NSS Buttons

[NigheanRuadh]

One of the pictures on My Little Wiki of NSS Buttons has her labeled as an international variant.  Was she released in the US, or only overseas?  I know SS Buttons was a US release, but I'm curious about her unflocked relative. 

[NovelNerd]

One of the pictures on My Little Wiki of NSS Buttons has her labeled as an international variant.  Was she released in the US, or only overseas?  I know SS Buttons was a US release, but I'm curious about her unflocked relative. 

Nope she was not released in the U.S. As a non so soft

[Taffeta]

She was sold in Europe, including the UK, as part of the Movie Star set (that name comes from translations of other countries, in the UK the set was just My Little Pony and came out in 1987:

http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/1987_mylittlepony.htm

Buttons has two versions in the UK at least. It's less clear if she has those versions everywhere. Some people believe the one with three buttons is a deflock, but she is so numerous here in the UK that you'd have to have a factory line of deflockers over here deflocking ponies that weren't even sold here back into the middle 1990s...

So yeah. We had two versions here

I don't think that they had both in Scandinavia, though...

More on Buttons here.
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/buttons.htm

I don't consider her a variant, rather a 'version'. In essence she is the basic Buttons, rather than the fancy gimmick SS one, so I just consider her regular Buttons The term "NSS" implies she's somehow an inferior copy of the SS, but since she's also the only release of Buttons to get the proper Buttons symbol...I think that she deserves to be labelled in her own right as either regular or Movie Star Buttons, rather than the negative "non-so soft".

[NigheanRuadh]

Thanks.  I was hoping you'd chime in, Taffeta. 

The Cookery Pony set was a non-US release, too, wasn't it?

I really wonder how the lot I bought several weeks ago ended up in the US, since half the G1s are non-US ponies...

[Taffeta]

Thanks.  I was hoping you'd chime in, Taffeta. 

The Cookery Pony set was a non-US release, too, wasn't it?

I really wonder how the lot I bought several weeks ago ended up in the US, since half the G1s are non-US ponies...

Yep, it's also a Euro release *nods*

But by this point, so many ponies from here have travelled over there and vice versa, it's a bit mad what comes up on Ebay

[NigheanRuadh]

This wasn't on eBay.  It was a CraigsList lot.  I suppose there isn't a great deal of difference, though. 

[Taffeta]

I think I've seen people buy ponies on ebay for their kids who have then grown up and sold the ponies on. There's also ponies from holidays and family abroad, I guess? I know some UK people with ponies that were gifts or holiday pony buys from the US, so it must go both ways. I've also found some ponies here that weren't sold here - from the continent and from the US line (even Mimic!) so I guess the old thing is true - ponies travel O.o.

And if they're all in the same pony lot, probably there was a relative abroad or someone lived over there and then moved back?

[NigheanRuadh]

There's a thought!!  Maybe it was a military family.  There are a couple of European G2s, as well, though, which could indicate a somewhat longer stay.