characters that should have toys but don't

[Kitcatepic]

there are so many instances in g5 where it feels like they are trying to sell toys but then don't

they went out of their way to give all the dragons names when most of them are pretty much just background characters with no development they also made the dragons more pony like and even though it was stated that it was just because they wanted to reuse the pony rig for the dragons it also makes them look a lot more toyetic as a result it seems like they were using the dragons to sell toys yet they only made one of them as a toy as far as we know

the auracorns and blue thunders (or whatever that one pegasus band was called I dont remember) have a design similar to that one mane 5 set with the translucent glitter plastic but they don't have any toys made of them at all

ruby jubilee seems like the kind of character to have one of those talking/singing princess type toys made of her (similar to pipp/songbird serenade) and her design is really pretty but all we got for bridlewoodstock was just some dress up toys of the main five

they brought back the breezies for pretty much no reason they were always made to sell toys but they did nothing in terms of toys with them and the show would be pretty much the same without them the night market could have just been a unicorn thing

posey/the dreamlands are a pretty easy nostalgia cash in but no toys were really made of them (I know there is a mini world magic posey but im talking about mainline toys) posey played a huge role in the first make your mark special and it almost seemed like she was going to be a main character for a minute until misty showed up but she does not even get a basic brushable 

why is hasbro trying to sell us nonexistent toys

[dippindot]

I'm not even a g5 fan but if they would just put some toys on the shelves they could convert me


Post Merge: April 23, 2024, 09:29:24 AM

Do I like the g5 toy style? No. Do I want to purchase 1000 different new brushable pony and or dragon toys, unbox them and brush their hair? Absofreakinglutely

[Leave a Whisper]

All of G5.

[Ponybookworm]

This is the main problem with G5: so many characters, so few toys of them. It was also an issue with G4, & G3 didn't even make Spike, let alone half the unicorns & a quarter of the pegasi...

Even G1's Tales didn't have every character made. The most common G1 Customs are of Teddy, Lancer, Ace, & Miss Hackney, so what does that tell you???

Hasbro
Should
Not
Feature
Characters
Without
Making
Toys
Of
Them

Because if they did make toys of more characters, they'd fly off the shelves!!!

[Carrehz]

Dippindot, you took the words out of my mouth!

Also SO many G4 characters. I still can't believe we never got a brushable Babs Seed. Or Fleur de Lis. The princess moulds always seemed popular so I'm sure Fleur would've sold well?? since she just used Luna's model but without wings.

(Also I typed this up earlier but apparently forgot to hit post? oops )

[dippindot]

Fleur de Lis would have been so good!

[Ponybookworm]

Dippindot, you took the words out of my mouth!

Also SO many G4 characters. I still can't believe we never got a brushable Babs Seed. Or Fleur de Lis. The princess moulds always seemed popular so I'm sure Fleur would've sold well?? since she just used Luna's model but without wings.

(Also I typed this up earlier but apparently forgot to hit post? oops )

KIRINS!!! And yaks, & more Hippogriffs, & more griffons!!!

[dippindot]

KIRINS!!! And yaks, & more Hippogriffs, & more griffons!!!

Kirins!!! I wanted Kirins and griffons so much

[kingluke]

G4 Lighting dust and the other washouts. There is plenty of wonderbolt stuff.

Plus the fashion designers Rarity recrutes : Lilly Lace, Star streak and Inky rose.

And the two unicorns from canterlot : Sunshine Smiles and Moonlight Raven.

[Carrehz]

Even G1's Tales didn't have every character made. The most common G1 Customs are of Teddy, Lancer, Ace, & Miss Hackney, so what does that tell you???

YES!!!! I can't believe this has never been rectified!!!

[Taffeta]

Even G1's Tales didn't have every character made. The most common G1 Customs are of Teddy, Lancer, Ace, & Miss Hackney, so what does that tell you???

YES!!!! I can't believe this has never been rectified!!!

My mother saw Sunny Starscout for the first time today. She is still struggling to understand a: how that is the core key pony character, and b: how there is literally no variety. Her response I think was actually, "ew!". And this is the person who bought me my first pony when I was a kid because she thought they were so pretty.

G5 suffers badly from variety and a bad choice of colour schemes for the main cast.

As for the Tales ponies, 100% agree.

There's also Lady Lessons who I feel was going to exist but then didn't.

[Kitcatepic]

Even G1's Tales didn't have every character made. The most common G1 Customs are of Teddy, Lancer, Ace, & Miss Hackney, so what does that tell you???

YES!!!! I can't believe this has never been rectified!!!

My mother saw Sunny Starscout for the first time today. She is still struggling to understand a: how that is the core key pony character, and b: how there is literally no variety. Her response I think was actually, "ew!". And this is the person who bought me my first pony when I was a kid because she thought they were so pretty.

G5 suffers badly from variety and a bad choice of colour schemes for the main cast.

As for the Tales ponies, 100% agree.

There's also Lady Lessons who I feel was going to exist but then didn't.

agreed I like bright saturated colors but something about the g5 palette just turns me off I don't even know how to put it into words the g5 ponies just don't look as pretty as the mane six

[Carrehz]

Tbh I'd prefer Lady Lessons over Miss Hackney. I haven't really read anything w/ LL or seen that much of Tales so I don't have any "personal" stake in it... I just think Lady Lessons is cuter :B

Kitcatepic I know exactly what you mean!! Even though I'm not a huge G4 fan, and I'm as sick of the main 6 as anyone, their colours were so pretty together, both as a group and like, how their colours coordinated individually, if that makes sense? I'm not sure how to phrase it either but I definitely agree with you that G5's palette seems less.... something.

[Taffeta]

Tbh I'd prefer Lady Lessons over Miss Hackney. I haven't really read anything w/ LL or seen that much of Tales so I don't have any "personal" stake in it... I just think Lady Lessons is cuter :B

Kitcatepic I know exactly what you mean!! Even though I'm not a huge G4 fan, and I'm as sick of the main 6 as anyone, their colours were so pretty together, both as a group and like, how their colours coordinated individually, if that makes sense? I'm not sure how to phrase it either but I definitely agree with you that G5's palette seems less.... something.

I would rather have LL too, just because I'm sure the school should have been her playset, and then ultimately wasn't. Though I do wonder if they migrated her colours and used them for Love Token instead...

I actually like quite a few G4 figures, although I'm sick of the Mane 6 and I don't like FIM. They may not have been super horsey but they were cute, and some had really nice colour schemes.

I don't think the G5 (and this may be true for some G4) pony palette choice is helped by the decision to make the packages dark pink/purple/magenta and white. It is especially bad with Sunny though, given her hair colour and the boldness of her body. The one we saw yesterday was far from the ugliest Sunny I've seen, but she looked hemmed in by the colours of her packaging and it didn't really sell her well.

[Snapdragon]

I mean, they're just following the G4 playbook! Create dozens of named, interesting background characters, and then only release some of them, ever, often only in blindbag form. Hippogriffs got two toys, and it was a battle to even find them. Buffalos, griffons, dragons, breezies, changelings - you could rattle off so many important characters who had entire seasons devoted to them, and some of them never even got toys. Like, the entire last few seasons focused on the School of Friendship - we never got an Ocellus, a Yona, an Ember toy, and they were main characters! Make that make sense!

It feels like a continuing letdown with G5, because they are adding new species and characters SO early by comparison, and yet we are still stuck on the same Mane Six/core character release nonsense. I want more dragon toys! They clearly have the molds for them, so I don't see a lot of reason why they couldn't just release more colors of the same figure.