I do enjoy seeing G3 ponies in G4, I believe Waterfire was another one who had a blind bag toy.
I didn't know this G4 as I don',t really follow blind bags, but it's just another example of a pony who COULD have been made and COULD have been given a place in children's hearts, but wasn't, because hasbro are obsessed with the same six ponies. I find that sad, but at least she exists in blind bag form.the oversaturation of mane 6 needs to stop. Too many ponies are out there that could be getting released in actual brushable form (or MORE brushables), but just aren't, because everything is mane 6 and Princesses. Some ponies don't even HAVE any merch! (Sassy Saddles, Starswirl, Mistmane, Chip Cutter, Tender Taps, Gabby the Griffon, Iron Will, Tirek, and the Diamond Dogs, to name a few)
A&F was a valentine Target pony I think, so not global - I guess this way she gets a wider release as a blind bag??
I have seen some really pretty blind bag figures (I know the names of none of them) who would make amazing ponies. (And I still want a pony version of Adagio Dazzle and her sidekicks, but no luck so far).
Hasbro really need to do more with these kinds of characters.
I didn't know this G4 as I don',t really follow blind bags, but it's just another example of a pony who COULD have been made and COULD have been given a place in children's hearts, but wasn't, because hasbro are obsessed with the same six ponies. I find that sad, but at least she exists in blind bag form.the oversaturation of mane 6 needs to stop. Too many ponies are out there that could be getting released in actual brushable form (or MORE brushables), but just aren't, because everything is mane 6 and Princesses. Some ponies don't even HAVE any merch! (Sassy Saddles, Starswirl, Mistmane, Chip Cutter, Tender Taps, Gabby the Griffon, Iron Will, Tirek, and the Diamond Dogs, to name a few)
A&F was a valentine Target pony I think, so not global - I guess this way she gets a wider release as a blind bag??
I have seen some really pretty blind bag figures (I know the names of none of them) who would make amazing ponies. (And I still want a pony version of Adagio Dazzle and her sidekicks, but no luck so far).
Hasbro really need to do more with these kinds of characters.
Guardians of Harmony? why aren't them MLP to you? Hasbro has put out things that aren't pony brushables, before, like the porcelain figures back in g1. Are they MLP, in spite of not having brushable hair?I didn't know this G4 as I don',t really follow blind bags, but it's just another example of a pony who COULD have been made and COULD have been given a place in children's hearts, but wasn't, because hasbro are obsessed with the same six ponies. I find that sad, but at least she exists in blind bag form.the oversaturation of mane 6 needs to stop. Too many ponies are out there that could be getting released in actual brushable form (or MORE brushables), but just aren't, because everything is mane 6 and Princesses. Some ponies don't even HAVE any merch! (Sassy Saddles, Starswirl, Mistmane, Chip Cutter, Tender Taps, Gabby the Griffon, Iron Will, Tirek, and the Diamond Dogs, to name a few)
A&F was a valentine Target pony I think, so not global - I guess this way she gets a wider release as a blind bag??
I have seen some really pretty blind bag figures (I know the names of none of them) who would make amazing ponies. (And I still want a pony version of Adagio Dazzle and her sidekicks, but no luck so far).
Hasbro really need to do more with these kinds of characters.
Well they did release a bunch of non MLP characters from the movie with those action figure sets they are doing...and sorry I don't remember what the heck they are calling the 'action figures'. I refuse to buy that stuff, it's not MLP to me, regardless of if hasbro is making it etc.
I don't want Diamond Dogs, that would honestly be the last thing I'd ever buy. Tirek, no thanks. I just don't want any of that other junk, not interested, nope.
Guardians of Harmony? why aren't them MLP to you? Hasbro has put out things that aren't pony brushables, before, like the porcelain figures back in g1. Are they MLP, in spite of not having brushable hair?
Gimme my brushable Tirek, please. XD
Guardians of Harmony? why aren't them MLP to you? Hasbro has put out things that aren't pony brushables, before, like the porcelain figures back in g1. Are they MLP, in spite of not having brushable hair?
Gimme my brushable Tirek, please. XD
It's a personal decision as to whether something is or isn't a pony in the context of their collection.
I asked the question because I wanted to know. Not because I was putting down your opinion, nor is anything wrong with it. How can I know what it is, if I don't ask? We're not hivemind
Guardians of Harmony? why aren't them MLP to you? Hasbro has put out things that aren't pony brushables, before, like the porcelain figures back in g1. Are they MLP, in spite of not having brushable hair?
Gimme my brushable Tirek, please. XD
It's a personal decision as to whether something is or isn't a pony in the context of their collection.
I don't buy GOH either. It doesn't bother me that it's there, but I don't count them as ponies. They're pony merchandise to me. So are ceramics. Ponies are brushables. That's because I'm a G1 person (and so is Unicorn) and G1 was basically about brushables. Nothing wrong with that. It's just personal preference, which should be respected IMO.
I also don't care about having toys of the other characters in the show in any generation because I basically don't like the show much in any generation ;) It's fine, it's just not the be all and end all of MLP to me. I wouldn't really want any Tirek, brushable or otherwise. I don't really understand the FIM mindset of seeing everything through the lens of what's in the animation. Those characters were irrelevant to my childhood as I didn't see most of the G1 animation until I was about 14 - and I genuinely don't mind. But I probably wouldn't want dolls of the Weather Witch or Wizard Wantall either, from the comics...I don't even like Megan all that much. Dragons and pony attendants/friends I'm ok with...but that's I guess where I personally draw the line.
She's cute but I prefer her predecessor Always and Forever, as well as Wish-I-May and Wish-I-Might. I hardly ever do blindbags. I never cared for Truly, Heartthrob or Cadance.perhaps Lovestruck is just Always' mini Me? A failed clone attempt? Sisters separated at birth? XD
First point - your comments were taken as derisive both by Unicorn and by myself, so clearly you could have phrased your question better. It definitely sounded to me like you were making fun of Uni because she doesn't personally like GOH. That's not cool. If you didn't mean it that way, maybe making the joke about a Tirek brushable at the end wasn't the way to go.I apologize. I wasn't making fun of anyone. I'm just not eloquent in wording what I want to say, both online and off. So that's my bad. I'm sorry if it came across as that.
Onto the other point - G4 has several separate toy incarnations which are very much tied to one source material, the show. Other generations didn't do that. If you're looking at MLP in context of just G4, then all the different aspects that connect to FIM are relevant. GOH and Blind bags and such are obviously included in that context. But you began this thread by connecting Lovestruck to G3 Always and Forever and the connecting factor between all the generations of MLP is the brushable. It's personal preference what you include and what you don't, but the core of the MLP line since 1982 is a fantasy coloured equine with brushable hair.
The big problem with G4's toyline is the oversaturation of the mane 6 and the pushing out of other characters to the blind bags and the GOH, perhaps even Equestria Girls as well to some extent. I would really love to see Adagio as a brushable but I don't suppose it will ever happen.
In terms of other species, G1 has probably as wide a cast of supporting characters that could have been produced in the 1980s as G4 has now. The fact they aren't maybe shows the emphasis being on the toy and imaginative play into which the various storylines feed, rather than the storyline trying to enforce creative play. You'd think that we might have had the Moochick, or the witches from the movie. Even smooze of some kind perhaps...we had boglins in the eighties, and other weird stuff, so why not? But it didn't happen. I think it does come down to the fact the G1 toy line was really diverse in it's species. And yeah, there were attendants, but they were connected to ponies. Other than the pony friends (which in G4 your equivalent is probably Zecora) there's not much deviation into other creatures and there's very little into human characters as well (despite endless Megan releases). I don't really think it is that important to release those characters. They only become relevant if you're a collector wanting to display scenes from the animation, or a kid who wants to play a particular episode. I don't know how many kids do that, so maybe it's more of a collector concern? I don't know?
She's cute but I prefer her predecessor Always and Forever, as well as Wish-I-May and Wish-I-Might. I hardly ever do blindbags. I never cared for Truly, Heartthrob or Cadance.perhaps Lovestruck is just Always' mini Me? A failed clone attempt? Sisters separated at birth? XD
yeah, blinds aren't my thing, either (too frustrating. Even the FUNKO Mystery Mini's)
The Wish twins I still think of as celestials, even though they're Valentine ponies. Must be that darn nursery rhyme about wishing on stars.