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The weather theme, the colours, the freckles, the fact that they aren't as aggressively macho as the big brothers... 1 ice crystal (no cookies for me)2 sunburst3 tornado4 lighting5 thundercloud 6 fireball
So I think part of the Mountain Boys appeal is the realization (among Americans) that there WAS a set of boys who were simply better than what we got.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on December 02, 2019, 05:50:29 PMConversely I think the Big Brother ponies are almost . . . embarrassing? "I'm 4-Speed so I have a TRUCK on my butt 'cause I'm a BOY and boys love TRUCKS!" Like . . . okay. Nothing about that makes me want to buy you or own you, but okay. Also most of them have pretty mucky color schemes. I don't object to them having pink or purple on them, that's fine, but it's rarely a NICE shade, you know? While most of the Mountain Boys are very vibrant. Can I ask how that would be considered "embarrassing"? Boys tend to lean towards enjoying that kind of stuff. That's not a bad thing. And obviously based off how popular they are girls liked them having machinery symbols. They had two pink brothers, and seemed to be going towards a machine themed set with them. I would have been so excited to have that as a girl, I grew up next to a sod farm and other various farms and loved watching equipment. As soon as I found out these lads existed I was never happier. I guess I find it to be awesome they had ponies like that in what seems to be a girly line. Post Merge: December 02, 2019, 08:31:55 PM
Conversely I think the Big Brother ponies are almost . . . embarrassing? "I'm 4-Speed so I have a TRUCK on my butt 'cause I'm a BOY and boys love TRUCKS!" Like . . . okay. Nothing about that makes me want to buy you or own you, but okay. Also most of them have pretty mucky color schemes. I don't object to them having pink or purple on them, that's fine, but it's rarely a NICE shade, you know? While most of the Mountain Boys are very vibrant.
We did have the other boy ponies here (first set as Adventure Boy Ponies, second set were called Big Brothers) but they came out in 1988 and 1989, so the year after the MB set. I have a wondering whether Hasbro originally were not going to release the Brother sets here because their themes were very American and thus may not have related to British kids...In the end I think the MB set did pretty well and maybe encouraged them to put out the other two sets. They did change a bunch of the names, and I guess by originally calling them 'Adventure Boys' it moved away from the idea they could be the pony's 'big brother', rather that they were on some adventure in some other place. The Big Brother/Adventure Boys were ultimately more common for me carbooting as a kid, albeit not all of them - Trucker (4Speed) was not that common and I never to this date have found a Quarterback over here.I've always assumed then that the MBs were created here as replacements for the Big Brothers but we ended up getting the brothers anyway. Meaning boy ponies were super successful here for some reason?
Quote from: Taffeta on December 03, 2019, 02:49:14 AMWe did have the other boy ponies here (first set as Adventure Boy Ponies, second set were called Big Brothers) but they came out in 1988 and 1989, so the year after the MB set. I have a wondering whether Hasbro originally were not going to release the Brother sets here because their themes were very American and thus may not have related to British kids...In the end I think the MB set did pretty well and maybe encouraged them to put out the other two sets. They did change a bunch of the names, and I guess by originally calling them 'Adventure Boys' it moved away from the idea they could be the pony's 'big brother', rather that they were on some adventure in some other place. The Big Brother/Adventure Boys were ultimately more common for me carbooting as a kid, albeit not all of them - Trucker (4Speed) was not that common and I never to this date have found a Quarterback over here.I've always assumed then that the MBs were created here as replacements for the Big Brothers but we ended up getting the brothers anyway. Meaning boy ponies were super successful here for some reason?So, the UK had the MBs, Adventure Boys, then BBs? AB/BBs were still more common there than MBs? Who do you remember being the most common MBs? Were the AB/BBs a lot more common or just a little bit? Were all of them featured in the comics?
The mention about the "common in the US" ponies at the beginning of this thread regarding ponies Brits were familiar with due to the comics, etc but not selling them there, makes me think of the Tales ponies. The show was aired in the US but the US did not get the toys. Just seems so counterproductive to me, not to put both in either country, or both countries for that matter. Sam with the earlier ponies mentioned.