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« on: November 13, 2019, 05:24:53 PM »
Well, I opened a can of worms.
I know this is a placeholder, but I was thinking they were going to allow for a cooldown period between the end of FiM and the beginning of G5. Considering G5 is going to be the same character just species bent, this runs more of a risk of brand fatigue.
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« on: November 13, 2019, 03:05:03 PM »
The bronies are very angry.
They are so angry.
You know what? I'm perfectly fine with this ugly art style and animation if it makes the bronies mad. 
I can at least take solace in that. Maybe I need to sit back and think of what was popular when I was a kid. My mean, teams of humanoid animals that spouted cheesy one-liners and embodied some kind of "cool" lifestyle. The previous generation probably thought we were insane for liking it. However, since MLP seems only able to do one thing at a time, the fact we get this hurts.
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« on: November 13, 2019, 02:50:37 PM »
Wait! Those things are bobbleheads?!
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« on: November 13, 2019, 02:45:13 PM »
Well, there goes my hope the change in decade will get animation off the snide.
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« on: November 12, 2019, 07:00:04 PM »
I got other things to hold my interest, and again there is G1. I'm just done with the outrage at this point. FiM squandered its potential, and what's coming afterwards seems to have no potential to start with. I might peak in to see if what we actually get is not as bad as it looks, but if it is I'm just going to bow out. It's just another storied brand Hasbro has mutilated for the sake of catering to modern trends.
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« on: November 12, 2019, 01:53:18 PM »
[Insert Steve Carell "NO!" meltdown here]
I think I'm done with new pony for a while. I still enjoy G1, but wake me up after this crashes and burns and Hasbro gets back to basics with MLP.
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« on: November 10, 2019, 09:03:38 AM »
I know a lot of people are relieved these things aren't G5. However, this makes me worried G5 will be worse. There has been a trend to eliminate equine elements to the design of the ponies starting with G3.5. Making the snouts small, the eyes more forward. With these things, the only thing equine about them is they have non-split hooves. The heads aren't equine and even the shape of the legs isn't equine.
And this is a problem. It's not that they're not making the toys realistically horse-like. It's that they're so stylized they can't be recognized as horses anymore. Why make a brand called My Little PONY if you don't want to make PONIES?
Because Hasbro sucks.
Sadly, that is the case. And it's not just MLP. Their board games department is wrecking the classics by trying to keep them hip with the new trends. Their Disney lines are not as high quality as they were when Mattel made them. And MLP naming has gotten terrible. There use to be thought put into these, but now it does feel like they're throwing darts at a board to combine two words.
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« on: November 10, 2019, 08:49:19 AM »
I know a lot of people are relieved these things aren't G5. However, this makes me worried G5 will be worse. There has been a trend to eliminate equine elements to the design of the ponies starting with G3.5. Making the snouts small, the eyes more forward. With these things, the only thing equine about them is they have non-split hooves. The heads aren't equine and even the shape of the legs isn't equine.
And this is a problem. It's not that they're not making the toys realistically horse-like. It's that they're so stylized they can't be recognized as horses anymore. Why make a brand called My Little PONY if you don't want to make PONIES?
And the Faust thing should probably be moved to its own thread.
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« on: November 10, 2019, 07:06:52 AM »
Just a reminder to be kind and stick to the original thread premise! - Loa
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« on: November 10, 2019, 03:55:28 AM »
Just a reminder to be kind and stick to the original thread premise! - Loa
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« on: November 08, 2019, 02:35:07 AM »
There is no way what we call G3.5 was in development after or alongside G4. Think about it... why would they make an extra reboot just to "ease" kids into the G4 style. It was simply a decision to chibify the G3s because that look was already in back then.
Hasbro experienced success with their LPS reboot so why not make ponies look that way. G3 had been on shelves for a while, the Core 7 thing was taking off... all of that was planned years before G4 was being planned.
G4 would have probably gotten replaced by G5 way sooner if it hadn't become some sort of viral sensation. And these redesigns must have been in development for longer as well.
Or it might not have. Big sparkly eyed balloon head things are unfortunately popular and refuse to go away. And I do concede to your earlier point btw, I'm just tired and cranky and Faust irks me for chucking girls toons under the bus to curry favor with a trolly fanbase, for her impo awful style, and because I'm petty and am blaming her for much of the ills of modern mlp.
Actually, it's Meghan McCarthy and Josh Haber you can blame for the brony pandering in FiM. Fasut was long gone by the time the show started to really twist it to appeal more to them specifically.
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« on: November 05, 2019, 03:59:33 AM »
I think greed and bad advice is what pushed their strategy with Jem. They figured Jem fans would be so desperate for new material they would pay through the nose for it. They also figured they would be so desperate that they would just accept making Jem more "marketable" to the general public by making Jerica's rise similar to Justin Bieber's.
With MLP they figure their old fans are all house wives with no control over the pocketbook, so they shouldn't waste their time and money catering to them.
We're dealing with a company that is stuck in the past in terms of its mindset and worldview. They literally have to be shamed to embrace progressive ideas.
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« on: November 04, 2019, 04:03:38 PM »
Do you think Trasnformers fans would suffer this? Sure, there are chibi versions of them, but they compliment the main lines, not take them over.
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« on: November 02, 2019, 10:31:20 AM »
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« on: November 02, 2019, 06:51:16 AM »
Those are terrifying. Just, when Hasbro?
You know, I was talking with my friend last night on how Hasbro is destroying the classic Milton Bradley games lately. I said Hasbro is acting like they did in the 60's when they were riding high on G.I. Joe and no matter what they did was successful. That was followed by the 70's when the company almost ceased to exist and needed to completely restructure going into the 80's. I think Hasbro is going to run into a wall where their decisions have alienated their fans and just sour on the general public.
And those designs are...jibbly jibbly.
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