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« on: July 15, 2023, 05:26:18 PM »
Pony Life certainly makes more sense as G4.5 than whatever was (briefly?) dubbed as it before, IMO for the following reasons; 1. Completely new model of toys - the stuff released around the movie still looked like G4, and were still released in that era (I highly doubt they were meant to be a new toyline, since they were still in G4 canon.) 2. Different canon - the cartoon is a whole new show, with different ponies, with the same names as the G4 cast. I know that the same generation is allowed to have more than one cartoon, but it makes sense as a new generation, like G3 versus G3.5 - so it's only part of G4 if you personally believe that point five generations are part of what they're... point five-ing from. I honestly never got why the movie-surrounding toys were thought to be G4.5, nothing happened as far as I can see to suggest that (no new show, no revamp of characters... yet Pony Life did both of those things.) Bonus, My Little Pony Tales: I didn't include it as part of the list as it is not a generation in itself, nor is it a sub-generation (although, I've heard it referred to as G1.5 by some). If it was included, I'd place it between G4 and G5. It's very modern, very much like G5 and G4.5, and is lacking in fantasy elements. They however do resemble horses and being G1, also look like G1s in particular which gives them some points.
It's G1, but I understand separating it to some extent if you're talking about the shows specifically, but... yeah, it's G1, not G1.5, G1 - it's just that G1 had two completely separate cartoons, which can confuse some fans (kind of understandable, as this is the only time My Little Pony has done this (G5 has two cartoons, but it's the same cast - Tales did a whole new thing)
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« on: July 14, 2023, 05:54:34 PM »
I only ever got into G3's, so G3's is MLP to me. 
At least you chose a beautiful generation. ^_^ (I love G3.)
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« on: July 14, 2023, 05:47:31 PM »
This a weird thing for me, because ultimately... they all feel like My Little Pony to me. G1 (both "friends" and "Tales"), G3, G3.5, G4 and G5 ("Make Your Mark") have that heartwarming, sentimental, nostalgic "I could have grown up with it" feeling to them, even though I grew up with none of them.
I'm not sure if G4.5/Pony Life has the feeling that I could have grown up with it, but it is definitely nostalgic, and I am very sentimental towards it (I think it might be one of my comfort shows) and it definitely feels what I view My Little Pony to be (cute, adorable, nostalgic, and as of G4 onwards - story driven*)
I think the only thing that I could put separately is Tell Your Tale in G5, I ultimately like it, and still have nostalgia for it, but it feels a few meters or so off MLP at times, but not always, but I don't mean it any hate.
Sorry if anyone disagrees with my view.
* I love the non-story driven MLP generations as well, but I personally like to view MLP as being story driven (or at least, I like to write it that way), because that is what speaks to me - I just find it nostalgic I guess, but episodic is good too (I basically like a combination, which is kind of what G4 and G4.5 does), but if I like the show, I'm fine either way.
EDIT: Once again, this is the show rather than the toyline, as I tend to think of that first, even though I fully respect that the toyline comes first, and it is all My Little Pony to me - if we are talking about the toyline, I would say that...
G1 is definitely first; imaginative, nostalgic, and feels like the best one to grow up with, IMO. Then G3, the most beautiful generation, IMO, which also shows in the toys, and not too far in looks to G1. Then G2, different, and kind of less imaginative at times (the literally have ponies with names like "Miss Teacher"), but still beautifully designed and still got that nostalgia vibe... and everything after that, I'm not too bothered about...
The Core 7 despite the controversy are okay, and I actually do have some G4 toys, but... I dunno, I kind of feel that from G4 they kind of forgot how to be a toyline show (I mean I see things in the cartoons that look like they'd be perfect toys, and... I don't think they ever are...)
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« on: July 03, 2023, 07:33:32 AM »
Yes, this is always open! My templates for the interviews are on my PC which is out of order right now. The new power supply should come on the 7th. So things will need to wait until then.
Got it.
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« on: July 01, 2023, 08:24:19 AM »
Sounds like fun, if these are still going. 
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« on: June 15, 2023, 09:50:51 AM »
Do I like her? Yes, yes yes!
Do I have her? No, no, no!
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« on: March 09, 2023, 07:51:14 AM »
Always loved his color scheme - definitely one of my favorite G2 ponies.
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« on: January 30, 2023, 01:21:43 PM »
Please Note: Although I acknowledge that My Little Pony is a toyline first and that I view all medias involved to be true My Little Pony, this will likely give the most focus on the cartoons, but this will not always be the case (especially with G2 for obvious reasons.)
Favorite Thing(s) About G1: The toyline has a childhood nostalgia feel to it, and looks like it would have been awesome to grow up collecting and playing with the toys (even though I did neither.)
Least Favorite Thing(s) About G1: As much as I like the G1 cartoon, I didn't really care about or even like some of the non-pony characters (Megan was alright, but they messed up slightly by having her look after the ponies in their own world at times.) I don't really like how most of the younger ponies were just younger clones on the adults with "baby" in front of their names.
Favorite Thing(s) About G2: Sun Sparkle! (a.k.a. Sundance) - I love her design and canon character (and sorry to say this here, but I'd love to write an episode for her.) I love the design of various G2 characters, including the rest of the core ponies.
Least Favorite Thing(s) About G2: They got pretty lazy with the names of the ponies at times (e.g. "Miss Teacher".)
Favorite Thing(s) About G3: How everything about it is is beautiful, in my opinion - the toys, the animation, the artstyle, the music, the voice acting... there's a reason I call G3 "The Beautiful Generation".
Least Favorite Thing(s) About G3: Um... that there are people who hate it? Seriously, this is difficult, as not only is G3 my favorite generation, it's also as close to perfection that MLP has ever gotten, in my opinion. I guess it's a shame that it only had movies and mini-movies rather than at least one season?
Favorite Thing(s) About G3.5: It had my favorite My Little Pony cartoon theme song. "Twinkle Wish Adventure" is adorable and heartwarming, in my opinion. The ponies in general are adorable, in my opinion. ^_^
Least Favorite Things About G3.5: From a toyline standpoint, releasing nothing but the same seven ponies made no sense. I like the Core 7 as characters, but it made no sense to reduce the toyline (and the show to some extent) to just them.
Favorite Thing(s) About G4: That it feels like something I could have watched as a child (though pretty much all generations feel like that, to me.) How (at least in the earlier seasons) it feels like a combination of the previous generations with its own flair, in my personal opinion.
Least Favorite Thing(s) About G4: It got really "Lighter and Softer" around Season 4, even for a children's show, like it was afraid to put the Little Ponies in any form of danger, compared to the earlier seasons, and the earlier generations. The Little Ponies were given weird facial expressions which took me out of the show. The story-telling aspect became more random and contradictory during the later seasons (like it contradicted the "lore", if you like, of the earlier seasons.)
Favorite Thing(s) About G4.5: It has an adorable artstyle, in my opinion. It does so well at having more than you might expect in what seems like a simplistic artstyle - it really makes the most of the animation it has, and gives a lot of detail for such a minimalist looking show, the episodes are short, but entertaining enough that I can never stop at just one, and the show manages to still be story driven, despite it's short episodes. It is the animated equivalent of "Good Things Come in Small Packages".
Least Favorite Thing(s) About G4.5: It ended too soon. I get that it was just paving the way for G5, but I would have loved Pony Life to have kept going, even during G5, even though I get that MLP doesn't work like that... at least there's fanon.
Favorite Thing(s) About G5: For both of these, it's pretty early, but... It looks beautiful, IMO. It still feels like something I could have watched as a child, like the majority, if not all, of MLP does. It is keeping the idea of being story driven, which I find nostalgic (I like both story driven and standalone, but the former connects to how I was as a child more.) It still feels like My Little Pony.
Least Favorite Thing(s) About G5: I don't like how tail-ribbons are further away from the pony now. While I don't feel it's "piggybacking on G4" at all (like some do), I have mixed feelings about G5 being in the same continuity as G4, even though I don't mind ultimately that it is (it's set too far away to matter anyway, at the end of the day) - I just feel that connecting generations should be a fanon thing, i.e. the generations are connected if you want them to be (but they're not if you don't.)
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« on: January 16, 2023, 05:04:15 AM »
To me, it already does and was nostalgic while it was airing for me, both in the way that it felt like something I would have loved as a kid, and as modern nostalgia. For the record, 99% of My Little Pony in general is "modern nostalgia" for me, due to getting into it as an adult, but the majority, if not all of it, feels like I could have grown up with it, including the stuff made while I was an adult. I have seen at least one person refer to G4 as "nostalgia" - this is also someone who watched as an adult. I'm 100% certain that kids who grew up with G4 will find it nostalgic, regardless of whether they felt nostalgic for it while it aired or not - I'd say that MLP in general is naturally nostalgic whatever generation it is, though that may just be my own biased view on the franchise.  Side Note: While it isn't always the same for others, "childhood nostalgia" and "modern nostalgia" are of equal importance for me - they both make me feel the positive emotions of nostalgia, and the level of it depends on the subject itself, rather than how long ago it was.
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« on: January 06, 2023, 09:01:30 AM »
These probably don't count, but I hope to write more for my MLP project this year, as well as hopefully upload some more FiM reviews on my YouTube channel, although I have other shows planned as well (I review animation in general.) Additionally, it would be nice if I upload other things relating to ponies, but I don't know if it will be this year - though I do plan to review one G5 animation this year.
I'm also planning to write my opinion on G5, which I planned on doing last year.
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« on: November 11, 2022, 12:07:29 PM »
I don't have any of them, but I love this group! I really got into them back when I was looking up G1 toys and imagining what it would have been like to grow up with them. There's something really nostalgic about night-time/bedtime from a child's perspective for me, and slumber parties also bring back memories, so I adore the theme of this gift pack. It would have been fun to see them animated, even if they only got one episode (because ultimately it would probably have been a slumber party episode, and then they aren't used again - but I'd be fine with that, because slumber party episodes can be adorable. ^_^) And yeah, my favorite of them is Pillow Talk too - I genuinely find her name cute and nostalgic (the latter due to a radio station I almost worked at in 2013/2014 using a song of the same name as a show's theme song.) I'm sure in this context it was supposed to mean something like just chatting with your friends during a slumber party. So... yeah, I love them, and feel that these would have been ponies I'd have loved to have owned as a kid.
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« on: October 11, 2022, 07:18:45 AM »
This is going back in the thread a bit, but I never noticed that change with G3 Pinkie Pie - aside from that one moment when she did math in "A Charmin Birthday" in a childish way ("If we add up one charm bracelet to the seven... to me, that adds up to eight." or something like that) - she never felt like the "little sister" character to me, she always seemed on the same level as the other "in general" ponies, and even took the lead in "A Charming Birthday" to some extent, so she always had leadership qualities to me, I guess...
No offense, just putting my two cents in there.
For the record I love G3 Pinkie Pie, but respect those who don't (she's super-adorable for me. ^_^)
I believe Ragamuffin may be referring to the backcard/story version of Pinkie rather than the cartoon. IIRC the two were quite different.
Ah, I see. Thanks. I forgot what she was like in the toyline/stories, if I knew - I'll check it out.
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« on: October 10, 2022, 11:46:23 AM »
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I didn't like Pinkie Pie as a child when I was the target demographic for G3. I liked her at the start because she was the "little sister" but as time went on and she became the "leader" I didn't like it.
This is going back in the thread a bit, but I never noticed that change with G3 Pinkie Pie - aside from that one moment when she did math in "A Charmin Birthday" in a childish way ("If we add up one charm bracelet to the seven... to me, that adds up to eight." or something like that) - she never felt like the "little sister" character to me, she always seemed on the same level as the other "in general" ponies, and even took the lead in "A Charming Birthday" to some extent, so she always had leadership qualities to me, I guess... No offense, just putting my two cents in there. For the record I love G3 Pinkie Pie, but respect those who don't (she's super-adorable for me. ^_^)
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« on: October 09, 2022, 02:44:18 PM »
I also think G4 fans would do better to ditch the 'brony' tag. It's become the epicentre of the toxic, and will always be associated with the bad stuff.
I understand why people would think this, but for me, I'm keeping the title - not only am I nostalgic towards the brony fandom, in spite of its flaws, I also feel that keeping the title, and acting like a good fan is a better way to go - show the world that it doesn't have to have that reputation (which, in my experience it is already moving away from, for the most part.) - that's how I choose to look at it anyway, I respect those that don't.
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« on: October 09, 2022, 05:33:17 AM »
I'm sure the G4 community had some great stuff, but it was built on the back of hate and derision aimed at existing pony collectors. That's obviously going to inform our feelings going forward.
I feel like if more non-toxic fans had done more to call out the behaviour and try and stop it, we'd probably have a better overall impression of the G4 fandom.
It definitely did, and still does - if there's one positive thing to say about bronies, they are definitely creative to this day. I'd love to provide some of my own creative projects once I'm able to, and do some similar stuff for the previous generations too - I always felt they deserved the same (positive) treatment. Also, this is likely in part at least my ego talking, but I wish I had been a "famous" brony earlier in the fandom, because I would have been more vocal about the negative side of the fandom, or at least done more to draw attention to the positive side - I would have at the very least been more open on the fact that "This is a show for girls, but we like it because girl's shows are awesome" (as opposed to "It's awesome, so it can't be made for girls") and promoted more positivity to the previous generations (I often responded to hateful comments on YouTube and the like, but that's all I could really do.) I am not a famous brony even now, but I am still going to go in the above direction (e.g. I do reviews on YouTube now, so all episodes, of all generations will be judged purely on my opinion, rather than the typical "It's not G4 so it sucks" mentality), but I would have liked to have done this sooner, when the fandom was blooming. The past-gen hate does seem to be dying down (or I'm just looking in more positive places), but it should have been sorted out sooner. Unpopular opinion bronies would disagree with, I find the art and art style gorgeous and I think girly things is good!
If this is about G3, I can honestly say as a brony that I 100% agree with you. I actually call G3 "The Beautiful Generation" because pretty much everything (if not everything) about it looks and sounds so artistically pleasing. The femininity of it all really adds to the beauty, and I just love it - I love girly things too. ^_^ Brony issue was that is the Anime crowd. g4 just looked close to their favourite slop, so same problems arose. Can not clean anime fan spaces.
This seems to be an unpopular opinion in itself, but I never saw any similarity between G4/ FiM style and anime style - they are completely different styles, that look nothing alike, in my eyes. I'm sure I even saw Lauren say she wasn't going for an anime look, and I agree with her. For my own unpopular opinion... have I mentioned that I don't mind the technology in G5 yet? It's hard to keep up with what I have and haven't said in this thread (if I haven't I'll elaborate further.)
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