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Nirvana Ponies by Country
Argentina Australia Brazil Colombia Netherlands France
Germany Greece Italy India Japan Macau
Mexico Peru Scandinavia Spain South Africa Venezuela
French Hooves

Nirvana ponies are pony variants with very limited distribution. (Variants on the ponies sold in North America.)

These ponies are exclusive to certain countries because they were either only made in that country or they were only sold in that country (and made in China or Hong Kong for instance).

Ponies are listed here under their respective country. You can click on the country name for more general characteristics of ponies and extra info on country´s pony production.

Ponies with subtle variations can sometimes be identified by their hoof markings, ie MACAU, SPAIN, ITALY etc.

Ponies were exported to neighboring countries, so a MIB pony in a German language package may not be a German nirvana pony. You have to check on the package where the pony is made, or somehow get a look at the pony's hooves.


Argentina

Argentina[1]
  • Argentinian Ponies are ponies made in Argentina. They were sold in Argentina and neighboring countries,
  • Baby Ponies and Winger Ponies can usually be identified by their hooves, stamped "MADE IN ARGENTINA".


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  • Adult Ponies are less clearly marked are Argentina made, they often have two digit date stamps on their hooves
  • They are special because the Argentinian line of ponies is the most varied and colorful!
  • Also Baby versions of adult ponies that were not released in the US and Europe were made in Argentina, such as Baby Sparkler.
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Baby Sparkler
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Argentinian Windy

Australia

Australia[2]

The alternate Birth Flower ponies are generally referred to as exclusive to Australia, although they were also available in New Zealand, Sweden, and Denmark

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February.jpg
February Violet
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April Daisy June Rose



Brazil

Brazil[3]
  • Easy to identify,

All are stamped ESTRELA MADE IN BRAZIL

  • Brazillian ponies are made in Brazil


MOC Love Melody

Brazilian Shady's Hoof
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  • Some ponies do not have symbols,

but rather came with outfits

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Love Melody Bubbles


Colombia

Colombia[4][5]
  • Colombian ponies are made in Colombia
  • baby pony hooves are marked MADE IN COLOMBIA
  • adults rarely have a country identifying mark
  • there were only nine different pony characters released, but with a huge number of variants among those ponies



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Bow Tie (above)

Baby Blue Belle aka Baby Star's hooves (top right)

Baby Blue Belle aka Baby Star (bottom right)

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Purplehair-columbia-turquoise-baby-bluebelle.jpg

Netherlands

(Dutch)

Netherlands
The latest G1 ponies made are the Dutch variants released in 1995, well after the line had ended everywhere else. They are mostly based on previous ponies but with color mix ups.


Baby flower loose.jpg


Baby blumen dutch MOC.jpg

Flower Pony

France

France

French Ponies are ponies made in France. They are easily spotted as they are not only marked France, but the "MADE IN FRANCE" stamp is in a circle, the only circular country stamp. French-hooves.jpg

French windy.jpg

Windy, with France only lavender and yellow hair


Germany

Germany

German Ponies are those sold exclusively in Germany, and sometimes nearby/German speaking countries.


German-skydancer.jpg


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Skydancer

Nachtlicht (Night Light)



Greece

Greece

Greek ponies were made in Greece. Their hooves are only marked occasionally with a Greek letter. They have particularly fine eye lashes/eye liner.

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Greek-baby-minty2.jpg
Baby Minty
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Firefly Lady Bird


Italy

Italy

Italian ponies are those made in Italy and stamped ITALY on their hooves. They were sold in Italy and other European countries, therefore the language on the packaging varies. Rare Italian ponies are the pink, blue, and yellow cotton candies made by Furga. These do not have ITALY on the hooves.

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Minty's hooves
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Lickety-Split Minty


India

India

In India, only the first six collector ponies were sold. The ponies were made in India, and clearly marked as such. They were made through Playskool, so the hooves are marked Funskool rather than Hasbro. India-cotton-candy-hooves.jpg

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Cotton Candy


Japan

Japan

Hasbro very occasionally licensed the My Little Pony brand to Takara Tomy.

  • G1 Takara Ponies
  • Made in G2, G1 Retro Baby Sized pony keychains


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Takara Pinky
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Baby Sugarberry keychain Takara Pony Outfit


Macau

Macau

Macau ponies were made in and marked Macau, they were not sold there. (Macau is in China, somewhat similar to Hong Kong.) Only the first six ponies and Lemon Drop were made. These ponies were mostly sold in Germany, and other European countries. Macau ponies are known for a few unique color combinations. Most notably Jenny,a brown and white version of Peachy. [6] [7]

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Jenny

"Blosscotch" (Blossom's colors and Butterscotch's symbol)



Mexico

Mexico

Mexican ponies were made and sold in Mexico. Initially the ponies were licensed to/made by a company called Lily Ledy, such ponies have clear hoof marks that say "Lily Ledy" and "Made in Mexico". This company made only the first six ponies, but then their factory burnt down and Hasbro then gave the license to a company called Auriken (who also made versions of the first six).

  • Lily Ledy versions of the first six are more rare than Auriken ones.
  • Auriken ponies have no marks on their hooves, their hooves are either completely flat or concave.
  • Because of the different factories the first six ponies made in Mexico are sometimes not even referred to as Mexican, but in reference to their production company. Ie "Lily Ledy Minty" or "Auriken FF Butterscotch" (aka "Mexican FF Butterscotch"), whereas later ones are just "Mexican Firefly". Any non- first six Mexican pony is also an Auriken pony, so calling it "Mexican" is enough.


The variations in printing, type of plastic used, and slight mold variations help identify the completely unmarked Auriken ponies. (Not to mention the place that you found that pony is a good hint, but with eBay these days a pony's true origin can be tricky.) [8]

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Tootsie Firefly


Peru

Peru

Peruvian ponies were made in and sold in Peru. They are marked Basa, by the company who manufactured the ponies. Sometimes it also states Nova. The ponies were sold by Maxi.

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Peru-skydancer.jpg

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Bowtie unicorn variant

Skydancer Posey Hooves



Spain

Spain

In Spain, mi pequeno pony was first introduced by manufacturers Brekar and Milton Bradley under Hasbro licensing. These ponies have a piggy pose and the hooves are not marked. They have blinking eyes like the US Beddy-Bye-Eyed baby ponies. They are referred to as Spanish Piggy ponies and are rare and valuable.

After the piggy ponies, regular Spanish ponies were made and sold in Spain. Some have hooves marked Spain, and some do not. Spanish ponies have been found in other countries, though it is unclear if these were actually sold in another country or whether people bought them while on vacation in Spain and brought them home to their respective home countries. Many variations and types were made.

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Spanish Piggy Orquidea (Blossom)

Variant pose Masquarade



Scandinavia [9]

South Africa

Venezuela


See also

References

  1. http://mlparena.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=68228.html
  2. http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/altbirthflowers/altbirthflowers.html
  3. http://www.mlparena.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=186422.html
  4. http://www.mlparena.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=183716/postdays=0/postorder=asc/start=0.html
  5. https://sites.google.com/site/poniesofcolombia/home
  6. http://yum-yum-poniesfromallovertheworld.weebly.com/macau.html
  7. http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/international_alt.html
  8. http://www.mexicanponyparadise.com/infoframes.html
  9. http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook/nssponies.html