1982:Flat Footed Ponies

COTTON CANDY

Pink earth pony with pink mane and tail, white speckles symbol

Cotton Candy is definitely one of the most well known ponies - both in the UK and across the seas. In the UK comics she was the original ponyland nurse, and she was also well known both in the UK and on American backcard stories for being greedy when it came to eating flower petals.

Cotton Candy was released as part of the Flat Foot set. She was also released the following year with four new ponies, Bubbles, Seashell, Bow Tie and Applejack. This time she was sold with concave feet. In the US release, her backcard featured all the earth, unicorn and pegasus ponies for year 2. However, the UK card release had no backcard story, and featured simply pictures of the six earth ponies with their names. The front of the card matched the flat foot pony card for the US release of 1982 (thanks to Rowenatm for this information!)