Talk:My Little Pony/Archive 1

"Brony" phenomenon?
Should we mention in popular culture the growing surge in popularity in My Little Pony amongst 10-25 year old males? There have been many references made to them, including in an official video (equestria girls).2.123.49.190 (talk) 02:59, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
I reverted the page back a few edits to remove vandalism (claiming my little pony is marketed to forty year old man and that Hasbro is a weapons manufacturer, etc...). I'm only a casual wikipedian, so I don't know if I've followed proper procedures, a thousand apologies if I havent. The vandalism was funny, good job vandals, I'm not uptight about it all, but feel free to take it over to encyclopedia dramatica or something. I'm actually interested in MLP because my daughter loves them. kthxbye. ReverendJohn (talk) 00:57, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

TV Series
There really should be an article for the TV series, which is only mentioned in passing here. Preferably not a POV ridden mockery like the old one.--Tenka Muteki 01:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

- It's now been created, by the same author as the POV ridden mockery no less. Huzzah! -- 01:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

-- I'm watching an early My Little Pony cartoon right now with my kids, 3 and 6, and I'm a bit surprised by how dark it is, if I had known it was like this when I was a little kid I might have watched it. There is some menacing demonic figure stroking what appears to be a beating heart in a sack while he admonishes some big scary demon and threatens a baby dragon. It's cool, but I'm pretty sure there are going to be some nightmares tonight.

The series that goes with the G3 set of ponies doesn't seem to be mentioned at all. I know because it has a different theme song than the G1 TV series, the My Little Pony Tales, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In fact, I think that series is a 2009 series rather than the HUb's 2010 series. 66.59.120.178 (talk) 04:40, 26 November 2010 (UTC) invinible

Just a little editing
I'm not all that familiar with MLP myself, so I can't do any factchecking, but I cleaned up a little NPOV and second person and other cosmetic issues. But that "Baby Pony" section sounds like it should be under the laternate lines section. I'm not going to move it though because I don't really know anything about what was manufactured when. :)

I'd also consider maybe the references to year numbers, like "year 5" in the section I edited, and I think it says year 8 and year 9 farther down, be clarified somewhere. What do those year numbers mean, exactly? Errick 19:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I really don't have a clue why, but hardcore pony fans use 'Year 1' for 1982-3, 'Year 2' for 1983-4 and so on. I've replaced those references for sake of clarity. Baby Ponies were part of the regular line, just, y'know, smaller.

I am a collector of these toys and I want to help improve this site. I edited to simplify a few things and have changed the tone a little. I will be doing some research so I can site pertanent references soon. I removed info about specific ponies and market pricing as it did not belong here. I have also removed the comment about Hasbro confirming the G1 license until I can find the article to site this claim. --Childwize 02:17, 25 Feb 2007 (UTC)

Needs pictures!
The My Little Pony style is very visually distinct. This article has no pictures of MLP toys! The screenshot from the animated series is nice, but really belongs in that article, not this one. Surely somebody has one or two pictures, of toys from the old style and the new, with undisputed copyright status? --Darksasami 03:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Photos of, um, MLP? Where are they? Benefac (talk) 22:06, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

picture from hebreu
i liftet the picteur of three poneys from the hebreu.It's named nomber 005, so i presume ther's more.--Pixel ;-) 01:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Clean up
I just added the clean up tag to the article. There's a lot of POV statements in there, with non-enyclopedic sentences that sound more like reviews. I'll clean up a little later, right now I'm just putting in a head's up. Annie D 08:40, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I deleted the final paragraph of the introductory section. It basically lamented the decline of popularity of the series/toys among young girls in the face of electronic games. However, it was hardly encyclopedic and simply reflected the opinion of the author (which is a fine opinion, but is not relevant to the Wikipedia format). Moreover, I doubt anyone could find an actual correlation between the decline of interest in My Little Ponies and the increased availability of electronic toys - this is speculation, even if ultimately true. I am sure that the rest of the entry has similar instances of substandard content, but I personally do not feel like editing it. Please if anyone has a problem with my edit then make an argument against it, but remember to lead with your brain and not your heart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.146.176 (talk) 22:41, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I do not know much about edit stuff on here, but I do not see one mention of the 1st My Little Pony, Apple Jack. My son is one of those "Broonies" which is beyond something I understand, but a couple years ago he was determined Rainbow Dash was the 1st Pony. It was Apple Jack, she came with an apple shaped stable and comb. (I had it as a kid.) I do not remember if she came with anything else. I could have sworn those Ponys were scented too. I would agree this article seems to have more if a collectors perspective. Equestria girls were not mentioned to my notice. Defiantly needs to post picture of Pony styles and changes. I suggest a picture of Apple Jack and her stable and the Ponys that came with the Pony castle. (I didn't have that) I remember a pony castle or house that came after Apple Jacks stable. These would have been the original Ponys to my knowledge. I am 37 years old and remember the My Little Pony, Carebears, and Mermaids very popular toys. Toys did not spew out ever my seconds like they seem to now. There needs to be more of a mention of the Broonie following. Boys ages 9 or 10, to young men in their mid 20s actually show up to the Equestria Girl movies. (I was surprised to see 3 men in their 20s at one of the movies.) I myself do not understand this Broonie following. It may be helpful to get an older broonie to explain this following. Also they should mention the inappropriate sites coming out with inappropriate pony stuff on them. I have not seen these sites myself, but as a parent I think it is important to mention these sites to help a parent to be fair warned about these inappropriate sites so they can make sure that their children avoid them.

To Wikipedia staff regarding collectors section and links
Dear Wikipedia Staff, I am writing to help clear up some confusion and errors in flagging in your article about My Little Pony. A July 25th edit removed and flagged a link to MLPTP.net. This website is not spam, nor is it inappropriate. I inadvertently overrode the link instead of adding the intended link to MLParena.com. If you visit the flagged website or search for it in Google, you will see that it is indeed relevant to the content of the article. I have been contacted about this by the original author of this section and tried putting the link and content back in, but as it has already been flagged, the edits do not hold.

Please unflag this website and allow the Collectors Revised section to stand. Thank you. Tracy

vandles(sorry can't spell)
randomly going throught the article for fun(reall hoping for pics and, at least a list of all the names.....) i found this

Mail-order ponies

All butt faces (typically a plastic bubble

it's the first part under that section header....i can't fix it but i thought i'd let you know

68.5.126.35 (talk) 20:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)ladykayra
 * I have removed it. Thanks for pointing it out.  Deli nk (talk) 20:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
Ah, I can see how this attracted a cleanup tag -- while this is pretty well structured for a toy-related article, and not overloaded with meaningless detail (a common problem with collector topics), there's an awful lot of POV material, an evident bias towards the earlier incarnations of MLP, and an almost total lack of references. I can't do much about the third (don't have the relevant expertise and this isn't a topic that lends itself to library research), but I'll try and copy edit to deal with the first two. Just noting my intentions here so people don't freak out.

Also, the picture at the top really should go; as the bulk of the article is about the toys, the most appropriate illustration would be a picture of them, and that would also avoid copyright problems which are pretty frequent when screen grabs are involved. Gusworld (talk) 02:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I've had a first pass at it -- still lots to do though. I deleted the whole restoration section, as that's not relevant detail for an encyclopedia article. The popular culture section also needs serious trimming, if not outright removal -- only prominent and sustained references should be here, not any fleeting MLP reference. (Converting this from a list to text would also discourage people from adding random material.)
 * One factual problem someone else can hopefully address: The My Pretty Pony line gets mentioned in the lead, and then never recurs again. The lead is supposed to summarise the main content of the article, so this isn't appropriate -- either more detail on this predecessor should be added or this note should be moved into the article body. (I've also added a sentence regarding the subsequent generations, but the lead definitely needs work.) Gusworld (talk) 03:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I also removed the list of ponies that have been faked, primarily as this is not encyclopedic and also as it's unlikely to stay accurate for any meaningful period of time. Gusworld (talk) 03:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

This article is mostly written from collector's POV. It pays a little or no attention to significance of MLP as a toy. Hey, it is a toy! For kids! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.222.87.39 (talk) 12:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment above was added by me, I forgot that logins from other langauge version of wikipedia doesn't work abroad. --LMPogoda (talk) 12:27, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Random
Rainbow Dash had a British accent and said "darling" all the time. then they gave her an American accent and she doesn't say darling at all. also, did they ever make male ponies?--Yodaguy (talk) 16:21, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I believe that Surprize was a male pony, not a female as Hasbro claims. And in the episode that his name was revealed, I do believe he spelled his name with a z rather than an s. 66.59.120.178 (talk) 04:33, 26 November 2010 (UTC) invinible

Meme
We should mention that My Little Pony has become a meme on 4chan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.229.240 (talk) 10:21, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Just kidding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.60.222.237 (talk) 04:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)


 * And it has already been a year since this whole mediocre show and subculture started. Time flies, indeed. Kord Kakurios (talk) 00:53, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hilarious how you consider it mediocre when the season finale was the reason for The Hub's highest rating ever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.28.184.230 (talk) 08:42, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Is this article about the toy or the collectors?
This article reads like it was written by a collector, and not someone who views My Little Pony as children'stoys...most of the information is geared towards people that hoard nostalgic toys; do we really believe that a certain group of these toys is 'generally referred to as G3' by little girls (the main consumer)? Most of the article has no references to back up anything it says, and there are blatantly biased statements ('most people who grew up watching the 1986 show don't like the new one'). And they're marketed to 'young women' as well as children? Really? Or is that thrown in to make the author feel less silly for collecting them in her 40s?

There's a lot of good info here, but the fact is that the main consumers of these products are not adults, and the article should not have the tone of a Star Trek convention.

99.98.221.223 (talk) 05:36, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
There's some vandalism in the last sentence of the mail-order ponies section, but I can't edit it out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.183.121 (talk) 06:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Can we get this semi-protected? It is the subject of persistent vandalism and that will only increase as the presence of Friendship is Magic grows on the internet.164.106.249.254 (talk) 15:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Breivik?
Why does the text box refer to a Norwegian right-wing extremist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.192.151.254 (talk) 10:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Because there is no shortage of bored morons on the internet. I have fixed it now. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:02, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Shameless Anon Editors
I kept on looking on some shameless edits done by Anons? Can someone PERMA-BAN Anon-editing to this page? Please?Blackgaia02 (Talk if you&#39;re Worthy) (talk) 10:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Brevik and Brony start with the same letter. Coincidence? I think not. Obviously a connection to ancient aliens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.104.35.129 (talk) 22:01, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Meme
Should be mentioned in the raticle that it became an internet meme.

Attempting to help, brutishly rebuffed.
I wasted '(censored) hours removing the stupidly excessive parentheses to discover that all my changes have been reverted. Sometimes it amazes me anything gets done here. Nihil impossibile arbitror. 21:47, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Defining eras
Now someone claims MLP Tales was G1.5. OK, how to define each generation and its sub-eras without making original research? JSH-alive talk • cont • mail 15:11, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It's an original research issue?? This does come up every once in a while defining the generations of videos games too. Did Hasbro actually call the 2009 thing G3.5? MLP Tales is the only generation not defined by a number in this article, does that make it G1 despite eight years between the shows? Doesn't that confuse people?-- Sexy Kick  03:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sadly yes. Bronines and fans may think Tales is G2 when THERE'S already a G2.--Blackgaia02 (Talk if you&#39;re Worthy) (talk) 12:39, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * So what do you think? Should we add a clarification calling it G1.5?-- Sexy Kick  19:33, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Semiprotected Question
I am not certain why I cannot edit a semiprotected page? I have been a logged-in Wikipedia editor for a long time, though I'm rarely active.

In any case, the only occurrence of "it's" in the article should be "its". (Apparently I lack the authority to remove the offending punctuation.) TricksterWolf (talk) 16:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Wolf, you do not lack the authority. The only authority is an authority, which must be sourced, and sources are the only authority. To say otherwise or to bring me back to the original point is circular. We here do not like following our tails, hence wiki. If anyone tells you otherwise, or even suggests or entertains a doubt, they are the cancer that we always must fight to free information, and once information is free we need only keep our eyes open to untruth, so that we do not begin telling lies through mistake. No lies, no mistakes. Truth will out; Jimmy knows this, you know this. Kill the cancer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monthstay3242 (talk • contribs) 04:35, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

MLP Fair
en Pedia has an article about BronyCon. So why not creating an article about My Little Pony Fair, an MLP equivalent of BotCon? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 04:19, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

My Pretty Pony: in this context, it's a toy, not a short story
Very early in this article, "My Pretty Pony" is mentioned, and it sounds like a precursor to My Little Pony. However, the link leads to an article about a short story... StoryMakerEchidna (talk) 19:34, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

European comics
What about something like List of My Little Pony magazine publications in Europe, so we can cover from current separate magazines elsewhere in the Europe to the UK MLP comics in the 80s?

By the way, what's with comics in the Sparkle World magazine? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 11:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

WTF with all the Vandalism
Sooo.....what's with all the vandalism recently in the main page? Seeing they thing My Little Pony is for girls only is understandable but I seen enough DIMWITS who actually ruin the entire wiki for the entity of people.--Blackgaia02 (Talk if you&#39;re Worthy) (talk) 12:51, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Equestria Girls?
From my knowledge, Equestria Girls is a movie, not a series... maybe someone could confirm it? Emtheomelette (talk) 13:17, 23 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Where did you hear this? If you could provide a source, that would be great. --Yellow1996 (talk) 01:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * None of these are reliable but we do have two sources showing Equestria Girls is a movie: Movie Newsletters USA Today █  EMARSEE   04:33, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Wow, a June release! Well, I guess we won't have to wait long for reliable sources to show up... --Yellow1996 (talk) 22:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Oh man the kids will be excited. DOes anyone else want to add this to the page? I can figure it out. 23:40, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It's already on the page. █  EMARSEE   18:33, 3 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Whoa what a coincidence I was just about to post this link for them. --Yellow1996 (talk) 18:35, 3 July 2013 (UTC) and 18:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

More illustration!
Here's one thing that would greatly improve this article: pictures! Get some free photographs of some of the toys in each generation and put them in the corresponding section. Also, some of the more intricate content can be removed. Michaelzeng7 (talk) 21:49, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

How 2 things where made
Okay evryone that watchs MLP / My Little Pony knows of the 2 things brony and pegasister now this is how they started Brony and Pegasister how did this start Well Boys and Girls where looking for a cool name yet a name that shows they like and watch my little pony alot they are like a fan Boys: How we created it.We where watching My Little Pony and we started thinking of a cool name for us that showed we liked My Little Pony so we thought and then we thought Bro means Brother or Boy so we used the Boy meaning of it and we where thinking then someone said "hey guys pony has a o in it like Bro so i don't know why we can't just delete the p and we replace it with Br in Bro and then it would make Brony" Girls: so basically we did it like the boys but someone came up with the idea pegasister instead of Brony if this isn't correct please edit it

24.111.118.138 (talk) 04:22, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:47, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Season 4
Yay! season four of mlp needs an article for when the season is done for. but, i might create it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by StarPeggisister (talk • contribs) 18:48, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2014
game

play± 80.42.133.83 (talk) 17:11, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ". Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 18:28, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not requested a change.

Semi-protected edit request on 17 January 2015
In "Untitled My Little Pony feature film (2017)" section, please remove mention of Joe Ballarini having written "Ice Age: Continental Drift". This info is simply incorrect, not stated in the provided source, and stands in condradiction to the actual Ice Age 4 article. In fact, one other website made similar mistake, which they later mentined in errata:.

176.111.114.8 (talk) 16:41, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done —  17:26, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 May 2015
My little pony is NOT marketed primarily to girls. There is no specific sex. There are Bronies (boy fans) and Pegasisters (girl fans).

74.199.126.64 (talk) 21:37, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. although not inline cited in the lede, a source is cited in the body that does make this statement. "The new dolls will be marketed to three-to six-year-olds, younger than the original product's catchment range of up to nine years. "The young girls market..." Find a source that says they are marketed to males as well Cannolis (talk) 04:16, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Hasbro what have you done in the So Soft Newborn Merchandise?!!
Rainbow Dash: Excuse me Hasbro, but the So Soft Newborns don't look like babies from the show, they look like badly designed baby ponies. Evidence: Rainbow Dash: And that Spike looks so wrong. He didn't even wear diapers when he was born as Twilight hatched him when she was a filly. Rainbow Dash: Not sure if Hasbro has never watched Baby Cakes (the episode), or just made the designs for baby ponies quite bad. Yep, it's very true. 180.75.191.176 (talk) 05:14, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Pumpkin_Cake_smiling_ID_S2E13.png <-- Female babies in the show (Pumpkin Cake as an example)
 * http://www.hasbro.com/common/productimages/ru_RU/3e5da71c50569047f543a7d273064ffd/3C6DB41350569047F53A94FEF6DFFBF7.jpg <-- Female babies in merchandise (WHAT THE HAY?!)
 * http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111107110223/mlp/images/1/17/Infant_Spike_S1E23.png <-- Baby Spike picture
 * http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130830145203/mlp/images/3/30/Spike_newborn_ID_S1E23.png <-- Baby Spike's full body
 * http://ep.yimg.com/ay/dragonballzcentral/my-little-pony-so-soft-newborn-spike-the-dragon-9.jpg <-- Baby Spike in merchandise (@_@)
 * Do not use the talk page as a forum or soapbox for discussing the topic. The talk page is for discussing how to improve the article. Furry-friend (talk) 09:13, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Seriously bronies??
Bronies hate the previous generations. The previous generations are only for little girls AND NOT EVERYONE. However, the fourth one is just made for all ages except that Faust's concepts will be abused because of previous generation ponies. G4 Surprise and G4 Moon Dancer would be also abused as well. I think the first episode of Newborn Cuties was good, but it needs animation improvement. The second one, not so good. Reasons: That's it. I'm outta here. --180.75.225.153 (talk) 10:30, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I also found out that bronies think Once Upon a My Little Pony Time: Newborn Cuties it's a horror movie.
 * The second episode of Newborn Cuties really needs animation improvement.
 * Lack of moving mouths.
 * Lack of blinking eyes.
 * Not listing REAL character voices in the credits and leading to confusion.
 * Do not use the talk page as a forum or soapbox for discussing the topic. The talk page is for discussing how to improve the article. Furry-friend (talk) 10:11, 27 July 2015 (UTC)