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Quote from: Leave a Whisper on January 09, 2018, 08:01:10 AMMost fans don't think MLP is all sunshine and rainbows. Only loud-mouthed ignoramous fans think that.<3Also, people in the media who want to belittle girls' toys when they do compilation shows about toys in x generation. Because how could girls possibly cope with peril *gasp* I dunno, it just always really offends me when people say that about MLP, because if it had been that way, I would never have played with it. I hated all that stuff :/ but I did like playing zombie kingdoms and using my unicorns to put the fear of god into the boys who wanted to throw my ponies on the school roof
Most fans don't think MLP is all sunshine and rainbows. Only loud-mouthed ignoramous fans think that.
I think the impression that MLP is "sunshine and rainbows" originated from the G1 commercials. I love them, but . . . yeah, they're pretty much 30 second spots of girls in elaborate dresses gushing over how their ponies are SO BEAUTIFUL and maybe taking them to a party. No mention of danger or adventure.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on January 09, 2018, 08:17:23 AMI think the impression that MLP is "sunshine and rainbows" originated from the G1 commercials. I love them, but . . . yeah, they're pretty much 30 second spots of girls in elaborate dresses gushing over how their ponies are SO BEAUTIFUL and maybe taking them to a party. No mention of danger or adventure.Yeah, they're pretty nauseating and you're probably right that that's the source of the misconception. I wonder if it's also the source of Faust's comments of her memories of MLP - because it's easy to find those on youtube these days and they do give a very bad impression of what MLP is.That said, if you base your opinion of G1 on the commercials, it suggests your knowledge comes from google search and not from personal experience. I've seen a lot of brony comments on G1 stuff which garbles together stuff from the animation and the comic or UK story books without really understanding what the relevance is of each to their respective canons. To me that exposes people who know G1 and people who say they do and then put it down based on their mistaken understanding of it. It's always a red flag to me if someone from the US talks about something from UK pony lore as though they grew up with it, because the chances they did are minor (such as the odd brony preoccupation with Majesty). As pony fans we know the difference, but if nightmaremuffin is right that 'many fans' believe otherwise, then they're probably not actually fans, but people who did a google search and jumped to a conclusion about it instead.For those of us who grew up with it, we know different. But that's also partly because although there are a lot of stories involved, we were also very free to create our own worlds and ideas with them. There was no enslaving animated series reinforcing the same six ponies and forcing them to dominate the toyline over and over until resistance was futile. G4 doesn't encourage kids or fans to think outside of what the animation offers in terms of characters, which is why the fandom is animation more than toys for a lot of people. That comparison also automatically puts G1 at a disadvantage in the eyes of these people, because it doesn't have a coherent animated canon with established characters - so thus must lack substance.
Quote from: Taffeta on January 09, 2018, 08:07:05 AMQuote from: Leave a Whisper on January 09, 2018, 08:01:10 AMMost fans don't think MLP is all sunshine and rainbows. Only loud-mouthed ignoramous fans think that.<3Also, people in the media who want to belittle girls' toys when they do compilation shows about toys in x generation. Because how could girls possibly cope with peril *gasp* I dunno, it just always really offends me when people say that about MLP, because if it had been that way, I would never have played with it. I hated all that stuff :/ but I did like playing zombie kingdoms and using my unicorns to put the fear of god into the boys who wanted to throw my ponies on the school roof Real Life My Little Pony Stories from G1; playing transformers and ponies together with male cousin who was about 5-6 years younger than me. He was being obnoxious, and myself and my other girl cousin were getting annoyed with the way the story was going sooo...Boy Cousin: Transformers are stronger and tougher than My Little Pony, your ponies have to do what my transformers say...Tansformers are...Karen: (Interrupts by uses baby Ember to smash transformer toy.) Yea, that robot lost an arm and leg in a fight with a baby pony, sorry...you're warriors are weak.The End.
Teddy is awful. I don't find him scary, but I do loathe him.
... but the only really creepy pony on the market for me is that sausage-mermaid Pinkie Pie. It reminds me of the Polymorph from Red Dwarf and I can't get that thought out of my head.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on January 09, 2018, 09:34:34 AMTeddy is awful. I don't find him scary, but I do loathe him.He is awful.
I'm not saying I find it scary, but I find it amazing how people can take simple things in My Little Pony and turn them into something darker/less child friendly very easily. I don't even mean in a fun fanfiction way, like they're just saying "Oh, what if this scene was more serious or more deeply explored?", but like they actually believe that this is what the scene was saying, and it is really farfetched to me.They act like angrily playing with inanimate objects is a sign of insanity, or that looking after a pet is slavery. It's not even just the bronies, as I have seen people state that "You Don't Know the Boy" from My Little Pony Tales makes Sweetheart look like an abused girlfriend, because the song is apparently full of Teddy (yes, him again) bullying Sweetheart and then apologising, when in actual fact, he did that just once in the entire song.