
| Kanrabat #608572 9 months ago |
Pointing out the toys are never show accurate, no matter which generation. |
| Anonymous #608579 9 months ago |
G2 was never showed in TV because that was the part when ponies killed the humans. |
| TenchiFreak5 #608590 9 months ago |
One thing I've always been curious about. Was G3 well received, and G3.5 was just so bad that it nearly killed the franchise, as their amount of time that both were on sale on sale imply? |
| NightJack #608662 9 months ago |
G3 was never on TV either, just a few VSH releases. |
| NightJack #608680 9 months ago |
Stupid me, I meant DVD not VHS. |
| Anonymous #608681 9 months ago |
G3 and 3.5 look more similar to the toys than G4 |
| Fantastic #608776 9 months ago |
It's just always been that the shows were based on the toy designs. |
| Anonymous #608950 9 months ago |
What about My Little Pony Tales? Was that part of G1 or G2? |
| Anonymous #608967 9 months ago |
I still think the ponies' legs in G3.5 look incredibly swollen. It's kinda nasty. |
| Anonymous #609237 9 months ago |
Tales was 1992, predating the G2 toy design by about five years. |
| Posey #609314 9 months ago |
The toys are accurate. It's the cartoon that is not accurate; the toys are the original. |
| RepentantAnon #610054 9 months ago |
...have they began using less and les plastic to make the toys sinse g2? those cheapskates! |
| BackgroundPony17 #610725 9 months ago |
Two thoughts:
- The major style change occurred between G3 and G3.5, notably larger heads/eyes. The newer design appears to have been influenced by the influx of anime, like a lot of cartoons during the '00s. - Despite everyone loving G4 and despising G3.5, those two generations are the closest to each other in design. Basically, G4 is G3.5 with the obvious anatomical and animation flaws removed. |
| Anonymous #611748 9 months ago |
From what I've gathered, G3 introduced the small "Ponyville" figurines with the sculpted hair, flattened faces, and shrunken torsos, and G3.5's Ponyville figurines were basically just a minor update to that mold--except, they also changed the brushable-hair sized ponies to look like that too. |
| Anonymous #611971 9 months ago |
The problems with G3.5 didn't have so much to do with visual design as with story, character, and the lack thereof. They were made for kids, to kids with very very little crossover appeal because there wasn't much there but fluff.
That only has to do with the animated releases; if a kid's just playing with the toys, they can mix and match any generation and still have just as much fun with them. |
| Anonymous #673763 8 months ago |
This reminds me about that G.I Joe/MLP crossover one of the writers wanted to make. |
| Tyrranux #736274 7 months ago |
@BackgroundPiony17 My thoughts exactly. |
| Posey #827524 6 months ago |
G4 is for kids too. G3 wasn't supposed to be a real series, it was supposed to be an advertisement for the toys and entertainment for little kids who played with said toys. |
| Anonymous #913660 5 months ago |
From ugly, to skinny, to pretty, to CUTEST, to not as cute but still cute. |