For a closer look at The Little Sindy Museum’s riding outfits and horses, click on an image below.
All pictures on this page are shown with the kind permission of Pedigree (and other mentioned on the photos).
I still find it a bit confusing with the striped box design. But luckily TLSM has great help from Matthew Hadley and his article The Sindy Package Design. There he says “The Super Home, and Furniture altered to the same pink as the doll boxes, and the green Equestrian boxes became the same turquoise as the ‘outdoors’ items….
Some of the new items from 1984 can be found in both colour boxes“
The year of 1984 was not a bad one when it comes to Sindy and her Equestrian things! There were two new riding outfits, Pony Club 43011 and then yet another quite stylish set called Show Jumper 43020. Scroll down for more information.
This little set of Riding Accessories was sold this year as well. But they changed the numbers 44383 to 44570 otherwise it’s suppose to be the same.
Two new lovely horses was released this year: Poseable Horse 44251 (I have only found boxes named Chestnut Horse but I believe they are the same. If anyone knows more about it please send a PM to TLSM) and Foal 44250. The horse was all new with a neck that could be adjusted so it could eat grass from the ground or hold it’s head up high.
The Foal 44250 was really sweat with a tiny little tail an it came with a yellow blanket.
Sadly TLSM has not been able to find any picture of the new striped box, for either the Dapple Grey Horse or the Horsebox 44580.
If you have a photo of one please get in touch with TLSM! Until then this is how the Horsebox looked in 1982.
New for this year was the Gymkhana Set 44596. It came with a Sindy wearing the Show Jumper outfits, with her dapple grey horse and authentic jumps.
The new turquoise coloured box.
The jumps were white and red and not yellow as the prototype in the brochure was. One other thing I’d like to mention is that Pedigree used the same molds (or left overs?) for the jumps, as they’d used for Anna Moore (Sindy’s multi-jointed, smaller “cousin”) produced between 1975 & 1976.
The same Gig and Gig and Horse as in last year and in 1982 but this year they added a Top Hat in the sets! I’m not sure if Pedigree changed the boxes or if they just added the top hats to the content. If anyone have one of the boxes from 1984 and know it was containing a top hat, please contact TLSM!
The Horse Care Set 44394 came in a turquoise/blue coloured striped box this year. Click to see how it looked when first released in 1980 and when the box first changed in 1983.
