I have her! Her matte red hair has a unique charm to it. Mine even has some of her factory curl, so she's really gorgeous!

Well, this is new to me! I'm sure those chocolates are amazing by now... It's a shame that it's just a basic Pinkie Pie, but perhaps that's how it flew under the radar. Perhaps they had more Pinkies and brushes than ears (or had too many after Easter) and needed an outlet for them.

I'd like to see info on the back if there is any! Copyright date, "best by" date, barcode, etc. would be helpful to give a timeframe for its release.

If you're brave enough to debox (or if you can see it as-is, though I doubt you can), each G3.5 (and almost every G4) pony should have a five-digit "birthday code" under her hoof, indicating the day she was produced- the first digit being the last in the year, the next three being the day of the year out of 365 (or 366, in the case of a leap year), and the last digit almost always one (though I've seen at least one G4 with a two). We could then compare that to Pinkies that are known to have come from the Easter set to see if it falls into a similar range, indicating whether she was meant for this release or was perhaps excess stock. Nothing definitive, but would give a hint.

If it was an outlet for extras, it would make sense to be a limited release; since it contains food, they may have been discarded after the "best by" date, further increasing scarcity. Since this is an "unknown" release, I feel that it's likely to have been rare to begin with (that or nobody cared since it's another Pinkie Pie).

I wonder if the chocolates were something that was already being made, pony-related or otherwise? If they were already producing candy in these molds, that could further point to the excess-stock-outlet release type I'm suspecting as a possibility; they could still have been done specifically for this release, though, so it wouldn't definitively prove anything either way.

So, for this to have been an outlet release, I'd expect to see
-Pinkie's birthday code within close range of known Easter Pinkie's codes
-A 2010 (or maybe 2011) copyright date
-A "best by" date after Easter 2010
-The brushes to be the same color (this one looks a bit greenish to me)

It really could be anything, though; a lot of collectors skipped G3.5, and a basic Pinkie Pie wouldn't really be anything to write home about. I'm still surprised that something managed to fly under the radar, though, but if anything were to go unrecorded, it'd be G3.5.

For anybody who needs history...

There was a set released during G3.5 called the Family Convertible which featured Newborn Pinkie Pie and her mother, the titular vehicle, and a handful of accessories.
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A little later on, a free DVD was included. It contained the only two episodes of the Once Upon a My Little Pony Time cartoon, meant to promote the Newborn Cuties and So Soft Newborn toylines.
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This DVD even had an international release, with dubs in French, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Italian (not 100% certain on those languages; it was hard to find a legible image).
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Both episodes can be readily watched on YouTube (in English), but you may notice a considerable difference in quality. The first episode, Over Two Rainbows, begins with a G3 logo and lacks sound effects, lip movement, and even has the credits taken from Pinkie Pie's Special Day. But if you do a bit more digging, you'll find a finished version of this episode, its quality on par with the other one.

...Or, at least, that's how it used to be. Now, the finished version is the first one you'll find. For a long time, the unfinished version was all you could find. And due to the... interesting... style of this cartoon, it seemed plausible that it was the finished version.

I don't have any reason to believe either version is fake; I've even seen somebody claim to have gotten a hold of a DVD and the finished version was on it. I can't really verify this claim, since the DVD isn't readily available due to its distribution method.

Do all of the DVDs have the finished version? If so, where the heck did the unfinished one come from? Is there an unfinished version of So Many Different Ways to Play as well? (Probably not on that one; I imagine the unfinished one served as a proof of concept for both of them, but you never know.)

For reference:
Over Two Rainbows, unfinished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2LCSzPcvrw
Over Two Rainbows, finished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7jzFwtikSI
So Many Different Ways to Play, for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va-v89P7M6E

Thank you to anybody who can help!

Quote from: MintyMyndi on December 19, 2020, 05:11:28 PM

Also, there is a series of keychains popping up- not plush ones, just plastic. I've seen Minty, Twinkle Twirl, and Fluttershy in a standing pose, and Pinkie Pie, Sunny Daze, and Butterscotch in a sitting pose. There's a possibility that they were made by the same manufacturer as the chibi keychains and their friends (or that those were the six characters Hasbro licensed to Japanese manufacturers at the time); does this mean that Butterscotch is a possible character for these? She could have been made in smaller quantities since she's the only one without pink, leading to her rarity, or there could just happen to not be any on Mercari right now. Could somebody confirm or debunk her existence?

These?
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I suppose the best you can look for is one of their tags that is not obstructed to see if it's by the same manufacturer.

But I do not think she was a plush, but that's just my opinion.

The tags look the same, but I can't read the info on any images of the tags I've found to confirm. I don't have any other evidence of Butterscotch as a plush, but five seems like an odd number for a full set to me. Given how many of the chibi keychains I've seen, though, it wouldn't surprise me if that was all they made.

Hello everybody! I've suddenly become interested in something different and need to know...
How many Japanese G3 plushies were released? Who made them? How many sizes?

Here's what I've got... The images shown are just what I've managed to scrounge up while writing this; I scrolled through Japanese Mercari the other day looking for the G3.5 Sega Prize girls and found these. (And no, I won't bring up the Sega Prize plushies here. That's a can of worms that I've already opened and scraped clean as it's gonna get.)

Pre-Core 7 Era
I'm pretty sure these are from the same manufacturer, since they're all similar in style and feature the same characters. I'm only listing the ones I know I've seen.

Chibi keychain- These guys have big heads, tiny legs, and single-colored faux fur hair, making IDing without visible symbols difficult (I promise they have them, though!). They came attached to a ball chain.
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-Fluttershy (purple hair, far left)
-Twinkle Twirl (pale pink hair, not shown)
-Sunny Daze (hot pink hair, middle)
-Minty (2nd and 3rd image)
-Pinkie Pie (far right)

Sitting- Larger and more proportionally accurate than the keychains, but they are made with the same design, including the solid-color hair.
-Pinkie Pie
-Fluttershy
-Twinkle Twirl

Laying- Basically a different pose for the sitting plushies.
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-Pinkie Pie
-Sunny Daze
-Fluttershy
-Twinkle Twirl?

Mystery Era
I'm not sure where this one fits in, since it's Pinkie Pie; she's different from the ones above in her lack of a hoof heart, mane color, and her logo having a white background. If this isn't the tissue holder, then there is one very similar that is. I believe her tag says Tomy.
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Wait! I just found multiple sizes! http://blog.livedoor.jp/gogo_amy/archives/50986421.html

Core 7- Era
This one is for the 25th Anniversary. She looks Tomy-ish, but I'm not sure.
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These guys are my favorites. I don't know why.
There are at least two sizes of these guys. They have brushable hair and are based on the Core pose. According to Amazon, they were made by the Nakajima Corporation, who later made G4 plushies. Their hair came packaged in plastic-straw type things!

Keychains- Just larger than a standard G3, these guys came on ball chains and can look a little lumpy.
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-Pinkie Pie
-Rainbow Dash
-StarSong
-Sweetie Belle

Larger Size- No ball chain and much smoother-looking.
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That's the StarSong I've been staring down, but you have to buy it through a proxy service, which adds fees on fees on fees! Fee for ordering, fee for shipping it to their warehouse, fee for putting your purchases in one container for shipping (if you buy more than one), and after all that, the shipping price is a surprise... No thank you!
Anyway, I've only seen...
-Pinkie Pie
-StarSong



Did I miss any? Does anybody have them? Do show me!

They do that? I need to check on mine; I've had her for two years now and haven't taken her out lately. I'll report back with her condition.

EDIT: I forgot that I had more than one! I thrifted four of them last year in a larger bag of ponies and they've been in the freezer bag they came in ever since. Mine that I've had from new is a little less pliable than she was when new, and her liquid has gone cloudy. The three thrifted ones that still had their capsules weren't any worse off, but they were all opaque, so I can't see the state of their liquid. The loose thrifted one is quite a bit stiffer, but still nice and squishy; her liquid doesn't seem to be cloudy. None of them are sticky anymore, and the loose one seems to have an almost powdery surface.

So it seems that the capsule does slow down aging, but doesn't prevent it entirely; you could try to put them in sandwich baggies if anything, but I'll leave mine as-is for now.

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Quote from: bigmylittleponyfan on December 17, 2020, 09:59:50 AM

We had two G3.5 cardboard books for smaller children released in Estonia, in Estonian in 2010. Here are the links to them where you can see the cover photos. I don't own neither of them unfortunately.

https://www.rahvaraamat.ee/p/my-little-pony-salap%C3%A4rane-kellassepp/30955/et?isbn=9789949162673#
https://www.apollo.ee/my-little-pony-rosalinda-sunnipaev.html

Thank you! It appears that Estonian is one of the rare languages that didn't use the English names for the Core 7- do you happen to know them?

Yes I do!
Star Song - Viisitäht
Toola Roola - Tuuletütar (interestingly, this means 'daughter of wind', I have no idea how they came up with such a translation lol!)
Sweetie Belle - Linalakk (actually means 'flaxen-haired' but this is pretty cute translation imo)
Scootaloo - Rolleriina
Rainbow Dash - Vikerkaari
Pinkie Pie - Rosalinda
Cheerilee - Rõõmukas

I also have an Estonian Egmont G3.5 magazine, it was only a one-time issue but if it is of any use to you, I can scan the whole thing in and send to you.

Thank you for the names! And yes, I'd love it if you scanned the magazine!