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was even accused of faking interest in MLP to attract (these specific, messed up) guys
Quote from: Zapper on July 25, 2020, 01:09:01 AMwas even accused of faking interest in MLP to attract (these specific, messed up) guys "Name all the friendship lessons!"
But she did know what G1 was like. She knew what the toys were like. Which was the core of the MLP experience for little girls in the US. This may seem odd to you since the UK had such a widespread, regular output of canon (the comics). But most American little girls did not know or care about any of the canon, they just loved brushable horse toys. (Arguably the backcards were the most widespread type of canon but let's be real, most of them got thrown away and their stories forgotten.)I was obsessed with MLP as a little girl, it was my absolute favorite toy. I kept the brochures that came with the ponies and from those I could name all the ponies from Year 2 to Year 4. But if someone asked me, "And which ponies are the main characters in MLP & Friends? What are their personalities?", I would have been completely stumped. To me Wind Whistler was not any more significant than Skippity Doo.
Applejack, who's been around for 37 years, is disposable, but 17 year Pinkie and Dash not so much. Oh the irony.
I didn't watch the brony THING because just the clips I did see offended me, but watching her interview on TTMU told me everything I wanted to know about her concept of G1 and that it didn't really bear resemblance to G1.
I'm surprised to hear that some of you guys see MLP and Friends as obscure. I was born in 1990 and grew up with the cartoon -- did the majority of us 80s/90s pony people not do that?Not that it mattered much to me, because the pony toys I grew up with was not the ponies that were featured in the show.QuoteI didn't watch the brony THING because just the clips I did see offended me, but watching her interview on TTMU told me everything I wanted to know about her concept of G1 and that it didn't really bear resemblance to G1.Say what? Is this interview available somewhere, and what is TTMU?
TTMU - The Toys that Made Us - it was on Netflix There's an ep for MLP and unfortunately she's included.
At the time the ponies were out on shelves, it was negligible here, and apparently, over in the US as well. Maybe it was the same in Sweden?
I think G1 was fluid like that. You could enter into it or leave it and still get meaningful play.
QuoteTTMU - The Toys that Made Us - it was on Netflix There's an ep for MLP and unfortunately she's included.Ah, of course. Thank you. That's the one I've meant to see but have missed because we don't have Netflix.QuoteAt the time the ponies were out on shelves, it was negligible here, and apparently, over in the US as well. Maybe it was the same in Sweden?I was so young, but I remember seeing G1 ponies on the shelves when I was very little. I don't know hos long the gap between G1 and G2 was. It is kind of funny that UK grew up with the toy ponies from the show but not the show, and Sweden had it the other way around. I see how that must have led to UK kids going "I don't like what they did with *pony*'s personality in the show" and swedish kids going "I'm just going to prentend Kisscurl is Rosedust" (I had never seen a flutter pony toy). But yeah. OT?
Quote from: northstar3184 on July 24, 2020, 04:50:28 PMQuote from: ridi on July 24, 2020, 04:00:21 AMWhenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies I feel this especially true for male fans given how we're so likely to get regarded as brownies simply for being male. I grew up with G1, and have been a fan since the mid 80s. In fact I used to watch the original cartoon series in the morning before going to preschool.Yeah, this too. I hate bringing gender into discussion, but it's true that bronies especially ruined it for oldschool male pony fans. When you're an adult woman into MLP people will usually just assume that you liked it as a kid and it's childhood nostalgia, but when you're an adult male into MLP then people these days will just automatically associate you with the brony fandom. That's probably one of the main reasons behind my personal grudge against them.
Quote from: ridi on July 24, 2020, 04:00:21 AMWhenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies I feel this especially true for male fans given how we're so likely to get regarded as brownies simply for being male. I grew up with G1, and have been a fan since the mid 80s. In fact I used to watch the original cartoon series in the morning before going to preschool.
Whenever I mention I'm a fan of My Little Pony I feel like I have to add a disclaimer that I'm only into g1/the 80s and 90s ponies, just so I won't be associated with br*nies
How does she get the idea that Seashell and Bubbles are disabled?
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on July 26, 2020, 07:30:35 AMHow does she get the idea that Seashell and Bubbles are disabled?Because they were sitting down, that's all there was to her theory. The TTMU ep is not the only time she brought this up; I can't recall the exact interviews (or online posts or chats?), but she did mention it before, when asked about G1.