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How did the toylines aimed at bronies sell? Like guardians of harmony and that fan series of statues
Quote from: SaraMari on February 20, 2018, 10:52:40 AMHow did the toylines aimed at bronies sell? Like guardians of harmony and that fan series of statues As far as I'm aware GoH and its Fan Series is doing fine, at least fine enough for them to keep making them. The Fan Series figures people especially seem to like. I'd like to have them all myself eventually (but I'm waiting to get more, I have two at the moment and don't have the space for any more).
I'm glad FIM exists despite the bad parts of the fandom. Cartoons targeted towards girls at the time were downright insulting. Where the worst issue was wanting to have a tea party and being unable to find a special hat. If anything I felt the friendship lessons were becoming shoehorned in. The 80s cartoon did not need them to be a good cartoon.I don't feel the regular Guardians of Harmony figures were aimed at bronies. They were just Hasbro's answer to the whole "Stop gendering toys!" social media movement.
Quote from: Wardah on February 20, 2018, 12:11:31 PMI'm glad FIM exists despite the bad parts of the fandom. Cartoons targeted towards girls at the time were downright insulting. Where the worst issue was wanting to have a tea party and being unable to find a special hat. If anything I felt the friendship lessons were becoming shoehorned in. The 80s cartoon did not need them to be a good cartoon.I don't feel the regular Guardians of Harmony figures were aimed at bronies. They were just Hasbro's answer to the whole "Stop gendering toys!" social media movement.Why? Why is Girl Cartoon always a bad, tepid, crappy thing? You and I must not have been watching the same shows sister. Plenty of perfectly good Girls Cartoons to go around now and then. When was there ever a time where the vast majority of girls toons had tea parties and giggled at nothing? Just because one or two did it they all now did? Don't recall Eliza Thornberry doing nothing but that. Didn't she go out and save animals by being given the power to communicate with them? Don't recall She-Ra being a damsel in distress. She is a fierce warrior woman and she dressed like a valkyrie.JatH had career driven women, who work hard to keep a Girls Home afloat and chased their dream careers. Korra is flawed and bull-headed and stubborn. But she doesn't turn away from her duty as Avatar and is absolutely ferocious.I'm so sick of this retconning that girls cartoons have always been stupid and sucky. Especially by people who ought to know better.
This is yet another reason why I really think Hasbro should just kill the G4 line dead, and then start up with G5s in a year or two(or more). It would do a lot of good to give everyone a break, and it would make the new line much more of an exciting event for everyone. It would also likely clear out the toxic part of the fanbase. The people who are only interested in complaining, stirring up trouble, or perverting MLP will most likely not stick around for 1-2 years of nothing new from Hasbro. They'll probably move on to something else, and by the time MLP is back, they'll likely be entrenched in whatever thing they found to replace MLP.Also, 1-2 years is a lifetime on the internet. That break would give the world at large a chance to forget about the sensationalism created by the toxic part of the fandom that attached itself to MLP. The articles about pony themed sex toys and other craziness from the last several years will still be out there, but they will have faded from the collective conscientiousness with no new fuel to keep them going.Taking a break would give MLP a chance at a fresh start. For the toys, it would give a real boost to the G5 line. It really takes a lot of the excitement out of it if the newest toys are sharing space with the peg warmers from the last generation. It would give the creative team at Hasbro a break and a chance to come up with something fresh and new without having to sort through all the baggage of the last generation. It would give collectors a break, and a chance to get excited about something new instead of just being tired from a long stretch of boring toys and bad distribution. And it would most likely clear out a good chunk of the problem parts of the fanbase. People are already venting rage at the new line, and it hasn't even been announced yet. If people are already vomiting bile all over your new line before the first blurry prototype photo gets out, that's not a good start.