1986: Play and Care Set/Beddy Bye Eye Baby Ponies
BABY HEART THROB
Lavender pink baby pegasus pony with dark pink mane and tail, painted three pink hearts symbol.
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Lavender pink baby pegasus pony with dark pink mane and tail, painted three pink hearts with blue wings symbol.
Just to complicate the already complicated world of baby ponies with or without fluttering eyelashes, Baby Heart Throb has more than just two simple editions. Since this is a United Kingdom based (and biased) website, the picture shown above is that of the version sold most commonly over here.
Most often, Baby Heart Throb's symbol matched the adult SO SOFT version's symbol and not the original Pegasus Heart Throb. I guess, since neither were sold here, Hasbro didn't really think it mattered what symbol our baby pony had.
Sometimes Baby Heart Throb was sold with WINGED hearts to match the origina pegasus pony's symbol. Since Italian and normal versions of Heart Throb were sold in these countries (so I am told), this does make good sense. But all of the illustrations in the UK SHOWING Baby Heart Throb showed her with winged hearts. And the MIP image provided for this page shows the winged heart baby version in the UK box, which suggests that both versions did see a release here (although I have never seen one second hand from the UK, so it might be that they were boxed in UK packages for the international market).
All very confusing.
To start with, when first I found my Baby Heart Throb (above) at the local car boot sale, I wasn't entirely sure WHO she was. (And, considering all this, can you blame me??)
 BABY HEART THROB (PLAY AND CARE SET: WINGED HEARTS) |
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BABY HEART THROBPeople get very confused as to which version was sold where, because of the mangled artwork. It's also fair to say that Baby Heart Throb isn't common in the UK or in other countries - but that the one with winged hearts is probably seen less often on Ebay.
Finally, of course, there is the Beddy Bye Eye baby. She was sold in North America and some parts of Europe and Australasia (I know that the Netherlands at least had her, and I'm pretty sure about Australia, too). She was the baby pony cast in Bright Lights as one of the empty headed youngsters who got her shadow stolen by Knightshade, Ponyland's answer to glam rock.
