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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?
MH would rarely release all the main characters together in a line, but there'd be one or two then a bunch of new characters.
I suppose that's true too. I didn't do it with MH, but I got used to that with Jem and the fact the Misfits had hardly any of their outfits made, so I just made them myself. I guess in that context separate fashion sets would've been good though too.But the RR and the pearlies are 2 of my favourite G4 releases involving the M6, because they introduced new characters while jazzing up the originals as well. It doesn't bother me that AJ didn't get a RR version because there are already a zillion AJs. Having Holly Dash was a bonus instead.
Didn't Rarity not get a pearly version for a long time? Poor girl, she would be the first one to want to be glammed up. (That was my favorite G4 set, aside from the baby sea ponies / baby hippogriffs.)
Maybe that informed the release decision. Nurse Thingummy is basically silver, isn't she? Not so much white with the pearl?But the pearly set is nice because of the range. And here in the UK, Coloratura's set, we ad tons of those. But Coloratura was not that easy to get hold of because she sold out like lightning. The Entertainer and TRU, before it closed, had wave 1 and wave 2 M6 ponies sitting for months and months. Wave 3 for some reason only appeared for me in Smyths once and I snapped them all u[. I never saw AJ shelf-sit but I don't think there were enough of them.In any case, if G4 had centred around that kind of release mechanism the M6 fatigue wouldn't be so pronounced. But in the last year or two there have been a lot of M6. And it hasn't helped that here in the UK especially the same M6 shelf sit for months or even YEARS.There were so many Water Cutie AJs here for 3 years straight I'm surprised it didn't become a meme.
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.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on October 10, 2020, 08:44:26 AMI 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.Let's hope so! I enjoy cartoons that come to a conclusion rather than droning on for a decade with characters not really changing. I still have high hopes for a MLP show featuring an overarching plot with the seasons functioning like chapters.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on October 10, 2020, 01:50:15 PMDidn't Rarity not get a pearly version for a long time? Poor girl, she would be the first one to want to be glammed up. (That was my favorite G4 set, aside from the baby sea ponies / baby hippogriffs.)She finally got one in the Best Gift Ever set but those were the Movie molds. She never got one on the old molds.