Backstroke
BACKSTROKE
Raspberry pink with gold hair, aqua and orange fish float
Tiny Bubbles
TINY BUBBLES
powder blue with yellow hair, yellow and orange duck float
Splasher
SPLASHER
aqua with lavender hair, green and aqua blue turtle float


 

Baby Sea Ponies
This Set MIP

There is an uncanny logic beginning to develop in the Hasbro Plan somehow, when adult ponies are followed by babies and adult sea ponies by baby sea ponies. Of course, the design was based loosely on 'seahorses', but for some reason it seems to have been understood that as 'baby' sea ponies, they were not confident swimmers, so needed to be given a float to help them. In truth it was simply to help them float in the child's bath, for they did not have weighted tails like the adults.
Baby Sea Ponies would prove more popular than adult sea ponies and there would be many more over the years to come.
Splasher was the 'character' of the set, being the non-swimmer who would splash and play about with her friends as much as possible. Backstroke was the elegant swimmer and Tiny Bubbles, erm, blew bubbles ;)

 


Surf Rider
SURF RIDER
lavender with pink hair, blue and lavender fish float
Sea Shimmer
SEA SHIMMER
yellow green with dark green hair, pink and green turtle float
Sea Star
SEA STAR
yellow with lavender hair, pink and lavender duck float.