It’s My Little Monday!With…G1 ColorSwirl pony Springy! Now here’s a real
It’s My Little Monday!With…G1 ColorSwirl pony Springy! Now here’s a real bold choice! The Color Swirl ponies appeared in Year 10, which was late in the line, but the ideas were wild and wonderful at this time. The Colorswirls were some of the top-wildest ponies they ever made. If you own this pony, you’ll know she’s an even brighter, hotter pink than what the camera shows here. This set had the same pattern of colored stripes for their face and body. (All 3 of them are different colors, but the pattern is always the same) Each also has a symbol in a square of color with small symbols surrounding it.So what’s their deal?For a long time, it was guessed that they were “Pony Aliens” (this is before the internet, you know…and even for a while backcards were very uncommon and so were scanners & you couldn’t easily just take a photo and upload it!) which makes perfect sense with what looks like very obvious ‘alien writing symbols’ there in the 4 corners (some characters of which do repeat on the others, as if words!) and the abstract item in the color square. In Springy’s case it’s a spiral (appropriate name) but Lovebeam sure does seem to have a UFO on there and “Beam Me Up” also adds fuel to the theory. What’s the story?Their backcard story is all the same for all 3, which was an anti-feature of Year 10, and it featured the 3 friends going looking for where the rainbow got its colors from, walking along a rainbow & finding a magical color-swirling pool of water. They are hot from the journey, go in for a swim, and come out with the colors you see here. So, it mentions nothing about their mysterious symbols. It is impossible to tell the original design intent. But that makes her no-less fabulous. The stripe over one eye, the bold green eyes with the hot-hot pink, and even the ‘brides’ pose’ contributes to the excellent aesthetic they have going here with Springy. All of these are amazing, 100% got to collect….but sadly are rather costly. -- source link
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