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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2730 on: May 13, 2022, 10:12:07 AM »

My opinion that might be unpopular? I wish Hasbro had done more horse markings in G1. We have blaze and...? I think that's it. It would have been cool if they did things like paint or appaloosa. I guess Cotton Candy is as close to appaloosa as we got.

I love the ponies with blazes. There should have been way more of them. Seashell and Bubbles are the only two that come to mind. I also liked the freckles on Bowtie and Applejack, although they’re not really horsey.

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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2731 on: May 13, 2022, 10:20:56 AM »
I'm not really into playsets, and wasn't when I was a kid either (aside from Castle Grayskull with the slime) but I always liked the G3 playset with the rainbow waterfall. Butterfly Island is its name. That was a cute playset. The little Breezie train was cute too.

My opinion that might be unpopular? I wish Hasbro had done more horse markings in G1. We have blaze and...? I think that's it. It would have been cool if they did things like paint or appaloosa. I guess Cotton Candy is as close to appaloosa as we got.

I'll second horsey markings, the g5s have proven that they look very cute with leg markings.

G2 had a lot of neat ideas actually.

Berry Bright is best G2. I don't really understand all the Ivy hype, genuinely.

Isn't there a G2 in similarish colors? Sea Foam or something?

Um, maybe Sea Breeze? The mail order? *racks brains for G2 names, at which she often fails*

But yeah, it's definitely a reused colour scheme.

I actually think it would've been cool to have a proper appaloosa set with different colours. O.O

Playsets...as a kid I wanted PE and the hair salon and had neither. So I have a special fondness for them. I had DC and the nursery and played with them over and over. As an adult...it's a problem of storage. :/

That's the one.
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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2732 on: June 02, 2022, 03:04:21 PM »
I hate to say it, I don't wanna say it, but G5 Rainbowdash looks very cute. I kinda sorta want one to paint into a different pony like Starshine.
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« Reply #2733 on: September 27, 2022, 10:27:06 AM »
Had to seek out this thread again.
G5 ponies are ugly. They looked all right in the movie, but every piece of G5 media since then is just. Not good to look at.
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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2734 on: October 07, 2022, 03:42:16 AM »
I... didn't like the G5 movie at all. It's as colour-by-the-numbers as colour-by-the-numbers can get. It doesn't know what it wants to be. It wants magic AND technology and doesn't care about how to blend those two together, just piles them one on top of the other. It wants to have a "message" but it's also incredibly shoehorned even by kid show standards (Trolls 2 handled the diversity message better). And worst of it, it's terribly, overwhelmingly, bland. I couldn't feel the magic, the fun or the enjoyment a movie is supposed to have. I'm often the kind who will find something funny to laugh about even in a non-comedy or bad film, but that film is the equivalent of eating wet cardboard colored with pastel chalks.

Also please don't come at me with that "it's for little kids" argument - little kids deserve better entertainment than this.
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« Reply #2735 on: October 07, 2022, 03:55:48 AM »
Im not a fan of G5 either. The art is has a lot to be desired. The forward eyes as opposed to the sides like G4 made the faces seem too human to me. I saw the movie, I couldn't get past episode 1 of the series because all I could think about how disappointing the art is.

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« Reply #2736 on: October 07, 2022, 07:47:46 AM »
The big G5s have nice hair, but the faces are weird. There's this sort of scrunching or wrinkling on the muzzle, like the plastic got messed up before it fully hardened. And my Princess Sunny has what looks like a contusion springing up around her horn. Idk if Moonbow and  Twilight Sparkle have the contusion too? I should go look, but it feels like a wish on a monkey paw.
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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2737 on: October 08, 2022, 08:04:49 AM »
seems to be an unpopular opinion around these boards, but i think the whole brony phase in the 2010s was really cool. i know there were some questionable things, but i think the idea that a cutesy pink and purple show about love and ponies was popular amongst gamers and adult men and teenagers, to be really awesome. biased because i consider myself a brony and love g4, but i just think that a show about femininity and friendship was so popular with men to be cool. i'm a really girly guy so i just think that's awesome.

2nd, i hated the g4 toy line reboot that they did around the time of the movie, the ones with the poses. the toys themselves are fine, a little off but i would have been okay if they started like that (minus big mac, he looks horrible) it's just that half of the characters don't even match now! plus the foreheads look weird. i'd be lying though if i said i didn't want the new applejack though.

3rd, i really like the bridles! makes 0 sense in the context of sentient ponies, but they do look pretty cute to me.

4th, i love tales. i know it's not very well-made or well-written, but i'm just a sucker for it. it's fun!
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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2738 on: October 08, 2022, 09:09:39 AM »
I can't speak for everyone of course, but most of us Arena peeps' problems with the bronies stem from the........ belligerent part of the fandom. I think more people getting into stuff, especially guys getting into "girly" stuff, is a great idea! Break down those silly gender stereotypes! Male pony fans are awesome.

What ISN'T awesome is the large amount of bronies who spammed porn in Facebook groups etc (I think it's mostly been cleaned up by now, but I remember at one point it was almost impossible to google MLP stuff without risking getting an eyefull), harrassed the pre-existing fans, acted like G4 was the only MLP thing that ever existed/made sweeping statements along the lines of "G1-G3 sucks", made up crap like "Tales is G2" instead of doing five seconds of research into this very much preexisting fandom, generally acted inappropriate...... I could go on.

THAT is what I had a problem with. I think that's what most people mean when they say "I hate bronies". The worst of the bunch tended to be the ones who really pushed the "brony" name and unfortunately they made a bad impression on a lot of folks. you know what they say, "a bad apple spoils the bunch" - it's not that we think All Bronies Suck - it's just hard for a lot of us to separate the bad apples from the good ones. And I mean, pretty much ALL big fandoms have their bad sides, it's not really a FiM-specific problem - the issue is that the "bad bronies" tended to be the most vocal ones and it left a bad taste in a lot of folks' mouths.
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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2739 on: October 08, 2022, 09:52:48 AM »
Everything that Carrehz said.

I met some awesome bronies at ponycon on a couple of occasions. But one of those same years was the year the brony convention here got cancelled and UK ponycon sold out. And some jerks who couldn't get tickets threatened to storm the building and I think there were some threats of indecent behaviour. Bear in mind ponycon has a lot of kids attending. Not good. Not welcome. BUT a lot of bronies did come to ponycon that year. And it was fine. We just all interacted like, well ponyfans. Shared infos. Bantered a bit. It was great. So yeah, the idea of G4 being popular with guys is great.

...The toxic elements, not great. They ruined the reputation of real pony fans, including those who were fans of G4. They attacked the older fandoms, spammed youtube videos, tried (and somewhat succeeded) in pushing their views on everyone.

Those fans were enabled by the attention they got from the media, the world, maybe even Hasbro, that they were 'the fans' of MLP. But they weren't. We were here before G4. We are here after G4. Most of us collect some G4, like some G4 things, but it's just another generation of MLP. It's not better or worse than the other gens. It has destroyed any hope of new or creative pony things going forward, though, since now Hasbro think they can cash in on the same theme, rather than being as original as they were for G1, G2, G3 and at the start of G4.

I'm hoping with time, as the toxic lot disappear, we'll get the fans of G4 who grew up with it and the real pony fans who were genuinely just into the line.

Anyway.

My possibly unpopular opinion for the week.

Walked into Smyths toys today. Saw the G5 pony display. It filled about a two metre section across, and up to about the midpoint of the bay (Smyths stacks very high as a rule). And about 95% of what was there was Sunny. Right now, I feel that G5 is worse than G4 in its character/toy repetition.

I swear, if I see many more Sunny Starscouts, I'm going to rename this generation the mane 1.

I know there's a bit more variety stateside, but still. This is not a great start. G4 at least began with variety. I was able to pick up 3 different ponies in 2011 in Finland, which is already 2 more than I generally see in stores in the UK in 2022.
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« Reply #2740 on: October 08, 2022, 11:29:13 AM »
Everything that Carrehz said.

I met some awesome bronies at ponycon on a couple of occasions. But one of those same years was the year the brony convention here got cancelled and UK ponycon sold out. And some jerks who couldn't get tickets threatened to storm the building and I think there were some threats of indecent behaviour. Bear in mind ponycon has a lot of kids attending. Not good. Not welcome. BUT a lot of bronies did come to ponycon that year. And it was fine. We just all interacted like, well ponyfans. Shared infos. Bantered a bit. It was great. So yeah, the idea of G4 being popular with guys is great.

...The toxic elements, not great. They ruined the reputation of real pony fans, including those who were fans of G4. They attacked the older fandoms, spammed youtube videos, tried (and somewhat succeeded) in pushing their views on everyone.

Those fans were enabled by the attention they got from the media, the world, maybe even Hasbro, that they were 'the fans' of MLP. But they weren't. We were here before G4. We are here after G4. Most of us collect some G4, like some G4 things, but it's just another generation of MLP. It's not better or worse than the other gens. It has destroyed any hope of new or creative pony things going forward, though, since now Hasbro think they can cash in on the same theme, rather than being as original as they were for G1, G2, G3 and at the start of G4.

I'm hoping with time, as the toxic lot disappear, we'll get the fans of G4 who grew up with it and the real pony fans who were genuinely just into the line.

Anyway.

My possibly unpopular opinion for the week.

Walked into Smyths toys today. Saw the G5 pony display. It filled about a two metre section across, and up to about the midpoint of the bay (Smyths stacks very high as a rule). And about 95% of what was there was Sunny. Right now, I feel that G5 is worse than G4 in its character/toy repetition.

I swear, if I see many more Sunny Starscouts, I'm going to rename this generation the mane 1.

I know there's a bit more variety stateside, but still. This is not a great start. G4 at least began with variety. I was able to pick up 3 different ponies in 2011 in Finland, which is already 2 more than I generally see in stores in the UK in 2022.


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« Reply #2741 on: October 08, 2022, 11:55:47 AM »
I'm getting really sick of Sunny, too. To be honest, I have a hard time even naming the other G5 characters that have been made into toys x)

...The toxic elements, not great. They ruined the reputation of real pony fans, including those who were fans of G4. They attacked the older fandoms, spammed youtube videos, tried (and somewhat succeeded) in pushing their views on everyone.

This is a good point (well all of your post is, but this bit particularly) - bronies gave MLP fandom a bad rep to the point where I've legitimately felt the need to clarify, when mentioning being a pony fan to non-fans, "I'm not one of THOSE types though". Just cause I don't want to be tarred with the same brush. And it really sucks that I, or anyone else, should feel the need to defend themselves like that just cause of a vocal part of the fandom.
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« Reply #2742 on: October 08, 2022, 02:17:34 PM »
They have earned their reputation as obnoxious sub-fans and it's not fair to the rest of the larger fandom to be automatically lumped in with them.

 There's a reason many people look at them with irritation and shun them for announcing being a brony everywhere they go. It's not because they're boys liking a girl's franchise, they're not the first, or the last. But because they've proudly ticked off every negative stereotype they're associated with on the check list and then some. The ones who know how to be decent human beings are the exception, not the rule.

I'm already tired of Sunny as well. I see more of her and Moonbow then the rest of them. I don't even see Pipp all that often. Maybe Hasbro is finally starting to burn out on pink?

I like Jazz a lot, but have decided not to get her because I already have an overabundance of earth ponies still on my wishlist and space is precious.
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« Reply #2743 on: October 08, 2022, 03:04:25 PM »
I'm just going to pick up on the comment about Tales. I'm also in the minority, but I like Tales better than the rest of the G1 animation, taken overall. I was never huge on the G1 animation, but I remember being really excited by seeing tales for the first time when I was 13. I'd only seen those characters in the comic, and I didn't know they had been animated. I bought Bright Eyes new in Barmouth on holiday in 1992, although she was a bit more forceful in the cartoon than she was in the comic that had made me fall in love with her.

I think the main thing was that Tales didn't jar with the comics in terms of most things, whereas the G1 animation did, and as a kid, I was always comic first. I didn't like watching eps with ponies that 'didn't exist' (weren't sold here) and 'had the wrong names' (had US names which were changed in the UK release), so aside Revolt of PE, which I loved, I kind of distanced from them. (And that one had Cupcake and Truly in, who I was sure were made up. For some reason I never thought Paradise was though. Weird...)
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Re: Unpopular Pony Opinions
« Reply #2744 on: October 08, 2022, 04:03:52 PM »
perhaps i mis-phrased that - i meant less that 'mlparena folks dislike bronies because they like a show for girls while i think that is cool', more-so i meant 'a lot of mlparena folks seem to find the bad side of bronies overshadows the good, while for me it is the inverse.' thank you all for your responses, though. i enjoyed reading them  ^.^

anywho;
have to agree with taffeta about liking tales better than the other g1 stuff. i find the original g1 series hard to watch! like, i love the songs (big brother ponies gets stuck in my head more than it should, LOL) but i find it so drawn out!

This one's not really unpopular in the toy-collecting part of the fandom (especially when it comes to g3 pinkie) but I don't really like pinkie pie! I love the rest of the g4 main 6, but she just gets on my nerves.

I think unicorn cheerilee is the best cheerilee. Wish she got a regular size toy instead of just styling size!

The g3 baby ponies are kind of unsettling. I still like them but I feel like they are a little uncanny.
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