Why Do You Think There Were So Few Unicorns and Pegasi in G3?

[Scraleos]

When I was little and Star Catcher came out, I went nuts for her! I did for Coconut Grove, Thistle Whistle, and all the other pegasi too. Now unicorns had come out when I wasn't collecting anymore, but only a handful of unicorns even came out! I always thought unicorns were the girliest thing you could get!

Your opinions?

[kittybethy]

I wish I knew!! I would also liketo see a baby unicorn!

[Dragonflitter]

This is a good question! I'm mainly a G3 collector because I love them, but I will admit some of the choices Hasbro made are baffling.

Over 200 different G3 characters and not one boy?
Only using two molds for ALL the babies (normal babies, I mean, not special ones)?
Only putting out 7 unicorns for your whole line?

And WHY go to all the trouble of making some molds (Honolu-loo, baby sister earthie, baby sister pegasus, sitting pony) that you only use once and never again?? What a waste!

Maybe they were just trying to keep things simple. The G1 line had so many different types of ponies (I mean like seaponies, mers, boys, pegasus, unicorns, earthies, flutters, wingers, etc etc). Other than the Breezies, the G3 kept their lines simple and concentrated on just making interesting cutie marks and putting out a bunch of different toys and accessories (until they decided to just do Core 7 anyway...).

[littlexflitter]

I think maybe they were trying to keep it simple, as Dragonflitter mentioned. However, pony diversity is fun! I'm glad there's a better assortment for G4. (Although I'd still like to see more types, of course~)

[toralei]

It is kind of a bummer. I love the G3 unicorns, but, to be honest, the pegasi looked strange to me. Such nubby little wings....

[Malicieuse]

It seems like they wanted to give every specie a special kind of introduction/theme.
The pegasus ponies had the whole butterfly Island theme going on with several animated shorts. The breezies had the whole first year of "Crystal princess" while the unicorns appeared the second year.
Each having a movie devoted to them.
I think they wanted to make every specie kind of special..but in the end the whole thing just went too slow. So by the time the unicorns were introduced there was hardly any time left before they suddenly came up with the Core 7 idea.

[ashes]

It is sad that they didn't have as many G3 unicorns and pegs - but I guess Hasbro just wanted to take the line in a whole new direction with the Core 7 - and that didn't last very long either.

So in some ways I'm glad for the G4 line because at least it seems to be more even with how many unicorns and pegs are being produced.

[Gingerbread]

One of the reason I love MLP is variety - different characters and type of pony. But with the whole core seven and main six thing, well, I'm getting dissilusioned

[kellyponyfeathers]

I remember reading somewhere that for the G3 line, Hasbro mostly stuck with earth ponies because they just didn't think that unis and pegs really fit with their idea of what MLP should be.

[Elisto]

The didn't think unicorns and pegasi fit with a girly, magical/fantasy pony theme?  Now I want to know what exactly their idea was of what MLP should be!

[SaraMari]

I was just thinking about this earlier today, did you read my mind? It is strange, they had the unicorn and pegasus molds already made, so I'm not sure why they didn't come up with more of them. Perhaps Earth ponies are easier to unmold, resulting in better profits?

[Starbright]

Well heck, why did it take them 30 years to make an alicorn for that matter?

I don't know, but I decided to get all the G3 pegs and unis, and as far as I know I do have them all. It was frustrating that they reused the same molds just a few times, but then had many molds for earth ponies! In any case I'm glad they're being better about it now.

[scarletjul]

I suspect it had something to do with the Core 7 line, also.  Hasbro has just introduced unicorns to previous year or so and were slowly bringing them in, like they did with they pegasus ponies, when they decided to rethink the line and streamline it to just 7 ponies.  There wouldn't have been any time to introduce more unicorns (or, for that matter, pegasus ponies) in the intermit.

It's a shame, though, as there are some really gorgeous ponies in the unicorn and pegasus molds.

[LadyMoondancer]

I think it came down to poor marketing decisions, plain and simple.

I went to SDCC the year that they were selling the white SDCC pony.  I can't remember if Star Catcher had already come out or if she was about to come out, but one way or another I got to talking with the Hasbro reps there about Star Catcher, and they said . . .

She was being released to gauge if little girls like pegasus ponies.

Seriously?  SERIOUSLY???

In the 80s, it took Hasbro two seconds to realize unicorns and pegasi would be the next hot thing, right after they got over their initial reaction of "HOLY @#*(, LOOK HOW WELL THOSE SIX PASTEL PONIES SOLD!!!!"

[PinkRosedust]

I dunno...but it was a bad decision if you ask me. I think it's a bit tragic that they didn't make more. =(