They  are absolutely beautiful, miles better than what I can do by far.

While I love the style of G1 and G4 (and G3 obviously) in their own way, I always love seeing G4 adaptations of non-G4 ponies.  I love seeing Non-G4 adaptations of G4 ponies too, but the former is actually helpful to me because I will need to learn them soon...

They might have not been doing anything. The mothers probably felt uncomfortable that men (that are most likely not parents) were in the girl section and enough complained to have it moved.

Wow... that's actually kind of depressing. 

Does anyone else miss the days when an adult/teenager could just be seen in toyshop and the first thought of those who saw him would just assume he was simply remincing about being a child?

Well the toy line isn't both sides on G4... At least none of mine have them on both sides!

Wow really? I wonder why that is, because in the show it's confirmed to be both sides, no offense.

As I have mentioned, I am not (yet?) a collector, but I am curious as to how many of you continued to collect ponies during the Core Seven era.

This is actually G3.5 not G3 as far as I can see, but what basically happened is that instead of continuing to create more and more ponies, Hasbro just updated the same seven ponies again and again.  Did you still collect them each time they came out or not?

This is going to be a little hard to explain, but if you give me a couple of days I'll be able to provide more of an idea of what I mean.

I don't know if My Little Pony was the first pony related product that placed a symbol of some sort on its ponies, much less on the flank, but that seems to be what they are all doing all of a sudden, or maybe for longer.

In MLP, the cutie mark (called a "symbol" until Generation 3) has always in someway been relevent to the pony in question, be it a description of their personality or what they can do, but has always been an important factor of the MLP franchise for me (I personally love the G4 version, where it can be earned, as I liken it to finding your purpose in life...) however, there seems to be a "fad" amongst all pony merchandice to place some kind of symbol there.

I went into a toy shop revently, and not only was there a really strange looking plushie "alicorn" (MLP or not, that is what I now know flying unicorns as) that had a star-shaped symbol in the correct place, but also there were some toy ponies that all had a kind of symbol on their flanks.  None of these were from My Little Pony, nor did they say they were at any time (that said, I think one of them was the same, or of similar color scheme to that of G1 Sundance, but it wasn't her).

This also brings me back to ages ago when I visited my local newsagents and saw what I think was a comic book, and there was a children's book about ponies, and they were all colorful MLP-Esque ponies, who all had the same symbol (what the symbol was, escapes my memory, as does the name of the comic, but I'll check if it's still there one day) - it really looked like someone was trying copy MLP, but making a very lazy job of it.

Aside from that is it tradition for the symbol to go on the flank anyway, or did MLP start something?  Sorry if this is long, I have difficulty making sense with short topics sometimes.

Because all but one generation has a toyline and a television series; every toyline has some ponies (as well as non-ponies) that never appeared in the matching TV series ever.  This is basically a thread for those toys, and to ask if there are any that you would have liked to have been included on TV.  Feel free to give a reason if you have one and want to give one.

I'll probably think of far more eventually, but the one pony that instantly springs to mind is Majesty, a G1 pony who appeared in not one single episode (though she is still in the comics) despite the fact that she is obviously a very important pony, and the fact that Dream Castle clearly exists in the show.

I would have also liked to have seen at least some of the toys that were designed differently to have appeared as characters; such as the Twice as Fancy Ponies, or the Sparkle Ponies.  I'm also curious to see how the Pony Friends (a group of non-pony animals like a lion and a zebra) would have been used if they had appeared.

I don't know why I didn't think of this, but I suppose anypony from the G2 toyline could be added to this list, right?

How's it going everyone? I'm basically a fan of My Little Pony who wishes to share his intrerest with other fans. I hope that you will welcome me, and in turn I hope I make a good impression.

I am a fan of all generations, and am forever in search of a place where I can talk about ponies, that doesn't spread hate on any generations, and allows people to openly talk about whatever generation they like, and show their love for it.  I really hope that this is that place.  That is what I mean when I say I'm a "Brony For All Ponies" - I love and adore all generations, and regret not being a fan as a child (even though I saw and loved some of Rescue at Midnight Castle as a kid).

Finally, I sadly do not own any toys, but I honestly regret never buying them when I was a kid; especially the First Generation toyline; I would have loved to have owned them all, with their beautiful design and back card storylines; it would have been awesome to have played with them, creating my own little adventures for them (starting with the actual back card stories, then moving on to my own imagination - which would incorporate the show as well).  I would have loved to own the Gen2 and Gen3 toys two (even though G3 was around, I think, when I stopped playing with toys).  I hope this doesn't exclude me, as a lot of people here seem to be avid collecters, not people who wished they were.

Well, looks like I've rambled on enough for this introduction - I hope I haven't been too boring.  As you can see, I tend to type a lot when the subjects something I love. Even though I tend to suck at starting conversations online; I hope everyone's okay with me being here.

Looking forward to it.