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Quote from: Leave a Whisper on July 12, 2018, 06:29:33 AMQuote from: LadyMoondancer on July 12, 2018, 06:16:14 AMOkay, that is some pretty sweet packaging. Dang.Pity they put more effort into the packaging then the ponies.yuh...I am so tired of seeing Pinkie, Twilight and RD. There are so many other options that they could have explored.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on July 12, 2018, 06:16:14 AMOkay, that is some pretty sweet packaging. Dang.Pity they put more effort into the packaging then the ponies.
Okay, that is some pretty sweet packaging. Dang.
I'm a little late to this but I agree with what everyone has said. It's a bit disappointing. Anywho, I've heard that Hasbro claims that MLP was started in 1983 because that's when the patent was granted. That might explain why they always say 83 and not 82.
Quote from: Safflower on July 14, 2018, 03:23:46 PMI'm a little late to this but I agree with what everyone has said. It's a bit disappointing. Anywho, I've heard that Hasbro claims that MLP was started in 1983 because that's when the patent was granted. That might explain why they always say 83 and not 82.Hasbro UK claimed to me that their own 'inception' (I love that they used that word) was 1985 but there's UK packaging from 1984 and the sea ponies are the first exclusives for the UK...they're in 1984 packaging. I think Hasbro really don't always pay attention to the tiny awkward details. I mean, the fact that the hooves say 1982 on them, and there were ponies probably in stores around the winter/Christmas period of 1982 makes them 1982...I also think the Pat Pend was on hooves for longer than that? Maybe I'm wrong...?In any case, do we believe Hasbro about anything?(Ironically, MLP in the UK probably did first emerge in import form in 1983...)
Quote from: Sweet Daes on July 12, 2018, 02:40:52 PMQuote from: Leave a Whisper on July 12, 2018, 06:29:33 AMQuote from: LadyMoondancer on July 12, 2018, 06:16:14 AMOkay, that is some pretty sweet packaging. Dang.that would've been amazing! Dangit, Hasbro!Pity they put more effort into the packaging then the ponies.yuh...I am so tired of seeing Pinkie, Twilight and RD. There are so many other options that they could have explored.kinda cute. but ... way too much Pinkie-Rainbow-Twili for me. Lol wouldnt it be cool to have Cheerilee instead? Thinking of her yearbook photo with that crimped mane
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on July 12, 2018, 06:29:33 AMQuote from: LadyMoondancer on July 12, 2018, 06:16:14 AMOkay, that is some pretty sweet packaging. Dang.that would've been amazing! Dangit, Hasbro!Pity they put more effort into the packaging then the ponies.yuh...I am so tired of seeing Pinkie, Twilight and RD. There are so many other options that they could have explored.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on July 12, 2018, 06:16:14 AMOkay, that is some pretty sweet packaging. Dang.that would've been amazing! Dangit, Hasbro!Pity they put more effort into the packaging then the ponies.
Quote from: Wardah on July 12, 2018, 03:57:23 PMQuote from: okamigirl64 on July 12, 2018, 02:42:41 PMQuote from: Taffeta on July 12, 2018, 08:35:14 AMThough I admit it would bother me less if the whole Basic Fun project wasn't so uncertain right now. Kinda off topic but what's up with the Basic Fun releases? Are they canceling the line or something?Nobody knows. People are worried because some Amazon preorders have been canceled and Basic Fun is a smaller company that might not be strong enough to survive both the demise of TRU (they still owed lots of vendors money, including Basic Fun) and the Annoying Orange Nitwit's trade war. I'm personally hoping the reason the preorders were cancelled is because they made some kind of exclusivity deal with Target.Apparently he's now in the UK. The Mayor of London even authorised a special tribute for him during his visit...and London tomorrow will be entirely locked up in the centre because of mass protests he probably won't even see. Sigh. Is there a return to sender option? Anyone know?...Back on topic - I may have hallucinated this but I got the impression Basic Fun had told someone that they were focusing more on online sales after the close of TRU. So...the cancellation of Amazon preorders is not a great sign. BUT it's not impossible they've made such a deal. Weird things have happened with the UK release - as far as I know Rainbow preorders on the UK site haven't been cancelled although the page is still missing (you can buy them from UK amazon but they're more expensive as they've been imported via France) and the preorder pages for the collector ponies has returned, just with a delayed date. So we're hoping for the best and planning for the worst. But my point was really that if Hasbro wanted to celebrate 35 or 36 years of this toy, then they are the ones who should be putting the effort into retro G1, not licencing that out to another company while they peddle more G4 repeats. Hasbro UK (whose customer service person used to be nice, once) told me basically that they didn't care about the retros, it wasn't their project so I needed to contact Basic Fun about it. That kind of summed it up for me. It's nice that the packaging is awesome but a bit sad the package is better than the product. Even as a fan of G1 packaging, I feel that way.
Quote from: okamigirl64 on July 12, 2018, 02:42:41 PMQuote from: Taffeta on July 12, 2018, 08:35:14 AMThough I admit it would bother me less if the whole Basic Fun project wasn't so uncertain right now. Kinda off topic but what's up with the Basic Fun releases? Are they canceling the line or something?Nobody knows. People are worried because some Amazon preorders have been canceled and Basic Fun is a smaller company that might not be strong enough to survive both the demise of TRU (they still owed lots of vendors money, including Basic Fun) and the Annoying Orange Nitwit's trade war. I'm personally hoping the reason the preorders were cancelled is because they made some kind of exclusivity deal with Target.
Quote from: Taffeta on July 12, 2018, 08:35:14 AMThough I admit it would bother me less if the whole Basic Fun project wasn't so uncertain right now. Kinda off topic but what's up with the Basic Fun releases? Are they canceling the line or something?
Though I admit it would bother me less if the whole Basic Fun project wasn't so uncertain right now.
Hasbro released rubbish 10 years ago and they mostly only got sold across the US. There were apparently a few sightings here but I honestly believed until recently that they never got to the UK, that's how bad the distribution was. At least I guess Basic Fun knows the rest of the world exists, so there's that.I also don't think the patent is important. And I don't think it matters when ponies hit the shelves, either. The line begins when the toy begins construction, right? I mean, the toys are 1982 on the hooves, so they're 1982. Just like Hasbro UK's records begin in 1985 but I can 100% prove they were out in 1984 (not least because I had Windy for Christmas 1984 xD). The packaging is also distinct between 1984 and 1985 (the earliest ponies here had no stories). And then the US line had FF ponies, then CF ponies...But CF ponies are also dated 1982. And while you could argue that's for consistency with the FF ponies, that kind of doesn't make sense because all later altered moulds which are based on older moulds have later dates (eg Butter Kiss/Swirly Whirly doesn't have 1982 on her hooves). The whole mould was changed, too, not just the feet - to make them not fall over any more. SO that means CF must have also been in the works in 1982....And all of that happened but they only came out in 1983? Not buying it.
And this would have made more sense for the SDCC exclusive.https://www.mlpmerch.com/2018/07/amazon-exclusive-twilight-sparkle-as-star-swirl-up-for-pre-order.html