Hi there,
No only Seashell and Applejack are from my childhood. The rest I have picked up whilst thrifting... but few and far between... ive been collecting since i was a little girl.
Just to clarify; I was 'Seashell" who has the website with that info on Applejack and Seashell that was mentioned above in this thread. I left the arena and trading post several years ago and put pony collecting on hold as life 'got in the way'. When i re-joined - last year- I had to create a new name so I became 'ZuluSeashell". It was me who put up the pics on the Trading Post of the backcards in November last year. Way back then i saved the pics as 'fakiebackcardgif1' because to me they were always 'not the real thing' when I was a kid. As I said long ago on my old website, I was disappointing when given those ponies because they looked so different and poorly made. I always wanted sitting seashell and I told my parents her name then I was given green SA seashell much to my disappointment. Obviously I had no idea that they were actually going to be valuable!!
Also by way of clarifying: SA first got the Year2 earth ponies from the US. We never (as far as I know) got the Year1 ponies. None of my friends had the collector flat foot ponies. Some lucky girls got ponies on visits to to europe though. My very first pony was Bowtie when I was 4 years old. After the year 2 ponies very released and year 3 started arriving in SA this set of SA moulds started appearing. At about the same time. The US and UK ponies we got here very very expensive. The SA ones were much cheaper.
From the year two ponies not the whole set was found equally. For example I don't recall ever seeing Sunbeam until i discovered ebay 20 years later... I have a feeling with the Apartheid system and sanctions in place back then we 'took whatever we could get' and we got end of ranges often and only part sets of things. We were at least a year behind in the ranges. For example i only got my Bowtie a year after the range was released overseas.
We tended to get imports of US, UK and interestingly Italian ponies... so a real range!
A friend of mine is going to post some backcards later (i can't seem to upload photos here for some reason so she's gonna do it). Shes also from SA as am I. She will also post a pic of my SA girls. I have 7 - Applejack, Seashell, Moonstone, Skydance, Heart throb, Cotton candy and Blossom.
Anyway please ask me if you want to know anything else... I was such a keen collector my whole childhood and was obsessive with my lists of what ponies i had etc.
As for Prima Toys and where the SA girls were actually made, no one knows... not even the prima people. They do not have records from so far back.
Hope this info helps
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