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[ShortyBoo]

I hope no one does this. It's just going to make all MLP collectors look bad.

[kalavista]

Originally Posted by ShortyBoo

I hope no one does this. It's just going to make all MLP collectors look bad.

I agree! Also if someone does it, they could get taken advantage of. I've read about people being deeply emotionally traumatized by how they're portrayed on shows like this.

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[NichiTsukinoko]

Originally Posted by shelti

So did this person make an Introduction?
I was looking but did not see one...

"Hi,

Yes, I am casting for My Crazy Obsession. The name, sadly, turns a lot of people off but this season we are more focusing on big collectors rather than the people like we had last season who live various misunderstood alternative lifestyles. I understand your concern and appreciate your input. I found through research that there are a great deal of My Little Pony enthusiasts hence my posting in the forum. I have no intention to persist, rather make one post to let anybody who might be interested have the opportunity to contact me and tell their story.

Thanks,
Sarah"

This was what she told me when I expressed my concerns to her.

She has no intention of doing anything more than solicit. She just knows that my little pony is a popular thing to collect and be involved in right now and is trying to capitalize on it. So she wouldn't have thought to make an introduction post or to even go back and read what people are saying in response to the post. She's just going to throw it out there and see who is dumb enough to volunteer.

[shelti]

Originally Posted by NichiTsukinoko

"Hi,

Yes, I am casting for My Crazy Obsession. The name, sadly, turns a lot of people off but this season we are more focusing on big collectors rather than the people like we had last season who live various misunderstood alternative lifestyles. I understand your concern and appreciate your input. I found through research that there are a great deal of My Little Pony enthusiasts hence my posting in the forum. I have no intention to persist, rather make one post to let anybody who might be interested have the opportunity to contact me and tell their story.

Thanks,
Sarah"

This was what she told me when I expressed my concerns to her.

She has no intention of doing anything more than solicit. She just knows that my little pony is a popular thing to collect and be involved in right now and is trying to capitalize on it. So she wouldn't have thought to make an introduction post or to even go back and read what people are saying in response to the post. She's just going to throw it out there and see who is dumb enough to volunteer.

She should attend the Fair, that would be a better place to interview and talk to people so they can get an honest feel for what the show wants to achieve and show. As with every level of collecting anything, there are all different levels of Collecting and involvement. If you have any more contact with her Nichi steer her towards the upcoming Fair

[pikapal]

If you put in that casting person's address. They've been searching on other MLP boards.

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I remember a similar thing happened to me on another message board (retro themed). ABC casting went there for some retro obsessed person for wife swap.

[Aadra310]

Agree with previous statements to avoid! You have to realize that TV is a business and they want to make money. A cutesy show about a MLP collection is not going to interest the general population. There really is no drama! So, the producers add the drama through editing, putting words in the person's mouth, and generally making them look like a crazy person.

Also, it is coming into the light that a lot of these "reality shows" are completely fake. HGTV's House Hunters was the latest one to come under fire for being almost 100% fictional. The participants are sometimes even scripted/told what to say- therefore, it isn't a show about them at all! I realize that is a different network but the TV biz is the TV biz, right?

Recently, a board member had a story done about her in a local paper and it was posted online. Maybe someone remembers who? Anyway, the headline was something like, "Girl has spent $$ lots o money $$ on MLP collection." Basically, what they did from the very beginning was make her look ridiculous by spending a small fortune on plastic ponies. Now, she even told the paper that their figure was inflated and she was upset that they had sort of created that "fact."

15 minutes of fame isn't worth it if it's all skewed to make you look bad!

[KarentheUnicorn]

I just wouldn't be interested in something like this. It's one thing to share the love of MLP with other ponypeople or family and close friends but I don't think I'd ever want to be on a national tv program. People who don't know or care about me, gawking at me and my ponies. It just seems weird to me :/

[Angel_Foil]

It's not fair of anyone to solicit things like this to innocent people. Obviously these people are not going to emphasize the happiness and nostalgia MLPs bring to so many people; we'd be portrayed as oddities and museum exhibits to be pitied for our "unnatural obsession" and to be gawked at. I don't watch this kind of TV for this reason. There are always two sides to a story, and I'm afraid the viewers will only see the negatives behind collecting. But hey, money is money, no matter how TV stations make theirs. I sincerely hope no one falls into this trap.

[darcerin]

Originally Posted by shelti

She should attend the Fair, that would be a better place to interview and talk to people so they can get an honest feel for what the show wants to achieve and show. As with every level of collecting anything, there are all different levels of Collecting and involvement. If you have any more contact with her Nichi steer her towards the upcoming Fair

I doubt they'll go for that. They want to focus on one to two "obsessed" people not the honest feel of what the community is really like. They might do a snippet on us, but then they'll say, "Well, THIS person is BURIED in Ponies! They got foreclosed on because they couldn't pay their mortgage, but they sure could buy Ponies!" That kind of stuff. And personally? I REALLY don't want them hovering around us throughout the Fair. It's one thing to be taping us for Hasbro's own use, it's quite another to tape for a show, and having it air on national (and perhaps international with licensing rights!) tv. I have NOT told the world I collect Ponies, and I certainly wouldn't want to that way.

To say I have a bias against the media and "sensationalism" to reveal people's flaws is an understatement. I hate most reality tv (with few exceptions, Dog the Bounty Hunter being one guilty pleasure), and I think it's brought our culture to a new low (Snooky, anyone? Eww!)

[Gummypony]

God I hope no one does this, I wish these reality shows would leave vintage toy collecting alone. All it does it create people who do it for profit and not for the sheer enjoyment of it. Of all the years I've been on this forum as a collector of many different 80's toys I have never thought reality TV would be knocking down the doors.

I agree they'll make pony collectors look like freaks with a mental problem. Get lost TLC we don't want you here.