It’s My Little Monday!With…Playtime Baby Brother Leaper!He’s another less-com
It’s My Little Monday!With…Playtime Baby Brother Leaper!He’s another less-common sight…so it’s cheerful to see him here with his silly froggy symbol. The Playtime Baby Brothers were a set of all male babies who also used the “Peek a Boo” neck gimmick from the Peek a Boo set (which was mixed). So, as you can see here, his head is turned and in different positions for each photo to show off the pose-able effect. It’s a simple enough gimmick, and it looks decent enough from most angles. The body mold for PAB also gives them the ankle hair of a big brother, and cute more active poses. From the shape of the face and the feet, you can also tell that this is a boy pony.Leaper himself has a bright, very ‘spring’ cute color theme with yellow hair and a springy green body. He has a silly smiling cartoon frog symbol. The eye color choice is interesting…it’s purple…which…somehow works for him? It’s another of those color combos that ‘shouldn’t work’ but then does. Also notice that he has blush AND a row of brown freckles for his face.His back card story has friendly frogs teaching how to jump higher and higher. He eventually learns to leap so high he can touch the clouds. This amazes the frogs, so he tells them to hop onto him and he will leap up with them to show how high they can go.His story is somewhat inspiring, with friends getting rewarded for helping & a concrete goal/conclusion. Do note that some ponies can physically touch/stand on clouds so leaping up there to them makes ‘sense’ in context. (As, things like the weather, sun, moon, stars & rainbows are sometimes tangible characters that can be pleased or motivated) It is unfortunate then, that Leaper is uncommon and expensive. He is rarely for sale, and when he is, he’s costly. However, his condition is usually all right (not suffering from plastic diseases, etc) Frogs are very cute! It is nice to see a green frog pony and adding him to the collection brings a splash (and a hop) of bright color. -- source link
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