Unpopular Pony Opinions

[Leave a Whisper]

I don't get the big deal over Lady Bird and Lambaditsa. They're okay.

Agreed. Sitting ponies are meh, Peachy is meh, Sitting pony plus peachy = meh squared.

Though I feel superficially smug that people still use the name ladybird after all these years

Okay that last part had me   

[Ponybookworm]

I don't get the big deal over Lady Bird and Lambaditsa. They're okay.

Agreed. Sitting ponies are meh, Peachy is meh, Sitting pony plus peachy = meh squared.

Though I feel superficially smug that people still use the name ladybird after all these years

I'm pretty fond of my Lambaditsa tbh. If only she & Ladybird weren't nearly twins though... (I also like the name Ladybird xxx)

[SunPony]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

[Ponybookworm]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

Only Pony I want MIP is Twisty Tail (UK preferred but Euro acceptable). Otherwise generally nope

[Tropical_Sunset]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

I vastly prefer loose ponies over MIB ones, though I appreciate MIB collectors and MIB items. A MIB Merry Go Round pony came into my possession once. I loved her. I love MGR ponies in general and dont see them come up for sale often. I didn't have her in my collection yet and toyed with deboxing her for about a year before deciding against it and selling her here MIB. Anyway, I still don't have her in my collection. :/

[Leave a Whisper]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

I vastly prefer loose ponies over MIB ones, though I appreciate MIB collectors and MIB items. A MIB Merry Go Round pony came into my possession once. I loved her. I love MGR ponies in general and dont see them come up for sale often. I didn't have her in my collection yet and toyed with deboxing her for about a year before deciding against it and selling her here MIB. Anyway, I still don't have her in my collection. :/

Merry Go Rounds are gorgeous! Too bad Hasbro is too cheap and lazy to do it again these days.

Could you have imagined MGR G3s?!

[caseysealia]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

I vastly prefer loose ponies over MIB ones, though I appreciate MIB collectors and MIB items. A MIB Merry Go Round pony came into my possession once. I loved her. I love MGR ponies in general and dont see them come up for sale often. I didn't have her in my collection yet and toyed with deboxing her for about a year before deciding against it and selling her here MIB. Anyway, I still don't have her in my collection. :/

Merry Go Rounds are gorgeous! Too bad Hasbro is too cheap and lazy to do it again these days.

Could you have imagined MGR G3s?!

Merry Go Rounds are among my favorites! I'd die if they had made them for g3

[Taffeta]

Rehoming a MIB rather than deboxing it is one of the nicer things a collector can do imo. There's a home for every kind of pony, and if that home isn't yours, better to move it on.

[SunPony]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

I vastly prefer loose ponies over MIB ones, though I appreciate MIB collectors and MIB items. A MIB Merry Go Round pony came into my possession once. I loved her. I love MGR ponies in general and dont see them come up for sale often. I didn't have her in my collection yet and toyed with deboxing her for about a year before deciding against it and selling her here MIB. Anyway, I still don't have her in my collection. :/

Merry Go Rounds are gorgeous! Too bad Hasbro is too cheap and lazy to do it again these days.

Could you have imagined MGR G3s?!

Merry Go Rounds are among my favorites! I'd die if they had made them for g3

Ooooo, G3 MGRs would be awesome!  I wonder if anyone ever made a custom like that? I don't remember seeing any but that doesn't mean they don't exist!

[LadyAmalthea]

My unpopular opinions mostly can be shared with many others on here (I actually read through this entire post prior to having my account approved! It took me days)...but the one I haven't seen mentioned yet is this one: I hate almost all of the names of the second round of G1 twins that were released. Seriously, some of them are SO stupid.


Jabber and Jebber: these are not even words, much less names. What the heck is a 'Jebber'?

Sniffles and Sticky: First of all, did it not occur to the person who came up with these to look up what the previously released twins were called? Because if they even bothered, they would have discovered that there was already another twin named Sniffles, paired with Snookums. That in itself is an unpopular opinion of mine, the recycling of names. It's confusing. That aside, 'Sniffles and Sticky' is just a revolting name combination; it reminds me of a little kid with a cold wiping snot everywhere. Good job, Hasbro. 

Speckles and Bunkie: What on earth is a 'Bunkie', and how does it coordinate with 'Speckles'? They could have come up with something better than that. How about 'Speckles and Spots' or 'Speckles and Freckles'

Big Top and Toppy: Kind of redundant, if you ask me. It reminds me of a real-life set of twins I know named Kayla and Mikayla. Like one could be a nickname for the other...it's always struck me as weird. Also redundant are Big Top's colors; she is basically the same as Rattles and Tattles. In fact, I don't even feel the need to collect this set.

Puddles and Peeks: Not the worst, but the name Peeks is a little dumb and they could have come up with something equally as catchy with Puddles. And what is with the crapping bird symbol on their rump? My sister and I always called them Puddles and Poops, like #1 and #2. Our storyline was that they had troubles with potty training. 

Sandcastle and Shovels: This one is actually not so bad. Plus I like their color combinations; I feel like they didn't use enough color variations with twins...all pastels and mostly boring. The orange and blue is at least different, even if still pastel. Too bad this set is so hard to find and expensive; they must not have released as many sets of them.

[Taffeta]

We only had 3 of the six sets, but those we did have had different names in the UK. Albeit whether they are any better...
Jabber and Jebber = Tickles & Giggles
Speckles & Bunkie = Fleecy and Fluffy
Sticky and Sniffles = Tuggles and Toddles.

On the name subject...I think it's sad more UK people don't use the UK G1 names, even though the UK had far less name repetition than the US. I can understand why for people who came into G1 as adults, but not so much the ones who grew up with G1 as kids.

[MJNSEIFER]

In my opinion Jebber could have been named "Jibber" so that set of twins could have made the phrase "Jibber-Jabber" (meaning talking so fast, you don't understand - though I may have also heard it to mean "talking nonsense".)  I also googled "Bunkie" and the only thing I found (though I didn't search for long) was that it could be slang for a bunk mate - nothing to do with Speckles whatsoever as far as I can see, and when I search for both words, I just get the ponies.  I even tried searching "Safety Pin" (as in their symbols) with each name to see if I could find significance, but no.

But yeah... the names you mentioned in general aren't the best, in my opinion either.

On the name subject...I think it's sad more UK people don't use the UK G1 names, even though the UK had far less name repetition than the US. I can understand why for people who came into G1 as adults, but not so much the ones who grew up with G1 as kids.

I'm not sure why the ones who grew up with it don't do this, as you'd think they'd be the first to do this...

For me, (I came in as an adult) I tend to lean to the US names, because that's what I discovered them as, but I may choose the names I prefer out of the two for my project, or even compromise, like I planned to do for the canon names and the brony names in G4 (though if I recall correctly, only two G4 ponies really kept my "compromises" - and Hasbro compromised with "Lyra/Heartstrings" the same way I was going to anyway.)

I'll have a look through what the US/UK names in G1 are, and see which I like better, or if there are anyways to use both if I choose to in writing - for example, Sweet Stuff was called Sweetie in UK, but that's an easy one to compromise, as "Sweetie" could easily be Sweet Stuff's nickname anyway.

[Ponyfan]

The pony name that always gets me is Woosie.   I always picture a drunk or sick pony. Sometimes I think Hasbro came up with some of the pony names at the company cocktail party.

I grew up in the US so I didn't know the UK had different names for ponies until I joined the Arena but I try to use both names if I know them like Princess Tiffany/Pearl Sguarberry/Strawberry Fair etc..


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[caseysealia]

I’m not into the mint package. I prefer to hold the pony and take pictures of her.

Agreed, and for this reason I would never buy a vintage MIB pony!  I'd be way too tempted to take her out, which would probably horrify some collectors.

I vastly prefer loose ponies over MIB ones, though I appreciate MIB collectors and MIB items. A MIB Merry Go Round pony came into my possession once. I loved her. I love MGR ponies in general and dont see them come up for sale often. I didn't have her in my collection yet and toyed with deboxing her for about a year before deciding against it and selling her here MIB. Anyway, I still don't have her in my collection. :/

Merry Go Rounds are gorgeous! Too bad Hasbro is too cheap and lazy to do it again these days.

Could you have imagined MGR G3s?!

Merry Go Rounds are among my favorites! I'd die if they had made them for g3

Ooooo, G3 MGRs would be awesome!  I wonder if anyone ever made a custom like that? I don't remember seeing any but that doesn't mean they don't exist!

I'm fairly certain I've seen customs like that in the past, but its been a long while!
Edit: found them! https://www.deviantart.com/woosie/art/Merry-Go-Round-ponies-Set-2-203225055

[brightberry]

I think "Bunkie" refers to Bunkie beds/boards used in baby beds.  In the 80s the term was used more often in the US.  At least, where I lived it was common.  I think the name is cute.

I did hate when Hasbro reused names.  Baby Gusty got robbed.