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I thought it was G2 that Hasbro pretend doesn't exist? They seem to be reasonably okay with acknowledging G3.
Is it wrong that I kinda wanna see a karate chopping Ivy? She can compete with Kung Fu Grip G.I Joe and may the best toy win.
With G2, we know that Hasbro gave the ex-Kenner employees MLP and Transformers to see if they could revitalize them. (Hasbro had just acquired Kenner.) I'd love to know the ratio of women to men on the MLP design team, because Kenner was not known for girls toys; they were best known for Star Wars action figures. And G2 does have this weird action figure vibe. Lots of action features, except instead of "karate chop action" it became "Ivy shows off her ring." Lot of emphasis on accessories. Even if a pony didn't have a moving leg, they tried to make it seem like each toy "did" something, via magnets in their noses or swishing tails or whatever. It all seems pretty extraneous to me because most kids don't really seem to care about action features on ponies.As far as G3, we don't know exactly how it got started but I would guess it was just someone at Hasbro who pulled MLP up from the files and thought, "Hey, let's give this another go." I kinda wonder if the designer of G3 even knew about G2. They were basically G1 ponies with slightly different proportions, symbols on only one side, and a magnet in their foot.
but Kenner had released a small line of horses already and they resemble the g2's style and I saw old prototypes once at one of the MLP fairs and is totally a Kenner designed pony