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« on: December 21, 2021, 09:05:40 AM »
I'm starting to want to trade the one I have MOC for a loose one  The card is a little banged up, but I got her technically "free" because I got my friend's collection minus a few things. and in one of the tubs is full of MOC/MIB that one was in it and she doesn't want it back. I've wanted one for awhile so... 
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« on: November 19, 2021, 10:08:00 AM »
My spoiler-y review!
Issue 1:
Spoiler Okay so I always jokingly say some artists can draw people really well and some artists can draw animals really well, but rarely can one draw both. That certainly seems to be the case here, because the human characters look very well done and in proportion, but the ponies are not drawn well at all. Their heads are too big and their legs are short and stumpy, when is unlike the normal G4 style. There's some shots of the ponies sitting down where their legs just look like twigs they're sitting on! I do like the designs of the two witches, though their characters aren't standing out to me so far. I like the page where they're preparing a spooky spell and then at the end of the page it turns out they were just making a pizza.  That got a laugh out of me. Trying to figure out the plot as we go, from the witches' dialog, but it's not easy... It seems like the "Gloom Volcano" exists in some sort of pocket dimension? Maybe? I can't think of a reason why they would start looking for ponies in "any dimension" unless that is the case. But it's not well explained. Why are the girls looking to enact revenge on ponies from any dimension, anyway, and not the dimension of ponies that actually banished them...? (Which I assume is the G1 ponies?) Anyway, so the two teen witches have been stuck in this pocket dimension inside a volcano their whole lives, because they say the ponies banished their moms there after their grandma "played a prank on the ponies." Is this a reference to the G1 movie? Or something else altogether? Who knows? The moms have left on some business at the start of the comic, so the girls are "home alone" as it were. They established that their magic doesn't work outside the volcano so they can't leave it. But then they send their little opposum henchmen out to get ingredients to make smooze, and somehow the smooze lets them do whatever they want, basically, which includes leaving the volcano, turning into ponies, and going to the G4 dimension. The page where Trench the Opposum goes on the adventure to find the smooze ingredients is pretty funny! I laughed at 'rage frogs' So we end issue 1 with the two girls (and Trench? That surprised me) dropping in on the G4 ponies in pony disguise, to pretend to be new teachers for the overcrowded school. I'm not that upset with the lack of G1 characters in the first issue. I know it can take some time to develop a story, and they had to take time to establish the witch characters and their history up to this point. But yeah I do have a lot of questions. Are these really supposed to be the witches from the G1 movie? Or are these the daughters of some sort of alternate dimension version of them? The dialog about looking for ponies in "any dimension" establishes that this is a "multiverse" type of story, rather than the G4 ponies being the descendants of the G1 ponies. I wanted to give the writers the benefit of the doubt, but it really seems like they don't know the G1 part of things that well, especially since Draggle seemed like such a sympathetic character, both in the movie and the G1 cartoon, and they don't indicate that in any way at all here in the comic. They could have done something similar, and made one of the witch daughters more sympathetic and one more mean? Or they could have had one of the teens teasing the other about how her mom isn't a 'real witch' because she was so weak-willed? Anyway, this comic is nothing special, but I'd say it's on par with a lot of the other MLP comics. Just a little fun story for kids, nothing amazing but nothing horrible either. On to Issue 2!
Issue 2:
Spoiler I still think it's really weird that a non-talking animal became a talking pony. Like, imagine if Angel the Bunny turned into a pony and started talking? ...wait okay they actually happened in one episode so I guess it's okay...  I have to say the designs of the teen witches and Trench as ponies really annoy me... I felt the same about Tempest's design in the G4 movie. It seems like all the OC "edgy, cool" ponysonas that people make online. "Oooo my pony has a mohawk and scars and a crazy horn!" "Well my pony's eyes have black sclera!" Like, why do the witches in pony form have black spots on the face and white ice markings on the hooves? And the biggest thing is that the designs don't tie into anything? In the last issue we established that one of the witches has fire magic. Why don't either of their pony designs have fire elements? If one of the witches has a lightning bolt-shaped unicorn horn in pony form, why doesn't she have lightning magic powers? Why doesn't the opposum-turned-pony have a trashcan for a cutie mark? These are basic design elements that even a novice designer would think of! OH! Wait, never mind, I just got to page 8 of issue 2 and I see I made a mistake. These three ponies are not the witches and Trench in disguise!  I kinda assumed they were. But no, these are... I guess... smooze constructs? Which was never a thing in the original movie but oh well, in this comic we're going with the idea that the smooze can basically do whatever the witches want it to do. So anyway it seems like the 3 "edgy" smooze ponies are at the School of Friendship while the witches and Trench are still stuck in the volcano. Trench gets a bath while we have one of the witches read another letter from their moms, which was frankly a really funny scene. There's a SMALL reference to Draggle being the more sympathetic witch when one of the teen's says "I can tell your mom wrote this because mine would have been a lot meaner." (If you think it's weird that I keep calling them "the teen witches" it's because I can't remember their names and I'm reading these two issues right now as I write this. I think their names are mentioned once each? If that much? One is named Dyre and I don't know the other's name. Trench is easy to remember because they say his name like every other page. Plus he's adorable.) Okay but then we have a scene with the new Mane 6 (Sandbar and the non-ponies) gushing about how awesome the new teachers are and it made me laugh. Sandbar put random markings on his hooves in art class, to be like the new teachers, and Yona made cookies that shout "A CURSE UPON YOU!" in Haunted Home-Ec class and I just laughed so much. That is actually an attempt at good writing! Making fun of the standard story tropes and clever add-ons that still make sense in the pony universe! So we end the issue with the three S'monies (Smooze + ponies... yeah, just go with it...) causing mayhem in Ponyville and disrupting community and friendship. A very standard G4 plot. (Oh no friendship is being ruined in Ponyville!....again!) And still no G1 ponies. I could understand not having them in Issue 1 as we establish the new characters, but they really should have been introduced by now. There's only 5 issues of this comic, right? Or 6? I'm starting to wonder if the "OP's" (Original Ponies, I know, I'm funny right? ) will just appear at the end to set things right and save the day? Sigh. I'm sad. This story had a lot of potential but it's disappointing... Instead of having these "S'monies" we could spend more time with the teen witches and actually establish their characters more and learn their backstories so that we actually care about them (or at least find them interesting). I might not have enjoyed Tempest's design in the G4 movie but at least her character was well established and we cared about what happened to her. Spoiler I thought Trench was a rat, never thought of him as a opossum  but I guess I can now see it. I don't like Trench, he's uninteresting and such to me. I guess since I find the daughters annoying, it trickles down to him? I was going to say more but I'm too passionate about the G1 show and come off strong. 
On the End of Flutter Valley, @Wildshadow - that was quite dull, boring and neverending as a plot anyway. Probably a bad choice to use as a basis.
Spoiler True but the witches are in it and as to why I mentioned it...
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« on: November 18, 2021, 02:39:42 PM »
The next issue is another big snooze fest.... VERY predictable and all the modern things in the dialog of the daughters is ANNOYING. I only like Violet Shiver because I love winter/snow/ice stuff... Spoiler To me it feels like they never watched The End of Flutter Valley with the dialog happening when they are reading the letter they got from one of the mom's. but maybe I'm wrong. it was hard to concentrate reading the whole transaction with that letter.... I fear I already know what's going to happen in the next issue 
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« on: November 05, 2021, 08:27:56 AM »
Oh geeze  I'm surprised they didn't some how add Starlite running on the rainbow. I'm glad I wasn't expecting to enjoy this comic. Now I'm only for the Volcano and any signs of Surprise, even if they mess her up.
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« on: October 20, 2021, 02:29:56 PM »
I'm with you on this one, Tealeaf, honestly was surprised at HOW disappointing it was...
(Plot details under cut, I guess)
Spoiler VOLCANO OF GLOOM, writers!!! Not "Gloom Volcano"!!! You know you're in for A Time when there's an error literally on page one, really sets the tone... I mean come ON, that's just basic stuff!
I've gotta say, I REALLY hope they step up their game in issue 2... So far there's NO sign of G1, apart from the aforementioned screwed-up volcano name. The "witches" for some reason look like Equestria Girls (technicolour skin, hair etc, even their fashion sense is VERY EQG-y) with a bit of the Jem comic aesthetic thrown in for good measure...? Nothing like Reeka and Draggle. Supposedly they're R&D's daughters, but the only way you can tell is how they mentioned their mothers every couple of panels (this was really forced.. idk how to explain it exactly, but they just really kept going "oh yeah like our moms" a LOT, really shoving it down our throats? As if that "legitimizes" these chars' relationships to the old ones? IDK how else to explain it, but that stood out to me as being weirdly written). Otherwise they just hung around spouting modern dialogue and being super out of place...
The rest of the comic was pure G4. No G1 ponies apart from the covers. :/ Really not impressed so far.
I will say though, I did like how they included the alt. covers at the back of the comic, that was a very nice touch. Usually I just see that done with the trade paperbacks. So I'll give them that. But yeah, so far I'm not liking this whatsoever.  I mean, I went into it with fairly low expectations (it was a "Let's see how it goes" not a "OMG I'm so excited!!" if that makes sense) but geez...
I'm with you 100%! I preordered the digital on iTunes. It came available at like midnight and I read past the pages they previewed before and while reading the next 3 pages I was "REALLY?!" then skipped past to see if Surprise was in the remaining pages and was disappointed I'll have to wait for the next issue though I'm DREADING what they'll do with her now.  Spoiler You summed up the daughters very well! I couldn't put my feelings into words only 'UGH!!" when I went back to read it after hunting the rest of the pages for the G1's. The whole ''Geeze they were just pranking them  like OMG!" thing was horrible  I know they could have told them that as kids but WHY THOUGH?! Then the rat being able to eat thru "TIME/SPACE STUFF". By that time I was reading but not processing it very well, like the G4 stuff was BORING. Why are they acting like they never thought they would need more teachers down the line  and so on... Anyway, when it got back to the daughters my mind kept reading like they suddenly could NEVER leave the volcano, when before it was they couldn't do magic outside the volcano? Then that stupid game map of the rat getting them the ingredients....I just stopped trying to comprehend what was going on and just wanting to know how badly they treat Surprise cause that's the only thing I'm willing to get more of the comics for When I read your part of them not being anything like Reeka and Draggle I was 'I did see one kind of chubby and the one skinny.." but until you said the techno color part...I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY WHERE DIFFERENT COLORS! My mind must have not wanted to realize that part at all. I just saw Dyer's skin town and imagined it was the same on the other's skin...and I cringed so hard over they top three magic choices, all modern crap. CONVENTIONS?! You got to be kidding me... the whole daughters thing was like they only looked at screen caps of the movie and End of Flutter Valley and didn't actually watch them The sign for the volcano didn't bug me too much for some reason o.O Want to go on but my brain is sad now 
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« on: September 04, 2020, 10:31:34 AM »
It's from some books published in the G3 era, but the contents are screencaps of G1 MLP & Friends arranged into comics. I think they are licensed because at the end of the book there's a note like: "If you find someone producing illegal copies of these books, report them to us for a reward", lol. (Also because there's a section at the back advertising G3 toys.)
The covers are a blast:
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(Other covers here.)
There are 8 books total and each one has stats for one pony on the book jacket. So sadly we only have eight tech specs, but they do also have character rosters in the front of the book, which is fun. According to Google Translate, Gusty's name is now Weird Wind.
I want those books so bad!  Surprise, Woebegone and all the others on the covers.... MAJOR WANT!! 
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« on: August 06, 2020, 11:55:14 AM »
NOOOO!! I WANT THAT SURPRISE SHIRT!  I didn't know what Treacle was and looked it up and I hate how I forget what site I saw that had Surprise's other known names in other countries and I could have sworn one of them looked like Molasses and maybe that's why it has Treacle?  I'm pulling at weird memory strings because that's what has me wanting to call her 'Melissa" in some of my stupid head stories for several years  Um, anyway... Now I want some of those snap on things and NEW LONIES?!? CAN I THROW MONEY AT YOU FOR HELP GETTING THEM?!?!  
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« on: August 06, 2020, 11:11:00 AM »
I enjoyed it more for the stuff about the tv show, like the lyrics and such. And where I realized that I hate how I don't know where my VHS went of the Glass Princess because it was taped from the tv and I had the whole episode with the SONG  I watched that part with the song, over and over, memorizing it and didn't know that the distributed VHS never had that song in it, then the Disney Channel not having it either. I COULD HAVE SHOWED THE WORLD. And still sad that I could have also had the songs missing from the second episode of Tambelon and second episode of Flight To Cloud Castle because I had those taped from the tv as well but I taped over one with stupid stuff and the other was probably my dad. That's the only thing I'd want to go back in time for, the precious MLP animations... Anyway, didn't know all that other stuff with the information was happening, I was in my own little world
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« on: January 24, 2020, 03:07:07 PM »
So I didn't exist when G1 was around. By the time G3 was out, perhaps in its late years, I was going back and watching G1 myself, but I.... don't really feel like I ever really understood it. There are a lot of things I like about it, but I don't feel like I see the same things in it that everyone else does. I never really understood how people fell for Firefly the one time she ever showed up, or why everyone seemed to like Gusty so much even though she generally just seems to be a grouch in the show from what I can tell.
I love G1 and a lot of what it has to offer, I've especially been getting into the comics lately, but I want to understand how and why people got into the show the way they did. It's something I've been curious about for years. o: Is it all nostalgia? What do/did you like about G1? Who are your favorite characters, and what about them makes you like them so much? Do you like them only for what you saw in the show, or do you see something more in the characters? And, I pose these same questions for the world itself, too, if you really like the world the ponies live in. c:
I'm so curious about the minds of those of you who had the opportunity to be fans of G1 while it was first being aired. I would absolutely love to hear anything you have to say about it! 
I don't remember when I fell in love with MLP, maybe I enjoyed horses and they where colorful? That goes for the show as well but it just struck me as amazing. I keep wanting to say my sister would tape the show off the tv (ahh WTTV-4...) when I went to elementary school but I'm sure it was her suggestion and my dad did it, since she's a year younger than me xD (She was probably in PM Kindergarten) and when I got home we'd watch them. I still have some of those tapes though I haven't watched them in years T.T I need to find them.... Anyway, I some how enjoyed the episodes when they would get captured and then some how get free o.O a LOT of that ended up in playing with my toys xD other toys capturing the ponies and then escaping from the villains. or even playing make believe with my sister had some of that going on. Man I remember one time, after watching Flight To Cloud Castle, walking around one of the sheds in my old back yard and we both were calling out "Ariel" the way Garth(?) was saying it in the episode xD Then after we moved into an apartment complex, Disney was saying they were going to start showing MLP and I was so excited. The 'commercial' they played stating that had the baby sea ponies singing their song and when we went to the pool at the apartments, I was swimming about singing that song. and around the same time, we went to a Blockbuster to rent a VCR and they had MLP tapes so it was my first time watching the first special. I watched it so many times and almost started to hate it but got over it to look at the details in it and loved it all over again. (oh geeze I'm wordy x.X) My sister and I one time got out the food cans and made a castle and the TMNT we had (might have been Leo and Raph), they captured them for their castle... I loved all the characters when I watched the show, even to try and mimic all the voices when I got to memorizing scenes and songs , only until my mom brought home plush Surprise and Baby Surprise, when she worked at Goodwill one time for Christmas presents, was when I fell in love with Surprise. Then when they suddenly started the MLP Tales, I was shocked but also in love cause it was ponies doing human things. and around that time I didn't have friends at school and it was getting horrible for me. All I wanted to do was be a MLP so I just gobbled up Tales and day dreamed of being a pony = P My Sweet Heart Sisters became my Tales ponies xD So now my favorite characters from the show is Surprise, Spike and Danny. and I try to collect all I can from the show and movie (I could go on forever....)
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« on: January 08, 2020, 01:16:11 PM »
Sorry to revive this old thread but I've recently gotten a working scanner and scanned high quality photos of the press kit. This includes the Glo-Friends and Potato Head Kid pages. Do anything you guys want with these, no credit required.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/A9wSSYF5Kn5wkUP28
OH MY!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU! SO AMAZING!!! 
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« on: January 08, 2020, 01:08:02 PM »
Oh yeah, Bonnie Bonnets! I was going to pick my childhood ones and I would have picked Bonnie if she as put on the list, I had Yum Yum and Bonnie Bonnets as a kid, still have them 
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« on: December 06, 2019, 04:04:37 PM »
I'm glad I got them when I did, before they got all hyped up and expensive. The reason I got into them in the first place was because friend was all about the boy ponies and I was going to get some for her but then I started enjoying them and ended up with all of them and wanting to get all the G1 boy ponies I did get my friend two of them though, Sunburst and Lightening. My Ice Crystal still needs his rusty insides dealt with...and Tornado still has a bit of his pink still left in his hair. My favorite one and the one I got first was Sunburst! I just enjoyed his color combo, the second was Lightening xD Which I did get them in that order, heh. but I forget the order I got the other MB's. I did have two Sunburst's but I eventually sold the second one I had with a yarn tail. I need to get them all together again, Tornado is hidden in a box away from the others xD but not sure where that box is now
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« on: December 06, 2019, 03:49:30 PM »
I like all the thoughts so far! Some of my head canons I won't mention cause it might be a bit taboo? like my OTP...and some other characters I pair up... ANYWAY! In my ponies I think of Sherbet and MM Windy/Magical Breeze as a couple with Magical Breeze as gender fluid. All because I had a few duplicates of both of them and they always seemed to be together xD An old story thing I had in my had as a kid was that the Tales ponies where the future of Ponyland and in one of the forests there was a magical way back to other ponies
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« on: November 22, 2019, 02:39:02 PM »
I own that press kit as well and can provide pictures of the character cards.
https://imgur.com/UeNs15L
OMG!!!! I DEFINITELY NEED IT! T-T Spike and Danny!!!! UGH I want to draw them that way now...-imagination working hard with other stories- Wish I could borrow it to get some scans... LUCKY! IT'S AMAZING! 
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« on: November 20, 2019, 02:47:59 PM »
Is that all you scanned?!? Shame I missed it T-T Would have went well with the Catrina press kit's I've found -sniffles- The only thing I've gotten to add to my collection so far is the black and white press photo of Sandy Duncan with a Firefly cut out.
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