1987: Twinkle Eye Ponies

BRIGHT EYES

Periwinkle blue earth pony with white, gold, red, dark red mane and tail, red and white alarm clock symbol.JEWELLED EYES.

Though in Ebay terms Bright Eyes has never really competed with Mimic for being the most sought after from the set, she is a little pony who seems a touch obscure. Some collectors will even claim she is more difficult to find than her unicorn set-mate - and it does seem that many of this set of Twinkle Eye Ponies are difficult to lay paws on.

Bright Eyes is a bit of an enigma to me, because I grew up knowing only one pony under this name - the Seven Character Pony from the MLP Tales cartoon series. She has a unique and striking colour scheme, though the correlation between her name (anyone else thinking Watership Down?) and the alarm clock is a touch tenuous in my view.

Bright Eyes never played a part in the cartoon show. Her backcard story seems potentially inspired by Megan's trick in "Escape From Catrina", to get the baby ponies to go to bed. After a long spell of storytelling, Bright Eyes's audience don't want to sleep - so she produced an enchanted alarm clock which danced with each baby pony until they were tired and happy to drop into their cribs. (Odd...but cute!)

She was never sold in the United Kingdom.