Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious is an Apple family pony with a yellow apple cutie mark. In My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, Gameloft's mobile game, WeLoveFine art prints, and promotional material, Golden Delicious is a male Earth pony, while in the mystery pack toys and collector cards and Little, Brown's Mini Pony Collector's Guide, Golden Delicious is a female unicorn.

Development and design
Golden Delicious shares the same name and some varying other attributes as a G3 Earth pony mare. The name comes from the Golden Delicious apple cultivar, which is also the namesake of fellow Apple family member Goldie Delicious.

As an Earth pony stallion, Golden Delicious is identical to Cherry Fizzy in all but cutie mark and sometimes eye color, is identical to "Black Stone" in all but coat color and cutie mark, shares his design and eye color with "Cormano", "Gingerbread", and S04E22 Unnamed Earth Stallion #9, shares his design with Caramel, Royal Riff, Wensley, S04E06 Unnamed Earth Stallion #5, "Burnt Oak", S04E06 Unnamed Earth Stallion #2, S04E08 Unnamed Earth Stallion #12, S04E22 Unnamed Earth Stallion #2, S04E22 Unnamed Earth Stallion #1, S04E24 Unnamed Earth Stallion #6, "Strawberry Cream", S04E24 Unnamed Earth Stallion #4, S04E26 Unnamed Earth Stallion #1, and sometimes S04E22 Unnamed Earth Stallion #7 and S04E20 Unnamed Earth Stallion #1, shares his mane and tail style or sometimes design and eye color with "Starburst", shares his mane and tail style or sometimes design with "Sunburst", shares his mane and tail style and sometimes eye color with "Serenity", shares his mane and tail style with "High Note", Doctor Horse, S04E12 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #1, "Dewdrop", S04E22 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #2, S04E24 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #1, "Sunlight", "Cloud Break", "Silverwing", "Toffee", and sometimes and "Noble Laureate", shares his mane with "Black Marble" and sometimes "Arpeggio", shares his mane style with Ace, shares his tail style with S04E10 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #1, S04E08 Unnamed Earth Stallion #6, S04E08 Unnamed Earth Stallion #10, and stallion "Snappy Scoop", shares his mane color or sometimes mane and tail with "Sir Pony Moore", sometimes shares his mane and tail with "Star Bright" and "Noble Laureate", and shares his coat and mane colors with "Pokey Oaks".

As a unicorn mare, Golden Delicious shares her design and sometimes eye color with Forsythia and shares her design with Rarity.

Golden Delicious is one of four Apple family members who have been depicted as unicorns, the other three being the sometimes-unicorns Red Gala, "Liberty Belle", and "Red June", and one of six Apple family ponies who have been depicted as non-Earth ponies, the other five being the aforementioned three sometimes-unicorns, the sometimes-Pegasus Peachy Sweet, and the Pegasus Issue 09 Unnamed Colt - Imagined Pegasus Foal.

Depiction in the series
Golden Delicious, as an Earth pony stallion, appears and is introduced by Applejack in Friendship is Magic, part 1, appears and is mentioned by Apple Rose in Apple Family Reunion, appears in Magical Mystery Cure, appears in It Ain't Easy Being Breezies, appears in Leap of Faith, and appears in Trade Ya!

Appearances
Times are approximate.

My Little Pony (mobile game)
Golden Delicious, as an Earth pony stallion, is a character in Gameloft's mobile game. He was added to the iOS version of the game on June 4, 2014 and to the Android version of the game on June 10, 2014. The game's icon of him uses fanart.

Promotional material
Golden Delicious appears as an Earth pony stallion in a promotional image posted by Hasbro's My Little Pony Facebook page on November 10, 2013, and a post by the same page on January 17, 2014 attributes to Twilight Sparkle the question "Who loved being introduced to Golden Delicious?"

Merchandise
Golden Delicious, as a unicorn mare, is included as number 17 of 24 in the fifth wave of mystery pack toys and collector cards, the English-only and English/French/Spanish versions of which each list her name with a trademark symbol and state that she "loves acting like a movie star" and the English/French/German/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian/Dutch/Swedish/Danish/Greek/Polish/Turkish/Russian version of which states that she "loves acting!"

Golden Delicious, as an Earth pony stallion, appears on WeLoveFine's fan-designed art prints "All Of Apple Acres" and "Apple Family Portrait", both of which are by the same artist.

In Little, Brown's reference books, Golden Delicious is listed as part of the extended Apple family tree on page 28 of The Elements of Harmony and is featured as a unicorn mare on pages 82-83 and 100 of Mini Pony Collector's Guide. Golden Delicious is also listed on Enterplay trading card series 1 card #59 of 84, Meet the Apple Family!