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Give Flower Dream a chance...

Flower Dream uhhh more like Weed Nightmare.......... Flower Dream has done nothing to earn my respect

Do you have a pic of the card itself? :o

Yes! It's not like it's a rare and elusive piece of merchandise. I had them as a kid, and I was able to buy a brand new box on eBay at one point.

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^ These are the backs of the group of cards I scanned, edited slightly to all face one direction. The Cutie Pie card is the first one in green.

Had her in my childhood collection. She is sooooo gorgeous. Purple is not my favourite colour but I make exceptions for wine-y shades. Who can say no to dark colours on a pony? I prefer her original release to her Seaside Celebrations release. I like the pearl on the dark body, the matte makes her a bit boring. For the balloon release, I don't like 2006+ poses.

Received my items yesterday! Very cute and very big. You also have to be VERY careful. The "care" instructions on the product listing weren't kidding saying that these aren't allowed to touch... well, anything. I was able to smudge my "Tangerine Twinkle" pin. I think I can clean it off but you have to be VERY VERY careful! The listing says "no body oils" which makes me think... why is this jewelry in the first place if you can't even pick them up with your bare hands?


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I've also learned that shiny acrylic is difficult to photograph...

I think it will eventually, but at the same time, G4 isn't entirely retired yet. When G1 was done, it was DONE for the most part. G4 technically ended in 2020, but companies are still coming out with G4 collectibles and such, and the fandom is very much active. It's something that hasn't really ever gone away. Have you seen the covers for the G5 comics? Insert expletive here, they can't get rid of the Mane 6! It feels like they have little faith in G5 and they have to plaster Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy on every issue to get people to buy it (when to my knowledge, they're not even in the book)! I don't know if they would do something specifically for nostalgia. If they keep making G4 merch indefinitely, someone is eventually going to go "oh yeah, I remember that", because it's always there.


As for G3, I've been wondering a lot myself about G3 nostalgia. I see very few people actually my age, when we were the target demographic when G3 first came out. All the people I see talking about G3 are *kids*, 14-19, and when they DO talk about it, it's like, Minty Christmas onward, very little talk or respect about 2003-mid 2005. Talk is usually media-centric too instead of toy-centric. It definitely feels more like "I like this because it's cozy"/"I don't like the brony fandom, this is safer and comfier" than actually "I grew up with this". From what little I've seen from G3 spaces, there's hardly a collector scene, it's all fanart and sharing gifs and screencaps of Minty Christmas or Runaway Rainbow. If you see pictures of actual pony toys it's just reposts from MLW. There's been a surge of interest in "wholesome media". It's kind of exhausting honestly, having a gen boiled down to something "G4-ified", fans interacting with it media-first, instead of revolving around the toys and our childhood experiences outside of "I think I might have owned a single Pinkie Pie when I was like two years old... maybe". It's preferable to the early-FiM bashing it got but it feels like a weird "forgotten middle child". You see people nostalgic for G1 because of childhood experience with the TOYS and I connect with and relate to them more than kids who just like Minty Christmas because it's "comfy". Even if there's people who try to G4-ify G1 and try to make it deeper and more expansive than it is, there's still always going to be the simpler fanbase of collectors I can relate to. G3 doesn't really have that. A place like the Arena feels like home because we all like the funny little rainbow horses we played with as kids. If I go into a kids' G3 group, I always feel alienated when I theoretically shouldn't... that IS my generation, right? Where are the people who are into G3 the way I am...?

Find the people who were there in 2003 when it dropped, then we'll talk. Other G3 fans might be too young still.

I went to Target for the first time since 2020 and all of the toys are totally sold out except MLP, which is completely stocked. I was thinking "well, at least ONE of these empty spots HAS to be MLP", but no... I checked the tags and they weren't. Nobody wants these toys. Walmart still has all of the Sunny plushes from last year, boxes and boxes of them, on the shelf. There's so many they had to put excess boxes on the top shelf. Not only that, if you look at Walmart, Amazon, etc toy catalogues for Christmas MLP gets a single dinky showing on a page showing off other more interesting toys. LOLs and Rainbow Highs get full pages, MLP gets a single little picture of Jazz Hooves alongside 20 other brands and that's it.

2022 in general has been terrible. What have we gotten this year? Jazz and MWM? That's it? And one more wave of identical looking poseable figures? Zero brushables aside from the styling size. They had a whole Christmas special and no.... Christmas toys? Even Best Gift Ever had some toy stuff, even if it sucked.

We're in Year2 and we haven't gotten any like... birthday cakes or real party supplies. There have been some paper plates or whatever in some countries at most. Maybe Year3 we'll get something. Anything? Birthday cards? Stockings? Easter baskets? VALENTINES? Any sort of merchandise? Hello? Everything I see is still G4.

We do have a few Christmas ornaments but to be honest everything from G5 is lackluster. They use the same models for everything. Even if it's third party, everything is identical. Even G4 was marginally more exciting because everyone had to make their own sculpts for the characters. Now they just use the same thing over... and over... and over... and over... and over...

Like what's the problem? Is G5 actually doing bad? Does Hasbro not have faith?

MLP's 40th is coming up. Just days away, even. Hasbro, pick up the pace! Have some passion! Show some respect! Though I expect all of that from Basic Fun instead...

I think Starlight and Melody, too, are easy to mix up. They're the same shade of pink and they're also quite similar in themeing... at least I think so. Melody wants to be a musician, a... star, perhaps?

I didn't like Pinkie Pie as a child when I was the target demographic for G3. I liked her at the start because she was the "little sister" but as time went on and she became the "leader" I didn't like it. It didn't help that she has the same voice as Sarah from Ed, Edd n Eddy, making her even more obnoxious and bratty to me.

I don't like the more pastel look they ended up giving her down the line too. I like the dark pink body, light pink hair. Eventually they made her entirely the same colour. Not dissimilar to how they lightened up/brightened Rainbow Dash... she went from a cloudy, grey-ish blue colour to teal, to a sky blue. The pearly bodies really make them special too compared to the lighter/brighter matte bodies... I love the (relative) jewel-y, dusky look of early G3. I wish MLP did more jewel tones. Kimono is gorgeous and the prototype Star Catcher they have in the pamphlet is to die for. It's an elegant look for MLP and it's too bad people want baby pink all the time. I had my pastel phase and it burned out too quickly. I've gone back to my childhood roots of loving warm colours and jewel tones. My very first favourite colour was red!