1985: Rainbow Ponies

STARFLOWER

Blue unicorn pony with melon/pink/blue/neon yellow mane and tail, glittering purple stars symbol

I always liked Starflower.

Oddly, for some reason in every UK illustration of this pony (comic AND fact file), her symbol is a lot more literal to her name - flowers with star centres. The pony herself, however, falls back on an old favourite symbol design - the randomly arranged stars.

The Fact File makes mention of unicorn magic, turning water into rainbow coloured circles. It sounds like a rather hippyish kind of pony magic to me! I don't remember any significant magical behaviour by Starflower in the comics - and for the most part I think she was a background character, only playing small parts here and there.

Starflower was never sold in the UK - like the rest of her set.