*Local Highlights*

The newest ponies are in Singapore - Friendship Ball Ponies (Sparkle Ponies & Dress-up Eveningwear Ponies) and Super-long Hair Ponies (Silly Sunshine & Silver Song).

You can now get a FREE copy of a MLP VCD, "A Charming Birthday" at Orchard Point OG with every purchase of a pony, limited to one disc per customer.

*World News*

The Target exclusive Easter Trio and Mail Order exclusive Dazzle Surprise have been discontinued in the USA. Sun Shimmer will be the new mail order pony! 

Promo Buy-1-Get-1-Free Twin Packs are now available to the UK with combinations of either Star Swirl or Butterscotch.

Australia has been reported to be getting Tea Leaf, a Toys'R'Us exclusive.

The little ponies are back with the same huge, round, keen eyes, chubby features and a charisma that no child can resist, girl or boy! Singapore Ponies follows mainly on the G3 ponies, to track the release on a specifically local basis (even though there may be some link information to other countries) and also to act a some sort of a guide on collecting My Little Pony to provide other (local) collectors information when need be.

Just to give "foreign ponies" an idea, Singapore (Origin: Singapura - means Lion City) is a country, part of South-East Asia, right below Malaysia, so we're not an obscure part of the UK, China or Europe that many people mistakenly thought. We are an island-city-state (3 in 1!) and still in itself a country.

Till today, there are still many who keep and collect My Little Pony as a childhood recollection, making the 20 year old toy line just as alive and vibrant as it was two decades ago (long live secondhand market!). Nobody can ever forget the charm and glory these ponies brought with them, the magic and happiness they bring to their owners. Singaporeans are no different.

Like many countries, My Little Ponies was one of the most memorable toy line in Singapore history, almost everyone from the 80s would have a vague link of what they are contemporary to other equally big sales hits such as Transformers, Care Bears, He-man, Barbie (yuck) and Mask. Similar to Australia's import pattern, there was an uneven mixture of largely UK and US ponies, with some other variants in between - generally US ponies as mainstream, however sometimes coming in incomplete sets and later compensated by ponies of various origins, normally European releases from the UK.

On a side note, Hasbro's late 1990 attempt to invigorate the My Little Pony line in 1997 failed quite miserably (now tagged as G2 ponies). Not only had the typical (not to mention deeply endeared), old packaging was changed, so did the logo and the looks of the ponies. What thought to be an ingenious overhaul turned out to be pathetic backfire - painful isn't it? The line was abruptly, however not unexpectedly, cut the next following year in 1998 in the USA. Gain or ill - subjective - Singapore never had a taste of those ponies on our shores. Simply, the toys never sold well  enough on the US test market to warrant themselves a place here. The line continued in Europe and slowly subsided to only France, enduring through the years until 2003 when it was quickly taken over by the G3 ponies.

All these years, Singaporean collectors could only watch from afar as the other countries laughed or bickered over what they have. However, 2003 seemed to have turned over the tides - My Little Pony are finally returning to our stores! Enjoy them while we can!