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Quote from: OleGrayMane on May 10, 2018, 01:56:30 PMI thought ponies (regardless of the gen) were only about tea parties.Huh. Guess not. But for the most part G1 ponies were busy rescuing each other from some evil magic force, slavery, spells, or even Majesty's slightly sadistic ruling style. There just wasn't time for tea, especially if Majesty was just going to send you on a long run to run off the calories after...
I thought ponies (regardless of the gen) were only about tea parties.Huh. Guess not.
Quote from: Taffeta on May 10, 2018, 03:32:32 PMQuote from: OleGrayMane on May 10, 2018, 01:56:30 PMI thought ponies (regardless of the gen) were only about tea parties.Huh. Guess not. But for the most part G1 ponies were busy rescuing each other from some evil magic force, slavery, spells, or even Majesty's slightly sadistic ruling style. There just wasn't time for tea, especially if Majesty was just going to send you on a long run to run off the calories after...This made me roar with laughter.Maybe not tea parties; but surely British ponies, true to their national characteristics, would have found time for a quick brew mid-crisis
I don't think it's too surprising that people commonly associated G1 with tea parties and frills, because the commercials were 100% tea parties and frills. I grew up absolutely loving the G1 toys, but not really watching the show (I caught bits of it maybe twice), and as a teen (when I started collecting) I too assumed that the show was about things like "Bow Tie's quest for a comb" before I started buying the VHS tapes off eBay. The UK comics weren't imported at all, so they didn't have any presence / influence for American kids.
When I was a kid I thought Sundance was a boy. I think I thought the pose was more "boyish" than the three other ponies I had in the Posey pose and that the name sounded male. English is not my first language so of course I had no idea what Sundance meant either. To me it was just a weird sounding name.