Comments on: The Cultural Evolution of My Little Ponies //rachelmariestone.com/2012/04/24/the-cultural-evolution-of-my-little-ponies/ Faith and Family; Justice, Joy, Bread of Life Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 //wordpress.com/ By: chishiokunrin //rachelmariestone.com/2012/04/24/the-cultural-evolution-of-my-little-ponies/#comment-6890 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:01:50 +0000 //eatwithjoy.org/?p=2530#comment-6890 Pretty much the only reason Hasbro made Equestria Girls was to compete with Mattel’s Monster High. Hasbro thinks that dress-up dolls are the new big thing that all little girls want, and they want to compete with Mattel, so they decided they’d make their own line of dress-up dolls. The easiest thing they could think of to match Monster High’s dolls with weird skin colors was to make a movie off-shoot of MLP with girls who have weird colorful skin.

]]> By: Lovleanjel //rachelmariestone.com/2012/04/24/the-cultural-evolution-of-my-little-ponies/#comment-6871 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:14:33 +0000 //eatwithjoy.org/?p=2530#comment-6871 My sister used to tease me by calling MLPs, pig ponies. Now they are skinny high school girls:

]]> By: Shade Pihema //rachelmariestone.com/2012/04/24/the-cultural-evolution-of-my-little-ponies/#comment-5199 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:29:22 +0000 //eatwithjoy.org/?p=2530#comment-5199 I absolutely loved My Little Pony’s as a kid. There’s an 18 year gap between my baby sister & I….& when she was younger I started buying her the My little pony collection. I got fright one day, when all of a sudden I went to by her another one and they had been replace by impostors. They’re just Ugly…not cute at all…just UGLY! I stopped buying them after that because they didn’t match the rest of her collection…and they’re STUPID! Bring back the old pony’s man.

]]> By: Amanda Feldmann Liddle //rachelmariestone.com/2012/04/24/the-cultural-evolution-of-my-little-ponies/#comment-5098 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:41:21 +0000 //eatwithjoy.org/?p=2530#comment-5098 The newer generation of My Little Pony reaches out as much to nostalgic twenty-and-thirty-somethings as it does to little kids. As for allowing young children to watch / play with the toys, I agree it has lost a measure of innocence, along with much of the sardonic cartoon programming these days. I learned about it from my MLP aficionado 25 year old sister. As for the big eyes, it’s just charicaturing, and stylistically resembling Japanese anime. I don’t read too much into it.

]]> By: Vicki Nugent //rachelmariestone.com/2012/04/24/the-cultural-evolution-of-my-little-ponies/#comment-4705 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:40:06 +0000 //eatwithjoy.org/?p=2530#comment-4705 Absolutely interesting reads here – thank you for sharing!

I had about a hundred My Little Ponies in the 80’s… Great times and great memories! I remember the first time I saw these “fashionable” updated versions in the store. I was aghast – What did they do to those poor, cute, innocent (healthy-looking) ponies? Why are their eyes ridiculously large (making them look drugged out and crazy), and why are they too skinny to survive?

Another toy I absolutely loved and collected religiously were the “My Littlest Pet Shop” figures. Search for them online – they look absolutely ridiculous and alien now compared to the cute pet representations of before. They’ve been completely revamped with comically large, cartoon heads and bulbous eyes. I understand the anime craze that started oh – about 15 years ago – and was captivated by it was well, but that is no reason to remake every toy anime-style – especially not innocent animals that are supposed to be round and cute.

From this: //farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/1869377672_56db2b33f1_o.jpg
to this: //www.use.com/images/s_3/LITTLEST_PET_SHOP_TT_77c4ce53c99e9a057180_38.jpg?2//

…Just… Creepy.

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