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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
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#53976: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:25:36 AM

Gryphon-Dashie fanart was inevitable

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Yep, Mariachi Ponies

Mrs Seabreeze

edited 1st Mar '14 8:26:56 AM by AceOfScarabs

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#53977: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:26:27 AM

I can agree that Twilight being able to breeziefy the cast came a bit out of nowhere, but damn if it wasn't cute enough for me to forgive it. Yes, it's obvious set up for a new toy set and no, I don't care. Everything is a set up for toys, as long as its entertaining it isn't worth stressing out over, but some people are like on the lookout for anything that could be turned into a figure and instantly declaring it sucks.

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#53978: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:27:50 AM

@Irish well think about it. You found yourself stranded on an island with a huge mansion and most every luxury available and someone to take care of you. Then you receive news that someone was going to rescue you. Would you actually want to go back to a relatively boring non-pampered life?

That's (a probably crappy allegory for) what the breezies sans Sea Breeze likely felt at Fluttershy's cottage.

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#53979: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:28:19 AM

I generally try not to let toy-selling of the show affect my judgement of the episodes.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#53980: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:29:46 AM

And the bronies as a whole buy just as much merch as the target audience, so it seems hypocritical.

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#53981: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:30:11 AM

I'm just surprised I didn't see a single Breezy with Peg Bundy hair.

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#53982: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:30:55 AM

OK, some of the exposition was a tiny bit clunky, but that's all I give.

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#53983: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:33:46 AM

Dashie as a Gryphon

This was inevitable

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#53984: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:34:32 AM

I think one criticism I have for the episode is I fail to see how turning the Mane Six into Breezies helped. Wasn't the problem is there were too few of them to make the right breeze? How did adding six more help? Should I stop thinking too hard about children's shows and enjoy the cuteness?

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#53985: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:34:47 AM

@Dark: I know what you mean, but I will say it's a little different. Most of the stuff the adult fanbase buys is "the made toys of stuff that we told them we liked", like Derpy, Octavia, and Vinyl. People don't mind buying that stuff because it's buying merch of characters that we want stuff of. Whereas the show generally comes at it from the opposite side: creating toys and then putting them into the show to try to get people to buy them.

It's less hypocrisy and more "stop trying to sell me things that you're shoehorning in and give me more merch of the stuff I already like". Which is entitled and rude, but not hypocritical.

Also,

wild mass guessBreezies are biologically a One-Gender Race and simply choose what gender they want to be referred to aswild mass guess

It would explain why Seabreeze is referred to as male despite not having any differentiation from the others and can still have a wife and kid.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:36:33 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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#53986: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:36:10 AM

@JT: It's like the whole Transformers deal with not getting toys of certain doods and not having some of the toyline doods get used for the tie-in show.

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#53987: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:37:02 AM

I like how they were setting up Pinkie to ruin things, but she didn't.

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#53988: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:37:22 AM

On a side note, I thought Time Turner and Roseluck together in "Flight to the Finish" was a coincidence, but now I'm convinced DHX ships Time/Luck. Sorry, Derpy/Doctor shippers.

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#53989: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:37:33 AM

I think one criticism I have for the episode is I fail to see how turning the Mane Six into Breezies helped. Wasn't the problem is there were too few of them to make the right breeze? How did adding six more help? Should I stop thinking too hard about children's shows and enjoy the cuteness?

the problem was that there were too few breezies to spread the breeze between.

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#53990: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:38:08 AM

@Ace: Exactly. Bronies want Hasbro to make toys and merch of popular characters in the show; Vinyl, Octavia, Lyra, Coco, etc. Whereas Hasbro creates new toys and wants to put them in the show so they'll sell that way. Both sides think that they should control what toys get developed.

@Ed: yeah, it's like they knew what effect "Filli Vanilli" would have. Spike kinda got thrown under the bus for it though.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:38:47 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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#53991: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:38:41 AM

@Cal: Actually I think the idea is that when there were more o them the breeze was spread out so it didn't affect them as much. So the mane six added more breezies to spread it out and make things easier.

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#53992: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:39:43 AM

@JT: Still waiting on some of the Cybertron Wars Game series transformers to get their Deluxe or Voyager action figures. Also a Vinyl Scratch set with a mini turntable that is cross-compatible with the Cybertron Wars 'disc' cassette doods.

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#53993: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:40:11 AM

@Calnois yes. And as for the +6 question, the Breezies are smaller and lighter than the ponies (they couldn't be lifted by the breeze otherwise) and I'm pretty sure 6 extra ponies couldn't weight sown thw swarm that much (Also It was Flitter and another Pegasus supplying the wind, not Dash or all three at once. That might had been a factor, but that would like beg the "Why didn't Flitter or Thunderlane step down?" question).

edited 1st Mar '14 8:41:14 AM by MorningStar1337

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#53994: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:40:45 AM

I'd rather the show not ever be Merchandise-Driven, but I really don't care in the long run, as long as the show is still good.

It feels 100x more awkward to watch MLP knowing it's Merchandise-Driven.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:41:37 AM by Scolipendra

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#53995: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:40:47 AM

Rarity used FLASH!

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#53996: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:41:26 AM

The problem is, a lot of (The really, really BAD) Social Justice types on tumblr are people who are basically just using their social movement of choice as an excuse to bully people in a socially acceptable way, and will basically call Tone Policing anytime anyone suggests, "Hey, maybe don't be an asshole?". So this episode is probably gonna cause a bit of a tiff with them, since, you know... being an asshole was demonstrated to be the wrong thing to do.

I still don't understand. Is it bad because you were cruel to be kind or bad because they were taking advantage of her? I honestly find half this fandom IS a Broken Base.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#53997: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:41:46 AM

@Cal: Well, it makes sense. Plus, Derpy has that brown stallion with her now, so it's all good.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:42:18 AM by Rinsankajugin

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#53998: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:43:11 AM

[up][up][up][up] If its based on a line of toys, being Merchandise-Driven is inevitable, for its mere existence shows the toys to the audience. I believe that Merchandise-Driven stuff can do well, but Sturgeon's Law and some ethical/moral complaints led to that stigma.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:43:33 AM by MorningStar1337

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#53999: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:43:43 AM

@JT: Seabreeze is very offended that you can't tell how obviously masculine he is. Come on man, look at those eyebrows, and that foofy pink hair! The guy oozes testosterone.

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#54000: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:43:50 AM

-enters- I really, really like the Breezies.

Also I dislike the cast being turned into breezies, but other than selling toys, if it weren't for that we wouldn't get to see the Breezies' homeland or that joke from Rainbow at the end.

-leaves-

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.

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