We also have a problem with the UK line in that it's muddied by store imports. THe fact North American packaging is in English meant certain stores with US connections imported stuff as exclusives. The Candy Canes are the example I always use, because we had four officially sold here, but Mint Dreams and Lemon Treats happened because of store imports in Woolworths (at least) and so we had both the bordered European box and the North American style box. I am convinced the only way we had Happytails ponies, also, was through import. I've only ever seen them in a North American style box here, even with UK price tags on them. Brush & Grows and Loving Families are also the same situation.
That said, I do think Hasbro UK probably created Gypsy, since she doesn't fit the conventions of normal unicorns and the Mountain Boys are so British in their weather fixation, that probably they came out of a UK design office. It's almost as if they supplement the line in the place of importing whatever the North American set is at the time...and if they don't sell it here, they might export it. Truly, Cupcake, etc have "Hasbro UK" on their cards, but never came out here.
The only true UK exclusives I consider are UK oddballs princesses and happy tails.
If I remember correctly Wavedancer is from 1984 and Wavebreaker is from 1985. ;) And in that way Seaspray could have been inspired by High Tide or the opposite (pink hair/yellow body) ;)
Yeah, I was just being cheeky. I know they were the other way around, although based on the fact stories started to happen in the UK from 1985, and the fact there are no stories on the Sea Pony boxes, I think they are probably 1984-5, like the Rainbow Ponies, rather than straight 1985. Their box is dated 1984. They may even be the first Hasbro UK deviation. Who knows? Unfortunately I no longer have the MIB Sealight I used to have so can't compare directly, but the art is very different from the US package as well, and it does include instructions on how to braid hair! Hasbro UK still obsessed with braiding, even if they have to change the graphic to make it a sea pony instead!
I don't think Seaspray has anything to do with High Tide, honestly...the Fact File features four of the year 3 Sea Ponies but none were sold here as far as I can tell. I don't think High Tide is one of them, so there seems to be no real connection between her and the UK at all. Easier to just sell High Tide here, rather than make your own...
Seaspray and Surfdancer are not in the fact file, nor is Wavebreaker.
Yeah, I was just being cheeky.:lol: yes I know! Just wanted to make it clear for everybody else here since it is a common mistake to think of them as available at the same time as the first US sea ponies, being so similar otherwise ( a set of 3 sea ponies, one looking just like the US one).
I don't think Seaspray has anything to do with High Tide, honestly..No probably not, :) but it is fun that two yellow sea ponies with pink hair occurred at the same time!
I think they are probably 1984-5As they are a part of the 1985 insert, I place them with that range of ponies, if they occurred earlier than the rest of the 1985 range is hard to know unless we find other advertising (or the official Hasbor UK catalog that retailers could order from). But most packages has a copyright stamp a year earlier than the release due to them being designed a year before they are ready to be sold. :)
QuoteI think they are probably 1984-5As they are a part of the 1985 insert, I place them with that range of ponies, if they occurred earlier than the rest of the 1985 range is hard to know unless we find other advertising (or the official Hasbor UK catalog that retailers could order from). But most packages has a copyright stamp a year earlier than the release due to them being designed a year before they are ready to be sold. :)