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My opinion that might be unpopular? I wish Hasbro had done more horse markings in G1. We have blaze and...? I think that's it. It would have been cool if they did things like paint or appaloosa. I guess Cotton Candy is as close to appaloosa as we got.
I'm not really into playsets, and wasn't when I was a kid either (aside from Castle Grayskull with the slime) but I always liked the G3 playset with the rainbow waterfall. Butterfly Island is its name. That was a cute playset. The little Breezie train was cute too.My opinion that might be unpopular? I wish Hasbro had done more horse markings in G1. We have blaze and...? I think that's it. It would have been cool if they did things like paint or appaloosa. I guess Cotton Candy is as close to appaloosa as we got.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on May 11, 2022, 04:39:48 PMQuote from: Taffeta on May 11, 2022, 03:19:59 PMG2 had a lot of neat ideas actually. Berry Bright is best G2. I don't really understand all the Ivy hype, genuinely.Isn't there a G2 in similarish colors? Sea Foam or something?Um, maybe Sea Breeze? The mail order? *racks brains for G2 names, at which she often fails* But yeah, it's definitely a reused colour scheme.I actually think it would've been cool to have a proper appaloosa set with different colours. O.OPlaysets...as a kid I wanted PE and the hair salon and had neither. So I have a special fondness for them. I had DC and the nursery and played with them over and over. As an adult...it's a problem of storage. :/
Quote from: Taffeta on May 11, 2022, 03:19:59 PMG2 had a lot of neat ideas actually. Berry Bright is best G2. I don't really understand all the Ivy hype, genuinely.Isn't there a G2 in similarish colors? Sea Foam or something?
G2 had a lot of neat ideas actually. Berry Bright is best G2. I don't really understand all the Ivy hype, genuinely.
Everything that Carrehz said. I met some awesome bronies at ponycon on a couple of occasions. But one of those same years was the year the brony convention here got cancelled and UK ponycon sold out. And some jerks who couldn't get tickets threatened to storm the building and I think there were some threats of indecent behaviour. Bear in mind ponycon has a lot of kids attending. Not good. Not welcome. BUT a lot of bronies did come to ponycon that year. And it was fine. We just all interacted like, well ponyfans. Shared infos. Bantered a bit. It was great. So yeah, the idea of G4 being popular with guys is great....The toxic elements, not great. They ruined the reputation of real pony fans, including those who were fans of G4. They attacked the older fandoms, spammed youtube videos, tried (and somewhat succeeded) in pushing their views on everyone. Those fans were enabled by the attention they got from the media, the world, maybe even Hasbro, that they were 'the fans' of MLP. But they weren't. We were here before G4. We are here after G4. Most of us collect some G4, like some G4 things, but it's just another generation of MLP. It's not better or worse than the other gens. It has destroyed any hope of new or creative pony things going forward, though, since now Hasbro think they can cash in on the same theme, rather than being as original as they were for G1, G2, G3 and at the start of G4. I'm hoping with time, as the toxic lot disappear, we'll get the fans of G4 who grew up with it and the real pony fans who were genuinely just into the line. Anyway.My possibly unpopular opinion for the week.Walked into Smyths toys today. Saw the G5 pony display. It filled about a two metre section across, and up to about the midpoint of the bay (Smyths stacks very high as a rule). And about 95% of what was there was Sunny. Right now, I feel that G5 is worse than G4 in its character/toy repetition. I swear, if I see many more Sunny Starscouts, I'm going to rename this generation the mane 1. I know there's a bit more variety stateside, but still. This is not a great start. G4 at least began with variety. I was able to pick up 3 different ponies in 2011 in Finland, which is already 2 more than I generally see in stores in the UK in 2022.
...The toxic elements, not great. They ruined the reputation of real pony fans, including those who were fans of G4. They attacked the older fandoms, spammed youtube videos, tried (and somewhat succeeded) in pushing their views on everyone.