As I said in the other thread, she has flower pox.Yeah I don't think I see any white unless there is single strands here and there. Original Majesty has a white stripe that you could see.
Someone in the art department went to town a bit...her hair looks the most interesting as I'm not sure it's blue/white. It looks blue/blue to me.
I actually think regular majesty is kinda bland.Most pony designs are bland if you truly think about it XD But a pattern like this can tend to be quite tacky honestly. I would have rather they did normal TAF design where it only goes along the sides of the body and give her eyes. (Not G4 TAF but G1 TAF)
Which brings up a question now... I sure hope Basic Fun didn't go the Hasbro route of TAF and only have it printed on one side. I looks like it goes all the way around but that could just be the angle they are showing....
Which brings up a question now... I sure hope Basic Fun didn't go the Hasbro route of TAF and only have it printed on one side. I looks like it goes all the way around but that could just be the angle they are showing....
Oh no. I mean technically it's not on the other side of her leg.. I hope the design looks ok where it cuts off.
That is what I'm hoping not... I get that these ponies are kind of meant to be displayed in box but they have got to know that people are going to take them out of the box...Which brings up a question now... I sure hope Basic Fun didn't go the Hasbro route of TAF and only have it printed on one side. I looks like it goes all the way around but that could just be the angle they are showing....
Oh no. I mean technically it's not on the other side of her leg.. I hope the design looks ok where it cuts off.
on the inside of the leg? G1 TAFs don't have that either, so that's not a sign she's not printed all over. altho I wouldn't be surprised if she was in fact white on her NDS.
All of Basic Fun's ponies so far have had symbols on both sides. :)
She is interesting to say the least imho
Something different.
Can anyone tell me when the comic con is?
Would anyone have preferred if the exclusive had been a reproduction of a rarer pony that wouldn't have been in the retro line otherwise? Like a mail order, international exclusive, or maybe even something based on a prototype/unreleased character. Or do you think it's better to do something "artistic" like this?It's better to be this way because this is a variant that most people won't be interested in, which is perfect for an sdcc exclusive. A rare pony repro would've been a wrong move because a lot of people wouldn't be able to get it.Plus that way they can still sell regular majesty as a normal release.
Then again, if they wanted to make something more wild and eye catching, why base it so heavily on an existing character? Why not go all the way and make something truly creative and unrestrained? After all, this is basically just Majesty with her symbol multiplied all over her body and no eyes. I'm trying to understand the thought process behind this. Who is the main target audience this is meant to appeal to? The ST Applejack made more sense to me as a concept.
It's better to be this way because this is a variant that most people won't be interested in, which is perfect for an sdcc exclusive. A rare pony repro would've been a wrong move because a lot of people wouldn't be able to get it
Im not really into her tbh, which might be good cause she is so exclusive.Same here. Maybe it's her lack of eyes....
It's better to be this way because this is a variant that most people won't be interested in, which is perfect for an sdcc exclusive. A rare pony repro would've been a wrong move because a lot of people wouldn't be able to get it
Well ok, but I don't think it was Basic Fun's intention to make an exclusive that no one would want. And even if something is really hard to get, it still must be better that it exists rather than not, no?
An exclusive is a good opportunity to do something with a limited market appeal. A rare/obscure pony might appeal to collectors, but not really to casual nostalgics who likely would not remember it.
Do we really need more Sundances? :P
Did we need more Peachys?Do we really need more Sundances? :P
Noooooo...
Did we need more Peachys?Do we really need more Sundances? :P
Noooooo...
I rest my case xD. At least if they did M&S this way they'd be limited xD.
Did we need more Peachys?Do we really need more Sundances? :P
Noooooo...
I rest my case xD. At least if they did M&S this way they'd be limited xD.
Also nooooo!
Taffeta, a thought.
Maybe whomever tries to snatch the ST Applejack for you (x2), can also get this one (if you'd like her-- I'm not sure you do tho) off of Hasbro pulse. Because my thought is that she will be available for a little bit there. Shipping for 3 ponies is gonna be the same as 2.
Would anyone have preferred if the exclusive had been a reproduction of a rarer pony that wouldn't have been in the retro line otherwise? Like a mail order, international exclusive, or maybe even something based on a prototype/unreleased character. Or do you think it's better to do something "artistic" like this?
Or they think Majesty is more popular in the US than she is because of the brony Majesty citing. A lot of that gets cited as "In G1 canon", when it's actually, "in the UK". And if so it may well be Hasbro pushed it to be Majesty too, because that connection with Celestia could be there, and bronies are interested in her. Hasbro are concerned more with G4, so that would make sense. In any case, it was a fail.
Or they think Majesty is more popular in the US than she is because of the brony Majesty citing. A lot of that gets cited as "In G1 canon", when it's actually, "in the UK". And if so it may well be Hasbro pushed it to be Majesty too, because that connection with Celestia could be there, and bronies are interested in her. Hasbro are concerned more with G4, so that would make sense. In any case, it was a fail.
Is Majesty really that unpopular in the US? She's in several US books, made appearances in stories all the way up to at least year 6 (possibly the only G1 character to do so in US stories?) and was later rereleased as a mail order. Not to mention she's tied to the most popular playset ever. Aren't the playset ponies generally pretty fondly remembered, since a lot of kids had them?
She looks like she accidentally wandered into a room that was being renovated by Mr. Bean...
Creepy, but I want one so bad! Too bad I'm nowhere near SD... I wonder if I know anyone who's going that could grab one for me. There's always ebay I guess. :)
She looks like she accidentally wandered into a room that was being renovated by Mr. Bean...
I don't know if she will be on Hasbro's shop since this isn't actually Hasbro... Honestly though, when I look up Hasbro's Toy Shop I get linked to Hasbro Pulse and there is NO MLP there... even though Hasbro shop says you can find MLP on Pulse in their "Where to buy" when you look up MLP... So I don't think SDCC Majesty is going to be available through Hasbro :/Creepy, but I want one so bad! Too bad I'm nowhere near SD... I wonder if I know anyone who's going that could grab one for me. There's always ebay I guess. :)
Check out Hasbro's webpage before resorting to ebay..
I don't know if she will be on Hasbro's shop since this isn't actually Hasbro... Honestly though, when I look up Hasbro's Toy Shop I get linked to Hasbro Pulse and there is NO MLP there... even though Hasbro shop says you can find MLP on Pulse in their "Where to buy" when you look up MLP... So I don't think SDCC Majesty is going to be available through Hasbro :/Creepy, but I want one so bad! Too bad I'm nowhere near SD... I wonder if I know anyone who's going that could grab one for me. There's always ebay I guess. :)
Check out Hasbro's webpage before resorting to ebay..
I don't know if she will be on Hasbro's shop since this isn't actually Hasbro...Creepy, but I want one so bad! Too bad I'm nowhere near SD... I wonder if I know anyone who's going that could grab one for me. There's always ebay I guess. :)
Check out Hasbro's webpage before resorting to ebay..
I don't know if she will be on Hasbro's shop since this isn't actually Hasbro... Honestly though, when I look up Hasbro's Toy Shop I get linked to Hasbro Pulse and there is NO MLP there... even though Hasbro shop says you can find MLP on Pulse in their "Where to buy" when you look up MLP... So I don't think SDCC Majesty is going to be available through Hasbro :/Creepy, but I want one so bad! Too bad I'm nowhere near SD... I wonder if I know anyone who's going that could grab one for me. There's always ebay I guess. :)
Check out Hasbro's webpage before resorting to ebay..
I've tried messaging them on FB about something with this pony but all I got was the automated message to go to their customer service page XD I don't know maybe the only respond to certain things. Still have to gotten a response back but will see in due time.
Whoops. Forgot about that. (had just saw someone else mention earlier, so that's why I did).
BF is pretty responsive, maybe someone with a social media account can ask where they potentially will sell any leftovers (provided they don't sell out).
I've tried messaging them on FB about something with this pony but all I got was the automated message to go to their customer service page XD I don't know maybe the only respond to certain things. Still have to gotten a response back but will see in due time.
Whoops. Forgot about that. (had just saw someone else mention earlier, so that's why I did).
BF is pretty responsive, maybe someone with a social media account can ask where they potentially will sell any leftovers (provided they don't sell out).
SpoilerThere's a big difference between being a well loved toy with a popular playset and being iconic in my opinion. I mean, I had baby tiddly winks and baby half note and their playsets too as a kid. Did I love them? Yes. Did I play with them all the time? Yes. Do I consider them iconic to G1 MLP in the UK now? No.
There's also a huge difference with how she's presented in media and used in general in North America compared to her role over here.
She's not in every single story in the UK either. But she is the lynchpin of the UK G1 world and is actually written as such. In N. America the castle is more iconic and important than Majesty is in the bigger picture, hence how she's dumped out of ever being in the animated specials and such, even when the castle appears.
In the UK she was released I think in around 1985 till around 1988, but she was still appearing in the stories up to 1991 and 1992, before MLP Tales happened.
Pics mostly borrowed from wiki.
Comic 1 (1985)
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/4/4c/MLP001_01.jpg/424px-MLP001_01.jpg
Summer special 1991
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/c/c3/Summer_special91.jpg/424px-Summer_special91.jpg
and 1992
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/5/5a/Summer_special_1992.jpg/450px-Summer_special_1992.jpg
Even as late as 1990 she was still being presented as essentially the founder of Ponyland (though Spike was there before her) and the leader of the ponies (whose coming was foretold!) - this one is my image so you can blame me for the quality ;)
She's in a whole host of the story books, from the Stolen Shadow to the Trolls and the Castle of Darkness to the bewitched basket. Eg:
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/7/7e/Book2.jpg/450px-Book2.jpg
She appeared on several colouring and activity book covers. Eg:
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/7/71/PlayPadMajesty.jpg/452px-PlayPadMajesty.jpg
Also sticker books.
She's part of the Dream Castle room mobile (actually right now she's the only part of mine I can find >.>) I can't find a photo right now that shows it well, but she's part of it.
She doesn't just appear on covers of things, she appears in many many comic and book stories, she ran the letters page in the comics for the most part (kids would write their letters to Majesty).
She also 'ran' the My Little Pony club in the UK. She was on the club membership badges as well, till 1989, and was still writing the newsletters right through till the 1990s.
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/4/45/91-activity-newsletter-2.jpg/436px-91-activity-newsletter-2.jpg
There's not really a comparison.SpoilerIncidentally, I'm not aware of her being in that many North American story books. I know she's in at least one, but I've never seen her in any of the others I have. Glory has a whole spoken word cassette story and Ember had one too, but I never saw any of those things for Majesty (who is on many spoken word and book stories here). If she is in them, she doesn't seem to have had a major or memorable presence. I remember Glory losing her horn. I don't have a clue what Majesty did in any of the US stories. o.O.
Selling well as a toy is something you can apply to many many different ponies in the line. That makes them popular. Maybe loved. It doesn't make them iconic.
As for the brony thing, it's fact that Majesty has more interest for her comic persona among bronies than many other g1 ponies do. It might be a coincidence that that's why she was chosen, but it seems suspiciously possible to me being that Hasbro are also involved. Current Hasbro are not very interested in G1 or the retros in general...
SpoilerThere's a big difference between being a well loved toy with a popular playset and being iconic in my opinion. I mean, I had baby tiddly winks and baby half note and their playsets too as a kid. Did I love them? Yes. Did I play with them all the time? Yes. Do I consider them iconic to G1 MLP in the UK now? No.
There's also a huge difference with how she's presented in media and used in general in North America compared to her role over here.
She's not in every single story in the UK either. But she is the lynchpin of the UK G1 world and is actually written as such. In N. America the castle is more iconic and important than Majesty is in the bigger picture, hence how she's dumped out of ever being in the animated specials and such, even when the castle appears.
In the UK she was released I think in around 1985 till around 1988, but she was still appearing in the stories up to 1991 and 1992, before MLP Tales happened.
Pics mostly borrowed from wiki.
Comic 1 (1985)
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/4/4c/MLP001_01.jpg/424px-MLP001_01.jpg
Summer special 1991
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/c/c3/Summer_special91.jpg/424px-Summer_special91.jpg
and 1992
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/5/5a/Summer_special_1992.jpg/450px-Summer_special_1992.jpg
Even as late as 1990 she was still being presented as essentially the founder of Ponyland (though Spike was there before her) and the leader of the ponies (whose coming was foretold!) - this one is my image so you can blame me for the quality ;)
She's in a whole host of the story books, from the Stolen Shadow to the Trolls and the Castle of Darkness to the bewitched basket. Eg:
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/7/7e/Book2.jpg/450px-Book2.jpg
She appeared on several colouring and activity book covers. Eg:
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/7/71/PlayPadMajesty.jpg/452px-PlayPadMajesty.jpg
Also sticker books.
She's part of the Dream Castle room mobile (actually right now she's the only part of mine I can find >.>) I can't find a photo right now that shows it well, but she's part of it.
She doesn't just appear on covers of things, she appears in many many comic and book stories, she ran the letters page in the comics for the most part (kids would write their letters to Majesty).
She also 'ran' the My Little Pony club in the UK. She was on the club membership badges as well, till 1989, and was still writing the newsletters right through till the 1990s.
http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/thumb/4/45/91-activity-newsletter-2.jpg/436px-91-activity-newsletter-2.jpg
There's not really a comparison.SpoilerIncidentally, I'm not aware of her being in that many North American story books. I know she's in at least one, but I've never seen her in any of the others I have. Glory has a whole spoken word cassette story and Ember had one too, but I never saw any of those things for Majesty (who is on many spoken word and book stories here). If she is in them, she doesn't seem to have had a major or memorable presence. I remember Glory losing her horn. I don't have a clue what Majesty did in any of the US stories. o.O.
Selling well as a toy is something you can apply to many many different ponies in the line. That makes them popular. Maybe loved. It doesn't make them iconic.
As for the brony thing, it's fact that Majesty has more interest for her comic persona among bronies than many other g1 ponies do. It might be a coincidence that that's why she was chosen, but it seems suspiciously possible to me being that Hasbro are also involved. Current Hasbro are not very interested in G1 or the retros in general...
You're right, there's no comparison because we didn't have any of that here. Maybe iconic was the wrong word to use but I still think she is important to people here. And maybe I have a different perspective because being in Canada we didn't have tons of merch or stories or anything. We had ponies in the toy store that we had to make up our own stories for in our imagination. As a kid the only media I saw was the MLP movie and escape from Catrina. I don't remember any books or merch. We didn't all have it so good. On a side note, I doubt Hasbro or BF have any idea how iconic she was to you in the UK either. All in all, I think this is a good sign that she'll get a regular release and hopefully some of these ponies will start trickling out to other countries so we don't have to pay an arm and a leg to get them from the US.
Both the US and Canada did have a MLP Fan Club. I have the fliers for the latter. I also know I've seen puzzles in French with Ma Petite Pouliche on the box, and that must be Canadian, since France used Mon Petit Poney. And you had a long and thriving mail order programme, which we also didn't have. The UK also didn't have the TV series air properly over here till 1995ish. We did have VHS releases but they were random eps out of order. So we had the comics instead. Also, backcard stories for ponies in North America are much more detailed than the US ones up until pretty late in the line - they only become actually longer in the UK release when they're basically copied from the US stories around 1989. So again we missed out on that. I don't think we had more stuff overall. Just different stuff, and the comic is a stand-out part of that because it went on as long as it did.
My point being every country had something, just not necessarily the same. Which means what was iconic in different places changed.
The fact Majesty was the cornerstone of the comic and story canon makes her iconic here. Nobody had to pick her as the cornerstone star, since way more ponies here got highlighted and detailed attention in comic stories. And yet out of all of those, Majesty did.
Basically the point I was making is that there's a difference between a popular sale item and an iconic one. The problem is that in the last few years all the Majesty stuff that's iconic from the UK has been absorbed into a "in G1, Majesty did this", as though it's a worldwide thing.
And it strikes me that if they did do research on a superficial level, they'd get that and think Majesty was iconic in all places, rather than getting the story right. While I totally want to share the stuff we had, I personally hate the appropriation of UK stuff like Majesty's antics, and also the TE origin story as a general "fact of G1".
I hope you are right by the way, and we will get a proper Majesty at some point that has a more global release. Or at least is easier to import. I can't afford a new DC repro nor can I store one, so it will be a difficult decision if that is how she comes out here - but I would rather see her and Lemon Drop sold as separate ponies, not with sets. I guess we'll see how it pans out.
I maintain that, if this is the only verson of Majesty we ever get, BF have let down their UK market spectacularly.
Well I have less than zero chance of getting this pony, but if I ever did by some miracle get hold of her I would instantly give her some eyes. I can't manage eyeless ponies. Otherwise she looks ok.
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Thats because she'll steal your eyes if you don't give her back hers. :devious:
Is anyone gonna buy her for sure? I'd like to see some pics once she is out.
wouldn't it be great if she came with spike.
Has anyone heard if they had extra after SDCC? I was there, but could not find their booth! :(I heard that they sold out at SDCC. :(