Baby North Star

Baby North Star was one of two First Tooth baby ponies introduced in this set.  She was designed after the So Soft/Movie Star pony North Star, and had the same colouring and basic symbol design. She also had a first tooth. She was featured in one of the new baby pegasus pony poses - the pose would be used again in later sets, for ponies which were not technically First Tooth babies.

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 box shown below is from the US, as it has a hook rather than a hole punched.  The accessories, however, are the same as in the UK.

Baby North Star Mint in Box

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!).

Baby North Star
Dutch Pony Club card

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 North Star's Character