1983:Earth Ponies

BUBBLES

Yellow SEATED earth pony with blue mane and tail, green and blue bubbles symbol. BLAZE ON NOSE.

There is no getting away from it -Bubbles and Seashell were both odd and unique at the same time. Bubbles - famous in the UK comics for being a little shy, for spending much time at the Waterfall with Sprinkles and for loving puddles and mud baths - is possibly the more hard to find of the two, who only had a limited one year release.

Distinctive due to her sitting down pose and the diamond shaped blaze on her forehead, Bubbles played a very brief role in the original pony special - I believe she got turned into a monster, actually, which is just charming.

It's not entirely clear how they were sold in the UK, only that they were and that they were sold as part of the same set they had been issued with in the United States. Their backcard featured these six earth ponies, with a general comment about the ponies (no story). Thanks to Rowenatm for this information!

It's worth mentioning here that variant releases of Bubbles seldom - if ever - have the blaze on the forehead, though many have freckles or nothing at all about the face.