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Crap like Total Drama Island and Uncle Grandpa are brainless too.
I am with goddessofpeep ... we need a break!!!! The brand needs a break!!! When ALL MLP fans are wailing and tearing their hair out at whatever new MLP generation it is, because it's been YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEARS since we had "new ponies on shelves", that is the sweet spot for them to make money.
I guess as to the pop-culture references and everything in the show, will depend on whether the kids enjoy it? MLP will always change as kids culture changes too. I really love that you can kind of see the aesthetics of different time periods summed up in the MLP generations. Just looking at a G3 to me screams 'early 2000s', as do G1s well represent the 80s! So yeah it'll be really interesting seeing what the next 10 years brings and what appeals to kids in this day and age!
I wouldn't say GoH were *for* bronies, per say. But they definitly appear to be intended to draw in boys. Certainly there are girls who are into them. But the combination of taking away brushable hair, adding articulation and action features, and themeing almost all of them on the idea of fighting.... It just screams stereotypical boy. Notice how they didn't make any Rarity GoH with fashion accesories and the only Fluttershy is pirate themed (and hard to find) instead of the more stereotypically female theme of nurturing.
Quote from: Sunset on February 20, 2018, 08:31:48 PMI wouldn't say GoH were *for* bronies, per say. But they definitly appear to be intended to draw in boys. Certainly there are girls who are into them. But the combination of taking away brushable hair, adding articulation and action features, and themeing almost all of them on the idea of fighting.... It just screams stereotypical boy. Notice how they didn't make any Rarity GoH with fashion accesories and the only Fluttershy is pirate themed (and hard to find) instead of the more stereotypically female theme of nurturing.Exactly. GoH was very deliberately trying to get boys. Even the packaging was different. It is quite amusing when people say it was an effort not to gender MLP. How come people always say "it's for everyone" when it's stereotypically masculine? Boys liked MLP before. They just should have released more interesting boy characters and articulated figures in general as part of the regular line, no need for the war or fighting narrative and no need to give everyone a grim face and weapons.I made a topic about that a while ago, that there is no place for Fluttershy and Rarity in GoH because Hasbro assumes boys don't like them. That's toy gendering 101, that's got nothing to do with neutrality. It's more like Hasbro's Forces of Destiny, except that FoD didn't get too girled up in its narrative or packaging. Whereas GoH is more like an alternative universe where all ponies are angry and want to kill the Changelings. And for some reason Spike is a war hero who fights Chrysalis with a spear The FoD characters are just their regular selves but in doll form.
Quote from: Zapper on February 21, 2018, 01:44:26 AMQuote from: Sunset on February 20, 2018, 08:31:48 PMI wouldn't say GoH were *for* bronies, per say. But they definitly appear to be intended to draw in boys. Certainly there are girls who are into them. But the combination of taking away brushable hair, adding articulation and action features, and themeing almost all of them on the idea of fighting.... It just screams stereotypical boy. Notice how they didn't make any Rarity GoH with fashion accesories and the only Fluttershy is pirate themed (and hard to find) instead of the more stereotypically female theme of nurturing.Exactly. GoH was very deliberately trying to get boys. Even the packaging was different. It is quite amusing when people say it was an effort not to gender MLP. How come people always say "it's for everyone" when it's stereotypically masculine? Boys liked MLP before. They just should have released more interesting boy characters and articulated figures in general as part of the regular line, no need for the war or fighting narrative and no need to give everyone a grim face and weapons.I made a topic about that a while ago, that there is no place for Fluttershy and Rarity in GoH because Hasbro assumes boys don't like them. That's toy gendering 101, that's got nothing to do with neutrality. It's more like Hasbro's Forces of Destiny, except that FoD didn't get too girled up in its narrative or packaging. Whereas GoH is more like an alternative universe where all ponies are angry and want to kill the Changelings. And for some reason Spike is a war hero who fights Chrysalis with a spear The FoD characters are just their regular selves but in doll form.I meant more that GoH was an answer to the charge that "Play patterns of toys aimed at girls are limiting. Always about nurturing or fashion". And if little boys can enjoy it too then bonus.