Rainbowshine

Rainbowshine is a female Pegasus pony with a wisteria coat, pink lace mane and tail with baby pink streaks, charm pink eyes, and a cutie mark of a rainbow. The show does not name her, but she receives her name from merchandise. She shares her design with "Dizzy Twister". She has brief speaking roles in Winter Wrap Up and Sonic Rainboom.

Depiction in the series
Rainbowshine is commonly featured as a background pony in Ponyville and Cloudsdale. Her first appearance is in episode 1 where she hovers inside the Ponyville town hall, awaiting the start of the Summer Sun Celebration.

In the episode Winter Wrap Up, she starts off as a member of the weather team before suddenly changing to the plant team late in the song and then right back to the weather team. She is one of the ponies sent by Rainbow Dash to retrieve the southern birds—the other ponies include "Raindrops", "Cloud Kicker", and "Medley". She delivers her first spoken line upon her return, although she appears plenty of times still in Ponyville before that moment.

In Sonic Rainboom, she appears in Cloudsdale's weather factory, working in all three sections. Here she has her second speaking role: after seeing her beautiful gossamer wings, she suggests that Rarity should enter the Best Young Flyer competition.

Rainbowshine frequently appears in Hurricane Fluttershy. She is one of the many Pegasi that help create the tornado for Cloudsdale. She is one of the many guests in A Canterlot Wedding, and is last seen throwing confetti as Shining Armor and Princess Cadance leave in their coach.

Appearances
Times stated below are approximate and taken from videos available online.

Merchandise
A mystery pack toy pegasus named Rainbowshine was released in January 2012. The toy uses the Rainbow Dash mold but features the background character's color scheme and a cutie mark similar to the background character's (differing in the rainbow's topmost arc, which is purple instead of blue). Her name comes from the card accompanying the toy. According to the European toy package, Rainbowshine "loves to leap". The U.S. mystery pack toy package has a longer description and reads, "RAINBOWSHINE loves to leap into the sky!"

Rainbowshine, along with a host of characters from the show, appears on the Comic Con 2011 promotional poster. She is behind Big McIntosh, smiling with her mouth wide open.

Quotes
"Ditzy Doo accidentally went north to get the southern birds!"

- Winter Wrap Up

"Hey, there's an idea! You should enter the competition!"

- Sonic Rainboom

Gallery

 * Rainbowshine image gallery