Let's hear some hot takes!

Syrcaid said:
The 5 Surprise line did a much better job at the big headed horses. Had less of a piggy nose. The baby one's packaging turns into a crib!View attachment 78609View attachment 78611
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These are... Ugly cute, in my opinion.:p
For me they wouldn't be collection worthy, but I can absolutely imagine kid me loving them, because they all come with their own little outfits and other accsesoires and dressing my ponies up was my bread and butter as a child, but I never had enough outfits, so I upscicled a bunch of doll chothes into ponywear, because I never played with the dolls anyway, so why would they need clothes:rofl:
 
Daintress said:
I am completely weirded out and put off by G 3.5. It's the heads. They are ... weird. :unsure:
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Is this really a hot take, though? :lolpony:

Hasbro did give them copious amounts of hair, which is at least nice looking.

I still remember seeing a discussion on here when G4 were new and some members said they looked like deer. And I can't unsee that now.
 
Leave a Whisper said:
I LOVE tinsel! It sparkles and flashes and glitters!
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omg finally another one! Most of my g4 fluttershy's have tinsel and I think it's absolutely eye catching in the best way ^w^. I took pretty good care of my childhood toys and so their hair was always factory-styled. I think tinsel is great just very hard to take care of
 
Sassarazzmadazzles said:
Hot Take: New generation ponies are designed for children to enjoy and not designed for us collectors lol (besides a few repros and such that are obviously geared towards us :p but those dont count)
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G4 and G5 feel boring for me, from a child's perspective. G1-3 had a lot of charactes. You could create your own personalities and worlds. Now we only have a few fixed personalities to play with.
Syrcaid said:
The 5 Surprise line did a much better job at the big headed horses. Had less of a piggy nose. The baby one's packaging turns into a crib!View attachment 78609View attachment 78611
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The ponies are cute, but the baby looks more like a duck to me
 
So, I'm just gonna dump this here, cause I've read way too much Ponyville slander, and I need to get it out of my system.

Apparently this is a hot take. Which I didn't know, until very recently, and I'm actually really surprised by the fact that it is a hot take, but I LOVE THE PONYVILLE LINE.:ponylove: The houses, the clothes, the tiny shoes, the even tinier hair accesories. The fact, that you could just shove one in each of your little :star:girlpockets:star:, or put ALL of the ones you own in a tiny bag, and take them on family trips, or anywhere you wanted with zero hastle. And I think their faces are not that bad at all. In fact, they are quite cute.

It also also just makes me irrationally angry, that they are always lumped together with G3.5. THEY'RE NOT G3.5!:madpony: Say it with me: G3.5 has only 7 characters (with the exception of the 3 moms, that only appeared once), with very stylised hair, and they also don't have lower lashes. For most of the line's run there were a lot of characters (some repeating more often than others...yes I mean those two...) and they have G3 eyes (with lower lashes, and also more "eye shaped"...actually now that I'm looking at it G3 eyes are just G1 eyes, but bigger, and Ponyville eyes are just G3 eyes but bigger).

Also, some G3.5 are really cute, but Hasbro also made a lot of then unnecessarily cursed. They could've been so cute, how did they mess them up that bad?

(Reading this back, my neurospicyness, and lack of a consistent train of thought is screaming back at me, but I'm not willing to edit this in any way other than correcting the typos I noticed. Sorry, not sorry.)
 
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I dont think they should have made the dancing ballerina ponies lol - im sure people love them, i just dont like them. I god rid of my only ones i had lol - they werent even doubles
 
I also love the Ponyville line! I like G3.5 too. But back to Ponyville. I think the name in itself is so delightful. I love playsets and the Ponyville ones are adorable! I'm not sure how many know of the little Ponyville teapot but oh my gosh! It's so good!!! I love that they made a teapot into a house, and to top it all off they garnished it with little effects playing the MLP theme song. Too good. The ponies themselves are also adorable. I enjoy that G4 and G5 pulled away from the ultra-girly aesthetic, but it works really well for G3 and G3.5, giving it so much charm! I think it helps that I was young when G3 was active. I think this makes sense, coming from me.. :rofl:

I knew liking G5 was a hot take, but I didn't expect so many people to share that they don't like it :rofl: I understand- G5 is my first gen where I am active in the pony community, but I am sure neighsayers for G2, G3, and G4 were very vocal when those gens were active. Although maybe less G3; perhaps it is just the passage of time treating it well, but I find that generation to be very well-regarded.

Something to tack onto this; I've heard a lot against Hasbro's plastic-free packaging. I really like it! I think it makes opening packages easier. Also, in my opinion, they've gotten better with making the ponies hard to steal. My only objection to it is I don't think plastic-free packaging has the same effect when there are Basic Fun ponies in the next aisle over with plastic packaging. In an ideal world, I'd prefer for the Basic Fun ponies to get creative, cute packaging, while still being plastic-free. I know they could do it! But I also understand they're a different company from Hasbro.
 
LilyLightly020 said:
So, I'm just gonna dump this here, cause I've read way too much Ponyville slander, and I need to get it out of my system.

Apparently this is a hot take. Which I didn't know, until very recently, and I'm actually really surprised by the fact that it is a hot take, but I LOVE THE PONYVILLE LINE.:ponylove: The houses, the clothes, the tiny shoes, the even tinier hair accesories. The fact, that you could just shove one in each of your little :star:girlpockets:star:, or put ALL of the ones you own in a tiny bag, and take them on family trips, or anywhere you wanted with zero hastle. And I think their faces are not that bad at all. In fact, they are quite cute.

It also also just makes me irrationally angry, that they are always lumped together with G3.5. THEY'RE NOT G3.5!:madpony: Say it with me: G3.5 has only 7 characters (with the exception of the 3 moms, that only appeared once), with very stylised hair, and they also don't have lower lashes. For most of the line's run there were a lot of characters (some repeating more often than others...yes I mean those two...) and they have G3 eyes (with lower lashes, and also more "eye shaped"...actually now that I'm looking at it G3 eyes are just G1 eyes, but bigger, and Ponyville eyes are just G3 eyes but bigger).

Also, some G3.5 are really cute, but Hasbro also made a lot of then unnecessarily cursed. They could've been so cute, how did they mess them up that bad?

(Reading this back, my neurospicyness, and lack of a consistent train of thought is screaming back at me, but I'm not willing to edit this in any way other than correcting the typos I noticed. Sorry, not sorry.)
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Haha I do consider ponyville and g3.5 to be the same thing, sorry about that! They just look the same to me and have the same vibe
However I agree that they are both super cute and definitely have my favorite playsets of any gen (except the g3 dance studio maybe), the gum ball machine, minty’s Christmas tree and this little swing thing? Adorable ^_^
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I think I even saw a little fridge fully stocked with teeny food for them once :D
 
LilyLightly020 said:
So, I'm just gonna dump this here, cause I've read way too much Ponyville slander, and I need to get it out of my system.

Apparently this is a hot take. Which I didn't know, until very recently, and I'm actually really surprised by the fact that it is a hot take, but I LOVE THE PONYVILLE LINE.:ponylove: The houses, the clothes, the tiny shoes, the even tinier hair accesories. The fact, that you could just shove one in each of your little :star:girlpockets:star:, or put ALL of the ones you own in a tiny bag, and take them on family trips, or anywhere you wanted with zero hastle. And I think their faces are not that bad at all. In fact, they are quite cute.

It also also just makes me irrationally angry, that they are always lumped together with G3.5. THEY'RE NOT G3.5!:madpony: Say it with me: G3.5 has only 7 characters (with the exception of the 3 moms, that only appeared once), with very stylised hair, and they also don't have lower lashes. For most of the line's run there were a lot of characters (some repeating more often than others...yes I mean those two...) and they have G3 eyes (with lower lashes, and also more "eye shaped"...actually now that I'm looking at it G3 eyes are just G1 eyes, but bigger, and Ponyville eyes are just G3 eyes but bigger).

Also, some G3.5 are really cute, but Hasbro also made a lot of then unnecessarily cursed. They could've been so cute, how did they mess them up that bad?

(Reading this back, my neurospicyness, and lack of a consistent train of thought is screaming back at me, but I'm not willing to edit this in any way other than correcting the typos I noticed. Sorry, not sorry.)
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I absolutely love this ranting ramble! :purpleheart:

Would Ponyville be 3.25? Or 3.75?
 
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