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edit: Taffeta posted first
Here's a nice list. I think Europe got some of the prettiest ponies! Like the Mountain Boys, Mom and Baby Hopscotch, Rollerskating Ponies, MLP Tales characters, Baby Splish, Splash and Splosh, Cascade, Bluebelle, Gypsy, The Sunbright, Berrytown and Meadowsweet families. :3
I sometimes wonder if even with G1 it wasn't intentional that any ponies were exclusive to one country other than the ones made in that country and it was just who happened to order them.
Seaspray and Surfdancer you mean I presume Wavebreaker is the same pony as Wavedancer. Only her shell is different.
I'm not sure about Baby Bow Tie, either. I'm not even sure why. There is at the very least the Spanish version in the other pose, and she came with a stroller and on card...
QuoteSeaspray and Surfdancer you mean I presume Wavebreaker is the same pony as Wavedancer. Only her shell is different.I think of her as a own character rather than a renamed US one. But I couldn't ever use a nice Wavebreaker as an upgrade for a poor Wavedancer. That would feel so wrong, they simply are different ponies that can't take each others place. (And Wavebreaker is still a UK exclusive just as Megan in the different outfit is )
Quote from: Ponyland on August 25, 2015, 03:42:02 PMQuoteSeaspray and Surfdancer you mean I presume Wavebreaker is the same pony as Wavedancer. Only her shell is different.I think of her as a own character rather than a renamed US one. But I couldn't ever use a nice Wavebreaker as an upgrade for a poor Wavedancer. That would feel so wrong, they simply are different ponies that can't take each others place. (And Wavebreaker is still a UK exclusive just as Megan in the different outfit is )Of course, Wavebreaker is the original and Wavedancer is the rename. *runs away innocently before someone kicks her*The ponies are the same pony, though in terms of issue release they came with different stuff. I see it like Princess Pearl came with different stuff but is still the same basic pony as Princess Tiffany. In this house, there is only one of the two. She is Wavebreaker, as she came from here. I don't have any interest in acquiring Wavedancer xD. I don't have her box, but on Seaspray's and Surfdancer's she's Wavebreaker and that's good enough for me. The purple shell is Seaspray's anyway.
If I remember correctly Wavedancer is from 1984 and Wavebreaker is from 1985. And in that way Seaspray could have been inspired by High Tide or the opposite (pink hair/yellow body)
Quote from: Wardah on August 25, 2015, 02:30:40 PMI sometimes wonder if even with G1 it wasn't intentional that any ponies were exclusive to one country other than the ones made in that country and it was just who happened to order them.I think you have a really valid point with this. The fact certain ponies were promoted here, or packaged (probably) here and then not sold here really does suggest that happened. We also have a problem with the UK line in that it's muddied by store imports. THe fact North American packaging is in English meant certain stores with US connections imported stuff as exclusives. The Candy Canes are the example I always use, because we had four officially sold here, but Mint Dreams and Lemon Treats happened because of store imports in Woolworths (at least) and so we had both the bordered European box and the North American style box. I am convinced the only way we had Happytails ponies, also, was through import. I've only ever seen them in a North American style box here, even with UK price tags on them. Brush & Grows and Loving Families are also the same situation.That said, I do think Hasbro UK probably created Gypsy, since she doesn't fit the conventions of normal unicorns and the Mountain Boys are so British in their weather fixation, that probably they came out of a UK design office. It's almost as if they supplement the line in the place of importing whatever the North American set is at the time...and if they don't sell it here, they might export it. Truly, Cupcake, etc have "Hasbro UK" on their cards, but never came out here.