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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: tailrustedtealeaf on February 01, 2019, 09:15:41 AM
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Congrats! Basic Fun has just contacted you, you've won their contest to design a new line of G1-style ponies! You have absolutely free-reign, as they assure you no matter what you make will sell in stores. They've got lots of companies they can contact to make whatever gimmick you would like and aren't afraid to spend a little more than usual on production. They're even willing to alter existing G1 poses-or make new ones! The only limit is that your line should have 4-6 ponies.
What would you do? Would you remake some ponies from the later years, do a generational swap, or make something completely new?
I think I'd make some ponies based off of different flowers because I'm in a spring mood. Each pony would have a fabric flower symbol and sculpted vines/leaves running up their back legs. Maybe UV hair too? I'll have to draw them later...
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I can't see them producing their own line of ponies.. but I think it'd be a cool idea to have "Nirvana" ponies more accessible.
Ponies around the world...
Blue lickety split
Ladybird
Tomatoberry..(uh, I mean Argentinian Sugarberry)
Why not throw the Lily and popo in there too :p
:shrug: I mean I'm not sure who the best ponies are for this tho. I just like the concept of making some Grail ponies more affordable
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This is fun! I would probably do a line of holiday ponies because I just love holiday ponies. One for New Years with a clock symbol in silver and gold colors, Valentine’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah.
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Hmm, let's see, what do I like.. boy ponies, celestial ponies.. aha! A set of Big Brothers with celestial-themed symbols. :frolic:
I love Nessa16's holiday ponies idea, too :D Holiday ponies are another weakness of mine.
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Tropical Sea Ponies and Baby Sets
Sunshine-Neon orange body with neon green hair and yellow stripe. Sand Dollar Pose
Baby Monsoon-Bright green body with neon blue hair and neon purple stripe. Water Lily Pose
Seaweed-Green body with peach hair and blue stripe. Wave Dancer pose
Baby Coral Reef-Peach body with yellow hair and green stripe. Backstroke pose.
Mamba-Neon pink body with blue hair and white stripe. Sand Dollar pose.
Baby Steel Drum-Purple body with neon red hair and blue stripe. Tiny Bubbles pose
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I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't done a zodiac-themed set yet! That would be fun to see materialize.
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I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't done a zodiac-themed set yet! That would be fun to see materialize.
This is true, but more than 6 ponies would be needed :/
I am not with the holiday pony idea, I think it's a charged bomb waiting to happen because how do you globally select 4-6 holidays without either shunning someone or overstating one particular culture? Not that they haven't already gone nuts with Christmas and Easter type ponies, but I think if you were to bring more specific holidays into the equation, there'd be an issue now that maybe there wasn't in the past...with some good cause. So then if you started trying to emulate all holidays from target audience countries, you'd get problems of quantity...
4-6 is a difficult number.
I guess this is my research dictating it a little bit but I kind of would like to see dragon horses. Like, reasonable looking ones, not silly things like whatshisface from FIM...They could either landbased or sea based, depending on the type of context. But although I'm not much for alt species, this is a kind of interesting area for me and I think stuff could be done with it...
Another possible for me would be flutter size ponies with butterfly wings like the wingers have. Because I love both concepts but don't see why the flutters can't have a second evolution as butterflies as well as dragonflies. I admit I also really like the flutter poses.
Pearly adult sea ponies. That would be a nice thing too. With appropriate shells. Sea Ponies are meant to be like oyster type things in their shells, really, and pearls are well, pearly, so why no pearly adult sea ponies??
I really don't want ponies representing human things, I guess. Stuff on the fantasy line is more my thing.
I'd also like to see the Dance & Prance released in their proper poses ;) They don't have to dance, but they do need to look like the prototypes. But I figure a lot of people will probably want to see prototypes that didn't get made...
Finally - baby twinkle eyes (Baby Quackers, Baby Tic Tac Toe, I'm looking at you). And maybe even Baby So Softs. I never understood why the babies couldn't inherit their mother's features. Baby Shady etc would have been more popular as well I think if they were baby fuzzies rather than BBE babies...(And Baby Fifi should be a unicorn. Because reasons).
You could have a set with Baby Q, Baby TTT and then other babies that don't currently exist. 6 = 2 of each species, so those are the 2 earth babies, then baby Speedy and Baby Fizzy, Baby Locket and Baby Masquerade, say?
And then for the baby So Softs, Baby Bouncy and Baby Fifi (as a unicorn), then four others - you guys can pick them.
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I read this topic at work and since then I've been constantly thinking about the G1 line of my own. But I can't figure out what it would be :lol: I really like the idea of zodiac ponies, that would be huge set to collect - twelve ponies :biggrin:
As Sundance is one of my favourite ponies, I'd love to see the whole family! I haven't decided what the differences between the family members would be :lol: Maybe the dad would have a different colour mane and tail and the kids would have a mix of their parent's colours... Something really basic, true to the first My Little Ponies ever created.
Also I want there to be collectors pose baby pose. That'd be hilarious.
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Ooooh id love to do g2s as g1s!
Ivy, sunsparkle, berry bright, sky skimmer, petal blossom, and clever clover!
Or ADULT MERPONIES.
Haha or...
Adult versions of babies!
The rainbow babies, cuddles, sleepy pie, the birthday twins, newborn twins, sparkle babies, baby Susie, the list could go on!
I also love Taffeta’s pearly adult sea ponies, and flutters with wingers wings!
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This picture is old, but how about finally getting male unis, male pegs, and male twinkle-eyes!
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Twice as Fancy babies... maybe in the Flower Fantasy style ?
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This is fun.
I like the idea of unicorn and pegasis big brothers.
For me, I’ve always wanted female “shire” ponies. Fuzzy feet like the big brothers in a larger size.
Also, ponies with real horse markings... white feet, pinto, blazes and so on.
Seasonal themed ponies with giant, wrap-around symbols.
The first 6 in different poses.
Ponies with “Lady Lovely Lockes” type clips.
Ponies with clip on armor.
Ponies in black, brown and chestnut colors, with multi-color hair.
Ponies with individual backcard stories or diaries... like they used to have.
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a bunch of ponies themed after appaloosans one pink and white rearing pose torqose hair
and all have animal friends like chow chows
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Space themed ponies: each have symbols like a sun, comet, planet with rings on it, a UFO, ect. And they all have alien antenna and their own cute little alien pet/companion. I’ll draw some of these guys later, when I have The time.
And I also agree with the unicorn and Pegasus big brother sets. It’s strange that all the brothers are earth ponies.
Gemstone themed ponies. Pretty hard to narrow down what gemstones, but for the first wave we could have diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald, amber, and tourmaline. Each has a personality based on the gemstone they represent, and have a gemstone symbol.
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From a purely selfish point of view, I'd want to create a line that somehow incorporated Ribbon in the Shy Unicorn Pose, because I've always thought that would be cute, and I'm peeved that Ribbon was never sold in the UK and is only really available as a So Soft. How about a Cartoon Favourites line, with some ponies from MLP n Friends who weren't widely released? Maybe Ribbon, Lofty, Heart Throb, Paradise, Truly and Cupcake.
A similar set for the MLP Tales cartoon! Who wouldn't want toys of Ace, Teddy, Lancer and Miss Hackney? (My girlfriend had a MLP Tales annual when she was little and always wanted a toy version of Ace.)
Weather-themed boy ponies that are unicorns and pegasi! Basically Mountain Boys with horns/wings :)
A set of petite ponies that are actually mini versions of some of the G1 characters!
Fuzzy Bushwoolies! (Not ponies, but I just feel the world needs fluffy plush Bushwoolies.)
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For me it’ll be Truly and Skippity Doo in Crumpet pose, twinkle eyed baby versions of Gingerbread, Sweet Stuff, Galaxy, Fizzy, and Whizzer.
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Boy ponies in the trotting pose.
In dark rich jewel colours like ruby, amethyst, emerald, sapphire with paler hair with bright stripes (I love the boys' hair stripes).
Representing nature/elements like ocean (deep sea-green), night sky (deep blue), mountains (deep purple), firelight (deep crimson)
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I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't done a zodiac-themed set yet! That would be fun to see materialize.
ooooh yess! That'd be so cool!
Man there are so many good ideas being posted here :frolic: Gator, I LOVE your art! And Shaz yesss, it'd be so great to see the Tales boys (and Miss Hackney!) as toys! I'm still disappointed they were cartoon-only.
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An unreleased cartoon line is a great idea!
The Tales Boys
Jing-a-ling and Ting-a-ling
Miss Hackney
Knight Shade
The Green Rock n Beat
Several Tales relatives
Rosey
OT: But I would love the unreleased G3 Pegasus and Unicorns too.
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^ ooooh yess!! Throw in the RaMC rainbow pony and I'm sold. :lovey:
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Ohh what a nice idea for a thread!
More ponies with 3D symbols. Maybe a set of tricolor mane ponies with 3D symbols, each themed after a planet in our solar system.
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Hmm... I would do a line of pastel rainbows and neon rainbows :rainbow:
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Ohh what a nice idea for a thread!
More ponies with 3D symbols. Maybe a set of tricolor mane ponies with 3D symbols, each themed after a planet in our solar system.
YES I would have loved more 3D symbols - though I wasn't a big fan of the Princess medallions
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Ohh what a nice idea for a thread!
More ponies with 3D symbols. Maybe a set of tricolor mane ponies with 3D symbols, each themed after a planet in our solar system.
YES I would have loved more 3D symbols - though I wasn't a big fan of the Princess medallions
The princess symbols are the only 3d symbols I'm really ok with. I find the pocket ponies a bit weird and ridiculous and the Sundae Best just...a mistake in many ways. Though if it was like the mgr ponies, that would be ok. Their capes are pretty.
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More dinosaurs like Cutesaurus! :P
Maybe more translucent GID ponies, but like their whole body glows? I'd prefer the hair to have striped two-toned hair, maybe white would be one consistent stripe color for all the ponies, where the other stripe color would vary. Two lines. First line is just random glowing things. A pony with a bug symbol, a jellyfish symbol, a celestial symbol, a fungi symbol, and a party (?) symbol. Like a neon drink sign, or a glow stick.
Next line would be 'fossil' ponies, a little more put together. Symbols would be ammonites, corals, bones, trilobites, and ferns. Not sure whether these would look better as TAF or not!
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More dinosaurs like Cutesaurus! :P
Maybe more translucent GID ponies, but like their whole body glows? I'd prefer the hair to have striped two-toned hair, maybe white would be one consistent stripe color for all the ponies, where the other stripe color would vary. Two lines. First line is just random glowing things. A pony with a bug symbol, a jellyfish symbol, a celestial symbol, a fungi symbol, and a party (?) symbol. Like a neon drink sign, or a glow stick.
Next line would be 'fossil' ponies, a little more put together. Symbols would be ammonites, corals, bones, trilobites, and ferns. Not sure whether these would look better as TAF or not!
I LOVE the idea of fossil ponies!
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I am also 100% on board with zodiac ponies, they'd be amazing!
For my set, honestly, more MGR ponies and more beautiful saddle designs. Not very original thinking, perhaps, but I am obsessed with carousel horses and the more the merrier! :lol:
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I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't done a zodiac-themed set yet! That would be fun to see materialize.
That would be super cool! Breyer made their own set
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I'd rather design my own gen (I already have so many ideas in my head. A rivalry between Flutter and Winger ponies, TE ponies living in the snowy mountains and growing long coats (with Big Brother-type hooves), a self-governing society instead of princesses. Hasbro Y U No hire me??) But I get this in my head every time I go to Micheal's and see the stick-on plastic pearls.
Twinkle eye ponies except instead of rhinestones, plastic pearls are their eyes instead. Pearly eyed ponies.
Aren't I original?
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I'd rather design my own gen (I already have so many ideas in my head. A rivalry between Flutter and Winger ponies, TE ponies living in the snowy mountains and growing long coats (with Big Brother-type hooves), a self-governing society instead of princesses. Hasbro Y U No hire me??)
Honestly, I love this idea. Oh! That should be our next mlp discussion! What we all would do if we could make the next gen of ponies!
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i would recreate the rarest ponies so they wont be so rare anymore and so we could all afford to have them :) thats my dream. i truly belive basic fun about to reales the sea ponies soon and that mean finally i could afford some of them which are crazy expensive
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Oh, I love the Scorpio Breyer! (I think it's Scorpio, at least? The red one in the second row) I want to see that as a MLP. :D
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I would be tempted to create mystery wing ponies, they would have a saddle like the ones with the key,only you open them up to unfold wings in different designs.
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If cost isn't an issue, I'd make extra super really really crazy long hair ponies.
2 foot long hair + different brushes, combs, hair ties, and even extensions :devious:
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I really like all of your ideas guys. As you know from the recent topic "Which prototypes would you like to have released" I'm a tad prototype addicted and love to give the unreleased designs a life as real ponies.
In case anyone likes to get his dream come true about their own pony line, you're really more than welcome to contact me! I'm passionate about creating new G1 pony lines (not only version x of pony y)! This would be soo much fun!
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Ok, a bit late to the party but this required contemplation. What I would ultimately like to do is make mommy ponies for all the orphan babies, however let's start with Splish, Splash and Splosh as they are just SO cute and unique.
I would make them into a set of triplets, with a suitable mom and dad pony, who would each have a unique sea-themed design. So they would not all match each other exactly (like mommy and baby Blossom for example) but would be similar like, well babies Splish, Splash and Splosh.
Dad would be a lovely deep shade of blue such as what they used for Quarterback or even Tornado and would have beach-sand coloured hair. His symbol could be a manly shark, or an orange starfish as that would look great with the blue.
Mom would be turquoise with white hair - like the colour of waves. Her symbol could be a delicate shell.
And of course the set would come with the coolest beach-themed accessories.
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oh I LOVE that idea, NightGliderSA!!! :lovey: I really want to see that set now. We need more family sets!!!
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I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't done a zodiac-themed set yet! That would be fun to see materialize.
That would be super cool! Breyer made their own set
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Leo was the prettiest of that bunch.
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i would recreate the rarest ponies so they wont be so rare anymore and so we could all afford to have them :) thats my dream. i truly belive basic fun about to reales the sea ponies soon and that mean finally i could afford some of them which are crazy expensive
That would be fantastic
I hope your instincts about the sea ponies are correct. Especially if it were second set. :lovey:
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Years ago I designed a set of Slumberparty Baby Ponies, but I can't find the files anywhere. :( They were adorable (if I may say so myself :P ), but I don't even remember exactly what they looked like or what their names were. I think there was a yellow pegasus in Baby Surprise's pose with a pillow and feathers for a symbol...
EDIT: Noooooooooo! I found the thread on the Arena Archives, but the picture doesn't work anymore (not that I expected it to)... I didn't even write their names in the opening post. :doh: Here's the link anyway... http://mlparena.com/archive/Forums/viewtopic/t=247818.html (http://mlparena.com/archive/Forums/viewtopic/t=247818.html)
Post Merge: February 08, 2019, 05:19:00 AM
Aaaaaaah! I found them! :D :frolic:
May I introduce to you... My set of Slumber Party Baby Ponies!
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OMG they're so cute!! I think Baby Glow is my favourite. :lovey:
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May I introduce to you... My set of Slumber Party Baby Ponies!
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Baby Nightfeather is the cutest one!!
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I would love to see the MGR re-released, but make them a lot fancier.
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I would love to create a line of Crystal Ponies...you could have Amethyst, Smokey Quartz, Celestite, Garnet, Jet, Amber...or any combination of six that you like! :glitter: :glitter: :glitter: :frolic: :glitter: :glitter: :glitter:
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They could have a small piece of real crystal attached to their foreheads...or somewhere on their body. They would have tinsel in their hair corresponding to the colour of their crystal and a symbol depicting a cluster/piece of that crystal... Did I mention that I like crystals? :P
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Years ago I designed a set of Slumberparty Baby Ponies, but I can't find the files anywhere. :( They were adorable (if I may say so myself :P ), but I don't even remember exactly what they looked like or what their names were. I think there was a yellow pegasus in Baby Surprise's pose with a pillow and feathers for a symbol...
EDIT: Noooooooooo! I found the thread on the Arena Archives, but the picture doesn't work anymore (not that I expected it to)... I didn't even write their names in the opening post. :doh: Here's the link anyway... http://mlparena.com/archive/Forums/viewtopic/t=247818.html (http://mlparena.com/archive/Forums/viewtopic/t=247818.html)
Post Merge: February 08, 2019, 05:19:00 AM
Aaaaaaah! I found them! :D :frolic:
May I introduce to you... My set of Slumber Party Baby Ponies!
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Aww. Babies Night Cloud and Nightfeather are my favorites.
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May I introduce to you... My set of Slumber Party Baby Ponies!
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Ah, these are so adorable! I love Baby Glow the best, but they're all cuties! :heart:
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Thanks everyone, I'm glad you like them! :D
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Years ago I designed a set of Slumberparty Baby Ponies, but I can't find the files anywhere. :( They were adorable (if I may say so myself :P ), but I don't even remember exactly what they looked like or what their names were. I think there was a yellow pegasus in Baby Surprise's pose with a pillow and feathers for a symbol...
EDIT: Noooooooooo! I found the thread on the Arena Archives, but the picture doesn't work anymore (not that I expected it to)... I didn't even write their names in the opening post. :doh: Here's the link anyway... http://mlparena.com/archive/Forums/viewtopic/t=247818.html (http://mlparena.com/archive/Forums/viewtopic/t=247818.html)
Post Merge: February 08, 2019, 05:19:00 AM
Aaaaaaah! I found them! :D :frolic:
May I introduce to you... My set of Slumber Party Baby Ponies!
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These are AMAZINGLY cute...
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Thanks! :D
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I love the Slumber party babies!
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I have created a line of Pegasus boys called the Island Boys. I never drew them (because I can't draw), but they're named for tropical weather. Hurricane, Monsoon, Jet Streak, Trade Wind, Pineapple Express, and El Nino. They would be brightly colored (being tropical) and come with aloha shirts and plastic leas.
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I love those names for your pegasis boys.
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The fun thing to do would be to create something new with G1. But since the original line ran for 10 years and did tons of different ponies/gimmicks, it doesn't feel like there's lots of holes left to fill. Most things have been done. It would also be important to me that the new stuff feels in line with classic G1, as if it's something that could've been released during that time, but wasn't.
It would be cool to see some kind of reimagining or "alternate universe version" of G1. Like what if the line had gone in a different direction. For example, if we imagine years 3-10 never happened and make a set of ponies that are more in line with the classic year 1-2 styles. Simple symbols, various horse markings like the blazes on Bubbles/Seashell, and they still have an obvious horse theme in their gimmicks and accessories (which I feel MLP quickly abandoned in its early years). Not to erase the MLPs we all love of course, but to give an alternate interpretation of what could have been. I think something like that would at least be interesting.
There's lots of routes you could go down with this. I guess a more obvious one would be to pick up where G1 ended (in the US or in Europe) and imagine what it would've been like if the line had continued through the mid '90s and beyond. (I think the above slumber party baby set is a good example of something like that. Especially Hasbro in Europe were very keen on Baby Pony sets of various themes in the later years)
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If it had continued beyond 1994, what we'd have seen would probably have been the following (roughly):
Tales ponies in various additional releases (we already got remakes of Starlight, Melody in 1993 and Sweetheart in 1994, I am sure the others were coming as well). Possibly continuous releases of them in basic form since 1994 repeated the tales set under the name MLP Friends with stickers instead of 7 characters with combs and ribbons.
There would be no pegasus or unicorn ponies, as Hasbro had phased them out by 1993. The pseudo-unicorn baby pose used by Lollipop and Sapphire is kind of testament to that.
There would be no shire males either, given that the male pose was gone by this point. We might have got Ace, Teddy and Lancer but they would have been probably in Shady's pose.
That said, new poses were introduced in the final year of production, and gimmicks were still pretty much in the works. Just, with the possible exception of Princess Sparkle, who according to the comics really only existed in someone's dream, the 2 years centred around Europe and the UK focused on 'slice of life' rather than magic and mystery. With backcard stories about dates, dances, jewel balls etc, that is probably the way it would've gone had it continued further.
I don't know whether it would've been a good or bad thing. I always feel like with the 7 characters, Hasbro reset MLP back to basics. But to me it's also the first iteration of the rinse repeat core group of characters that are present in G2, G3 and which have taken over G4 and destroyed it in my view. So in some ways I'm glad it ended at the point it did.
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Maybe ponies with more creature like features? definitly fantasy themed. Or a super special wind whistler with poseable limbs and wings and real feathers, rooted wioth dyed human hair. <3
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OMG!! Alright, first of all, Basic Fun are you hiring? Because I would LOVE to be one of your new toy design - Hello? Did you just hang up on me?! :P
So once I got them back on the line, I'd pitch them my awesome fun new concept for The Youths(tm): Galaxy Ponies! These would each have a cool space-based theme as their symbol, and they would be a cool mix of stylized galaxy prints, some with more cartoony star patterns and planets and such! They'd all come in great color schemes, with lots of deep blues, purples, and rich pinks, but there would still be a pastel pink pony in the set, for the 4 year old girls to love on! And, of course, at least one bright green pony! Maybe his name is Quasar, or something! And did I mention? They'd all be in Big Brother molds, but we wouldn't mention any genders on the boxes; if you want a cool clydesdale mare, that's totally up to you, you amazing 5 year old! (But we collectors would be excited for more Big Brother poses!) They'd also have glowing star elements! Some would have glowing hair, some would have glowing stars embedded in the plastic, and some would have glowing symbols!
Their accessories would be a little brush (maybe in an alien space ship shape!), and little flower crown accessories. Why flower crowns? Why not! I love em! And so do The Youths(tm)!!!
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I had forgotten the combs/brushes of the Island Boys. Being weather based, they would come with either a blowing cloud brush or a lightning bolt comb.