The Many Oddities of My Little Pony Toys

[@maguma3419]

Bumblesweet looks like the missing link between the Pie and the Apple families

[@Germmillions]

I mean they do have the chance of being related

[@pepele_Pew]

And for some reason her name was changed to Honey Buzz in a brushable figure

[@Sagee-m8t]

Fr

[@Mooms]

Something I never liked about some Princess Celestia toys is how they’d make her eyes look to the side which makes her look incredibly weird from the front Also I kind of miss when they would include random “background” ponies in the early brushable toyline before they got completely phased out later on. I remember owning a few of them as a kid lol

[@aaaoooosoveryeepy]

Moldy Twilight. MOLDY. TWILIGHT. "Dear Princess Celestia, I'm so itchy.."

[@happyskull2345]

I'd read that creepypasta.

[@dsidrei]

Infection level 5

[@raelogan]

That's just an Infection AU

[@ouchyeouchzowie]

*cough*

[@catnap-Ho8vr]

Celestia:Don't worry, that brush is usable to scratch

[@pikawh0]

I really like the toy exclusive princesses, they make collecting g4s much more fun since brushable ponies didnt have much character variety unlike the blind bags.

[@LocalTorchwoodIntern]

Honestly yeah and I do think that Skyla was part of a maybe idea of bringing "Flurryheart" to the show but was set on the backburner for whatever reason, being change in show plans, being moved due to the idea of Alicorn Twilight, or was just that, a weird toy only Alicorn with no real connection to any of the main ones.

[@kirfluff]

8:45 is very funny to me, because when i was the target demographic i DEFINITELY noticed, and little inconsistencies like that annoyed me to an abnormal degree 😭😭 the same with fluttershy having rainbow dash's body type in the earliest blind bags, it made kid me so mad

[@pishagerudo]

SAAAME LOL it was even insulting to me as a kid bc i KNEW they thought we wouldnt notice ... like i am NOT that dumb!!!

[@theserioushouse]

SURPRISINGLY kids want accurate toys of their favourite characters. I guess Hasbro didn't get that message lol

[@Nudibranch_]

Yes me too!

[@-astraldove-]

SAMEE I hated my pink talking celestia so much but mom wouldn’t buy me the fixed design because I “already had talking princess celestia” 😭😭😭

[@eyesareyumky2649]

Great video! My theory on Gold Lily and Sterling's existence is that they wanted to put to use the large alicorn mold. Theres only a handful of canon characters that use it, and they probably can only do so many rereleases on Celestia, Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon before they run out of ideas. Im guessing thats also why Twilight got some toys where they used the medium size alicorn mold.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

“You can do things like collect them, sell them on eBay and even-” Gonna be honest my body activated my fear response for a second then.

[@LulamoonVA]

It feels like AJ was made for the more adventurous part that Lauren had planned for MLP before she left, so after that they probably just didnt know what to do with her and left her out

[@regionalatleast]

can i say that bumblesweet was not made up for the sake of the blindbags, shes actually a g3 pony !!!!!

[@protoxur1258]

And she’s one of my favorites too

[@axolotlfairy2473]

A lot of the random blindbag/brushable ponies from early on were g4ifications of g3 ponies that never appeared in the show

[@shinysnake]

@@protoxur1258 same here!

[@RaphaelHamato659]

1:25 I love how Fluttershy is just a recolored Rainbow Dash.

[@theserioushouse]

@@RaphaelHamato659 they didn't fix that for like two years!

[@rainy5517]

She was so hard to get

[@Mooms]

@@RaphaelHamato659 I remember getting one of those as a kid and pretending Fluttershy got a haircut lol

[@getsouped]

scene hair fluttershy ..

[@ArthurTRead]

thought he would've mentioned that as an oddity tbh. it sure is odd to me. "mane six molds"? nah. mane *five*

[@TheDevilishangel123]

2:00 Fluttershy didn't even get a unique mold! They just recolored Rainbow Dash!

[@ashleychanforever]

she did get one later on lol

[@Stardust_42]

Let’s fly to the castle 😔✊🔥🔥

[@TobbyMLP]

My wings are so pretty!

[@TransformersFan2.0]

Yay princess celestia

[@CreativeStarlet]

​@@TransformersFan2.0 "I'm a princess. Are you a princess too?"

[@TransformersFan2.0]

@@CreativeStarlet take a pair of wings

[@Rae0814]

I feel like they felt like removing AJ’s hat because they didn’t want to spend more money to make a small hat that people would likely lose. Princess Sterling and Princess Gold Lily give me the vibe that they intended to translate Generation One’s interpretation of Princess Ponies into FiM, everyone forgot about it, and Sterling and Gold Lily are leftovers from that.

[@siqxyre8473]

Why is she sporelight sparkle and not twilight sporekle

[@martal7766]

Sporelight sporekle

[@TheRedStinger82]

0:10 Ah yes. My favorite thing to do on my free time is throw my favorite toys at the wall.

[@theserioushouse]

LET'S FLY TO THE CASTLE

[@avastoyboxandarcade]

I've been the proud owner of a very pink celestia since childhood. Her hair's a mess and her body is a bit discolored from age but she has a special place in my heart

[@deathfangthegothicgamer5601]

my grandma got rid of mine and nice a Pilot Dib pfp

[@glitch_city_69]

missed the oppertunity to call her twilight sporekle

[@rorysuperstar]

For the Applejack plushies, they couldve gotten rid of her hat so you could put her in different outfits and/or to sell her hat as a seperate accessory. i know the build a bear mlp plushies did this.

[@Mooms]

I remember that at least one Applejack figure included her hat but they casted it in blue/teal plastic for some reason

[@getsouped]

@@Moomsyeah, im positive one of my applejack brushable sets came with a hat. ill try to look for it later to see if im misremembering or not

[@BIGCATSMILES00]

These don’t even exist in stores anymore.. :(

[@TransformersFan2.0]

Nooooooooo

[@mrgklnds]

I mostly think the hat was excluded because removable parts can be a choking hazard to children It could be molded to the toy though but itd probably be more work for them lol

[@saraschmidt5612]

Honestly, Applejack not having a hat wouldn’t be such a big deal if the artwork on the package didn’t show her wearing one. It’d still be weird, but the toyline is clearly its own thing from the show, so you could maybe give it a pass.

[@pepele_Pew]

7:04 these toys were made before the show started to be producted. I think Célestia was originally pink but they changed to white and used the pink on Cadance

[@Mooms]

Lauren confirmed that Celestia was supposed to be white from the beginning, Hasbro changed cause they thought a pink princess toy would sell better

[@daraghokane4236]

@@Mooms I think with white and black for Luna and Celestria it works but, If there is only one princess just make her pink

[@In_my_lane]

I love these funky plastic horses! The early G4 toyline was such a wild west, and I really miss that.

[@jillibilli3481]

This helped me so much. I had these toys as a kid and always wondered what the characters came from. There were so many that were off the books not from the show! (Awesome video! keep up the good work.)

[@mostlyghostey]

I think you’re looking at this through too much of a G4 lens. As long as my little pony toy lines have existed there have been characters created that don’t show up in the shows. They are both to add variety to the toy line for kids, but I think the bigger draw is adding variety to the toy line for collectors. I learned recently that toy companies like Hasbro have to market to children’s parents because children don’t have money so that also means marketing to an adult audience and Hasbro is very aware of their adult collectors otherwise ponies like upside down Applejack and the original line rereleases wouldn't have been developed.

[@Era1113]

Plus some of the ones he talks about, Bumblesweet I know for sure but I think I recognised other names, are just ponies from previous generations, not really "new" ponies

[@fungills]

your voice sounds like eridan ampora from homestuck loll, great video,!!!

[@XxKittyMewMewXx9]

Even in the coloring books AJ didn't have her hat until later print releases.

[@haileyfandroidfan1164]

4:46 i used to have the sleeping applejack figurine but i lost it and all i have is the bed from the set

[@rice_kr1spyz]

thomas flyswatter pfp!!!

[@islamorgan7463]

Dewdrop dazzle was unironically my favorite pony toy to play with. I remember being very upset when I found out she wasn't an ACTUAL character

[@dragoncross42]

It was fun getting to drive into the oddities of the MLP toys, i got to say the moldy furry Twilight was the strangest and weirdest one i saw in the video, it was interesting to learn about it. Loved the visual style in this video it was really unique!!!

[@nexusgalaxy9249]

Sporelight sporkle

[@demian_demand]

Oh, I would've loved to see so soft g4 ponies :(

[@pepele_Pew]

1:26 Looks like Fluttershy cut her hair ! In the show, Fluttershy has a beautiful long hair, but instead of giving her a mold, they nade her with short hair ! They literally recolored Rainbow Dash 😅

[@reverseshin]

When I was younger i used to collect and Yes play a lot of my little pony toys and I loved getting the sets. I remember having some of the target exclusive canterlot stuff and also having a lot of the limited stuff.

[@IsilionNELE]

Celestia isn't the only one who is incorrectly thought by many to be white. Rarity isn't a white pony either, she is actually really light grey. You can tell by comparing the colour of their coat with the actual white in her eyes. This was also confirmed by one of the animators (was it Sibsy?) who revealed the RGB colour codes for each of the ponies

[@QuadElementals]

Lauren Faust the creator confirmed they're both white... so no, you're wrong

[@IsilionNELE]

@@QuadElementals Lauren Faust lost all authority the moment she left the team. The others now have the full authority to make any changes they want.

[@Bunnikitten]

I USED TO HAVE THE PRINCESS STERLING DOLL I MISS HER SO MUCHHH

[@saintzeroinfinity]

0:52 🤠 sold separately, lol!

[@pepele_Pew]

2:08 I've only seen Trixie with the Rarity mold, and this one is with the Twilight mold with a 3D star

[@T1CKETYB00]

missed opportunity to call her “twilight SPOREkle”

[@Lunar_willoww]

I remember being pretty young when the Skyla thing was going around. There were badly photoshopped Cadence images and everything, it was a wild west I was really confused when Flurry Heart was revealed and when I came back to the show, seemingly no one remembered a certain pepto bismol horse... (I miss Skyla)

[@wizzaroot]

I don't think they "made moldy twilight red" I think the original color got terribly discolored or something. Or the purple color didn't come out the way they thought it would.

[@Toastymarshmallow80]

G1 fan we had flutter ponies, scented ponies, big brother ponies, ponies with fake gems or twinkle eye ponies, sea ponies, fuzzy ponies. 😅

[@EllieFoster]

I remember the one with gem eyes!

[@katie_and_her_dolls]

I remember as a kid whenever I would see a pony toy who didn't appear in the show, I was convinced they were coming to the show at some point. I was so disappointed when they never made it on tv! I was convinced the two princesses must be the lost sisters or something.

[@Kocham1bigos]

03:34 because that's how mlp Has always been making characters that never appear in the tv series

[@Mooms]

They did it previously in G3 too

[@Ninten110dogs]

0:08 I was fully expecting "put them in a jar"

[@hydreg]

I think accurate Celestia toy would be white with pink shimmer finish (it was common in late G3 toys to have shimmer finish).

[@banquo0]

A marvelous menagerie of MLP merchandise! All the more to throw ar my walls. Thank you, Tobby, i feel seen

[@TobbyMLP]

Have fun throwing them at walls! :D

[@HipKoopa]

Princess Sterling was always in the show. She's actually one of my favorite characters

[@Emptyvice]

3:25 I GOT FEATHERMAY AS A KID ONCE AND I ALWAYS WAS CONFUSED

[@TransformersFan2.0]

I have her too And I called her rainbow feather because of the different colors of feathers for her cutie mark

[@pepele_Pew]

2:21 Berry Shine is an earth pony, and here, she magically become a unicorn for some reason

[@GlobeQueenViews]

If I had to guess I’d say Luna is lighter in her toys because her earlier design was probably the model all the toy manufacturers were given. It also could be because some of the details (the lines for her eyes or whatever) wouldn’t appear that well on a darker body color. Either way, neat video!

[@aceteroiid]

I have heard that Luna was lighter because its a cheaper colour to use in toy production

[@lunarpanda1395]

I honestly miss some of those Hasbro OC ponies. A lot of the bg ponies from the show don't really do it for me and I just prefer those original characters way better. Not to mention that at some point Hasbro just said "whatever" and only ever released the main six and Starlight with only new ponies coming in those blind bags. Makes collecting really unfun.

[@night4138]

You can tell Celestia is a pink off white color if you compare to her teeth It would also make sense given her outline is also pink, and the show uses colored line art mostly

[@QuadElementals]

Celestias not pink, Lauren Faust confirmed this

[@pepele_Pew]

4:43 there was a toy of her which comes with a hat but it's blue

[@Flour262]

10:26 I had this when I was little but it was the rainbow dash version

[@Caelesistis_Aurealis]

7:03 I think those pink Celestia toys were manufactered after the series, that’s why Celestia in the early toys was pink 11:45 Princess Skyla would be the older sister of FlurryHearth

[@HankMFWimbleton]

what do you mean they just make bootlegs of their own toys

[@sketchyskies8531]

I miss like 2 seconds ago when I didn’t know fuzzy Twilight existed

[@DecoderWalrus]

I love stuff like this, like the Toy company doesn't know or care to understand the deep lore, or really basic lore, like colors

[@-._.-dazai-._.-]

2:51 when i was little they sold them in sets instead of blind bags

[@asmrtpop2676]

I feel like I remember seeing both the blind bags and some dedicated sets, but I could be wrong, I wasn’t in the fandom itself.

[@CactusMushroom]

Twinkleshine appears to actually be a real pony in the show, a background one, but one none the less her coat color is supposed to be ivory, and it appears almost every white pony ends up light pink for some reason. Also the main theory of the pony baby was that it was supposed to be flurryheart but the episode with flurry hearts birth came out in i think season 5 which is a few years from 2012, so the theory basically goes that they where supposed to do the whole baby thing earlier but for one reason or another decided not to and ended up doing it later instead but since the baby design was used in the toy they scrapped it and made an entirely new one.

[@Musicradio77Network]

As of this video, the “My Little Pony” toys are now inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame this year. The others were “Transformers” and “Phase 10” as their inductees. Congratulations to “My Little Pony”.

[@AmethystOrlando]

When it comes to the lack of Applejack's hat, I think the toys with brushable hair is understandable since hair has been a longtime selling point for the toys.

[@flamingcandle6881]

Love watching these videos especially about the toys i have way too many of them

[@lesliepicard576]

You have such an interesting cadence and I’m really digging it :)

[@TheSimba86]

My God, I never noticed that Celestia is actually light pink

[@katztails]

moldy twilight is from the infection au😟

[@lurlinmasmultifandom]

I had the Twinkleshine and Feathermay brushables as a kid and I literally loved them so much😂I thought they were fan made and that I could have a character on the show someday😂Also Lyra was one of my favorite brushables and I literally had no idea who she was in the show😂😂😂

[@ouchyeouchzowie]

i remember finding it really weird that fluttershy was the only mane six member to not have a unique mold, especially when that means that all of the pegasi figures have to share the same mold. my guess for luna's color palette is that her model sheets were given to the toy designers either before or during her debut but before her redesign, and they didn't want to go back to change it because they didn't want to make another model sheet when they can just keep making purple luna toys

[@ccc7_studios]

I remember when I was a kid, my parents bought me a set with Gold Lily, I chose it myself, and then when I got carried away with the ask blog of Princess Molestia, I started playing as if Gold Lily was a Molestia.

[@Mooms]

Early art for Applejack didn’t show her with a hat and considering the toys were developed alongside the show that’s likely why she didn’t have her hat (though that doesn’t explain why she didn’t have her hat later on)

[@bokchas23]

Brooo i HAD Princess Sterling and saw Gold Lily next to her but my dad would only let me buy one so I got Sterling I ADORED HER, she was my favorite in my entire collection of MLP toys, I knew she wasn’t related to the show in anyway but I didn’t care because I made up my own stories I had this one purple MLP toy that had giant butterfly like wings that I made Sterlings little sister (or daughter, I don’t remember) and god I wish I got Gold Lily too man I even had an extra really pink celestial toy that I painted and turned into a custom princess too but I don’t think I have her anymore, I don’t remember what I named her 😭

[@ayafied420]

princess sterling and gold lily are so nostalgic to me. My parents got them for a fammily friend's daugther,but we got to keep gold lily. me and my brother were big mlp nerds,so we were really confused about them and who they were. i remember searching up their names online with hopess id find any info on them..anything...nothing was found. i had forgotten their names not so long ago,but now that ive watched this video,ill send it to my brother for nostalgia's sake.

[@skootergirl22]

My alicorn oc DO NOT STEAL

[@axolotlfairy2473]

Twinkleshine actually does appear in the show, she's one of twilight's unicorn friends in canterlot. You just didn't recognize her because they used rarity stock art on the brushable and made her pink even though she's white in the show

[@Mooms]

They likely made her pink for the same reason the early Celestia toys were pink

[@chelseaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

I used to have both Princess sterling and goldlily, until my friend stole them and never told me

[@Thein-between-r5r]

9:20 As a kid I hated the weird colors and loved the dark colors

[@baby_golden_gaming]

My mom used to buy me the little figurines in one box during Christmas back in the 2000s I loved those things I had small books cds etc and the baby ponies I had baby sweetie belle and baby sunny daze and many more lol

[@kolonarulez5222]

I enjoyed making up my own story for the recolor ponies. I remember being so excited for Princesses Sterling and Goldlily but nope

[@evevoli]

my crack theory on luna's colors being weird is they just didn't get the memo on her S2 onward design until way late; her first few releases were based on her S1 design (using the smaller mold because there was no alternative), and then they made the medium alicorn mold for cadence and probably went "oh this fits (S1) luna pretty well let's do it." i don't think the show staff and toymakers communicate small details during production (which is why new show characters could take a year or two to get toys, they're going off of aired episodes), so while they were doing this they probably had no idea the show was changing luna's design. and by the time Luna Eclipsed aired they had already committed to S1 luna on the taller mold and i assume didn't want to change it a third time, so that's why it took until the reboot overhaul for them to finally fix her lol

[@hollytheanimalcrossingfan]

Maybe the alicorns could have been planned to appear but got scrapped from the show? Also i have a small apple jack figure that has her hat from a flavored water bottle

[@CozyGlow625]

I adore this already 💜❤️

[@Fluffy-Rose1993]

My biggest regret was not buying gen4 MLP toys when they were cheaper.

[@chinchilla0708]

So the main conclusion to all of these oddities is money. This is fair but mildly upsetting.

[@c0ffee_ad1ct_that_d0es_art]

Omg I just thrifted Dew Drop Dazzle the other day😂😂😂

[@EeseTheGeese]

That Twilight Sparkle thing is the most hilariously weird thing I've seen all day

[@lottafandoms]

Simply put, kids don't know any better and have little to no power besides complaining to their parents. So the toy industry is free to do as they please for easy money. People always tell me "relax, it's for kids" that doesn't mean we should give them this kind of shlop, they deserve good things. Both toys and shows alike.

[@aperson2go497]

The thumbnail should've said Twilight Sporkle ✨

[@pepele_Pew]

2:16 Carrot Top, aka Golden Harvest

[@nomnomnom6908]

I'm not gonna lie, the carrot pony looks pretty good actually

[@Breeee9]

1:44 the one on the right looks like its ment to be miss cake 6:26 INCORRECT!!!!!! I would say pale-light-rose-pink

[@StarGraveyard]

Wish they did a so soft collection with gen 4

[@pipisochkaaaa]

Sporelight sparkle is my favourite background pony

[@xXfrankie.steinksXx]

did i miss it or was there no part in this discussing what the deal is with sporelight sparkle outside of the tiny bit at the end of the video just showing her and not talking about it

[@TobbyMLP]

Moldy Twilight originally was in the video, however, I cut it out from the rest of the video at the request of the current owner of the prototype. But basically, the moldy Twilight is a weird prototype that was likely seemingly a failed/rejected attempt at making a flocked So Soft pony toyline for G4, similar to the So Soft pony toyline seen in G1 of MLP from the 1980s. Some person who worked at the factory the prototype was made at then sold it on Ebay.

[@Placeholder501]

Huh. Your right. Celestia does appear to be a very very very light, effectively white, shade of pink.

[@pepele_Pew]

Princess Luna is dark blue, but in the toys she is always represented by purple

[@pepele_Pew]

3:08 Pink Twinkleshine

[@asmrtpop2676]

No shave November Twilight!