I've really been thinking about doing this as I'm still trying to build up my strength from my cancer treatments. And I now have an e-bike to help me get around town without worrying about suddenly tiring out! Maybe I'll have another look...

I have this record! Wow, this sounds great.

Oh wow, they look so good!

I've avoided buying the Basic Fun ponies due to having their originals, but now I'm thinking about picking up my favorites.

G1, but only Midnight Castle and Catrina.

Then G4 (later seasons, moving down to the earlier ones), then the rest of G1, then G3, then 3.5. I love them all, but yeah.

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I really loved the early G4 toys with their little friend figures. I can't see them being any more detailed than just molded plastic now without them basically being sold as a 2-pack (where the tiny friends were more like accessories) but I'd be down for it.

G1, it would have been amazing if there were a series of sea ponies with aquatic friends like fish, dolphins, etc.

OMH this!!! Sharks, seals, dolphins, fish etc for the adult & baby sea Ponies would have ROCKED!!!

And an otter! And a manatee! And a manta ray! I can't stop! <3

(In general I wish the Sea Pony line had gone farther and had playsets and such)

I'm so paranoid about my fading pink haired ponies. It's a shame because I'd like to display them in rooms that get sun.

Fading pink was the only issue with hair as far as I know, but I've been wondering the same thing about body colors and discoloring. Like that light pastel blue color that can turn gray.

Bump!

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I like these better than pony life but there's something off to me about them.   Something about their faces isn't quite right.  I do like the feathered hooves though.


Ponyfan

Yeah, too round and human like. No lower jaw. Be this Hasbro or some other company, it makes what might have been cute, ugly and creepy.

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I know one of my hopes for G5 is that it goes back to how it use to be. Super targeted to girls and less controlled by the fandom. I feel like this is a step in that direction.

Being influenced by the fandom is what made G4 good.  I hope this doesn't end my like of the series.

That’s a very divided opinion. For me, G4 started going downhill when every single episode started pandering and giving winks/nods to the adult fans. Finally, we ended up with the infamous Daring Do body pillow scene.  Not everything fan-influenced was bad—we saw favorite characters like Nightmare Moon being spotlighted, and we certainly got some cool merch aimed at older viewers—but the shameless pandering became increasingly unbearable to me as the series wore on.

I’d rather see it returned to its roots as a show aimed at children, that some adults happen to enjoy for its innocence and magic (and nostalgia, of course).

That's disgusting! Why would they think that's ok?

I... legitimately... have no idea. If you haven’t seen the episode, it was about Rainbow Dash attending a Daring Do convention. While she’s touring around the booths and exhibits with another fan, they see body pillows for sale featuring an image of Daring Do tied up. They both give it a weirded-out look and move on.

The whole scene gave me the feeling that one of the writers or staff had gone to an actual con and seen some icky fan-made merch. They were probably creeped out by it or found it funny, and decided to reference it in the show itself... which was a wildly inappropriate decision. I don’t know how it ever got greenlit, other than no one was paying attention or understood the reference. :/

Oh no. Am I the only one who laughed at that bit? I think I may be, but I kind of have a messed up sense of humor. Totally get why some would find that unacceptable though.

I mean at least the message seems to be "wow some of you fans out there are really creepy" not " yay pony body pillows are cool!" like I had assumed when people got upset. But maybe the show itself wasn't the best place to express their disapproval. Probably should have kept it to twitter.

I don't even mind most of the "creepy" stuff... apart from when it's way too easy to stumble onto it when you don't want to see it. Let it stay in its shadowy corner of the net just for those who want it. The adult Pony art that really gets under my skin is any that depicts extreme gore, and there's no cute way to poke fun at that. Ugh. Just why. Take me with a grain of salt, I generally enjoy the "pandering" and memes in episodes, and I love Slice of Life. I wouldn't want the whole show to be like that, but for what it is, it's a fun tip of the hat to that part of the fanbase.

Anyway manifesto over. I took the episode, especially the convention scene and the character of Quibble Pants to be a wider critique of fandoms in general, where the episode Fame and Misfortune was a much more focused, and much less silly taking down of the problematic parts of the fandom and the way they see the characters.

(I hope people are okay with me being off topic of the main thread. Anyway my view of the new art is: It's just a first glimpse. I'm kind of neutral on it so I can see the point of those who don't like it, and the ones who are into it. This may not even be fully representative of what we're going to get out of the figures, any animation that comes out, or even more of the art on licensed merch. Compare some of the early art you'd get on G4 merch to what we ended up getting more often. I'm going to hold out until we see more.

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