This is a good question! I'm mainly a G3 collector because I love them, but I will admit some of the choices Hasbro made are baffling.

Over 200 different G3 characters and not one boy?
Only using two molds for ALL the babies (normal babies, I mean, not special ones)?
Only putting out 7 unicorns for your whole line?

And WHY go to all the trouble of making some molds (Honolu-loo, baby sister earthie, baby sister pegasus, sitting pony) that you only use once and never again?? What a waste!

Maybe they were just trying to keep things simple. The G1 line had so many different types of ponies (I mean like seaponies, mers, boys, pegasus, unicorns, earthies, flutters, wingers, etc etc). Other than the Breezies, the G3 kept their lines simple and concentrated on just making interesting cutie marks and putting out a bunch of different toys and accessories (until they decided to just do Core 7 anyway...).

I was just looking through my collection last night and I thought some of my G3's are really pretty on the non-display side! Even without their cutie mark visible, the pose or accessories make for a cute image.

I wanted to start a thread for anyone to post pics of their NDS ponies! Any generation is welcome, I just want to see some love for the side we don't normally show off. 

Which Twilight Sparkle release is that? Mine has the cutie mark on the other side.

So my ponies were in storage for over a year. And by storage I mean I put 200 loose ponies in a giant cardboard box.  But at least it was temperature controlled in a nice cozy closet in my mom's house!

I brought all the ponies out of storage and for the most part they faired just fine. Hair is all sorts of crazy, of course, but everyone seems okay, with a few exceptions.

Two of my white G3's were somehow stained, but none of the ponies in the box were wearing any clothes or accessories. One of the white ponies now has a big neon pink streak down her back, and another has a yellow stripe down her leg.

I'm assuming the color must have come from the hair and/or body of a pony they were resting on?  Has this happened to anyone else? I didn't think about not letting the ponies touch each other when I put them in storage lol.

I'm hoping to sun bleach or use some other method to remove the marks, since the pretty ponies are mint otherwise!

Personally I think she was adorable in the Last Roundup as a character, and shows that Ponyville isn't full of all these perfect ponies. You can be different and still be loved (at least thats how I took it).

Were we watching the same episode?? What I saw was Pony being clutzy and wrecking things, and Rainbow Dash treating her like she was a huge hindrance and getting in the way, and snapping at her repeatedly in a rude way.

I have seen several people claim that the Pony character shows how Ponyville accepts everyone, yet I saw none of that at all in that episode. That's what bothered me the most about her portrayal in the ep.

You know, this reminds me of a magazine article I read a long time ago, detailing the "workout" Barbie toys have to go through at Mattel before they're put on the shelves. They put the Barbie toys in a machine that bends their arms and legs 1,000 times in a row to make sure the joints don't break, throw her in a pool for 52 hours to make sure the bathing suit colors don't bleed, etc etc.

Quality control, Hasbro!

Oh crud! I guess I'd better take mine off too!

....but what about Applejack? >.> They gave her a red elastic to match her red hair tie in the show... I wonder if her hair will have a big red ring on the end... But I guess I don't mind if I just plan to leave it on forever...