Sugar Grape shares her design with Rainbow Dash, Daring Do, Feathermay, Lucky Dreams, Breezie, Skywishes, and Banana Bliss, she shares her mane and tail style with Holly Dash, Léon, "Ballad", and "Doseydotes", she shares her tail style with "Sunstone", and she resembles "Downdraft". According to Andy Price, "random blind bags" are how Sugar Grape, Cherry Spices, and Sweetcream Scoops "got into the comic".