Blue Belle factory First Shot pony (huge post)

[buddyboymama]

Wow! Those are an amazing piece of pony history. Congrats on winning them, and thanks for sharing!

[daffodil101]

They're amazing!!  So stoked for your win, and thanks for sharing!!  Its lovely that they both came to you together

[Bibinettepony]

Major congrats! they are fabulous and great story too!! 

[LadyPinwheel]

Oh! wow! This is awesome!! Congrats for having them! And thank you so much for sharing all this information with all of us!

[wizzer218]

O man so jealous... Congratulations!!!.... If you EVER sell please please keep me in mind...I remember her..I love her!!!

[Ponyland]

Thank you  everyone!!

Blue Belle here is my most treasured pony now, as I love history, design and MLP in a combination! I hope to write a book about this someday (with loooots of pictures). A friend of mine is an art director, and I'm a designer myself, so we are talking about this project a lot. He has already written a book about Star Wars pre-production packaging stuff.
(his website if you are interested: http://dearpublications.com) and it was him who told me about the design process of toys. The difference in the MLP and Star Wars design process is that ponies are hollow due to the manufacturing process called rotocasting, and the steel mold looks a bit different because of that, otherwise it is pretty much the same.

I'm a member in a secret group on Facebook who specializes in pre-production stuff from the 70s and 80s (buy/sell/trade and learn). And I hope to find more neat stuff there, Star Wars and GI Joe collectors are good at digging stuff up. I have been promised pictures of things already sold to drool over.

[ponycake]

I've always considered asking about the whole creation process of a toy pony, this was nice. A book would be even better. As would be an interview with someone from Hasbro on it, although I guess they had some people talking about it at previous fairs it seems?

[Ponyland]

I've always considered asking about the whole creation process of a toy pony, this was nice. A book would be even better. As would be an interview with someone from Hasbro on it, although I guess they had some people talking about it at previous fairs it seems?

I hope to meet with someone to interview someday. That would be like a dream come true! Sweden is a bit off, but I hope to at least visit a fair. I have been drooling over pictures on instagram from the last one!

[Miss_Pompon]

Amazing !

[hathorcat]

She is stunning! Congrats on such an amazing couple of ponies

[Whippycorn]

Wow!!! They are truly awesome! An amazing piece of pony history to have in your collection!!! 

[apanda0622]

Wow that is amazing!  At first glance of the auction pic, I did not realize she didn't have her original symbol.  I see the seller lives in Rhode Island too

[Lady Starflower]

Do you have any info about the seller? Like how they came to have these two ponies? That would be interesting too.

Also if you write a book that'd be soooo awesome and interesting!! I would definitely buy it

[Ponyland]

Do you have any info about the seller? Like how they came to have these two ponies? That would be interesting too.

Also if you write a book that'd be soooo awesome and interesting!! I would definitely buy it

I wish I had more information. The seller sells lots and lots of stuff vintage stuff and toys, so I guess he just stumble upon things and have connections. I wanted to ask him lots of questions about the ponies, but first I wanted to know that they where shipped out before I started digging (as I really don't trust non-collector ebay sellers when it comes to making profits ). And just a day after the pony got shipped out to me I got a message from the seller saying that he wanted to buy the pony back as he had been contacted by another buyer who missed the auction. He offered me $1000 for the pony... I'm guessing he got a really high offer for the pony. Lucky me the pony wasn't in his hands anymore, and it arrived safely! Otherwise I truly believe that he would have canceled the transaction claiming the pony got lost or something.

I felt a bit awkward to talk to him after that though!

I don't want to blame the other buyer who tried to make an offer, as I can be someone from here (who didn't want the pony to go missing in a obscure collection).


About the book, it would be so awesome to be able to share the MLP history with everyone!  I do believe that this Blue Belle belongs to everyone in the pony community and shouldn't be hidden away! (And a book with gorgeous pictures will last hundreds of years, much longer than the ponies -if you don't drool to much on it ).

Poor Cotton Candy already has a lot of brown marks from plastic breakdown, who knows how long she will last... But she will look great on a picture! Blue Belle is perfect though (just some slight yellowing from age)! None of them have any play wear. I will keep them in a cool and dark place with controlled humidity to preserve them.

I will borrow my college's studio and a really good camera, when the next semester starts, and take better pictures. My camera isn't that good.. 

[Lady Starflower]

Oh wow. Yeah that would make talking to the seller really awkward. Good thing the ponies were already in the mail! No doubt the seller would have cancelled the transaction. Glad they arrived safely to you.

A book is such a good idea, how exciting