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I think they have used G4 at times when dealing with the bronies, but I may be wrong/it may be unofficial merchandising under licence. But we devised those terms (by we I mean the whole community) and they only existed at all when G3 began, prior to that G1 and G2 were just the old ponies and the new ponies...I doubt Hasbro care how we classify.
Quote from: Taffeta on January 24, 2019, 02:36:46 PMI think they have used G4 at times when dealing with the bronies, but I may be wrong/it may be unofficial merchandising under licence. But we devised those terms (by we I mean the whole community) and they only existed at all when G3 began, prior to that G1 and G2 were just the old ponies and the new ponies...I doubt Hasbro care how we classify.I was just wondering more if Hasbro ever picked up the term from the community and started using it themselves. Especially G3.5 since that was pretty much entirely a collector distinction as far as I know.
As for the G1 retro ponies, their official terms seems to be "Classic", which I do like. (It's classy, ha ha.)
I've never understood the whole G3.5 thing....Why .5? Because they have big heads? Why weren't they just G4? Because they had some of the same characters? Heck, G4 still has Applejack, so does that make them technically G1.4? G3 reused characters too, so it's obvious that doesn't influence the naming. I legit don't understand. It just makes no sense no matter how I look at it.
No, Hasbro has never used G3, G3.5, or any of the Gx names for MLP, they are only used by fans. The G1 / G2 etc terms were cribbed from the Transformers fandom. In the early 90s Hasbro had a line of toys labeled "Transformers: Generation 2". The idea being to convince Radical 90s Kids that these Transformers were somehow better than previous Transformers, because they were new. (Even though all the Generation 2 Transformers were literally the same TF molds as before, just with gaudier colors and cheaper plastic.)Anyway, since Hasbro called those toys "Generation 2", Transformers fans then retroactively called the earlier Transformers "Generation 1". So anyway, in 1997 Hasbro made a new generation of ponies. Pony collectors called them "the new ponies" or "the '97 ponies" (because they were first sold in 1997) while G1 ponies were called "the old ponies" or "80s ponies."Then in 2003 a new set of ponies came along. Everyone debated what to call them because if G2 ponies were "the new ponies" then what were these new ponies . . . "the new-new ponies"? Confusing! So pony fans started using G1 / G2 / G3.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on January 24, 2019, 02:35:49 PMNo, Hasbro has never used G3, G3.5, or any of the Gx names for MLP, they are only used by fans. The G1 / G2 etc terms were cribbed from the Transformers fandom. In the early 90s Hasbro had a line of toys labeled "Transformers: Generation 2". The idea being to convince Radical 90s Kids that these Transformers were somehow better than previous Transformers, because they were new. (Even though all the Generation 2 Transformers were literally the same TF molds as before, just with gaudier colors and cheaper plastic.)Anyway, since Hasbro called those toys "Generation 2", Transformers fans then retroactively called the earlier Transformers "Generation 1". So anyway, in 1997 Hasbro made a new generation of ponies. Pony collectors called them "the new ponies" or "the '97 ponies" (because they were first sold in 1997) while G1 ponies were called "the old ponies" or "80s ponies."Then in 2003 a new set of ponies came along. Everyone debated what to call them because if G2 ponies were "the new ponies" then what were these new ponies . . . "the new-new ponies"? Confusing! So pony fans started using G1 / G2 / G3. That was interesting, thanks!I wonder, was G2 ever presented at the NY Toy Fair? Or did it just pop up in stores, out of the blue? I would be fun to see some of Hasbro's promo works announcing G2, if it exists. I know of the four petite pony versions of G2 characters, but other than that, I don't remember anything about the launch of the second gen.