I honestly think bronies sort of had the right idea with turning random things into ponies.  So screw it, cringe culture is dead, here's a thread where I'll try to turn characters from series I like into ponies.

Things will probably be based on a mishmash of my favorite lore bits and design choices from various gens, because I can't get myself to choose just one gen to use aspects from

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Blocky (Battle for Dream Island)

• I based his proportions off of a G1 big brother pony
• His colors are a bit off bc I went out of my way to loosely base them on G1 MLP toy colors rather than Blocky's exact colors.
• His symbol/cutie mark is a jack in the box instead of his body asset bc I felt like using the asset is lazy + I like the G4 cutie mark lore!  I wanted to make it something that mixed his personality with his object so I chose the jack in the box because he's a prankster.
• I think that his pony name would be something like Jack in the Block.

Feel free to leave replies!  I want to try and make this a thread I regularly use.

I recently bought a Unicorn Charms Izzy, and I love her!  But two (very minor, but still) quality issues I noticed with her are:
- Her tail seems to have slightly cheaper hair than her mane??  Maybe I'm just imagining it, but it looks a tiny bit messier and frizzier than the mane, even after some combing.
- The rubber band that held some of her hair down around her back leg actually left blemishes!  When I took them off, they left marks that wrap around the leg where they originally sat.  The marks are slightly indented and look to be stained a little bit pink (the color of the rubber bands).  My phone camera messed up the colors a bit, but here's a picture.

Other than these things, she's great!  But has anyone else noticed any issues like this?  I'm curious about whether they're a one-off problem or if they're common.

Updated to include at least one from all major gens!  That means every gen except G3.5 and Pony Life.

Here are my results so far!  Feel free to share your own results in this thread.

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It's still a heavy WIP, but I made an MLP themed version of one of those character sorting games!  Right now there's only a few G1s and the two My Pretty Pony releases, but I'll see if I can add as many characters as possible!  I'm going to focus on the toyline, so FIM-exclusive characters probably won't be added unless I somehow add everything else and still want to keep going.  Alternate releases won't be listed as separate characters unless they look especially different in terms of colors, race, or design traits.  Going by this, different poses of the same character probably won't be listed.

https://raytrac3r.github.io/charasort/

The way it works is pretty easy.  When you start the tool, it'll show you two random ponies.  Click the image of the one that you prefer, or click the 'tie' option if you can't make up your mind.  After you've done that, it'll show you two more ponies, and the process continues until you've seen every pony within the game at least once.  At the end, you'll be shown a chart with every pony you've seen, sorted from most favorite to least favorite! 

I think it'll be very helpful, while personally I do have a few definite favorite ponies, I tend to have trouble making up my mind whether I think one is better or not.

Please note that it's copied from an Touhou Project themed sorter with free-to-use code!  There might be some things I haven't changed to fit the MLP theme yet.  Also, the filters aren't super useful yet, considering that there aren't very many ponies in the tool's database yet.  At the moment, some filter options will end up leaving you with no ponies to choose from!

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Thanks for all the feedback! 

I've messed around with things a bit more by cleaning up the dataset a bit to take care of outliers (in this case, ridiculously cheap or especially pricey ponies), and I've also tweaked a few training settings.  Specifically, I've set it to create a backup file every time a stat called 'validation loss' hits a new record for lowness.  That means that the best versions of the model will be preserved for me to save!

These changes have definitely helped.  The newest guess for our testing Valenshy is $15.91, MUCH closer than before! 

This seems like a great and impressive idea !
I'm trying to think of more or different criterias to describe the pony's condition, such as :

- Damaged by acne cream
- Sunburnt
- Chewed body
- Missing body parts
- Plasticizer leakage
- Faulty electronics
- Faulty mechanical parts
- Smoke damage (cigarette smell/yellowing)
- Rotten hair
- Faded hair (Fading Pink,...)
- Unsealed head
- De-tinselled
- De-flocked
- Damaged flocking
- Restored
- Rehair
- Mint/MIB/MOC
- Damaged card/Box

Maybe I will come up with more. I hope that helps !

Have a nice day !

Rose.

Thank you!  I'll look into adding some of these!  Some of them, like MIB, might be a little tricky to add because it'd require me to add a new category to the dataset, which would require a bit of an overhaul of the system I've got going on, but I'll see what I can do!

Quote from: Shiverdam on March 03, 2021, 01:05:44 PM

Good lord this also reminded me of that one episode where a Fashion-designer unicorn that Rarity has a crush on comes to town. As soon as he sees Applejack he's in love with her, and he says something like "I've always admired the work-ethic of earthponies."

What's that in reference to?  Is it a reference to a race or something in the real world or is it just because it generalised earth ponies as being all the same?

I don't think it's a reference to a specific race, but I think it's a reference to how some people come up with """positive""" stereotypes of races that are usually completely incorrect and sometimes even fetishize those people. Like how some people put Native Americans on a pedestal as mystical woodland people of grace and mysteriousness, or how some people think all Asians are geniuses. 

At best, it's very creepy, and at worst, it can actually lead to specific people being bashed for not being exactly like the stereotypes.  Plus it often leads to cultural appropriation, such as people using Native American symbols for the 'aesthetic' and completely misusing them in a way that's taboo to the actual natives.

I kind of wonder if anyone who customizes actual MLPs has tried to make their own 'fakies' of sorts.  As in like, making a brushable pony from scratch without using a bait pony as a base for a custom?

I mean, if obscure bootleg companies can make low quality ponies from scratch en masse, wouldn't it be possible for a person to make at least one higher quality pony from scratch themself?  Plastic casting and 3d printing are both things that are somewhat accessible to normal people, even if full toy companies have better access to it.  And plenty of websites sell premade doll hair.

Imagine how incredible this would be.  If the plastic ends up comparable to actual ponies, it would be great for replacing heads or bodies that are damaged beyond repair.  And even if it isn't, it'd be great for making customs without ruining a potentially salvageable G1 pone.  Hell, you could even make a pony that isn't based on any actual Hasbro-designed generation, and create the ultimate pony design!

Has anyone ever even attempted this before, and if not, do you think it could be possible someday in the future?