Always and Forever Sweep

Afterward is Wish-I-Might, I love her detailed symbol, but I prefer how much more red Always and Forever is, and I prefer Always' accessories too.

Yours Truly is sweet. Wish-I-May is fine, but I don't like that pose at all. All My Heart is excellent with lots of red and I love her antennae. Candy Heart doesn't do much and looks absolutely goofy in those shoes. Candy Heart also got the short end of the stick when it comes to sappy names.

I saw those arts on Twitter, of course with newgens saying "we were robbed". I agree they're cute as a vague creature design but absolutely grotesque for a horse. The legs are horsey, but the bodies are still doggish, and that's before getting into whatever's going on with the head. In the other arts you can see it's like, 30% head, 35% neck, 30% leg, 5% body. Nose doesn't even get a decimal. But I also see a lot of newgens just hate *horses* in general. Not just bronies who think MLPs are "fat ugly hippos" but instead, they think they should look like apple-headed dogs, they have to have GIANT cat ears, ginormous front-facing eyes, non-existent noses... They have to look like cats or dogs! AKA the only animals on planet earth...

This art, G5, and even Wild Manes have something I can't stand that make it all NOT horsey for me: the LIPS!!!!!!! Not just the "muzzle". People bring up the size of the nose, like obviously, but no one talks about the upper lip? Horses have a large prehensile upper lip that's very important to them, for grazing, feeling, touching, grooming, whatever. G1, G2, and G3 understand this, even G3.5 gets the proportions right. They just *look* horsey because of the bigger lip. G5, the upper lip is extremely small, where the CHIN is bigger than the nose. And with making the head round, the jaw ends up looking wrong too (leads to the "chad chin" problem). The bottom Applejack demonstrates this well. The "upper lip" has enough room to fit the nostrils and nothing else. I don't even think she has teeth! (Edit: Wild Manes doesn't look that bad on second look, I was going off of memory before, but I think it could be better)

I've been getting into horses more and more, and the more I study horses (casually..... disclaimer: still a noob), the more G4 onward frustrates me. I have a soft spot for G4's "superdeformed" look because it is admittedly stylish, but VERY of its time, and I hate how it's become the standard. It's not MLP unless they're brachycephalic bobbleheads.

"Real Horse Patterns" is something people try to incorporate in MLP too without much research... I know they're fantasy animals and you can "do whatever", but this comes off as "horses can have splotches, right? Give it more splotches!", but maybe that's my cynicism showing after seeing... that thing. IMO Applejack looks less like an appaloosa or pinto or whatever and more like a hairless rat. (G4 Pipsqueak and G5 Violette Rainbow are nice MLP pintos.)

Also for the art, this might be for the G5 movie before it was G5. A Russian brony group (or something) leaked a bunch of Hasbro's stuff, emails, everything, back in 2017, revealing an entire work-in-progress season of FiM, and a G4 reboot for G5. Everyone hated the concept of a G4 reboot, so Hasbro went back to the drawing board to give us original designs (earth pony Twilight would become Sunny Starscout, for example). Or maybe that was coincidental? Anyway, after G5's release, the artists have come forward with more concepts confirming the proposed G4 reboot. Current story of "G6" is a G4 reboot unrelated to these arts, "Camp Cutie Mark" people are calling it. CCM is still ongoing unless Hasbro saw the hate That got too.

Wordy response from me as per usual but I wanted to give my reason why I don't think any of these are "horsey".

My very first ponies were G2 but due to their short run in the US I didn't have many of them, nor did I know they were "My Little Pony". I had lots of other fakies too, I loved little toy horses in general. I had the Friendship Gardens game and it took a while to put two and two together to realise that the toy ponies I owned were the same as the ones in the game! (Ivy and Sundance.) I still didn't really know that "My Little Pony" was a thing. I figured it was some small thing, idk. Years later I got G3s, which were unmistakably "My Little Pony", and I figured "oh I guess these are new ones?" So I knew there were "old" and "new" My Little Ponys. 2006 I would receive The End of Flutter Valley on DVD as a Valentines Day present (timely story) and "oh, ponies that are even OLDER?". I had a shirt with Gusty on it too at some point, I don't remember whether it was before or after watching TEoFV. I didn't know Tales existed until 2007 when I stumbled upon it somehow on YouTube.

Despite "growing out" of the toys around that time, I still kept up with MLP and held *some* interest in it. I saw them phase into the Core 7 and thought it was odd, "these are all old ponies, but who's Sweetie Belle???". I was in middle school when Twinkle Wish Adventure came out and I saw it premiere on Disney Junior. I figured that MLP was getting an update again and I liked the "chibi style" of it (I was well into my anime phase at that point so maybe I was biased LOL).

Can it get worse than this? Cast your votes now.


The ones they released last year were in the right direction. This one? Nothing about the design makes sense. The abnormally round head, the abnormally long ears, the HORN

MLP's 40th Anniversary.

Basic Fun did a good job as a third party, but Hasbro was just embarrassing. In general, a complete lack of content. "Let's release a digital album... and only put one song on it!" (if you want to be fair, it's multiple remixes of the same one song). Let's do a clothing collab... and make everything black and white (or at least, have minimal colour)? The Loungefly stuff this year was cute but it wasn't necessarily "40th Anniversary". It was just more MLP like they've been doing. Same with the Erst Wilder, La Vidriola, and Oodie collabs... they're just kind of generic products and nothing celebratory. Compare to Care Bears who introduced a character that celebrated the brand, Care-a-Lot Bear. Make Your Mark had the Bridlewood special. Ruby Jubilee happened but she's never going to appear in the series again and she will absolutely not get a toy. We hardly got ANY toys this year from Hasbro. Their big showing at the Toy Fair was the Marestream playset, which had been out for MONTHS, if not a year. LPS had a bigger presence. Care Bears is always getting something new, left and right. We're getting more plushes from Basic Fun, at least? Stores like Walmart are slowly getting rid of the MLP section.

Terrible and embarrassing year.

Unpopular opinion, I think Applejack's eyebrows are cute. But I wish they gave her freckles. She has a sweet expression. G4's mid-generation reboot wasn't good. The faces are relatively more accurate, but I wish they had more sculpting. But the bodies are confusing. The first G4s had a more accurate bodytype... why did they make them so skinny, their necks so long, and their legs so short??? I could go on and on about Hasbro's handling of G4 but I'll end it on: why did they NEVER give Twilight Sparkle, the MAIN character, the CORRECT COLOUR FOR HER HAIR? It took them until G5 over 10 years later to give her blue hair!!

DM'd!

I knew the names to my ponies, but I don't think my Romperooni had a name (the one that came with Rainbow Flash... she's just "baby pony"), so I named her Tiger Lily. We had tiger lilies in our yard and I loved them, so I thought it was a good fit LOL

I can't see the pic, so I don't know what they look like, but the last time they were brought back I thought they were cute.

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They come in two colours: purple and coral.

I think they're really cute! Better than the screen-eye Furbys or the "Connect" Furbys. The screen-eyes were a neat gimmick but Furby looks better with "real" eyes. I wish the beak was "real" too. It's just stuck open all the time, forever. It makes it feel more like a robot than a real little bird-thing.

I think it's interesting how they're designed. I guess a lot of it is what's trendy right now, but when I see the necklace and the sparkly eyes I think of the Furby customizing community. 😂