The Best Friends Babies and pals
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The Best Friends Babies were sold in 1993, as a set of three
baby ponies, each with a small animal friend as a pet. They were
sold in the UK and across Europe - they were probably also
available in Australia. No ponies from this year were sold in
North America.
The Best Friend Babies were relatively simple in design, and
all of them, weirdly, had human girl's names instead of what we
normally think of as 'ponyish' names. They were called Billie,
Susie and Katie. (In Germany, Billy was Betty).
They appeared on the insert with some pose and colour
variations, with only Baby Susie being shown in her correct pose
and colouring. I find this a bit ironic ;) But never mind. The
insert does show the pets correctly - Spot the puppy, Kitty the
kitten and Bunny the bunny. Not very imaginative children, these
baby ponies :)

These are some of the more common ponies from the 1993 line.
They seem to have been quite popular second-hand, but German
language carded versions also ended up in the UK at the end of
the line. I bought all three ponies from this set mint on German
card from a market stall in around 1997 - they cost me £2 for
all three ponies. This gives some idea as to how available they
were at the end of the pony line.

