The streak of yellow in her hair really just doesn't do it for me. It's weird because I love yellow-bodied ponies.

My friend Zejgar made a video about this, I think he has a point.

Yeah, that principle is sort of what I was talking about. To me it's that clear intent to either fool or lure as a "cheaper option" that distinguishes a fakie from a toy that happens to share a similar concept.

I don't think a toy necessarily has to steal a mold or box art directly to count as a fakie, but then I'm not sure if your friend was implying that in the video or if he just picked the fake G4 as an obvious example.

Wow, this blows my mind! The fur, the ears, the toes...everything is spot on. I think somehow the eyes are mesmerizing me the most, though. It really does look alive.

Sending you a PM!

Haha! I actually said "oh no!" out loud when I read your post!

I don't even own enough ponies to try and beat your record yet, but I'm curious -- are there any poses in particular that give you a lot of trouble? Conversely, any that are very stable? Poor Bow Tie and Parasol look pretty resigned to their fates...

I've seen a lot less of this than I hear people complain about, and I think hypocrisy is a tempting two-way street.  Also bronies aren't going away with the end of G4 any more than anyone here quit being interested in My Little Pony when G1 stopped.  Diverse fans of MLP are going to have to learn to get along, and i believe one day we will.

Oh, definitely, I've seen it the other way around too. It really bothers me when people automatically treat bronies like they are dangerous perverts. I actually recently had something happen where a friend of mine was presenting an academic paper on the brony phenomenon, and somebody actually left the room because she apparently didn't "feel safe around bronies." =/ Maybe she had a bad experience, but it was a room full of academics. What could have even happened?

Hm...another unpopular opinion...maybe this one isn't so much "unpopular" as just weird, but I feel like as the generations went on, the pony names started getting worse and worse. In G1 there's often some kind of poetic device behind them -- "Cherry Treats" is alliterative (in sound if not in spelling,) "Night Glider" utilizes assonance, "Moondancer" utilizes consonance, "Up, Up and Away" references a turn of phrase, etc. But the later you get the more you get names like "Twilight Sparkle" and "Rainbow Dash" that don't really have any rhyme or reason. It bothers me a little, LOL

Of course, G1 had some unforgivable names too. "Yum-Yum?" Really?

i know how to remove the tail contraption and turn them "regular", so if you really like her i could help you out and just get rid of it!

Thank you, that's very generous. I don't need her, though. Maybe if you wanted you could post a tutorial for other people who might be interested? The Happy Tails gimmick actually doesn't seem that popular, judging from the comments here.

I can't wait for g5 to pop up and flush out the last of the people latching onto the brony label and g4's popularity. I was still very much a child when the brony phenomenon started and was extremely hurt by feeling chased out of the community I grew up in because I was now seemingly in the minority and in the wrong for being a kid who liked kids toys. The last of my childhood was taken away from me for the comfort of adult men in a space that didn't belong to them and I can't wait for them to get a taste of their own medicine when g5 rolls around and children take up the majority of mlp fans again.

You hit the nail on the head regarding what bothers me about the brony community. I understand that there are positive things about it -- I think men can and should be encouraged to like what they like without shame or embarrassment, even if those things are "girly," because there's nothing inherently shameful about girls! But I've seen too often that the men (and, granted, some of the women) involved aren't willing to extend the same courtesy to others that they demand for themselves, and instead swagger about acting like they own MLP and anyone who doesn't fit into their mold is stupid and wrong.

Another unpopular opinion of mine, since I don't want to just rant -- Nirvanas usually look bad, in my opinion. I could be biased, but the alternate color schemes never seem to quite "fit" -- like it's obvious the characters weren't originally designed in those colors.