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I would have been over the moon for a Moochik doll, as well as Tirek and Scorpan. I can just imagine Tirek coming with his chariot, and ponywear showing the ponies as the chariot beasties. Or Scorpan with the dragons he rode, large enough to pick up ponies.Oh man, those would have been AMAZING. Then I wouldn't have had to borrow my rothers' Ninja Turtles enemies to be the ponies' foes!
Sounds like playtime at your house was fun. Are the turtles and ponies still foes? Or did they bury the hatchet? :p
The issue I have with the "we only see them once" thing is we only saw the ponies in the specials once as well, but we have toys of them. Some of them even have multiple releases (Firefly, I'm looking at you)! I grant, they wouldn't have been very good dolls. Making a centaur like Tirac/Tirek back in the 80's would have been a very different proposition than making it now. But we still would have had them!
Wrong emphasis. Toys existed, show made to showcase toys. It's not the other way around. I dunno how it works with the G4 line, as I don't follow it, but with G1, it was a case that ponies were made and animated specials were created to sell them. Therefore there are more ponies than animated scenes. Same happened with Jem. The animation is the thing that has lasted, but it was created to sell dolls. The dolls didn't come from the animation. By contrast, the one-ep-villain was literally that - a one episode character designed to showcase the heroics of the pony toys the kids were hopefully going to buy. Just like the comic characters mentioned above, they serve no other purpose really and thus aren't financially worth the investment. Not saying fans wouldn't have liked to have them, but from Hasbro's point of view, it didn't make sense.Besides, I'm not sure how influential the G1 series was compared to FIM now. I suspect, considering its short run, Hasbro realised it didn't need cartoons to sell ponies. They were selling fine on their own. If the cartoon wasn't that influential, then there's even less reason to make villains who appear in one episode in a time period pre-online streaming and youtube and where VHS is basically the only option available.
Love the turtles vs ponies concept. It sounds like the kind of zombie apocalypse games my sister and I played and that I played at school with friends and ponies. Plus I had ghostbuster toys. So you can imagine how that played out.Ok, on topic.Love that animation of Windy. Can't remember if I saw it before. Feel like I did remember a conversation ages ago (I mean ages ago) about that animation but don't remember what came of it.Peachy and the rainbow pony. Okay well, this may have nothing to do with it at all, but I actually wonder if Peachy was an afterthought pony overall. Rationale for this:visitors can't see pics , please register or loginThis is from the Argos catalogue in the UK in the autumn of 1983. It's the earliest My Little Pony item in an Argos that I've found, as UK catalogue stuff is hard to come by. Argos didn't have the full line, there's a TV commercial for the flatfoot ponies that's a cut up version of the US commercial so I know we had those as well BUT this interests me more.I've never seen a parlour like that in reality, nor a box for it. It could be a prototype image, but the reason it intrigues me is that Argos didn't usually use stock photos. They usually deboxed an item and photographed it. The text, however, says nothing about a pony included. The one pictured is Butterscotch.So the idea that Peachy was still a concept in design at this point is really highly possible for me. And I think that the suggestion they recoloured Snuzzle for it also makes a lot of sense. Doesn't rule out the idea that the rainbow pony was the original idea for the grooming parlour but got pulled. We've seen other things pulled for whatever reason, so maybe she did exist, as a prototype, but then instead they decided to do a whole Rainbow pony set, and make a simpler pony for the parlour.Snuzzle did come with the Grooming Parlour as well here, but only in 1987, which was much later.