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Why was G3 the only one without males?
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on January 30, 2024, 05:46:29 PMWhy was G3 the only one without males?There WAS one male pony in all of G3.Here he is!visitors can't see pics , please register or login
No idea, he was cartoon-only. I call him Propeller Hat.
Quote from: lalalei2001 on February 05, 2024, 02:00:53 AMNo idea, he was cartoon-only. I call him Propeller Hat.Did he speak?
Have to keep my eye on these for G3 Baby Boy Custom ideas
QuoteI also don't get why the Baby Ponies were treated like new characters, rather than just the younger version of the pony they resembled. I don't know if all canons did this (the cartoon did, and there's a comic that has the baby ponies being cloned from a mirror), but I find it strange that they made baby versions of the adult ponies, and made them new/different characters (I'll check what the toyline did, but the cartoon could have easily have had flashbacks to when the adult version of whatever baby pony they wanted to market was younger...)Because mother-daughter sets / play is cute and endearing. The babies look identical to the moms so that children can immediately identify which baby pony goes with which mom pony. Also in the 80s Hasbro was all about collectibility, which meant collecting new characters. I think their feeling was "If a kid already has Pony XYZ, why would they want a new version of her?" Like, why would Baby Glory being "Glory as a baby" be any more engaging than "Glory had a baby who looks just like her"? If they're separate characters, you can have Glory nuzzling her baby, putting on her diaper, and feeding Baby Glory her bottle. If they're the same character that deletes the mother-daughter play and interactions between the toys wouldn't really make sense. I mean you could make up a time travel plot, but what about when you don't want to have time travel, what about when you just want the ponies to go to a party?
I also don't get why the Baby Ponies were treated like new characters, rather than just the younger version of the pony they resembled. I don't know if all canons did this (the cartoon did, and there's a comic that has the baby ponies being cloned from a mirror), but I find it strange that they made baby versions of the adult ponies, and made them new/different characters (I'll check what the toyline did, but the cartoon could have easily have had flashbacks to when the adult version of whatever baby pony they wanted to market was younger...)
Ponies being Babified versions of themselves do not sell well. As we have seen with newborn cuties and the g4 baby doll monstrosities. It is common and profitable in animal toylines to have family units either sold separately or together. Plus some of the babies are slightly different from their parents, either by species, symbol, or color schemes. As seen with Baby Moondancer, Baby Sunbright, and Baby Milky Way. And you can mix n match families that don't have similar looking family members. Or that you don't have matching set to.
Going back to the Big Brothers, I think the idea was that they were meant to be 'big brother' type figures to 'little girls' collecting them, doing 'boyish' activities. Or something. I don't really know. In the UK the original set is called the Adventure Boy Pony set. We used Big Brothers in the second release in 1989, largely because we defaulted to a lot of US packaging design in 1989, but Adventure Boy seems a bit more logical.
the GMs all having wings. None of which comes from development. I don't want to say 'they just made it all up!' but maybe they did. Maybe we're all just overthinking xD.
I agree that the toys keep getting worse, but I think some magic must have happened for G1 to be created. Some alignment of talent produced a truly magical thing and that's certainly why I'm here.
What are your thoughts on the Core 7 15 years later, and are there any other decisions made about MLP that make you go "Hmmm"?