1989: Loving Family Ponies

BRIGHT BOUQUET


MUMMY BRIGHT BOUQUET

DADDY BRIGHT BOUQUET

BABY SISTER BRIGHT BOUQUET

BABY BROTHER BRIGHT BOUQUET


MUMMY: Pinkish purple earth pony with lavender mane and tail, blue and pink flowers symbol across body.
DADDY: Pinkish purple earth pony, clydesdale hooves, with blue mane and tail, blue hearts symbol across body.
BABY SISTER: Pinkish purple earth baby pony with lavender and blue mane and tail, blue and pink flowers and blue hearts symbol across body.
BABY BROTHER: Pinkish purple earth baby colt (ringed hooves)
with lavender and blue mane and tail, blue and pink flowers and blue hearts symbol across body.

(please note the colour shade differences in the above pictures are to do with photo lighting, the body tone in all four is the same).


The Bright Bouquet Loving Family were always somehow linked with autumn and with flowers in my mind. Yes, those are contradictory, but I have a vivid recollection of them on the front cover of a pony comic surrounded by sycamore seeds and Baby Half Note.
Mummy Bright Bouquet had a special talent - she could turn paper flowers into real ones, which, considering the number of flowers pony displays tended to use must have taken great pressure off of Posey's poor garden!

In the United Kingdom, the family comprised four members - mother, father, baby brother and baby sister. In the North American edition, the baby boy was not released, and the set only consisted of the other three ponies.

I believe that the North American release of the families also issued them in complete sets, whereas in the United Kingdom release, they were initially put out as seperate ponies. In their second year of issue, the families were sold together in 'gift sets'. None of the ponies really had much in the way of accessories - the adults had a hairbrush and ribbon and the babies either a coloured bow-tie (for the boys, as pictured on Baby Brother, above) or an 'I Luv You' hair clip (for the girls). Some were also sold during the Mummy Charm offer, meaning that there was often a second little friend hiding within the packages.

MUMMY BRIGHT BOUQUET
(No Country Of Manufacture)


DADDY BRIGHT BOUQUET
(No Country of Manufacture)

For some mysterious reason, each of the parent ponies also had a 'no country' version, pictured above. The babies did not have a no country version, and it has since been proven that these 'no country' ponies were actually made in Spain. These were sold continent-wide and there doesn't seem to be any particular logic to which versions were sold in what countries.