Where it all began

I can't remember how I found it, but someone has a Google album of the 1981 Hasbro Toy Fair catalogue. About two-thirds of the way through, under Hasbro's "Romper Room" brand and just after "MacBath the Silly Sea Slurpent" (I want one!), is a certain My Pretty Pony. The opening words of the description are interesting: "My Pretty Pony is every little girl's dream come true." So even if Bonnie Zacherle didn't mean for the toys she designed to be gender-targeted, Hasbro was on that case right from the start.