1983: Earth Ponies
BOW TIE
Blue earth pony with pink hair, pink bows symbol. FRECKLED.
Bow Tie. Obsessive about ribbons, this cute little character appeared in animation bedecked with them, and even got kidnapped to make them in one of the pony comic stories. She and Applejack were cast as great friends, and a sweeter, more patient friend than Bow Tie would be hard to find.
Her issue, like Applejack's was complicated. Initially she was sold everywhere in the same style -the shy pose as shown above, with silky straight hair. Then, when she and Applejack were re-released as part of the next set of Earth Ponies, there was a parting of the ways. In the US and Canada, she retained her shy pose, instead inheriting curly hair (a new gimmick for that year). But in the UK release (coined by Hasbro in their list as "Groom and Style" ponies) she retained her straight hair - but changed poses. This time she was made in the pose given to the original six My Little Ponies.
In the Ponywear commercial for 1985 (UK), Bow Tie infamously forgot her costume for the fancy dress party and wound up arriving in her 'birthday suit' :)
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