Girls deserve the same quality and variety in their toylines that boys in Transformers are enjoying.
Girls deserve the same quality and variety in their toylines that boys in Transformers are enjoying.
Now I'm not sure that I agree that little girls deserve Bumblebee shilled at every opportunity in every generation . . . :P
But I would be all about MLP versions of Botbots. Tiny ponies that transform into household goods.
I know for too long of a time that g4 fans have criticized earlier generations of MLP, and I’m sure that past gen fans have felt the same.
for Tranaformers Hasbro runs multiple lines and they should do the same for MLP:
one for Pre Schoolers (Rescue Bots)
one for 6 to 10 year olds (Cyberverse)
one for 8 to 13 and up. (Generations)
one for teens and adults who like Michael Bay shows (Studio Series)
one for adults only (Masterpiece)
MLP doesnt need THAT many toylines but at least 2 or three would be good:
Extra Trendy and Girly - for preschool to 11 year olds (their current target)
G1 inspired toyline (take it back from Basic Fun and own it) for grown up collectors. Free of gimmicks. lots of characters. All brushable(?)
I’d LOVE to see Hasbro do that for MLP
ya I guess we should be happy with Basic Fun then.i get that BG is aiming for the nostalgic adult collectors, but Kotobukiya is moreso the adult line, I would think
it’s basically a line for grown ups.
Yeah, I don't think bronies have had any significant impact on the toyline (and any product that might've been targeted to them was only an addition, it didn't replace the main toyline). The only thing that matters is what the majority of kids and parents will buy. Hasbro wanted to establish a core cast of recognizable characters long before, but G4 was the first time it was really successful thanks to the cartoon.that’s not how I remember it, though. I mean- wasn’t it the bronies’s constant cries for “show accurate” characters what led Hasbro to change Celestia from pink to white as one of the first movements that got the ball rolling for more? And I mean a very large chunk of the molded toylines as I said, might have been a result of that also. I don’t want to give the fandom more credit than due, but to my knowledge, I don’t think this many molded ponies and character lines came out in other generations, and I can only think of one source for the cause. You made mention of the “Favorites collection” sets, but weren’t those majorly packed with the fandom’s fleshed our characters from the series? Dj Pon-3, Bon Bon, Lyra, :muffin: Pony, etc? Yeah there were other ponies at times, but I recall them mostly being the secondary 6 with the show villains like Luna or Chrysalis.
Something that comes to mind is the big gift sets Hasbro kept putting out throughout G4. In the beginning they were called "Favorites Collection" and the majority of the ponies in them were unique characters. You can argue bronies had some influence in what characters were selected (although toy-only characters like Dewdrop Dazzle and Minty also appeared in these sets). But it still meant ponies with really unusual color schemes as well as some villains being made as toys. I think Hasbro reasoned that putting unique characters in these big sets would make them sell well. But now in recent years all big gift sets seem to only contain the mane six and the princesses. Strange as it may seem, I guess these sets sold better to kids and parents if they contained ALL the ponies kids already know and like. :shrug:
ya I guess we should be happy with Basic Fun then.
it’s basically a line for grown ups.
ya I guess we should be happy with Basic Fun then.
it’s basically a line for grown ups.
i just have this metal “tic” about them - “it should be Hasbro doing this!”. I know its irrational.It's cheaper for Hasbro to let someone else handle it. And in the end, Hasbro has the last say about what BF is doing with their IP.
Only speaking for the stores here, but the M6 sets shelfsat (and still shelf sit). When I was able to go to stores I could still find things like merpony Pinkie with relative ease. The yellow one? Not so much.
that’s not how I remember it, though. I mean- wasn’t it the bronies’s constant cries for “show accurate” characters what led Hasbro to change Celestia from pink to white as one of the first movements that got the ball rolling for more? And I mean a very large chunk of the molded toylines as I said, might have been a result of that also. I don’t want to give the fandom more credit than due, but to my knowledge, I don’t think this many molded ponies and character lines came out in other generations, and I can only think of one source for the cause. You made mention of the “Favorites collection” sets, but weren’t those majorly packed with the fandom’s fleshed our characters from the series? Dj Pon-3, Bon Bon, Lyra, :muffin: Pony, etc? Yeah there were other ponies at times, but I recall them mostly being the secondary 6 with the show villains like Luna or Chrysalis.
The GoH is actually a decent idea. I saw young boys also interested in those toys in the toy stores near here. I don't have a problem with that line.
At least G1 coupled its gimmicks with new characters.
QuoteAt least G1 coupled its gimmicks with new characters.
This. Other toylines that are currently more popular than mlp (LOL and OMG for instance) take full advantage of the surprise trend by releasing brand new characters with each wave of surprise toys. I wish Hasbro would do this.Spoilerthat probably means that the toy you would end up getting would have to be a complete mystery but that's what's popular now i guess :shrug:
I don't think the mane six will go away any time soon, especially Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash since they've been around for 17 years. If Hasbro wants a core group of characters then they've found which ones work (except for Applejack maybe.)
Whenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies :lookround:
Whenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies :lookround:
I’m still traumatized by the Daring Do body pillow. ._. How did that possibly make it to production? How did no one draw a line? The show is rated TV-Y.
I won't forgive Hasbro anytime soon for that awful Retrospective. That was definitely brony pandering in the worst ways, for being disgusting, spiteful and innapropriate.
I won't forgive Hasbro anytime soon for that awful Retrospective. That was definitely brony pandering in the worst ways, for being disgusting, spiteful and innapropriate.
Is that the media THING on which all that garbage about G1 being all about parties and stuff was said?
Or is that some other horror?
I just hate the way prior generations get reframed to make G4 look like the final polished evolution.
G4 is fine but it's it's own generation. It's not an evolved final form. This isn't pokemon.
I won't forgive Hasbro anytime soon for that awful Retrospective. That was definitely brony pandering in the worst ways, for being disgusting, spiteful and innapropriate.
Is that the media THING on which all that garbage about G1 being all about parties and stuff was said?
Or is that some other horror?
I just hate the way prior generations get reframed to make G4 look like the final polished evolution.
G4 is fine but it's it's own generation. It's not an evolved final form. This isn't pokemon.
It was the one that tried to do a Pop Up Videos type thing, only it was filled with inappropriate and mean spirited "humor."
They don't treat their other big sellers like this. :mad:
1. It's some other horror; that "media THING" was an early-on interview with Lauren Faust, where her conception of G1 was clearly based entirely off the backcards (And a very negative perception thereof). The Retrospective is that abomination miniseries that accompanied the release of the retraux Mane Six set, that revisited the G1 cartoon... with horrifically mocking subtitle commentary. In my opinion, the people who made it and the brand rep who approved it deserve to have Fortress Maximus dropped on their heads repeatedly.I won't forgive Hasbro anytime soon for that awful Retrospective. That was definitely brony pandering in the worst ways, for being disgusting, spiteful and innapropriate.
Is that the media THING on which all that garbage about G1 being all about parties and stuff was said?
Or is that some other horror?
I just hate the way prior generations get reframed to make G4 look like the final polished evolution.
G4 is fine but it's it's own generation. It's not an evolved final form. This isn't pokemon.
Besides, G4 is all parties and fashion and all the things that apparently G1 was so bad with. So apparently they're fine if they're in G4.
The irony being that all of that 'girly' nonsense is one reason I dislike FIM xD.
Yeah, thanks for the clarity. I do remember the retrospective now too. Made worse by the fact Hasbro is trying now to rekindle retro with all these collabs, having apparently realised retro ponies (BF) sell and them saying they wanted nothing to do with them was a bit of a fail.Well, the backcards and the commercials are the only pieces of G1 material that I think could even remotely begin to give the impression it was nothing but sappy parties and whatnot, considering the "End of the world? Must be Tuesday" nature of the cartoon and the stuff that happened in the comics. My thought was that she gave the commercials a handful of the backcard stories a glance and then didn't dive deeper.
That Retrospective thing was definitely a brony pandering, agreed.
I'd dispute that Faust's view was based on the backcards either, honestly....I think it was just some kind of mangled memory in her mind about how MLP was in G1. I didn't watch the brony THING because just the clips I did see offended me, but watching her interview on TTMU told me everything I wanted to know about her concept of G1 and that it didn't really bear resemblance to G1.
Besides, G4 is all parties and fashion and all the things that apparently G1 was so bad with. So apparently they're fine if they're in G4.Hey now, G4 isn't all parties and fashion and w/e. It's also cheap and sometimes cringeworthy comedy used a substitute for actual writing.
The irony being that all of that 'girly' nonsense is one reason I dislike FIM xD.
Whenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies :lookround:
Well, the backcards and the commercials are the only pieces of G1 material that I think could even remotely begin to give the impression it was nothing but sappy parties and whatnot, considering the "End of the world? Must be Tuesday" nature of the cartoon and the stuff that happened in the comics.
Whenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies :lookround:
I feel this especially true for male fans given how we're so likely to get regarded as brownies simply for being male. I grew up with G1, and have been a fan since the mid 80s. In fact I used to watch the original cartoon series in the morning before going to preschool.
I hate bringing gender into discussion, but it's true that bronies especially ruined it for oldschool male pony fans. When you're an adult woman into MLP people will usually just assume that you liked it as a kid and it's childhood nostalgia, but when you're an adult male into MLP then people these days will just automatically associate you with the brony fandom. That's probably one of the main reasons behind my personal grudge against them.
I feel this especially true for male fans given how we're so likely to get regarded as brownies simply for being male. I grew up with G1, and have been a fan since the mid 80s. In fact I used to watch the original cartoon series in the morning before going to preschool.
I'm interested that you mention the cartoons as obscure in the 1980s, LM. They certainly were here, but over there too? Or is it a state by state thing do you think in terms of transmission?
The fact she didn't remember anything from G1 but had an opinion on what she thought it was like, which then became the core of her TV show despite the fact she apparently didn't like that...is just wrongness for me on so many levels.
I'm interested that you mention the cartoons as obscure in the 1980s, LM. They certainly were here, but over there too? Or is it a state by state thing do you think in terms of transmission?
Obscure across the board in the US, IMO. It's not like Transformers, where the cartoon was the main driver of the hype. I think most former 80s kids only know there was a MLP cartoon because EVERYTHING had a cartoon in the 80s, ha ha.QuoteThe fact she didn't remember anything from G1 but had an opinion on what she thought it was like, which then became the core of her TV show despite the fact she apparently didn't like that...is just wrongness for me on so many levels.
But she did know what G1 was like. She knew what the toys were like. Which was the core of the MLP experience for little girls in the US. This may seem odd to you since the UK had such a widespread, regular output of canon (the comics). But most American little girls did not know or care about any of the canon, they just loved brushable horse toys. (Arguably the backcards were the most widespread type of canon but let's be real, most of them got thrown away and their stories forgotten.)
was even accused of faking interest in MLP to attract (these specific, messed up) guys :lol:
Name the gimmick the writers obviously tired of by the second season, considering how they started horsing around with it. :Pwas even accused of faking interest in MLP to attract (these specific, messed up) guys :lol:
"Name all the friendship lessons!"
But she did know what G1 was like. She knew what the toys were like. Which was the core of the MLP experience for little girls in the US. This may seem odd to you since the UK had such a widespread, regular output of canon (the comics). But most American little girls did not know or care about any of the canon, they just loved brushable horse toys. (Arguably the backcards were the most widespread type of canon but let's be real, most of them got thrown away and their stories forgotten.)
I was obsessed with MLP as a little girl, it was my absolute favorite toy. I kept the brochures that came with the ponies and from those I could name all the ponies from Year 2 to Year 4. But if someone asked me, "And which ponies are the main characters in MLP & Friends? What are their personalities?", I would have been completely stumped. To me Wind Whistler was not any more significant than Skippity Doo.
Applejack, who's been around for 37 years, is disposable, but 17 year Pinkie and Dash not so much. Oh the irony.
I didn't watch the brony THING because just the clips I did see offended me, but watching her interview on TTMU told me everything I wanted to know about her concept of G1 and that it didn't really bear resemblance to G1.
I'm surprised to hear that some of you guys see MLP and Friends as obscure. I was born in 1990 and grew up with the cartoon -- did the majority of us 80s/90s pony people not do that?
Not that it mattered much to me, because the pony toys I grew up with was not the ponies that were featured in the show.QuoteI didn't watch the brony THING because just the clips I did see offended me, but watching her interview on TTMU told me everything I wanted to know about her concept of G1 and that it didn't really bear resemblance to G1.
Say what? Is this interview available somewhere, and what is TTMU?
TTMU - The Toys that Made Us - it was on Netflix There's an ep for MLP and unfortunately she's included.
At the time the ponies were out on shelves, it was negligible here, and apparently, over in the US as well. Maybe it was the same in Sweden?
I think G1 was fluid like that. You could enter into it or leave it and still get meaningful play.
QuoteTTMU - The Toys that Made Us - it was on Netflix There's an ep for MLP and unfortunately she's included.
Ah, of course. Thank you. That's the one I've meant to see but have missed because we don't have Netflix.QuoteAt the time the ponies were out on shelves, it was negligible here, and apparently, over in the US as well. Maybe it was the same in Sweden?
I was so young, but I remember seeing G1 ponies on the shelves when I was very little. I don't know hos long the gap between G1 and G2 was. It is kind of funny that UK grew up with the toy ponies from the show but not the show, and Sweden had it the other way around. I see how that must have led to UK kids going "I don't like what they did with *pony*'s personality in the show" and swedish kids going "I'm just going to prentend Kisscurl is Rosedust" (I had never seen a flutter pony toy). But yeah. OT?
was even accused of faking interest in MLP to attract (these specific, messed up) guys :lol:
"Name all the friendship lessons!"
Whenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies :lookround:
I feel this especially true for male fans given how we're so likely to get regarded as brownies simply for being male. I grew up with G1, and have been a fan since the mid 80s. In fact I used to watch the original cartoon series in the morning before going to preschool.
Yeah, this too. I hate bringing gender into discussion, but it's true that bronies especially ruined it for oldschool male pony fans. When you're an adult woman into MLP people will usually just assume that you liked it as a kid and it's childhood nostalgia, but when you're an adult male into MLP then people these days will just automatically associate you with the brony fandom. That's probably one of the main reasons behind my personal grudge against them.
TTMU - The Toys that Made Us - it was on Netflix :) There's an ep for MLP and unfortunately she's included.
How does she get the idea that Seashell and Bubbles are disabled?
How does she get the idea that Seashell and Bubbles are disabled?
Because they were sitting down, that's all there was to her theory. The TTMU ep is not the only time she brought this up; I can't recall the exact interviews (or online posts or chats?), but she did mention it before, when asked about G1.
How does she get the idea that Seashell and Bubbles are disabled?
Because they were sitting down, that's all there was to her theory. The TTMU ep is not the only time she brought this up; I can't recall the exact interviews (or online posts or chats?), but she did mention it before, when asked about G1.
:nope: pfft
How does she get the idea that Seashell and Bubbles are disabled?
Because they were sitting down, that's all there was to her theory. The TTMU ep is not the only time she brought this up; I can't recall the exact interviews (or online posts or chats?), but she did mention it before, when asked about G1.
Why not bring this up? I have noticed this since "brony" became a term that a lot of Bronies themselves pretended that every male fan that came before them must have been either gay (and a Mr. Smithers type with a room full of Malibu Stacies) or nonexistent. That all straight male fans are Bronies by default, even little boys growing up with FiM.
No wonder this backfired on all male G1-G3.5 fans. Some adopted the term out of peer pressure and said "I was a brony before it was cool" but that is another can of worms.
There is nothing wrong about liking MLP. MLPs are cute. I think the fandom was way less divided by gender in the past. Guys were fewer but I don't recall us girls trying to put a label on them or keep away from them. Anyone remember MLP fandom being anti-men? I personally don't.
I am also not a fan of Faust’s interview on The Toys That Made Us episode. At one point she says she something that implies G1 ponies lived “in peaceful meadows and cupcake houses.”
Can people please stop acting like Faust knows anything about G1? It is clear she does not. She played with them, and it is sweet that she got to reboot a show based on a childhood favorite toy, but she should not be interviewed about G1 history or facts.
Kinda unrelated, but similarly, does anyone else dislike it when people act like Firefly, Surprise, ect. were just who Pinkie and Dash were in G1, and that Twilight is the same character as Twilight Sparkle? Or act like Firefly/Surprise/Twilight/Posey/AJ/Sparkler were the main 6 characters in G1? They never appeared in a single animated work together!
I mean, my childhood involved ponies escaping zombie overlords. Does that make that 'how G1 was'? Nope.Indeed.
I am with Zapper on the pony and gender thing.
It's always bothered me that it's fine if girls like 'boyish' things but there's immediately so much hassle for guys who like 'girl' toys. Toys are toys and you like what you like. Sorry, but I thought that as a kid and still do as an adult.
There is not enough palm to contain all the face
Looking back, at just the physical ponies, I think that not much has changed overall for me. I don't mind the modeled hair, I don't mind the increase pose-ability, and I think it is great to expand the product into a larger audience.
I feel my concerns with the current line is just the quality of the product. It has always bugged me how small the ponies were, how gross the hair got later on. Believe me, I wanted to like them, but I found myself keeping them in package more and more because I was afraid to find out how bad the product actually was underneath. Has my pony buying habits changed since the launch of the line? Yes.
I feel I am far more willing to shovel the extra cash at the Basic Fun line because I am buying a product closer to the original quality of the older lines.
My hope for the future is that they increase the quality of the product, less accessories more pony.
Glowing Magic (GnS) and Rockin' Beats predate MLP Tales. They were older lines that got dragged into MLPT for some reason, I guess because they had a use at the time.
It was a bit weird here because you had the original comic incarnations of these ponies and then when Tales happened the Rockin Beats got reinvented. I don't think the Glowing Magic ponies ever appeared in the comics for MLPT, just in that animated episode with Patch (under the UK set name, more or less).
We did get the Flutter ponies, though. Did you not have Rosedust over there?I honestly don't know. I would have been too young to remember seeing them, and I never saw a flutter pony IRL 'til I was an adult collector.
I think I recall using that kind of weird logic with some of my own non-MLP toys as a child. If they were molded in a permanent sitting position I couldn't make it look like they were walking around and that bothered me, so I would come up with an explanation that they couldn't walk. Usually also give them some super-powered vehicle to cruise around in too. It just gets weird when you start presenting your bizarre childhood ideas in documentaries like TTMU.
G1 ponies lived in Ponyland over here. Not Dream Valley ;)
But yeah, that is a detail.
I don't know if it's misinterpreted or if it's the army of brony has made so much of it the two mesh together, but I can't watch the TTMU interview without feeling like the show handled that interview as a showpiece with her idea of G1 = G1 and there wasn't a lot of exploration about what G1 was outside of how Faust saw it except "there was no canon". I loved all the stuff about the toy history and so on, but the show hit a brick wall when it realised there wasn't a FIM canon, and then went to the creator of the FIM canon to patch up the holes.
I think it's also though that as yet I've not seen her say anything that gives me faith she based any of FIM on G1. I think it came out of her imagination - which is entirely fine, don't get me wrong, that's where it should come from - but then it got tied to G1 in a far bigger way than was actually the case.
It's not that I think Faust is a bad thing to happen for MLP, either. I just agree with whoever said she shouldn't be interviewed on G1 as any kind of authority. She should be interviewed about G4. If you want actual fans of mLP, they should've interviewed the people whose collections they showed in the titles. Their diverse views of it would've been much more accurate and refreshing an image of G1's world than the FIM creator.
I thought it was Dream Valley which was a part of Ponyland? Except for that one weird UK video tape that got the wrong end of the stick and said they lived in "Dreamland" :PYeah, Dream Valley isn't the name of the whole realm, just the region where Dream Castle, the Lullabye Nursery, and Paradise Estate are. But I believe it's a name exclusive to the cartoon, while Ponyland is used in both the cartoon and the UK comics.
I thought it was Dream Valley which was a part of Ponyland? Except for that one weird UK video tape that got the wrong end of the stick and said they lived in "Dreamland" :PYeah, Dream Valley isn't the name of the whole realm, just the region where Dream Castle, the Lullabye Nursery, and Paradise Estate are. But I believe it's a name exclusive to the cartoon, while Ponyland is used in both the cartoon and the UK comics.
No, I did not watch the episode. I don't watch TTTMU. And all the complaining about the Lauren Faust interview with little mention of anyone else made it sound as if she was almost the sole interviewee.
I would like to know how early gen fans feel, and whether you guys think that the pony franchise will ever Return to the way it was before. Not largely influenced by and made then onward by an adamant and vocal fandom.
On the flip side, are there any positive elements that you might think can result in fandom influence in future pony generations?
I don't think FiM managed to do that, especially in later seasons. The episode about an annoying, pedantic fan of Daring Do? A little edgy, because you could potentially be insulting the very kids who love this show and attend conventions, but not necessarily harmful. The body pillow references, complete with unhappy Daring Do tied up with a rope? Beyond the pale. This is stuff that an exec should have seen and went, 'why are we showing this to children?' I'm usually anti censorship from executive figures who don't necessarily understand children's media, but this is something that I would have liked censored out of existence.
I am with Zapper on the pony and gender thing.
It's always bothered me that it's fine if girls like 'boyish' things but there's immediately so much hassle for guys who like 'girl' toys. Toys are toys and you like what you like. Sorry, but I thought that as a kid and still do as an adult.
You called my name, so here is a rant about the purpose of toys and why they are gendered :lol:SpoilerWe have to remember that toys exist by and large because of social conditioning. Girls were given chore toys such as cleaning and cooking tools, toys that steered them towards the only acceptable female role in society: wife and mother, such as baby dolls, and later on beauty toys such as fashion dolls and play make-up to get an early grasp on how women should always go the extra mile to look attractive for their future husbands. Of course boys would be kept away from such toys. They go opposed to their gender role. And this is true even today. Nobody buys their son a make-up kit without getting weird remarks despite some of the richest make-up artists being men. Same for cooking tools. The industry is dominated by men but the cooking toy is still seen as a chore toy for girls, not a career path toy.
It was never ok for a girl to play soldiers or cars, it was deemed as odd and opposed to being "good" and girlish, girls who would express interest in boy toys where often kept a shameful secret or placed in "domestic training", lady school and all those "fun" clubs, they were even medicated and tortured. It's just that history recording is biased and female oppression was never an issue until the late 19th century, so we always kept track of what boys couldn't do and not really of what girls couldn't do. Girls not being able to do a thing was normalized and expected.
Only due to women's lib we got to a point where girls could express their interests more freely and ask for more spaces to be created for recreation specifically. Games and toys have always been a boy-centered market because boys were the ones expected to be wild and curious, girls were expected to be quiet and doing chore play, knitting, beautifying.
And then of course due to the gay panic in the 60s/70s people were suddenly watching their boys play behaviour like hawks. For girls it was more about looks. She wanted to cut her hair and not wear dresses? Possible lesbian. And neither was accepted.
Sorry but I am tired of this cliché that girls just out of the blue were allowed to have interest in boy stuff. It's due to women's rights movements we won that privilege. And considering most people in my country still assjme each girl who likes to play soccer instead of doing ballet is a secret lesbian... yeah, gendering kids interests and activiyies is alive and well. Girls are also not given Batman toys, they are given the Mattel Batgirl with oversized head and fashions :lol:
Toys will end being gendered the moment toy companies stop market research. And that won't end any time soon. What we can hope for is that more themes and shapes and gimmicks will become "gender neutral". Such as The Joker make-up heads along with warmongering MLPs :lol:
TBH the eighties had nods to cultural material or events as well, it's not a new thing or a FIM thing.Yeah, odds are preeeetty darn good that Fudgy McSwain's accent is a Montgomery Scott reference.
I still remember an episode of the Turtles called "the Maltese Hamster"...
And I'm pretty sure there's a reason why that ice cream guy in Ice Cream Wars has a dodgy scottish accent.
No, I did not watch the episode. I don't watch TTTMU. And all the complaining about the Lauren Faust interview with little mention of anyone else made it sound as if she was almost the sole interviewee.
No, I did not watch the episode. I don't watch TTTMU. And all the complaining about the Lauren Faust interview with little mention of anyone else made it sound as if she was almost the sole interviewee.
Ah, okay. Yeah, that's not the case at all. Lauren Faust was interviewed for a few minutes and talked about how she played with the toys as a kid. G1 collector Summer Hayes was interviewed in a similar manner, talking about the various toys. (Favorite line: "This is totally not crack-pipe pony."
LOL.)
Most of the episode was about the creation of MLP and the contentious disagreement about who was the "real" creator of it (since Bonnie Zacherle and that one vice-president guy both claim credit . . . I totally believe it's Bonnie.) Bonnie got a HUUUGE segment and fully explained her childhood love of ponies and how she designed the first MLPs. They showed her prototype ponies (the natural horse-colored ones) and those beautiful, clear shots are the closest that most of us will get to them unless we're lucky enough to attend a MLP Fair that Bonnie's at.
And they also had several designers and sculptors from G1 over the years. Including a guy who was instructed to design the Pretty Parlor and the lady in charge of his department kept coming by, inspecting his work, and instructing him to "pink it up." (I don't think in the literal "color pink" sense but more like add more hearts, make it more bubbly, etc.)
It was very insightful and fun!
I thought it was Dream Valley which was a part of Ponyland?
LOL no, it was one of the Soda Sipping ponies.
I thought it was Dream Valley which was a part of Ponyland?
Indeed it was, at the end of "The Return of Tambelon Part 1" Grogar says: "Today Dream Valley, tomorrow all of Ponyland"