First of all, that's a nice car!  What is it?

Secondly, why not decorate the inside of the car the way Surprise would if she owned it personally?  I'm thinking streamers, ribbons, a (fake for obvious reasons) cake, maybe some balloons...  Like a surprise party inside a car.  That's pretty surprising, don't you think?

Also, that film you'd love to see is basically the plot of the book The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth. One of my childhood favorite books.

One of my favorite childhood books too. 

I wish someone would make that movie.  Or maybe I don't... they'd probably end up replacing the Triceratops with a T. rex or a Velociraptor.  Which would then eat everyone.  Except the boy, because he's the one who needs to be rescued by the action hero movie star.

Sigh.  On a side note, Jurassic World was the first film in the franchise I didn't see in theaters.  I'll probably wait for this one to hit HBO too.  The first two were great, the third was silly, and they lost me entirely with the fourth 'we ran out of bigger carnivores so we'll just make one up!' gimmick.

MLP-themed Hot Wheels would be cool... 

Awww yeah, I'd be all over those!

I was thinking Transformers Hot Wheels but I'll take MLP Hot Wheels too.

Care Bears:

'80s 13" Proud Heart Cat, Noble Heart Horse, & Treat Heart Pig.  Aside from them my CB collection is nearly complete.  Until they do a line where all characters (new & vintage, bears & cousins) are all available in the same style, my policy is to only pick up one example of each new character.

I suppose this is perfect for the pony with a bacon or cheeseburger cutie mark.

My Twilight Sparkle tastes like chicken...

Oh gosh, this is what I get for not logging in for a few weeks.  I need to go get him.  Is he available in stores or is he an online exclusive?

Well, once the mods get a good look at this thread the word "plot" might get added to the Grumpy Cat list and we'll have trouble discussing the concept of a storyline by that word.

My problem with 'plot' is that it's an extremely misleading term.  There's no such part of an equine's anatomy.  "Hindquarters" would probably be most accurate though I'm sure "butt" and even "rump" would work just as well.

So where did something stupid like this come from?  Memes of course.  "I watch ponies for the plot" (the image seen a few posts up).  It's meant to be a play on "I read (insert adult magazine of your choice here) for the articles."  But I don't hear people referring to Pamela Anderson or Jenny McCarthy as "articles"...  "Check out the article on that hottie!"  It sounds really stupid, doesn't it?

It's a pet peeve of mine when reading it in fanfiction (especially if one of the ponies refers to it as such, for example "Ouch, I tripped and fell on my plot!").  Because so few people do any sort of research, I think a large number of bronies really believe plot is a horse anatomy term.  Because, you know, everyone else uses it. *facepalm*

As for more pony rears being shown in later episodes I hadn't really noticed, but eh.... that's not exactly a new thing.  Even in G3, when Razzaroo was flipping through the Birthday Book, there's a picture of Minty's posterior.  And while it's played for laughs (because butts are apparently funny) I find it more disturbing than the G4 rears because not only is the rear drawn a bit more accurately, it's also a picture, meaning that Razz specifically took said picture and well.... taking pics of your friend's rear end when she's not looking is kinda creepy.

Going back even further, and out of ponies, it was a thing on Nelvana's Care Bears series too.  The most blatant example being in the Wonderland movie when Swift Heart gets picked up and the camera focuses on her tush and lingers for a few seconds.  Here's something I whipped up years ago for another forum:

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But the thing to keep in mind is that all of these characters are animals, and they don't (normally) wear clothes (and even when they do, it seems pants are rarely, if ever, worn).  If you need to show a character from the back, there's most likely going to be a butt shot involved.

My interest has waned a bit, definitely.  I've never really been on board with alicorn Twilight Sparkle.  That really threw off the dynamics of the show for me.  Despite that, I've kept watching and there have been some very good episodes (along with some clunkers) in the past three seasons since that happened.

Equestria Girls has never interested me in the slightest.  I've watched the movies, yes.  Once each.  They've improved since the first, and I'd say the third one is my favorite of the bunch.  But I eagerly await the day when Sunset Shimmer is allowed to return to Equestria...  Sure, she's made friends at Canterlot High, but I'm sure she has friends (not to mention family) in Equestria too.

I'm just not on board with the new G4.5 toys at all.  I'm going to finish up the last of the G4 brushables I need, and then the only existing product line for me to keep up with is the Build A Bear plushes.  I really like them, and the fact they listened to collectors and put out Minty?  Huge bonus points.  I already had all of them to date (except Twilight) when she came out, and her release spurred me to add Twilight (even if she is an alicorn....meh) to my herd as well (it was buy one get one free after all ).  I was excited about Starlight Glimmer, and I actually like what they did with her hair.  For some reason, she looks really cute to me.  So yeah, going forward BABW ponies are about the only things I plan on picking up.  The G4.5 Big Mac doesn't look bad from the pics I saw, so he's a maybe.  The movie toys don't do much for me (and I was looking forward to seaponies... but once I saw them I thought there were hideous; apologies to those of you who like them).

I'm not really sure what I'm going to be collecting when it comes to ponies from here on out.  I've said on here for years I want to get into G3s, and this is my chance.  I'm hoping to come to Pony Fair this year, and if I do I can finally start a G3 collection.  It's funny, I had some G1 when I was growing up (but not much), and it was G4 that won me over... yet it's G3 I fell head over heels for.

To me, a MLP needs to have brushable hair.  It's just one of those expectations (like a Hot Wheels car needs wheels* or a Transformer needs to, you know, transform**) that comes with the toyline.  I don't have a problem with the bronies, but I do have a problem with them changing the way things are supposed to be.  That they can whine for 'molded hair' and then be catered to by Hasbro, or the show inserting memes to pander to that particular audience is what bothers me.  If you come into an existing fandom, you need to respect that franchise, not alter it to what you want.

*Hot Wheels has done a blimp and a submarine...neither has wheels.

**Yes, I know about the G1 Action Masters... that's sort of my point.