I'm a long-time pony fan. Old-school. Since the 80's. I have G1s, G2s, G3s, heck, even a couple of G3.5s. Which is to say I have a very different perspective on ponies than the folks who are just jumping on the pony bandwagon with G4s and Friendship is Magic. Not that I mind the new fans - y'all are quite welcome on my lawn. The more people who like ponies, the more ponies and episodes Hasbro will make. But the new FiM fans have different message boards (that are not the MLP Arena or MLPTP), and different opinions.
Equestria Daily is a glimpse into those opinions. Like this post on Blossomforth, Dewdrop Dazzle, and Cupcake. Basically, the author doesn't like the new ponies because they're not in the cartoons. In comparison, I'm bouncing off the walls going 'yay new ponies' like a four year old. Not that I wouldn't mind if Hasbro were to make toys of, say, the entire Apple Family, but I for one will be snagging Blossomforth as soon as I can find her in stores.
In addition to giving a view into another world of pony fandom, Equestria Daily is a decent news source. For example, they spotted this video from Toyfair giving greater insight to the new toys.
I may disagree and roll my eyes at every comment on their post, but it's worth it to see Rarity's Carousel in action. I mean, the little carousel horses on the top hold the little animal friends - cue four year old squeee!
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3 comments:
Not all us new people are so one dimensional, thankfully! I'm a newbie thanks to FiM too, but quickly found out I love the old generations just as much as the new one and I'm really excited for the new toys. It's clear though the majority of us new folk are only interested in the current generation so something like this happening is bound to upset them.
Yes, they are indeed coming at MLP in a very different way then lovers of G1, G2 and G3 do. I don't really get how MLP FiM got so big with the 4chan nerds, but it is certainly a different type of fanbase haha
The site can be unforgiving at times that's for sure.
Most of the people come from a website called 4chan, which has been labeled things such as "internet hate machine" and "scum of the internet" by several news sources.
But these ponies...
They have brought about a new era of friendship to the darkness of the site. People that were talking about how amazing a zombie apocalypse (there is much worst, but I won't get into that) would be, find themselves discussing which pony has the best singing voice and how cute Fluttershy is immediately after. Some, like me, don't even bother with the rest of 4chan anymore and just hang out in pony threads all day.
Hopefully we don't scare you veterans too much with our nonsense :3
Anyway thanks for the plug!
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