g1 sherbet! she just looks so friendly to me

no idea whats going on with these guys but i'm absolutely eating up everyone's pictures over here  they're like little alien zebras and i can't wait for mine to get here!

it's fine for the plastic but one wrong swipe and a symbol/eye/etc is gone so i also wouldnt recommend it to a non collector 😭

g1 blossom.... so many g1 blossoms. they seem to follow me around 

...Of course G3/G4+ have cutie marks, but you can also tell the vintage of a collector by whether they refer to G1 pony markings as cutie marks or G4 ones as symbols xD.

i have this fun little habit of only calling g1-2 ones symbols and then g3-5 ones are specifically cutie marks. it's confused probably more than my fair share of non pony folks xD

molded manes/tails lol

i'd say blind bags but it's not even just those anymore :/ the whole point of the line was brushable hair & i can understand some minis here and there, especially as a budget option since i realize just solid plastic cuts down on overall cost. but i'm sick of it totally taking over the line

G2 ran from 1997-2002 or 2003 iirc. I'm going to sound really old now, but I was online in 1997 (from a library PC), and had internet (dial up!) at home from spring 1998. I was here for the whoooole "new ponies vs old ponies" civil war that blew up around them - newsgroups and mailing lists ahoy.

They did have a very short US release run, true enough, but there was definitely internet when G2 were around. And a pony community as well.

I don't suppose it was the right kind, but I think anyone old enough to remember that period would probably agree they 'made an impression' of sorts...

But reflecting on it now, the ages of many of us back then were comparable to the ages of most bronies now. I was 15 in 1997 - so 16 when the war broke out *lol*. It makes me wonder whether, if the net had been then what it is now, the G2 thing would've exploded much worse than it did. At times it was plenty unpleasant. I wrote this thing back in 2000 because of the online G2 squabbling - G2 were still in stores (at least in Europe) back then.

https://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/ponydream.htm

In my personal experience 2000 was a particularly nasty year, but even by that point a couple of sites/people had been driven offline - either because they loved G2 or because they hated G2. :/

I don't remember what the pro G2 people went by, though. I just remember the Shadows and someone circulating an image of Gusty (?) killing a G2 pony which at the time was pretty shocking given the size of the community/etc. (You probably wouldn't even notice one image like that now in a sea of brony art).

I also love that spoiler xD.

oh yeah, i've read up on the g2 drama and i don't doubt it was huge for its time, but everyone still seemed pretty skeptical of the internet in the 90s so i feel like people sort of put less stock into what was going on with it if that makes sense? i was still super duper young but i remember things like bowienet being pretty "out there"- he (bowie) was convinced the internet would become something bigger than we could comprehend at the time, and a lot of people thought he was totally off his rocker for it 

we also dont have a lot of old internet backed up, so a fair amount of early internet drama is ultimately lost to time. but even if it wasnt, you're so right, it would probably be incredibly tame by today's standards after what we've seen with bronies 

so i guess my take isnt so much that g2 had "less" of a legacy/impact, it's just inaccessible to most people on today's internet. maybe that's ok. goodness knows i hope the insane brony stuff disappears into the void someday, too. lol

i'd be interested!