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Two other things.First - CP ponies definitely not the original M6. Never in the animation, not rereleased in every pose and possible gimmick ever. Yeah, the US had them ad nauseum through mail order, but they really don't have the same presence as some of the later sets do (particularly like the SS ponies that dominated the later animation, or even Firefly and AJ's actual sets).Secondly - what's the point in telling the fans about the inspiration for the M6 and then put an image of 6 completely unrelated ponies on the bottom of the page? Like, this is the original M6 but we based our M6 on six completely different ponies and we're not going to show them to you.(sigh).
Quote from: Taffeta on July 31, 2019, 12:01:15 PMThe one thing that jumped out at me from that page is..."Inspired by two original ponies, "Glory" and "Sparkler," today's retro-style Rarity is more fabulous than ever!"For me she's always been based on Glory as well as Sparkler. Nice that Hasbro think so too. Because I don't understand how anyone could see anything other than Glory for that colour base, even if the diamonds are Sparkler's symbol. Lauren confirmed at least once that there was some inspiration from Glory in the "finalized" Rarity - she posted pictures of her G1 collection that inspired her G4 cast and she showed both Sparkler and Glory for Rarity.
The one thing that jumped out at me from that page is..."Inspired by two original ponies, "Glory" and "Sparkler," today's retro-style Rarity is more fabulous than ever!"For me she's always been based on Glory as well as Sparkler. Nice that Hasbro think so too. Because I don't understand how anyone could see anything other than Glory for that colour base, even if the diamonds are Sparkler's symbol.
Interesting. I've had people tell me numerous times in irritating fashion, "no, she's based on SPARKLER, look at her CUTIE MARK"
Quote from: Taffeta on August 01, 2019, 02:59:59 PMInteresting. I've had people tell me numerous times in irritating fashion, "no, she's based on SPARKLER, look at her CUTIE MARK"I take it the people saying that were mostly bronies
I do like how much effort went into the symbols for these, like RD's Lightning-esque symbol (they're way too close for it to be a coincidence)
I disagree, IMO they're almost identical (of course it has multiple colours/bolts, it's Rainbow Dash!). Hasbro US didn't have anything to do with the Mountain Boys, sure, but I don't see that there's anything stopping a random Hasbro worker from googling "G1 ponies with lightning symbols" and finding him that way...?
I suppose so, but if that's the depths of knowledge and research they've descended to, it doesn't say much for their team.
No one's saying RD was based on Lightning?
Yeah, it probably would've made more sense to give her Firefly-esque bolts, but.. RD's symbol is a tricoloured lightning bolt coming from a cloud. Lightning's symbol is a cloud with lightning bolts in it. This set is meant to have G1-esque versions of the G4 symbols. So basing RD's symbol off the closest G1 equivalent makes sense to me.
Quote from: Taffeta on August 02, 2019, 07:10:12 AMI suppose so, but if that's the depths of knowledge and research they've descended to, it doesn't say much for their team.Yeah, but it's Hasbro we're talking about, here
Eh.I think it's coincidence. They needed to keep the cloud. There's only so much you can do with bolts and clouds.
Is it common to depict a thundercloud like that though? With the lightning bolts sticking out of the cloud from both sides?