History YMMV / MyLittlePonyGeneration4

* SoBadItsGood: The European comics. Intentionally ludicrous translation aside, the plotlines tend to read like they were written by a six-year-old and the art seems to have been created by someone who had never seen anything of the show but the basic character models and somehow manages to land squarely in the UncannyValley despite being a cartoon. The result is an almost absurdist take on the setting involving things like [[http://derpibooru.org/30431 the ponies playing soccer]], [[http://derpibooru.org/images/30232 Spike having the exact same expression all the time]], and [[http://derpibooru.org/30280 Pinkie Pie making "enchanted" cookies]].

** The trading card for Lyra Heartstrings and Golden Harvest includes the line "... lolling in the park, sharing bonbons with Golden Harvest." Bonbon is the name of Lyra's fanon girlfriend, making this either a poorly thought-out FandomNod, or a case of [[RefugeInAudacity ramming a freight train]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar into the radar.]] Given that Hasbro hired members of the fandom to write the cards, it's likely a little of both.

* SoBadItsGood: The horribly half-assed European comics. Intentionally ludicrous translation aside, the plotlines tend to read like they were written by a six-year-old and the art seems to have been created by someone who had never seen anything of the show but the basic character models and somehow manages to land squarely in the UncannyValley despite being a cartoon. The result is an almost absurdist take on the setting involving things like [[http://derpibooru.org/30431 the ponies playing soccer]], [[http://derpibooru.org/images/30232 Spike having the exact same expression all the time]], and [[http://derpibooru.org/30280 Pinkie Pie making "enchanted" cookies]].

* FollowTheLeader: The ''Equestria Girls'' line was clearly made to compete with ''Toys/MonsterHigh''.

* FollowTheLeader: The ''Equestria Girls'' line was clearly made to compete with ''Franchise/MonsterHigh''.

** The ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=C2F6A500-5056-900B-10B6-F9648904AC32 Sweet Slumbers with Applejack & Star Dreams]]'' toy set. Jokes about [[{{Lolicon}} Applejack sleeping with a filly]] were inevitable.

* TheyJustDidntCare:
** The toys. [[YouDontLookLikeYou Almost none of them look show accurate at all, one of the biggest offenders being]] [[FanNickname Pinklestia.]] It wasn't until two-thirds of the way through season 2 that an official white Celestia was made (as part of a set that seems almost tailor-made for the [[PeripheryDemographic bronies]]). They don't sound like them, either. Pinklestia's lines ("I love it when you brush my hair!") have led some to joke that it's actually a [[Memes/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Molestia]] doll.\\
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The toy department, which is separate from the writers and animators of the actual show, claims that they're at the mercy of the toy stores in a classic "the client is always right" relationship, and if anyone isn't caring enough, it's the toy stores. Or they care about the wrong things. ("If it's for girls, why isn't it pink?")
*** This actually is the case with most toy manufacturers. If the department/toy stores don't think a toy will sell, they won't stock it. Trying to sneak it into a case assortment will usually result in them sending back the "offending" figure.
*** It seems to be getting better, now that the toy department actually has a "pink pony princess" to market (Princess Cadence).

*** Though still no Luna. You'd think they'd make the princesses first.
** The European comics also catch a lot of flack, accused of being written ''and'' drawn by people who have never seen the original show. The storylines are trite, {{OOC}} behavior abounds, and the artwork relies on a handful of duckfaced vectors almost always showing ponies in full profile with no sense of depth. When [[http://bronycurious.deviantart.com/art/Sisterhooves-Slighted-A-FiM-Picture-Book-293719504?q=gallery%3Abronycurious&qo=1 amateur fan artwork]] looks better than the licensed product, you know there's a problem.
** The game ''Adventures in Ponyville'' has similar problems. Being a bit limited of gameplay is only expected of a browser-based game made on the side of the real product, but there's still the graphics and writing. A lot of the graphics are directly based on the show and thus adequate by definition (though even some of those manage to be out of scale to each other), but as for the rest, well, you can easily find better on Website/DeviantART by the truckload. As for the writing, there's {{OOC}} and no particular sign of understanding of the source material, and blatant inconsistencies in what character is supposed to be talking about whom. Also, the player character is constantly looking behind herself.

* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: The [[GodCreatedCanonForeigner toyline exclusive]] character; Emerald Ray has a cutie mark resembling the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill BP]] [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BP_Logo.svg Logo]].

* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: The [[GodCreatedCanonForeigner toyline exclusive]]character; Emerald Ray has a cutie mark resembling the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill BP]] [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BP_Logo.svg Logo]].

** The game ''Adventures in Ponyville'' has similar problems. Being a bit limited of gameplay is only expected of a browser-based game made on the side of the real product, but there's still the graphics and writing. A lot of the graphics are directly based on the show and thus adequate by definition (though even some of those manage to be out of scale to each other), but as for the rest, well, you can easily find better on DeviantART by the truckload. As for the writing, there's {{OOC}} and no particular sign of understanding of the source material, and blatant inconsistencies in what character is supposed to be talking about whom. Also, the player character is constantly looking behind herself.