Twinkle eyes and princess gems?

[balletpot]

My childhood pony days were more or less over in 1988. I remember when the princess ponies came and thought they looked a bit weird because they didn't have a proper symbol, I never got one. I don't think I ever saw a twinkle eyed pony in the store and the BNG princesses came out after I had quit playing with ponies. What I'm trying to say is that I've never seen these ponies mint. I now own one TE, two princess ponies (Royal Blue and Sparkle) and two BNG princess ponies (Skylark and Brilliant Bloom).

I can see the remains of the coating on the eye of the TE pony and I know that they're supposed to have it but there's also some remains on Princess Sparkle's symbol and I think there's some on Princess Brilliant Bloom's gem on her forehead. There's absolutely nothing on Princess Royal Blue as well as on Skylark.

Question: Did the gems on the princess ponies, both the first kind and the BNG ones, have shimmering coating?

[LadyMoondancer]

The regular princesses definitely had the shimmery coating and I am fairly sure the Brush 'n Grow princesses also had it.

[balletpot]

Oh. This pony collecting business isn't so easy. You always figure out something you should have thought of before buying. Thanks for the info.

[Marigold]

I don't remember mine having the shimmery coating.  Hmmm.

[Jinxxy]

I was curious to know this as well.. Good thread!

[hathorcat]

I have seen people say in the past their childhood ponies dont/didnt have the iridescent coating but I believe with this set the truth is that the coating chips/rubs off very easily. I have had all 4 MIB [2 of them twice] over the years - 2 in Euro boxes and 4 in US boxes from what I could see they all had something coating the gems but maybe that was just those I had!

[balletpot]

Interesting. I believe the BNG princesses had the coating. I tried taking a picture of mine. You can sort of see it. It makes more sense if they had coating with that colour dot inside the gem. Must have looked better with a shimmering coating on top.

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The left photo shows the gem on the side with no coating left.
The right photo shows the gem on the side that has some coating.


Edit: Oh, I had a closer look at my Princess Royal Blue. She has some coating left but it's not much.