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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2020, 01:29:07 PM »
Wasn't popular though. CN literally shoves TTG onto the schedule for days at a time, and TCR was ripped to shreds and recieved low views from what I understand.

Cartoon Network is just filled with pathetic desperate corporate heads who are too stupid to realize that they are the reason they've sunk their own ship.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2020, 01:40:56 PM »
What's wrong with cats? :(

edit: I don't have a horse cat in this race. I don't watch the show and didn't watch FiM either past season 2.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2020, 01:41:47 PM »
What's wrong with cats? :(

Nothing, except ponies aren't jawless cats.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2020, 01:42:06 PM »
What's wrong with cats? :(
Well, it's not called My Little Kitty, now is it? :P
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2020, 01:47:32 PM »
Why would Hasbro pander to a small part of an adult fandom when they make their money off of children?

This.  It's made to appeal to children.  Biggest influence IMO is Teen Titans Go.  While a lot of adults hate that TTG . . . it has great ratings with kids.

Like, I'm not thrilled about it but this is just something you have to live with when you're an adult fan of a children's franchise.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2020, 02:15:56 PM »
Personally I'm happier if MLP is being targeted to the kids of whatever generation. The adults just have to lump it. They had their turn to be a pony child, if they missed it, tough - don't ruin it for the young'uns. If you know what I mean?

I'm gonna sound super-old now but I'm glad I grew up with MLP before the internet happened xD.

Brony opinion is just not important to anyone except bronies. And our opinion on brony opinion is even less important still, in the bigger picture of MLP decisions.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2020, 02:39:49 PM »
What's wrong with cats? :(

edit: I don't have a horse cat in this race. I don't watch the show and didn't watch FiM either past season 2.

Yeah yeah. Don't try to play it cool. Word on the street is, you've placed high bets on the orange tabby to win it.  :biggrin:
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2020, 03:25:12 PM »
Nah, the tortie cats will win!  They have tortitude.  :)
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2020, 04:47:19 PM »
Nah, the tortie cats will win!  They have tortitude.  :)

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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2020, 05:21:03 PM »
the art style, I think is Hasbro’s own attempt at mimicking the CaLArts style,
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As someone who watches a lot of cartoons can I just take this opportunity to say how sick I am of that term.
Personally I'm happier if MLP is being targeted to the kids of whatever generation. The adults just have to lump it. They had their turn to be a pony child, if they missed it, tough - don't ruin it for the young'uns. If you know what I mean?
I think this is a sweet way to think of it! It's just bonus points for me because I like some of the trends they're capitilizing off of.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2020, 05:51:28 PM »
Yes, the "CalArts Style" term is garbage. And the man who started throwing it around to belittle modern cartoons as "looking too samey" is not only a jerk and a hack, but hardly one to talk since his own art style has remained the same since Dexter's Lab.

It's true that pretty much all modern kids' cartoons are super-stylized (and increasingly in a "chibi" way), but it's all in different flavors. I do miss having some more realist/semi-realist styles around, but for most of these shows it does work. It's their thing, and they own it. Pony Life, though.. the stylization feels like G3.5 all over again, except the heads look like cat heads instead of like cartoon caterpillar heads.



Re: Teen Titans Go and ThunderCats Roar, they got slammed partly for being just lolrandom gag shows... and out of fans' resentment that the networks decided to commission chibi lolrandom gag show versions of what had been serious to semi-serious properties (with decent-quality social commentary) instead of reviving the Teen Titans and ThunderCats (2011) cartoons, both of which got cut short with unresolved stories.
I don't see that happening to Pony Life, since G4 was (finally) given a proper ending after running itself thoroughly out of steam. Although, there might be some resentment going the other way, considering how the G4 toyline spammed the Mane 6 to death
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2020, 08:50:20 PM »
I haven't even watched anything of 'pony life' even once. Heck I even missed the last half of the last season of FIM. I've not purchased any of the new 'weird' looking toys either.

So if they're pandering it isn't to me. But ya know, I'm okay with that. there is plenty of pony surrounding me to keep me happy till Hasbro figures out how to draw ponies again.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2020, 07:05:27 AM »
I haven't even watched anything of 'pony life' even once. Heck I even missed the last half of the last season of FIM. I've not purchased any of the new 'weird' looking toys either.

So if they're pandering it isn't to me. But ya know, I'm okay with that. there is plenty of pony surrounding me to keep me happy till Hasbro figures out how to draw ponies again.

The funny thing is, they clearly still know what a horse looks like. Given SDCC Twilight, Retro Mane Six pack and the Crossover Ponies. That's what annoys me.
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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2020, 05:31:53 PM »
Not everything is about bronies, thank goodness.
I can see some similarities to fanart and fanon. But at the same time FiM got so much fanart... remember the time the Bronies "invented" ponies wearing socks and then freaked out because they discovered G3 Minty was a sock collector and wore them years before they came up with it? Lol... sometimes they think they influence everything at Hasbro, even through time travel :lol:

So I don't think PL is a direct reaction to their wants and needs. More like taylored for young audiences who like L.O.L. and blind bags and stuff.

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Re: Is Pony Life the result of fan pandering?
« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2020, 05:49:32 PM »
I have never seen anyone ask for the ponies to be catlike =p It just seems to have happened though I look at PonyLife and still don't see cats. I see the kind of common cartoon style that I personally am not a fan of.
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