I don't know what it is, but I know that here in the UK we had a bunch of shows when I was a kid that had been made in European countries and translated into English for us here (or made here in the UK). So it may well be a European series of some kind that was translated and shown in your country?

Quote from: Ponybookworm on April 23, 2024, 11:51:21 AM

Even G1's Tales didn't have every character made. The most common G1 Customs are of Teddy, Lancer, Ace, & Miss Hackney, so what does that tell you???

YES!!!! I can't believe this has never been rectified!!!

My mother saw Sunny Starscout for the first time today. She is still struggling to understand a: how that is the core key pony character, and b: how there is literally no variety. Her response I think was actually, "ew!". And this is the person who bought me my first pony when I was a kid because she thought they were so pretty.

G5 suffers badly from variety and a bad choice of colour schemes for the main cast.

As for the Tales ponies, 100% agree.

There's also Lady Lessons who I feel was going to exist but then didn't.

Yeah, I'm one of those "locked away from society" but it's not really by choice. I don't drive, never have. There is no public transport here. There is a bus of sorts, but you need to call 48 hours ahead and it costs money. I live day to day because my pain and mental function vary day to day. I don't know how I'll feel in 48 hours, so why book a trip?

When they cut down the buses here, the Council's argument was that kind of dial and book service, and we gave them the exact same reply you just said. How do you know how you are going to be in 2 days? It was particularly for an elderly complex that the issues were arising. They were amazing, though. They went to war with the Council and they won and the Council rerouted the bus back past their estate. There's one woman who is on it literally every day. It's a matter of a 5 minute detour that transformed her quality of life.

It sucks that your buses are so bad

Also, on the sheep. I meant to mention this before, but it's so much easier for people to insult someone else's stuff than it is to contribute anything positive to society. Ignore them. You're being creative and the sheep are cute

@LBS - my navigational thing is I think officially developmental topographical disorientation, which means parts of my brain don't link up stuff properly. Unfortunately getting an official diagnosis and scan is not possible on the NHS at the moment (I think Canada is the only place that actually does it, in case you're interested, LOL) but it means that I can be somewhere familiar and my brain will reset where I am, and I will completely lose my bearings. Forget left and right, I can't always remember how to get from work to the bus station. I have to remember which stores are near it and hope I see the sign to them/the logo.

This is why it's a bad idea for me to have a car. I am all for self-driving cars when they are safe, but I think that's a long way off. Human driven cars are maybe the bigger problem, since a lot of people drive badly here.
Tech could probably make my life a lot easier, if the tech I needed existed.

Being able to drive would transform my life completely. But I spent six years trying to learn. And I could do the mechanics of it, so long as there was someone there to navigate. And in my tests I made bad decisions because I navigated worse under stress and misread traffic signals. I never did anything dangerous but I realised that I would probably end up killing someone and I would never be able to drive independently because of my navigation and the ease with which I lost orientation on roundabouts and such.

So yeah. I am as independent with public transport and such as I can be. I am the only person who goes to London for a walking holiday because there are lots of buses, and the bus stops are quite distinctive. I can follow bus routes to walk and the buses are frequent enough that I can watch where they go to help me find the way. And if I get lost I can always grab a bus and get back to safety. I can't do any of that at home :/ But I can't afford to live in London, so this is how it is.

My Medley came from 5LD a few weeks ago. Yay for stock appearing in physical stores, though! I did see a lone Glory in a shop in Hereford the other day, when I was visiting...but I haven't seen the others yet.

Medley is so beautifully made, though - I mean, they all are, but Medley is particularly lovely.

On the other thing, I would think Hasbro would be mentioning the new stuff that was coming out, not the other. Besides, LPS is more widely distributed in stores at the moment I think. I've certainly seen it out and about here whereas BF ponies haven't been in physical stores where I live for about 2 years now.

Sooner or later the BF line will come to an end, though. It was only meant as 3 years originally and we've had 5 overall. I hope there will continue to be releases, but at the same time we can't be greedy and should appreciate everything we have had.

It has shown once and for all which generation has the actual staying power as much as the hype.

Quote from: Taffeta on April 22, 2024, 01:17:37 PM

I actually never hear comments like that here where I live. It did rather shock me, honestly...it reminded me how so many folk seem to believe we exist on another plane and don't hear/feel comments people make about us. I also don't go around eavesdropping on bus conversations, but it's hard not to hear people yelling or having loud phone conversations.

i'm so tired of overhearing my classmates use the r slur like its just a normal swear

That's because to most people it is still a normal swear, because offensive ableist language doesn't get called out as much as other offensive terms do. We still have a long way to go, but it makes me twitch whenever I see or hear it.

That and when people use autistic as a slur word on its own. I only ever visited Brony forums about twice, on both occasions they were littered with ableist slurs against autistic people and the r word, and so I never went back again.

My rant for today is decorating.

My parents are having the hall, stairs and landing done.

This was meant to happen while I was away, but it got rescheduled.

The guy is a good guy, he's been here before, but this is going on right outside my door, a lot.

I'm sensitive to noise and paint smell. I also am not massively a fan of getting changed when there's a strange man outside in the hall stripping off wallpaper.

I have asked repeatedly to be informed when he is going to be working outside my room and three days in a row now I have got either inaccurate information or it's just been changed without anyone telling me.

Yesterday I went out after it had been agreed a lot of work would be done outside my room. As I was coming home, Mother told me by text it had been done already. I had a 4 minute train connection and I bust my lungs running to get that connection so I could make the bus home. Our bus from the station currently only runs once every ninety minutes, so that's another tight connection.

Then when I get on the second train, gasping for breath, I get a text saying it hasn't been done after all. If she told me correctly, then I could have saved my lungs and killed time in that town, but too late.

Then today I was told he was working downstairs all day. Until he wasn't, and turned up upstairs without any warning this afternoon.

I am so sick of being told one thing and then it being changed. I get it's their house, but is it too much to just ascertain information and convey it correctly so I know what's going on and can adjust accordingly?

I've been watching quite a lot of football (soccer to you US folks, LOL) these last couple of weeks. Seasons coming to the end, so it's all getting exciting. My own team is doing fine, but I like to watch games across the divisions.

I remember Hey Arnold That seems a long time ago though O.o.

Not a fan of Parasyte or Shield Hero.

I haven't been to Ponycon for a few years (a few reasons - COVID, money, and also the fact they've rooted it in Nottingham, which is a lot more difficult tog et to from this part of the West Midlands than it was from London.

BUT the last time I did go to a Ponycon, I felt that though there were always lots of G1 on sale, the G1 aspect had been somewhat diluted. Activities were more aimed at kids or G4 things. And I am quite specific with things I look for at Con, and they were less present than in the past (the MOC were more common ones, there wre very few backcards, the ponies were either very expensive nirvana rare ponies or more regular ponies.

None of these things are bad things, because a lot of newer collectors are still out there and I know I am picky. But I do feel that the range of what is available even in person is getting harder to nail down now.

I hate that facebook is used for sales and trades. But I have almost given up on filling the gaps I have or want to fill because the online market has just gone.

Right now there are a lot of MOC ponies on Ebay at stupid prices, here in the UK.Ponies that you would struggle to sell for $50 in the past now being marked up at £300 per pony. It would be funny if it wasn't tragically greedy.

Rather than people knowing which MOC ponies are rarer and which aren't, it's like anything on card must be super valuable and gets marked up. I don't really want to see any MOC on ebay with a price tag over $200 unless it's something exceptional. There are very few MOC ponies that should merit that kind of price tag.