Make Mine Macau!!

[SeashellnBubbles]

Well, i guess that settles that! My new quest in life is to get the Macau Pretty Parlour (just for the cards...hehehehe) is there a difference in Twinkles? Did they make her, too?
Oh, Sheli! Your Macaus look so Easter-y! Such lovely girls...I didn't realize the pink drops Lemondrop was so rare!
On that little side-note about the Reverse Gusty, was it just an exceptionally well made knock-off? CSI Ponies! I love it!
I sure wish we got cool varients here in Canada...so far the best we can hope for is a stray world traveller, and I'm not too sure how many more ponies I can afford to sponsor immigration to Canada!
One last question, is the lavender Blosscotch the only Butterscotch-type they made?

Post Merge: January 11, 2014, 05:50:00 AM

Why did Macau only have the ability to make them for a little while? Their being sold in Germany explains why I found mine there, but it seems so odd!

Arxon - who are the company which made Macau ponies - were not just a German toy manufacturer, they were in fact the German division of a US toy company called Ideal Toy Company. In the early 80s, Ideal took a lot of US products and sold them into market places where the original toy company did not have an interest or intent to sell. MLP are just one example of the licenses they owned.

If Hasbro had no company already selling in the market, no local subsidiary of their own and no intention to have either, then they would happily sell a license for the product - Hasbro make the license money and dont have to actually spend anything in order to manufacture and sell for the market. Its how we get every single Nirvana pony after all - never mind just Macau. Clearly for the German market, Hasbro initially sold this license to Ideal/Arxon.

Eventually we see Italian ponies becoming dominant in Italy so either Arxon decided not to continue the license or Hasbro would not renew it with them and instead the German market license was picked up by DAG. Hasbro would not have permitted a deliberate cross over in the market and most licensees would have asked for an exclusivity deal. So the change in licensee after a year or two in the German market is the reason we get such a limited Macau range.

Somebody (and I mean you, HC!) should write a history of Nirvana ponies. Like, not just a collectors guide with a list of pictures and bullet point info, but a proper texty text book which documents the progress of the licencing of ponies, the different lines and toy companies, where they were sold, etc - all in a storytelling, chronological fashion. Because it's absolutely fascinating to read!

I second the sentiment! Perhaps if there were a room just for factoids or something...I hear there was something like that in the past, but it hasn't been functioning properly? I really enjoy learning as much as i can and especially enjoy picking Cat's incredible brain!

[shelti]

Well, i guess that settles that! My new quest in life is to get the Macau Pretty Parlour (just for the cards...hehehehe) is there a difference in Twinkles? Did they make her, too?
Oh, Sheli! Your Macaus look so Easter-y! Such lovely girls...I didn't realize the pink drops Lemondrop was so rare!
On that little side-note about the Reverse Gusty, was it just an exceptionally well made knock-off? CSI Ponies! I love it!
I sure wish we got cool varients here in Canada...so far the best we can hope for is a stray world traveller, and I'm not too sure how many more ponies I can afford to sponsor immigration to Canada!
One last question, is the lavender Blosscotch the only Butterscotch-type they made?

Keep an eye out on German ebay.  The shipping will not be Cheap but I had luck there for 2 of the Macau parlors over the years.  There is also a German normal release with German names and Italy Peachy so be aware of that.  Some times you can find cards in mixed lots on German ebay also.
Twinkles was made of a harder plastic, other then that no any real difference.

It was found to be and exceptionally well made knock off.  This happened even before I joined the Community back on the original MLPTP around 1999.

[SeashellnBubbles]

Wow! Amazing the lengths some people will go to to make a buck! It's nice that she would take the time to analyze it and save people a lot of money and heart break Did they ever find who initially made it? On theplus side, i don't think I have to worry about buying a fakie Macau!

[shelti]

Wow! Amazing the lengths some people will go to to make a buck! It's nice that she would take the time to analyze it and save people a lot of money and heart break Did they ever find who initially made it? On theplus side, i don't think I have to worry about buying a fakie Macau!

The Reverse Gusty was not Macau, sorry, that's another topic for sure and from people who remember it better then me.

[Miss_Pompon]

For the beauty parlor, my french beauty parlor (with french cards) came with macau CC.

I have also had the Belgium/Dutch Parlor and French parlor both in the Box and both  came with Italy Peachy so it looks like it was pretty much luck of what Peachy was laying around.

Except that mine came with a Cotton Candy and not a Peachy which was quite disturbing for me as a child since the pony pictured on the box was Peachy. But I think we already had this discussion on an another topic about our first pony if I remember correctly

[pinkkittywinks]

Here is a shot of the Macau parlor released with Macau name cards and Macau Peachy for the German Market.


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How confusing!!!! They name Peachy as Folly on the box!!! But Folly is Lemondrop and Nelly is Peachy looking at the tags!

Love pkw xxx