1987: Twinkle Eye Ponies

QUACKERS

White earth pony with blue, green, yellow and dark pink mane and tail, yellow duck with orange umbrella symbol.JEWELLED EYES.

Quackers is an interesting one to me. Like her set-mate, Tic Tac Toe, she was given a Baby version as part of the First Tooth Baby Pony set. However, unlike the First Tooth Baby Ponies, Quackers was not sold in the UK or, as far as I can gather, most of the rest of the pony buying world. She was sold extensively in North America and probably in Australasia as well.

But Quackers was not a stranger to UK pony collectors. When the Pony Packs were brought out, in the same year, Quackers was one of the four ponies chosen to model them on the advertising material. And, for a reason known only to Hasbro UK, when the accessory sets were issued in this country, the packaging design was not changed, leaving adult Quackers and Tic Tac Toe alongside So Soft ponies Twilight and Angel. As a child I always thought it was a drawing error - but as an adult, I know better!

One interesting observation about Quackers - her mane and tail colours are the same as the original set of Rainbow Ponies, only rooted in reverse order :)