Minty

Minty is a female Earth pony who appears in the chapter books Applejack and the Honest-to-Goodness Switcheroo and Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds. She has a mint green coat, pink and white mane, dark green eyes, and a cutie mark of three swirled mint candies. She first appeared in merchandise.

Development and design
Minty's name is a registered trademark and has been used for Earth ponies of G1 and G3, though her design more closely resembles her G3 counterpart.

In merchandise, she shares her design with Applejack, Coconut Cream, Sweetie Blue, Pepperdance, Stardash, Bitta Luck, Sprinkle Stripe, Berry Green, and Grape Delight.

Depiction in chapter books
Minty first appears in chapter 1 of the chapter book Applejack and the Honest-to-Goodness Switcheroo. Here, she is one of the contestants in the Sweet Apple Acres Pie-Eatin' Extravaganza.

She later appears in chapter 7 of Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds. Here, she is a resident of the mountain town of Alto Terre and knows Brumby Cloverpatch as "Mr. Brown".

Merchandise
A mini-figure toy and collector card of Minty are included together as number 9 of 24 in the first wave of mystery packs released in 2011. The multilingual version of the card states on the back side that Minty "loves to celebrate!" The monolingual version of the card states on the back side that Minty "loves to celebrate holidays with her friends! Her favorite season is winter." Most material depicts her as an Earth pony with the same character design as Applejack, though European versions of some material depict her as a Pegasus with the same character design as Rainbow Dash.

A mini-figure toy and another collector card of Minty are included together in the twelfth wave of mystery packs.

An early Playful Ponies brushable toy of Minty was shown on the Chinese auction site Taobao but has thus far not been released. A later version of the toy, with lighter eye color and black outlines around the cutie mark, was included in the Midnight in Canterlot Pony Collection set with Princess Celestia, Nightmare Moon, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Dewdrop Dazzle.

Quotes
"Afternoon, Mr. Brown!"

- Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds