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Once I was looking for trademarked MLP names and I found a record of suing another toy company for using a pony name. The pony name: Cotton Candy. The toy that was being produced: a toy that produced real cotton candy.The really interesting thing was it occurred after G1 and before G3. It might even have been before G2. So that baffles me. They lost the lawsuit, obviously.Maybe the purpose was intimidation? Like, smaller toy companies probably don't want to go to court even if they know they'll win, because they'll have to pay lawyers. So maybe this was some weird warning, like "You'd better double-check that you don't use a pony name from over a decade ago or WE'RE COMING FOR YOU."
I think Taffeta's point was more that while the term "canon" has existed + been used in fandom circles forever, it wasn't really something that pony fans really concerned themselves with until G4? If that makes sense. There weren't great debates about if this book or that comic were canon, for example.
I don't know if this has been covered yet, but all the articulation in G5. There's always been a little bit in other gens, but I've been trying to find a regular solid bodied Sunny to no avail. She comes in sets that way, but I just want her in a bigger size.