Piggy names in english

[LadyPinwheel]

Hi all!

I've been wondering... there are so many Piggies (18 if I remember well), and some do have an equivalent pony in english, but some don't. How do you english collector call them?

This is what I have come out with:

Piggies Brekar
Orquidea - Blossom
Menta - Minty
Melocotón - Butterscotch
Perla - ?
Rosado - Cotton Candy
Azul celeste - Blue Belle

Piggies MB Niñas
Manzanita - Minty
Butterscotch - Butterscotch
Loly Pop - Snuzzle
Orquidea - Blossom?
Pinky - Cotton Cany
Cielete - Blue Belle
Algodoncete - ?
Blossom - Blossom?
Rayito - ?
Perla - ?
Suspiro - Lemon Drop
Fresita - ?

Thanks for your help!

[kitkatvintage]

I think most English speaking collectors call them by their English names that we are familiar with (Minty, Bluebelle, ect). For those that don't have a counterpart, we use their Spanish name (Rayito, Perla, ect .)

Thank you for posting this list! I'm always happy to know ponies' names in their native language.

[pinkkittywinks]

KKV is spot on

Love pkw xxx

[LadyPinwheel]

But.. for example, in the list I have three Blossoms... Do you use the same name for the three of them? o.O

[hathorcat]

I think most English speaking collectors call them by their English names that we are familiar with (Minty, Bluebelle, ect). For those that don't have a counterpart, we use their Spanish name (Rayito, Perla, ect .)

Thank you for posting this list! I'm always happy to know ponies' names in their native language.

This for me too I think its the same as how we call Baby Buttons "Baby Buttons" and not "Baby Blümchen" - she has an obvious English equivalent so that's what she commonly goes by. I also think if there is an easy translation into a name which makes sense and is "pony-ish" we jump on that too - "Nachtlicht" to "Night Light" and so on. But for the nestie babies, we don't have an obvious comparison and their names don't translate quite as nicely so they are called their German names [although perhaps as we now know their English names we should be renaming them ]. I think it tends to work that way across all releases although there are of course some exceptions [e.g. Novia does not get renamed to Truly] and its more a generality than any strict guide.

So for piggies, if the pony is clearly a variant of an English named pony, she is referred to by her English name. However although at least a couple of them have obvious translatable names - Strawberry and Streaks [and my Spanish is almost as bad as my French so apologies if I am off on the translations ] - I certainly never see them referred to as such perhaps the names are not "pony-ish" enough or perhaps we were just doing the right thing as a community and allowing a pony to keep the name she was originally gifted in her own language - much as is done with Novia.

As for ponies which are the same; again I think its the same as regular releases. There are 2 versions of Heart Throb, 2 versions of Firefly and we still just call them Heart Throb and Surprise.

[LadyPinwheel]

Great! ^^ Thanks for your help!

[Buffy]

Piggies Brekar

Piggies MB Niñas

What does that mean? And why are there 2 groups of Piggies?

[pinkkittywinks]

But.. for example, in the list I have three Blossoms... Do you use the same name for the three of them? o.O

I would think so.... It does depend on what each version was called on the back card.

Love pkw xxx

[LadyPinwheel]

Piggies Brekar

Piggies MB Niñas

What does that mean? And why are there 2 groups of Piggies?

Because we had two sets of piggies. The first 6 made by Brekar:
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And the second set made by MB:
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I guess Hasbro granted the license here in Spain to the two companies in different years.

But.. for example, in the list I have three Blossoms... Do you use the same name for the three of them? o.O

I would think so.... It does depend on what each version was called on the back card.

Love pkw xxx

So, in the second set, where we have Orquidea (purple body and hair with white flowers and translated as Blossom in the first set), and Blossom (pink with blue hair and circles in the rump)... how do you differentiate them? By the looks?

[MidnightMocha]

From a purely Spanish-speaking point of view, Algodoncete means 'cotton-like', as if describing clouds. Rayito means a little ray of light, and Fresita means little strawberry.

[LadyPinwheel]

From a purely Spanish-speaking point of view, Algodoncete means 'cotton-like', as if describing clouds. Rayito means a little ray of light, and Fresita means little strawberry.

^^ Thanks! I know what each name mean (I'm Spanish), I wanted to know how english speaking people call those ponies. Or more than those ponies that don't have a regular counterpart, the ones that do. I'm specially interested in the "blossom" case.

[Tiggums6]

Love those backcards Lady Pinwheel, had no idea about the licensing in Spain. I love the name Algodoncete, now I will associate it with fluffy clouds lol

[LadyPinwheel]

Love those backcards Lady Pinwheel, had no idea about the licensing in Spain. I love the name Algodoncete, now I will associate it with fluffy clouds lol

lol yeah! And with those colors and being so chubby the association really suits him! ^^