Let's hear some hot takes!

An additional hot take: I consider Sweetheart Sisters body style (brides & ballerinas, too) to be G1.5, a bizarre lead-in to the style of G2.
 
Sassarazzmadazzles said:
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
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I think the babies are cute. The adults look weird tho. Maybe it's just that I don't like the "slim G1s" (whatever name they run under, they had a lot, and I don't know why). They'd be pretty as a separate thing, but I hate the fact that they have completely different body ratios from the rest of G1, but they are somehow still G1.
ponyville said:
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.
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I think, that G3 has very few haters in the collector community mainly because the design looks much more like G1 than G2 did, and since G2 was so universally well...not loved, it makes sense, that basically rereleasing a more stylized version of G1 was a pretty popular decision from Hasbro.

But also there were some very local G4 fans in G4's time, who seemed to hate G3...because it was aimed at smaller kids, than where G4 was aiming. Or maybe it's just the fact that the 2010s were...a thing that happened. Maybe it's because I was an unsupervised tween on the internet, but I tend to blame a lot of things on :star:2010s internet culure:star:
AzaleaArt said:
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
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Yes, I have been hunting for that swing for a while tbh.

Wait, there's a fridge? :surprisepony: Or was it just some general toy fridge filled with Ponyville stuff? Because if it was, than I could propably get one and take one of those pics with all the stuff I have.:lolpony:
Rebeldream said:
I absolutely love this ranting ramble! :purpleheart:

Would Ponyville be 3.25? Or 3.75?
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I'd say you're gonna regret asking this, but you said you loved the ramble, so here we go:

Welll... I think, you could go two different ways when subdividing G3:

First (and also tge one I prefer):
G3: The first few years, when there were way more characters, with no official set of main ponies. (I would also put the first few years of the Ponyville line here tbh, because I personally just never really considered them a separate thing. It's like plushies. Different enough, but paralell.)
G3.25: The (new) core 7 gets elevated to a new height, they're still mostly the same style, but they do abandon the old poses, and only use the art pose. (There were propably also some Ponyville sets that correspond to this time, but they are a bit more difficult to distinguish, because the Ponyville line kept the old poses. That being said, anything that has Sweetie Belle or Starsong propably belongs here, as they never appeared anywhere before the introduction of the core 7, and this was also the time Hasbro started experimenting with...wigs:hmph: (sorry, I feel unreasonably strongly about the wigs, and not in a good way) so the sets that have a non-G3.5 pony with interchangable mane also belong here.)
G3.5: Well, G3.5.
G3.75: Newborn cuties. (This was such a mixed bag, but I've already gone on that rant in this thread.)

Second (and also the more self-explanatory):
G3: Just good ol' G3 brushables.
G3.25: Ponyville ponies.
G3.5: G3.5
G3.75: Newborn cuties.
 
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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).
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I agree! They’re not G3.5! Although the layer Ponyville do go 3.5 way, like they mix in there like G5 figures mix with G4’s.

I love the Ponyville line too! I can exclude the anthro and mer ones though. Little kid me avoided those ones with .5. I still avoid those

The teacup house was my favourite. I still got it in the loft. Discoloured and all spidery now of course but the lights being functional were my favourite part! I still remember the TV ad; “when the lights are on it’s time for tea in Ponyville~”
LilyLightly020 said:
or put ALL of the ones you own in a tiny bag, and take them on family trips
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This is probably how I lost four of mine. I bet they was somewhere at my grandparents’
 
G1 Teeny Tiny Babies dont look like horses

or let me rephrase that - they look like all the things that people dont like in g4 or g5 with the short/flat face, small muzzle, with big eyes, but people still let the teeny tinys pass, i guess its cause they are g1
 
LilyLightly020 said:
(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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Honestly, that take is a work of art! True levels of frustration, finely crafted! :rainbow:
I drew you this gold star with a pony stuck on it.

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Sassarazzmadazzles said:
G1 Teeny Tiny Babies dont look like horses

or let me rephrase that - they look like all the things that people dont like in g4 or g5 with the short/flat face, small muzzle, with big eyes, but people still let the teeny tinys pass, i guess its cause they are g1
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They look like G3.5, and I love it, not sorry :rofl:
 
Sassarazzmadazzles said:
G1 Teeny Tiny Babies dont look like horses

or let me rephrase that - they look like all the things that people dont like in g4 or g5 with the short/flat face, small muzzle, with big eyes, but people still let the teeny tinys pass, i guess its cause they are g1
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Yep, predators. I don’t like them but I’ve also never seen one in person so I’m reserving full judgement until one of the little beasts passes through my hands. AND, even though I RAILED against the flat-faced monsters between 4 & 5, seeing them now as anomalies and not a full run kinda makes me want them simply because they look cartoonishly deformed. The first time I saw them on shelves I noped right out of the toy aisle, convinced I was now simply too old to understand. Then they went away and G5 emerged and I was like, “Yeah, still meh but less omgwth.”

LilyLightly020 said:
Second (and also the more self-explanatory):
G3: Just good ol' G3 brushables.
G3.25: Ponyville ponies.
G3.5: G3.5
G3.75: Newborn cuties.
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Makes sense. Though actively collecting through the first few years of G3 and the amount of merch I had with Kimono, Sunny Daze, and Rainbow Dash, I tend to balk at the idea that there wasn’t a core set of characters. I get the general concept now with the revamp of G3 introducing the clique aspect of a “Mane Six” or whatever, though.

I recall a documentary about MLP talking about how they came out with the toys first kinda on a whim and then as popularity was ramping they realized they needed a storyline. Seems like that’s what happened with G3 also and so the following generations were based more heavily on the story with the actual toys being less thoughtful?
 
Sassarazzmadazzles said:
G1 Teeny Tiny Babies dont look like horses

or let me rephrase that - they look like all the things that people dont like in g4 or g5 with the short/flat face, small muzzle, with big eyes, but people still let the teeny tinys pass, i guess its cause they are g1
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I honestly despise them, lol. And, yeah, they are the least-pony "ponies" Hasbro has ever produced. Well, aside from the Newborn Cuties. :p

It's weird how few gens have horse-like baby ponies. Really only G3, with their long legs and little bean bodies. G1 baby ponies are proportioned more like golden retrievers or something. G2s look like lambs. G4s look like . . . I dunno, puppies? No G5 babies (as toys) yet.
 
Rebeldream said:
An additional hot take: I consider Sweetheart Sisters body style (brides & ballerinas, too) to be G1.5, a bizarre lead-in to the style of G2.
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They aren't though. It would be a retroactive fallacy to say so. They are teen ponies and the .5 wasn't used till the 2000s.
 
LilyLightly020 said:
Yes, I have been hunting for that swing for a while tbh.

Wait, there's a fridge? :surprisepony: Or was it just some general toy fridge filled with Ponyville stuff? Because if it was, than I could propably get one and take one of those pics with all the stuff I have.:lolpony:
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Right? It’s so cute, I’ve seen it pop up a few times on ebay for like $15 but it always seems to be missing the bird that sits on top so I never buy it.
And yup! It’s a cute little mini playset, I had to search around to find a pic for you but here it is
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AzaleaArt said:
Right? It’s so cute, I’ve seen it pop up a few times on ebay for like $15 but it always seems to be missing the bird that sits on top so I never buy it.
And yup! It’s a cute little mini playset, I had to search around to find a pic for you but here it is
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This is instantly going on my wishlist:eek:
 
pony personalities are better as vague concepts rather than full on characters with big lore like in g4 and g5. i love to imagine, but there is not enough room for imagination when almost anything about your pony can be either proven or disproven. g1 applejack has no confirmed preferences other than her obvious love for apples, but g4 applejack has a whole list of them. someone could imagine g1 applejack as an avid thrash metal fangirl and not be wrong. after all, as the brand name suggests, applejack is THEIR little pony.
 
G5 design is weird and cute at the same time for me. They barely resemble a pony or horse and the connection between the head-neck-body is just odd. Add hands and boom it is a centaur. Well... almost. Some months ago I went shopping and I played "spot the difference" when I saw the My Little Pony magazine and the Paw Patrol magazine side by side. So did it Google Lens. I found a lockable box with Sunny and Izzy what I wanted to identify with Lens, and it found only Paw Patrol stuff. (BTW it was an Egmont magazine gift secret diary). So I think the designers went towards the "generic cute animal" scheme... despite all of this, I think I like G5. I find it cute and I like the toy and movie design. Okay, Tell Your Tale character design is totally weird with that human heads...
 
Sassarazzmadazzles said:
G1 Teeny Tiny Babies dont look like horses

or let me rephrase that - they look like all the things that people dont like in g4 or g5 with the short/flat face, small muzzle, with big eyes, but people still let the teeny tinys pass, i guess its cause they are g1
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I second this, and I do not give them, the fancy mermaid babies, or the g2 babies, a pass for those traits in terms of criticism.

My hot take for the day is, if it has clip on wings, such as seen in 2 and 4, then I don't consider it a winged unicorn or pegasus.

I'm giving 5 a pass because

1) Zipp, Pipp and Opaline are their respective species.

2) It's done as interchangeable wing design gimmicks.

Another hot take is that the G1 Birthday Pony, the horribly named Pillow Talk, the G3 Fair Ponies, and BF Majesty look overdone and a tad gaudy. I also don't understand why some of them are pupiless?
 
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