Is AJ A Boy Or Girl?

wlyteth said:
Interesting... The backcard completely side steps any mention of Applejack's gender. :LOL:
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Did she have a fact card? XD Maybe that'd help.

Also couldn't we say that one mould was male and the other female? Might make things easier.
 
i had this same problem with G3 Star Catcher for a looooong time when i was a kid.i read in a random storybook that she was a boy,cause it referred to her as a he.i didn't figure out it was a girl till i was older and got into the internet and saw on some site that she was a girl.it boggled my mind.i never had her till last year,but i always wanted her really bad cause she was so pretty.i aggree that the authors they hire don't know jack about ponies so they just write whatever they want. p.s. aj is a girl
 
AJ is a girl. The book she is referring to wrote he instead of she and it's a misprint. I don't know who published the book she's talking about but I don't think it came directly from Hasbro. As far as I know, anything coming from Hasbro inc has named AJ female.
 
Girl, definitely. It's possible that the author may have known AJ is a girl but mistyped 'he' instead of 'she' and the editor didn't catch the mistake, but it may well be like everyone else has said--the authors don't know anything about ponies.
 
Fictional toys and cartoons don't need genders anyways, I'd suppose....

Other than that you could chalk it up to applejack being a herm. Rainbow dash might approve. :winkpony:
 
She's a girl in every generation, she's also named after an alcoholic beverage (no, not after the cereal) interestingly Paradise Estate came with two wine bottles so I suppose alcohol was in Dream Valley
 
PrincessLio said:
...I...

...Am not even going to touch that.
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Toys can be whatever the kid wants them to be. I've read stories from collectors how they saw Glory or AJ as boys in their herds. If the kid isn't old enough (or didn't bother to) read the backcard, the "canon" genders doesn't matter to them.

I think this thread is just going to get people upset. People had their own memories of the toys, so they all have their "canon." Some people are just sticklers for Hasbro's own canon, too. So whatever someone says, other people are going to disagree with it or get upset about it.
 
I'm not upset at it, and I had her as a boy as a child, because I didn't have any boys. But here's my two cents:

AJ is a girl, in all of her incarnations, the mentioned reference was just a typo.

The only known boy ponies in female poses are Sports Time and baby Schoolbag.
 
Had to look through my Swedish version of the book "The Man In The Moon" and in there Applejack is refered to as a girl.

I think wether or not children have seen her as a boy is highly irrelevant and not what the OP intended to bring up. Everyone knows children will give whatever gender they want to their toys, heck all of my plush animals were boys for some reason.
The question was, the way I see it, if Hasbro intended her as a boy or a girl and the answere to that is that they did indeed seem to intend Applejack to be a girl.
 
Yeah, I don't particularly think it matters what gender a child assigns to their toys. I was actually a stickler for canon when I was little, and since G3 had no boys, all my "boys" were fathers or brothers who weren't around (dead, etc.). I couldn't bring myself to make some of my ponies boys, so any males were imaginary. If they made G3 boys, though, I probably would have loved them.

As far as Applejack goes, she looks like a girl to me, whether Hasbro confirmed it or not. But like I said, a kid's toy is a kid's toy, and if they're having fun, it's fine.
 
Yeah granted the androgyny of toys in general, everyone in this thread is correct pretty much.

AJ's character was male in the UK, and female in the U.S.!

I can see how that could cause confusion.

But gosh, how epic would a g3 male pony with fetlocks have been? That needed to exist. XD
 
LightningSilver-Light said:
But gosh, how epic would a g3 male pony with fetlocks have been? That needed to exist. XD
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You're telling me! I would have been around to play with him. I always sort of wondered why there were no boy ponies, not that I would have known about the G1 Big Brothers back then.
 
Angel_Foil said:
You're telling me! I would have been around to play with him. I always sort of wondered why there were no boy ponies, not that I would have known about the G1 Big Brothers back then.
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Yeah, I have mixed emotions about the g3's I thought it was a super cute idea to have them be some-what like the g1's, only more "compact" in size and balance.

But with the mis-matched manes/tails and symbols on only one side of the pony, I also felt they were being a bit lazy in design...

They barely bothered to do baby g3's I noticed, lol. So I wonder if the lack of male creativity in the g3 line was laziness? They ended up doing nothing but repetitive clone poses before closing the line completely!


I've done g3 customs with real hair fetlocks, (punctured in via re-hair tool) but they didn't look male... but I'm now entertaining the thought of going back and revisiting a male g3 custom mlp concept...
 
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