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« on: January 26, 2023, 11:26:43 PM »
G1
favourite: they're so big and squishy! they feel very satisfying to hold/play with
least favourite: i keep mine in a cabinet to protect them from extra damage and myself from mold spores/lead/arsenic (iirc someone tested some G1s and the yellow dyes have a ton of arsenic 🥲) so i feel like i dont get to actually enjoy them very much
G2
favourite: the eye gems! it makes them really stand out in a collection; they look so lively!
least favourite: i find building my collection rather difficult/frustrating sometimes because their run was so limited in north america
G3
favourite: the variety in designs & that pearly plastic they used for so many of them! it makes me very nostalgic
least favourite: seeing my own childhood ponies start to break down from age has been an extraordinarily difficult process. i recently actually cried when my g3 secret wish started to turn orange & the glitter inside the plastic started to dissolve and disappear. they make me feel very old and fragile sometimes. i know thats kind of abstract but...
G3.5
favourite: they seem like amazing quality! thick, smooth hair and very durable
least favourite: the weird potato toddler aesthetic
G4
favourite: different eye shapes!!
least favourite: 10 years was way too long to keep recycling the same 10 characters :/
G4 movie redesign
favourite: the poses were so expressive and lively!
least favourite: ough. the hair quality
G4.5
favourite: the hair quality was sooo much better. for a brief moment in time
least favourite: they look more like cats with massive overbites than horses 0_o
G5
favourite: i think they managed to find the joyful essence of mlp toys again. i'm 27 years old and i find myself wanting to play play with them!
least favourite: the quality and overall... functionality as a toyline is so bad. i've broken accessories straight out of the box just trying to put them together. their hair feels like its going to decompose and fall out by next week. the function of accessories isnt very intuitive at all- i'm a whole adult and i cant even figure out what some of these things are/how they work/attach, let alone a small child? they almost feel like theyre meant to be disposable and i think kids deserve better quality toys
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« on: January 26, 2023, 05:32:23 PM »
depends, where's my collection going? if it just goes poof then no, i'm not trading it for anything. it's my life's work. if the fate of my collection is my choice (so i can donate it to a local toy museum, as is my plan for if i die anyways) then take it and get rid of my chronic pain and disabilities lmao.
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« on: April 07, 2021, 07:36:08 PM »
hey! I know this is extremely specific and a random thing to ask but I'm looking for ponies with names that are also song names, or at least very close to being the same as a song name. G1 and G3 are preferred but any generation is okay! I'm really stuck here, lol.
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« on: February 25, 2021, 08:07:29 AM »
bruh please just show me the plastic horses so i can go back to sleep  do pretentious old white guys ever shut up
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« on: February 24, 2021, 05:03:02 AM »
Huh.... I think I'm pretty neutral on these. They kinda feel like g2 got the preschool-y g3.5 treatment? I think they'll make better toys than vector images, to be honest. The pegasus is cute and I can see myself getting used to her design.  The orange one does have a weird family guy face thing going on though that doesn't quite sit right with me, and the way the purple and blue one's is drawn is immediately giving me a weird vibe of like... they're going to try to do an extremely poorly executed episode about diversity/racism. I can't quite put my finger on it but I can just like... smell it on her. She's cute but my intuition is picking up something weird on her. I just hope I turn out to be wrong.
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« on: February 07, 2021, 03:23:14 PM »
I would hope for a few more generations, but I think at some point capitalism is going to shoot itself in the foot a bit too hard and end it for everyone. I have dozens of theories on how that might go down but they're mainly:
1. people will catch on to how poor the quality has become over the course of g4 and stop wanting to throw money away on toys purposely designed to fall apart in six months, as opposed to g1s-g3.5s which are durable and high quality enough to last a few generations of children
2. we are going to run out of plastic for this level of mass toy production and changes will HAVE to be made
3. hasbro will eventually get so up their own butts with their current mentality surrounding the toyline (core 7, mane 6, etc) that people will eventually write it off as a lost cause.
I would love to give MLP a chance to improve and go back to what it was intended to be: fun, durable plastic horses with brushable hair, for CHILDREN. but big changes are coming in the world with or without hasbro and MLP on board so it'll either have to come around, or come to an end.
I'm holding out for G5 potentially being better, but I'm not holding my breath. If this rollercoaster of late stage capitalism continues, I think I'd prefer a merciful death for MLP. Have a nice big 50th anniversary celebration line and then take it out to pasture. It's getting hard to watch everything always constantly going downhill. I grew up with G3 and it was better than this, and I know it can still go back to being that way. The kids deserve better than this. Toys that are conducive to imaginitive play are absolutely crucial for healthy psychological development in young children and they aren't getting the quality they deserve anymore. We're already seeing an epidemic of developmental issues as a result of the push towards digital everything.
tl;dr I desperately want MLP to continue but with the current circumstances, I'm not sure how long it can.
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« on: February 05, 2021, 02:56:07 PM »
I honestly adore BBE babies. I think their spooky little doll eyes are 100% legitimately the coolest thing ever. Especially when they start to rust over a little bit. Feels very 80s goth to me. I found my first g1s second hand when I was about 10 (2005 ish) and one of them was BBE Baby Sundance with 1 rusty eye. My mum wasn't particularly pleased by how much I loved it 
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« on: February 05, 2021, 02:48:56 PM »
Spoiler dunno how much of this is potentially legit or not but I'm sittin here crying like a little baby at the idea of having a disabled protagonist, or the kirins coming back as a genuine asian-adjacent culture because life sure would've been a heck of a lot easier to endure if I had access to media like that as a disabled mixed race/asian child
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« on: November 29, 2020, 04:49:44 AM »
hi! i'm pretty much in the same boat of only checking in on MLP every few months lately but from what I understand, we're just in between-generation limbo right now. FiM ended October 2019 and G5 is supposed to start in 2021 with movie, and the squishy, catlike designs you see right now are g4.5 or Pony Life, which is mostly just to fill the dead space between generations. toy stock is scarce at best right now pretty much everywhere, and the leaked g5 concept art from quite a while back was scrapped, I think. it's going to be new characters. no idea about the 35th anniversary stuff since i'm in Canada too and have only been able to track down like...2 of those ponies 
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« on: October 12, 2020, 11:56:24 PM »
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The amount of gatekeeping that I've seen from them that made children, female fans, established female fans of the brand before FiM, fans of color and LGBTQ+ fans like myself feel unsafe really hurts my heart. I'll admit, the G1 and G3 animated content isn't really my thing as much as I love their toylines but I still appreciated the amount of fans they introduced into the franchise. But the way the bronies (and at some points FiM) made it out to be so low quality and awful and how you were bad if you as so much liked them just brings out their true colors. I will never wrap my head around how this group straight white cis men turned a little girl escapism haven into...that. It's something that I will forever be somewhat salty about. This is getting waaaay too long so I'm gonna wrap it up here but My Little Pony deserved much better. I weep for those with negative experiences such as myself. This really hurts man.
as a gay asian trans boy, i was unfortunately on the receiving end of all of those gatekeeping problems for the last years of my childhood (which were also largely spent closeted). it's really done irreversible damage to the way i feel about and feel i can interact with mlp and while i'm too stubborn to give up collecting, i think there will always be trauma and hurting from how the nasty side of the g4 fandom basically gutted the pony collecting community where i had always felt safe and cared for beforehand. i started lurking here and on mlptp at around 7 or 8 years old and of course every kid my age had the typical internet safety talk, my parents and i still felt safe and comfortable with mlp communities online since it was mainly people who grew up in the 80s and still loved ponies for the nostalgia, and often had children of their own. then suddenly one day when i was 15, pony internet had gotten so unsafe that my poor mother found out about the creepy bronies via a scrapbooking forum and had to sit me down for that conversation only to find out that i was already miserably familiar with it all. not only did the nasty g4 fandom ruin everything for kids, they also broke my mother's heart because she always fully supported my harmless hobby, ESPECIALLY when i entered public highschool because everyone knows how that can be. i feel like i can never fully forgive and move on from something as deep as being ripped away from a community that cared for me during such crucial developmental years as a child.
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« on: October 11, 2020, 05:39:49 PM »
Has anyone managed to take apart any of the new g4.5/Pony Life toys to see what their bobblehead mechanisms/hair roots look like? I'm absolutely dying to know, lol!
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« on: October 11, 2020, 05:36:39 PM »
I'm looking for the following g4 brushables as I'd like to wrap up my g4 collection before g5 hits so I'll be able to keep up with new releases better 1. Starlight Glimmer (any release) 2. Sweetie Drops/Bon Bon (any release) 3. Scootlatoo (any release) 4. Sunset Shimmer EQG doll - preferable the one with her leather jacket but I'm not picky! I have money in hand and am ready to buy immediately. Thanks!
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« on: October 11, 2020, 05:04:14 PM »
I finally found some of the retro ponies at my local TRU! I'm in BC, and they had a few of Heart Throb, and Lickety Split, and 1 Tootsie (who I picked for myself :9 ). The pony stock in my area almost always.. practically nothing so I was really glad to see em. 
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« on: October 11, 2020, 02:18:50 AM »
Hey! I haven't been able to get a diagnosis as an adult but I'm pretty sure I have dyspraxia. It's in the same family as autism and ADHD but with more of a neurological/nerve issue.
I've realized that part of why I've stuck with MLP for so long is because as a 90s kid, I really was born into a strange time where life started out with little to no tech, and as a college student now pretty much everything is automated and digital, and that lack of real world sensory input can really mess my brain up. I start feeling like I'm in a sensory deprivation tank as a torture method or something. Collecting ponies really helps keep me grounded because they're a stable presence (they existed before I was born, and have been around my entire life!) but always changing and always have new colour combos, textures, gimmicks, even new scents. it's really comforting to have something I've always been able to rely on when my brain starts to get fussy about sensory issues.
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« on: October 11, 2020, 02:04:25 AM »
I've also got a balance of positives amd negatives from FiM's run.
On the positive side, it really brought out some of the best in me and my friendships and I learned a lot about myself in the process. I find it fascinating how stubborn I can be about something I value, like collecting and documenting the history of MLP and seeing the change in how we see and treat children and their necessities like toys in modern culture. Even though the objective quality of the toys are in an eternal nosedive amd fall apart in months rather than in decades, I'll just keep ramping up my collection maintenance habits because by G*d, i will preserve these things and keep them in presentable and orderly condition.
On the negative side, I am kinda legitimately traumatized by how inappropriate the g4 fandom was allowed to be. I went from freely surfing the internet to look at ponies at 7 years old, to a 15 year old terrified to go to the walmart toy aisle after school and whose mother caught wind of the particularly vocal bronies that acted like freaks and had to sit me town and tell me to avoid them because she was worried for me. It forever changed how I feel and interact with the MLP community because I was eternally walking on eggshells trying to avoid the explosively nsfw content because I was a minor and self aware of that. I spoke up about it many times and was brushed aside every time so I eventually gathered that the safety of children in a fandom for a childrens show/toy was simply not a priority and it messed my head up pretty bad considering I'd already been collecting for almost 10 years by the time of that boom in FiM viewership. I was a 14-15 year old kid who was essentially told "your safety as a child doesn't matter compared to adult's whims and fantasies about something that wasn't even made for them." and like, for real? I hate being around kids because of my migraines and I'd never want any of my own but they deserve so much better than this. Because I got screwed over when I was still a kid and bro it sucks living with that
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