Before they were "Cutie Marks" - discovery from the VA Pony Meet

[banditpony]

Cute shirts!!

So many of us use the word symbols. How did everyone uniformly choose the same word? Did Hasbro use any word before these shirts [end of G2?].

[hathorcat]

"Symbols" is collector language, which we have all just kind of fallen in to over time. Hasbro's G1 terminology is simply "design" or believe it or not they did in fact call them "rump design" in literature. For some reason it just never caught on.

[spottedslug]

Can you guys imagine?

"We're the Official Rump Design Crusaders on a quest to find out who we are!!"

[nessy_86]

Can you guys imagine?

"We're the Official Rump Design Crusaders on a quest to find out who we are!!"

 

[achab1984]

Those are some very nice shirts, very cute

[banditpony]

"Symbols" is collector language, which we have all just kind of fallen in to over time. Hasbro's G1 terminology is simply "design" or believe it or not they did in fact call them "rump design" in literature. For some reason it just never caught on.

^_^ Thanks
Hm. DX Gyah, rump design. I don't like that. Any idea when that was officially coined by Hasbro? These shirts are apparently from 1999, so that definitely wasn't G1 era.

[achab1984]

My daughter calls them cutie mark when she is talking about the G1 ponies. I have to correct her and that drives her crazy!

[hathorcat]

"Symbols" is collector language, which we have all just kind of fallen in to over time. Hasbro's G1 terminology is simply "design" or believe it or not they did in fact call them "rump design" in literature. For some reason it just never caught on.

^_^ Thanks
Hm. DX Gyah, rump design. I don't like that. Any idea when that was officially coined by Hasbro? These shirts are apparently from 1999, so that definitely wasn't G1 era.

It turns up on literature right from the start. I think the earliest I have seen is 1984. If they were using it then I would assume it had been termed that right from the start. However it should be noted that "rump design" was very much for manufacture purposes rather than what they would actively use for marketing, then it tended to just become "design". As I giggled before it "rump design" does not really lend itself to being an attractive term which creates images of colourful pretty plastic ponies.

[KarentheUnicorn]

haha, I remember we talked about that and thought it was cute; it's the street slang version of symbol/cutie mark.

Yo...I gots my rump design.

But technically rump would be the correct term to describe the placement of the image on the horse/pony, so hasbro isn't wrong on calling it a rump design.

On the ponyisland game, they are called tattoos.

I personally am not partial to cutie mark because it sounds childish to me. And I'm not saying that to offend anyone who loves the term cutie mark. I just grew up calling it symbol and for a majority of my pony collecting life that is how I've referred to it. So it's difficult to go around saying cutie mark after you've said symbol for 30 years.

Symbol just seems to have more power and meaning when said aloud. Cutie mark just doesn't feel as powerful to me.

[Aquarel]

Oh wow, they have always been 'symbols' in my dictionary. But nice to learn some pony history again. Silly hasbro