Random/off topic pony thoughts

[starrynights]

I think they're Mini-Me's ala Austin Powers,

I love that idea! 

I will never not laugh at Mummy Missile Launcher. Someone needs to show off a video of her in action.

The what now?
That sounds hilarious.

[Ponybookworm]

G1 Surprise Twins Mother. She gives birth to tiny twins & they come out of her like, well...

[Taffeta]

If Naynie's wasn't in the attic I would happily film the happy event.

Of course, protective goggles may be necessary.
 

[Leave a Whisper]

If Naynie's wasn't in the attic I would happily film the happy event.

Of course, protective goggles may be necessary.
 

Maybe a kevlar vest, or suit of armor, in the event that they ricochet. 

[Carrehz]

I think it's sad we don't have access to the kinds of things for MLP that do exist for other 80s shows.

(not sure how I overlooked this post o.O sorry for replying to such an old post!)

It really is a shame we have basically _nothing_ from the 80s cartoons. (or the G3 cartoons for that matter, I don't think we have much production stuff from those either...? I'll admit that I haven't really looked, I'm less interested in those) Especially when you look at what some shows have...

re: Episodic shows vs continuity based shows - continuity-based cartoons are only recently becoming a big thing. of course there's always been shows with a strong focus on plot/continuity/etc, but basically - networks prefer episodic shows that you can watch in any order, cause they're easier to rerun, and also apparently viewers are more likely to watch reruns for comedies/episodic shows than plot-based ones? I think we're seeing a stronger focus on continuity these days cause so many things are moving to streaming, etc. sorry to open up a topic again so many months later, just rediscovered this thread and wanted to add that x)

We still don't know why Baby Buttons appears in Crunch the Rock Dog, either, and there are at least 2 naming blips in Friends (ignoring the UK/US name differences, there's Score and Lilac, neither of which are actual production names post-release).

I feel like Baby Buttons was just a happy coincidence - . IIRC there's a Baby Wind Whistler near the end of the movie too, it's not the first time they messed up and drew a matching mum/baby pair that didn't "really" exist (except in Baby Buttons' case, she actually did - just not in the US). It's been a while since I've seen that ep, but aren't the other baby ponies in that ep ones that match the adult ponies in the scene? if that makes sense? Or am I mixing it up with "Bright Lights" - I know that one had a couple of scenes where Baby Half Note is swapped out for Baby Lickety-Split cause it seems like the animators just looked at the scene and assumed they were all meant to be matching mum/baby pairs.

[Leave a Whisper]

I'm a bit bummed that we might not get the baby ponies from BF after all.

[SpacePinto]

I was thinking about My Little Pony Tales recently and I just realized that the fact that Teddy calls his ursid plush toy a "Teddy bear" implies that there was a pony Theodore Roosevelt in this world...

[Koudoawaia]

Either that or in that realm they're named after Teddy himself =o

[Leave a Whisper]

Its interesting to me that previous iterations of the cartoons handled friendship better then fim ever did.

[MJNSEIFER]

Its interesting to me that previous iterations of the cartoons handled friendship better then fim ever did.

As much as I love FiM and did find it to have beautiful friendship moments... I can probably see what you mean, as the later episodes kind of downplayed the friendship theme, not all of them, but it seemed to be pushed into the background, which is a shame.

There were also episodes that showed the characters falling out for the sake of storyline - I'm not saying friends don't fall out, but it seemed a bit late in their friendships for them to fall out the way they did (e.g. if Rainbow Dash and Rarity were going to fall out for seemingly having no shared interests, it should have happened in Season 2 at the latest, in my opinion.)

That's probably not what you meant, but yeah... I love the friendship in FiM, but was all over the place at times, in my opinion.

[Zapper]

Its interesting to me that previous iterations of the cartoons handled friendship better then fim ever did.

I think that's because in previous gens characters were less exaggerated for comedic and premise-driven effects. In FiM the main pony friends are very different which creates a lot of tention. Good for writing "friendship lesson" plots that FiM was all about. In the real world we'd tell these girls to just stick with their cliques and Pinkie Pie to piss off already

[Leave a Whisper]

Its interesting to me that previous iterations of the cartoons handled friendship better then fim ever did.

I think that's because in previous gens characters were less exaggerated for comedic and premise-driven effects. In FiM the main pony friends are very different which creates a lot of tention. Good for writing "friendship lesson" plots that FiM was all about. In the real world we'd tell these girls to just stick with their cliques and Pinkie Pie to piss off already

 
We also woulda told Teddy to shove off too.

[SpacePinto]

Its interesting to me that previous iterations of the cartoons handled friendship better then fim ever did.

I think it's mostly because whenever the topic of friendship came up in older generations, it was usually done in a more organic way, without obligatory in-your-face recaps at the end and without the whole "We need to educate those uncultured non-pony savages who look suspiciously like 1950s racial stereotypes that all of their problems can be solved with friendship" narrative.

[MJNSEIFER]

Its interesting to me that previous iterations of the cartoons handled friendship better then fim ever did.

I think it's mostly because whenever the topic of friendship came up in older generations, it was usually done in a more organic way, without obligatory in-your-face recaps at the end and without the whole "We need to educate those uncultured non-pony savages who look suspiciously like 1950s racial stereotypes that all of their problems can be solved with friendship" narrative.

  What episode was that?

[brightberry]

I think mini figures and playsets from RAMC would have been amazing!  Although, I will always prefer the brushables, I still kind of crave the kind of awesome statues like in FIM for RAMC. 


As a kid, ponies with really weird or silly names