Baby Tic Tac Toe
Baby Tic Tac Toe was one of four First Tooth baby earth ponies
introduced in this set. She was designed after the So-Soft pony
Fifi, and had the same colouring and basic symbol design. She
also had a first tooth. She was featured in one of the new baby
earth pony poses - the pose would be used again in later sets,
for ponies which were not technically First Tooth babies. This
was despite the fact her mother pony was a unicorn - there are
no First Tooth babies with a unicorn horn (though nobody knows
why!)
This set was on sale in North America in 1987, and reached the
UK in 1988. It was also sold in most European countries in 1988.
The box designs were the same across most releases, with only
Italy having it's own style of box. There are minor differences
in the box layout in English between the UK and North America,
such as spelling changes, but the easiest way to tell a UK box
at a glance is the type of hole punched at the top. The
accessories, however, are the same across boxed releases.
Baby Fifi Mint in Box
(Benelux import release)
Image from Shivhae
Aside the unique Italian box (in which the pony had the same
accessories as above), there were two other unique releases
within Europe. One was the Dutch My Little Pony club promotional
card version, where the baby pony came only with a single
toothbrush (poor mite!).
The set were also sold on card in Spain, where
they had a reduced number of accessories (namely comb, ribbon,
toothbrush and toothpaste). These accessories were still the
same colour as that sold in the main boxed release, just pared
down to the essentials. The back of the Spanish card featured
different artwork to that on the box.
Baby Fifi's Character
Baby Fifi is most memorable to me from her animated incarnation
from her truly terrible faux French accent. Something to do with
poodles and her name Fifi, I guess, but still, not great. In the
comics, she was one of the ponies who first came across Wigwam, along with
Baby Tiddly
Winks.
