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I'm honestly with you on that. What the G4 toys lack in diversity, they make up for in quality and cuteness. There's not as much variety, but they're pleasing to hold and look at like you said, and I think they deserve more credit! They're not my favorites, but they're far from being bad or bland.I actually really like G4s ( not G4.5s though ), I have the same gripes about it like other people, like how there was too much of mane6 and I would've loved to see more non-show, original ponies. And while the sentiment, that they're less detailed and that the previous gens had a better sculpts is true, I still love them regardless,. Honestly, I just find them cute, they're fun to hold and looking at them makes me happy and there's honestly not much more to it than that.
But as a mini rant, when I was still part of the target demographic in the early 2010s, the thing that put me off of non-show ponies as a kid back then, was that they just used recolors of the mane6 for the packaging most of the time, which made them feel somewhat tacky to little me. I can understand WHY it was done but a better cost effective solution would've been to handle the ponies on the package, the same way they handled background ponies on the show, to have the same body with several mane and eyes variations ( that don't overlap with mane6's ).
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Now, non-show G4s is what I'm mainly interested in, since, as an adult, I separate art on the package from the pony and enjoy the toy for what it is, but I still would, even now, prefer if they would've done it in the way mentioned above.