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So? The balance was excellent and there were a crap ton of toys to collect that weren't Pinkie/Cheerilee/Rainbowdash with MAYBE 1 or 2 new characters short changed every couple of years.Tales did not oversaturate the G1 line. We're allowed to be tired of Hasbro's obnoxious obsession all we want. Plus the damn Mane Suxx aren't moving on the shelves, so that tells me the target audience is tired of it too and its not working anymore.
There's a certain irony in the indignation about M6 fatigue. I really don't understand it, but it does seem more productive if you want to know why someone doesn't like the M6 to ask them, rather than discussing their reasons as though they aren't reading the thread and able to contribute o.O.
Nobody has yet called me to heel for comparing Sundae Best ponies to weapons of mass destruction, either.
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Quote from: Taffeta on October 09, 2020, 10:28:31 AMThere's a certain irony in the indignation about M6 fatigue. I really don't understand it, but it does seem more productive if you want to know why someone doesn't like the M6 to ask them, rather than discussing their reasons as though they aren't reading the thread and able to contribute o.O.I’m sorry if that came off as accusatory—I didn’t ask anyone in particular to give reasons because I was trying to encompass the fandom and adult MLP collectors as a whole, rather than just the people posting on this thread.Again, I completely sympathize with the rerelease fatigue! I’d REALLY rather that G5 ended that. It just seems like a large chunk of the collecting community are leveling that frustration at G4/FiM/M6 as a whole, rather than poor toy design and distribution. While I don’t personally care if someone hates or loves a fictional character, it seems kind of disrespectful to fans who enjoy G4/FiM/M6 to constantly throw around terms like “the mane sucks” and talk about how trash it all is. When G1-3 hate first started floating around in the brony communities, I know a lot of us were miffed at them for calling everything pre-FiM garbage, or saying the original ponies looked like hippos.It reminds me of the old G2 hate and how that divided the fandom, and I guess that’s what bothers me, really. It goes on in every fandom that’s lasted long enough to get a second generation or reboot. People liking or disliking different things is fine and dandy. Taking issue with how something is portrayed in a series is also completely valid. But calling the things other people like stupid or obnoxious just kind of seems excessive, IMO (again, aiming this at the MLP fandom as a whole, not you in particular). I’m not defensive of G4 or the M6 themselves (they’re far from my favorite MLP iteration), but of the fans who enjoy them and feel uncomfortable or looked down upon by other segments of the community.
Really? Transformers hasn't? Then I must have imagined the new characters in Rescue Bots. It may not have a big cast, but Heatwave and Chase get plenty of toys. Moreso then holdovers Optimus and Bumblebee.And there was nothing BUT new characters in Botbots. Prime, RiD15 and Cyberverse brought in some new characters as well like Knock Out, Thunderhoof, Windblade, Fix-It, Hammerbyte, Fracture and Wild Wheel. There was that all girl combiner Victorion. Heck even Movie-formers, as much as I despise Bay's style brought in new characters like Shatter, Barricade, Dropkick, Steelbane and Cogman. And none of those lines were in the 90s. If Transformers can do it, MLP can go back to doing it. And when was the last time MLP did it? The early 2000s.
I think the next pony gen will be much shorter then ten years. MLP FIM was originally intended to be three years IIRC. Like Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn was obviously supposed to be the stopping point. But it was at its height of popularity so Hasbro just kept going.Transformers cartoons usually last two to three seasons. Littlest Pet Shop (2012) lasted 4 seasons. Pound Puppies (2010) lasted three seasons. I think the max we'll see from a MLP cartoon in the future will be 4 seasons, but more likely 2 or 3.About the G2 thing, back in the day I had someone tell me I was "racist" for disliking G2 and that it made me "a Nazi." I remember ripping into them on the mailing list because WTF?