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I'll never understand why people say certain poses aren't conducive to play when most poses are just standing ones.
I wonder if it could have something to do with that pose being hard to remove from the mold? Wasn’t there some story like that on....was it the bubbles sitting pose? I may be imagining this whole thing but that’s the only reason I can think of why a pose would be seldom used
It could be any of those reasons, but it could also just be a coincidence. I think people ascribe a lot of well-thought out, logical reasoning to things that happen in the toy industry, when the actual reason is "Uhhhh, I dunno, we just didn't."
Quote from: Minty_Magic on May 02, 2020, 03:34:20 AMI wonder if it could have something to do with that pose being hard to remove from the mold? Wasn’t there some story like that on....was it the bubbles sitting pose? I may be imagining this whole thing but that’s the only reason I can think of why a pose would be seldom usedYes. When Kirk Hindman designed the sitting pose, her back legs originally were meant to be splayed out a bit to the sides. He got approval all the way up to mold making where the design was then rejected because it was too hard to get her out of the mold. So she was redesigned in the sitting pose we now have. Fun fact. The sitting pose is Kirk's favourite of the poses he made.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Hasbro was phasing out all unicorns and pegasi in the later years of G1, so there weren't a lot of opportunities for this mold to reappear for that reason too. And for the few unicorns/pegasi they made in the last years, they seemed to only want to use the Surprise or Dancing Butterflies pose for pegasi and the Gusty or Buttons pose for unicorns.
When you start breaking down ponies by pose., you realise that for most of the unicorn poses there are far fewer characters anyway than you'd find in many of the Earth poses. There are one or two that have a pretty wide range, but others have a much smaller number of ponies in the pose. For example, the Moondancer pose is pretty much Moondancer, Sunbeam, Princess Misty (at a stretch, if you count her modified one) and Sugar Sweet. Fewer than the Powder pose I think. And even the Mimic pose doesn't have that many. There's Mimic, Bangles, Princess Amethyst, Milky Way...any others?I think even the Glory pose only has five..? Glory, Windy, Moonstone, Majesty and Twilight?So there's not really anything significant about Powder's pose. On the contrary, we should be talking about how there are so many unicorns using Gusty's pose instead