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 Twinkle Eye
pony Tic Tac Toe, 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 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 Tic Tac Toe Mint in Box
(USA 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 Tic Tac Toe's Character
Baby Tic Tac Toe (in fact, the loose baby pictured above) was my
childhood First Tooth baby, which meant that I paid attention to
her appearances when she showed up on screen or in the comic. She
didn't have a major role in the animated episodes, although she
did appear - but she did occasionally pop up in the comic stories.
One story was about the baby ponies setting up their own club, and
Baby Tic Tac Toe installed herself as president, by instructing
all the other babies to write to her in order to be members.
Clearly someone organised!
Baby Tic Tac Toe decides she runs the Baby Pony Club
UK Comic, 1988
