Heck Yeah, Pony Scans!

Blackpool Illuminations’ ponies sitting around a warehouse waiting for potential buyers in January of 2008.

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See them illuminated, Here and Here.

Got some new hair from shimmerlocks (not sponsored). “Surprise”, or as I like to call it, “Highlighter hair”, because it looks like a highlighter threw up. This shit glows under blue and black lights too it’s wonderful. grabbed it to retail this baby ribbon (surprise is just there because i wanted 2 ponies in the shot lol)

My Little Pony ‘n Friends G1 baby pony color chart

Source: unknown ebay auction circa 2013.

 new mlp g1 puzzle i got :)

It’s My Little Monday! With…The Beddy Bye Eye Ponies! Now here’s a…controversial group of babies. The BBE babies were Hasbro’s attempt to make blink eye dolls out of ponies. When you lay them down, the eyes go shut, as is the usual with this type of toy. However, somewhere between the design and the execution they…..didn’t go so well. So then why did the Twinkle Eye ponies succeed so well? Because the TEs didn’t have anything else about them changed, other than the eye being a gemstone. If you look at these you’ll see oddly long/stretched out necks, sparse hairlines, pinched looking faces, shabby sculpting for the pegasus wings, and the fact that the eyes are tiny with obvious rimmed sockets. (They are given makeup despite them being babies to soften the look of the upper ‘lid’ for the eye) So it isn’t that they have blink eyes, it’s everything else that went along with it that reduced their appeal and made them an unpopular gimmick set back in the day. It’s also what drives the prices of the “NBBE” (NON-beddy) versions of the characters up so high. The last photo shows nbbe Heart Throb next to her BBE version, and it’s easy to see why people will spend 100 or more to get her. Sadly, Baby Sundance and Baby Ribbon (like Baby Frosting) never got a regular version in the US or EU.  The eyes are the traditional doll-blink eye which means a hard plastic blue chip in a white metal setting. They had no other eye color than blue–and of course, the metal would rust when kids washed them too much making the whole eye bleary, reddish brown or fused open/shut. They do have eyelashes, but they are always black. There are pony-community services like ‘de-bbbe’ where you can hire someone to sculpt over the face, or eye-de-rusting for damaged ones.  “Creepy Dolls are Cool” Lots of critics say they’re creepy, (that is an opinion) but instead of creepy I just get kind of…poorly executed sad looking product from seeing these. I DO approve of freaky-fabulous dolls, creeperiffic Monster Highs, haunt-coture customs done with whatever dolls/ponies & etc., but those are works of art done by designers who care and want to make something spooky cool while the BBE is just ‘wow whoops’. 

This is a really good analysis.

“If you look at these you’ll see oddly long/stretched out necks, sparse hairlines, pinched looking faces, shabby sculpting for the pegasus wings, and the fact that the eyes are tiny with obvious rimmed sockets.”

Yeah, even putting aside the eyes, the sculpts are disproportionate and weird. The unicorn baby is the worst!   Her chest isn’t sculpted, so her neck starts at the upper part of her legs.  She looks like a dang giraffe! 

Also. Something is Up with the BBE baby unicorns. Like, their hair.

Yeah, it doesn’t want to lay nicely, instead it does a forward swoop or just sticks straight up.  The pegasus and earth ponies don’t do this . . .

Today’s Old Pony Site Retrospective is “Baby Ribbon: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth”.

Baby Ribbon had a RP blog where she answered questions in-character.  The predecessor of the Tumblr ask-blog. :)

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Most of them are still accessible via the link, and they’re extremely funny.

Let me just transcribe one of the Q&As . . . 

Why do Baby Sea Ponies need floats?  Wouldn't they know how to swim as soon as they were born, or have their moms teach them?  

Why didn't they have their own shells to stick their tails in after a long day of swimming, like the adults?

Featherfire

Dear Featherfire,

Being a baby myself, the first part of your question needed no research on my part.  Yes, the Baby Sea Ponies are born knowing how to swim, but being so young, and mommies being the way they are . . . well, remember how it was when you were smaller? By the time you are about eleven, you know just about everything, and are ready to set out for school all by yourself and conquer the world with your vast wisdom and experience.  

Mom, on the other hand, seems totally convinced that you will not be able to make it through the day without a huge thick jacket, a knitted cap resembling something out of T'was the Night Before Christmas, earmuffs, a change of underwear, a reflective strip across your back, a Kleenex box, a can of pepper spray, and a list of "emergency" numbers including the fire department (in case you stumble upon a raging inferno in your Social Studies class) and the plumber (from whence the emergency number list came).  

Let me relate to you a conversation I heard the other day at Playtime Pond:

A bunch of the Baby Sea Ponies had swum out for a game of watertag.  Now in watertag, speed and agility are of the utmost importance, so the Baby Sea Ponies make their bravest efforts to slip out of their mother's sight without their floats on.  The successful ones invariably had a better game than the not-so-successful ones.

Tiny Bubbles had almost made it when I heard echoing across the stillness:  "Tiny BubBLES!  You forgot your FLOATEE!"  And out came Surf Dancer carrying the large plastic duck as Tiny Bubbles blushed bright red.  The din, of course, alerted all the other neighborhood moms, who subsequently looked out the window and discovered their little ones were floatless as well.  It was all over.

As for the second question, no, I do not see many Baby Sea Ponies who own their own seashell home.  In Ponyland, you must be at least twenty-one to take out a mortgage.