Anyone have information on Limited Edition Numbered or Rare G3s?

[retrogradenova]

So I'm really new to G3s. They came out when I was in high school/college and I have no experience with them. But my husband bought me some in a lot off Ebay. Most of which need a good cleaning and a few need new manes and tails. I was on Strawberry Reef trying to identify these ponies and some of the ponies it mentioned having a limited edition set to them.

Can anyone tell me are these limited edition numbered ponies worth anything if they aren't MIB? Is there a way to tell if they one of these ponies after they are out of the box?
Also is there certain ones I should avoid using as baits when customizing?

I have about 43 different ponies. So any help in figuring out if any of them are rare would be greatly appreciated.

[BlushingBlue]

The "First 50" ponies are no different from the regular ponies outside of their box, so you don't need to worry about that.

Everyone draws their "don't bait" line in a different spot, but I'd say avoiding anything on SR's HTF list will minimize any future regrets.

[LadyMoondancer]

Unfortunately there's no way to differentiate them from "regular" ponies if they aren't in the box, so I wouldn't think they'd be worth anything extra.  Unless they came with their box.

[Diamond]

Do you mean those what where sold only in certain stores?  Most where still super high amounts so they are not super rare.  There are actually only a few really hard to find to rare G3's.  The best is to post some photos of the ones you are not sure and folks can tell you which ones are the harder to find ones.   

[LadyMoondancer]

They were sold on eBay.  First 50 Sunny Daze, and so on.

[retrogradenova]

I'll have to take some pictures of the ones I'm unsure about when I have some extra light tomorrow. But I noticed some numbers on the bottoms of some of the pony hooves. For some examples on my Denim Blues' front left hooves, one has a 42 and the other has a 66. Mochanut has a 3 on her back left hoof. My Moondancer with a misplaced hoof heart has a 12 on her front right hoof. There's a few more ponies with similar numbers on their hooves. So I guess my next question are these numbers production numbers? Do they matter at all?

[LadyMoondancer]

They're just production numbers. 

The earliest G3s had their hoof heart on their display side, no matter what.  At some point Hasbro switched so that the hoof heart was always on the magnet foot.  So that's why there are versions of some ponies with the heart on the "wrong" side.