Mrs. Prospector
Mystical Magical Unicorn
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What are some of the most blatantly ridiculous things you've seen the MLP shows do in order to push a new product? Or missed opportunities to do so?
If I had a nickel for every time a beloved home for the ponies was destroyed in order to replace it with a better, cooler playset, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice! (Dream Castle in the G1 movie and Twilight's library in the FIM S4 finale. It's kinda funny how that's become a recurring theme in MLP!
I find that the opposite happens a lot in G4, especially in the later seasons. You'll see things that look like an attempt to introduce a new toyline, but then you'll find that there aren't any toys. Introducing six new main characters in season 8? Only 2 got toys, with limited releases. Transforming the changelings into cuter, more colorful beings has to be to make them more marketable right? No Changeling toys! Introducing a whole new pony race, the Kirin, late in the show? No toys here! Hasbro's saving their energy for rereleasing Pinkie Pie for the 458th time!
And then of course, there was the third destruction, where the Tree of Harmony was rebuilt as the treehouse, but that didn't even have a playset!
Same goes for G5. With the way they hyped up Ruby Jubilee in the Bridlewoodstock special, you'd think it was to promote a toy of her, but nope!
If I had a nickel for every time a beloved home for the ponies was destroyed in order to replace it with a better, cooler playset, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice! (Dream Castle in the G1 movie and Twilight's library in the FIM S4 finale. It's kinda funny how that's become a recurring theme in MLP!
I find that the opposite happens a lot in G4, especially in the later seasons. You'll see things that look like an attempt to introduce a new toyline, but then you'll find that there aren't any toys. Introducing six new main characters in season 8? Only 2 got toys, with limited releases. Transforming the changelings into cuter, more colorful beings has to be to make them more marketable right? No Changeling toys! Introducing a whole new pony race, the Kirin, late in the show? No toys here! Hasbro's saving their energy for rereleasing Pinkie Pie for the 458th time!
And then of course, there was the third destruction, where the Tree of Harmony was rebuilt as the treehouse, but that didn't even have a playset!
Same goes for G5. With the way they hyped up Ruby Jubilee in the Bridlewoodstock special, you'd think it was to promote a toy of her, but nope!
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