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[Jinxxy]

Wow.. they sure look related! Everything down to the leotard!

[HelloGoodbye]

Oh my gosh, so cute!  They really do look a lot alike, don't they?  The wings kind of remind me of flutter wings, too, since they are transparent.  I love the Lalaloopsy ponies.  I think they are so adorable and unique looking.  I certainly have a few myself!

[SpookyTrees]

That's really funny! I also love the Loopsy ponies.

[spottedslug]

I think they are cute... my kids find them creepy, heh.

[Dragonflitter]

I think they are cute... my kids find them creepy, heh.

I do too! It's those button eyes. >.> *shiver* Even before Coraline I thought button eyes were creepy!

[Honey Bunches]

Ohmygosh - Toooo cute!!

[Wardah]

The color scheme of the Mane 6 is actually not very original. There are G1 Ponies that have the same colors like Posey and Talks a Lot. It's not too far fetched to think that someone who grew up with G1 now works for MGA.

But the yellow leotard...

What I was saying is that the color schemes on the mane 6 have been used before on G1s, except maybe Dash since there was never a full rainbow until G3 (or possibly G2). There hasn't been a Lalaloopsy Pony with rainbow hair yet anyways tho if they did it could also have been inspired by Rainbow Brite's horse instead of Dashie. But anyways what I'm saying is its possible G1 was the inspiration behind some of the designs. Tho the idea to have blind bag sized ponies probably came from their marketing department and probably was in part because the popularity of the blind bag ponies.

[brighteyes]

Oh wow the resemblance is uncanny!

[brightberry]

I kind of have to agree with Wardah that it seems unlikely they copied the colors of such an obscure pony.  There aren't that many color combinations to choose from and I bet she is only one of a series of babies in leotards.

[sparkykandy]

Aren't there a couple lalaloopsy horses that happen to share a similar color scheme to some of the ponies out there?  Of course, I can't tell if they're actually mimicking the ponies on purpose or if it's just coincidence. 

[Wardah]

I kind of have to agree with Wardah that it seems unlikely they copied the colors of such an obscure pony.  There aren't that many color combinations to choose from and I bet she is only one of a series of babies in leotards.

Oh you misunderstood me. The obscure G1 pony is more likely to be an inspiration than G4 since people who are now adult professionals might have grown up with G1 and have fond memories of their childhood ponies.

[brightberry]

I kind of have to agree with Wardah that it seems unlikely they copied the colors of such an obscure pony.  There aren't that many color combinations to choose from and I bet she is only one of a series of babies in leotards.

Oh you misunderstood me. The obscure G1 pony is more likely to be an inspiration than G4 since people who are now adult professionals might have grown up with G1 and have fond memories of their childhood ponies.

Oh I guess I did!    But yea, I don't think they're necessarily copied.  The pastel color palette isn't that large and there are only so many colors you can go through that actually look nice together.   I think they would have to go further out of their way to not make a pony with the same color scheme as an existing my little pony.  This is especially true when most toys for girls are pink-centric. 

[hathorcat]

Oh wow! Thats a super likeness! Very well spotted. I guess colour combinations come around and some like for like is not exactly impossible...but I am going to pretend its all G1 influenced

[UrocyonFox]

you know I saw the little itty bitty ones in stores and I was strong and said no I wouldn't collect them. Then I saw where people were posting them on here and I thought yeaaaaa I'll buy just a few, but when i went to the store they were all out. They have the slightly bigger ones but I'm not really interested in those. I guess I dodged the bullet on that one, if they HAD been in stores at that time I would have bought them and been sucked into them :3

They are cute!

[Eily311]

It could be that the designer was inspired but it could also be mere coinsidence.