We've done a huge purge on accounts that haven't been touched in over 5 years! If you're a returning member and can't login please email mlpchief @ gmail.com for more details!
Site Announcements Arena Tutorials Sigs & Site Support Introductions Pony Corral Swap Talk! Pony Fairs! MLP Nirvana Nirvana Sales Pony Brag Arena Off Topic Dollhouse Toy Box & Games Cupboard Customs Custom Sales Arts & Crafts Corral Adoptables For Sale - For Auction For Trade Wanted Trader & Classifieds Support What's Your Problem Private Messages Contact Us!
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
@PKW, I already have one academic book I'm struggling to put together, and now you want a pony one too? Tsch.The problem with a checklist - which was my original intention - is what to include in it. It's not my policy to separate out the different releases, but that makes for a complicated checklist, so I never really worked that out to make it viable.I am a bit protective about the UK pony information since a lot of the information out there about the UK came in one way or another from work I did or work done by UK people from which I have built stuff. Everyone else who talks about UK stuff tries to either segregate the exclusives or force the ponies into the US timeline, and neither of those things work. Our timeline is different and our releases intersect with the US and Europe but do not match either.I should also add that for accessories, Chrissytree - who is also based over here in the UK - has done some stellar work with not only listing accessories but identifying the differences between the releases in different places, as the same pony doesn't necessarily have the same stuff in each place. I have some of this on my website as well but she has specialised in it.If you want UK and European stuff that's a different question to the UK stuff - but the answer is probably the same as regards resources.The bottom line is that you can't write a book about MLP in the UK unless you have material about MLP in the UK. Which is not as easy to come across as US information...even when you live here. It's taken me 2 decades to amass the information I have and to be able to say with confidence I understand how MLP worked here. :/
Would honestly love a book that showed the UK line its entirety. Not just UK exclusives, but ALL the ponies and accessories officially sold there through Hasbro UK. Just like there have been books focusing exclusively on the US line. I just think it'd be a nice thing to have. Maybe it could also help clear things up a bit about which other European exclusives weren't sold in the UK (but are still often called "UK ponies").
Also, for the record, my site does make it clear what exclusive ponies were sold in the UK, in Europe, and so on. It's been doing that since 2005. I do think it could probably do it in a better way, but it does do it.UK people have been attempting to clear up those things for a long time before that, too.
Quote from: Taffeta on November 23, 2019, 03:10:28 PMAlso, for the record, my site does make it clear what exclusive ponies were sold in the UK, in Europe, and so on. It's been doing that since 2005. I do think it could probably do it in a better way, but it does do it.UK people have been attempting to clear up those things for a long time before that, too.But it would be nice to also have something that listed the UK line in full year by year, including pony wear releases, without referencing or comparing it to the US line. It would at the very least be refreshing to see, since listings of the US line have been reproduced so many times at this point.