What's your favorite G1 MLP commercial?

[sunshinedim]

I love G1 commercials and I've been watching them a lot on youtube recently!
This one is my favorite I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfMLBzGmUA

I love how upbeat the song in the commercial is! Also I think it's cute how in the later commercial they added the catch phrase "say LOVE if you love ponies" etc. So adorable!

[Ponyfan]

I have several favorites.

My top one is the UK Pony Wear commercial.   

Here are some other favorites of mine.


Unicorns   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzVW661JRX4


Waterfall  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuWQQTPtiUo

Sea Ponies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dde3M6S9KHE



I like this  UK  one too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75uz9xoRexM

Sundae Best    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPFaDIvOBwA  This one amuses me because the little girl sniffs the pony she's holding and  then puts her nose in her ice cream and nods her head to indicate "pony smells like ice cream"   

Dream Castle  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DAFkFCqNwM


Ponyfan

[Taffeta]

The UK Ponywear one probably wins for tongue in cheek humour alone The grooming parlour one is also cute. Though I love all the commercials. The jingles are a bit...much on some of them though. I have a VHS tape I traded for in the nineties which is about 30 mins of US commercials and believe me, it starts to rot your brain listening to those jingles one after another

They're cool though. And it's lovely so many of the European and UK ones are also surfacing now too. I'd love if some of the ones in French were around in English, as they're probably closer to what aired here, but I can't be picky.

The early earth pony commercial for the UK is also cool. It's definitely one of the earliest commercials in the UK.

[brightberry]

Even though I didn't care for Molly much... I think this one is one of my favorites. Baby Sundance is so cute!!  My heart melts at her little side skip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDW4QhC14E


I also really like this baby sea pony commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geuNmTK9-r0


But my favorite starts with, "Where are you going?"  "To see the new ponies!"

I can't find it though.

[Ponyfan]

Brightberry is this the one you're thinking of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGJWZicpaU


Ponyfan

[brightberry]

Brightberry is this the one you're thinking of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGJWZicpaU


Ponyfan

Yes! That's it.  Thank you

[Strawberry Swirl]

I do hope it's okay that I provide a youtube link! This channel is all about compiling vintage commercials, and they have a handful of videos that have pony ones in them, as well as other 80s toys. I really adore all of the commercials that feature animated segments, but this features my all time favorites.

Here is the link to the whole thing: https://youtu.be/59Hv1Fa97uA

The first one you'll see is the first TAF set, with them having voices! It's precious. I think the one little girl did Sweet Tooth's! And UUaA having a southern twang is genius.
Timestamp: 0:36

The one I'm really talking about and my absolute number one favorite is this one featuring Angel and Quackers. The way they gaze into each others eyes and nuzzle up to each other is just soooo cute!! I started shipping them heavily after I saw this. Relationship goals anybody?
Timestamp:  4:57


All in all though, I just love watching G1 pony commercials. 80s and early 90s ones in general because it's a hyperfixation for me, but seeing ponies in the spotlight like that with the whole atmosphere of the time just does it for me.

[Ponyfan]

@brightberry I'm glad that was the right one.    

Another thing I love about the commercials is that they feature prototype ponies that were changed before they reached store shelves.  Sprinkles is Blue in the Waterfall commercial.

This one in French shows the prototype Dance and Prance ponies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ab78GIO34

I wish we had English versions for the French ones also as there seem to be some that have survived in that version that haven't in English. 

There's a Watercolor Baby sea ponies one in German. I'd love to see an English version of that one also.


Ponyfan 

[Taffeta]

Is the US Watercolor sea pony ad not on YT? Or is the German one significantly different?

The set were sold here but...they had all six in Germany and I don't remember them ever being massively promoted here, so I'd be surprised to see an English language commercial for the UK (but not impossible).

The US one should survive. I've definitely seen it, albeit in poor condition.

[Ponyfan]

I found the audio for the US commercial but not the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOpodNYWxM


The German one must have been in one of the videos with a bunch of  commercials together as I can't find it separately.  I remember someone translated it and one of the lines is "my ponies aren't too young for swimming" 

Here's one I don't see mentioned often for the Merry Go Round Game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XvDAsssnsg








Ponyfan

[Taffeta]

Nope, I definitely have that commercial on the VHS Kim (of DV) made for me back in 1998. But because it's NTSC I have never been able to digitise the contents in colour. I don't even know where the VHS is now or if it still works, honestly. It's in a drawer somewhere in my room. I should maybe dig it out and see if my VCR still works.

But I remember the picture of them dipping a pony under the water and it randomly changing in a very decided way, completely unlike how the real ponies changed. I'm sure that's the same commercial, but I've never seen the German one.

It will be a shame if the visual has been lost. If Kim was still around, she had a ton of these on old VHS tapes from her childhood...but she never did put them online as far as I know.

[Ponyfan]

I don't think Kim had a way to put the ads she had online either.  All of the Youtube links she had on her site to them were uploaded by other people.

I'm glad you have a copy of the US ad Taffeta.   

It's been a long time since I've seen the German one but I think there might have been a waterfall in it?



Ponyfan