My Little Pony - UK

My Little Pony was a toyline originally designed for the US market. However, with its success the ponies began to be produced and sold in many other countries as well. Some times these ponies were colored like their US release, some times they were a variant (colored differently or designed differently than their US release), or some times an entirely new and unique pony was created. This is especially true in the UK which had many unique sets of ponies produced for their market. Some of these ponies would also go on to be sold in other countries, mainly European.
According to Hasbro, the UK pony line officially started in 1985. Before that time My Little Pony products may have been imported.

1982

My Little Pony - Collector's Ponies
The first set of My Little Pony with flat hooves, may have been released in the UK. If these ponies had been released in the UK they would probably have been imports and look no different than the US toyline (though they might have been packaged differently).
These 'Collector Ponies' were released with and without flat hooves all around the world, so it would have been highly unusual for them not to have been released, in some form, in the UK as well.
Of these ponies Snuzzle and Butterscotch were definitely released in the UK, but later in the toyline and with special playsets of their own.

Minty	Snuzzle	Bluebelle
Blossom	Butterscotch	Cotton Candy

 

Bluebelle is white with purple hair and pink stars as her symbol. This pony's image was sent in as a UK pony, but there is some mystery about her. According to sahelisa, "she sometimes pop up on ebay with blue head / white body or white head/blue body, or all-white..." So this is a mystery pony since we are not sure if this is a second where bits of left over ponies were put together to make a whole pony, if she just fades easily, or if she is really from the UK at all.

 

1983

After the release of the first My Little Pony toy set other pony sets were released to the UK. These ponies were also imports since Hasbro UK had not yet begun producing their own ponies. All of these ponies, unless otherwise mentioned, look exactly like their US release.

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