#g3 pony

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 Pony First Version Toola Roola!
This is an interesting one, first off because people will see and say ‘that’s not toola roola’. But why? Because this is how she ORIGINALLY looked/how the character was originally designed. They then took her name and gave it to a completely different looking pony much later in the line, and made that one a part of the ‘core 7 / ‘bore 7′ characters and proceeded to re-release it multiple times in the hopes of them catching on. (It did not, and the line ended*) So, there’s 2 very different ponies with the same name, on the same line from the same era. Not great planning.
And it’s not like ‘toola roola’ is the best name on earth? It’s a nonsense word or a song lyric type thing like “Sha-la-la-la” where they’re just doing syllables to go with the music and it’s not a word for anything. There was no real reason to re-use it later on.
But why else is the pony interesting?
Her colors are very “g3″ of course involving pink and white and the shimmery skin, so she’s quite representative of the early era of G3 ‘cool-colored’ ponies. (Sweetberry & etc follow this as well) However, she’s the only one on the whole of G3 with an actual Celtic Symbol on there. That’s a type of ‘knot’, similar to the Triskelion, which is sometimes a symbol for eternal life. (It has no hearts on the original Celtic symbol, those are just for her symbol) Buddhism also has a similar item. Was someone doodling, or did they deliberately add a Celtic knot to pony? Either way, it’s a fun bit of trivia and makes this one more collectible.
Certainly go collect this one if you like her look, the name mix-up & the interesting symbol are going to contribute to her being uncommon in the future most likely so get her while she is cheap now in 2022.
*The “Bore 7″, in which, Hasbro tried to take g3 which was based on ‘grab tons of characters just like pokemon!’ and turn it into ‘there are only 7 pokemon that is enough for you just buy the same 7 over and over again’. 

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 Pony Moondancer!
Yes, this one does share the same name with the G1 pony, however they look nothing alike. Moondancer was a play pack pony, where she came with lots of items for a slumber party. This made her more costly than regular ponies, and she was only released (probably) twice. The accessories included things like bunny slippers, radio that played music, blanket, nokia-looking cellphone, and food/drink among others. 
She’s a frosty-cool color of blue (which G3 quite enjoyed, a few have a similar color) with mild yellow hair and a simple smiling moon/’1950s style’ stars & blue ‘sky’ shape. The stylization of the moon and the blob shape for the sky/stars gives the symbol quite a retro feel. (Oddly several G3s crib at retro ‘space age’ design points–it’s not understood how or why they’d choose the era to design from) 
The frosty blue plastic is especially lovely because of that signature G3 shimmer dust that many of them have. It lends an icy, fantasy tone and helps her match with her hair color. The eye color is an interesting choice: pink and aqua, which are nowhere else in her design. She’s in ‘the diva pose’, making her seem like an elegant character. Notice the hoof heart is a middling yellow: they were not afraid to spend on multiple inks that don’t appear more than once. 
She was an early favorite on the line!
Fans were stirred up over her name (wishing for the original G1 to return), but she won people over with her fun accessories and lovely color scheme. She also appeared in the G3 cartoons at least twice. I love blue ponies, and this one is no exception: she’s great! A dreamy character with a peaceful look. Pick her up if you can! (You don’t want her to end up expensive later–which she likely will because not everyone wanted to splurge on the accessory-pack pony)

It’s My Little Monday!
With…The Pony Project G3 Junie Moon Autumn!
The charity (Give Kids the World Village) sponsored MLP professional artist gallery show returns to My Little Monday with yet another pony. This one is “Junie Moon Autumn” pony, and she’s been customized with nice earth tone colors and lace. The pony is kind of a beige skin color, with a brown velvet dress, lace cape, fur collar, and lace decor for her forehead. In the brown bow is a little crown. They added eyelashes in 3D/hair for her upper lids. It looks like the eye may be decorated with gems or something, but it’s too hard to see at the angle of the photos. Her hair has been kept white, tied into buns, and has gold ribbon added. More lace and beadwork surround each foot.
Look at the back leg: it looks like there’s some tiny text there near the bottom. Maybe it’s a signature? Working with a giant pony like this makes it easier to use more normal materials and easier to work with as well (in some ways) Items like cloth, lace and faux fur look better often at normal/human sizes rather than miniature. Everything here looks to scale, and she seems to have a calming theme. Presumably, the photo was taken by the artist, but there is no label on anything (again). As is also the usual, this one can re-appear if more information is found/added. 

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 Unicorn Pony Whistle Wishes!
Upon deboxing her (when she was new, years ago) the hair went into this configuration, and I just left it that way because it looks pretty good. Her name may be a bit silly, and it really doesn’t go with her symbol at all, but she’s still quite a pretty pony, with an almost tropical look. Notice the pink hair, they’ve chosen an interesting matte color for it. (G3 introduced matte hair with their now-famous & beautiful matte white) The matte pink is lesser-used/known. It creates an interesting look for her tail, where it’s mixed with the yellow and almost makes it orange-ish somehow.  Her symbol is a cloud with 3 different sizes of stars. Also notice that she has the glitter horn and ‘glitter forehead’ that some of them just randomly were given.
Her pose is nice and active.
There’s something slightly dreamy about it? Or relaxed somehow? Being later in the line, her head can turn naturally. This also (unfortunately) points out that only having the symbol on one side is a detriment to her–she’d look great faced either way with this pose, but lack of symbol prevents it. It’s too bad there weren’t more G3 unicorns. The horn is different from G1 but it is extremely fitting and perfectly G3 styled. She’s a very pretty and creatively done character, nobody else resembles her. 
She did appear in the G3 special Runaway Rainbow. She is described as a ‘very girly’ character. (By this point the box-backs didn’t give the characters a story, it was just birthday, favorite gem/flower/color) Collect this one while you can! As G3 ages, the price only goes up and she is less common, for being at the end of the line.

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 The Pony Project “Disco”!
Another photo from the “Give Kids The World Village” charity project with G3 giant size ponies turns up. This time, it’s “Disco” the well…disco-ball themed pony! As for the usual recap: artists were given huge G3 ponies to turn into works of ar that would be displayed in a gallery, then sold to raise money for charity. These large ponies were much bigger than anything ever sold at retail, but they had fully done white hair, white bodies & traditional pony eyes stamped on. 
In this case, whoever did this has covered the entire pony in small square disco ball mirrors and given the hair a tidy style so it wouldn’t lay over the mirror effect. They have set her on a special base so that (very appropriately) she rotates just like a real disco ball would. 
However, as you can also see, the quality of the photo isn’t the best. The background suffers from pixelation, this is all the larger it is, and you can’t really tell what’s going on with the eyes. They also cropped off the base where the artists’ name would be and included no photo credit either. Maybe this one was hard to take pictures of because it was so reflective…but whatever the reason, photos of it are so uncommon that this may be the only one.
This one is a fun idea who may have benefited more perhaps from smaller sized mirrors and perhaps to leave the eye as an actual eye so some personality would come through. (Or maybe a better photo would reveal more…) Still she is interesting to see as a part of the project. (Naturally, if any more photos or info comes to light there gets to be either another post, or this one gets amended)

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 Pony Flower Wishes!
When MLM falls on or near a special day, often a special pony will (try to) appear at that time…and Flower Wishes makes sense here with the first day of spring. She is SO pretty! There’s just something about how all of her colors combine to make more than the sum of it, somehow. 
The body is a perfectly sunny yellow color with that subtle shimmer that lots of G3s had. But then the hair is such a strange combination that you’d think it wouldn’t work…then it does. Like, orange with magenta and then frosted blue?? It seems bonkers on paper/like it would never work, but then those colors swirling in her mane and tail are so lovely. Even her symbol is like that. A garden trowel and watering can are just boring tools…no one ever said “oh what a pretty trowel”, but I guess the color of the can, the adorable little flower & how “at home” the whole presentation seems to be sort of elevates it?
Her eye color in dark purple and sky blue is nice, as is her hoof-heart in a good pink. THIS is an example of how you can get a really cool looking character when someone’s not yanking on the purse-strings trying to “Slim down” the features and cut every corner. You’ve got either EIGHT or NINE whole colors of paint on her…10 counting the eye PLUS 4 stripes of completely different color for the hair. A designer was allowed to design here and it paid off. Her wishful and serene pose is also very appropriate and makes sense with her name and her symbol. An excellent G3, would completely recommend collecting.
This one came with bunny ears and bunny tail because “Sort of Easter but we’re going to say spring”. She was born in March & loves Sapphires. Interestingly, her back card art is not nearly as pretty as she is.
*This is another pony who I really enjoy but never ever would have thought of to design. From the hair color choices to the symbol, none of it is ever what I would pick and that makes it even more interesting to really like her.

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 The Pony Project 64 Colors Lucky!
Another one from the charity art project, this giant pony is named either 64 Colors Lucky, or that’s who customized it and took the photo. Because information is scarce, that’s the only credit for this one so far. This one has the theme of wood. You can see painted on wood-grain, knot-areas and sprites or ghosts or something in the ‘gaps’. There are ‘roots’ on the face and a ghost girl or something on one of the front legs. They left the hair original/white wavy, but re-detailed out the eye to a quite realistic looking one. Notice the little acorn nut character on the forehead too.
Why the woodgrain is so pink (it’s reminiscent of flesh??) The face seems to be like a mask of some sort…notice the ‘rust’ running down it. The 2 left photos at the bottom show it in process at the studio…another unusual find. It would be very interesting to know the artist explanation or story for the chosen theme of this pony. It would also be nice to have better side-on photos to be able to see the whole thing and to know what the symbol is…
But, as is the usual with these: this one’s short on photos as well as info which is too bad.

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 The Pony Project 2012 Rocking Horse Blue Pony
Another photo from the Pony Project appears…and this is all the resolution that it has. So, you can’t read the symbol nor the words on the pyramid. The name of the artist or the work is also not known. 
This is the usual giant size G3 pony, but whoever did it has customized it to blue with 2 white bands on each leg. The hair was left white and has been braided and tied with black ribbons. The pony has been glued to a wooden rocker base, turning her into a ‘rocking horse’ toy for the plush pyramid happy character to ride on and hug. They changed the eye to solid black and white, and added a bright pink solid blush mark for each cheek.
It’s an ok design: clearly they had the character set up/in mind and then added a fun toy to enjoy the character’s rocking ability. It would be interesting to know what is written on the pyramid. 
The charity this benefited was Give Kids the World Villiage in 2012. There were supposed to be something like 25 of these done, but it seems like there were more than just what appeared in the Toy Gallery 1 Night Event Art Show (and were then sold to raise money). Characters keep popping up that were never in the original photos from the gallery. Sometimes someone can chip in with info once it’s posted here though…in which case she’d re-appear with more info and more photos.
*There are so many of these that they’re taking over MLM, so considering having a day of the week for them that is separate. Also they’re about to get super weird and somewhat inappropriate. 

It’s My Little Monday!
With…The Pony Project Doki Doki Colorful Rebellion by “6% Doki Doki”!
These TPP large artist ponies will be posted as more are discovered. Somehow, there doesn’t seem to have been actual, good, published photography coverage of the 1 Night Only art-show/gallery that these were all collected together in. You’d think someone would have wanted it recorded all in 1 place. There were some unknown amount of these, some say 25 because 25 years, some say more because not all them made it into the show/etc. But, what can be agreed upon is that they’re interesting to look at. 
A single photo of this one has appeared on a previous MLM, but this gives the best look yet at the project. The symbol, is of course the “6% Doki Doki” brand logo and only on one side which makes sense with the era/style. The eyes have shooting star gems for their pattern, and they did add false eyelashes (they are 3D nylon strips) Notice the tiny gems behind the eye on the face. 
She is dressed as a Japanese colorful fashion girl inspired by “Harajuku Style” where there are mis-matched socks, loads of barrettes regardless of hair style, lots of bright colors and pattern mixing. The hair is a very bright colorful mixture, and she has the expected ‘hairy knee-socks’ that sometimes go along with the style. The necklace is actually a brand item too.
This is a fun one, and it’s good to know the artists’/brand name and that they were the one taking the photos too. 
The helpful Tumblr kiramaipink adds
“hihi!!this pony, by the way, her cutie mark actually says 6% DokiDoki! that’s a big decora-focused brand in harajuku, and the pony is actually wearing a necklace from that brand. her clothes are also inspired by looks they’ve produced in the past their logo was used for her mark and it’s the same logo they often sell on tin badges! “

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 art pony AND Convention Pony!
This is in a bit of response to “Whatever happened to…” As you’ve seen on earlier MLMs, there were the really large “The Pony Project” charity artist ponies, but, there was another very large pony mold made and done first! And, it’s this one! As you remember, all of TPP ones are standing with all feet flat and the head straight. The bottom pony is artist-designed on semi-transparent plastic. This alternate-big-one was seldom used (why? It’s so pretty!) but it seems like only 2 really big molds were ever done. Hasbro liked the art so well/the look of the pony that they actually did do a run of her.
The top one is her from her exclusive convention run. When Hasbro had teamed up with/endorsed “The Pony Fair”, they promised everyone an all new pony every year that they would attend. It was to be a G3 in a fancy box similar to this one. Several of these were done, but this one seems to be the only one who had a ‘big size artist’ counterpart. It’s very interesting that they kept the sprays, semi-transparent plastic and the hair colors identical. (And that they didn’t try to cheap out) The only thing different seems to be the size and the pose. (The pose for all convention ponies was the “Hanger-hoof/bore-7 pose”) Is there only 1 of the huge one? (Probably) I do wonder where it went…
Reminder: The charity was “Give kids the world village” and the big ones were 18 inches each. This one was PROBABLY not part of TPP, or it was some kind of ‘proto-try’ at what a big pony turns out like. She’s pretty with the magenta and maroon hair, plus the pretty sprays. The art on her is ‘pop art’ kind of, which is nice if you like the style. You can see why this one would get chosen to become a convention exclusive.

It’s My Little Monday!
With…G3 Proto Pony Project!
Every so often another of the “Pony Project” photos show up, and this is a case of that, but it’s more unknown than usual. As you can see, this is another of the “Giant G3s”, but it wasn’t given to an artist for the charity project, it seems to be something Hasbro itself did. Here, it is seen at a convention. (Photographer is unknown, title is unknown, where is unknown) 
Why did they make it? Was it going to be turned small and used as a convention exclusive? The intricate design resembles a bit of the style for the Black/Blue one or maybe a bit the ‘dandelion’ convention exclusive G3s. The color, a good magenta bordering on a bit of burgundy, resembles a bit of Cheerilee/Sakura, especially with the dark pink/light pink hair blend. Notice that her eye doesn’t use black, it’s just all pinks/darker pinks. 
There are hidden shapes among her designs. You can find a hot air balloon, a butterfly, a tea pot, a strawberry and her heart shape seems to be an abstracted lady bug (it has a face) She’s really interesting to see, so one must wonder what happened to her if she did not get to be part of “The Pony Project” ? She is highly likely to be one of a kind. (But who’s that next to her?) This is certainly an interesting (and uncommon photo) to see.