Unpopular Pony Opinions

[SpacePinto]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Guess you could customize the crossovers. Plasmane is practically Shady anyway.

I don't think it would work for Wind Whistler or Bow Tie.

[Leave a Whisper]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Guess you could customize the crossovers. Plasmane is practically Shady anyway.

I don't think it would work for Wind Whistler or Bow Tie.

Obviously, unless said customizer is a talented sculptor.

[SpacePinto]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Guess you could customize the crossovers. Plasmane is practically Shady anyway.

I don't think it would work for Wind Whistler or Bow Tie.

Obviously, unless said customizer is a talented sculptor.

So not exactly me. Not to mention I'd really love officially licensed high-quality figurines of Wind Whistler in a cool pose or of Bow Tie with her cute little hair bows.

[Leave a Whisper]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Guess you could customize the crossovers. Plasmane is practically Shady anyway.

I don't think it would work for Wind Whistler or Bow Tie.

Obviously, unless said customizer is a talented sculptor.

So not exactly me. Not to mention I'd really love officially licensed high-quality figurines of Wind Whistler in a cool pose or of Bow Tie with her cute little hair bows.

Paint-wise other ponies can still be done.

[SpacePinto]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Guess you could customize the crossovers. Plasmane is practically Shady anyway.

I don't think it would work for Wind Whistler or Bow Tie.

Obviously, unless said customizer is a talented sculptor.

So not exactly me. Not to mention I'd really love officially licensed high-quality figurines of Wind Whistler in a cool pose or of Bow Tie with her cute little hair bows.

Paint-wise other ponies can still be done.

Weren't all the crossovers earth ponies anyway?

[Leave a Whisper]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Guess you could customize the crossovers. Plasmane is practically Shady anyway.

I don't think it would work for Wind Whistler or Bow Tie.

Obviously, unless said customizer is a talented sculptor.

So not exactly me. Not to mention I'd really love officially licensed high-quality figurines of Wind Whistler in a cool pose or of Bow Tie with her cute little hair bows.

Paint-wise other ponies can still be done.

Weren't all the crossovers earth ponies anyway?

Yes. We both know G1 doesn't lack for earth ponies.

[Leave a Whisper]

Tales is part of G1, but if you think about it, its also sort of the first show driven part of the brand. At least here in the states since the GnS and Rock N Beats were the only thing we got merch-wise.

[Zapper]

I would love molded-hair versions of ponies from the G1 cartoon!

Something like the G1 porcelains would be cool to me. Just not made from porcelain.

[galaxy22586]

I hate the poses assigned to Flutter Ponies. :/

[Taffeta]

Tales is part of G1, but if you think about it, its also sort of the first show driven part of the brand. At least here in the states since the GnS and Rock N Beats were the only thing we got merch-wise.

From a timeline perspective, though, both the glows and the RnBs predate Tales by at least a year, maybe 2 in the US. I don't really think that the Tales series was made to market in the US, I really think it was made to market in Europe because of the emphasis on football/soccer which is very much more popular here (especially in the early 1990s). The toys and the series are therefore about the same in terms of their dates. But the other sets predate the series and were probably just pulled in to pad out the story because they had useful themes that could be incorporated. Tuneful & co certainly had completely different personas in the comic for about a year before Tales hit and they got reinvented for that purpose.

Plus "Glowing Magical" is about an inch away from "Glowing Magic", which is the UK name for the glows. If it was aimed at the US, that would be a weird set name to choose, especially being so close to accurate. They could've invented a whole new one if they thought Glow & Show wouldn't work - but they went for the UK name instead. I don't think that's accidental.

So yeah, I see Tales as toy driven, not show driven marketing. Its target audience just wasn't the US - it was aired there but it was designed to sell toys here. By the time Tales was ready to go, Pony in the US was done.

[Leave a Whisper]

I wish some of the Crossover Ponies had hair. Its fine moulded on some of them, like the Lite Brite Pony and Optimus Pony...but others yes please. I would have loved for GB pony, DnD Pack and Twister Pony to have lovely hair to brush and style. I imagine Power Ranger Pony would have tinsel.

[MJNSEIFER]

Not sure if I've posted this one before, but...

I don't mind "recycled names" - I never really did for a long time, as I get that they're all different ponies, with the same names (even if they reused the name "because it worked before" or whatever, like it was a marketable name), but also because I've tried naming my own ponies, and some of the names I came up with turned out to be the names of canon ponies.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if at least some of the recycled names were done by accident, because there's so many ponies in most of the generations, whoever was coming up with the names for the then current generation might not have known or at least forgotten that they already used that name (sometimes in the same generation!)

[brightberry]

I don't know why I remember Tales as being made to market in Europe, but I remember thinking that when I caught a part of it way back when.

[Taffeta]

I think recycled names happened to save money on new trademarks >.>.

They didn't happen here very much though. Which annoys me more in a sense because (and this is a very unpopular opinion judging by the internet in general), in spite of the fact a lot of these ponies have official other names in English that can be used, they're mostly overridden by the need to use the recycled names for some reason.

...It doesn't work for all of them, some weren't sold here, but really, I don't understand why to save confusion there wouldn't be some kind of collector judgement to refer to the newest pony with a repeat name by their UK equivalent.

Even less comprehensible when it's people in the UK who grew up with those other names.

[Leave a Whisper]

I always thought it was because Hasbro had a collective brain fart. And occasionally because they're lazy/or there's only so many names you can give to a cotton candy themed pony.