The new "Gaurdians of Harmony" toys

[Dragonflitter]

But...but... the Transformers are a warrior race of sentient machines fighting to keep humanity from being overthrown by evil! The Ninja Turtles are trained in a deadly martial art to defeat a ninja master from taking over the world.

THE PONIES LEARN LESSONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP.

[LunaMoonCustoms1212]

But...but... the Transformers are a warrior race of sentient machines fighting to keep humanity from being overthrown by evil! The Ninja Turtles are trained in a deadly martial art to defeat a ninja master from taking over the world.

THE PONIES LEARN LESSONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP.

I have to agree with you there. And I'm not really sure what's up with Twilights mechanical claws, plus she never actually fought a changeling since she was a princess ((not counting when she went into the alternate timeline)). And honestly they don't fight that much :/ I wish they did tho 

[Koudoawaia]

I saw the Celestia one at work recently and I think she looks really amazing in person.

[Dragonflitter]

I saw the Celestia one at work recently and I think she looks really amazing in person.

I really wish they had gone for all four colors in her mane and tail. :\ Even 3 would have been nice! Blue plastic with a painted pink stripe just doesn't do it... Though I think the pose is awesome.

[LunaMoonCustoms1212]

I saw the Celestia one at work recently and I think she looks really amazing in person.

I really wish they had gone for all four colors in her mane and tail. :\ Even 3 would have been nice! Blue plastic with a painted pink stripe just doesn't do it... Though I think the pose is awesome.

Yeah I have to agree, and on the back of the box it shows celestia with hair that looks almost metallic, and with way more pink. That's really the only thing that bother me, at least they didn't make her body pink   .   But the paint is a little slightly off in mines eyes as well, it's really blurry. The funko ones just don't have paint errors like that :/

[Dragonflitter]

Booo!

Although Funkos aren't that great either. I had two with tails that were practically falling out. They broke off after I touched them as I lifted them out of the box. And I had a Celestia whose horn broke off IN the box! When I brought that one back to TRU, the cashier said "Oh, you could just glue it back on!" :\

[Leave a Whisper]

I saw the Celestia one at work recently and I think she looks really amazing in person.

I really wish they had gone for all four colors in her mane and tail. :\ Even 3 would have been nice! Blue plastic with a painted pink stripe just doesn't do it... Though I think the pose is awesome.

At least it's easily fixable.

[kestral_kitsune]

I saw the Celestia one at work recently and I think she looks really amazing in person.

I really wish they had gone for all four colors in her mane and tail. :\ Even 3 would have been nice! Blue plastic with a painted pink stripe just doesn't do it... Though I think the pose is awesome.

I have both Celestia and NMM and where I have Celestia when the light hits it JUST right her hair doesn't look just pink and blue. I've tried getting pictures of it but it doesn't come out. I think them and maybe Spike/Shining Armor are going to be the only ones in this series I get mainly cause its so HARD to find anything new MLP out here.

[Mirnyj]

Moving to corral

[Wardah]

But...but... the Transformers are a warrior race of sentient machines fighting to keep humanity from being overthrown by evil! The Ninja Turtles are trained in a deadly martial art to defeat a ninja master from taking over the world.

THE PONIES LEARN LESSONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP.

I have to agree with you there. And I'm not really sure what's up with Twilights mechanical claws, plus she never actually fought a changeling since she was a princess ((not counting when she went into the alternate timeline)). And honestly they don't fight that much :/ I wish they did tho 

Those claws are supposed to be to grab and fling the Changeling away (I guess Twilight's expression is because they are kinda heavy?). So really it's a defensive move as opposed to attacking. The Guardians of Harmony might not start fight but they do defend themselves if they get attacked.

[Majesty]

I saw the Nightmare Moon one at a walmart and I really liked it.  I wanted to get it but I was told not to buy anymore stuff until I move and it was kind of big so there was no way I could sneak it into my purse, but I bought a Maud Pie funko vinyl instead.

[Taffeta]

Where ponies are concerned, I'm not a fan of toys that don't have brushable hair, so I'm not into these. However they seem really well made. I think I'm right that the giant adultish Spike the Dragon is also part of this line? I say giant, it's large compared to a brushable. Interestingly enough in the toy store this morning it was a boy who was fascinated and playing with it, not a girl...not that I'm stereotyping, just thought it interesting.

In terms of the concept, I think its awesome. I never have got into FIM because it spends too much time on trivial things like Pinkie Pie's parties and Rarity's fashion. I kinda got fed up with watching it, because in my opinion it presents an unreal expectation of how friendship works and an unrealistic expectation that being nice to someone automatically means they'll be your friend...which isn't how the world is. Also that all the bad guys will end up being good guys if you are nice to them, which I think is a dangerous premise to teach kids in the world we live in. Not that it's bad to promote those things as an ideal, I just feel it's trying too hard to push those ideas into the storyline (at least up to where I stopped watching).

 If FIM had been more on the lines of Rescue at Midnight Castle, Tambelon etc from the start I would probably have been more interested. In G1, they didn't try and befriend all the bad guys. Some of them they consigned to their own world of doom and darkness. I like the idea of them being a motley crew of friends forced together in adversity, I just don't feel that Hasbro have really capitalised on the idea of that in either the show and the overall toy line.

 I don't think it hurts to branch out and maybe widen the target base of the toys at the same time. They are more action figurey, and maybe the point is to make it seem more accessible to boys AND girls as far as toys go.

But I am the girl who, as a child, played games with friends that involved zombie overlords invading ponyland, among other things. So I guess I like that concept much more.

If the figures had hair you could brush, I would probably be all over them...

[reanna-mator]

I have both the Celestia and Nightmare Moon figures, but I want most of this toy line! <3 I haven't seen much in stores yet, and am thinking about buying from Hasbro Toy Shop before I miss out...

[SaelaVe]

But...but... the Transformers are a warrior race of sentient machines fighting to keep humanity from being overthrown by evil! The Ninja Turtles are trained in a deadly martial art to defeat a ninja master from taking over the world.

THE PONIES LEARN LESSONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP.

I have to agree with you there. And I'm not really sure what's up with Twilights mechanical claws, plus she never actually fought a changeling since she was a princess ((not counting when she went into the alternate timeline)). And honestly they don't fight that much :/ I wish they did tho 

Those claws are supposed to be to grab and fling the Changeling away (I guess Twilight's expression is because they are kinda heavy?). So really it's a defensive move as opposed to attacking. The Guardians of Harmony might not start fight but they do defend themselves if they get attacked.

Completely agree. 
FiM is quite heavily about resolving conflict, and that resolution very often involves battle.  One of the most epic battle sequences that I've ever seen in a kids' cartoon was Twilight's fight against Tirek at the end of season four.  Almost every season ends with some sort of clash between the ponies and a nemesis which threatened the existence of either friendship, Equestria, or both.  And this, of course, hearkens back to the original animated series, which was also quite heavily about ponies adventuring and fighting the forces of evil.

I think that this was a bold and genius move on Hasbro's part.  These figures show that, just like FiM, "girl's" toys can and should be multi-dimensional.  MLP are pretty, colorful, glittery fantasy horses with silky manes who learn and teach life-lessons about friendship.  But they are also battle-doing superheroes whose very job in Equestria is to routinely save it from annihilation.

Personally, I love these and plan on buying several for myself and my daughter.

[Wardah]

But...but... the Transformers are a warrior race of sentient machines fighting to keep humanity from being overthrown by evil! The Ninja Turtles are trained in a deadly martial art to defeat a ninja master from taking over the world.

THE PONIES LEARN LESSONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP.

I have to agree with you there. And I'm not really sure what's up with Twilights mechanical claws, plus she never actually fought a changeling since she was a princess ((not counting when she went into the alternate timeline)). And honestly they don't fight that much :/ I wish they did tho 

Those claws are supposed to be to grab and fling the Changeling away (I guess Twilight's expression is because they are kinda heavy?). So really it's a defensive move as opposed to attacking. The Guardians of Harmony might not start fight but they do defend themselves if they get attacked.

Completely agree. 
FiM is quite heavily about resolving conflict, and that resolution very often involves battle.  One of the most epic battle sequences that I've ever seen in a kids' cartoon was Twilight's fight against Tirek at the end of season four.  Almost every season ends with some sort of clash between the ponies and a nemesis which threatened the existence of either friendship, Equestria, or both.  And this, of course, hearkens back to the original animated series, which was also quite heavily about ponies adventuring and fighting the forces of evil.

I think that this was a bold and genius move on Hasbro's part.  These figures show that, just like FiM, "girl's" toys can and should be multi-dimensional.  MLP are pretty, colorful, glittery fantasy horses with silky manes who learn and teach life-lessons about friendship.  But they are also battle-doing superheroes whose very job in Equestria is to routinely save it from annihilation.

Personally, I love these and plan on buying several for myself and my daughter.

Yup. Also I've said something to this effect before but I think seeing Mattel's actiony DC SuperHero Girls and wanting a chunk of that audience had something to do with it. Even tho they have the rights to Marvel they probably can't pull anything as ambitious without Disney's involvement and it's just easier to work with something entirely theirs.