1984-7:PLAYSETS

BABY BUGGY


With BABY CUDDLES: (Aqua baby pony with pink mane and tail, pink rattle symbol)

Ah, the Baby Buggy. Immortalised through the television episode "The Revolt of Paradise Estate", when Baby Buggy not only comes to life, but also helps to save the day!

Baby Cuddles was always something of a spoiled, petulant little girl in the pony comics. She never wanted to cooperate and she was always causing a fuss. She was cast as the youngest baby pony, and often the adult ponies got stuck with effective 'babysitting' duties. She took a lot of attention, did Cuddles, and knew how to get it!!

The playset was released continuously from 1984 through to 1987-8 and she went through two incarnations. Both were sold globally and both are equally common as each other (which is very common, as is the buggy set). Oddly, it seems that the UK release had the Beddy Bye Eye baby Cuddles first, and THEN sold the original baby in later years. Certainly, the UK box that features the regular eyed baby pony is dated 1987.


BABY CUDDLES' UK BOX: 1987. Box features regular BABY CUDDLES

Of course, the other school of argument to this discussion is that all boxes in the UK had the regular baby pictured and the dates just changed according to the year of release. This I cannot currently confirm one way or another, but the box does feature Posey and Lickety Split, both ponies available from 1985, so it is possible that all versions of Baby Cuddles were sold in the same design box in the UK. More information is needed on this!

BABY CUDDLES: BOX PHOTOGRAPHY (UK RELEASE, 1987)
featuring LICKETY SPLIT and GROOM & STYLE POSEY

Also, several later UK sold packages apparently claimed to contain a Baby Pony made in Spain -though as yet none when opened have yielded anything other than a normal Hong Kong Baby Cuddles. The box dated 1987, from which I have done this page's photography, states that the pony is made in Hong Kong.

Original Baby Cuddles has three white freckles on her nose, whilst Beddy Bye Eye Cuddles has lost these freckles, but gained open and shut eyes.

BEDDY BYE EYE and ORIGINAL
Baby Cuddles

The Baby Buggy was re-vamped in North America in the early nineties to form the "Princess Baby Buggy", with a new look and a brand new Baby Pony.