Regardless of all of those production experiments, I understand what Carrehz meant simply because G4 was a streamlined effort in both media and toy production. There's a difference between discovering a detail you never noticed before in an animated episode of a series, and trying to make sense of how seventeen different countries did completely their own things for reasons we're still trying to figure out.

Yes - you explained it better than I could

But also I was kind of including the show as well when I said most G4 info was neatly documented from the get-go - not to say there isn't still discussion to be derived from FiM (or the toyline!) - but like... for example... G1's "The Glass Princess" had a song cut out of it and the footage was missing for what... 30-odd years? before finally being rediscovered last year. and we still don't know why it was cut in the first place. There's no mysteries like that with G4, because everything was being archived, recorded, put online, etc the second it aired. The toyline was neatly streamlined and everyone was keeping track of the news, filing the info away, right away...

Which to be fair, as Taffeta pointed out, this applies to G3 and (more-or-less) G2 as well! The later gens are going to have less mysteries to generate discussion about because they were released in the Internet Era, in an age where everything (or most everything) has been put online and there's multiple communities working to collate the info... etc etc.

There's definitely still discussion to be had for the show, there always is for cartoons, but this forum's always been more focused on the toys so I guess that's a big part of why there's not much G4 talk. I mean, we don't really talk about the G1/G3 toons that often either

What a lovely way to remember a wonderful member of our community

I like the G4 toys, I still collect 'em. Never liked the show though. I think it's not being talked on here much because it's been over for years and there's not as much to talk about as when it was running? Plus the casual fans and/or people who were *only* here for FiM have moved on. I suspect the G4 fans/bronies that are still interested in chatting about it, are clustered together in some other part of the web? Maybe Reddit or something, I dunno.

There's not as much to talk about with G4 as there is for the earlier gens (IMO) because we know basically everything about it! There's no big mysteries, prototypes, etc like with the earlier gens. Everything's already neatly catalogued and documented.

Also yeah the youths of today don't like forums and prefer Discords or Tumblrs or whatever the hottest social media site is, lol

I was surprised the Firefly shirt was still around too It's one of my favourite MLP shirts, I wish we had Five Below here in the UK!!

I'd love to know more about them too!

I found these old threads:
https://mlparena.com/index.php?topic=377974.msg1527007#msg1527007
https://mlparena.com/index.php?topic=385356.msg1629792;topicseen#msg1629792

Are they the ones that smell like crayons or is that a different Nirvana? or am I just getting totally mixed up? :p

Too Much In Love To Care - Sunset Boulevard (Original Broadway Cast)

ughh this song
So excited for the new cast recording to come out later this year, I can't wait! I'm using the OBC to scratch the itch right now but it's just not the same lol

Oooh, I'm not usually a Lagoona person, but that one's really nice! She has such a sweet face.

OMG I've never noticed that before!!