Does anyone know if there are any zoom meetups for the older gen communities? I have wanderlust and am itching to get out, but it’s not safe, and I don’t think I want to hang around a bunch of men I’ve never met, from the g4 community, anyway.

I don’t usually go thrifting on Mondays due to the toy displays being pretty bare bones, but I decided to go today (else I’d be climbing the walls at home), and lo and behold, not only do I find a whole mess of g3 ponies, but also a lone g1 baby, Little Giggles. Her hair is still in fairly nice condition, surprisingly. She just needs a little scrub.

She and I share a well deserved Coke and enjoy a bit of sun and fresh air before I take her home and start her spa treatment.
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The G3’s

I know a lot of the past gen community doesn’t focus on the tv show of MLP, and that’s fine. This is a discussion to talk about the tv show about Friendship is Magic, but all that it encompasses- the toyline, the comics, the books, the fandom, their content. I want to know from you guys if the existence of FiM has impacted you in any way- small or large.

Personally, I wouldn’t have come into My Little Pony as a whole without FiM. I got into FiM through seeing clips and memes flooding YouTube shortly after the great migration from some other site, where artists and such were expanding to different social media platforms. It seemed to be everywhere at the time, and I got curious enough about it to start watching the show to see what it was all about. Time skip forward a few years and I had very quickly developed an attachment to the creative side of the fandom. The music, the animations, the fanfics. I was a creative type long before the discovery of MLP, as I had dived deep into anime and manga and my own comics, and made fanfics and my own oc’s and my own AU’s and original universes as far back as middle school. So the FIM creative community was a perfect fit for me. Somewhere along the line, I started looking into other past generations of pony to see what they offered, and continued falling in love. I explored them all, and while I held admiration for gens 1- 3, I felt I really fell into a death trap with a super niche and obscure part of the toyline of g1 branch called Takara ponies. They were unique. They were from Japan! Their roundness made them even cuter! Their gimmick of fashion also pushed me toward finding a creative side into another fandom (but that’s a story for another day).  I also found myself starting with collecting g4 toys early on as I was getting into the show and the fandom- Starting with Rarity because she spoke to my long dead dream of wanting to be a fashion designer, and Pinkie Pie because she was just plain cute. Them my collection exploded from there and I was buying anything Pony I could get my hands on. Once I started discovering past gens, the collection then spilled into g3, with my first purchase being Toola Roola, then to finding them in the wild, followed by g1 and 2. I have tried to quit collecting for many years, but it has become an insatiable addiction that for some reason, I just can’t quit.

Long story long, I became a fan of everything My Little Pony through the existence of g4. Tell me how g4 has impacted you guys- positively or negatively.

Let’s talk about how it is the ultimate disrespect to give Team Rockets Meowth, from Pokémon, a tragic backstory about how he learned to walk on two feet for this girl cat, only to get rejected by her, and then shortly after we see other region’s cat Pokémon (Purloin, Galarian and Alolan Meowth) standing on two feet instead of four. Stop it, Game Freak. Stop disrespecting Meowth!
What are you guys’ thoughts on this?

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I think these adorable little ponies are definitely worth discussing! Fawn Doo & Marcie Pan- two ponies who appear in the G4 IDW Comic: “Friends forever” issue 12. Their names are an obvious pun on “fondue “ and “marzipan”, which I think is pretty cute (partially because I have been naming a lot of my own OC’s after food and drinks, thanks to a certain comic unrelated to ponies).

According to their wiki page, they were created for Friends Forever Issue 12 by writer Barbara Randall Kesel, with the script description "The two sisters running the cart are plush avatars of pony happiness: they resemble the treats" "in their shiny colorful way.They have their manes done up in rounded buns with shiny hairnets." "Their hooves are bedazzled to match their ‘noms. They appear friendly, prosperous, and well-fed."

They were designed by artist Brenda Hickey, who took design inspiration from Japanese Sweet Lolita fashion, was asked "Are they from the Lollipop-Guild ?" and replied "That is likely what their origin story is!", and later stated that "they're not a reference." They were color-designed by colorist Heather Breckel

I would love to know the backstory of these cute girls, what their relationship to each other is, how they came across the Lolita fashion, and if their personalities are truly how they are depicted in the comics or if that is simply how Pinkie Pie perceives them.

What do you guys think about these ponies?

Does anyone think that Hasbro cares enough about the pony brand? I know that MLP is Hasbro’s most successful girl line, but when I see the Pokémon Company doing all these amazing things for the highest grossing brand in the word, I can’t help but compare, even though they are on massively different scales. TPC looks like they put so much care and love and anticipation to what should be big and celebrated and hyped, like their brand’s anniversaries (the 25th is coming soon). This Pokémon music video just came out that hits on delivering nostalgia to all the gens, and it LOOKS GOOD, and it’s just -chef’s kiss-. And I WANT that kind of awesomeness and care and updates and such given to the ponies- all their generations. And when I look at Hasbro and their past anniversary actions- there’s rereleases of the same g1 original 6. Ok. Yaaaay? Again, I know there’s bigger things at stake with TPC and their brand, but I just feel like Hasbro could definitely step up their game- not just with anniversary releases, either. How do you guys feel?  Is Hasbro giving the pony brand as much love and care and building anticipation for new and nostalgia with its brand, as it should be? (Or am I just jealous and imagining things? )

Probably a bit early to talk about them, but who cares? One of my goals for 2020 was getting to take a trip to a store to finally get something Lolita and finally into the fashion, but the pandemic happened and screwed air travel, so I blew my money on a pony custom that I didn’t really need. So, I kinda hope to renew that plan for 2021. Another goal I want to have is to save and buy something, anything authentic from the g1 Takara pony line.
I’m also hoping that I can be calmer and less triggered toward people. I failed that this year, so here’s to next year.

What goals do you guys have?

Has anyone ever had a package status say it was delivered, but never received it? Does anyone have postal horror stories to share?