My six favorite Princess Ponies!

[FernMariposa919]

Here are my six favorite Princess Ponies. As someone who only had one Princess pony in their childhood herd (Princess Pristina), I feel like I am not very familiar with these ponies. I’ve mentioned it before, but aside from Princess Pristina and Princess Tiffany, I have a hard time differentiating the Princess Ponies from each other. (Tiffany is easy to remember since she’s all white). Because they have emblems instead of an actual object for a symbol, if you showed me a picture of a Princess Pony, I would have no idea what her name is…all I could do is make an educated guess. (I realize that their emblems are shapes of different objects, but it’s not like their names (usually) help me remember which one is which. I should say that I am writing this before I have selected my six favorite Princess Ponies or have created my poll. I assume I’m going to gravitate toward the Princess Ponies who are the most aesthetically pleasing to me.

Okay, I’m writing this part after I’ve selected my favorite Princess ponies. I totally forgot about the Princess Brush and Grow ponies and the Princess ponies with the terrifying eyelashes. I’m not sure if they’re counted as “true” princess ponies,  but I have included them in the poll as well. The princess B&G ponies don’t even use “princess” as a title. Also totally forgot about Baby Princess Sparkle, so including her too.

Here are my six favorite princess ponies:

1. Princess Pristina - As I mentioned before, she was the only Princess Pony I owned, so of course I have to have her be #1! I remember picking her out at Toys R Us. I assume I got her because of her colors. At that time, I didn’t have many green ponies and I think I was drawn to her colors. As a fan of alliteration, I have to say her name is very satisfying. She’s part of the second group of Princesses who didn’t come with as many accessories as the first set. With those you got a damsel hat, one of those cone-shaped hats with streamers instead of some lame barrette in the shape of a crown. Also not to mention the first set of Princesses came with a bushwoolie (or dragon, depending on where you lived).

2. Princess Tiffany / Princess Pearl - Interesting that my top two Princess ponies are the two Princess pegasuses (pegasi?). Being one of the only all white G1 ponies (Pony Bride also comes to mind), Princess Tiffany has a very unique look. I like her tear-drop shaped medallion. The aqua gem in the center is quite striking with her white coloring. There are smaller yellowish-orange (I can’t quite discern what color they are) gems surrounding the bigger one and I feel like they would have been more striking if they were red or purple.

Princess Tiffany is from the first set of Princesses. Her UK name is Princess Pearl. The UK Princesses are named after precious stones (Princess Ruby, Princess Aquamarine, etc.) I think this makes much more sense. It helps with remembering who is who (Princess Ruby is the pink pony, even though I think of a rich red when I think of rubies, but we’ll let that one slide…it certainly is easier to remember Princess Ruby than it is to remember Princess Primrose!) A part of me wonders if they named Princess Tiffany after Tiffany and Company because it evokes luxury and expensive taste. Though if that were the case, wouldn’t she be that robin’s egg blue they’re so synonymous with?

3. Princess Royal Blue / Princess Sapphire - I get it. She’s a princess and she’s royalty, so she’s named Princess Royal Blue. However, when I think of royal blue, I think of a deep, rich blue, more like the color Princess Taffeta is in the second set of Princess ponies. Her UK name is better (though the sapphire is my birthstone, so maybe I’m biased). Princess Royal Blue is more a sky blue (well, to my eyes, anyway). Don’t get me wrong. I think her shade of blue is very pretty, but if you’re gonna name her Royal Blue, then make her royal blue. I do love her dark pink mane and tail and think the color contrasts nicely with her blue body. Along with the teardrop shaped medallion, the crescent shaped one (which Princess Royal Blue has as her symbol) is among my favorites for the Princess Ponies. And speaking of Taffeta…

4. Princess Taffeta - I think she is a beautiful shade of blue. I feel like you don’t see as many ponies that are that deeper shade of blue (Bow Tie comes to mind). Also, the only other blue pony with white hair I can think of is (SS) Fifi. Something I noticed about Princess Taffeta is that her tinsel is different colors while the other Princess ponies have one solid color for their tinsel. That definitely makes her stand out!  I also love her name. “Taffeta” is a great name for a Princess Pony; it’s just sounds expensive and luxurious. Also, at least it’s something different and not as predictable as Princess Sparkle or Princess Sunbeam or Princess Moondust. Not that there’s anything wrong with those names, but we’ve either had those exact same names or at least something very similar to them before.

5. Princess Serena / Princess Aquamarine - I like her aqua body with her pink hair, though I know her hair is prone to fade to white, but it still seems to work with her coloring (though she looks better with pink hair). Her heart medallion is very sweet and very in line with the MLP brand.

6. Princess Sparkle / Princess Amethyst - Again, the UK name is much better. Her (North American) name may be unoriginal and I’m assuming it’s a repeat (is there another pony named Sparkle? I know there’s Sparkler (I think there are two Sparklers!), but I do like the Mimic pose and I think it works really well with a Princess pony. It’s a very proud and authoritative pose. I like how her lavender body compliments her aqua hair. It’s a very soft, feminine color pairing.


Let me know who your favorites are!

[pinkkittywinks]

I Princess Ponies, but they have to be the ones with the medallions

Aquamarine and Ruby are always going to be firm favorites as they were my childhood ponies. I still have them complete with their accessories, dragons and stickers

Love pkw xxx

[SpacePinto]

Princess Primrose, Princess Serena, Princess Sparkle, Princess Tiffany, Princess Starburst and Princess Royal Blue, because they were in the cartoon.

[Taffeta]

I love all of them. I regret not being able to select Ruby, but I went with my childhood princesses Sapphire (from new) and Aquamarine (second hand). Pearl, who is my overall favourite Princess. Taffeta as my namesake, Pristina because she fascinates me. Stargleamer because I had her as a kid. Was that six?

Ruby was my friend's childhood pony and so she's sort of a childhood pony for me. But I didn't want to leave off Pristina :/

I don't like eyelashes.

The first set will always be gemstones to me. The US names don't make sense to me - none of them fit, and there's no overarching theme. Even if US primroses are pink, not yellow, her symbol is a butterfly, not a flower.

I remember being so thrilled when I got Taffeta, and realised about her tinsel. It's like Twinkler in the sparkle set, an added bonus I'd never seen Taffeta in person until I got mine, but I felt like I'd chosen a good pony to use as my namesake in the registry, because she was more special than her companions.

[Leave a Whisper]

Tiffany/Pearl
Starburst/Amber
Pristina
Misty
Primrose
Taffeta

[Ponybookworm]

I picked Stargleamer because you missed the Light Up UK Princess Sparkle, & well, Stargleamer is my fave from her set.

Re the other five; Pearl is top of the list as the childhood one.
Sapphire, Amber, & Taffeta tie in next place as the first two have such a Princess-y pose, while the third has beautiful colouring & unique tinsel (I'm also a huge fan of blue)
Pristina is the remaining one on my list, because of her bright, bold colours.

I didn't pick the unicorns more due to their colour schemes than anything else. Their shade of purple is just a meh colour for me, & it's done to death in unicorns.

[SunPony]

It's interesting how popular Princess Tiffany is (I picked her, too!) when her color scheme is...non-existent.  I guess she stands out from most other MLP in that way so maybe we are attracted to her novelty!

[Leave a Whisper]

It's interesting how popular Princess Tiffany is (I picked her, too!) when her color scheme is...non-existent.  I guess she stands out from most other MLP in that way so maybe we are attracted to her novelty!

For me, it was because she's a childhood pony, she's beautiful, and she ages pretty well for a 30+ yo piece of white plastic.

[Taffeta]

Pearl was my favourite because of her comic personality as much as the prettiness of the contrast between her snow whiteness vs fiery's red and yellow. I was so jealous of a girl in my class who actually owned her :'(