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« on: January 09, 2021, 06:23:53 PM »
G1 - accessories. Aside from the G3 season ponies and a few others, G1s are the only gen I collect accessories for. Dance N Prance boas, Baby Brother bandanas, Secret Surprise keys - the ponies just look so good with their accessories.
G2 - playsets. G2 had some very creative playsets, including the little mini-playsets that came with Magic Motion/Royal Lady ponies, Playground Twin sets, and Fantastic Job ponies.
G3 - sets. I LOVE completing a G3 set even more than a G1 set, because the ponies just look so good all together. The gimmicks may not be as noticeable as G1 gimmicks, but the colors and designs tie the sets together.
G3.5 - quality. G3.5s have such nice hair! It's so full and silky. Their plastic and paint seem pretty solid, too.
G4 - variety. Now, hear me out - the Mane 6 may have dominated the brushable line, but there were just so many lines in G4. Brushables, blindbags, Equestria Girls, EqG Minis, EqG Fashion Squad, Guardians of Harmony, Pop/Design a Ponies, Cutie Mark Crew, and probably more that I'm forgetting (and those are just Hasbro lines, not counting all the licenses stuff like Funko or Playskool). Granted the Mane 6 still feature way too prominently in each of these, but there are massive amounts of other characters too. Whatever you like, G4 tried it at some point. I just wish some of the lines (GoH and Design a Ponies especially) lasted longer. Don't get me wrong, I like brushable animal toys (hence why I collect MLPs, Fairytale Birds, Little Pretties and the like) but I like lots of other toys too, and it's nice to see MLP branch out.
G4.5 - they're so cute! They're the least elegant and horselike, but they're just so adorable. I can't tell if they or G4 are cuter, so I'll give them this for the sake of giving every generation something.
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« on: December 05, 2020, 11:34:07 AM »
SO MANY. For every good deal I’ve scored, I’ve missed at least as many. There was this one seller who used to sell G2 ponies for like $7-$15 a piece. I bought several from her over the years, but now she doesn’t sell anymore and I’m kicking myself for not buying more. Also with Argies - they used to be like $30-$50 for the less rare ones, and now you can’t find any for less than $90 a piece. Arguably the worst ones were the time i lost an auction for a green-haired Peruvian Lickety Split by less than a dollar, and she ended up going for something insanely cheap but just over my max bid, and the time someone in my city scored a lot of offerup that included several exceedingly are mail-order ponies for like $20.
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« on: December 01, 2020, 02:44:41 PM »
Not a fan of previous Poopsie lines, but these are ADORABLE. I need them all! Any idea when they'll hit stores or what they'll retail for?
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« on: December 01, 2020, 02:42:40 PM »
Honestly? The hair has been overwhelmingly terrible for the past few years, and seems to be getting worse. I'd rather have non-brushables than brushables with stiff, greasy hair that I can't make look decent no matter how hard I try. If they can't do brushable hair right, they shouldn't do it at all, imo.
Also I don't like anthros but these are less anthros and more bipedal animals, so they're ok in my book. The moment they start having hands and human bodies is the moment they lose me.
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« on: November 18, 2020, 05:20:21 PM »
I agree with pretty much everything MJNSEIFER, Lilja and LadyAmalthea have said (well said by the way! I can't articulate as well). I also don't take everything FiM says as gospel, and I cherrypick what I want to include in my own fantasy pony world. I also agree with lovesbanysquirmy saying it's a generational thing - not in what we like, but in how kids' shows are structured. G1 is a product of its time. G4 is a product of its time. One is a high-fantasy, mysterious, open and largely unexplored/unexplained world. One is a modern state with magical elements and a system of government that seems to be a mixture of anarchy, democracy (they have a mayor, after all) and monarchy. Both are cool in their own ways.
Also yeah this thread hasn't just derailed, it's spilled hazardous materials and is now on fire. Sorry kingluke. Also, any interest in a thread where people share their own imaginary pony worlds?
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« on: November 17, 2020, 04:14:45 PM »
Bunkie builds bunkers, of course. And Tattles the spy is incredible.
Meanwhile, what do Sticky and Sniffles do?
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« on: November 17, 2020, 01:05:57 PM »
I guess it really is a generational (human, not pony lol) thing, because I feel like everything needs an explanation. We'll agree to disagree!  Anyway, harking back to the thread's original intent (connecting two generational concepts just because they exist, not to assert the dominance of one over the other, just because I'm a sucker for crossovers simply for the sake of crossing things over) I like the idea that Ember got her cutie mark by looking through a telescope and finding a star that hadn't been charted before.
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« on: November 17, 2020, 11:14:36 AM »
I'm not trying to say G4's lore is better than G1's - I'm exactly trying to say that they're both equal in different ways. G1's world/canon is more up to interpretation, whereas G4's world/canon has more set rules if you want to focus your imagination on something else besides worldbuilding. Both are equally great for different reasons, and appeal to different people. I'm not trying to force G4 canon on earlier gens by imagining G1 elements/characters in a G4-inspired context, but it is true that I've seen very few of the reverse happening. Which is a right shame, imo - G1's world, while not my cup of tea, is fascinating in its own right and deserves more attention. Not just in the case of generational crossovers, of course, but in any context.
And Shaz, that's a super cool idea! I love the thought of ponies having cultural traditions surrounding tattoos. G2, with its tendency to have ponies switch names, symbols, hair colors or even species (as in the case of Silver Swirl/Star Swirl), is especially fascinating to think about. What are the rites behind ponies changing symbols or names, or dyeing their hair, or somehow changing species? Is it natural or deliberate? Are they like frogs and have dramatically different appearances based on what stage of their life they're in? This has turned into a speculative thread for pre-G4 symbols and I love it.
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« on: November 16, 2020, 07:08:21 PM »
Mm, I would call it a gap, as it's a part of the universe that's never fully explained. That's not a bad thing, though - every fictional universe has gaps in the lore. It's just part of fiction; we can never fully capture or recreate the complexity of the real universe. I don't mean "gaps" as "failures", just as "things up to interpretation".
Also, what exactly fosters imaginative play varies by child. As a kid, I preferred universes with pre-existing rules and lore (if a toylike didn't have any I'd incorporate some from some kind of media) so I could focus on imagining how different characters would fit in the established world. I've always been more interested in characterization than worldbuilding, haha. I still got in endless trouble at school for my "overactive imagination" AKA undiagnosed ADHD, but my imagination ran more towards characters and still does.
Child me would've loved FiM for that reason, and would've loved using the toys to make my own adventures within the established G4 world, while G3's books and TV specials didn't hold my attention for long and thus I sold my G3s at a young age and didn't regret it until I started collecting as a teenager.
That's the great thing about play - there's no real wrong way to do it (as long as you're not playing with swords or something like that).
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« on: November 16, 2020, 08:42:57 AM »
Unfortunately, earlier gens didn’t have any explanation for cutie marks - ponies just sort of had them. Considering how symbolic cutie marks are to the MLP franchise across all gens, how much the whole “intricate butt tattoo” thing set MLPs apart from other toy animals, I can’t imagine why earlier lore creators didn’t want to throw in their own two cents as to how cutie marks come to be. It’s so fascinating to think about! Cutie marks clearly aren’t natural - are they genetic? Are they manifestations of magic within a pony’s DNA that show up as a picture on a pony’s flank? Are they ever-changing pictures, evidence that ponies are like chameleons and can change their appearance at will? I guess gaps in early gen lore are just opportunities for us to make our own  Since no official explanation for G1 ponies’ cutie marks exists, you’re free to imagine whatever you want. If you want G1 ponies to follow G4’s concept of a talent-based cutie mark, you can. If you want to imagine ponies tattoo their young from an early age, you can. If you want to come up with something else entirely, you can! And they’re all equally valid. When I was a kid, I called my G3 ponies’ cutie marks “tattoos” and assumes they got tattoos at a certain age in some sort of coming-of-age ceremony. I like G4’s explanation better than mine, haha. Like MJNSEIFER said, it’s fun to imagine earlier gen ponies getting talent-based cutie marks, since they weren’t designed with that concept in mind. Post Merge: November 16, 2020, 08:47:21 AMbecause Hasbro put one there.
My Little Nihilist: Nothing in Life Matters, Everything About Us was Created For Someone Else’s Profit, and We are All Doomed to Ceaselessly Perpetuate a Plastic Pony-Making Machine I’m kidding, but teen angst Ember is my new headcanon (we’re supposed to give her our own personality, after all!). “What does your cutie mark symbolize?” “It’s a metaphor.”
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« on: November 13, 2020, 07:30:56 AM »
I LOVED BELLA SARA. I remember when it was just virtual horses in a stable - I watched it gain things like games (my favorite was Firelight Festival), the bazaar, and the families. I found my old cards the other month, though I’m not sure where I put them afterwards.
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« on: November 12, 2020, 04:28:24 PM »
Oof, I wish they’d just stuck with the G4 pop style, it was much cuter. The long horsey faces look really weird on those chibi bodies. That being said, I’m so incredibly happy they made the full set of 6 I will absolutely be getting these guys. They’re not ugly, just... weirdly proportioned.
Wouldn't that negate them being G1 Collector Ponies?
Nah. They're still G1 characters. Plus, it's not like the G4 style resembled normal G4 ponies.
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« on: November 12, 2020, 01:57:07 PM »
Oof, I wish they’d just stuck with the G4 pop style, it was much cuter. The long horsey faces look really weird on those chibi bodies. That being said, I’m so incredibly happy they made the full set of 6 I will absolutely be getting these guys. They’re not ugly, just... weirdly proportioned.
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« on: November 09, 2020, 05:31:45 PM »
Just found Power Ponies Mane-iacs, of all things, at Burlington. Besides that they had some newer releases and a Pony Life activity kit.
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« on: November 06, 2020, 04:04:02 PM »
Bump! New stuff added!
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