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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Started by Nique, Jan 25 2011 10:22 PM
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Posted 28 May 2012 - 07:51 AM
*facepalm* SERIOUSLY?!?
Come on, MLP:FiM was lightning in a bottle...
LIGHTNING (from FFXIII): GET ME OUT OF HERE!
That's NOT what I meant!
The odds of the new Care Bears becoming that popular is a crapshoot at best. It would require the same level of sophisticated humor, and that doesn't look like it's present from the ads I saw.
Come on, MLP:FiM was lightning in a bottle...
LIGHTNING (from FFXIII): GET ME OUT OF HERE!
That's NOT what I meant!
The odds of the new Care Bears becoming that popular is a crapshoot at best. It would require the same level of sophisticated humor, and that doesn't look like it's present from the ads I saw.
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Posted 28 May 2012 - 08:07 PM
Hahahaha, no shit really?I wanted to let you know that this was an unapproved and unsanctioned pitch by our PR agency that we are completely taken aback by. Both The Hub TV Network nor American Greetings Properties had any knowledge of the pitch angle.
I call shennanigans.
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Posted 28 May 2012 - 10:08 PM
You know for noistalgia sake I almost would officially join this forum as I really like SatAM and feel its the best Sonic series and incarnaton.
However seeing some of the double standards here about liking FiM and calling out people for liking it is nothing short of hypocrisy and total idiocy.
People saying crap like this are the same people who like a show that has not appeared on TV for over 10 years now and will never come back in a million years.
For me I find the show fun and interesting and entertaining.
I am not saying to like it but have more respect.
Hey at least MLP didnt have a hero that became a werewolf in a really shitty game
However seeing some of the double standards here about liking FiM and calling out people for liking it is nothing short of hypocrisy and total idiocy.
People saying crap like this are the same people who like a show that has not appeared on TV for over 10 years now and will never come back in a million years.
For me I find the show fun and interesting and entertaining.
I am not saying to like it but have more respect.
Hey at least MLP didnt have a hero that became a werewolf in a really shitty game
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Posted 29 May 2012 - 09:37 AM
That comic was epic. 
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 04:58 PM
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Posted 02 July 2012 - 05:46 PM
I am back from Bronycon
I am still recovering, this being my first con and my first experience with anything like this was both exciting and exhausting, I am home now sunburnt, sore and very tired but I still will remember this as one of the coolest things I have ever done.
I got signings from Tara, Lauren and John, it was neat meeting them
I am still recovering, this being my first con and my first experience with anything like this was both exciting and exhausting, I am home now sunburnt, sore and very tired but I still will remember this as one of the coolest things I have ever done.
I got signings from Tara, Lauren and John, it was neat meeting them
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Posted 02 July 2012 - 09:15 PM
Oh dear god! Sonique has turned into one of...one of...
...THOSE!!!
*does a girlish scream of terror and runs out of the thread*
...THOSE!!!
*does a girlish scream of terror and runs out of the thread*
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Posted 03 July 2012 - 07:33 AM
Oh dear god! Sonique has turned into one of...one of...
...THOSE!!!
*does a girlish scream of terror and runs out of the thread*
Yes, I met her actually too. I am a member of her other forum Equestriaforums and met her at a meetup
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 08:14 PM
You know, she actually doesn't live very far from me, yet I've never met her.
And I've been posting on forums with her for years.
And I've been posting on forums with her for years.
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 09:04 PM
John de Lancie goes to brony con O.O
I wish Sonique would come back here.
I wish Sonique would come back here.
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 02:06 PM
Oh dear god! Sonique has turned into one of...one of...
...THOSE!!!
*does a girlish scream of terror and runs out of the thread*
Well if that made you run out of the thread, how about the fact that de Lancie showed up for his panel wearing a Brony shirt?
(Okay, de Lancie isn't really a Brony himself, he just supports them and just borrowed the shirt to wear at the panel):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUZHU1TBGcw&list=FLf8wZxxnJkS81T7XGT3CBsA&feature=mh_lolz
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:04 PM
(...silently chuckles to self) I will admit, pony.mov, along with the others is quite funny, and the ponifications usually get a laugh from me [pony garrett hunter....]but I am NOT a brony. No love and tolerance, stay off mah lawn, yadda yadda yadda....but I don't oppose it really. In the words of Carl from ATHF,
"You do what you like to do and I do what I like to do, okay?"
"You do what you like to do and I do what I like to do, okay?"
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:47 AM
For me this show is fantastic and quite easily one of the best things I have watched on a regular basis.
Now yes there has been better, heck my favorite cartoon series of all time is still Batman the Animated series and my favorite live action series is still Star Trek.
But this series is something that I think is a great deal of fun, sure we have seen this shows character types before but really what thing doesnt seem cliched (or troped) by now?
Honestly if people are complaining about the lack of originality here they should know that there really isnt such thing as originality anymore.
As for this series being based off My Little Pony yes it is a deterrent but I assure you this series is in my opinion the best of the my little pony franchise.
And to show off my thoughts let me share some thoughts on the older My Little Pony franchises.
First of all I will mention that I never really watched the original series as a kid as my sister was never into My Little Pony, but I did see a few episodes of My Little Pony Tales and it is that what made me avoid ponies for so long but I will get to tales a little later.
Now in interest of fairness I decided to watch a vast majority of the older generations that I could online so I could give my full out and honest opinion.
So lets start at G1:
G1 for me is an interesting thing to look at after watching FiM, keeping in mind that this was a different era I did my best to remain fair and this is no easy task when talking about G1.
Now I will have to say that both Escape from Katrina and Midnight castle are actually pretty decent, especially Midnight castle who I can see a lot of in FiM.
But if its one thing that caught me right away, is how bad the voice acting is and how utterly un interesting the ponies are.
I could not tell one pony from the other except the ponies that would become Twilight Sparkle, Applejack and Rainbow Dash in G4.
This is sort of a common problem in 80's cartoons but here it could not be any more blatant.
It lets you know its from the 80's with a large smack to the head no less.
Then I watched a few episodes and I came to the conclusion that this series is no better or worse then most of the stuff for boys at the time overall.
I cannot say more then that, as honestly it did not interest me as much.
Still its not too terrible and I may watch some of it again soon.
Then comes pony tales, and this is where I become a little more nasty.
First they don't retain most of the action or fantasy elements with this one and just stick to a format that practically all cartoons made for girls at the time do.
Now on one hand its kind of good they are trying to make the characters more human in character this time by giving the ponies bit more of a personality but when your characters do nothing but hang around a malt shop and talk about boys you get my ire.
You know going from a series with heavy fantasy influence to a series where a bunch of ponies talk about boys there is only one thing to ask:
What in the flying hell were you thinking hasbro? GAH!
Seriously between G3 I cannot decide which one I hate more and trust me G3 is next.
Now with all this said do I hate Pony tales?
Both yes and no, on one hand its nice they did try to make the ponies a little more realistic but it came with the cost of having mundane stories.
Now contrary to popular belief there is no G2 cartoon, some people think Pony tales is but no its actually later G1.
But G3 exists and boy sometimes I really wish it didnt.
Now first lets get to some of the positives about this generation as they are so few of them.
Firstly I have to say it was good to see that both Unicorns and Pegasi are back in G3 and some of the fantasy elements have returned... but that is all the things positive I can say about it as honestly G3 is a boring, half assed total piece of garbage.
First lets talk about the characters: What characters?
Seriously I thought G1 was bad but this is even worse, I cannot say anything good about any of them and that includes Minty who seems to be popular in that fandom.
Sorry but she does not really impress me as a character, none of them do IMHO.
Secondly story: What story?
Honestly most the episodes I have seen are about birthdays and one episode was about a fashion show where everybody won (for petes sake!)
I watched the longer specials too like Princess Promenade and "A minty Christmas" and I will let Roger Ebert say what I cannot say.
Just replace movie with show and you get the gist.
Sad thing is that it got worse with the core 7 and even more worse with Newborn cuties, I practically snapped at that one and wanted to murder several people at Hasbro for that one.
UGH!
So yeah those are my general thoughts, I honestly dont have much to say on any of them but still its nice to let people know what I thought.
To get a clear contrast I challenge one of you who doesnt like the show or its fandom with two pony episodes back to back one from G3 and one from the current incarnation.
Both are filled with the typical things you associate my little pony with, fashion shows and girly stuff but the two could not be any more different.
first is the mentioned G3 episode where everyone wins:
http://www.youtube.c...d&v=1yr0yHsiv7k
And the episode "suited for success"
If I can be a man by grinning and bearing it you can too, it takes a real man to survive G3 though...
Say what you will about FiM but if you watch the G3 episode I linked and survive you can take FiM
Now yes there has been better, heck my favorite cartoon series of all time is still Batman the Animated series and my favorite live action series is still Star Trek.
But this series is something that I think is a great deal of fun, sure we have seen this shows character types before but really what thing doesnt seem cliched (or troped) by now?
Honestly if people are complaining about the lack of originality here they should know that there really isnt such thing as originality anymore.
As for this series being based off My Little Pony yes it is a deterrent but I assure you this series is in my opinion the best of the my little pony franchise.
And to show off my thoughts let me share some thoughts on the older My Little Pony franchises.
First of all I will mention that I never really watched the original series as a kid as my sister was never into My Little Pony, but I did see a few episodes of My Little Pony Tales and it is that what made me avoid ponies for so long but I will get to tales a little later.
Now in interest of fairness I decided to watch a vast majority of the older generations that I could online so I could give my full out and honest opinion.
So lets start at G1:
G1 for me is an interesting thing to look at after watching FiM, keeping in mind that this was a different era I did my best to remain fair and this is no easy task when talking about G1.
Now I will have to say that both Escape from Katrina and Midnight castle are actually pretty decent, especially Midnight castle who I can see a lot of in FiM.
But if its one thing that caught me right away, is how bad the voice acting is and how utterly un interesting the ponies are.
I could not tell one pony from the other except the ponies that would become Twilight Sparkle, Applejack and Rainbow Dash in G4.
This is sort of a common problem in 80's cartoons but here it could not be any more blatant.
It lets you know its from the 80's with a large smack to the head no less.
Then I watched a few episodes and I came to the conclusion that this series is no better or worse then most of the stuff for boys at the time overall.
I cannot say more then that, as honestly it did not interest me as much.
Still its not too terrible and I may watch some of it again soon.
Then comes pony tales, and this is where I become a little more nasty.
First they don't retain most of the action or fantasy elements with this one and just stick to a format that practically all cartoons made for girls at the time do.
Now on one hand its kind of good they are trying to make the characters more human in character this time by giving the ponies bit more of a personality but when your characters do nothing but hang around a malt shop and talk about boys you get my ire.
You know going from a series with heavy fantasy influence to a series where a bunch of ponies talk about boys there is only one thing to ask:
What in the flying hell were you thinking hasbro? GAH!
Seriously between G3 I cannot decide which one I hate more and trust me G3 is next.
Now with all this said do I hate Pony tales?
Both yes and no, on one hand its nice they did try to make the ponies a little more realistic but it came with the cost of having mundane stories.
Now contrary to popular belief there is no G2 cartoon, some people think Pony tales is but no its actually later G1.
But G3 exists and boy sometimes I really wish it didnt.
Now first lets get to some of the positives about this generation as they are so few of them.
Firstly I have to say it was good to see that both Unicorns and Pegasi are back in G3 and some of the fantasy elements have returned... but that is all the things positive I can say about it as honestly G3 is a boring, half assed total piece of garbage.
First lets talk about the characters: What characters?
Seriously I thought G1 was bad but this is even worse, I cannot say anything good about any of them and that includes Minty who seems to be popular in that fandom.
Sorry but she does not really impress me as a character, none of them do IMHO.
Secondly story: What story?
Honestly most the episodes I have seen are about birthdays and one episode was about a fashion show where everybody won (for petes sake!)
I watched the longer specials too like Princess Promenade and "A minty Christmas" and I will let Roger Ebert say what I cannot say.
Just replace movie with show and you get the gist.
Sad thing is that it got worse with the core 7 and even more worse with Newborn cuties, I practically snapped at that one and wanted to murder several people at Hasbro for that one.
UGH!
So yeah those are my general thoughts, I honestly dont have much to say on any of them but still its nice to let people know what I thought.
To get a clear contrast I challenge one of you who doesnt like the show or its fandom with two pony episodes back to back one from G3 and one from the current incarnation.
Both are filled with the typical things you associate my little pony with, fashion shows and girly stuff but the two could not be any more different.
first is the mentioned G3 episode where everyone wins:
http://www.youtube.c...d&v=1yr0yHsiv7k
And the episode "suited for success"
If I can be a man by grinning and bearing it you can too, it takes a real man to survive G3 though...
Say what you will about FiM but if you watch the G3 episode I linked and survive you can take FiM
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:09 PM
...in the mention of your favorite toon...Batman does NOT eat nachos!
But really, I can stand it, but. I'm not going to freak out over people either praising it or badmouthing it. Its a show, people watch it, people like it. I'm not going to berate people who don't watch Der Untergang, even though it is my favorite movie(and Bruno Ganz my favorite actor.), because it is an opinion, and people can express those. If someone told me "I hate MLP and/or bronies" I'm not going to freak out, or. If they say "I hate Der Untergang because its a nazi movie". Though I do hate the bronies that try to Cram MLP down my throat, I have no problems. I'm anti-brony-extremist, not anti-brony.
...they're like Unitologists without the religious craze.
But really, I can stand it, but. I'm not going to freak out over people either praising it or badmouthing it. Its a show, people watch it, people like it. I'm not going to berate people who don't watch Der Untergang, even though it is my favorite movie(and Bruno Ganz my favorite actor.), because it is an opinion, and people can express those. If someone told me "I hate MLP and/or bronies" I'm not going to freak out, or. If they say "I hate Der Untergang because its a nazi movie". Though I do hate the bronies that try to Cram MLP down my throat, I have no problems. I'm anti-brony-extremist, not anti-brony.
...they're like Unitologists without the religious craze.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 02:25 AM
...in the mention of your favorite toon...Batman does NOT eat nachos!
Maybe, but Sonic doenst eat chili dogs outside of the US so strange thing to nitpick.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 03:31 PM
...in the mention of your favorite toon...Batman does NOT eat nachos!
But really, I can stand it, but. I'm not going to freak out over people either praising it or badmouthing it. Its a show, people watch it, people like it. I'm not going to berate people who don't watch Der Untergang, even though it is my favorite movie(and Bruno Ganz my favorite actor.), because it is an opinion, and people can express those. If someone told me "I hate MLP and/or bronies" I'm not going to freak out, or. If they say "I hate Der Untergang because its a nazi movie". Though I do hate the bronies that try to Cram MLP down my throat, I have no problems. I'm anti-brony-extremist, not anti-brony.
...they're like Unitologists without the religious craze.
The: Join usss itssss blisssss... ?
Glory lasts forever
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 05:42 PM
...the ones that try and force. Me into bronyhood. Those are the ones that face the wrath of my waterproof boots.
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