I've looked through all the photos I have saved and the only one of those I have on Spanish card is one of the bedtime Newborns, baby Stargaze:
Mi Pequeño Pony. Bebés Dormilones. Estrella ... something I can't read as the photo is blurry.
I also have a photo of the same baby on German card. I'll message you the photos :)
I don't think I would have saved many for the Best Friends though as the accessories are the same and thats what I focus on.
LOOK AT BILLIE AND SUSIE'S POSES LOOK AT THEM LOOK!!!
That looks like my Susie and LadyG's Billie!
*flaps*
...To answer your question, I have the best friends babies on German cards but haven't ever seen them on Spanish.
But that is the first time I have seen them in those poses in promo material O.O
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I have calmed down now. Sorry >.> Almost 20 years with no clue and suddenly bam. A clue.
Whether my pony and Lady G's ponies are the ones in that image or not isn't totally clear - the photo one seems to have slightly darker eyes to me - but it is evidence they were using these as promotional ponies. So the idea of them being a prototype/promotional version of the set before release is plausible. I mean, the actual insert we had shows Katie in that pose and Billie is a paler pink, but neither Susie or Billie matched the ponies LadyG and I have. This image really really does. Someone said years ago that they thought these were European somehow and that there was a Katie - I bet they got that from seeing this picture or one like it. Question is, how many were there? And also what happened to Katie? O.O
Sorry not to have helped your question. Thank you for giving a bit more of a clue to a longterm one of mine.
(My Susie came off ebay UK, I think LadyG's Billie did too, suggesting that image may have been taken in the UK and then used in catalogues across Europe...? Both of them came in unnoticed auctions without any mention of them being strange or unusual so we have no detail on their origins in either case...but this makes a pretty strong one that they're from the preproduction photograph stage. Maybe even toy fair displays...)
*excited*
A LOT of ponies ended up here in the UK on non-English cards at the end of the line. We were seriously Hasbro's dumping ground. I remember more French and a lot of German ponies in my locale. Maybe you got the Spanish ones down in Plymouth ;) I remember French and German packaged Rockin' Beats in Woolworths and German Birthday Pony, French Princess Sparkle in Children's World. But I think the only Spanish packaged pony I remember here was Starlight in Wales (!? yeah, try to make sense of that if you can O.o) and she was on her own. All the others with her were in English. I remember trying to decide between the Spanish carded Starlight cos the card was weird or Bright Eyes cos she was my favourite. Bright Eyes won...but I still remember because it was so odd.
Secrets of a coastal town o.o will be interested to see the birthday pony box image!
I got my birthday pony in the UK in an American box. And i think there's a tiny difference between the first tooth baby boxes - the hanging thingy. One has a punched hole the other has a hook shaped hole. Can't remember, I've got a headache :(