The Dance & Prance Pony set comprised four earth ponies and two unicorns. Although in the original commercial and American prototype materials, Songster and Player were shown as pegasus ponies, they were sold as earth ponies in the same basic pose as the unicorns.

This is probably because it makes for a better dance effect, but I remember being quite sad that Songster wasn't a pegasus. She and Player were always written and drawn as pegasus ponies in the comics, despite the fact Hasbro's UK catalogue image shows them correctly. This suggests they had much earlier production material to work from.

The Dance & Prance ponies also formed the central role in at least one Italian advertisment for 1990.
Each Dance & Prance pony had a wind-up mechanism, powered by a flower brooch on their chest. You could wind them up, set them down and they would 'judder-spin' in a circle while their tails spun round and round.

It is not a good idea to do this near any other pony, especially a Brush & Grow pony, as tangling is highly likely.

Each pony was sold with a fluffy boa, two oversized earrings, a gold mesh ribbon, a hair clip with false hair, a hair clip and a comb or brush. There does not seem to have been accessory differences between the European and American releases. The mesh ribbons are especially hard to find.