Weren't the Core 7 also all in the same pose (until G3.5 molds were created) so they could wear interchangeable plastic clothes?  Which made them look even more samey and boring.

I think there was an internal document from around that time that said "Ponies are not ponies, they are six year old girls and they ONLY do the things six year old girls do."  Which is lowkey insulting imo . . . as though six year old girls don't aspire to growing up and doing grown-up things. They would never say that about a toyline aimed at six year old boys; hell, the Rescue Bots (the Playskool Transformers line) go around putting out fires and saving people from earthquakes!  But anyway, I think that's why Rainbow Dash's voice was changed: it was too adult sounding.  Her new voice was so generic.

The original set of Big Brother ponies are fan favorites, but very weird from a marketing perspective.  So, you're adding all these boy ponies to your toyline; the way I see it, you have two obvious options. 

#1, market them towards girls, as all the rest of your ponies have been, and give them unisex symbols / themes.

#2, market the ponies towards little boys and give them boyish symbols, colors, and themes.  Also make the packaging and commercials aimed at boys, with a new jingle.  Make it a rap or something (it's the 80s baby) and show little boys playing pretend tug-of-war with their ponies or running races with them.

Instead they're this confusing mishmash where the ponies have a LOT of pink in the set and there's nary a boy to be seen in the commercials, but the ponies have themes like football?? and dump trucks??  Obviously some girls are into those things, but from a marketing perspective it's sooo stupid, lol.

It also floors me that the flutter ponies got a second set.  I love the flutter ponies but they have a close to 100% breakage rate on THEIR SIGNATURE GIMMICK.

I've noticed this too.  However, I've noticed that Rainbow High dolls (currently on the market) have nylon hair with bounce and body too.  With OMG dolls it's a mixed bag, I've got some where the hair is limp and tangles if you blink at it and some that are just like G1 MLP hair.

The first set of G5 Fashion Styling ponies also have amazing bounce in their manes. (Not their tails, which are made of different material.) Not sure if they're nylon or something else, but it looks / feels great!

Milky Way!  Which surprises me because after years and years of G3 and G4 Pinkie Pie, I felt totally done with all-pink ponies.  But something about her is just captivating. I love them all, though!

OMG, exquisite!  The skulls!! The pumpkins!  Her eyes!

They are gorgeous!!

I renamed HQG1C pony Kitty Love to Kittycorner.

My childhood Cotton Candy's tail washer fell off . . . Her tail would periodically come out when I brushed her too hard!  But I would just jam it back in, ha ha!