Picky little ponies

[ponyqueen]

Lol. Spoiled ponies!

[Leave a Whisper]

This didn't matter as much as Wind Whistler saying Dream Castle is really special... just to give it away at the end of the movie after it was made useable again.

The snooty headshake Magic Star gives when she says "The bushwoolies can have it, WE have Paradise Estate now" made me dislike her cartoon version forever.

Here's what the Moochick offered:

- a villa in Capri
-  the Hippodrome
-  a pyramid
-  a teepee
-  an igloo
-  a bamboo treehouse - this one looked awesome, like something out of Swiss Family Robinson, they should totally have gone for it.
-  a shoe (like the nursery rhyme)
-  the Taj Mahal
-  the Ritz Hotel
-  Versailles - a literal palace, again why would you pass that up?
-  the Astrodome
-  futuristic chrome space station - this one would have been amazing.

See, I could have understood them rejecting the igloo or the shoe if that was the first thing he offered.  But the first thing he offered was the villa and the Hippodrome.  Those would certainly be an improvement over what they had at the moment, i.e. the cold hard ground.

I've been to Versailles, with a couple thousand gallons of pink paint it could've been turned into a perfect Dream Castle Mk-2. 

The question is, does have that much pink paint to spare?

[Mainsail]

They were indeed picky. Turned down some nice choices, but I guess they had their reasons. *shrug*

[Leave a Whisper]

Paradise Estate had an indoor pool. It wins by default.

In all reality though, they could only stay at the swank hotel IF policies allowed, the palindrome and coliseum aren't really places to live and the villa looked a little small for all those ponies. Plus they'd get booted outta historical landmarks like the taj mahal

[Al-1701]

Really, Hasbro should have just reissued a bigger, more detailed Dream Castle - it keeps more in the line of 'fantasy world' (magical coloured horses in a high fantasy setting really should not live in a house) and maybe then the resolution of Dream Castle's plight in the movie wouldn't have seemed so ridiculous. Maybe have the Moochick conjure up a bigger and better version of Dream Castle instead of Paradise Estate - that would actually warrant Magic Star giving away the original Dream Castle to the Grundles - it's like saying "We, a large family of fifteen, are going to give our mansion away to five homeless wanderers to move into our new apartment". Perfectly logical, huh?

That's my issue.

If the Moochic can pull all these structures out of thin air, why not ask for him to recreate Dream Castle stone for stone?  And Hasbro would release a new castle playset that's larger with more details.  There would need to be some differences to justify parents going out and buying it (especially for the price), but keep it a castle.

Paradise Estate was far and away the better playset, but in the show it seemed like an obvious downgrade.  Dream Castle was a basic playset, but the specials gave it a sense of grandeur both as a fortress for safety and a place to live.  I wish they had done the same thing with Paradise Estate, like make it walled village so you have the sense it is a grander structure than Dream Castle.