The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: hathorcat on November 03, 2013, 05:30:24 AM
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So I had been looking for an old link to an old website on the old Arena :P *starts to feel old* and its made me remember how excited we all would get over new ponies being spotted, new brochures with pictures or even over names being trademarked during G3. Sound familiar? :P
In many ways what we see with G4 now is, as we know, what we all went through with G3. So I wondered when G3 was at its peak or just started, which ponies did you hear about and were most excited to track down.
For me the best part was when the Breezies were first mentioned! I was so excited to track their sets down!
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G3 was my first real exposure to MLP, since I was a little kid when they came out. I remember being beyond excited when I heard that they were coming out with Pegasus Ponies, and drooling over the Butterfly Island play set (which I got for my birthday one year!). The introduction of the Pegasus ponies was probably the most excited I was for any G3 product. :biggrin:
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I was most excited with the G3 line when, it was first released! I remember going to toysrus and seeing the double packs, Kimono, Autumn sky, sparkle works, ect. (so many new ponies!!) I was so excited to see mlp back on the shelves! I don't recall how I found out they were being released, but I do remember going specifically to the store to get these new ponies. I was also very excited when they came out with Pegasus ponies!!
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I joined after lurking for a year or two - I didn't even know there were pony websites on the internet! My main internet hangouts were the Ty website and Neopets, for goodness' sake! XD So for me, my biggest moment of excitement was looking for new exclusives that I saw pictures of online - like the Halloween ponies! One of the biggest events, for me, was seeing the announcement of the MLP Fair - and it was in my state! Oh, that was so super exciting, I still remember eagerly wanting to go! And I even got super-lucky and won a MIB Bay Breeze for my pony art work! It was great. :heart: I hadn't ever heard of 'exclusive ponies' before, since I bought all my ponies new in the store, so to me, Bay Breeze was like - SUPER cool!
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I remember waiting for Rarity to be released and how exciting it was to have a G3 unicorn after all that time of waiting.
The wave of releases that came with Brights Brightly and Starflower were my favorite I think, and what I remember as my highest point of G3 excitement. Pretty much any G3 unicorn was a "must have" for me.
The holiday ponies were always fun to anticipate as well.
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I was always so excited to see new ponies! My local stores always had new ponies coming in. They seems to sell them pretty good to! Now the G4 ponies are total different story, they are very slow at selling. :( I do miss them G3 days!!!!
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I remember when I first heard MLP's had come back. I was completely excited. It brought to mind all the fun I had as a little kid. My baby ponies were always getting kidnapped and trapped in nets, and my big ponies would fly in or wink in to rescue them! :D I had to go look for these new ponies right away.
I remember stopping at Reny's (a small chain store here in Maine) and spotting Starbeam. I scooped her up and went home to try typing MLP into Google--that's how I found the Arena for the first time! :) No one was even talking about the Glitter ponies yet, so I was super excited that I had found something released early.
After that, the next time I got REALLY excited was when Star Catcher was released. A pegasus pony finally! And she was so beautiful too... After that, Coconut Grove and Thistle Whistle were my faves for quite a while thanks to them being in the animated special Friends Are Never Far Away. I just end up liking the toys more when I can put them together with an animated character with personality. :)
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I remember the first wave being released in 2003! And how disappointed everyone was with the symbol being only on one side.
Then walking into toys r us and the display was so small. I loved wysteria, and I grabbed one of each. They came out right around my high school graduation.
Now the one sided Cutie mark doesn't really bother me anymore.
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The Winter ponies with Velvet Bow! I remember when I finally found them in Walmart, and I carried them home so happily!!
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I remember holding Kimono and Rainbow Dash in TRU and struggling to choose just ONE. I went with RD, BTW... dahlings!
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I never really got into the G3 ponies... but I remember that it was around the time I started customizing ponies, and I happened to go to a store and spotted them for $5... I was like "OOoo baits" and I bought a few of them, baited them out and customized them.
I honestly didn't even know they'd released my little pony again until then, and I only saw a couple episodes... hated it and refused to ever watch it again because I felt they destroyed MLP. I remembered the good old days of G1 mlp, and in my mind nothing could compare to it. I still hate G3 and G3.5 cartoons and refuse to watch them, and when I heard about g4 coming out, I was terrified they were going to destroy it even more, but I was surprised when I finally worked up the nerve to watch an episode, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the ponies actually had enemies and had crazy personalities, it was refreshing :3
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I started collecting in 2006 and I remember being most excited for the cutie Cascade/Crystal Design ponies (so pretty) and the release of unicorns. :)
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Does anyone still check that trademark website? I've always been curious about that. There used to be a link! I think we should star checking that again! Silverfall? Do you have the link? *pokes silverfall who probably won't see this ;)*
There were such cool names on that they didn't use! Remember picnicity? Cabana rain?! Ohhh I wish!
Eta found the list! Looks like they've resubmitted for some old names like star swirl, amber locks, and daisy Jo. Also looks like they are trying to trademark the acronym mlp!
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When I started recollecting MLP, after having some G1's as a child that I gave away, it was G3's I started recollecting. It was awesome seeing MLP in store shelves and in most places MLP took up an entire aisle or one side of it. Lots of times Toys R Us would have sales--buy one get one free or half off. There was so much variety when G3's first came out, before they did the core 7. Also, we had holiday and seasonal ponies to look forward to, it was great.
It was cool that Hasbro did a points program on their website. Sadly I had just started collecting points and I really wanted the Frilly Frocks plush but didn't have enough points. I got Love Wishes which was labeled as limited but after the points program was over they came out with Frisco and another pony which was basically Love wishes with a different symbol. They had tons of those so Love Wishes wasn't so limited./color]
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When I first heard they were coming I was upset...I ranted about how I hated them and they were nothing like the original G1 line that I grew up with and loved....I kept eyeing them everytime I went to the store...and I didn't want to admit it but I was falling for them. My mom let me get one pony and bam....that was it. It was Blue Jeans. I heard about Holiday ponies and went nuts...granted it was towards the end so I only got a few holiday ponies....sigh.
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I was most excited with the G3 line when, it was first released! I remember going to toysrus and seeing the double packs, Kimono, Autumn sky, sparkle works, ect. (so many new ponies!!) I was so excited to see mlp back on the shelves! I don't recall how I found out they were being released, but I do remember going specifically to the store to get these new ponies. I was also very excited when they came out with Pegasus ponies!!
I know -- when I first saw new ponies on the shelves I think I may have had a minor heart attack! I had been disappointed with the G2s (I thought they were ugly), and we hadn't heard much from Hasbro on the MLP line since 1998 (at least, in the US), so I had been thinking that ponies would never come back. I was so excited to not only see new ponies, but to see new GOOD looking ponies!
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I remember only that sad time when g2 disapiared ! -_-
And I learned about g3 too late when it was the end of the era. Fist time they seemed strange for me of course. But when I started to love g3 they almost gone. That boring clones everywhere, the core 6. Only fancy designs were valentine adition Pinkie Pie and Sweetie Belle.
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My little heart soared when they brought in Pegasus and Unicorn Ponies and re-designed the babies! Then I was so sad when they stopped and fudged the line up before creating the G4s. I am so glad we have ponies, but I would have given anything to see more G3 Babies that did not have bell-bottom feet!
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Does anyone still check that trademark website? I've always been curious about that. There used to be a link! I think we should star checking that again! Silverfall? Do you have the link? *pokes silverfall who probably won't see this ;)*
There were such cool names on that they didn't use! Remember picnicity? Cabana rain?! Ohhh I wish!
Eta found the list! Looks like they've resubmitted for some old names like star swirl, amber locks, and daisy Jo. Also looks like they are trying to trademark the acronym mlp!
"Cabana Rain" sounds awesome! :)
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My favorite G3 theme was the Butterfly Island Ponies! I loved all of the bright, bold colors and tropical themes! I remember being so excited to get ponies like Cloud Climber, Thistle Whistle, Kiwi Tart, Sea Spray and Alphabittle.
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I remember when Kimono suddenly became HTF. The only place I could find them was Boscov's, so I visited every one in my area snatching them up for other members ^_^
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I was super excited when I saw SLH Rainbowberry in a pamphlet and I just knew I HAD to have her! I never did find her in any stores, but my friend from England found her on UK ebay and sent her to me for my birthday last year :)
I remember being really excited about the unicorns and pegasi and also the scented and holiday ponies ^.^
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I got into the MLP fandom about the same time G3 began. I remember liking Wysteria a lot (I got her and another pony as presents for two of my neighbor's kids) and following the discussion of the new releases on Lady Moondancer's message boards. I especially remember the mild uproar that the fork accessories from various playsets caused, and how in this context, "WTF" came to mean "Why The Forks?".
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What was the uproar about forks? Is it because they were so little and easy to lose? I think that I still have the forks that go to my celebration castle. I was a very uptight kid about losing things, so I always watched all the little accessories like a hawk to make sure none went missing. I probably annoyed the heck out of my friends ("Be careful with that fork! It's tiny and requires careful handling!!") :blush:
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The first time I saw the G3s I was so unimpressed. I decided I didn't wanted them. So, a while later, people started to post a bush of cool pictures of G3 ponies "glued" (due to magnet on feet) every where, fridge, cars and so on. I remember a bunch of those pictures.
So I decided to get Rainbow Dash, but I would have to pay shipping from US to Brazil, so I got a few other ones with her and... well, now I have like 250 of them :P
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probably when they first came out. i had to trade for them because it took forever to find any in Alaska
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"Be careful with that fork! It's tiny and requires careful handling!!"
:lmao:
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What was the uproar about forks? Is it because they were so little and easy to lose?
Well...it's a bit hard for something that has hooves to pick up and use a tool designed for something that has hands, if you catch my drift. ;)
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What was the uproar about forks? Is it because they were so little and easy to lose?
Well...it's a bit hard for something that has hooves to pick up and use a tool designed for something that has hands, if you catch my drift. ;)
In general the lack of opposable thumbs makes most pony accessories redundant :P
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I remember being so excited to learn that Hasbro was revamping the line (since we barely got any G2). It was exciting to think of finding them in stores again. Then one day a friend called me from downtown to say she's found some in store. I was on the next bus to go pick them up. They were at a specialty store, before they hot TRU and walmart, Etc so I overpaid badly for them, but I didn't care I was so happy to have the experience of finding them in stores again.
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I remember calling around to stores to see if they were in yet. When the line first came out I mean. And that the day I first found them was June 12th 2003 :). I bought one of each that day, of the first wave. Well I still buy one each of all the new ones, but never mind that. It was my friends birthday or I might not remember the date! I had missed ponies being in stores here so I was so excited to have them again. I had been ordering g2's from overseas to get new ponies so being able to buy them in stores again was great.
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I remember someone posting on Moonshadow's message board that their father had been contacted by Hasbro to make My Little Pony stickers. It was one of the first rumors that the G3 ponies were coming out. When the ponies reached stores, I went with my friend and sister and even took a picture. I forget who we got that day -- I think it was Rainbow Dash. She was one of the prettiest, I thought. Autumn Sky was also really pretty. And the ponies with glitter (can't remember what they're called). We collected many of the G3s, but my sister (who is a little younger than me) was into them more than I was. I grew up with the G1s, and then I also was in high school at the time and was starting to collect less. But I liked Baby Bellaluna and many of the babies, and I wanted this blue pony with long pink hair to be her mother . . . lately I've wondered who that was. Maybe I'll still buy her if I see her someday. :)