Needs Moar G4

The reason he hasn’t just flat-out got his fan-name is because you can’t just trademark the phrase ‘Cherry Cola’.

SHOW CAMEO: Cherry Fizzy is based on a background pony who gave Twilight Spike’s egg in Cutie Mark Chronicles. His fan-name was, as mentioned before, Cherry Cola.

And then here’s today’s pony, Apple Stars! Before doing this I asked myself: is there a type of apple called Stars?

Well, no. There isn’t. There is, however, an apple trademarked(!?) as Jazz.

But there’s still a connection - the pips on the inside of an apple form a star shape!

SHOW CAMEO: Apple Stars is based on a pony who sings in the Smile Song. The winning placeholder name on the series wiki was Katt Apples.

Argh, another late pony. Yesterday was not a day conducive to pony-drawing, you see.

This is Lily Valley, and she rounds off the toys of the flower trio ponies that are common extras in the show. Lily is the girly one. Considering the only roles of all of them are to scream when something bad happens, that’s something. Most shows would keep them all as the girly one.

SHOW CAMEO: As stated above, she is based on a member of the Flower Trio, and the only member that is unnamed in the show. Her fan-given name was simply Lily, to go along with the others.

Berry Dreams works in an expensive restaurant producing delicious desserts and foods for the hungry customer! She’s a little on the tough side, though, so keep your distance and lay off any invasive action.

(Ah, late a little bit. My apologies!)

SHOW CAMEO: Berry Dreams is based on an Earth pony appearing in the foreground of a shot in Fall Weather Friends. She has multiple fan-names, but on tumblr has an Ask blog under the name Fruity Fusion.

Lucky Clover and Lucky Dreams both have ‘Lucky’ in their names and a love of running, but while Dreams is more cross-country, Clover confines himself to the racetrack. He’s not very competitive - definitely a lover rather than a fighter - but he does do what he does very well. Some might call it luck.

SHOW CAMEO: The toy is designed after a very common background pony who eventually became Wild Fire’s beau in a flashback for A Canterlot Wedding. HIs fan-given name was simply Lucky.

We’ve seen pony weddings, but Princess Celestia can’t be the person surveying all of them, can she? Enter Lilac Links, a pony who dedicates her time to bonding ponies of all shapes and sizes in marriage!

SHOW CAMEO: Lilac Links is based on a pony who so far only appears in The Show Stoppers. Her fan-given nickname was Link Pink.

Caramel Apple is Apple Dazzle’s little sister and, as one can tell from the name and cutie mark, the creator of some absolutely lovely caramel apple snacks! She’s also very over-eager and a bit self-centred, but hey - we all have to agree that she looks the sweetest.

SHOW CAMEO: Caramel Apple is a sibling of Applejack’s and appears in both the first episode (her butt has a slight animation error, but that’s okay) and The Last Round-up. She is a recolour of the template used by Daisy.

This is Holly Dash! Holly Dash is a somewhat special pony, for the precise reason of, she’s the OC of a person who worked on the show for a while, and essentially the pony version of that person. Now she’s an official pony figure. Wow. That’s pretty damn awesome.

Now, I know that every pony on this blog, every toy that was redrawn, was at some point somebody’s design. Holly is particularly special, though. Although we have artists who design ponies on the show, Holly’s designer is one of the few who is publicly credited with the design. So, as a change to the anonymously-created and vector recolour ponies I usually deal with, Holly here is pretty much the same Holly. I just gave her a fancy hairdo.

SHOW CAMEO: As stated above, the toy is based on a pony designed by an animator working for the show. She only appeared in Swarm of the Century and, due to her specific nature, was never given a fan-name.

Tumblr broke before I could post Sweetie Drops! D: On the plus side, I went to bed earlier.

Incidentally, little Sweetie Drops does not know Heartstrings. Like, at all. Seriously, they don’t know each other. Why would they? Heartstrings is a grown woman and a mom, and it’s not like Sweetie Drops knows her daughter or anything. They might catch glimpses around town but that’s pretty much it. You personally know thousands of people that way, so it’s nothing special.

SHOW CAMEO: Sweetie Drops is based on another fairly popular background character, one who is commonly seen walking around with the show version of Lyra Heartstrings. The fandom name, and the name that appears in the official iOS game, is Bon Bon.

Who’s up for some Apple Fritter goodness? She’s certainly a very cute pony!

She’s also definitely based on a pony from the show, unlike Groomsby whose origins are confusing. Again, though, this is a pony whose artwork fur colour is not really matched the actual plastic, unless it’s all getting affected by the hair colour paint…

SHOW CAMEO: The toy is based on a member of Applejack’s family, and the most seen member of her family outside the core unit. She was named Apple Fritter in the first episode.

So a little while back this huge set with Nightmare Moon appeared, and inside was a surprise pony by the title of Lemony Gem. When the packshot was zoomed out a lot of people thought she was Lemon Hearts because of her close colours.

While looking around on the internet for stuff based on sapphires I suddenly wondered why I was always shooting for uses or metaphors. The idea of G4 is supposed to be ‘any kind of girl is a-okay’ but my head seems to be stuck in the mode of ‘but not doing the dirty work’ (unless we’re talking about mechanic girls. I sort of like mechanic girls).

So let’s have a change.

Lemony Gem is a miner. An honest-to-Celestia, down-in-the-tunnels miner. A pick-bearing, light-shining miner.

She might be very clean-looking in this picture but this is just the start of the work day.

SHOW CAMEO: Lemony Gem’s figure is based on a pony who usually appears in more sophisticated crowds than usual and only showed her cutie mark in The Best Night Ever. Her fan-given name was Lemon Tart.

Why is it so many ponies are getting next-to-identical-sounding names? This is Sunny Rays, who is yet another yellow-bodied, pink-haired pony with wings. There are quite a few of these going around, apparently.

Not to mention this pony also had the same cutie mark as Merry May! So I had to refashion it a bit, especially to suit her name.

Sunny Rays here is a very, very smart girl, although not that socially adept. She’s easily embarrassed by her good grades and has a tendency to turn bright red and mute when prompted about it. Sadly for her, her good grades are often the only reason anybody talks to her, seeing as she doesn’t show much interest outside of her workbooks (or of her house), so she’s never really… talked to anyone. Ever.

SHOW CAMEO PONY!: The toy looks somewhat similar to a pony known on the MLP Wikia as Rays, who coincidentally also shares everything about her character model apart from her coat colour with the show version of Merry May.