Mummy Charms

Since I don't have anything even close to a full set of these, and since the symbols and identities of them are often difficult to tell from photographs (thanks to glare and wear), I'm going to base the following information on pictures taken from the mail in leaflet.

My first point is to quell the ignorant rumour that "Mummy Charms" is a typo on the part of Hasbro. Anyone with any cultural knowledge of the UK would know that - in most areas - this is how we spell the word that in North America is given as "Mommy". Both spellings are correct for this set - logically they were sold in North America as "Mommy Charms" and the UK (plus I think Australia) as "Mummy Charms". My apologies for the mini-rant - but some levels of cultural ignorance are just beyond bearing.

Now I've done with that, on to the charms themselves. There are twenty of these in all - all of them bearing a resemblance to an earlier McDonalds' offer featuring charms of the original six ponies.

Children could also send off for a charm bracelet on which to clip their charms. Naturally, these are quite tricky to find second hand, especially in good condition. Above is a picture of what a child would receive if they sent off for their charm bracelet (thank you SO much Lady Guinevere for this picture!). I'm told that the UK bracelet was metal, whilst the US one was plastic. Myself, I've never even seen one outside photographs!

Each charm is no taller than an inch at most- probably smaller - and about an inch across. Their hair is moulded on, and not rooted, and they only have symbols on one side.

The charms were also packaged with certain ponies from this time period - in the UK, I have seen them sealed with Loving Family Ponies and Princess Brush and Grow ponies, among others.