Hey why not? Pretty much every retailer does this to some extent
We already have a lot of G3 recycles in G4 from a lot of the small accessories originally having been released with G3 ponyville to the car that came in the Pinkie Pie's Boutique line just being a re-colour of the car we had seen in G3.5.
Its not original but at least its something different within G4 (yes I am getting desperate
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