Drinking Baby Fakies

March 7, 2025.

These thrift-find ponies are obvious derivatives of the G1 Drink n' Wet baby ponies (Baby Flicker). This is the first time I have ever seen fakies like this, and they are of nice quality with soft hair and detailed face paint. All they needed was a bit of a trim and a wash out of the bag.

They have stout purple bodies with short torsos, and their rumps point upwards. They resemble the Small Ponies, Diaper Babies, and Pink Baby Ponies, which all share the same body sculpt. The paint on their faces closely mimics the eye style of G1 baby ponies, just at a smaller scale. These Drinking baby fakies have a unique head sculpt with a hole between their pony-lips. The G1 Drink n' Wet ponies came with a baby bottle, and any imbibed liquid would come out the pony's backside, through a hole beneath the tail plug.

The placement is low on the body, compared to Drink n' Wet ponies.

When compared directly to Baby Flicker, they appear more divergent than I had expected. The fakies' heads are smaller, but both the fakies and Flicker share a similar head posture, neck extended to easily access their baby bottles. Flicker's head appears yawing, and her craning pose is fixed in place, while the fakies' heads can be turned at the neck seam. The fakies and Flicker both have hindquarters that are raised above their shoulders. The pose appears quite playful.
I found the Drink n' Wet ponies quite cute and funny, and was very excited to find a knockoff of them in the wild. I didn't know they existed prior to my finding them! The bottle-drinking pony niche has been filled only by the Drink n' Wet ponies since 1989/1990, it was inevitable that some breed of fakie would arise and begin competing.