The My Little Pony Scrapbook: G1 in the UK and Europe

1986

Baby Tiddly Winks and Lullabye Nursery


Pink and white baby nursery

Lullabye Nursery (1986 insert)

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Ponies Sold in 1986 in the UK Twinkle Eyes (Set One) | Play & Care Set Babies (Set Two) | 1986 Pony Asst | Grooming Parlour |Baby Sea Ponies (Set One) | Wedding Bells Confetti | Show Stable | Lullabye Nursery | Baby Lemon Drop | Megan & Sundance | Dream Castle | Baby Lucky | Snuzzle (Concave - Argos)| Flutter Ponies

Other 1986 Ponies Twinkle Eyed Ponies (Set Two - UK:1987)* | So Soft Ponies (Set Two) | Pearly Baby Sea Ponies (UK:1987) | So Soft Megan & Sundance | Beddy Bye Eye Babies | Molly & Baby Sundance | Fable Ponies | Rainbow Ponies (Set Two - Europe, not UK) | Earth Ponies (Europe) | Birthday Party Gift Set| Birthflower Ponies (Scandinavia/Aus) | Hollywood | Satin & Lace | White Tootsie | Stockings | Baby Blue Ribbon | Baby Bonnet School of Dance (UK:1987)| Baby Sleepy Pie and Purse

Lullabye Nursery also available in 1987, 1988 and 1989 in the UK. 
Baby Tiddly Winks
Baby Tiddly Winks: Pink baby pony with pink hair, bib symbol, freckles on nose.

Baby Tiddly Winks BBE
Baby Tiddly Winks: Pink baby pony with pink hair, bib symbol, Beddy Bye Eyes
Pony Data
Set Lullabye Nursery playset with Baby Tiddly Winks (UK, 1986-1989, USA, 1984-1986(?))
Asst. Number 4884 (UK)
Accessories Towel, teddy bear, blocks, rocker (lavender), swing and canopy, bath (either blue or pink) mirror (pink or blue), 2x bottles, talcum powder, crib, cabinet (blue or pink), shelf and bowl (pink and blue) fabric bow (blue and white checks), yellow and white rattle, lavender teddybear brush, round puffy sticker (UK), flat sticker (USA), flat round sticker (Germany, France - sometimes available in UK set)
Pose Tiddly Winks
Distribution Worldwide
Other Versions The set was sold over and over during several years. Some versions came with slight variations on accessories (pink and blue can be reversed) and some UK releases included labels in multiple languages.
Beddy Bye Eye version sold in North America.


Lullabye Nursery in the UK

Lullabye Nursery was available in the UK around 1986 and continued to be sold (according to catalogue information) until as late as 1989. These dates are a little fluid, but all versions sold in the UK came with the same version of Baby Tiddly Winks. The Beddy Bye Eye version was never sold here.

Probably as a result of being released for so many years, there are accessory variations to this playset. Some sets have a blue bath, cabinet, shelf unit and mirror, and others have a pink bath, cabinet, shelf unit and mirror. Both are equally common. There is also a grey area surrounding the playset's stickers - though it seems both flat and puffy sticker options were available here :) I am told that there is also a variation with the powder bottle, and possibly the blocks, but whether this is specific to all UK releases or just the version made in Germany is unclear.

Information about the different European/US/UK variations for this playset can be found on Chrissytree's site, here.

Packaging
Lullabye Nursery - UK Box, 1986-9

UK Hasbro produced their own box for Lullabye Nursery.  This image is the box from my Lullabye Nursery, which explains why it is a bit battered (sorry about that!). The UK box features ponies that would have been on sale at the end of 1985 and into 1986, and this was the box style used throughout its release over here (regardless of the year). The UK set also included a small note on how to put a nappy on a baby pony.

Lullabye Nursery Nappy instructions
Lullabye Nursery - How to put on a nappy
UK, circa 1986

Whether this or similar leaflet was sold with other baby ponies in the UK is unclear, but, although it pictures a baby pegasus, this one definitely came with the nursery as it has the assortment number on the bottom right corner.

The set first appears in the Argos catalogue around 1986, and continued to be sold in catalogues Argos and Index until the end of the decade.

argos 1986
Lullabye Nursery (Argos Catalogue, 1986)
Retail price: £21.95 or thereabouts.

Index 1988-9
Lullabye Nursery: Index Catalogue, Autumn/Winter 1988-9

 Although by 1988-9, this was an old playset, the Index catalogue describes Baby Tiddly Winks as "the latest arrival baby".
At this point, the nursery was retailing for around £25.

I acquired my nursery around 1988. My set was made in West Germany (according to the box), and it also came with multi-lingual stickers (which I happily stuck all over the walls XD).

nursery stickers from West German made releasestickers from nursery
French "Mon Petit Poney" front stickers, English Tiddley (sic) Winks sticker and French and German Lullabye Nursery stickers
(images from my Nursery)

My set came with Mein Kleines Pony stickers as well as a flat sticker in the style of round, puffy ones in English for Baby Tiddly Winks. I was an idiot child and I stuck the stickers in funny places, hence the internal photo shots xD. (I was six >.>). For that reason the Mein Kleines Pony rainbow stickers (which spent much of their life on the front of my nursery) are not in good enough condition to photograph.

I am pretty sure that I never had a puffy sticker for Baby Tiddly Winks, but that sticker did get sold in the UK. I think this came with Nurseries sold before this German-made one, as puffy stickers really only happened here up until 1987.

I believe this was a release that came later on, and that earlier releases in the UK did not have multilingual labels.

Playset Ponies Sold in the UK in 1986