That's how I feel too! After all, a new reboot or remake doesn't take anything away from the original tv show/movie. So a new interpretation of G1 characters doesn't take away anything from the 80's characters we love. It's just a new interpretation! And I think it'll be fun to see how these comic creators represent the characters. Will the G1 ponies be from far in the G4 past? Or the far future? Or an alternate dimension? I can't wait to find out!

Why are they including these ponies, instead of the ones from the movie? (Idk if the volcano witches were featured in the original comics or not, sorry in advance.) The art style is cute, I'll give em that much. Looks a bit like Tales though for some reason. I almost thought that was Melody for a moment.

I'm positive about this - for one thing it seems to be by someone who grew up with G1 (unless I misread that part) so it's not like they're just throwing in G1s because they think that's what people would want, and they'll at least be trying to be faithful and/or respectful.

I know not everyone here likes the Concept Six being treated as the G1 "Mane Cast", because they weren't - they're just what Lauren would have used, but it kind of makes sense to use them if this is the end of the G4 comic, because, they're basically the G1 ponies that led up to the creation of the Mane Six, so... they've basically gone full circle, or something...?  I dunno, I think it's kind of beautiful.   

I also find it a nice touch that they appear to be using Sparkler and Glory (unless I'm misunderstanding the left picture) - Sparkler is the official "Concept Rarity" (i.e. the pony Lauren would have used if she could have used the G1s), but she also got Rarity's design from Glory, so she kind of part of this as well... the unofficial "Concept Seventh" if you like, so if that's what they're doing.

Those shorts sound cool! I like the idea of a pegasus Up, Up, and Away. I have a lot of vivid dreams, which I frequently remember, so I can share a few...

Oh wow. Where to begin?

Most of my dreams feature toy ponies, usually me going to a thrift store and finding them. Sometimes they're rare ponies (like a whole bowl of piggies), sometimes desired ponies, and sometimes entirely new ponies. There are many outcomes for these scenarios, but usually the ponies aren't for sale despite having price stickers. Sometimes I can't efficiently move toward them, and, after dragging myself over to them, they've turned into fakies and McDonald's ponies. Sometimes I manage to grab them or maybe even buy them, then immediately wake up... I'll usually go about my business for a while before I finally fact-check it and realize it didn't happen. That always sucks.

yes.
they fall into the same categories that everyone has:

1.  Super find of the century.  Putting them in containers to buy, then I wake up.
2.  Super find, but the seller won't sell them to me, then I wake up.
3.  Super find, the seller is mean, I STEAL DEM PONIES, I wake up with no ponies.
4.  Someone ELSE bought all the ponies first!
 
Once in my dream, in an epic quest to OBTAIN THE PONIES.... I stole a recycling truck and drove it through the yard sale.  Then the robots helped load the truck and we went soaring through the sky on a rainbow of FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM and ponies.  Many ponies.  So many.

Needless to say I was not happy to NOT wake up in the cab of a recycling truck filled with ponies.  And said recycling truck, wherever it was, was never going to be filled with ponies; this yard sale didn't exist, and there were no ponies.  Sad morning.

I haven't had that many of them, but earlier this year I had a bizarre dream where I was watching a "lost" episode of My Little Pony Tales that started with a school talent show but then the ponies accidentally set the whole school on fire and then it turned into a live action video of two girls dressed as characters from the show. There was another one way back in the 2000s where I discovered some obscure website that listed extra episodes of the G1 cartoon beyond ep. 65 (it looked kind of like Wikipedia) and it turned out that in one of those episodes I had never heard of before Wind Whistler died.

I had a very bizarre one last night! It involved visiting some strange antique mall with my friends, and there was a vendor there that was selling a one-of-a-kind, twice as fancy, sparkle version of Mimic for like $5. I was so excited to be able to afford such a rare pony, but there was a catch.
You see, it wasn't just an antique mall, it was a roleplay antique mall themed to a fantasy village. In order to enter, you had to create a character and dress up as them, backstory and everything. To make a purchase, you had to perform some sort of heroic feat.
I, of course did not know any of this, as my friends told me we were going to Walmart instead of this antique place. So I decided to smother some evil old woman with a giant purple pillow that I had with me because I was going to return it to Walmart, until she fell off a cliff (I don't even know...). I then laid in the center of the store and let people trample all over me as some form of self-sacrifice.

I then got the Mimic, a transparent, gradient version of Milky Way, and some baby ponies that gradually shrunk so much, I ended up putting them back because they had gotten too small to be worth buying. 
I then woke up and was kind of sad. Both that I didn't have these ponies, and that my mind is messed-up enough to have a dream like this.

Then my girlfriend sat down next to me with this bag full of ponies and said "Hey Shaz, don't stress, look at ponies!" and started taking ponies out of the bag and showing them to me. So that was a cute way to combat the stress until I could safely wake up and remember that I don't have to fret about school/being sent away to residential units any more.

Cadance and Sunset are getting toys:
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Cadie doesn't look right though without 3 color mane (same with Sunset missing her yellow streaks).
Hopefully Glimmy will get one too, and then all 3 of them appear in the show.