So, what does a pirate Pony DO?

[Galactica]

I imagine he plunders cupcakes!

I like this one-  good idea Barnacle!

I think as a kid I just assumed that the Big Brothers were playing dress-up...

So... the Big Brothers are village people?

EXACTLY!
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[LadyMoondancer]

They are totally the Village People.  Y-M-C-A!

[Galactica]

Yeah-  honestly Hasbro didn't even try very hard to disguise the fact that the big brother ponies are essentially the Village People.  Maybe they were fans?

The native american, cowboy and sailor hats are obvious- but they also have the "cop" hat (train conductor hat which is identical) and "construction worker" hat (allegedly a truck driver? since when do truck drivers wear hard-hats?)

- the hankies especially are a dead give-away.  I guess Hasbro has a sense of humor after all.

[Al-1701]

4-Speed's symbol is a dump truck, so perhaps he is a construction worker.

And Hasbro is the company that gave us a pet named Duck Soup, so they definitely had a sense of humor back then.

"We're thinking of making some male ponies.  Any ideas?"

"Let's make them the pony version of the Village People."

"BRILLIANT!"

I what's fun is to actually add to the Big Brothers.  We have a baseball pony and football pony, so why not hockey, basketball, and soccer ponies?  A biker pony?  Lumberjack?  Swamp rat?  Desert nomad?  Spelunker?  Mountain climber?  Arctic explorer?

[ringwraith10]

I don't know if most people know this, but there used to be pirates on the Great Lakes in the 1800s / early 1900s!  They were a pretty interesting bunch.  One of them, Roaring Dan Seavy, would put up fake navigation lights and then rob ships once they ran aground.

Yes, I have read a bit about this! I've been meaning to do more research on the subject, actually. When I was in high school my friends and I called ourselves the "Lake Pirates" (I lived on a lake) -- we thought that was a novelty, but when I read about the pirates of the Great Lakes I was especially interested.

Post Merge: April 24, 2015, 11:16:40 AM

I what's fun is to actually add to the Big Brothers.  We have a baseball pony and football pony, so why not hockey, basketball, and soccer ponies?  A biker pony?  Lumberjack?  Swamp rat?  Desert nomad?  Spelunker?  Mountain climber?  Arctic explorer?

If they had ever made actual pony toys of the male characters from MLP Tales, we'd have Ace, a soccer pony.

[Lucky_Ladybug]

A friend of ours from Vietnam just cannot understand the US obsession with pirates- having emigrated from his country as a refugee, sometimes under very dangerous circumstances, his understanding of what a pirate is and does sounds a lot more like what Somali pirates are currently like.  He thinks of pirates as the most terrible of thieves- preying on their own people, people who steal, kill and ransom for money alone.  The lowest of the low. 

It is an interesting perspective-

I guess I think more in terms of your friend's concept. Pirates are thieving, killing scum to me. Which is why it bothered me to think of a pirate Pony.

4-Speed's symbol is a dump truck, so perhaps he is a construction worker.

Really? I never saw it as a dump truck. It looked like a big 18-wheeler to me. Or at least, something that's longer than a dump truck. I kind of had my heart set on him being a trucker, although the reason why I want that so badly is a little strange.

[SkyCakes]

4-Speed's symbol is a dump truck, so perhaps he is a construction worker.

And Hasbro is the company that gave us a pet named Duck Soup, so they definitely had a sense of humor back then.

"We're thinking of making some male ponies.  Any ideas?"

"Let's make them the pony version of the Village People."

"BRILLIANT!"

I what's fun is to actually add to the Big Brothers.  We have a baseball pony and football pony, so why not hockey, basketball, and soccer ponies?  A biker pony?  Lumberjack?  Swamp rat?  Desert nomad?  Spelunker?  Mountain climber?  Arctic explorer?

Actually, that wouldn't of been a bad idea for custom pony boys. I would of liked to have seen MLP tales boys. Too bad they never made any. :/

[hathorcat]

I always kind of imagined they were boys who had raided a dressing up box...so less pirate more little boy pony pretending to be a pirate Seemed like the classic dress up options - "indian", "cowboy", "pirate", "sailor" etc etc

[Artemesia's Garden]

I always kind of imagined they were boys who had raided a dressing up box...so less pirate more little boy pony pretending to be a pirate Seemed like the classic dress up options - "indian", "cowboy", "pirate", "sailor" etc etc

Great idea!