Baby Lickety Split (First Tooth)
Hasbro clearly decided we had not had enough of Baby Lickety
Split already, either in North America/Benelux, or in
the UK/France/Germany/Scandinavia,
as she came back for a reprise in the First Tooth Baby Pony set.
This time she was in a new earth pony baby pose, and had the
typical first tooth, but her basic colouring was the same as in
previous releases. This was the third - and final - release for
Baby Lickety Split, meaning that her character had spanned at
least four years of production (probably a result of being the
star of My Little Pony, the Movie).
The First Tooth 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 Lickety Split (First Tooth) Mint in Box
(Italian packaging release)
Image from Shivhae
Aside the Italian box (pictured 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 Lickety-Split's Character
Baby Lickety Split was a bossy little madam in the animated
cartoon, not unlike her Beddy Bye Eye predecessor. In the comic,
she appeared in various stories involving the First Tooth babies.
Her most memorable moment was probably meeting her "cousin", Play
and Care Set Baby Lickety Split, at Tracks's birthday party (thoroughly
confusing Tracks and the other ponies in the process).
Baby Lickety Split and Baby Lickety Split
My Little Pony & Friends Comic
If that wasn't weird enough, the following
story involved both Baby Lickety Splits (with Tex deciding
that first tooth baby Lickety Split was the older because of
her first tooth, and the other - despite being released first
- had to be known henceforth as Baby Lickety.
Apparently the idea of "Baby Lickety Split grew up and got her
first tooth" never occurred to the Comic writing team.
