Some oddities in my ponies?

[Skeen]

Haruna, that's actually not a crazy theory and I'd love to hear thoughts about it.    In all my years of collecting, a lot of them actively looking for her, I've only seen Pink Sprinkles once on ebay in a crazy-low-priced lot that wasn't well described.  Cat, take it away and educate me! 

I should check my MIB Waterfall set now, because I'm curious what Sprinkles came with it. 

[Jocelyn]

My Sprinkles looks exactly like the one on the right, right down to the ducks on her left flank being closer to her tail hole. I found mine local as well, and had the same thought that she was a rehair. I'd never seen a pony with original hair like that!

[hathorcat]

Yeah, I had the Sprinkles with untidy hair growing up (got her secondhand), and when I got the one with normal, curling-around-the-neck hair when I collected as an adult I was surprised at the difference.

I sometimes wonder if one of the two lavender versions is a mail order, along with the already-known mail order pink Sprinkles. I know that's almost a heretical statement , but the true pink mail order Sprinkles is so rare; I've literally never seen one on Ebay and can hardly find photos online. It's hard for me to believe that Sprinkles was requested by mail so rarely. Mail-order Majesty turns up regularly enough, if not all that often. I wonder if Hasbro started their mail order with pink Sprinkles, realized she was the wrong color compared to the original lavender Sprinkles that came with the waterfall (crazy-hair Sprinkles), and then released curling-around-the-neck hair lavender Sprinkles for all future mail-orders? Just another crazy idea.

All of the playset mail orders are reeeealllly hard to find As a set they were unfortunately not that popular and they were only offered twice (if memory serves) via mail order and quite late into the line.

[DireRabbit]

My playset Sprinkles looks very much like yours on the right and has noticeably limp hair compared to most of my other ponies.

Edit: Here is the Sprinkles I purchased from Ponyology on left and the mail order version is on right:
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[ValeofSpring]

I ordered the Playset MO back around 1989 b/c at that point I was only collecting Year 2 and I didn't have Lemon Drop, Majesty, or Sprinkles. I believe the Sprinkles in the MO insert was indeed pictured pink. I know my Sprinkles was pink. I found it disconcerting that she looked just like Firefly. Sadly I did not keep any of these ponies but got rid of them at various times. Hopefully that Pink Sprinkles survived and made it into someone's collection!

[Galactica]

I agree the Sprinkles on the right is probably not a re-hair. I recall that the Sprinkles from my set also had weirdly limp difficult to style hair and that color looks familiar. Her thin and limp hair made her one of my very least favorite ponies....

[LadyMoondancer]

Sprinkles on the right is definitely not a rehair, I'd recognize that uneven, choppy looking "playset hair" anywhere.   Playset Majesty has it too.

I would guess the Sprinkles on the left was just made at a different time and happened to get slightly different plastic color / better hair.