1989: Loving Family Ponies

APPLE DELIGHT


MUMMY APPLE DELIGHT

DADDY APPLE DELIGHT

BABY SISTER APPLE DELIGHT

BABY BROTHER APPLE DELIGHT


MUMMY: White earth pony with pale red mane and tail, red apples symbol all across body.
DADDY: White earth pony, clydesdale hooves, with yellow mane and tail, trees symbol all across body.
BABY SISTER: White earth baby pony with yellow and pale red mane and tail, red apples and trees with apples on symbol across body.
BABY BROTHER: White earth baby colt (ringed hooves) with yellow and pale red mane and tail, red apples and trees with apples on symbol across body.

The Apple Delight Loving Family were, logically enough, embroiled in all things apple-related! The babies also seemed to be the most studious, as they were the only baby ponies to really care about learning their alphabet :)

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.


MUMMY APPLE DELIGHT:
UK RELEASE MOC
(thanks to AIKE for this picture)


BABY BROTHER APPLE DELIGHT: MOC (UK Exclusive)
(Thanks to LadyG for this image)



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 APPLE DELIGHT
(No Country Of Manufacture)


DADDY APPLE DELIGHT
(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.