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File: 69jhd7pwd774tv7y4q9a.jpg (51.69 KB, Zacherle_pony.jpg)

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This is going to take several posts to handle the graphics.The original pony toy was Bonnie Zacherle's 1981 [i]My Pretty Pony[/i]. It was a 10-inch-tall palomino-colored toy horse with wiggly ears (pic). No wings, no horn, no pastel colors. Where did those modifications come from?

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File: vobw8z7e7b88x72fkd0e.jpg (145.84 KB, Fantasia_unicorns.jpg)

Here are the unicorns from Disney's 1941 film Fantasia.

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File: aveq11afdvwhrbq1yoxh.jpg (51.08 KB, Fantasia_pegasi_2.jpg)

And here are the Disney pegasi (pic). Hasbro took a horse toy and made it into a Disney ripoff — horns, wings, candy colors, and all. Thirty years later, Lauren Faust added the big white flying mother figure — also a Disney memory.Has anybody pointed this out before?

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File: h424jrvbr95c72x1bpgt.jpg (95.97 KB, Fantasia_pegasi_1.jpg)

By the way, notice that the Fantasia pegasi featured a black male mated to a white female. This "woke" pairing caused no White Southern fuss in 1941. But when Garth Williams did the same thing with rabbits 17 years later, it was banned in libraries all over the South (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rabbits'_Wedding). What changed during those 17 years?

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I also can't help thinking that the servile Negroid zebra-centaurs in Fantasia (no graphics, please God) have some sort of dim ancestral relationship to Zecora...

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The modifications came from marketing and diversifying the product to sell more and make more money? The original line were regular ponies, moving on to unicorn, Pegasus, flutter and sea. I’m not sure why this would be surprising. Think of other similar toy lines. Transformers branched out to animals, GI Joe went with ninjas, Thundercats added cyborg pirates…. Business is all about money.

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>>36833872
You bet. I just wanted to point out that the inspiration seems to have come from Disney.

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>>36833871
>Negroid zebra-centaurs
w h a t ? ? ?

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>>36834885
Sigh. Check it out here:

Fantasia (1940) All Censored Scenes with Sunflower and Otika

They were edited out in recent releases of the film.

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File: 1701835777493.jpg (63.34 KB, 736x534, Bacchus.jpg)

From Wikipedia:

"Sunflower and Otika are little black centaurettes with donkey bodies. Their appearance resembles a European American in blackface with exaggerated facial features and a stereotypical black female hair style, a common comic caricature of the time. By contemporary standards such depictions are considered racist and they have ultimately been edited out of the film since the 1969 re-release. Their names are also no longer mentioned in the program.

"The Zebra Centaurettes are centaurettes half zebra and half Nubian. They are followers of Bacchus. Despite the editing out of Sunflower and Otika, these characters have remained in the film even after the 1969 re-release."

See the attached graphic. These two are still in the current release. Zecora precursors?
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>>36834896
They look nice.


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