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If Hasbro cared about that we'd also have had Heart Throb xD. Clearly Hasbro didn't care at all about orphaned baby ponies or confused kids this side of the pond xD.
Both versions of Baby Heart Throb came out here. I have picked up both from the UK, though no wings is more common. Baby was ilkustrated with wings in all UK related art. I guess it didn't matter to distributers since we had no mother pony...but she too was aleays winged hearted.Baby Shady was a big miss though, being that she had the most developed comic persona of the six.
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.
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:visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginThe 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.
Quote from: Taffeta on August 27, 2015, 04:43:40 AMI 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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
QuoteI 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 internationallyIt 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)
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).
It's a mission then! (As it has been for years)
I hope to be of help about that in the future. I'm collecting all accessories and information about them that I come across.
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.
Its sad but I think unfortunately it just comes down to the fact the comics were licensed material