I Love Ponies toys and playsets are all the rage with pony mad little girls of all ages. They are cute and colourful and there is a whole range of different ponies and activities to indulge your imagination in. I love Ponies also has an official magazine and a website where you can play pony games online if you join up to the I Love Ponies club. You also get pony tips from Sparkle, the online pony! It’s a great interactive website, with information on pony breeds, and worth signing up to if you just love ponies.
One of the most popular I Love Ponies toys is Honey My Baby Pony, a cute, soft, cuddly toy pony with batteries to make her playful! The more you play with her the more playful she’ll become according to I Love Ponies. She can wiggle her ears, blink her eyes, munch a carrot, sway her neck, neigh and snort – just like a real pony.
The I Love Ponies playsets aren’t cuddly but they are definitely cute, and there are lots to choose from and collect, from My 1st Gymkhana to Apple Tree Stables, a deluxe stable playset with real pony sounds and reconfigurable stable blocks. This set includes two ponies, a rider, Tom the stable cat, a beader and over 60 pony accessories. This set and the others are available to buy from the I Love Ponies website but they are also sold by other retailers online such as amazon.co.uk.
If you want a slightly less extravagant I Love Ponies playset, as a gift perhaps, there are smaller, but equally cute sets, such as the Styling Set – a kind of contemporary My Little Pony Grooming Parlour. The set includes a white pony called Lady, brushes, combs, ribbons, beads and hair clips to make the pony look pretty. There is a kind of podium to stand her on and show her off when you’ve finished and if you want to you can wear the hair clips in your own hair too.
Many of the I Love Ponies playsets include riders too, such as the My First Pony, My 1st Gymkhana, Pony Day Out, Magic Pony Care Paddock, Mobile Pony Care and Pony Camp Adventure. All of the sets are made of bright, colourful plastic for ages 3 years and over. They are charming but funky, perfect for modern little girls’ high standards.
The Pony Day Out is a perfect example of just how contemporary I Love Ponies are, as it has a cool pink sports car and horse box included, as well as 2 ponies, 2 riders, a picnic basket, rugs and loads of other pony accessories. For the more outdoorsy types the Pony Camp Adventure playset includes a funky tent, a campfire, a pony, a rider and other accessories.
One of the cutest basic sets still has to be the My First Pony – every little girl’s dream in reality. It includes a cute pony and rider, with ribbons to braid into the pony’s mane and tail, or even in your own hair. There are hours of fun to be had with this and a little imagination.
Some of the sets come without riders but with the most adorable foals..aaahh. There are six different pony and foal sets to collect - Welsh Mountain Pony and Foal, Dartmoor Pony and Foal, Connemara Pony and Foal, Norwegian Fjord Pony and Foal, Thoroughbred Pony and Foal, and Quarter Horse Pony and Foal. They are all gorgeous but in different colours to differentiate between breeds. You can groom them with the comb supplied and collect all of the breeds.
I love Ponies really are the perfect toys for modern pony mad kids, embodying contemporary chic, charm and style with traditional pony interests and hobbies. They are less whimsical than old skool My Little Ponies, more realistic in pony colouring (as much as plastic toys can be), just as cute but more cutting edge, perhaps more grown up, and there’s loads of choice of ponies, riders and activities.