We did get the Flutter ponies, though. Did you not have Rosedust over there?

I honestly don't know. I would have been too young to remember seeing them, and I never saw a flutter pony IRL 'til I was an adult collector.

I think I recall using that kind of weird logic with some of my own non-MLP toys as a child. If they were molded in a permanent sitting position I couldn't make it look like they were walking around and that bothered me, so I would come up with an explanation that they couldn't walk. Usually also give them some super-powered vehicle to cruise around in too. It just gets weird when you start presenting your bizarre childhood ideas in documentaries like TTMU.

I watched it and that is how I interpreted it too. Some poses were just not good for play, no matter how cute on display. I remember having this chap mei fakie baby that got to stay in the toybox, because her head was turned backwards. I love the idea of super-powered pony vehicles, LOL.

I think what the people in TTMU were saying was, we all played differently. We made up our own worlds and our own ponies' personalities. For me growing up in the early nineties that is especially true for G2, which I developed an expansive world for through play. Like Faust, they climbed my bed as a mountain, and the mat was a meadow, and so on. So I think Faust is misinterpreted by both retro pony fans and bronies? Her word isn't law, she just used her own childhood play sessions to build a pony world for TV. I honestly can't think of a better way to make a MLP TV show. What bothers me is Hasbro stopped Faust from using ideas that would have been a sweet throwback to G1, but as soon as Faust abandoned ship brony pandering started to run rampant.

Not that I'm trying to defend Faust like she was the best thing to ever happen to MLP. Living in cupcakes? What was that all about?

ETA: What disappointed me the most was the G1 fan they interviewed, mentioning that the ponies lived in Ponyville. It bothers me that a supposed retro fan wouldn't know that G1 ponies live in Dream Valley, and Ponyville wasn't a thing until G3.

Oh no! :o How strange. It looks like the glue melted?

In retrospect G4 might be my least favourite generation, but it is not easy to put my finger on why. I have strange feelings towards it. It started of good. The newly anounced artwork for the show felt modern but distinctly MLP. I got the first set of main six, but it all quickly lost its appeal after that.

For me, it was the toyline that declined first. I watched collectors trying hard to find ponies in acceptable condition. Personally I tired of the size, pose, and colour schemes, and the toyline didn't really recover after that. It was when the first supposed G5 came out (silly, because new poses does not a new generation make) that I found interest in the new, more articulated brushables. But it felt too late.

With as meager of a traditional toyline I can't say it was the show that "ruined" G4, but the show's subtle decline into brony pandering was a problem. At first it was a fun wink at the adult audience, and I appreciated it, but soon it felt alienating. I think the Muffin Pony was what broke G4. On one side you have a loud adult fanbase putting focus on unimportant but unique and fun background characters, and on the other you have the adults of the children that are watching, okay with the inclusion of differently abled ponies so long as it is not done with mean spirited gags and slurs. It was after reading the reactions to the slur nickname Hasbro gave her (later re-dubbed) that it became painfully obvious that I, at the ripe age of 20, was an old fan. I stopped feeling included in the brony fandom. I did not want our "here first" fanbase to be a subgenre of bronies, and distanced myself from the fanbase.

After that, the show took a nosedive. Say what you want. Ponies are for children. I will never forgive Hasbro for creating a show that acknowledged the not childfriendly sides of the brony fandom. I will never forgive the animation of sweaty, sultry Applejack eating a juicy apple with bedroom eyes, or the show's portrayal of Daring Do bodypillows. That's not innocent fun. That's not in my gutter mind talking. That is inapproperiate.

But all that said, who cares about bronydom. It was a fun ride and now it is over. I am glad so many people found something good in MLP, but the people who latch on to fandoms for the sake of fandom will move on. Non-toxic fans will stay. Everything is going to be fine.

But I don't think G5 will be the generation when it all "goes back to normal". I think we would need a proper reboot for that. New old characters and ideas, a vision and bible like the one Lauren Faust developed. And I don't want to be the one who praises Faust as a God, but I am sure that G4  could have been so much better.

We need time. We're going to plow through G4.5 Pony Life and feel nostalgic for G3 now. I'm excited to see what will come after that. I'm just relieved that we are finally waving good bye to a part of the fandom that sought to put its mark not only on the present, but the past too. In all of this I'm still miffed that people think Tales is G2, effectively erasing my favourite gen. And a the same time I'm grateful, for its invisibility has kept it safe and pure. But at the same time G2 influences is what I'm hoping for in G5. Slender horselike pastel ponies with individual magic in a high fantasy setting.

Edit: nvm, I followed your link and the pony I wanted is listed as sold

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The playset (and G2s in general) always gave me a very 'fae' vibe growing up, like you'd found a bunch of magical friends hidden away in the forest somewhere. I love it!

Yes! My headcanon is that the G2 ponies live in friend groups in separate gardens - the friendship gardens. Except for the princesses, who live in the castle of course.

Sky Skimmer was my first G2 and Petal Blossom was her best friend. They took care of the fauna and flora respectively (Petal Blossom had her pin cushion flying cloud). How did you all use to play with your ponies?

I'm looking for G1 Morning Glory. The one I have is a small head with a broken wing holder, so I would love a big headed variation with a wing bilder that is intact.

Show a white pony with white hair!