Hasbro is on a real 80s / G1 kick on Facebook this year, anyone noticed?

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

*sips teacup of tears*, yeah tasty. Nope, not going to explain things in the hope of turning their ears. Not going to happen, not worth the frustration on my part or even worth my time.  Nor am I willing to engage in a subset that has actively shown to very intolerant nearly from the jump. Once again, I don't owe them or anyone else my time of day simply to educate them.

[LadyMoondancer]

Today Hasbro has a clip from Escape from Catrina up on their Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony/videos/288719331918994/

Including the entire into theme song. 

[TornadoTwist]

Here's a timeline they placed on the official MLP Website:

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(can't scroll further, I have to visit the site with a proxy because it keeps sending me back to the dated dutch site. >:C )

[Leave a Whisper]

G3 was a very successful relaunch of the brand as well. Hasbro was rollin in that pony dough, kids and collectors were buying them up.

[LadyMoondancer]

Here's a timeline they placed on the official MLP Website:

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(can't scroll further, I have to visit the site with a proxy because it keeps sending me back to the dated dutch site. >:C )

oh my GOD they remembered G2!!!

[Sunset]

So are they supporting Basic Fun in a roundabout way?  Or is there something coming down the pipeline?  Or did they realize that posting retro/vintage stuff gets lots of views after they did it for that one "retro week"?

Im just curious as to why the uptick on posting g1 stuff.  It's continued on for longer than I anticipated.

[Tropical_Sunset]

Love seeing all these throwbacks to G1! I recently found the 35th anniversary ponies at Target and I couldn't resist getting a couple.

[KarentheUnicorn]

I love that they're posting about the 80's stuff. They're doing it on facebook to, Most are positive comments but every once in a while you'll get that little kick in the head from some smarty pants who can't tolerate G1.

Like one lady commented and said they liked the original better.

Instead of letting someone like it a guy responds to her:You prefer the pervasive squeaky-whatever-that-is to this?

And then the person responds to the guy: I prefer the 80s show, yes.

Then another guy#2 has to join in and respond to her: Nostalgia is blinding.

The mentality seems to be we're all blinded by nastalgia; that we don't genuienly like the original stuff? That it's just fond childhood memories that apparently blind us to the flaws? I don't think it's that, it's more we know that back then everything wasn't done on a computer, that you can't compare apples to apples with the 80's show and the new show. So I don't believe any of us who love the original stuff are blind, I think it's more some people have no empathy and are intolerate jerks.

I had to come in and respond to dude #2, which was: Naw, because in about 10-20 years the new kids will be telling you how horrible your favorite stuff is and then you'll understand empathy at that point.

[banditpony]

I wouldn't engage with trolls.

Heh. Nostalgia plays a part in it for me. I wouldn't like ponies otherwise :/

I'm not blind to anything -- they are a classic toy and are well designed.

[LadyMoondancer]

Haters gonna hate, as the song goes.  I just ignore them.  There's always going to be a few . . .

[brightberry]

Those clips are great!  I love them.

I generally have no response to the haters... especially when their argument goes something like:

Your version of MLP sucks!!!! Barf, barf, barf!!!!...   G4 is superior because it taught me valuable lessons such as tolerance and how to make friends!

I mean, how can you not laugh?

[Taffeta]

Those clips are great!  I love them.

I generally have no response to the haters... especially when their argument goes something like:

Your version of MLP sucks!!!! Barf, barf, barf!!!!...   G4 is superior because it taught me valuable lessons such as tolerance and how to make friends!

I mean, how can you not laugh?

They don't seem to get that their disapproval is not going to remove G1 or G1 fans from existence. xD The lack of ability to accept different people like different things is kind of worrying for the future of the planet, though...whoops, there goes diplomacy xD.

Going back to that timeline, I'm vaguely amused by "In the first ten years, MLP becomes one of the biggest girl toy brands"...(conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that Hasbro in the US axed it in that year, whoops xD).

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Going back to that timeline, I'm vaguely amused by "In the first ten years, MLP becomes one of the biggest girl toy brands"...(conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that Hasbro in the US axed it in that year, whoops xD).

The unspoken take-away from that fact in marketing speak is that, after 10 years, the market was so saturated with MLP as to not be profitable to Hasbro anymore, and they needed to shelve the brand for a bit...

[Taffeta]

Going back to that timeline, I'm vaguely amused by "In the first ten years, MLP becomes one of the biggest girl toy brands"...(conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that Hasbro in the US axed it in that year, whoops xD).

The unspoken take-away from that fact in marketing speak is that, after 10 years, the market was so saturated with MLP as to not be profitable to Hasbro anymore, and they needed to shelve the brand for a bit...

Except that it continued in Europe for 2 years (3 in Holland) after that point, so I guess there were different market opinions at work. The same happened with G2, after all...

[KarentheUnicorn]

Going back to that timeline, I'm vaguely amused by "In the first ten years, MLP becomes one of the biggest girl toy brands"...(conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that Hasbro in the US axed it in that year, whoops xD).

The unspoken take-away from that fact in marketing speak is that, after 10 years, the market was so saturated with MLP as to not be profitable to Hasbro anymore, and they needed to shelve the brand for a bit...

Except that it continued in Europe for 2 years (3 in Holland) after that point, so I guess there were different market opinions at work. The same happened with G2, after all...

Everytime I try to have a discussion with a 'new FIM centered fan' about G1 I'm told that G1 wasn't that successful, that it was a 'moderate' success at best :p

Those clips are great!  I love them.

I generally have no response to the haters... especially when their argument goes something like:

Your version of MLP sucks!!!! Barf, barf, barf!!!!...   G4 is superior because it taught me valuable lessons such as tolerance and how to make friends!

I mean, how can you not laugh?

Sadly I'm a unicorn who has a troll chasing problem. But it's more I find humor in the dramaz; plus with the above statement I can't take these people seriously. I will take issue with a person who is an adult who insists they learned their morals and how to make friends or learned 'lessons' from FIM. If that's how they learned to make friends then they've got more problems than Hasbro bringing up their past accomplishments by posting G1 ponies or sharing them.