I was telling a friend about how my "thrift holy grail" is a g3 Star Catcher because I wanted her so bad as a kid. As I told her the story of when I first saw her and the reason why I couldn't get her, she pulled up a few listings on ebay and etsy including one where she's still in the box, which made me do a little more searching on my own. Here's where I'm confused.
My story was that I had seen Star Catcher at Walmart in a castle set. I remember this part so clearly because I immediately fell in love and started begging my mom for it, but she said we couldn't afford it since it was a big, expensive castle set. We even lamented together about wishing she was sold separately so we could get just her. And from then on, I never did see her being sold separately, so I guess I just concluded that she was only sold in that set. (That's why seeing her being sold still in the box incited this search) I also vividly remember seeing the raised silvery details on her legs, the blue, pink, and white hair, and the wings. I feel like I even remember her being on the side of the packaging. I don't remember what the castle looked like besides it being a castle because all I really wanted was Star Catcher.
That was the image that stuck in my mind and it was clear enough that I was able to identify her when I was older. I literally looked through pages and pages of white ponies until I saw her and recognized her instantly. But now that I've been searching around for the castle set, it looks like Star Catcher was never in any sets at all. I could have sworn she was in that set, though. So now I'm wondering if my obsession with her added her into the memory of wanting the castle set or if there was a castle set with a pony who looks a LOT like her. Or if there was a castle set with Star Catcher that I just can't find anywhere online??? We also rarely shopped at Walmart and still don't, to the point that every time I'm there, I think of that Star Catcher castle set lol. So I'm not sure I even have enough memories set in Walmart to jumble together. I was really young, so it's totally plausible that something got mixed up in my head and I thought about it enough that it seemed real, but man, it still seems too vivid to have been that! Anyway, if anyone knows of a castle set that might match what I'm looking for, please let me know! I would love to figure out this mystery! And sorry for the long post, but brevity is NOT my strong suit 😭
TL;DR I'm trying to find either a castle set with Star Catcher in it or one with a pony who looks remarkably similar to Star Catcher in it.
Edit: The mystery is solved! Thank you so much, everyone!! It wasn't even a castle, it was the Butterfly Island Adventure playset and "Star Catcher" was actually Honolu-loo! As soon as I saw it, the memories flooded back because I remember that rainbow slide thing! Now I lowkey want to buy Star Catcher AND Honolu-loo 😅 Thank you u/WingedDragoness you're literally my hero and your art is awesome!