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Quote from: Taffeta on April 05, 2017, 04:48:22 PMThe same but in reverse for me with ponies from continental European countries and the US. Before I found Dream Valley in the summer of 1997 I thought that Firefly and company were just storybook characters.That's really interesting, just because it's such a different way of growing up. Almost hard to wrap my mind around because Firefly was such a central character (at least in the books and movies I had, like Firefly's Adventure) and she and other classic ponies were readily available in thrift stores.
The same but in reverse for me with ponies from continental European countries and the US. Before I found Dream Valley in the summer of 1997 I thought that Firefly and company were just storybook characters.
Quote from: Haruna on April 05, 2017, 07:46:51 PMQuote from: Taffeta on April 05, 2017, 04:48:22 PMThe same but in reverse for me with ponies from continental European countries and the US. Before I found Dream Valley in the summer of 1997 I thought that Firefly and company were just storybook characters.That's really interesting, just because it's such a different way of growing up. Almost hard to wrap my mind around because Firefly was such a central character (at least in the books and movies I had, like Firefly's Adventure) and she and other classic ponies were readily available in thrift stores. The situation here was a surreal kind of one because Firefly and her companions were hugely pushed and promoted here. They were on merchandise, in the stories, in the comics, they're even in the Fact File which is meant to show the complete line of ponies up to 1987 (it doesn't, the UK sea ponies are missing). They were here but they were not here.As a child I assumed that they came out too early for me to get them (which they would have, maybe, if they had come to the UK), but as I got to carbooting, and we never found them, I began to not believe they existed. Also, I didn't know the sets they were released in then, so while I knew we had Gusty and Gypsy, because the fact file lumped all early ponies together, I didn't know that they came in a different set here.Imagine my absolute joy on finding they existed in the US and the feverish desperation to find a way to get them in 1997, aged 15, without an email address or a PC online at home!But I find it hard to get my head around the idea of those characters being common. I guess maybe you guys have the same thoughts about Snowflake or Hopscotch, both of whom used to come up at sales a lot.
I always thought ponies started out babies. As a kid I got BBE Sundance. And then I saw a picture of Adult Sundance. I would tell my baby pony that she would look so beautiful when she frowns up. My other ponies picked on her because she was so odd:p
Before I started collecting, I thought Glory was in Moondancer's pose. I didn't have Glory, but I did have the Year 2 "normal pony" backcard, where she's drawn in Moondancer's pose. I remember being confused and shaken when I found her in the thrift store.
I didn't really get it about the early ponies until reading it here! I just guessed that UK got the same things we did but also had excusives which we didn't. I still have to remind myself that you guys didn't get US exclusive ponies. I don't know why I can't wrap my head around it. Probably because G1 and G2 ran longer there.
Quote from: nessa16 on April 06, 2017, 10:45:08 AMI didn't really get it about the early ponies until reading it here! I just guessed that UK got the same things we did but also had excusives which we didn't. I still have to remind myself that you guys didn't get US exclusive ponies. I don't know why I can't wrap my head around it. Probably because G1 and G2 ran longer there. That's a really common misconception people have about ponies here, but we were a smaller market so no way Hasbro were going to throw all the same ponies at us that the US and Canada had. So many fewer children in comparison. We did have a good quota of the same ponies, but not all the same ponies. So you guys had 15 Twinkle Eyes, for example. We had a total of ten of those released here in the UK. And different European countries had different ranges of the same and different ponies as North America, too. The reason people get confused and don't know is that the ponies sold everywhere get called US ponies, and so do the ones sold only/predominately in North America. There's no distinction, although some were sold everywhere and are thus "global" ponies and others weren't . For that reason a lot of North American exclusive ponies are really cheap in comparison to some European exclusives - which I guess means the misconception worked out in our favour. Although one of the points of my website is to try and point out those differences.And the babies being born from a mirror came from the UK too - it's in the first edition of the MLP comic Which is great proof that we had the ponies in our stories, just not in our shops.
What are some of your pony misconceptions?