Possibly unusual Sky Wishes and Waterfire?

[ImTooTired]

I’ve been going through my collection and checking it off using the My Little Wiki checklist. In the process, I’ve come across a couple of my G3 ponies that don’t seem to quite fit any of the releases listed. I realize my collection is quite small and therefore highly unlikely to actually contain any “rare” variants (and that whether even “rare” variants are actually valuable or not is highly, well, variable), but I’d appreciate y’all’s input on whether these actually seem unusual or not!

This Sky Wishes has glittery eyes. As far as I can tell, none of the releases do? I’m likely just not looking right, but looking at the photos, the eyes don’t seem glittery like this on any of the known releases. Both of her eyes are glittery and it’s nicely done and even like this, so I highly doubt it’s an after-market touch.

This Waterfire has a very light pink color in her cutie mark, and the same very light pink color on the flame detail in her eyes. Now this one is quite probably just fading, but just I couldn’t find any photos online with such a light pink color. Fading or legit variant? Most likely fading! But I figured I’d ask y’all anyway.
The checklist does mention that one of her releases does have a lighter pink color in this portion of the cutie mark, but looking at the photo on the checklist, it still looks significantly more saturated than mine is. And that variant is also described as having a significantly more dull body color than the original, but this one seems to have quite a vivid body color.

Again, probably both are nothing special, but I figured I’d check on the tiny chance I have a rarity (haha) hidden on my shelves. Of course, they’re lovely ponies either way

 

[CharmsPonies]

I believe the Waterfire is probably just faded ^^ My waterfire has a darker red on her cutiemark, but the color in her eyes looks a bit lighter, so I’m assuming this color might be prone to fading to be less saturated.

The glitter in your Sky Wishes eyes is wild, I don’t think I’ve heard of that before! Maybe it’s a factory defect, if not well placed glitter done by someone after the fact? Who knows

 

[ImTooTired]

I believe the Waterfire is probably just faded ^^ My waterfire has a darker red on her cutiemark, but the color in her eyes looks a bit lighter, so I’m assuming this color might be prone to fading to be less saturated.
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The glitter in your Sky Wishes eyes is wild, I don’t think I’ve heard of that before! Maybe it’s a factory defect, if not well placed glitter done by someone after the fact? Who knows

Huh! I was just about to give away Sky Wishes too, since I have a second one that’s identical except for the glitter eyes—I’m glad I took a closer look at her. I suppose there’s really no way to tell for certain whether it was added by someone after the fact or not unless a glitter-eye Sky Wishes shows up NIB someday.
Thank you for your reply!

 

[StormMaeker]

That Sparkleworks is pretty interesting. I can’t find anything about glittery eyes? Crazy! And the glitter looks about right for G3 ponies too

And I’d say Waterfire is probably just faded. The only other variant of Waterfire I know of is her prototype leaflet photo which is a completely different colour