I have searched for and collected rearing fakie babies for a few years (they are from the 80's and the body resembles a G1 baby very much), because I think they would make a very cute custom made G1 baby pony, with just a head swap! (I wonder why hasbro never made any rearing babies)?

What do you think? I want to make a rearing baby Shady (since she wasn't made as a regular baby) The body fits very well with a unicorn head though. I will have to try with different earth baby pony heads and see who will fit best.

Has anyone else made a custom like this, and can show us a pic of it finished?

The body needs to be painted, but you get an idea of what she could look like:
(It is very well balanced and don't tip over).
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Oh, and I have listed 3 bodies for sale, that I won't be needing, if anyone get's tempted to try themselves.
I'm keeping a few ones for myself, for when I find the time...

You can try to wrap her in aluminum foil and leave a hole over the marks. Then put her in the sun for a month. I think they might fade, although if they are age spots they will come back. But if it is just stains they will not

If you want to put her ponies in storage you can always trade them from her for something else that she want's right now instead of selling them and give her the money.
Don't sell them! Even if she don't want them now she will regret it when she is older and nostalgic about her toys and childhood memories. It's a really bad thing happening to a child wen their parents throw away or sell their old toys when growing up, or that they themselves make a hasty decision and sell them on flea markets. That is something we are quite aware of here in the community *bunches of grownup children* . (But on another note, she might just start to collect them again when she is 20 years old, like I did, because she miss them or want the ones she never had)..

I was looking at your pictures and I realised there's a difference between the card of your ponies and the card I have for Wind Whistler. It's the top left hand pink oval with the text in it. Yours says six to collect. My card for Wind Whistler says As seen in the My Little Pony film. It's a subtle difference, but a difference all the same.

I did think that this might be the UK/Scandinavia variation because I was looking at the picture BabyDoll loaned me and it looks like her Wind Whistler has a sticker with the same card you have, but it isn't mentioned in the text. Perhaps not though. Perhaps it's not that simple...but it is a difference all the same.

OMG!! This is really exciting news!!

Then we can actually separate them into two slightly different releases rater than just a batch variant (with the eyeliner) that continued to be sold over here!! And it isn't a sticker with the text "six to collect", it is printed on the card. So Hasbro bothered to change the card when they distributed  them over here.

I wonder why they changed it though? "The movie" was up on the cinemas in 1987 here around the same time that the set got released, so I don't understand the reason to change it. I have 2 swedish movie posters in my collection. I will have to check the dates for when the movie had its premiere here.

"As seen in the My Little Pony film" this sounds very British to me. But you are sure that yours came from abroad? (Although not Sweden because of the black eyeliner) If it was in the hands of a collector it might have crossed the border before?

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On to another thing...

I'm working on mapping the danish release of ponies. As we often say "Scandinavia" on swedish sold ponies I feel that it is important to make collectors understand that Denmark had a different carded (and a bit crazy  ) range of ponies.
I was contacted by a danish toy collector wondering about some danish moc's that he had acquired. He wanted to know what I knew about them.
(I got really excited to see these sneak peek pictures!)




The first 6 earthlings, (italian made ponies). And on a "US type" card with danish text. I have seen similar before in other countries in Europe. It's quite similar to the BENELUX version of this set.
In Sweden we missed out on this set entirely.
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I have seen evidence that some of the first Unicorn and Pegasus ponies also was sold like this (italian made ponies) but probably on the "US type" Uni/Peg card. And they where probably available at the same time. I'm guessing around 1985.

The white italian Moondancer is rumored to have been sold in Germany, BUT she wasn't an official part of their range of ponies. They only got the Fable Ponies, but without any Moondancer. I think that the white one that often surface over there actually has traveled across the border from Denmark. (It's only a  short trip away with the ferry, and they sell toys on the boat too).


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 Around 1986 the craziness starts!


HK made Sparkler, but on a danish texted earth pony card. I guess this is their version of the Fable Pony set, as they needed those characters too.  Not sure why they decided on the earth pony card and not the Fable Pony card. And I still need to figure out if Powder and yellow Moondancer was a part of this set, or if they just had the 6 characters that Germany got (no real need to distribute Moondancer twice if the italian version where available).
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It looks like they got the UK version of earth ponies with green Tootsie. No danish text, so I think this is just simply an import. Doesn't need to be official either. BUT at the same time they had the white Tootsie (also sold in Sweden) but on a uni/peg card with danish text.  This could be a version of our swedish set with Hopscotch, Snowflake and white Tootsie. It makes some sense at least.
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And the baby ponies (that we also got in Sweden on the same card but with english text) had a danish texted card.
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I'm really hoping that he will sell them to me sometime so that I can examine them more, and document them properly. For now he will hold on to them though. But I'm happy that we could learn a bit more about the danish release of ponies.
And maybe find a new way to describe ponies as the "Scandinavian" term isn't really correct if Denmark isn't included... I'm not sure they had the Pony Friends.

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Pony land thank you so much for my charms they are perfect!!! Pretty Please really brought back a lot of memories for me! Why didn't you have them in Sweden? Where they only available in certain countries?

I'm happy that you loved them so much!
I think they only was available in US and UK. I haven't seen them available in other countries.

In Denmark you could send after the Charmkins Pixie pony when buying a (alternate) Birth Flower pony in stores (as a kind of mommy charm although not included in the MOC). This was probably a way to get rid of left over stock of her. She tends to show up here in Sweden to because of that, and I need her in my collection.

Do you know that the Powder Puff charm available in the US pony club also was supposed to be a Charmins character? But she got used as a MLP club gift instead.
I have a insert paper with my MIP charm that describes her as a Charmkin pony. 

I used to dislike So Soft's when I started collecting. But now I love them to bits! I just needed to find them with perfect flocking.
I wanted a defrocked Lofty as  mommy to my brazilian baby Lofty, but when I removed the flocking I realized that she is just to bright yellow to match the baby. I have always loved Lofty because she has that nice soft yellow color.

So my baby has a So Soft  Lofty as her mommy now.
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The only deflock that I own is a deflocked Twilight. I might want a defrocked Ribbon again sometime.

I tend to feel that the term 'international' applies to ponies sold in more than one continent. Strawberry Fair, Tex, Baby Tic Tac Toe are all International ponies because they were sold internationally

It could be seen like that, and I would have liked the term describing a "worldwide" distributed pony ..Like  Lickety Split (I think almost countries got her). But the term tends to mostly be used on ponies that is exclusive to europe. Like the Pony Friends or your Gypsy character (probably because they are described like that on DV) And that makes me a little annoyed as it only is in the amercan perspective... I get a bit sad when Swedish collectors talk about our Cupcake and Truly, or CP Bowtie as an international pony. They are very national in the country that the pony got sold in

I think we've still got a lot to do to really extricate different lines and I still feel there's not enough information about regarding pony distribution in Australia, New Zealand and that region of the world, so too often they get left out of discussion.

Yes I would really like to include them more, and learn more about what was avaliable. I hope to collect advertising from there! I think it was "Toltoys" (?) that distributed over there (can't remember exactly, but it's on the back of the Birthflower Ponies).

Part of it is really our responsibility as collectors, though. If we want our lines to be recognised and taken seriously, then we have to be willing to correct misconceptions when we see them, rather than just disliking them.

It's a mission then! (As it has been for years)

Take accessories, for example. I can't identify my accessories because accessory variations in different places are not really taken into consideration on mainstream sites. Shooting star combs and flower brushes where the Rainbow Babies are concerned is one good example of this!

I hope to be of help about that in the future. I'm collecting all accessories and information about them that I come across.

On another note, I found some Hasbro UK terminology referring to labelling of early My Little Pony. The comic that has the contest for Snowflake, Gypsy etc refers to them all as Little Ponies (so not simply an Earth term) and the My Little Pony club 1987 refers to them as "the basic ones like..." going on to list the Movie Star ponies, and then other species (Mountain Boys, Flutters etc).

I don't really like 'basic' and it is used with a small b, not a large one, so it's not really a term. I think therefore that My Little Pony is the correct, if uninspiring, UK label for the 1986 and 1987 sets, even though it would make sense for them to have been "Pony Friends" or "Movie Star Ponies" as in other places

Basic ponies, original ponies, standard, little Ponies, earthly ponies . Non of them are actual set names, as the real set name is simply My Little Pony for them like the very first set of ponies. The rest are specially gimmiked ponies. But these labels indicates that there is a need to separate them and categorize them when refering to them.
Our advertising is refering to the Pony Friends as "standard ponies", which indicates that they are the basic supply of ponies with no special gimmick. Likewise with the earth pony set.

Thats why I was using it in the other discussion in the Nirvana forum, not to change the name of the set but maybe to find a way to categorize them, and how to talk easily about them among collectors.
In US the My Little Pony set is called Earth ponies, but with no such label on the card. Earth ponies doesn't really work on the set with Gypsy and Honeycomb though. Basic ponies, original ponies or standard ponies is a better way, it doesnt have to have large letters.

I saw an auction last night for 'UK' baby Hopscotch. Annoyed pony geek is annoyed. You wonder why people don't twig that all these 'UK' ponies come out of countries other than the UK...or maybe they just don't know that the UK is not a collective term for all of Europe.

Well, that's like calling all the ponies not sold in the US for "international" ponies (and kind of expect us europeans to do so as well).  Like if everything centers around the US range of ponies...
I think people just switch that label to UK pony as in "not sold in the US pony". I wish that they did some research though. They could at least say european baby pony, that way it wouldn't be wrong, just not specified what country.   

What probably happened is Hasbro UK sent the comics people a set of model sheets without pulling out Ribbon, Baby Shady, etc.   I have part of a packet, they look like this:

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The comics people, not having any idea which toys were actually sold in the UK, dutifully included all the ponies on the model sheets in their comics.  As to why Hasbro sent them, it might be as simple as someone at the office not thinking of the implications, ha ha!  The sheets I have were sent to Brazil and include the BBE babies and TE ponies, despite Brazil seemingly not having the ability to produce ponies with specialized eyes.  (At least, they never did . . .)

The VHS tape is using a piece of stock art that was sent out to various media outlets to advertise MLP: The Movie.

Ribbon being in the backcard story is more interesting, since the backcard stories were made by Hasbro.  It's possible that Ribbon was originally going to be one of the Movie Star ponies, but was replaced by a different pony.  Or it's possible that the person writing the backcard stories was not particularly involved in decisions with which products were released and, again, was simply given a set of model sheets that included Ribbon.  (Like, maybe the person writing the backcards did not work specifically for the MLP 'department', but might have been doing packaging for many of Hasbro's toylines.)

Very cute backcard story, it's much better than the US one.

I actually own the full folder of this line art reference (it's very cool) and features the full US range of ponies from this year. They where used for merchandise and advertising and other printings, and sent out to companies that Hasbro collaborated with.

I also have 2 others from other years.