Educate Me on G1 Porcelain Ceramic Figures

[nessa16]

I have been trying to find information on G1 vintage ceramic/porcelain statues. My search results have been few and really outdated besides finding a picture list on My Little Wiki. I want to know more about them: hardest to find, PCs, buying them back in the day, people's personal collections, where could you buy them, what did they originally cost, etc.? Any tidbits, please share!

I currently have 2: Newborn and Wedding Prance (PC?), and have searched thrift stores in vain hoping to stumble upon one. My cousin also had one from her childhood, AJ I believe. Otherwise, don't know much about them except that Newborn came free with another porcelain piece? I love the scene ones with playset places.

[Einhornbaby]

They are super cute arent they ? <3
As far as I know, the First Born / Newborn is the most common of them all.
The more ponies one item features, the more rare it is it seems, at least thats my feeling when I look at the prices on ebay. I dont know which one is the rarest though.

[Thunderwing]

I believe that the castle one is the rarest. It's also the largest.

A few are international - applejack, skyflier and majesty.

The Pegasus ones tend to run more expensive, just because they are more sought after.

[orangepeachmango]

I love love love the porcelain figures, especially the one where glory and moondancer get married <3 love having that tiny bit of lesbian rep

I always see them for super expensive, I'm hoping one day to just find them in the wild

[LadyMoondancer]

I love love love the porcelain figures, especially the one where glory and moondancer get married <3 love having that tiny bit of lesbian rep

Heehee, I know what you mean!

I love the porcelain figures but am not lucky enough to have any.  I've heard that First Born was offered for free whenever someone bought a different figure.  (Unsure if this means ANY other MLP porcelain or just the bigger multi-figure scenes.)  Which is why she is the most common.

[orangepeachmango]

I love love love the porcelain figures, especially the one where glory and moondancer get married <3 love having that tiny bit of lesbian rep

Heehee, I know what you mean!

I love the porcelain figures but am not lucky enough to have any.  I've heard that First Born was offered for free whenever someone bought a different figure.  (Unsure if this means ANY other MLP porcelain or just the bigger multi-figure scenes.)  Which is why she is the most common.

im always quite bothered that g4 misdirected lyra and bonbon as being romantically together, but way back in the 80s they released things like the "Wedding" procelain figures of glory and mooondancer and they were very very affectionate on screen! just admit it you cowards!!

[Ponyfan]

The porcelains are so pretty. I'd love to own one but don't have any yet. My favorite is "Lazy afternoon.


Ponyfan

[Thunderwing]

I love love love the porcelain figures, especially the one where glory and moondancer get married <3 love having that tiny bit of lesbian rep

Heehee, I know what you mean!

I love the porcelain figures but am not lucky enough to have any.  I've heard that First Born was offered for free whenever someone bought a different figure.  (Unsure if this means ANY other MLP porcelain or just the bigger multi-figure scenes.)  Which is why she is the most common.

im always quite bothered that g4 misdirected lyra and bonbon as being romantically together, but way back in the 80s they released things like the "Wedding" procelain figures of glory and mooondancer and they were very very affectionate on screen! just admit it you cowards!!

That's because Glory was male in several places (except the movie.) Or maybe he just had a feminine voice in the movie.

[orangepeachmango]

That's because Glory was male in several places (except the movie.) Or maybe he just had a feminine voice in the movie.

excuses, excuses! 

[Emberfly]

That's because Glory was male in several places (except the movie.) Or maybe he just had a feminine voice in the movie.

Glory's a girl and that's that.  She just likes to play dress up with her best friend/girlfriend.

[orangepeachmango]

That's because Glory was male in several places (except the movie.) Or maybe he just had a feminine voice in the movie.

Glory's a girl and that's that.  She just likes to play dress up with her best friend/girlfriend.

agreed! let moondancer and glory be lesbians!!!!!!

[Carrehz]

The porcelains are so darling! I have First Born and Wedding Prance (my two favourites <3 I agree Glory was probably meant to be a boy in it - but I prefer to ignore that, hehe. Altho I do like the idea of it being "Glory and Moondancer playing dress-up", especially as I see them as sisters.. ah, I like all interpretations of it ), I'd love more but they're so pricey but they are so lovely.. here are some old photos of mine, anyway I really need to take better ones sometime..

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[Skeen]

A few are international - applejack, skyflier and majesty.

Also Buttons, Firefly, Moondancer, and Cotton Candy.  Skyflier isn't Euro (I don't think??) but Buttons is in her pose.  The Euro ones are weird!  Their paint is darker and sloppier, and Buttons & Firefly & Majesty look like they just went "Screw it" and slapped them together.  Also the Euro ones have a painted or stamped on logo on their undersides instead of the gold sticker on US releases. 

I think the most expensive one is the castle, but the rarest of the large pieces is probably the wishing well and if you do find it it's probably missing the rope on the bucket. 

Of the 2-pony pieces, the hardest to find is probably Lazy Afternoon, but none of them are particularly difficult to get ahold of.

The individual pieces are usually easy to get too.  You might have trouble with the pegasus ponies having broken wings (Medley is rarer).  Skyflier and Bowtie are probably the rarest, and maybe Cotton Candy.  Bowtie will often be missing her apple. 

[Aurora]

Other than basic ebay curiosity, I don't know which ones are hard to find. But I have been SUPER lucky and have a decent collection. One of my childhood friends never actually had ponies, but had porcelains. A few years ago she gave me a handful of them, and told me her mom had JUST thrown the boxes away. A couple of months ago, she gave me the rest, and two of the boxes. It seems her mother wasn't quite as guilty as we thought she was! Haha!
My sister went to a garage sale in the far-away land of Wisconsin (a couple hours away) and came back with six porcelains- including the Wedding set and the Apple Orchard set. She paid $10 for all of them- I told her she did pretty good!
And just this last month, I finally hung the display shelf I found for them, and now they are all on display in the hall outside my pony room. I really want the ones I'm missing, but at the same time, that shelf is full and looks really good.

Sorry I don't have any grand history or information on them, but there's a little story of one collection!

[reanna-mator]

I really wish they weren't so rare! They're beautiful! I just have First Born (a gift from a friend) and the "Wishing Well" scene, which I was fortunate enough to find in a thrift shop for $3! I search that area of thrift shops every time in hopes I find more one day.