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Title: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on July 13, 2011, 04:44:29 pm
A few months ago, I started a message phread over at Here (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.0) that started off discussing and sharing the MLP: FiM animated series. Well, who would have thought that 5 pages later, it would become a serious discussion phread of all things Pony?

So, before an Admin or Mod comes in and takes our phread away or move it somewhere else, I tought it would be best to open a new phread here to discuss Brony & Pony related topics.

For newcomers, you might be asking yourself; What is a Brony? A Brony is a fan of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series that is outside of their original target demographic. So, if you love the series, art, fan fics or anything MLP related and you are not an 8-year old girl, you are a Brony. Welcome to the herd.

We have other Brony related phreads as well scattered thoughout Furtopia. As new ones pop up I will edit the following list. But to save yourself some hunting here are the ones I know already:

Animated Series and Video phread is found here (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.0)
What's your Cutie Mark phread is found here (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=41774.0)
Brony Art phread can be found somewhere else. We need someone to start this.
Friendship is a Fan Fic phread is not found anywhere. Perhaps you can start one?

Feel free to discuss anything Pony and Brony related in here, just as the Topic description says; keep it furry.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 13, 2011, 05:54:47 pm
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So, before an Admin or Mod comes in and takes our phread away or move it somewhere else, I tought it would be best to open a new phread here to discuss Brony & Pony related topics.

Just so long as this new current thread you started isn't related to anything photo or video-wise since you have that other thread in the Photo/Vid forum. ;) We don't need two duplicate threads discussing MLP videos, pics, etc.

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Brony Art phread can be found somewhere else. We need someone to start this.

I'll assume this would be a thread that would go in Artwork Announcements or Sharing & Artistry forums?

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Friendship is a Fan Fic phread is not found anywhere. Perhaps you can start one?

I'll assume this would be in the Literature forum, correct?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 13, 2011, 06:11:51 pm
The last two which you are questioning are placeholders. I predict the Brony movement growing, we don't have anyone making their own Pony OCs (Original Character) yet or attempting their own hand at Shipping (Pairing two or more Ponies in a short story) Fiction, I am sure it will come. Then, instead of having them lost in the myriad of thousands of other posts, they can be quickly located in one phread. If they start to branch for continuity sake, I can add more links to the first post as necessary.

The main purpose of this phread is two fold; 1) Be a quick reference for all the Brony goodness that can be found here in Furtopia and 2) be the general topics center for us to chit chat about being Brony.

There was quite a tangent on the Photo/Video phread which nearly derailed it since there was no other phread that was housing Brony talk. This one will fit that bill.

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Wereaibo on July 13, 2011, 06:19:44 pm
I've been really curious about this show. I don't have the channel it's on. Why's it so popular among older folks?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 13, 2011, 06:44:23 pm
So we don't talk directly about the show here, but we talk about anything else related to loving and tolerating the crap outta stuff?

Sure, sounds good, but I'd expect a lot of people to get confused between the two threads.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 13, 2011, 08:38:49 pm
Why not make an entire Brony sub-forum?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 13, 2011, 08:48:05 pm
Why not make an entire Brony sub-forum?

To quote something I said long ago in the Suggestion forum:
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The more forums/boards we have, then the more the staff have to watch. No offense, but I don't relish making my workload any bigger than it already is.
If we add another board, then we have to take into consideration if the "traffic flow" for that new board justifies us having it. If people don't see it, use it, etc., then it just sits there and doesn't get used, then why have it?

The sub-forums barely get used as it is except for the occasional thread in the Furry Tech Talk forum.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 13, 2011, 09:57:23 pm
Sup.

Also, I have "Winter Wrap Up" stuck in my head, as I have the past four days. It's beginning to bug me.

And, Pinkie Pie Love.

I feel the need as well to give a shoutout to my favorite (okay, only) Pony fanfic. Written by a genuine furry--or at least they have an FA--it is called "Fallout: Equestria." Will not link, because it is 18+, but y'all can google it. It is very, very good. And getting better.

At least 20% better.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 13, 2011, 10:02:38 pm
So we don't talk directly about the show here, but we talk about anything else related to loving and tolerating the crap outta stuff?

Sure, sounds good, but I'd expect a lot of people to get confused between the two threads.

Take the second half of the thread in photo/video... that's more what this is for. Discussing the ponies in the show, original character ideas (save art for the art thread), general thoughts/ideas on the show as a whole.

I feel like the other thread will likely die off a bit for now, but will be able to be picked back up once season 2 starts up. Then, there will be actual discussion of the individual episodes going and and such. Though I'm sure some of that will inevitably work its way into here, too. Come to think of it, do we really bother with the video thread? Unless it's for sharing a pony-related video we made?  *gets lost in thought*

Anyhow, this thread has certainly started more as a discussion of the structure of future pony-related topics than anything about MLP:FIM in general.

Soo...

*looks around*

Well, don't expect me to actually come up with something to get a relevant conversation going. There's a reason I typically just lurk on forums.

How about this: Where did you first hear about the show and why did you start watching it? (I'll answer later)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 13, 2011, 10:05:51 pm
First heard about it on the JACK forum, started watching it because a lot of people there were like THIIIS ISSS SO AWESOME. I have no idea why I continue watching it, though. I mean, not negatively. It's just good, that's the only explaination I can give when people ask.

I've gotten....4? IRL people to watch it, too.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 13, 2011, 10:24:54 pm
I sort of vaguely became aware of the show through The Internet, where I spend way too much of my free time.  Mainly, though, I heard this catchy tune that I had no idea where it came from... it was Winter Wrap-Up.  I didn't really become a brony right away, but I thought it was a not-bad thing for people to be interested in.  Then I started watching the episodes in earnest, and now I understand the odd appeal of the show, but there are no words to explain it! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 13, 2011, 10:31:26 pm
I first started seeing a lot of MLP general art being posted on FA, though wasn't specifically FiM style stuff, so thought it was just a fad the fandom was going through. Then I saw the original thread on here and realized there was the new series, and later heard the cast of a podcast I listen to start to obsess over it so I figured I'd see what it was all about. I watched the first couple of episodes because I was bored and had some free time, then it kept gnawing at me to see more. As seems to be the norm of the Brony community, once I got past episode 4, there was no going back.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 13, 2011, 10:49:40 pm
Here's how it happened:

Friend: So whose your favorite pony?

Me: What?

Friend: You don't watch MLP: Friendship is Magic?

Me: No..

Friend: You should.

Me: Really? Alright..

Then it was about 3:00 AM and I was declared sentient dead :P.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 13, 2011, 11:13:33 pm
I think it was all the random references on the internet as well as people here who got me interested. Either way I'm glad they did.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 13, 2011, 11:45:18 pm
Just tried it. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Things this cute hide only evil.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ragnorrock_13 on July 14, 2011, 12:01:15 am
When I was little, that was all my daycare watched. :o x_x That TV show still gives me nightmares. *shiver*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 14, 2011, 12:21:26 am
Also, I have "Winter Wrap Up" stuck in my head, as I have the past four days. It's beginning to bug me.

ME TOO. For some reason, that's the song that lodged in my head after my marathon. (Well, and this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PGKcikaGY).) I actually had the Youtube video open all day at work and was sneaking in views periodically. :D

Anyway. I came back to the forum in May to discover that all my friends had somehow transformed into gibbering bronies. I was like, "Friends, you have confused me greatly with your actions. But I guess I see the appeal, so I will be supportive." I was curious, but also way too busy to actually watch the show, so I just kept an eye on your conversations without knowing what you were talking about. Then, two days ago, I got home from work and was planning to spend a quiet night answering email and such, when on the spur of the moment I just looked up and said: "Every episode. Right here. Right now. LET'S DO THIS."

The rest is, um, copiously documented history.

And I still haven't answered those emails.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 14, 2011, 12:37:51 am
Don't worry Arb, I'll cure you of your dreaded pony-itis with my newest invention. I call it "The Brain-Spoon". Now hold very still while remove the top of your skull. Don't worry, I'll seal it back up with searing hot molten tar. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Prince Karo on July 14, 2011, 12:58:34 am
No pony topic is complete without...


PONY RANKING TIEM!!11


My ranking:

Fluttershy > Pinkie Pie > Rarity > Twilight Sparkle > Rainbow Dash > Applejack


yay~
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 14, 2011, 01:11:37 am
I just wrote a letter in to The Brony Show about this due to them always discussing who's the best pony. Here's my letter verbatem:

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I've been listening since episode one and been thinking about the reoccuring question of who your guests think the best pony is. I'm going to have to say there isn't one. At least not that has been presented yet. Sure, having favorites is fine. I am partial to Flutter Shy of the main cast, but I also love Vinyl Scratch and Scootaloo (if only for her name and Evinrude wings). But can there be a "best" pony? Well, if you go by personality, then no. They are all so different that they can't be compared. They all have their special traits that distinguish them from the other ponies and I don't think you can say one is better than the other.
 
 

Now, and arguement could be had for Twighlight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash. Twighlight was the mystical 6th element of harmony in Ep. 2. Going by traditional storytelling, any time you combine elements of any power, the result is always a power greater than any one single element. The whole "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" idea. The counter point is that her element couldn't be discovered without ALL of her other friends there too, so you could call in to question her power being so great. Then again, Princes Celestia did mention how great her raw ability was in the Cutie Mark Chronicles. But that brings me to Rainbow Dash. Twighlight was only able to get her cutie mark after the sonic rainboom. Same as the rest of the group. So you could argue that the results of the rainboom makes Rainbow Dash the best. The counter point to that is either it's a massive coincedence, or Princes Trollest.... I mean Celestia had some scheming plan in place all along. So does this mean that Celestia is actually the the best pony?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Avor on July 14, 2011, 03:19:44 am
I thought it was wierd that I watched some of the MPL moves with my sister sister when we were little. But I find your knowledge of MLP unsettling.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ickyrus on July 14, 2011, 09:44:15 am
I got into it after being bombarded by pony fanart by my DA watchlist, and had to find out what all the fuss was about x: I started watching it and couldn't stop D: If I find the DVD for the series anywhere I'm soooo having a sleepover pony marathon with my friends, they have to know its awesomeness O:

Also I had a MLP birthday cake this year =>.>=

And my pony ranking :D

Pinkie Pie > Rarity > Rainbow Dash > Fluttershy > Applejack > Twilight Sparkle

EDIT: IDEAAAA :O There needs to be a poll of pony lovings, I'd make one but I don't know all the extra ponies. =>.>=
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 14, 2011, 10:00:07 am
Oh no Narei, you've joined the ranks of haters and have placed Princess Celestia into Trollism. I myself am not going to be part of tht contingent. I see her as the Benevolent Dictator. Sure she manipulates, plots and scemes every move she makes, much like a champion chess player, but the outcome everytime has always been the best for her subjects, the Ponies of Equestria.

As a matter of full disclosure, I will have to say that I am a ranking officer in the Royal Army of Equestria. Since I'm not a Unicorn or Pegusi I don't live in Canterlot with the Royal Guard or in Cloudsdale with Blue Fliers, but I live on the ground with the Cavalry. Can't wait til my Pony OC commission comes in and you can me in my full Army uniform.
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How did I get involved with the Bronies? It all started with that darn sight FA. As one or two of you might recall, I am an Ungulate and speak about pro-Ungulate things as often as I can. Hence, I belong to a number of Hoofer type groups in the FA community. Around late December, about 1-1/2 months after MLP: FiM started up, the moderator of one of my Pro-Hoofer groups posted about the new MLP series and how amazing it was this time. I knew the Mod personally, he was straight, male, 20-something and definitely not in the target demographic of 8-10 year old girls. So if he was impressed, it must really have something behind it.

So I watched Episode 11: Winter Wrap Up. I was a little lost with the forged relationships between the mane 6. But when Twilight Sparkle started singing, my jaw hit the floor and the first thing I thought was "This is not the MLP I grew up with". the corners of my mouth started to curl and I was smiling for the rest of the show. I immediately watched Episodes 1 & 2 on youtube then what-ever I could on the Hub site. Lauren had me in her hooves since.

Since the show is on its break, between seasons, I've been branching out, much like Narei and catching what I can with Podcasts, PMVs, Art dump sites, etc. I'm not a huge Fan Fic guy but I think by the time I'm finished with my OCS (Only 1 month to go) I'll be reading those too. IFC con is coming up and I'm already working with DashaRhosenwyn from FA to put togehter a combined Hoofer/MLP panel. She's doing most of the legwork, I'm putting together a Powerpoint.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 14, 2011, 10:18:59 am

EDIT: IDEAAAA :O There needs to be a poll of pony lovings, I'd make one but I don't know all the extra ponies. =>.>=

Take a look at these two References:

List of MLP: FiM Ponies WIKI (http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies).
Shipping/Fusion Chart for Fan Fic Pony Naming (http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/33473).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ickyrus on July 14, 2011, 10:34:05 am
That's a fair few ponies you've got there, it'll have to be cut down a bit =>.>=
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Wereaibo on July 14, 2011, 01:13:21 pm
So do grown adults buy the toys? Figures of favorite characters from the show or whatever? The more I hear about this phenomenon the more curious I get.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 14, 2011, 01:44:41 pm
Don't worry Liedt, I actually rather like Princess Celestia and wish they would show more of her than the few seconds at a time she gets on screen. I don't know about how others mean then name, but I use Trollestia as a joke for all the mischievous things she does with her subjects. She acts more like a12 year old girl than a 1000 year old ruler a lot of the time. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 14, 2011, 03:32:30 pm
The name Trollestra came from the online term Troll. Which is someone that causes grief to others purposely in an online community. Some of the Bronies think this fits Celestia so they warped her name.


As for the Toys, I've considered buying some, a number of times. Even had a couple of the packs in my hand, but just haven't found the perfect thing I am looking for (Derpy Hooves) yet.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 14, 2011, 03:34:12 pm
Try looking for "Dipsy Doo." Might help to, you know, use the actual name.

I have a Pinkie Pie toy. My boyfriend has a Fluttershy toy.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 14, 2011, 03:36:13 pm
I think Its Ditsy Doo actually. :orhorse: However, none of the Background ponies have official toys yet.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 14, 2011, 03:42:28 pm
I think Its Ditsy Doo actually. :orhorse: However, none of the Background ponies have official toys yet.

Damn, I fail. You are correct. I too would rock a Ditsy toy....but I would much prefer a Doctor Whooves toy, if we're talking about background characters. Because The Doctor is awesome.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 14, 2011, 05:09:33 pm
Anime Amy (http://animeamy.deviantart.com/) Makes both a Derpy and Dr Whoof but they are like $30 each or so.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 14, 2011, 05:42:08 pm
To answer my own question finally, I had seen a lot of random pony stuff around online. It was't until a relatively long pony thread (mostly just pony pics, mind you) showed up on the League of Legends forum. The game developers were even involved in the thread... That's really what made me sit there thinking 'What is this about, anyhow?'

Then a few weeks ago, I was in this one chat (not furry or pony related) and somebody linked the pilot episode. I watched the first one, and thought 'well, I need to see the second one now, cause this story has me intrigued'. Well, when they up and resolved the whole story line from ep1 in ep2, I was kinda dumbfounded. Thinking "That was it? What else will they do?"

Finally, I was talking on the phone with a friend who had seen it all already. He asked something about it, and told me to give it another shot and watch ep3 before I give up on it. I did that, and never looked back.

~~~

On the question about the toys: Yes, some people have definitely started buying/collecting them simply due to FIM. But like with all things, it varies. I myself don't think I'll ever buy any of that stuff. Some people might just pick up a small toy of their favorite pony. Then some people will try to collect every last official FIM related merchandise in existence.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Weisseman on July 14, 2011, 09:02:58 pm
Finally, I was talking on the phone with a friend who had seen it all already. He asked something about it, and told me to give it another shot and watch ep3 before I give up on it. I did that, and never looked back.

That's the advice I give out. Generally you can consider the first 2 epis as how they met but not 100% essential to the rest of the series.

I've seen people on other sites say they'll ship the toys out to Europe since we don't have any of the FiM toys here. Quite a few take up the offer if only to get their favourite pony in a desktop toy form.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 15, 2011, 08:41:09 pm
I have a question.

What pony is everyone most like? What pony best reflects yourself? Is she your favorite? Why/why not?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 16, 2011, 10:18:04 am
I have a question.

What pony is everyone most like? What pony best reflects yourself? Is she your favorite? Why/why not?

I think I'm most like Pinkie Pie. I've got a really random personality, I smile a lot (granted it's not before 10:30) and I like to make others smile. I'm pretty gleeful overall, and I really do like singing to myself. Of course, there are some differences as well. I'm not very social at all, which is what Pinkie is rather skilled at. While that really is a major gap, I'm still the most like her.

However, she is not my favorite pony (though easily places herself in second). That space will always be reserved for Applejack.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 16, 2011, 12:25:47 pm
I have a question.

What pony is everyone most like? What pony best reflects yourself? Is she your favorite? Why/why not?

I think I'm most like Pinkie Pie. I've got a really random personality, I smile a lot (granted it's not before 10:30) and I like to make others smile. I'm pretty gleeful overall, and I really do like singing to myself. Of course, there are some differences as well. I'm not very social at all, which is what Pinkie is rather skilled at. While that really is a major gap, I'm still the most like her.

However, she is not my favorite pony (though easily places herself in second). That space will always be reserved for Applejack.

Pretty much that, other than Applejack being my favorite. She and Pinkie and tied for me ;).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 16, 2011, 01:24:28 pm
However, she is not my favorite pony (though easily places herself in second). That space will always be reserved for Applejack.

Pretty much that, other than Applejack being my favorite. She and Pinkie and tied for me ;).

Woo, Applejack love! :D

(http://www.ponychan.net/chan/arch/src/130234376858.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 16, 2011, 02:05:47 pm
Even though I am definitely part of the Fluttershy fan club, I think I'm a lot more like Twilight. A serious bookworm... contemplative, sometimes to a fault... blunt and sarcastic to a fault at times... yup, sounds like me.

Oh, by the way! I don't know if anyone's posted this before, but please enjoy this recording of Bill Clinton acing a pop quiz on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (starts around 6:12). Is there a Brony Hall of Fame?

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137386121/bill-clinton-plays-not-my-job
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 16, 2011, 02:33:35 pm
YES! I SAW THAT! IT WAS AMAZING :D!

I mean, those questions were stupidly obvious, but it was amazing anyway :P!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 16, 2011, 02:49:48 pm
Pics I found.  :D


(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljupslMpmd1qamw40o1_500.png)

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQw6O_vo_oYhIh7WayP4wGB9uaACPrvHtxtLMKWESUUHUOh_iIBMg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 16, 2011, 03:30:34 pm
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137386121/bill-clinton-plays-not-my-job

Holy crap that is awesome.

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 16, 2011, 03:42:50 pm
Any self respecting Brony should like this page. http://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony?sk=app_200968439955315

Yay behind the scenes footage! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 16, 2011, 03:53:19 pm
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137386121/bill-clinton-plays-not-my-job
Ponies: Presidential bussines.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 16, 2011, 03:56:43 pm
Any self respecting Brony should like this page. http://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony?sk=app_200968439955315

Yay behind the scenes footage! :D


NAREIIIIII CURSE YOU AGAIN I just opened that page in the middle of a coffeeshop! :D Now everyone in a ten-table vicinity knows I watch My Little Pony, rofl.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 16, 2011, 03:58:39 pm
Any self respecting Brony should like this page. http://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony?sk=app_200968439955315

Yay behind the scenes footage! :D


NAREIIIIII CURSE YOU AGAIN I just opened that page in the middle of a coffeeshop! :D Now everyone in a ten-table vicinity knows I watch My Little Pony, rofl.
:goldgrin:
:goldglee:
:goldlaugh:
All I have to say is YAY PONIES
:goldthpt:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 16, 2011, 04:01:58 pm
Poor Arbutus. Here, I'll buy you a Pinkie Pie cookie.

Wasn't there an episode about not hiding who you are or being embarrassed?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 16, 2011, 04:14:34 pm
Will this MLP madness never cease? What is with you guys?  :o Next thing you know, you guys are gonna start wanting MLP fursuits.  :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 16, 2011, 04:19:37 pm
It's possible Kobuk. Come on. Join us. Sit down on the haybale and watch a few episode. It only hurts a little at first then it's all milk and honey and oats.

Ponyville waits for you Kobuk. Come on in. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 16, 2011, 04:25:17 pm
Join us, Kobuk. Join us. Join us in our bronydom. Experience the love and tolerance. All it takes is a few episodes, and you will understand all. Join us.

(By the way, Ziel posted this a while ago: http://d.facdn.net/art/deerock-gorilla/1310174857.deerock-gorilla_deerock_with_applejack___rainbow_dash.jpg) :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 16, 2011, 04:26:03 pm
It's possible Kobuk. Come on. Join us. Sit down on the haybale and watch a few episode. It only hurts a little at first then it's all milk and honey and oats.

Ponyville waits for you Kobuk. Come on in. ;)

NEVER! MUST RESIST!  :goldbloody:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Loc on July 16, 2011, 04:28:40 pm
I used to think that MLP was the sort of thing that little kids might enjoy, but which I wouldn't. I watched a couple of episodes a little while ago with Weisseman, and I think he has converted me. When I have a better Internet connection, I'm going to watch the rest.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on July 16, 2011, 05:32:17 pm
...  (*sigh*)

It seems that I, too, have been sucked into the appeal of this series.  About two weeks ago, I started reading the MLP thread on this forum.  It was the third source that had told me that the series was appealing (the other two being members of a (somewhat) local furry group and of a somewhat geeky university CS group); I considered this assertion unlikely to be a fluke or mistake at that point.  In approximately three sessions, I have watched about 15 episodes.

Then I went to a Boy Scout camp as an adult for my troop, and had to force myself to not hum Winter Wrap Up in front of a mostly male 200+ pool of witnesses.  It was bad enough that my mom (who is accepting of things such as a 21 year old male watching MLP) leaked the fact that I had been watching MLP to my older sister (who would (and did) give a ton of flak on the subject), oblivious to the potential consequences and my attempts to conceal this practice from said sister.

I've found the series to have about as much appeal to me as the fandubs of Digimon and Naruto (which surprised me greatly, given the seemingly excessively feminine initial appearance of MLP).  Now that I'm back at home (with better Internet access, more time, and more privacy), I think I'll start back where I left off in the near future.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 16, 2011, 06:45:47 pm
In all honesty, Kobuk, everyone is confused by this when they're looking in from the outside. But once they give it a chance and keep an open mind and watch a few episodes, they find out what all the fuss is about. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 16, 2011, 07:18:20 pm
In all honesty, Kobuk, everyone is confused by this when they're looking in from the outside. But once they give it a chance and keep an open mind and watch a few episodes, they find out what all the fuss is about. :)
Thats very true. Besides you could play the Where's Waldo game in spotting Background ponies. You're a Dr. Who fan So you could try spotting all the showings of Dr. Whooves.

Quote from: My Little Pony Wiki
Due to his time-based cutie mark, and spiky hair (similar to that of actor David Tennant), he resembles the titular character in the British television show Doctor Who. Doctor Whooves' model was also given wings re-used as a pegasus in the episode Sonic Rainboom, as contestant number 5. However, the earth pony has a mature male voice, while the pegasus pony he has a youthful boy voice. In the episode Over a Barrel a younger version of him appears with a hat, and hits a few barrels.

(http://blog.ohinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dr-whooves2.jpg)
 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 16, 2011, 07:20:57 pm
Join us, Kobuk. Join us. Join us in our bronydom. Experience the love and tolerance. All it takes is a few episodes, and you will understand all. Join us.

(By the way, Ziel posted this a while ago: http://d.facdn.net/art/deerock-gorilla/1310174857.deerock-gorilla_deerock_with_applejack___rainbow_dash.jpg) :D
Oh I hadn't noticed this line from Arb, but it had to be given attention because it's just so cool. 20% cooler to be exact.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 17, 2011, 04:01:20 pm
Ok, so I realized something yesterday when explaining the personalities of each main ponie to my mate yesterday as if it were nothing when discussing possible birthday cake ideas for our oldest daughter. I'm way too deep in this pony thing for my own good. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 17, 2011, 08:52:31 pm
Tongue-in-cheek question: Has anyone ever wondered if there are subliminal messages in this show brainwashing us into love and tolerance and an alarming obsession with neon-colored ponies?

I guess I don't mind if there are. I can think of worse things to be brainwashed into. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 18, 2011, 01:56:52 am
I guess I don't mind if there are. I can think of worse things to be brainwashed into. :D

(http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xJa_Mgo0lbU/TiPK47AFqZI/AAAAAAAAC30/-D5y5FbpQuw/35313%252520-%252520celestia%252520overlords%252520rainbow_dash%252520sig.png)

Picture says it all ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 18, 2011, 10:05:38 am
Tongue-in-cheek question: Has anyone ever wondered if there are subliminal messages in this show brainwashing us into love and tolerance and an alarming obsession with neon-colored ponies?

I guess I don't mind if there are. I can think of worse things to be brainwashed into. :D
What? Brainwashing? Nah!

*browses internet* Consarn it! Why are there no surgeons willing to perform species reassignment surgery? I need to look like Rainbow Dash!  >:(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 18, 2011, 11:41:33 am
Ok, so I realized something yesterday when explaining the personalities of each main ponie to my mate yesterday as if it were nothing when discussing possible birthday cake ideas for our oldest daughter. I'm way too deep in this pony thing for my own good. :D

You do realise, that if you go with a Pony cake you'll have to share pictures?

(With all personal information edited out, of course.)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 18, 2011, 11:48:49 am
But of course! Though I'm still trying to convert my mate, but she refuses to watch the show so far. Yet she has no problem ribbing me about it. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on July 18, 2011, 11:50:17 am
I must admit I feel the magnetism of these cute little ponies. Such sweetness
and goodness is hard to resist.   (:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 18, 2011, 11:50:36 am
I've been monitoring the exchanges in this phread for the last couple days; I need to make a few corrections to y'all Bronies on your vernacular:

First, when discusing the princible characters of the show, they are collectively called "The Mane Six" or just "mane 6" for short. You shouldn't use the word 'main'.

The term 'tongue in cheek' should be re-worded to "Hoof in Mouth". Sure that is actually a disease in the RL, but it serves the purpose for chit-chatting on forums.

There are many other catch phrases that are being used most splendidly, so keep them up. Some of these are: 10 seconds flat, 20% cooler, so awesome!, love and tolerate, confound these ponies!, Eeyup, Ooh Muffins!, Yay!, Okie dokie lokey, Forrrreverrrrr!, Oatmeal! Are you crazy?, Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh, ponies are crazy!, Dear Princess Celestia, This is whining, It... is... on..., Great and Powerful (Trixy), Friendship is (fill in the blank).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 18, 2011, 11:57:07 am
Bah, I'd still use "main" over "mane". I like puns as much as the next brony, but I think that one is just a bit too silly. Since I don't actually go to other forums and the like, I don't see the point anyway. I like living in my little bubble. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 18, 2011, 12:03:56 pm
With derpy hooves?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 18, 2011, 12:07:13 pm
She comes by and visits every now and then.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 18, 2011, 12:50:22 pm
I must admit I feel the magnetism of these cute little ponies. Such sweetness
and goodness is hard to resist.   (:

yay~

Glad to hear it! Welcome, Old Rabbit! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 18, 2011, 01:26:34 pm
I must admit I feel the magnetism of these cute little ponies. Such sweetness
and goodness is hard to resist.   (:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--goDXvVJ15k/Td3oxY21OGI/AAAAAAAAAFs/QwxIUTEJwSQ/s1600/welcome_to_the_herd-(n1303016720556).jpg)



And a message to those who still attempt to resist:



(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8131/stophating.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kishi on July 18, 2011, 04:17:58 pm
Too bad Furtopia didnt get taken over by Ponies before April Fool's, because it would've been awesome to have Furtopia become Ponytopia(A much better, rainbow filled hooftopia).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 18, 2011, 04:22:55 pm
Too bad Furtopia didnt get taken over by Ponies before April Fool's, because it would've been awesome to have Furtopia become Ponytopia(A much better, rainbow filled hooftopia).
:D It's already been taken over! And in a much more sunny and fun way! Though I think it'd be neat to put up a few rainbows here and there.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on July 18, 2011, 10:09:34 pm
It is now the near future.  I have finished the series.  Things are otherwise uneventful in this regard.

...I'm not even sure if the above was notable enough to be worth making a post about, to be honest.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 18, 2011, 10:31:00 pm
It is now the near future.  I have finished the series.  Things are otherwise uneventful in this regard.

...I'm not even sure if the above was notable enough to be worth making a post about, to be honest.

Well, you did present us with new info, so I'd say it's relevant.

This post on the other hand, probably not relevant.

Ponies.

There, now this post is on topic.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 18, 2011, 10:53:53 pm
Lets add some culture to this thread with great art.


Found this on an image share site.

(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7789/centaurfluttershy.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 20, 2011, 10:56:02 pm
Wow. Behold the power of Fluttaurshy. Stalls threads in 10 seconds flat :D
I think there's just so much cute there that everybody forgets there's a 'reply' button down lower on the page.

I've been going through several of the songs in my head while at work lately. Mostly Winter Wrap Up or Art of the Dress. But At the Gala pops in there every now and again, too. Usually it's the Super Ponybeat versions, though, because I've listened to those so much... I don't actually have most of the lyrics down, but the melodies are there.

@RY: Any specific thoughts now that the series is over?

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 20, 2011, 11:20:16 pm
I..I..uh..can't..wah..f;skl;d
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 21, 2011, 02:18:40 am
Lets add some culture to this thread with great art.

...

*Jaw drop*  D:

*fainting*

Oh, wait... *clicks SAVE*

*faints again*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Prince Karo on July 21, 2011, 11:03:41 am
Lets add some culture to this thread with great art.


Found this on an image share site.

(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7789/centaurfluttershy.png)

That expression.... it's so perfect... <3
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 21, 2011, 05:47:35 pm
 :D  :D  :D

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkk5c6aLFH1qf7gzvo1_400.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 21, 2011, 10:19:07 pm
Has anyone seen the most recent Equestria Daily (http://www.equestriadaily.com/) header image/theme?  My non-pony family is over to visit right now, but I still SQUEE'd a little!  I think Derpy also just shot up a few ranks for me.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on July 22, 2011, 12:15:00 am
@RY: Any specific thoughts now that the series is over?

Well, for one thing, I may owe some of my school friends an apology for possibly excessive skepticism on my part when they discussed having an interest in MLP.  I am somewhat glad, though, that I was also reasonably civil in my disbelief; it means having less crow to eat.

I've found myself with the occasional compulsion to listen to a few of the show's songs again, namely "Winter Wrap-Up" and "Art of the Dress".  Aside from that, I haven't felt particularly compelled to rewatch the series.  (If I had felt this way, I would have ranked MLP as a literary work on my list of preferences up there with Eragon and a small handful of other works.)  I am, however, considering having my mom watch episodes 4 and/or 14; the central themes of those episodes would have particular relevance to her.

I also spent a good deal of the season thinking that Rainbow Dash was male.  I had a bit of cognitive whiplash when I heard the pronoun "her" being used in reference to that character.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 22, 2011, 12:34:20 am
Has anyone seen the most recent Equestria Daily (http://www.equestriadaily.com/) header image/theme?  My non-pony family is over to visit right now, but I still SQUEE'd a little!  I think Derpy also just shot up a few ranks for me.

Lol! If this is the result, Twilight needs to foul up more spells.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sheeta on July 22, 2011, 01:50:08 am
Psst...hey guys...

SOUNDBOARD!

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/192/3/6/mlp_fim_soundboard_v4_3_by_kyrospawn-d3izzks.swf

Have fun!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 22, 2011, 02:06:48 am
Psst...hey guys...

SOUNDBOARD!

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/192/3/6/mlp_fim_soundboard_v4_3_by_kyrospawn-d3izzks.swf

Have fun!

Wow, that's weird.  I was just looking up this soundboard after hearing it mentioned on an old episode of Bronyville.  I closed the window and refreshed Furtopia to find... this! :D

And for the record, I just spent 5 minutes playing with all the cleaned-up Flutterrage voices :3
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sheeta on July 22, 2011, 02:20:38 am
Psst...hey guys...

SOUNDBOARD!

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/192/3/6/mlp_fim_soundboard_v4_3_by_kyrospawn-d3izzks.swf

Have fun!

Wow, that's weird.  I was just looking up this soundboard after hearing it mentioned on an old episode of Bronyville.  I closed the window and refreshed Furtopia to find... this! :D

And for the record, I just spent 5 minutes playing with all the cleaned-up Flutterrage voices :3

The hivemind expands...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on July 22, 2011, 03:24:54 am
Psst...hey guys...

SOUNDBOARD!

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/192/3/6/mlp_fim_soundboard_v4_3_by_kyrospawn-d3izzks.swf

Have fun!

Oh my.  That would have been a highly entertaining addition to late night dorm conversations back in college.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 22, 2011, 06:44:17 am
I also spent a good deal of the season thinking that Rainbow Dash was male.  I had a bit of cognitive whiplash when I heard the pronoun "her" being used in reference to that character.

Don't worry, you aren't alone in thinking that at first. I think that between the completely different style mane/tail (not just the colors), the somewhat androgynous voice, and a lot of her mannerisms, this isn't a far-fetched conclusion to reach fairly quickly. It wasn't until I watched enough episodes to see enough background ponies that I realized that every male had the slightly different head/body shape. At which point it was an 'Oh, RD is a girl. I guess I can see that'. Also, there's a number of times where the group was collectively referred to as 'Girls'.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 22, 2011, 07:35:20 am
There's also a soundboard now for free on the Android Market that is nice and easy to use. Simply look for "FiM Soundboard".

And speaking of songs, am I the only one that likes the Pony Pokey song? I always hear about people saying how much they like Winter Wrap up, but I'm not too fond of it and didn't even remember the song from the show. I had to look it up to see what all the fuss is about. Pony Pokey, though, has been running through my head for days.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 22, 2011, 08:18:33 am
The Pony Pokey is all right.  Like most of Pinkie Pie's songs I think it fits best within the context of the show.  Songs like Winter Wrap Up are so multilayered and creative, I think they have to be classed above most of Pinkie's ditties.  Giggle at the Ghostie is actually one of the songs I'd include up there even though Pinkie does degenerate into giggles during the song.  That's not to say her songs are bad, but I'm not going to listen to Hop, Skip, and Jump for its finely-crafted artistry :P

Speaking of songs, Art of the Dress has really been growing on me lately.  It might soon replace Winter Wrap Up as my top song.  And as a side effect, it's helping me understand Rarity more.  She's still stuck up, but I don't think of her just as a snob any more :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 22, 2011, 11:30:10 am
Ah! The soundboard makes my life so much easier! :D!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 22, 2011, 11:30:16 am
"Art of the Dress" is loosely taken from "Putting it Together", a song by Stephen Sondheim for his musical "Sunday in the Park with George"! "Art of the Dress" is probably my favorite song because of it.

Hey, listen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-836TtoF_5I
(For Torchwood/Doctor Who fans, keep an eye out for John Barrowman singing!!! Mmm, yeah.)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 22, 2011, 12:33:13 pm
"Art of the Dress" is loosely taken from "Putting it Together", a song by Stephen Sondheim for his musical "Sunday in the Park with George"!

And, for the sake of completeness, "At the Gala" is based on the song "Ever After" from Sondheim's Into the Woods. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Ve4KO7Hcg


As for me, the Sondheims are my favorite songs, no surprise. ;) "At the Gala" and "Art of the Dress." "Winter Wrap Up" is another favorite, of course. And like Landrav said, "Giggle at the Ghostie" is growing on me even though it's not particularly complex or ambitious. It's got a good tune, what can I say. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 22, 2011, 01:16:56 pm
Have no sound at the moment, but thanks for pointing that Arbutus! I'll look at it later. I remember thinking during "At the Gala" that it sounded like it could have been from a musical. (Though not a Sondheim one--I was more reminded of a Weber production--big, flashy, all the cast, like you'd get right before intermission or at the end of the show.)

EDIT: Listened now! Very cool. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 22, 2011, 07:22:52 pm
BREAKING PONY NEWS

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-enXy6k2JIMs/TinGwkbx2kI/AAAAAAAAArY/e67xiTFNn3k/s1600/thebest.jpg)

Quote
[5 p.m. CST, 4 p.m. Equestrian] An enormous banner featuring Rainbow Dash in a patriotic pose has been illegally draped on the front of the White House during the night, sources in the capitol say.

Press releases and independent reporting from multiple sources has confirmed the vandalism, which has since been removed by White House staff. As was previously suspected by capitol officials, the radical group Equestrian Evangelists did indeed claim responsibility for the act early this morning.

"The American government has forced our hoof," the press release read in part. "This is but one small step in the direction of the spreading of the gospel of the one and true best pony."

"We will not stop until this country is 20% cooler than it is right now," the release says.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/breaking-news-pony-sentiments-spark-war.html
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 22, 2011, 08:31:50 pm
RD 4 evar! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on July 22, 2011, 10:29:20 pm
Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle are having a cupcake party next to me right now.  (My daughter has plastic cupcakes and a couple of older My Little Ponies that we got from ebay.  She's renamed them for the FiM characters based on their body colors.  Mostly they're discussing which pony gets which cupcake.  It's cute.)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 23, 2011, 02:17:01 am
Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle are having a cupcake party next to me right now.  (My daughter has plastic cupcakes and a couple of older My Little Ponies that we got from ebay.  She's renamed them for the FiM characters based on their body colors.  Mostly they're discussing which pony gets which cupcake.  It's cute.)
NO! Not baked goods! Baked BADS!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on July 23, 2011, 06:03:36 am
Cupcakes; so sweet & tasty
Cupcakes; don't be too hasty,
Cupcakes; cupcakes, cupcakes, CUPCAKES!!!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 24, 2011, 04:31:16 pm
NO! Not baked goods! Baked BADS!

(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/164/7/2/baked_bads___fimtg_by_kitonin-d3is5au.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 24, 2011, 06:14:44 pm
Pretty much :D!

Landrav has linked me lots of pony cards. I love the ones by this person :D!

http://kitonin.deviantart.com/gallery/
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 24, 2011, 08:30:50 pm
Pretty much :D!

Landrav has linked me lots of pony cards. I love the ones by this person :D!

http://kitonin.deviantart.com/gallery/


I'm really tempted to put these on some just cards and try playing them at this one local card place I go to. Oh that would be delicious.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 25, 2011, 02:43:16 am
I was never into that game but now Magic: the gathering is 20% cooler. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: knightpazz on July 25, 2011, 04:13:37 am
guys I just finished watching the whole first sesson on youtube just type it in and u can watch the full episodes the second sesson is coming out this fall so ya  :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 25, 2011, 04:51:42 am
Ok, so I realized something yesterday when explaining the personalities of each main ponie to my mate yesterday as if it were nothing when discussing possible birthday cake ideas for our oldest daughter. I'm way too deep in this pony thing for my own good. :D

You do realise, that if you go with a Pony cake you'll have to share pictures?

(With all personal information edited out, of course.)
The bad news is that our girl picked out a Disney Princess themed cake. The good news is that one of her friends had an MLP birthday party around the same time. When my mate went gift shopping for pony stuff, she also picked up a pack of stickers for me. Not sure what I'll do with them yet, but it's the mane 6, Princess Celestia, their cutie marks, and Spike. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 25, 2011, 05:51:38 am
You know what?

This is just ridiculous.

I'm gonna watch it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 25, 2011, 06:45:09 am
You know what?

This is just ridiculous.

I'm gonna watch it.

Do it!  And let us know how it goes :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 25, 2011, 07:59:45 am
You know what?

This is just ridiculous.

I'm gonna watch it.

HELL. YES. :D

Give it at least 4 episodes. I didn't get totally hooked until Episode 4.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 25, 2011, 08:16:41 am
You know what?

This is just ridiculous.

I'm gonna watch it.

(http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T96r5Kpe85c/Ti1edQjAfNI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/ML_9JBXPlDs/681%252520-%252520caption%252520macro%252520pinkie_pie%252520spike.png)

Hehehe, another one for the herd!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 25, 2011, 09:15:06 am
Everypony needs to keep their eyes on target, just now when i was stocking i found a big box full of MLP:FIM story books. Didn't get to read any but they look neat. (sent from my mobile phone while at work.)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 25, 2011, 09:17:03 am
A friend took a picture of these and put them on facebook. She said they were at target in the dollar bin :o!

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/268903_236981309660444_100000457297657_890125_7746185_n.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 25, 2011, 09:21:02 am
Dibs on the Applejack socks.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 25, 2011, 02:23:02 pm
Dibs on the Applejack socks.

That was my initial reaction too :D!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 25, 2011, 03:17:01 pm
Dang! My store hasn't got those yet!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 25, 2011, 04:29:17 pm
Dang! My store hasn't got those yet!

Can you say ebay? :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on July 25, 2011, 10:27:47 pm
My daughter is turning four this week and has requested a cake with all the six main characters' cutie marks on it.  It should be a cheerful, colorful cake.  We've also ordered the Pinkie Pie pinata for her party.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 25, 2011, 10:30:40 pm
My daughter is turning four this week and has requested a cake with all the six main characters' cutie marks on it.  It should be a cheerful, colorful cake.  We've also ordered the Pinkie Pie pinata for her party.

Candy. It all makes sense now! Pinkie Pie doesn't have blood like other living creatures, CANDY runs through her veins :D!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 25, 2011, 11:47:16 pm
Alright. I watched ep 1 while my husband was out shopping. I just don't even know what to say. My first reaction was:

All the characters are girls! Is this legal in America? I thought we had some kind of law that said at least 70% of all characters in all media had to be male.

And then:

I really like the art direction, but I had some criticisms about the animation. They're a bit stiff and they could use more weight in the movements. There is the whole Motionless Head, Moving Mouth syndrome that anime is famous for.

Ok, I will keep watching. It wasn't what I expected AT ALL.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 25, 2011, 11:58:12 pm
There are guys. There's Spike, Big Mackintosh, Doctor Whooves, the royal guards. a couple of the Wonder Bolts, Snips and Snails. There are guys. They just aren't all up in your face.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 26, 2011, 12:02:50 am
At first it was a bit weird that the representation of males is much lower than I was used to.  Now, however, I don't notice it until someone brings it up.  I really appreciate that they were able to write strong enough characters that it doesn't matter.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 26, 2011, 09:47:34 am
At first it was a bit weird that the representation of males is much lower than I was used to.  Now, however, I don't notice it until someone brings it up.  I really appreciate that they were able to write strong enough characters that it doesn't matter.

Yeah, I felt pretty much the same way at first. In fact, for a while I was wondering if there were any guys in Equestria at all.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 26, 2011, 02:53:04 pm
A friend took a picture of these and put them on facebook. She said they were at target in the dollar bin :o!

[img]
What, no Fluttershy? Must have been all sold out. :P

In related news, a link was posted on the MLP facebook page to http://www.welovefine.com/ that sells pony attire. Only it seems all the bronies have crashed their server for the third or fourth time now with all the traffic from there and EqD, so I haven't actually seen what the site holds. One thing that is being posted about on the FB page is that the only mens shirts are of Spike or Rainbowdash. Everything else is in girls/womens sizes. :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 26, 2011, 04:13:38 pm
A friend took a picture of these and put them on facebook. She said they were at target in the dollar bin :o!

[img]
What, no Fluttershy? Must have been all sold out. :P
One thing that is being posted about on the FB page is that the only mens shirts are of Spike or Rainbowdash. Everything else is in girls/womens sizes. :(

Darn it, I want my Applejack shirt!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 26, 2011, 04:41:58 pm
A friend took a picture of these and put them on facebook. She said they were at target in the dollar bin :o!

[img]
What, no Fluttershy? Must have been all sold out. :P

In related news, a link was posted on the MLP facebook page to http://www.welovefine.com/ that sells pony attire. Only it seems all the bronies have crashed their server for the third or fourth time now with all the traffic from there and EqD, so I haven't actually seen what the site holds. One thing that is being posted about on the FB page is that the only mens shirts are of Spike or Rainbowdash. Everything else is in girls/womens sizes. :(
Lucky for me I look good in a womens. But I'd still want a RD shirt.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 26, 2011, 04:42:30 pm
Oh no, a cartoon primarily marketed (past and current) to little girls doesn't have shirts in dudes sizes? A cartoon marketed (past and present) to little girls showing strong, interesting, female characters  and relatively 1 dimensional guy characters, WHAT EVER SHALL WE DO.

THINK ABOUT THE MENZ EVERYONE.

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 26, 2011, 05:03:44 pm
Oh no, a cartoon primarily marketed (past and current) to little girls doesn't have shirts in dudes sizes? A cartoon marketed (past and present) to little girls showing strong, interesting, female characters  and relatively 1 dimensional guy characters, WHAT EVER SHALL WE DO.

THINK ABOUT THE MENZ EVERYONE.
That's what I'm saying! Know your fan base! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 26, 2011, 05:07:52 pm
Oh no, a cartoon primarily marketed (past and current) to little girls doesn't have shirts in dudes sizes? A cartoon marketed (past and present) to little girls showing strong, interesting, female characters  and relatively 1 dimensional guy characters, WHAT EVER SHALL WE DO.

THINK ABOUT THE MENZ EVERYONE.
LMTO thats was good. :D

That's what I'm saying! Know your fan base! :D
Exactly, besides the strong female characters is part of the appeal of the show! Especially when we see Fluttershy standing up for herself and her friends.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 26, 2011, 05:50:43 pm
So how many of you folks would actually wear pony gear in your day-to-day life if you had it? Question applies to both men and women.

I would not. Well, not unless it were so subtle that nobody would know what it was anyway. ;) I've seen some shirts that were posing as advertisements for things like the "14th Annual Cloudsdale Young Flyers Competition" and "Pie Family Rock Farms"... those are a little tempting, haha.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 26, 2011, 06:03:32 pm
I'd consider something subtle like that, but doubt anything with an actual pony on it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 26, 2011, 06:17:08 pm
I would wear aa necklace that has RD's cutie mark as a charm. Or something else very subtle. But only in day-to-day life. Were i at a con (furry or Brony) I'd let my fan out and wear a shirt with Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash, or both on it.

In addition to Arbutus' question about fashon I'd like to ask if anyone has any pony themes on thier computer. I have a wallpaper and my login image is a close up of Fluttershy.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 26, 2011, 06:20:22 pm
Does having Crazy Shy as your Facebook avatar count? Lol
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on July 26, 2011, 06:27:48 pm
I was being sarcastic since you guys seemed so up in arms about it. If you weren't really, I apologize. It was a cranky!TCD post.

As far as stuff....I dunno. Probably. I was eyeballing those socks earlier.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 26, 2011, 08:18:05 pm
I'm watching episode 2 and....

Was there just a musical number??
And a manticore?

I'm still giving it until episode 4.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 26, 2011, 09:50:39 pm
I'm watching episode 2 and....

Was there just a musical number??
And a manticore?

I'm still giving it until episode 4.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13875233/33u739w.jpg)

As far as shirts, I've got two subtle ones:
http://www.fibers.com/shop/design/20-percent-cooler.D44081 (warning: their "brony" category has a shirt with some language)
http://ocularproof.spreadshirt.com/cloudsdalevector-I11383650

The second link has a lot of great ones, and it looks like they're adding more. http://ocularproof.spreadshirt.com/shop/designs
Dang, there goes my clothing budget!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 26, 2011, 09:59:48 pm
Landrav, was there a reason you quoted me? Jes askin'.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 26, 2011, 10:04:26 pm
Landrav, was there a reason you quoted me? Jes askin'.

Oh, the joke was that you are turning to the "Dark Side."  Is the image not showing up?  I put it in the public share folder in Dropbox; maybe I am mistaking how that works.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 26, 2011, 10:09:21 pm
I ran this page through a proxy, and now I realize there was an image.

-_________________________-;

Oh China, why must you make me embarrass myself?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 26, 2011, 10:17:51 pm
I was being sarcastic since you guys seemed so up in arms about it. If you weren't really, I apologize. It was a cranky!TCD post.

As far as stuff....I dunno. Probably. I was eyeballing those socks earlier.

Heh, no biggie. Though do realize that some of us guys (I speak for myself, and presumably others here) have not actually watched shows targeted toward this specific audience in the past. It's a bit of a culture shock at first :P

As for wearing pony stuff... I would consider it. Granted, I don't really go anywhere besides Target and the grocery. Most evenings I just hang around my apartment, usually on the computer. Now, I wouldn't wear it around my family (I just don't feel like inviting the barrage of questions that may arise), unless it were very subtle.

I've seen (and of course now can't find) a picture of a shirt that just has little color bars representing each pony's color scheme. There's a lot of color strips, too, so I think they made one for just about every pony that appears, even if it's just in the background fairly regularly.

Also, the creators are definitely aware of their unforseen demographic by this point. I would expect them to start putting out a few extra offerings in the proper sizes/styles. For the time being, we'll just have to deal with fan-made shirts. Good thing some of those designs are pretty sweet.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 26, 2011, 10:18:11 pm
I ran this page through a proxy, and now I realize there was an image.

-_________________________-;

Oh China, why must you make me embarrass myself?

Oh, that's OK.  More often I'm the culprit when these things happen!  Here, have a hug!

*Group pony hug*

Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that I should be considerate of my friends who might not realize an image is included in a forum post.  It's no fun when someone is embarrassed by a joke they don't even know is there.  From now on I will remember to make a textual reference of some kind so it doesn't happen again.
Your faithful student,
Landrav
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 26, 2011, 10:22:11 pm
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that I should be considerate of my friends who might not realize an image is included in a forum post.  It's no fun when someone is embarrassed by a joke they don't even know is there.  From now on I will remember to make a textual reference of some kind so it doesn't happen again.
Your faithful student,
Landrav


I definitely read that as Twilight's voice in my head.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 26, 2011, 10:23:31 pm
^ I cracked up. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 27, 2011, 12:19:18 am
Dear Princess Celestia,

Do you ever get tired of all these letters?

Your somewhat faithful student,
Narei
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 27, 2011, 12:29:07 am
This show is making you people crazy  :o
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Storm Fox on July 27, 2011, 12:47:48 am
This show is making you people crazy  :o
Finally, a voice of reason,

But of course to be fair, you can’t blame everyone for liking the show,

After all, their brains have all been hypnotized against their will by all the bright and shiny colors. :o :o :o :o :o :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 27, 2011, 02:27:24 am
This show is making you people crazy  :o
You should start reading Arbutus' aand mine's logs we kept when we went through our own trasnitions into the brony fandom.

http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.msg800526#msg800526
Reply number 76 will show the start of Arbutus' log, mine starts a page after.

Be warned, I kinda lose it after episode 7 and start writing pony poetry. :D

Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that I should be considerate of my friends who might not realize an image is included in a forum post.  It's no fun when someone is embarrassed by a joke they don't even know is there.  From now on I will remember to make a textual reference of some kind so it doesn't happen again.
Your faithful student,
Landrav


I definitely read that as Twilight's voice in my head.
You should read the letter I wrote to Princess Celestia when I was done with the series.

http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.msg801230#msg801230

reply 136
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on July 27, 2011, 03:54:01 am
My husband has finally given in and started watching through the show with my daughter.  He's seen seven episodes now and seems to be an Applejack fan.

Edit:  He's researching t-shirts right now.  Ostensibly because he thinks our daughter would like one.  I think there may be more to it than that.

Second edit:  He thinks he might like an Applejack t-shirt.  (http://sharkrobot.com/pony-tees)  And maybe a poster for his office.  Anyone seen any good posters?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on July 27, 2011, 06:24:15 am
This show is making you people crazy  :o

QFT!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on July 27, 2011, 06:43:02 am
This show is making you people crazy  :o

QFT!

We only look crazy to people on the outside.
*twitches*
(chants under breath) ponies are life... ponies are life... ponies foreEEEverr
*twitches*
Just join us and it'll all make sense!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 27, 2011, 08:15:20 am
Guys, I was about to make some funny comments about us bronies being crazy, but then I fired up Equestria Daily and saw this:

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/comic-my-name-is-dinky-hooves.html (Just read the first one; the second image spoils the moment a bit).

I read the first comic expecting, "Oh, Derpyhooves comic! This should be funny."  I finished reading it with a quivering lip and a single tear running down my cheek.  Excuse me, I need to go cry some manly tears in the shower so nobody ever knows.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 27, 2011, 09:14:38 am
Excuse me, I need to go cry some manly tears in the shower so nobody ever knows.

Crying in a thunderstorm is at least 20% manlier.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 27, 2011, 08:36:29 pm
Ep 3:

Why did the show end before we actually got to see the Grand Galloping Gala?  :'(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 27, 2011, 08:41:20 pm
Ep 3:

Why did the show end before we actually got to see the Grand Galloping Gala?  :'(
It's coming. Don't worry. You'll see it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on July 27, 2011, 08:42:27 pm
Ep 3:

Why did the show end before we actually got to see the Grand Galloping Gala?  :'(

I guess you'll just have to watch the whole season to see it at the end! ;)  There are several episodes throughout the season which have some reference to the GGG, and then they finally get to go in episode 26.  That thread of continuity is just another example of the level of attention the creators put into the show.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 27, 2011, 09:17:20 pm
Ep 3:

Why did the show end before we actually got to see the Grand Galloping Gala?  :'(

Season finale, Sskessa :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 27, 2011, 09:32:32 pm
Alright, perhaps I will continue watching until the end. Perhaps...But only to see the Grand Galloping Gala. No other reason :X
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 27, 2011, 09:39:30 pm
I bet by the end of Ep 4, you'll be singing a different tune.  If all you want is to see the GGG, why not just skip to the end? ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 27, 2011, 09:40:18 pm
and so it begins again. Another person takes the long and colorful trek down the meddow of friendship to ponyville. Just relax and enjoy it Sskessa, we all have different adjustment periods but I can say with certainty that after episode 7 there is no going back. You'll be hooked.

Seems like only yesterday I experienced that. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on July 27, 2011, 10:13:18 pm
and so it begins again. Another person takes the long and colorful trek down the meddow of friendship to ponyville. Just relax and enjoy it Sskessa, we all have different adjustment periods but I can say with certainty that after episode 7 there is no going back. You'll be hooked.

Seems like only yesterday I experienced that. :D

This reminded me of the Borg.  The similarity scares me.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 27, 2011, 10:42:14 pm
Seems like being a Brony is a little bit more fun. And involves more apple pie.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 27, 2011, 10:42:55 pm
but I can say with certainty that after episode 7 there is no going back. You'll be hooked.

I remember you texting me about Episode 7 all like "OH. MY. GOD." :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 27, 2011, 11:15:47 pm
but I can say with certainty that after episode 7 there is no going back. You'll be hooked.

I remember you texting me about Episode 7 all like "OH. MY. GOD." :D
Well yeah, who WOULDN'T have that reaction?! It's one of my most favorite episodes. :)

and so it begins again. Another person takes the long and colorful trek down the meddow of friendship to ponyville. Just relax and enjoy it Sskessa, we all have different adjustment periods but I can say with certainty that after episode 7 there is no going back. You'll be hooked.

Seems like only yesterday I experienced that. :D

This reminded me of the Borg.  The similarity scares me.
(http://ponibooru.413chan.net/_images/c9a9e57404c1a6ea788b46c0e50a2bd0/5662%20-%20Assimilation_implication%20Resistance_Is_Futile%20applejack%20borg%20crossover%20fluttershy%20parody%20pinkie_pie%20rainbow_dash%20rarity%20twilight_sparkle.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sunny Snowflame on July 28, 2011, 12:18:16 am
I am Snowflame of Ponyville. You will be assimilated. Do not try to resist, for we will love and tolerate you into submission. Our army of ponies will unite all the Universe in friendship. Resistance is futile.

Welcome to the herd, have a cookie.  (:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on July 28, 2011, 09:56:08 am
Looks like we've got a couple more in our ranks. I can't believe it, but I feel that I'm becoming part of Leidt's movement...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 28, 2011, 10:28:39 am
Looks like we've got a couple more in our ranks. I can't believe it, but I feel that I'm becoming part of Leidt's movement...
This is much different than that. He's wanting to take over with militant force. We're all about love, toleraance, kindness and friendship.

Leidt's movement is military. We're more like hippies.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sunny Snowflame on July 28, 2011, 10:38:47 am
We're more like hippies.

Hypothetically, if I were listening to Bob Marley just now, whilst contemplating what it means for someone to have a soul (for a certain thread here) and our oneness with the Universe, would that include me in those ranks? Strictly hypothetically speaking, man...  (:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 28, 2011, 11:47:50 am
We're more like hippies.

Hypothetically, if I were listening to Bob Marley just now, whilst contemplating what it means for someone to have a soul (for a certain thread here) and our oneness with the Universe, would that include me in those ranks? Strictly hypothetically speaking, man...  (:
I don't see why not.

Of coursse if you were big into the show you could contemplate the hypothetical meaning of the universe in the contexts of ponies too.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on July 28, 2011, 07:35:42 pm
(http://www.marylowd.com/cutie_mark_cake_by_Grandma.jpg)

My daughter turned four yesterday, and she wanted a cake with "all the cutie marks" on it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 28, 2011, 08:04:01 pm
Ok, bunny census?

Now I know why Arbutus was all, "Just watch until episode 4!"

My husband woke up early and looked and my computer screen right as the bunnies were stampeding. So I think this fandom just earned itself an unexpected bonus member.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on July 28, 2011, 08:20:08 pm
I was considering making the bunny stampede my icon. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on July 28, 2011, 08:22:56 pm
I love how that bunny's name is "Angel."
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on July 28, 2011, 08:29:07 pm
Assimilation complete.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 28, 2011, 10:45:22 pm
Assimilation complete.
(http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001887119/574529777_welcome_to_the_herd_n1303016720556_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on July 29, 2011, 12:52:17 am
(http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n192/DnDChick/OMGPONIES/FullOfPonies.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: DreamerHusky on July 29, 2011, 05:14:13 am
...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on July 29, 2011, 09:11:52 am
I find it to be a very well done show, very funny and clever at times and i think it's funny that i like my little pony. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on August 01, 2011, 04:30:03 am
(http://www.marylowd.com/4th_birthday_party.jpg)

I posted a picture of the cake my mom made for my daughter's birthday a few days ago.  Today, we had the actual birthday party, and I made my own "cake with all the cutie marks" to go along with all the rest of the My Little Pony goodness.  (It's looking like that pinata is going to be a well-loved toy for a while.  She survived her candy-ectomy admirably, and spent a lot of time on a merry-go-round afterward.)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sunny Snowflame on August 01, 2011, 11:02:59 am
That cake...

and pinata...

Cuteness Overload!!  :o

I don't know if it's the geek factor or the cute factor that is affecting me, but my brain is melting......  (: x_x
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 01, 2011, 03:38:48 pm
That is an epic cake! Course if I got one it'd have many others. Like an hourglass, bubbles, a music symbol, a wand with a flourish of magic. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 01, 2011, 04:12:31 pm
That is an epic cake! Course if I got one it'd have many others. Like an hourglass, bubbles, a music symbol, a wand with a flourish of magic. :D
That cake would have to be huge if you started including all the background characters. Mmmmm.... icing. *drools*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Wereaibo on August 01, 2011, 09:25:20 pm
I'm immune to all this. Mostly because I don't get the channel the show comes on. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 01, 2011, 09:40:51 pm
I'm immune to all this. Mostly because I don't get the channel the show comes on. ;)

You. Tube.

:D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 01, 2011, 10:12:19 pm
I'm immune to all this. Mostly because I don't get the channel the show comes on. ;)

You. Tube.

:D

I'll provide a link so you have no more excuses. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJ6-gN0eB4
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Wereaibo on August 01, 2011, 10:21:46 pm
I still have an excuse. Not only would it probably take half a day or more to download one episode on my slow connection, but I also only have a limited amount of bandwidth or whatever it's called on this thing a month. I watched a few old school commercials on YouTube one day and it filled up a lot of my space. If I tried watching TV shows I wouldn't be able to do anything else online all month. My crappy connection will save me from being assimilated into the Brony collective. ;) :P :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 01, 2011, 10:28:21 pm
Public access wifi is your friend.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Wereaibo on August 01, 2011, 10:39:52 pm
Unfortunately this thing isn't set up  for WiFi. It would probably cost more than I can spare a month. I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I'm probably lucky just to be able to have the connection I have.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 02, 2011, 06:04:27 pm
OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!!  :D :D

Equestria Daily just posted this!!!

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/season-2-image.html

You read right in that link, SEASON 2!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 02, 2011, 06:08:55 pm
It's also been leaked that Luna WILL be making another appearance.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 02, 2011, 09:25:33 pm
Also, Colbert gave us a shoutout.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on August 02, 2011, 10:08:02 pm
OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!!  :D :D

Equestria Daily just posted this!!!

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/season-2-image.html

You read right in that link, SEASON 2!

One of the highlights of that link is the fact that the authors of the show are "having fun" with the fanbase (the second image's right monitor is of the thread itself from before the creation of that image; also see the twitter post linked in the comments (http://twitter.com/#!/goldenrusset/statuses/98508778328166401)).  I find that this post from that link succinctly described the present phenomenon:


Quote from: Flygon16
Honestly, if I were Jayson, I would be having a field day with this. The bronies (myself included) are so ravenous for new official content that one little screencap sends us all into a tizzy. It's equal parts sad, cute, and hilarious.

I find this extremely hilarious.  The brony reaction is absurdly disproportionate, though given the strong unexpected appeal of the show, it's somewhat understandable.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 03, 2011, 02:30:10 am
Also, Colbert gave us a shoutout.
:D I was watching the Brony Show when that happened! That was hilarious. Seconds after he said it there were youtube videos of it up. Yay for cellphone video cameras!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 03, 2011, 09:50:21 am
Breaking News! Spike has been seen holding a book in a screenshot from the second season. Imagine the possibilities!

I love Equestria Daily.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 03, 2011, 10:58:45 am
Breaking News! Spike has been seen holding a book in a screenshot from the second season. Imagine the possibilities!

I love Equestria Daily.

Hahahaha, Equestria Daily is a ridiculous site. At least it doesn't take itself seriously. It's aware of how absurd it's being, but it chooses to freak out over things like this anyway because freaking out is fun. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 03, 2011, 11:12:23 am
Very fun. It's one of the best things about being a brony I think.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 03, 2011, 03:53:10 pm
Ok, I think I have to add a tie to my favorite background pony. I'll still always go for Vinyl Scratch, but now Lotus and Aloe are growing on me. The twin ponies from the spa in Green Isn't Your Color.

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110706140253/mlp/images/thumb/8/87/Dora.jpg/180px-Dora.jpg)(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110706130026/mlp/images/thumb/f/f5/Lilly.png/180px-Lilly.png)

I think it's because they seem to be both sweet and fashionable. All too often you see the stereotypical lovely but stuck up female character working in the spas. I don't get that vibe from these two.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 03, 2011, 04:07:13 pm
I've been on the lookout for Bon Bon a lot lately. Sure she's got a bit of an attitude but I think she looks cool, plus she seems to hang with Lyra a lot and she's very cool. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 03, 2011, 09:26:27 pm
I just re-watched both pilot episodes. First time I've re-watched those particular two actually, and I've probably re-watched nearly all the other episodes at some point now.

First, I'll just say that I enjoyed those two episodes much more after having finished the series than I did the first time I saw them.

Second, I noticed in the surprise party scene, Derpy is so awesome they apparently use her as two background ponies in the same scene. Unless there's another gray pony with a bubbles cutie mark...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 03, 2011, 10:47:08 pm
I just want to mention that I'm still watching this show. Can't really say why, exactly. I think my favorite character is Applejack, because the episodes focusing on her are the funniest. Plus it's rare for voice actors to do a Southern accent convincingly. I was surprised that Applejack's VA is actually from Canada!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 04, 2011, 02:11:54 am
Oh no, it even got Cleverbot!

(http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-cleverbrony.jpg)

:D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 04, 2011, 03:30:37 am
Quote
Thank you for this.
:D
Thats the funniest part of the entire exchange!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 04, 2011, 03:31:53 am
Quote
Thank you for this.
:D
Thats the funniest part of the entire exchange!
But it wasn't Cleverbot that said it. It was the user. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 04, 2011, 08:09:05 am
Hey Kess, what episode are you on at this point?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 04, 2011, 10:15:37 am
I think my favorite character is Applejack, because the episodes focusing on her are the funniest. Plus it's rare for voice actors to do a Southern accent convincingly. I was surprised that Applejack's VA is actually from Canada!

Sweet, another Applejack fan! Gimme a brohoof!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 04, 2011, 07:10:01 pm
So, I has a birthday today.

So of course, I has a cake. Idea blatantly stolen from someone on here.

(http://i.imgur.com/pX0aP.jpg)

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 04, 2011, 08:20:18 pm
Hey Kess, what episode are you on at this point?

I just finished watching the one where Rarity makes a bunch of dresses and, swear to God, I nearly teared up. I don't think I've ever seen a show where the moral of the story is "trust people with good taste." Maybe we can finally move beyond the void of aesthetic relativism that seems to have plagued America since the 60s. Ok, maybe I'm reading too much into this, but that's what you do when you're a former art student.

*knocks Sky Striker a brohoof*
Yeeehaw!

Also, happy birthday, TCD ^_-
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 06, 2011, 02:46:46 am
2LT liedt here, just letting my Bronie pals know that I've returned and will be getting back into my saddle in a couple days. I also wanted to remind you all that I'll be hosting the Ungulates Unite panel at IFC this year; at the sane panel we'll be discussing how much the bronie/pony movement has effected the fandom and put hoofers on the map.[color]
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 06, 2011, 08:46:34 am
2LT liedt here, just letting my Bronie pals know that I've returned and will be getting back into my saddle in a couple days. I also wanted to remind you all that I'll be hosting the Ungulates Unite panel at IFC this year; at the sane panel we'll be discussing how much the bronie/pony movement has effected the fandom and put hoofers on the map.[color]

Is this intentional and you're trying to imply that the Ungulates Unite panel is going to be crazy? Or is this a typo and you're saying that at the UU panel you will be discussing the brony movement?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 06, 2011, 09:32:07 am
its the latter. We'll be discussing the bronie movement at the UU panel. It will also be the only panel at the whole con with any references to mlp. So we should get a little bleed over from that group and I'll have a captive audiance to spread the Ungulate propaganda to.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 06, 2011, 12:39:31 pm
its the latter. We'll be discussing the bronie movement at the UU panel. It will also be the only panel at the whole con with any references to mlp. So we should get a little bleed over from that group and I'll have a captive audiance to spread the Ungulate propaganda to.

Don't give away all your plans too early :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 07, 2011, 05:52:29 pm
its the latter. We'll be discussing the bronie movement at the UU panel. It will also be the only panel at the whole con with any references to mlp. So we should get a little bleed over from that group and I'll have a captive audiance to spread the Ungulate propaganda to.

Don't give away all your plans too early :P

But the thing you don't realize, giving away his plans...

are all part of his plan!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 07, 2011, 08:19:02 pm
Did you guys hear? Lauren Faust (the creator of Friendship is Magic) will not be working on the second season. You can read about it on her Deviant Art page: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/ (http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/)

I really hope the second season will be good :P I was really starting to like this show.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 07, 2011, 09:14:07 pm
Did you guys hear? Lauren Faust (the creator of Friendship is Magic) will not be working on the second season. You can read about it on her Deviant Art page: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/ (http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/)

I really hope the second season will be good :P I was really starting to like this show.

Yeah. I was a little disappointed to hear it at first. But I think by this point, the characters are pretty well developed now, so as long as the group keeps everybody in character it should be fine. Especially since she has the same awesome team working on it as before. I'm sure she got input for jokes and plot points and such from other members of the team for season 1.

In my opinion, the show really does need at least a couple more good seasons. It seems to me like the MLP:FiM fandom is in a fragile spot right now, still riding on the high of the show being pretty new. But I fear that if it dies off after the next season, it may well just fade away into another internet meme-gone-by.

I'll still have fond memories of the 6 little ponies (and many of the secondaries, too), and will keep the episodes on my computer to watch now and again whenever I feel like it. But I'd probably only participate in the community as much as it overlaps with furry, and not much more. And I'm sure there's a fair portion of bronies out there that would end up doing pretty much the same.

~~~

Wow, I feel like such a downer right now... I've had a bit of a crappy day. Think I'll go watch Bridle Gossip to lift my spirits.
~~~
Spirits only partially lifted... I think I'll just go to bed...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 07, 2011, 10:14:31 pm
Aw, Ziel, I didn't mean to getcha down. *hugs!*

What you need is a Pinkie Pie-style song...

Ziel, why are you down?
Please don't frown!
Look around,
All your friends are in town!

[to be sung at 1,000 bpm]
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 07, 2011, 10:26:08 pm
Don't go to bed,
The day's not dead!
Lift up those hooves
And get in da groove!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 07, 2011, 11:19:20 pm
Alright, someone obviously needs to start a Brony band.

Twilight and the Sparkles
Angel Bunny's Hoppin' Swing Band
The Mares in the Moon
The Buckin' Broncos
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 07, 2011, 11:22:38 pm
The Cutie Mark Crusaders already have a band.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 08, 2011, 02:49:15 am
Did you guys hear? Lauren Faust (the creator of Friendship is Magic) will not be working on the second season. You can read about it on her Deviant Art page: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/ (http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/)

I really hope the second season will be good :P I was really starting to like this show.
Don't worry, the creators have been keeping a close eye on the brony movement and they see that we're the largest section of viewers of the show. I'm sure they realise that if they mess it up they're going to have a massive brony stampede on their hooves.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 08, 2011, 04:15:10 am
Did you guys hear? Lauren Faust (the creator of Friendship is Magic) will not be working on the second season. You can read about it on her Deviant Art page: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/ (http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/)

I really hope the second season will be good :P I was really starting to like this show.
Don't worry, the creators have been keeping a close eye on the brony movement and they see that we're the largest section of viewers of the show. I'm sure they realize that if they mess it up they're going to have a massive brony stampede on their hooves.

They may realize we're their largest viewer segment, but that won't guarantee a good show. Executives have a long, sad history of making terrible decisions based on "target audiences." Suppose the folks in charge start telling the animators, "You need to make it hipper! Make more pop culture references! Make the humor darker to appeal to the adult fans!"

It could all go horribly wrong if they stop considering it a show and start thinking of it as a money-making machine.

*edit: just realized I said "audience" when I meant "animators"
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 08, 2011, 06:46:52 am
Aw, Ziel, I didn't mean to getcha down. *hugs!*

What you need is a Pinkie Pie-style song...

Ziel, why are you down?
Please don't frown!
Look around,
All your friends are in town!

[to be sung at 1,000 bpm]

*hugs* Don't worry, definitely wasn't you or my post that got me down. Yesterday was just... blah all around.
And now I must go off to work.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 08, 2011, 09:16:52 am
I'd like to see Trixie return at the very least as a background pony. I've really been getting into the Trixie love.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 08, 2011, 09:52:18 am
I'd like most of all for Applejack to get her own song. Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie (especially Pinkie Pie) have all gotten their own songs. Neither Applejack nor Rainbow Dash have their own songs.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 08, 2011, 04:08:54 pm
I want this... I can't say how much I want this... Confound these ponies, they're entering my wardrobe now...

http://www.spreadshirt.com/rainbow-dash-C3376A7856512
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 08, 2011, 04:47:01 pm
That's probably the first shirt I've seen that I'd be willing to wear in public. Then again, I haven't really looked at pony apparel.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on August 08, 2011, 05:27:14 pm
I'd like most of all for Applejack to get her own song. Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie (especially Pinkie Pie) have all gotten their own songs. Neither Applejack nor Rainbow Dash have their own songs.

Yes, that would be good.  I like the songs.  And I can definitely picture Applejack and Rainbow Dash doing good ones.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 08, 2011, 06:21:11 pm
I want this... I can't say how much I want this... Confound these ponies, they're entering my wardrobe now...

http://www.spreadshirt.com/rainbow-dash-C3376A7856512

They do have it on a more RD-appropriate sky blue color, too. But it just looks so good on the black...
The ear outline needs to be in the same blue as the mane outline, though. But keep the white eyes. I think if that change was made, the pattern would look just as good on the sky blue as the black.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 09, 2011, 10:02:55 am
I want this... I can't say how much I want this... Confound these ponies, they're entering my wardrobe now...

http://www.spreadshirt.com/rainbow-dash-C3376A7856512

I must find an Applejack version of this. To the internet!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 09, 2011, 04:38:49 pm
I must find an Applejack version of this. To the internet!

Your best bet is to see if you can contact the shirt designer, main store here: http://bronies.spreadshirt.com/
Ask if you can request something similar for AJ.

Pony shirts are very hit-or-miss. And most of the good designs are fan-made like these. You'd just need to find somebody willing to put the design together.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 09, 2011, 08:28:37 pm
I must find an Applejack version of this. To the internet!

Your best bet is to see if you can contact the shirt designer, main store here: http://bronies.spreadshirt.com/
Ask if you can request something similar for AJ.

Pony shirts are very hit-or-miss. And most of the good designs are fan-made like these. You'd just need to find somebody willing to put the design together.

I agree, the really good and/or clever designs are pretty far between.  I want to mention just one more time this Spreadshirt website (http://ocularproof.spreadshirt.com/shop/designs), from which I purchased two shirts.  I was pretty impressed with the approach the designer took by referencing peripheral aspects of the show, such as the "weather service" design.

But considering the glut of copy-cat designs of the ponies and cutie marks, etc, do you think the fan-merch market will sustain itself or will the bubble pop?  Even the good designers can get lost in the sea of generic pony shirts, and if people can't find your stuff then they can't buy it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 09, 2011, 08:34:26 pm
I think it will pop, leaving mostly good designers still in business. With the wealth of people looking and how fast word spreads, it's not likely many good designers will get lost in the shuffle.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 09, 2011, 09:06:59 pm
I think it will pop, leaving mostly good designers still in business. With the wealth of people looking and how fast word spreads, it's not likely many good designers will get lost in the shuffle.

I agree with this. The best of the best designs are likely to stick around because they'll be what people actually want. Proof from our admittedly small sampling here shows that there's some pretty specific things that many ponies want/don't want. I love the RD shirt Kalo posted earlier, though unsure if I'd wear it (probably would). It is starting to nag on my and tug at my wallet though... If that particular designer can broaden his/her selection with shirts of the same amount of awesome, they'll probably stick around.

And I like the different approach that the designer Landrav posted took. But some of them could use to be about 20% cooler.

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 09, 2011, 09:47:05 pm
Did you guys hear? Lauren Faust (the creator of Friendship is Magic) will not be working on the second season. You can read about it on her Deviant Art page: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/ (http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/40428056/)

I really hope the second season will be good :P I was really starting to like this show.

Yeah. I was a little disappointed to hear it at first. But I think by this point, the characters are pretty well developed now, so as long as the group keeps everybody in character it should be fine. Especially since she has the same awesome team working on it as before. I'm sure she got input for jokes and plot points and such from other members of the team for season 1.

For all those reasons and more, I'm really optimistic about the next season. From my understanding, Lauren Faust was the one who made all the final decisions about where Season 1 should go, but many parts of the production were autonomous and didn't revolve around her. At this page (http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Episodes), you can see who authored each episode in Season 1; Lauren actually only wrote the pilot, and many of the best episodes were written by the other members of her team. And don't forget, she's still involved as a consulting producer.

And Hasbro itself seems to have a pretty good understanding of the brony community. They've been weirdly enlightened about the fact that their whole show has been uploaded to Youtube... it's a total copyright violation, and they could shut down all the people who upload episodes and create fan videos, but they let the fan-uploaded content stay in place because they understand how important it is to the fanbase. They monitor sites like Equestria Daily and ponychan, and they stay on top of the fan community to the point that they refer to the random background ponies by the names bronies have created for them. They even created an extended promo commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPqjKk_xCo) just for the brony community! In short, they seem super-connected to the fanbase and unlikely to misjudge the reasons we find the show so awesome.

Oh, by the way, do you know who the new producer is? Jayson Thiessen. He was the one who first discovered that the bronies were freaking out over Derpy Hooves's googly eyes, and he was so amused that he asked his staff to go back and give her derpy eyes in every unreleased episode. Yeah, I think the show's in pretty good hands. ;)

Too bad I won't get the chance to see Season 2 as it happens. :( Guys, when I get back in 8 months, I am going to marathon this season so hard. NO SPOILERS.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 09, 2011, 09:49:25 pm
And I like the different approach that the designer Landrav posted took. But some of them could use to be about 20% cooler.

What a coincidence! There's another online store that uses some of the same shirt ideas, but makes them, IMO, about 20% cooler. ;)

http://elementsofbronyhood.spreadshirt.com/
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 09, 2011, 10:18:37 pm
For all those reasons and more, I'm really optimistic about the next season. From my understanding, Lauren Faust was the one who made all the final decisions about where Season 1 should go, but many parts of the production were autonomous and didn't revolve around her. At this page (http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Episodes), you can see who authored each episode in Season 1; Lauren actually only wrote the pilot, and many of the best episodes were written by the other members of her team. And don't forget, she's still involved as a consulting producer.

And Hasbro itself seems to have a pretty good understanding of the brony community. They've been weirdly enlightened about the fact that their whole show has been uploaded to Youtube... it's a total copyright violation, and they could shut down all the people who upload episodes and create fan videos, but they let the fan-uploaded content stay in place because they understand how important it is to the fanbase. They monitor sites like Equestria Daily and ponychan, and they stay on top of the fan community to the point that they refer to the random background ponies by the names bronies have created for them. They even created an extended promo commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPqjKk_xCo) just for the brony community! In short, they seem super-connected to the fanbase and unlikely to misjudge the reasons we find the show so awesome.

Oh, by the way, do you know who the new producer is? Jayson Thiessen. He was the one who first discovered that the bronies were freaking out over Derpy Hooves's googly eyes, and he was so amused that he asked his staff to go back and give her derpy eyes in every unreleased episode. Yeah, I think the show's in pretty good hands. ;)

Too bad I won't get the chance to see Season 2 as it happens. :( Guys, when I get back in 8 months, I am going to marathon this season so hard. NO SPOILERS.

I heard that there actually were a couple of users on youtube who were putting up all the S1 episodes, but Hasbro ended up taking most of them down, except for whatever is left on there now (namely those uploaded by MenloMarseilles). I almost wonder if, after seeing the popularity of the fan-uploaded episodes, they actually had somebody put them up and removed most of the other ones. I only wonder this because the quality is actually decent, and they post the full 22-minute episodes, where most users with standard accounts are held to the 10-minute limit.  Just a thought there...

And yeah... you'll just have to make a point to avoid all pony threads until you've finished your S2 marathon. Because you know we'll be discussing the episodes as they show up. I'm actually worried that I'll catch spoilers while waiting for the episodes to simply make it to youtube after being aired...

I was thinking about my hopes for S2 today at work. Obviously I want to see it keep along a very similar path as it's on now. I wouldn't mind a few fairly discreet jokes and such put in as nods to the bronies (like the changes to Derpy's eyes).  And maybe, just maybe, an episode where Derpy gets a little extra screen time. But I don't think she should say anything, or at least anything other than 'muffins'. We'll just have to wait and see what they give us!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 09, 2011, 11:11:04 pm
From what I heard reported, it never was Hasbro that yanked the vids on youtube. It was people from 4 chan or something posing as Hasbro to get them removed. And they eventually got back up. Perhaps the reason there are not many users with the full episodes up is most people realize one or two are enough and no need to flood youtube with a ton of low quality rips?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 09, 2011, 11:16:06 pm
And I like the different approach that the designer Landrav posted took. But some of them could use to be about 20% cooler.

What a coincidence! There's another online store that uses some of the same shirt ideas, but makes them, IMO, about 20% cooler. ;)

http://elementsofbronyhood.spreadshirt.com/

Bookmarked!   8)

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 09, 2011, 11:30:10 pm
And I like the different approach that the designer Landrav posted took. But some of them could use to be about 20% cooler.

What a coincidence! There's another online store that uses some of the same shirt ideas, but makes them, IMO, about 20% cooler. ;)

http://elementsofbronyhood.spreadshirt.com/

Bookmarked!   8)



Ditto
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 10, 2011, 02:05:19 am
I made this earlier. Hope people like it.


(Temporarily gone while I change a bunch of these :D)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 10, 2011, 05:10:29 pm
Re: Hasbro + Youtube:

As I understand it, what Hasbro really really wants is for people to buy the merchandising, as that's Hasbro's -thing-. So the more exposure the TV show gets, theoretically the more stuff people buy, so leaving it up on Youtube is an okay business decision. (Though Youtube doesn't get Hasbro any advertising dollars.) I wouldn't be suprised if all the t-shirt and fan-made stuff (like people selling Ditsy Doo models on eBay) gets pulled down, though.

Re: My hope for season two:

More Luna! More backstory! More musical parody! 
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 10, 2011, 10:43:16 pm
So, I checked Equestria Daily not long ago...

Apparently Daniel Ingram posted on his facebook page that if he reached 3500 likes, he would post a previously unreleased song from season 1. I think he was somewhere right around 3000 when he posted that.

He's now closing in on 4400 likes, and fast. And his wall has been flooded with comments. I feel kinda bad for him actually.

But darn it, I hope he does pony up to his promise.

EDIT: In the time it took me to type that up, it has now passed 4400. I've refreshed the page a number of times now just to watch the number go up. I think it's jumped by at least a handful of likes every time I refresh.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 10, 2011, 11:19:20 pm
I liked him! One of those likes is me! :D (P.S. - nearly up to 4800, like a half-hour after Ziel posted that)

Re: My hope for season two:

More Luna! More backstory! More musical parody! 

Agreed, agreed, agreed! I was thinking the other day, though... while it would be nice to have Season 2 fill in some of the holes and tie up some of the loose ends in the Equestria universe, it might be even better if it just focused on creating new content and didn't reference Season 1 too much. I don't know if I'd want to see, say, Gilda or Trixie come back, even though fanfic writers have shown that there's still a whole lot to explore with those two characters. (For real, there are some awesome fanfics about those two.)

Maybe Luna is one of those characters it's better to leave alone as well. Not sure.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 10, 2011, 11:36:35 pm
Sorry to burst your bubble, but The Brony Show reported a while back that Luna is confirmed to make at least an appearance in season 2. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 11, 2011, 04:25:01 am
So, I checked Equestria Daily not long ago...

Apparently Daniel Ingram posted on his facebook page that if he reached 3500 likes, he would post a previously unreleased song from season 1. I think he was somewhere right around 3000 when he posted that.

He's now closing in on 4400 likes, and fast. And his wall has been flooded with comments. I feel kinda bad for him actually.

But darn it, I hope he does pony up to his promise.

EDIT: In the time it took me to type that up, it has now passed 4400. I've refreshed the page a number of times now just to watch the number go up. I think it's jumped by at least a handful of likes every time I refresh.

The song is up but all it is a demo of "Hop Skip and Jump". It's slower and interesting but not what many Bronies were expecting.
Now, lets see how long it takes for this song to be remixed.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 11, 2011, 06:43:26 am
The song is up but all it is a demo of "Hop Skip and Jump". It's slower and interesting but not what many Bronies were expecting.
Now, lets see how long it takes for this song to be remixed.

Good enough for me. I was pretty much expecting something along this line. And let's be honest, that song was cut extremely short in the show. I happily added it to my pony music folder.

I've been debating in my mind over the CMC and my hopes for the next season. One thing that really bothered me at first about S1 is that they still don't have their cutie marks. On one hand, I feel like the CMC can't really exist if they get their cutie marks, which would be a loss of a rather entertaining story line. On the other hand, I feel like they could quickly run out of good material for them, and I would like to see them earn their cutie marks still, so that we can get some more non-cutie-mark centered stories about them.

Maybe over the course of the season, they can have three episodes spread out which each focus on one of the CMC finding their talent?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 11, 2011, 09:09:27 am

I've been debating in my mind over the CMC and my hopes for the next season. One thing that really bothered me at first about S1 is that they still don't have their cutie marks. On one hand, I feel like the CMC can't really exist if they get their cutie marks, which would be a loss of a rather entertaining story line. On the other hand, I feel like they could quickly run out of good material for them, and I would like to see them earn their cutie marks still, so that we can get some more non-cutie-mark centered stories about them.

Maybe over the course of the season, they can have three episodes spread out which each focus on one of the CMC finding their talent?

I agree that they could run out of material for them pretty fast, but after they get their cutie marks, what happens? Do they simply never show up again? I think the writers could have an episode about cutie marks not necessarily representing your vocation per se.  Maybe one of the CMC's gets a mark, and the others start excluding her... but I don't know how in-character that would be.  Anyway, my point is that there is plenty of material to explore if the writers were to step away from the very narrow theme of finding a cutie mark.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 11, 2011, 11:28:11 am
There's actually a fan fic that isn't too bad about just that. One of the CMC gets her mark and the troubles that follow. I'm on my phone right now so i can't post a link but it's on EQD, could somepony help me out by finding and posting a link to it please?

EDIT: Here's the link to the fan fic's page on EQD. http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/story-endless-gifts.html
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 11, 2011, 01:03:45 pm
With as much as they showed how the CMC's have talents in some areas, it's a wonder they were able to go this long without earning one. From a writing material standpoint that is. Like when Sweety Bell started singing a part for Scootaloo to write into their song in Show Stoppers. I was almost doing a *headdesk* that she wasn't figuring out that's her special talent and kept insisting on doing the costumes. Granted, the writers I'm sure have their reasons for writing it that way, but that was almost just too close to them figuring things out to not actually do so.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 11, 2011, 05:17:20 pm
With as much as they showed how the CMC's have talents in some areas, it's a wonder they were able to go this long without earning one. From a writing material standpoint that is. Like when Sweety Bell started singing a part for Scootaloo to write into their song in Show Stoppers. I was almost doing a *headdesk* that she wasn't figuring out that's her special talent and kept insisting on doing the costumes. Granted, the writers I'm sure have their reasons for writing it that way, but that was almost just too close to them figuring things out to not actually do so.

I was a bit frustrated with that, too. I was really hoping they would have that all settled before the end of the first season, particularly because some of the whole 'searching' thing was getting a little old. Granted, it kinda culminated in the epic CMC song, so it was all worth it.

I'd either like to see the cutie marks get resolved early in the season, or some episodes with the CMC that don't focus solely on getting their cutie marks.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 11, 2011, 06:19:07 pm
I can't watch this anymore. Ponies is the Devil's show!

(http://sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2011-08-11.gif)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 11, 2011, 06:35:03 pm
I can't watch this anymore. Ponies is the Devil's show!

(http://sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2011-08-11.gif)
It doesn't make ponies evil, it puts the devil on the path of reform by learning to live by love and tolorance. MLP is capable of saving even the lord of darkness from himself! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 12, 2011, 02:26:02 am
Free inside, Rarity trading cards! :D
I'd eat it.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gBn4a9yW8JE/TkRqeKSIwII/AAAAAAAAKQE/dDd1Jc0MhCQ/s1600/motherlode_cereal_by_tim_kangaroo-d461l61.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 12, 2011, 04:07:44 am
I would eat it twice!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 13, 2011, 08:28:27 am
Rock candy? Wouldn't that break your teeth if you were chomping away and bit down wrong?  I'd have thought marshmallows would be more appropriate for a Rarity cereal anyway... ;)

Hmm, now that I think about it, are there FiM trading cards yet? I can see a quick buck for Hasbro if they get on this.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on August 13, 2011, 08:35:24 am
Quote
Hmm, now that I think about it, are there FiM trading cards yet? I can see a quick buck for Hasbro if they get on this.

Or what about a MLP Collectible Card Game (CCG) ?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 13, 2011, 10:53:06 am
I'd rather have just plain cards. Or if they must make a game it should be with mini figurines. Or even better, figurines you can paint! Imagine how much a rare Rainbow Dash, unpainted, in the middle of doing a sonic rainboom, with like the burst of the rainbow just behind the in-flight Dash, would be worth on an open market?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 13, 2011, 11:22:09 am
I'd rather have just plain cards. Or if they must make a game it should be with mini figurines. Or even better, figurines you can paint! Imagine how much a rare Rainbow Dash, unpainted, in the middle of doing a sonic rainboom, with like the burst of the rainbow just behind the in-flight Dash, would be worth on an open market?
That would be awesome, but I think Hasbro would never go there.  Not only would it be outside the target audience, but it would technically compete with the figurines they already produce. Not to mention, the majority of game-figure type stuff is done in their Wizards division, and they seem to screw up everything but D&D and Magic anyway (those, too, depending on who you ask).

Ahem.  Anyway, I'm not much of a pure collector, so if I were to buy cards I'd probably want them to be a game.  I have no idea what that game would look like, but I imagine it would borrow elements from some of the more successful CCGs out there.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 13, 2011, 11:27:07 am
I'd rather have just plain cards. Or if they must make a game it should be with mini figurines. Or even better, figurines you can paint! Imagine how much a rare Rainbow Dash, unpainted, in the middle of doing a sonic rainboom, with like the burst of the rainbow just behind the in-flight Dash, would be worth on an open market?
That would be awesome, but I think Hasbro would never go there.  Not only would it be outside the target audience, but it would technically compete with the figurines they already produce. Not to mention, the majority of game-figure type stuff is done in their Wizards division, and they seem to screw up everything but D&D and Magic** anyway (those, too, depending on who you ask).

Ahem.  Anyway, I'm not much of a pure collector, so if I were to buy cards I'd probably want them to be a game.  I have no idea what that game would look like, but I imagine it would borrow elements from some of the more successful CCGs out there.

**And Pokemon!

As for as a Pony card game goes, I'm actually making some cards for a Magic format called EDH. You choose a legendary creature and make a 100 card deck based around it. These are a couple of what I have so far ;).

(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/PinkamenaPie.jpg)

(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/Applejack-1.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 13, 2011, 03:38:26 pm
(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/PinkamenaPie.jpg)
Alternate quote for anthology fans: "SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!"
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 13, 2011, 09:10:45 pm
I've never been into the whole trading cards and collectible card games thing. But I love playing cards (you know, the ones that use the traditional 52 card deck or the 48 card Pinochle deck). So I'd toy with the idea of getting MLP-themed playing cards. Perhaps have a different pony for each of the face cards, including some of the secondary and background ponies.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on August 13, 2011, 09:21:12 pm
I've never been into the whole trading cards and collectible card games thing. But I love playing cards (you know, the ones that use the traditional 52 card deck or the 48 card Pinochle deck). So I'd toy with the idea of getting MLP-themed playing cards. Perhaps have a different pony for each of the face cards, including some of the secondary and background ponies.

Are there enough ponies to do a unique, fleshed out pony character for each of 54 (including jokers) cards?  The show doesn't have a lot of "filler" ponies, but I think there might be a few in "Art of the Dress" and the flying competition episode, among others; some of those ponies might have to be used...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 13, 2011, 09:38:30 pm
You got the mane 6, Princess Luna, Celestia, Spike, Dr. Whooves, Derpy, Gilda, TGaP Trixie, Zecora, The CMC (thats 3), Dinky Doo, Bon Bon, Lyra, Octavia, Soarin, Spitfire, that other wonderbolt, Big Macintosh, granny smith, Braeburn, Little Strongheart, DJ-Pon3, Carrot Top, those two twins who work in the spa.... hmmm.... i know there's more...

Somepony lend me a helping hoof please?




EDIT: Found this early this morning. This is what I was trying to describe earlier in the figure I said I'd love to see.

(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5428/43479artistesukacloudsr.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 13, 2011, 09:45:01 pm
Are there enough ponies to do a unique, fleshed out pony character for each of 54 (including jokers) cards?  The show doesn't have a lot of "filler" ponies, but I think there might be a few in "Art of the Dress" and the flying competition episode, among others; some of those ponies might have to be used...

Perhaps. However, I tend to prefer the non-face cards to remain blank.

Ooh. Idea! Cutie marks as the suits! Sell like, an awkward pack with 6 suits, one for each of the mane 6.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 14, 2011, 02:12:28 am
EDIT: Found this early this morning. This is what I was trying to describe earlier in the figure I said I'd love to see.

(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5428/43479artistesukacloudsr.png)

Hey, that's been my background for the past few days! <3
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 14, 2011, 01:22:42 pm
Quote
Hmm, now that I think about it, are there FiM trading cards yet? I can see a quick buck for Hasbro if they get on this.

Or what about a MLP Collectible Card Game (CCG) ?
EQD has brought to everyponies attention the creation of a fan made tabletop RPG based around the show.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-game.html
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: furtopia02 on August 15, 2011, 06:01:21 am
Okay... gave it a chance... watched the first two episodes.




Yeah, yeah.. it's official - I like it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 15, 2011, 08:31:33 am
Yeah, yeah.. it's official - I like it.
Welcome to the Brony herd.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 15, 2011, 09:16:18 am
Welcome to the herd Brent. *Brohoof*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 15, 2011, 09:39:50 am
Alright my new favorite episode is "A Bird in the Hoof." Seriously did not see that coming until the last minute. The whole episode my jaw was hanging open and I was thinking, "This is way too funny/sick to be a kid's show. This is like something I would write."
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 15, 2011, 11:26:28 am
Welcome to the bright, candy colored dark side, brent. :D

Alright my new favorite episode is "A Bird in the Hoof." Seriously did not see that coming until the last minute. The whole episode my jaw was hanging open and I was thinking, "This is way too funny/sick to be a kid's show. This is like something I would write."
I was kinda thinking that as well during that episode. I knew there had to be some trick to that bird before the end of it. And when he changed, I was like "Oh yeah! DUH!"
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 15, 2011, 12:24:23 pm
I am up to episode 17. Gotta love those cutesy ponies. :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 15, 2011, 03:40:57 pm
Nice to hear that you too are jumping on our Brony Wagon, Old Rabbit.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 15, 2011, 04:56:30 pm
Yes I fear the pony cuteness has pulled me in too.  :D

I started watching while doing Kalo's new avatar. :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 15, 2011, 06:21:35 pm
Yes I fear the pony cuteness has pulled me in too.  :D

I started watching while doing Kalo's new avatar. :orbunny:
Hee hee. You're welcome friend. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: HockeyRaven on August 16, 2011, 12:00:39 am
First post in the official Pony thread.

Did anyone else see the parasprites and think "flying tribbles!"?

I now have a Twilight Sparkle figurine sitting on my TV.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 16, 2011, 01:20:21 am
Yes! Yet more bronies! Welcome, guys! :D

This is both funny and gratifying. Funny because at this rate, we will probably have sucked every single active Furtopian into our orbit by the time Season 2 starts. Gratifying because every new devotee helps to confirm that I'M NOT CRAZY. This little girls' cartoon really IS the best thing ever. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 16, 2011, 01:25:46 am
I have a 5 figurine MLP set ordered.   :-[

The Princess, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack, and Spike. :orbunny:

"No more I say.   (:   "

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Acton on August 16, 2011, 03:32:13 am
The ponies are taking over the fury fandom.
I have to admit I a bit jealous and fascinated by the brony phenomenon. Too bad I do not think Sanrio could pull off the same thing, even through I feel Sanrio already in the adult women's market would be better equipped to handle a similar men's market if bronies become kittylers.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 16, 2011, 08:38:43 am
First post in the official Pony thread.

Did anyone else see the parasprites and think "flying tribbles!"?

I now have a Twilight Sparkle figurine sitting on my TV.

Yeah, tribbles were the first thing I thought when I realized they multiplied!

Which figurine do you have? 

I'm trying to find some that are show-accurate, more like a full-plastic sculpt, but none seem to be in my area. (Does anyone know if such figurines even exist?)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 16, 2011, 09:27:29 am
There is a toyset you can find at Walmart, Target and Toys-R-Us that has 4 of the 6 ponies that are show accurate. I was very tempted to buy it once, but it also has Celestia in it and she was just wrong. For some reason in every MLP toy package with Princess Celestia in it, they make her pink. I didn't want a large pink pony on my shelf so I decided not to buy it, but if you want 4 of the 6 mane cast, you can still get it just disregard the 'Pinkestia' in it.

Episode 10 with the Parasprites was the first episode I ever watched. Yes, it took me, the Uberhoof, 9 weeks to catch wind of the Brony phenomenon and finally check it out. Although I wasn't personally thinking Tribbles, I was thinking Gremlins when I was watching it. However, when I watched Ponies: The Anthology and they had the ball of rolling Parasprites scene on it with the music from Katamari Damashii playing, I laughed very loud and thought it was perfect.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 16, 2011, 10:11:22 am
EQD showed thaat k-mart has pony scene puzzles with a figurine. I want.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 16, 2011, 10:24:07 am
Not only did they screw up Celestia in the stores, but I've heard that none of the "official" MLP: FiM pony sets with A.J. include her hat. You'd think that the people that own the franchise would make stuff show accurate. Or would this be the fault of the show creators not making those ponies franchise accurate? I guess that could be debatable. After all, the merch is selling because of the show, but Hasbro owns the ponies and should dictate what is correct.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 16, 2011, 11:24:54 am
The topic of the Pink Celestia came up during one of the Bronyshow episodes I think. From what their special guest of the day was saying the folks at Hasbro toys were the ones that decided to make things different. From their reasoning, two things were done; First, Celestia would be a Princess and not a Queen because little girls want to grow up and be a princess. Since that was their target audience (Prior to the Brony movement) they were trying to captialize on that market. Also, they thought Celestia was more alluring to young girls as a pink pony instead of the white. The show was already airing with Celestia as a White Alicorn but someone veto'd that idea when it came to make the merchandise not knowing that the largest consumer group was not going to be 8-10 year old girls but 20-35 year old guys instead. Bronies are calling for show accurate stuff for collecting whereas girls just want something shiney and pretty to play with.

Perhaps with a successful season two, more Brony targeted toys will be released such as pony dolls accurate to the show with correct coloring and accessories (i.e. Hats and glasses). I personally would like to collect a Rarity doll with her wearing the seamstress glasses as she had on in episode 14, Suited for Success. The looked very intelligent and pretty with them, in my opinion.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: HockeyRaven on August 16, 2011, 01:05:01 pm
First post in the official Pony thread.

Did anyone else see the parasprites and think "flying tribbles!"?

I now have a Twilight Sparkle figurine sitting on my TV.

Yeah, tribbles were the first thing I thought when I realized they multiplied!

Which figurine do you have? 

I'm trying to find some that are show-accurate, more like a full-plastic sculpt, but none seem to be in my area. (Does anyone know if such figurines even exist?)

Right now I only have a small Twilight Sparkle with comb-able mane and tail with an owl and owl-saddle. Debating whether I need more. Considering Pinkie Pie because she's so adorably random and/or Fluttershy.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 16, 2011, 03:17:19 pm
Not that long ago, I decided to change my favorite pony of the mane 6. Previously I declared that Rainbow Dash was the best pony, however, after months of being in the Brony Movement, my mind has changed. I am now in the Rarity camp. She is just so adorable and willing to bend over backwards for her friends. Suited for Success has evolved into my number 2 favorite episode with Winter Wrap Up still holding on strong to #1.

She also seems to be the oldest of the ponies, which suits me just fine. Just means she is more refined and learned.

I think I may have found a great Brony Conversion sequence for people to try out the series to see if they like it or not. Have them watch Episodes 1, 2, 11 and 14. The first two is so they are introduced properly to the mane 6, Episode 11 because Winter Wrap Up is just awesome and 14 because Suited for Success has a great story to it. If the mundane does not declare themselves a Brony by the end of that sequence, then they are unconvertible.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 16, 2011, 04:42:28 pm
Not only did they screw up Celestia in the stores, but I've heard that none of the "official" MLP: FiM pony sets with A.J. include her hat.
At Target I've seen lots of A.J.'s with hats but they mess up the color. I've yet to see an official A.J. with a brown hat.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 16, 2011, 05:05:05 pm
I think I may have found a great Brony Conversion sequence for people to try out the series to see if they like it or not. Have them watch Episodes 1, 2, 11 and 14. The first two is so they are introduced properly to the mane 6, Episode 11 because Winter Wrap Up is just awesome and 14 because Suited for Success has a great story to it. If the mundane does not declare themselves a Brony by the end of that sequence, then they are unconvertible.
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To be honest, that would have probably been the worst order to show me. It actually took me some time to warm up to Winter Wrap Up and Suited For Success.
*hides*

But really, as a kid, I always cringed a little when a musical number would show up in one of my TV shows. I think it's probably because even at that age I found most of them to be pretty cheesy (and let's face it: they are cheesy in many kids shows). So my initial reaction when those two episodes came around was a bit of a grudging 'Oh, come on...'

It wasn't until after I finished the series and re-watched those two episodes that I really started to appreciate the songs as being a big part of the episode itself. They actually tell some of the story, rather than just randomly going to a musical number for half the episode. Now, those are two of my favorite songs from the show.

I'm not saying that your series of episodes wouldn't work. Just that it wouldn't have been for me. In my case, the opening 4 episodes right in a row were enough to get me to stay around.
The first one leaves you at a cliff-hanger which necessitates watching the second. The second will (hopefully) be enough to get you intrigued enough by ponies to see what they do with the show next. The third introduces the promise of some future event happening, providing the start of a very loose thread that runs through the season. And the 4th, well, it just gets right into the awesome madness you have to look forward to.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 16, 2011, 06:54:34 pm
You guys realise that in the show, Celestia IS pink, right? A very pale shade thereof, but pink nevertheless. I can see it on my monitor, and it's getting on in years.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 16, 2011, 07:45:50 pm
Taking a close look, I can see she's not pure white. More like a very light pearlecent, if that. Certainly not Pinky Pie pink like the doll is.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sskessa on August 16, 2011, 08:35:54 pm
I'm calling her Queen Celestia in my mind.
Or maybe she's like Prince Charles? Maybe the old Queen is still kickin' around somewhere, refusing to hand over the crown.

Anyway I just finished The Best Night Ever and I'm totally squealing inside! Eeeeee I can't wait for season two!!! I cracked up so hard when Rarity dropped her glass slipper.

Pinkie Pie: Now your prince is sure to find you!
Rarity: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

And Spike in the donut shop. "Don't you think you've had enough?"

I have Adobe Illustrator now so I want to do some pony fanart.

?????I used to be a serious person what happened to me???
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Murkrow on August 16, 2011, 08:38:57 pm
id say that pure pink is easier to make than an off-white pearl-lish color. idk.

but i did just make a pony music video. more like a practice vid of Pinkie Pie & some stuff, but eh.

this show has poniefied my brain. D: while i was at the dentist, gettin my teeth drilled & de-cavitied, i thought of MLP. that took away the pain. o_o
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on August 16, 2011, 09:43:00 pm
Not sure if Kaloyan found this image or created it himself, but it's not gonna work.  >:(

Try as hard as you might, I am NOT going to be a MLP fan.  >:( *folds arms across chest and walks away*




(http://www.ponychan.net/chan/pic/src/131321169269.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 16, 2011, 09:50:16 pm
You know, Kobuk, for not being a brony, you sure are posting a lot in our threads. Just sayin'. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Acton on August 16, 2011, 09:55:16 pm
KItty White say I cannot watch.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 16, 2011, 10:23:14 pm
Looking at Celestia now (end of Ep2). She's maybe an extremely light shade of pink. But it's light enough that I'd call it white. I think it's the outline of her body being light pink that gives her that slightly pink-ish look. Though if you follow the coloring structure of all the ponies, you may logically assume that the 'white' is a nearly-white pink, because the outlines tend to be a darker shade of the body color itself. So light pink outline would imply very light pink body?

Still though, I'd call it white. I don't see enough pink in there, on either of my monitors (they aren't calibrated the same... need to fix that).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 16, 2011, 11:41:13 pm
No I didn't make that image, just found it. :)

No need to get bent out of shape Kobuk, I just thought you'd like it. :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 17, 2011, 04:30:25 am
I'm Proud to be a Brony.

http://blackgryph0n.deviantart.com/art/Proud-to-be-a-Brony-SONG-252972815

Download link has been added! Go Bronies! You MUST hear this! You MUST!
(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9826/1296875784496n129809671.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 17, 2011, 06:35:33 pm
Well it seems my 2 year old daughter may be getting into ponies. She sat with me and watched an episode a few weeks ago, but seemed to loose interest. I didn't think much of it until I get a text from my mate today that they were out shopping when our girl saw an MLP: FiM backpack and started shouting "PONY PONY PONY!" We let her get it and now I have a legit excuse to go through the girl aisle of toys to look at pony merch. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on August 17, 2011, 07:09:14 pm
I listened to this a moment ago, and I have a *few* criticisms on the song:


Aside from those things, though, I really enjoyed the song.  It seems rare for me to hear a independently developed, themed song such as this that doesn't sound like the theme was "forced" into the song, but this song flows really well.  (For an example of what I mean by that, listen to this (http://www.vvc.edu/ph/TonerS/mathpi.html).  Though it's a fun song, the second half of the chorus in particular is *extremely* forced, and though it fits with the theme, it doesn't fit as well with the song.)  Not only that, but the singer is pretty good as well.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 18, 2011, 12:55:51 am
Episode 23 :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 18, 2011, 09:23:55 am
Better find a nice comfie seat, you have "A Party of One" coming up shortly. It will blow your mind so you best be sitting for that one.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 18, 2011, 05:48:11 pm
Good luck to anybody who has been using Youtube to get their fill of Pony episodes...
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/youtube-copyright-confirmed-for-being.html
Menlomarseilles (most notorious poster of the videos) was forced to take all his Pony episodes down. You'll have to browse around through youtube and hope to catch them while they're still up.

You -can- get them from iTunes... but you'd have to buy them...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 18, 2011, 06:30:56 pm
Many people are reporting the itunes versions have a lot of coloration errors. I remember this happening to Master linx's account and turns out it was trolls. That's where my money is on currently.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on August 18, 2011, 06:36:22 pm
Also, see here (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/youtube-round-3.html).  It very well may be (once again) trolls posing as Hasbro reporting copyright violations to Youtube instead of Hasbro itself.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 18, 2011, 06:44:48 pm
I was sad when i heard they got took down cuz then no new bronies would be able to get their fix, but I have every episode saved on my hard drive already so it wasn't as big a deal for me.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 18, 2011, 06:59:09 pm
Pensivepony was the original MLP video poster. Her name is quite well known around Bronidom. You can find her YouTube channel HERE (http://www.youtube.com/user/pensivepony).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 18, 2011, 07:27:36 pm
Pensivepony was the original MLP video poster. Her name is quite well known around Bronidom. You can find her YouTube channel HERE (http://www.youtube.com/user/pensivepony).

She may have been one of the first, but sadly she's apparently subject to the 10-minute length limit on her videos, as many regular users are. Menlo had posted full-length episodes, which is so much easier to deal with.

I do hope (and am suspicious) that it's just a troll. Though it also sounds like it's not particularly easy to verify the identity of the person claiming to be from Hasbro.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 18, 2011, 07:29:53 pm
Pensive is able to post the full lengths now. Her account was upgraded or whatever from youtube a while back. I don't know if she'll ever go back and re-up the broken episodes as full length or not. The last two episodes are full length now on her account.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Storm Fox on August 18, 2011, 07:59:27 pm
Before everyone starts going into withdrawal,

The full first season is up on DailyMotion. (Link) (http://www.dailymotion.com/MyLittlePonyVideos#videoId=xjx63z) (: :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 19, 2011, 03:41:13 am
So I've finally gotten my sister to start watching. She's been resisting for such a long time but tonight i got her to watch the first two episodes.

We are the herd.
You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
:D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 19, 2011, 12:12:57 pm
I did manage to see all the episodes.. The clips are ok if
need be.   But hopefully it turns out to be a troll problem instead.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 20, 2011, 01:04:32 pm
The latest "Original Life" By Jay Naylor mentions ponies! :D
https://jaynaylor.com/originallife/

Given some of the art by him, I think Mr. Naylor is a brony. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 20, 2011, 06:02:25 pm
Ugh Naylor.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 20, 2011, 08:15:04 pm
The latest "Original Life" By Jay Naylor mentions ponies! :D
https://jaynaylor.com/originallife/

Given some of the art by him, I think Mr. Naylor is a brony. ;)
It was good, but one of my favorite comic brony teases was from Broken Plot Device. Unfortunately it has a bit of harsh language in that one strip so I can't link to it. Which stinks because it's actually a light hearted fun comic.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 20, 2011, 08:20:00 pm
The latest "Original Life" By Jay Naylor mentions ponies! :D
https://jaynaylor.com/originallife/

Given some of the art by him, I think Mr. Naylor is a brony. ;)
It was good, but one of my favorite comic brony teases was from Broken Plot Device. Unfortunately it has a bit of harsh language in that one strip so I can't link to it. Which stinks because it's actually a light hearted fun comic.
Just looked that up, that was hilarious! :D But yeah, harsh language everypony, so be warned if you go looking for it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 21, 2011, 12:30:08 am
Ugh Naylor.

Ugh Naylor.

Sorry Kalo, but seeing that strip made me more annoyed than please to see the shout out.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 21, 2011, 12:46:55 am
Ugh Naylor.

Ugh Naylor.

Sorry Kalo, but seeing that strip made me more annoyed than please to see the shout out.
Aw. :(

Well I can understand your feelings and all. Personally though I liked it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 21, 2011, 12:58:09 am
Don't worry, we can go love and tolerate the crap out of Naylor without them. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 21, 2011, 01:08:39 am
Don't worry, we can go love and tolerate the crap out of Naylor without them. :P
An I'll still love and tolerate those who don't like Naylor of course.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 21, 2011, 10:01:22 pm
Yay!

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/rumor-season-two-potentially-next-month.html
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 21, 2011, 11:30:28 pm
Yay!

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/rumor-season-two-potentially-next-month.html

How very Fluttershy of you :D

Can't wait for season 2 to come, whenever it does. Really want to know what they do with the show. We can only speculate so much!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 21, 2011, 11:34:10 pm
It will indeed be a good thing when Season two starts up. It will finally give me a break from watching Anthology almost daily.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Magna on August 22, 2011, 12:02:21 am
Eeeeeee!!!

General Zoi on DeviantArt finally finished his pony creator! Linky! (http://generalzoi.deviantart.com/art/Pony-Creator-Full-Version-254295904?q=favby%3ACavus-Sculvuvant&qo=0)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 22, 2011, 01:22:02 pm
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/blog-post_22.html#more

The above link will take you to EQDs countdown page to season 2!!!

Take note of Dashie's expression cuz thats how i reacted. :0
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 22, 2011, 04:29:31 pm
My pony OC made it to the banner over at Bronyville! I was doing a little surfing today, checking if Bronyville posted a new blog today (which they did) and was looking at all the ponies on the banner, then looked again and realized, yes, that is me on there. Its funny just how little things like that can totally make you feel so much better, instantly. I'm at the office right now, so I can't 'squeee' as I want to, but I darn near lost all decorum and did it anyway.

Take a lookie over Here (http://bronyshow.com/?p=393#more-393).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Choky on August 22, 2011, 05:15:53 pm
Yay! Congrats Liedt! Take a screen capture aswell in case they change it anytime soon and youll still have it to show.

Still havent seen the series by the way,Ive had the whole series for weeks but havent got around to watching any of them yet...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 22, 2011, 06:24:43 pm
Congratulations Liedt.

Still havent seen the series by the way,Ive had the whole series for weeks but havent got around to watching any of them yet...
Choky... I don't know what to say to this. You don't know what you're missing out on.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: HockeyRaven on August 22, 2011, 08:18:12 pm
Ok, fellow Bronies, I have a somewhat odd and rather in-depth request to make of y'all. All y'all.
I am undertaking a seriously crazy idea of Pony-fying (or Brony-fying) every single Kentucky Derby winner. That's 137 (I think, haven't counted lately) horses. I'm in the process of creating cutie marks. What I need from you is colors. Body color(s) and mane/tail color(s). I probably ought to start a new thread for this in the main Art section, but I thought the best way to get noticed by a majority of the Furtopian Bronies would be to post in this thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Derby
Follow that link and scroll down a bit to find the list of winners.
Now I don't expect every individual Brony to come up with colors for every horse on the list, but if you want to divide it up or fight over it or submit random horses, go ahead. I've got some idea of which ones are earth ponies or unicorn ponies or pegasus ponies (Fusaichi Pegasus is obviously a pegasus pony), but if you have strong feelings about that, go ahead and mention it.

If I get enough interest, I really will start a thread in the Art section to keep this updated.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Magna on August 22, 2011, 08:35:30 pm
Liedt: I saw that banner and wondered why that particular pony looked familiar. Now I know! Congradulations!

HockeyRaven: You looking for colors based on the jockey's outfit colors? Or just random colors? Either way, I'll try to help out some. I'll take horses years 2011 to 1992, if no one minds.  :goldgrin:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: HockeyRaven on August 22, 2011, 08:42:59 pm
HockeyRaven: You looking for colors based on the jockey's outfit colors? Or just random colors? Either way, I'll try to help out some. I'll take horses years 2011 to 1992, if no one minds.  :goldgrin:

I was thinking random, but it would be a good idea to consider the jockeys' silks.

And I can't wait to see what colors you pick for Animal Kingdom. I wasn't at the Derby, but I did see him win the Spiral Stakes in person.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 22, 2011, 09:22:21 pm
Ponymaker!

Itsa Me!  (http://imgur.com/mQMgM)

And my OC, Pennywhistle. Beat cop of Cloudysdale.
Her! (http://imgur.com/978go)

Done using that ponycreator linked in the previous page.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Magna on August 22, 2011, 09:27:30 pm
Kay, got my part of the list done! I messaged it to you on your FA account. Hope it helps!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 23, 2011, 12:03:34 am
I love the new Pony Creator! Here's me! :D

(http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3416/mypony.png)



Compar to Old Rabbits version.



(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9438/kalomlp.jpg)



I know the pose isn't 100% accurate recreation, I just liked playing with the poser. :D
I also tried uploading a cutie mark but didn't like having a white square on my flank. :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 23, 2011, 08:48:40 am
The finished pony creator is pretty cool!  I re-tooled my pony, who I am now calling Windy Heart:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13875233/OC-windy-heart.png)

Cutie mark could be better, but I just yoinked it from a google image search for 'windy' :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 23, 2011, 09:39:29 am
So, I think I am going to try writing a fanfic. Should I post it here or in one of the other subforums? Pony-themed, of course.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 23, 2011, 12:21:43 pm
Post it in a Story sub-topic phread is my recommendation. Posting it to here, is a bad idea since it'll get lost in a day or so. If it has it's own name under a sub-topic header, then people can find it quickly, read it, post comments regarding it etc without getting the actual post lost in the shuffle.  
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 23, 2011, 12:24:59 pm
So, I think I am going to try writing a fanfic. Should I post it here or in one of the other subforums? Pony-themed, of course.
I say put it in the artists section where the other stories are posted, but then make a post here with a link to the story so nopony misses it.

Looking forward to your story. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 23, 2011, 01:18:43 pm
Here's mine, minus a cutie mark because I don't think I could find or make what I'd like. I wouldn't even call him "mine", more just something I threw together in a few minutes. :P

(http://www.thefoxydj.com/mypony.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 23, 2011, 01:35:30 pm
Nice pony, he reminds me a lot of the Shadow-Bolts. The Pegasus Flying team from the Ever-free Forest.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__BgIrAtMG2g/TRKG4lgd9BI/AAAAAAAAAm8/Dr6AUDjzeKA/s1600/Shadowbolts.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 23, 2011, 02:59:56 pm
Spreading the word about Bronies for Good september Blood drive.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/bronies-for-good-presents-redhearts.html

they mention October but EQD says its likely a September event. In the caase it IS an October event I'd like to remind all my brony pals that October is the month of the Element of Loyalty. Show some loyalty to your community, fellow man, fellow bronies, and all in-between by participating if you can.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on August 23, 2011, 03:48:46 pm
The finished pony creator is pretty cool!  I re-tooled my pony, who I am now calling Windy Heart:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13875233/OC-windy-heart.png)

Cutie mark could be better, but I just yoinked it from a google image search for 'windy' :P

"Better" as in the thing on this guy's shirt?

(http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/03194.gif)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 23, 2011, 05:29:47 pm
I think my pony is still in my sig. Made him with the old pony creator, probably won't bother making a new one.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 23, 2011, 05:38:24 pm
The MLP facebook page said there is a 2 episode dvd for sale at Target now.  Didn't say which episodes they are, but I'm still holding out for the box set.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on August 23, 2011, 05:49:04 pm
So, I think I am going to try writing a fanfic. Should I post it here or in one of the other subforums? Pony-themed, of course.
I say put it in the artists section where the other stories are posted, but then make a post here with a link to the story so nopony misses it.

Looking forward to your story. :)

Seconded. ;) Furry Fiction forum, please.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 23, 2011, 07:45:34 pm
Quote from: Hasbro
It’s a Celebration at Canterlot, and you’re invited! Catch two episodes of “My Little Pony Friendship is Magic” on DVD, exclusively at Target stores. We’re dreaming of a not-so-faraway land filled with princess ponies and magical adventures – what would you and your little ones do if you had the chance to visit Canterlot?

Looks like Target is going to be making lots o cash in the next few days. Seems Hasbro is releasing the FiM series on DVD but only 2 episodes at a time. Probably going to charge something like $8 too I bet. Well, I'll buy the first one and if there is nothing on that besides the episodes, not sure I'm going to buy any others, or just wait for the full season to be released.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 23, 2011, 08:39:07 pm
So today is my birthday. My Mom told me that my present isn't here quite yet, but she handed me an envelope. This was the paper inside the envelope.

(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/Present.jpg)

I have the greatest parents ever.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Choky on August 23, 2011, 08:59:24 pm
Happy birthday Shim! (:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 23, 2011, 09:04:09 pm
Applejack for your birthday, cool.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 23, 2011, 09:09:04 pm
Cool on getting Applejack Shim.

The set of ponies I ordered got here today.

Here is a link to a photo I posted.

http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.msg806384#msg806384 (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.msg806384#msg806384)

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 23, 2011, 10:11:40 pm
Awesome Shim!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 23, 2011, 11:44:52 pm
Just in case some one missed it. Here is a mlp video that wasn't made from
clips.  :orbunny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaPEr1Mg2i0&NR=1&feature=fvwp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaPEr1Mg2i0&NR=1&feature=fvwp)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 24, 2011, 12:17:19 am
Are any of you guys into fanfic? (Aside from TCD, clearly. :))

I just wanted to share a couple of my favorites with anyone who's interested. In the beginning, I couldn't believe I was spending my time reading fanfic of all things, but all of these proved to be worth every minute.

Macintosh (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/story-macintosh.html) (novel-length, character development, everyday life)
Twilight Sky over Canterlot (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-twilight-sky-over-canterlot.html) (unusual perspective, excellent writing, best read late at night)
Simply Rarity (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-simply-rarity.html) (character development, v. sad)
It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/its-dangerous-business-going-out-your.html) (adventure, LOTR-esque, ridiculously long, ridiculously AWESOME)

I think all of these made me cry. But all for different reasons.

The more I get into it, the more the pony fandom reminds me of furry. It's an oddball group of very nice, very tolerant people who often startle me with their creativity.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 24, 2011, 02:00:44 am
I've been absolutely consumed with fanfic ever since I caved in and started reading some stories last weekend.  In fact, in order to have more pony intake, I finally got a Kindle so I could use the text-to-speech feature!  There have been a ton of single-shot stories I liked--so many that I can't keep track of them all.  However, A few series I've particularly enjoyed have been Antipodes, Past Sins, Recursion, and Progress.

I even bring the Kindle to work so I can listen when the job isn't too demanding mentally.  Protip: make sure not to listen to Derpy Hooves sadfic at work if you are prone to crying at sad stories  :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 24, 2011, 04:01:26 am
The more I get into it, the more the pony fandom reminds me of furry. It's an oddball group of very nice, very tolerant people who often startle me with their creativity.
Quoted for truth.

I myself am quite into the music. So I've been downloading all the pony related music i can my hooves on! :D

Even the stuff thats not originally pony stuff but has been used in pony videos is now on my mp3 player. (Except Power by Kanye West, though the more I watch the anthology the closeer i step to that line.)

Thank you for that video Old Rabbit, you just got me to grab another song for my collection. That was more awesome than words!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 24, 2011, 01:07:47 pm
Landrav how does Kindles speech sound compared to windows Narrator?  Due
to vision problems it would be easier to listen to stories than read them.

Narrator isn't real bad, but if Kindle is better and easier to use it might be
worth the investment.

Thanks for any advice on this. :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 24, 2011, 01:40:28 pm
I'm at Target now. Just got off work. The previously mentioned dvd has The Ticket Master and Suited for Success.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 24, 2011, 04:12:11 pm
Just gonna throw this (http://forum.canterlot.net/thread-4258.html) in here. It's an topic on a MLP forum regarding pony genetics, mainly focusing around punnet squares. Yeah, so maybe I wrote it, but it's still worth a look.

I'm at Target now. Just got off work. The previously mentioned dvd has The Ticket Master and Suited for Success.

Two of my favorite episodes right there. Is it only target that has this stuff? Last time I was at one I saw a life sized cutout of Princess Celestia.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 24, 2011, 04:25:21 pm
Target seems to be the main outlet for all things MLP. Toys R Us also had some things. I should know. I bought a Fluttershy figurine from there yesterday.  :-[
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 24, 2011, 05:48:43 pm
Yeah we got a massive Princess Celestia cutout. Were a more brave man and had the room in my home I'd ask the store manager if I can have it when its all said and done. :D

Also Sky, that is an epic thread. Reminds me of this image I saw showing the massively complicated math used to calculate how many G's Rainbow Dash pulled when she rescued Rarity and The Wonderbolts in "Sonic Rainboom"

It was something like 1670 G's. :o
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 24, 2011, 05:50:18 pm
Glad the video worked out Kalo. If I find something else a bit
different I wll post it. Ok on the dvd at Target. I usually look
around on amazon. They have a lot of pony stuff.

Gotta love toons. A character can break all those physical laws.. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 24, 2011, 07:07:52 pm
Landrav how does Kindles speech sound compared to windows Narrator?  Due
to vision problems it would be easier to listen to stories than read them.

Narrator isn't real bad, but if Kindle is better and easier to use it might be
worth the investment.

Thanks for any advice on this. :orbunny:


I have not had any experience with Narrator (since I can't seem to figure out how to make it work right), so I don't know if I can say Kindle is "better" or not.  But for me, the Kindle is great.  There are some drawbacks, however, since it's officially still an "experimental" feature.  You can't change the reading pace of the voice, and like any text-to-speech function it has a few quirky pronunciations.  For example, while it aced "coiffure", it cannot get many proper names (such as Fluttershy and Ponyville among the most irritating for me).  Heteronyms have only one pronunciation, though I can understand the difficulty in parsing words contextually.  Overall, it is a clear, understandable voice with a good pace.

If you simply cannot understand the voice, at least there is a font resize feature for most document formats (pdf files have to zoom and scroll), so you could stop the narration to read it for yourself.  The only major issue, I think, for vision problems might be the chicklet keyboard because the letters are printed so tiny.

What's that? No, I'm totally not getting off the thread topic!  Hey, what's that over there?

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13875233/131361382334.gif)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 24, 2011, 08:35:15 pm
It only took 15 pages of Brony goodness to finally start to get a little off topic too. That's better then any other phread in this entire site. Goes to show you that being a Brony is perhaps the best thing that could ever happen to anyone or to any site for that matter too.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 24, 2011, 08:40:01 pm
I should have pm'd you about it. Thanks for the info Landrav I can
see video screens large or small better than print on paper..

That's a cute MLP animation. by the way. "Hops after
the pony" :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Sky Striker on August 24, 2011, 10:13:14 pm
It only took 15 pages of Brony goodness to finally start to get a little off topic too. That's better then any other phread in this entire site. Goes to show you that being a Brony is perhaps the best thing that could ever happen to anyone or to any site for that matter too.

Well, the other MLP:FiM forum I go to gets off topic pretty darn quickly...

Still, it is impressive that we've gone this long, and it was hardly a derail to begin with.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 25, 2011, 12:12:59 am
I own a button maker. I don't know why I didn't think of this a million years ago!

(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/Ponybuttons.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: HockeyRaven on August 25, 2011, 12:19:31 am
Ok, this has probably been done before, but I'm asking it anyway. Which of the mane 6 are you most like personality-wise? Which are you least like?

I would have to say I'm most like Twilight Sparkle with the whole love of books and the nerdishness, but with a good deal of Pinkie Pie randomness thrown in. I am least like Rarity because I have no fashion sense nor any desire to have fashion sense. You could turn my whole wardrobe into lumberjack shirts (long and short sleeves) and jeans and I would be happy.

That being said, I have Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie figurines sitting on my TV right now.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 25, 2011, 12:31:47 am
Yeah we got a massive Princess Celestia cutout. Were a more brave man and had the room in my home I'd ask the store manager if I can have it when its all said and done. :D
Maybe you could store it long enough to sell it on Ebay? :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on August 25, 2011, 01:42:38 am
I own a button maker. I don't know why I didn't think of this a million years ago!

(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/Ponybuttons.jpg)

Those are great buttons.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 25, 2011, 07:34:47 am
I own a button maker. I don't know why I didn't think of this a million years ago!

(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/Ponybuttons.jpg)

Those are great buttons.

Thanks! Now I can be the biggest dork in my entire school!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 25, 2011, 08:30:59 am
Shim two things:

1) I would so like to have a set of those plus a few others (Derpy's Bubbles, Vinyl's Music note, Octavia's Treble Cleft). What is the chance of acquiring them?

2) Here is what you should do: every day wear one of them on your back pocket and switch them out routinely. If anyone asks, just say its your Cutie Mark and continue on with what you were doing.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 25, 2011, 09:13:47 am
Dang.... Why must Fluttershy's hair be so hard to style. Was planning to stick her up on the dash of my rig, but coming out of the box it looked more like it belonged on Pinkie Pie. :D I'm slowly working on it, but not sure a good way to style nylon doll hair to get it to settle down.

Here is what you should do: every day wear one of them on your back pocket and switch them out routinely. If anyone asks, just say its your Cutie Mark and continue on with what you were doing.

Actually, you should wear 2 a day. A matching pair, one on each back pocket. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 25, 2011, 12:41:17 pm
Dang.... Why must Fluttershy's hair be so hard to style. Was planning to stick her up on the dash of my rig, but coming out of the box it looked more like it belonged on Pinkie Pie. :D I'm slowly working on it, but not sure a good way to style nylon doll hair to get it to settle down.
I have heard some good ways to do it are to wash it with a tiny amount of a tangle free conditioner and comb it a great deal. I'd use a small comb to work the conditioner into the mane and tail and work it very very slowly. Rinse gently and keep combing it while letting it air dry.

...... :P I just now realised I know how to style pony hair.... A few weeks ago that fact would have left me without any man-cards whatsoever. :D



Here is what you should do: every day wear one of them on your back pocket and switch them out routinely. If anyone asks, just say its your Cutie Mark and continue on with what you were doing.

Actually, you should wear 2 a day. A matching pair, one on each back pocket. :P
Agreed. Also you should sell some on e-bay. I bet you'd make some cash. Advertise on Equestria Daily man! Spread the word! Cutie Marks For Sale! You'll make a killing with the foals. Plus you could expand into doing buttons of custom cutie marks. Ask somepony to submit it to you and then there you go! You could sell them in sets for a few dollars or individually for a buck. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 25, 2011, 01:00:57 pm
I saw someplace a suggestion to use warm water then comb to
style. After all It's likely a plastic material just need a bit of heat
to streighten it out..

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on August 25, 2011, 05:35:50 pm
I've picked up a few older style ponies on e-bay, and their hair isn't always in good condition when they arrive.  So, after reading a bit online, I tried washing it with warm water (though, I've read that some colors -- especially pink -- tend to fade if the water's too hot) and simple bar soap.  Then, I comb a little conditioner in, let it sit a few minutes, and rinse it out.  At that point, the hair is usually fairly silky and compliant.  If you twist it the way you want it (for instance, wrapping the tail around one of the back legs) and let it dry, it comes out really nice with a bit of curl.   (How much curl depends on which leg the tail was wrapped around.)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on August 25, 2011, 06:26:16 pm
There's a pretty good stickied post in the /merch/ section of ponychan. It should be the first thread you see in that section.  There's quite a number of takes on pony hair styling on there.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 25, 2011, 06:34:31 pm
Last night my resistance broke and I went out questing for ponies.  I think I might be harder to please than most since I want the ones with molded plastic hair instead of brushable hair.  I was very disappointed that the TRU near me didn't have the 12-figure collection, but I did get the 5-figure set at Target.  Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, and Spike are hanging out on my computer right now, but Celly is in the closet awaiting a custom paint job.  (HASBRO, WHY PINK?!)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 25, 2011, 06:50:02 pm
Dang.... Why must Fluttershy's hair be so hard to style. Was planning to stick her up on the dash of my rig, but coming out of the box it looked more like it belonged on Pinkie Pie. :D I'm slowly working on it, but not sure a good way to style nylon doll hair to get it to settle down.

Oddly enough, my boyfriend's Fluttershy did the same thing--but my Pinkie Pie's hair was perfect.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 26, 2011, 10:49:16 pm
Just got done reading THIS FANFIC (https://docs.google.com/document/d/11KEpV4VTQE7CSbqjrqz7oUt2vUbnlozps21SxYooNbE/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CP_d0sQG#) and I gotta say I'm a little creeped out. :o

It's a tale of how Princess Luna became Nightmare Moon, as told from Luna's diary entries. Its quite well done and the ending is well worth the read.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 27, 2011, 02:28:22 pm
Just got done reading THIS FANFIC (https://docs.google.com/document/d/11KEpV4VTQE7CSbqjrqz7oUt2vUbnlozps21SxYooNbE/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CP_d0sQG#) and I gotta say I'm a little creeped out. :o

It's a tale of how Princess Luna became Nightmare Moon, as told from Luna's diary entries. Its quite well done and the ending is well worth the read.

Yes, that was very well-written :o.

As for the cutie marks..I'm willing to make them for anypony who wants around here, but I don't think I would be allowed to charge, here or anyplace else. Wouldn't I get in trouble for that?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 27, 2011, 06:07:02 pm
Hm, good question. I should personally think that you'd be okay with charging, seeing as how SO MANY PEOPLE are taking pony designs and pony ideas and that sort of thing and using them to make tshirts without getting hit with a cease-and-desist from Hasbro. However, if you want to be sure you're not getting into trouble, I wouldn't charge.

I  mean, only speaking for the theoretical consequences with Hasbro.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 27, 2011, 06:28:13 pm
Hm, good question. I should personally think that you'd be okay with charging, seeing as how SO MANY PEOPLE are taking pony designs and pony ideas and that sort of thing and using them to make tshirts without getting hit with a cease-and-desist from Hasbro. However, if you want to be sure you're not getting into trouble, I wouldn't charge.

I  mean, only speaking for the theoretical consequences with Hasbro.
I concur. I mean Hot Topic is selling shirts with the MegaSweet wallpaper designs on them. Though there is some legal stuff going on since MegaSweet's art was stolen and submitted to HT without their permission, But according to the news at EQD the matter is being resolved and HT is willing to buy the designs legitamately and buy other designs from MegaSweet as well as compensate them for the sales of what has already been sold. I've yet to hear about any complaints from Hasbro on tthis matter, but if they are they're keeping it hush hush.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kishi on August 28, 2011, 12:50:57 am
1. Charge for the price of the button parts and shipping only? I'm pretty sure they can only get you if you're making a profit.
2. Arrange for a trade for something of equal value, so that way there is no money involved, and I don't think they can get you on that either.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 28, 2011, 01:02:16 am
From what I'd been hearing, Hasbro has no problem with stuff like this. Not only is there the multitude of merch already being sold without issue from independent makers, but I've heard there's been people doing stuff like this long before this particular series. The Brony Show was talking about this at one point, and they were saying you can even buy blank ponies that people use to make OC's to sell and then you have the official MLP convention held at Hasbro's HQ. I'm pretty sure they have vendors there like any other convention. Everything I've ever heard is that they are pretty lenient on people selling things like this. Now I'm sure if you somehow turned this into a multi-million dollar a year business they would then have something to say about it. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 29, 2011, 02:35:28 am
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/brand-new-supernova-big-dipper-will-be-most-studied-star-explosion-ever


Saw this over at EQD. A supernova was seen in the constellation Ursa Major. No reports yet about the whearabouts of Trixie but clearly shes practicing for her season 2 comeback.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 29, 2011, 08:05:52 am
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/brand-new-supernova-big-dipper-will-be-most-studied-star-explosion-ever


Saw this over at EQD. A supernova was seen in the constellation Ursa Major. No reports yet about the whearabouts of Trixie but clearly shes practicing for her season 2 comeback.

It's obvious--the supernova was Caused by Trixie battling the foul beast!  :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 29, 2011, 08:11:42 am
I heard about the Supernova back on Friday through the APOD website I'm sure I've mentioned before. But I didn't draw the correlation to the Great and Powerful Trixie. Nice catch.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 29, 2011, 07:57:11 pm
For those of you following Past Sins, the final chapter has been posted to EqD: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/story-past-sins.html

Now the planets shall align, and bronies will live in harmony evermore.  (I actually had 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' on speakers when I refreshed the page, and the timing of the song killed me! I'm still grinning)

Who all has been following this series?  I have to admit it's not the best fanfic ever, but it's been entertaining.

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Arbutus on August 29, 2011, 11:21:39 pm
Thanks to your advice, I'm putting it on my Kindle and taking it with me. 8)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on August 29, 2011, 11:49:14 pm
I have heard that if they  do go after some one for a infringement that includs
selling items. One might find one's self oweing a lot of money to settle..

Other wise it's usually just a warning to quit.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Saril on August 30, 2011, 12:19:42 am
Shim, I would buy a Pinkie Pie cutie mark button and rock it everywhere. No joke.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 30, 2011, 08:16:01 pm
For those of you following Past Sins, the final chapter has been posted to EqD: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/story-past-sins.html

Now the planets shall align, and bronies will live in harmony evermore.  (I actually had 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' on speakers when I refreshed the page, and the timing of the song killed me! I'm still grinning)

Who all has been following this series?  I have to admit it's not the best fanfic ever, but it's been entertaining

Have been. I was waiting for an EQD update post. This is far more convienent. Thanks.  Though for goodness sake, would it have killed them to get some feedback before they posted so they didn't have to be all "HAY LOOK REVISIONS!"
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 30, 2011, 08:30:07 pm
Furtopians, I would be willing to make buttons for you all free of charge :).

Rules: Pick 2. That's really it.

All I need to do is wait for a couple thousand more button backs to come. We ordered more just recently. :P Don't expect it to be in the next few days though.

Just PM me the details :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on August 31, 2011, 12:56:12 am
Furtopians, I would be willing to make buttons for you all free of charge :).

Rules: Pick 2. That's really it.

All I need to do is wait for a couple thousand more button backs to come. We ordered more just recently. :P Don't expect it to be in the next few days though.

Just PM me the details :)
And Shim was never heard from again as he was buried aalive under a wave of so many orders that not even his nimble cat reflexes could save him. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Shim on August 31, 2011, 08:13:51 am
Rules: Pick 2.

Let's hope I didn't overshoot here :P!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 31, 2011, 10:54:52 am
Thanks for the offer, but I don't think I'd sport them even if I did have a couple. So you can thank me for not having you quite so buried. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on August 31, 2011, 01:36:21 pm
Shim, I PMed you!

Also, I am bummed. Well, sort of. My OC pony's cutie mark is not original. (Major Past Sins spoiler ahead)
Spoiler: show
Nyx has the same cutie mark, for almost exactly the same reason--Nyx's special talent is protecting people, and Pennywhistle's special talent is detective-ing. They both have a blue shield for a cutie mark.
What do you think, should I change it to avoid people accusing me of stealing, or should I not worry about it?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on August 31, 2011, 02:56:28 pm
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Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on August 31, 2011, 06:38:54 pm
I didn't give two ~yay~ what anyone else thought about it.

I feel compelled to comment that that is the best word censor ever.  It cracks me up whenever the Bronyville guys have to put it in.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on August 31, 2011, 06:40:39 pm
I didn't give two ~yay~ what anyone else thought about it.

I feel compelled to comment that that is the best word censor ever.  It cracks me up whenever the Bronyville guys have to put it in.
Especially when they go oatmeal on it just to give reason for using the censor. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on August 31, 2011, 06:48:30 pm
I didn't give two ~yay~ what anyone else thought about it.

I feel compelled to comment that that is the best word censor ever.  It cracks me up whenever the Bronyville guys have to put it in.

The Furtopia Censor had nothing to do with that.

And for the record, "Self censoring" isn't allowed per the rules. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 04, 2011, 06:57:19 pm
Was listening to the newest Bronyville and the said the people at Hasbro were asked about the pink Celestia at the recent MLP con. They answered it was nothing more than their focus groups said girls like pink, so make Celestia pink. Apparently they also said they are going to come out with more brony centric merch as well. I'm guessing that means we finally get official merch that is show accurate.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 04, 2011, 07:36:25 pm
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Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 04, 2011, 07:46:12 pm
Thanks to Narei bringing it to my attention I have gotten the Desktop Ponies app for my system. :) Now I have Rainbow Dash, Princess Luna (Glory to the New Lunar Republic) and Octavia exploring my desktop and windows. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 04, 2011, 07:56:54 pm
And for anypony else that don't know about it, http://desktopponies.co.cc/

Download that and you can have all the ponies you want, including a ton of the background ponies and filly versions of some like Twilight and Celestia, bouncing around your desktop.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 04, 2011, 10:21:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st9CxveZieg&feature=player_embedded

Just wow... Watching this gave me one of those moments of clarity where you realise... We are all a bunch of super nerds! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 04, 2011, 11:18:58 pm
Not sure what all the debate over Octavia's instrument was about. If played standing or sitting on a stool, that's a double bass. Cello is always played sitting in a chair. Granted, I liked the process they used to prove it out.

I picked up both Desktop Ponies and WindowPonies. I actually prefer WindowPonies. They stay out of the way a bit better. And I like the UI for it better. It's not overly complex. Not sure I'll be able to leave it on while playing games in full-screen though. As much fun as it is to have ponies running about on my screen, but I prefer they don't get all up in my games.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 05, 2011, 01:35:58 am
Something interesting they included. If you activate Both Lyra and Bon-Bon they hang out together. Bon-Bon follows Lyra around and at times they seem to be nuzzling.

Lyra will take a seat on her bench and call Bon-Bon over and she actually will respond. its very cool. I wonder if any others are like this with each other?

EDIT: Glida and Dash pair. Gilda follows Dash around and Dash makes her do the junior speedsters chant, which they recite together.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 05, 2011, 01:42:29 am
I've got both now, but I'm leaning towards the desktop ponies one. I think it's cool that you can have them walk on top of the windows in Windows Ponies, but I just enjoy the selection of ponies more in the Desktop Ponies.

Something interesting they included. If you activate Both Lyra and Bon-Bon they hang out together. Bon-Bon follows Lyra around and at times they seem to be nuzzling.

Lyra will take a seat on her bench and call Bon-Bon over and she actually will respond. its very cool. I wonder if any others are like this with each other?

EDIT: Glida and Dash pair. Gilda follows Dash around and Dash makes her do the junior speedsters chant, which they recite together.
I'm guessing all of these are in Desktop Ponies, since Gilda isn't in the other? Had Lyra and Bon-Bon up on the Windows Ponies for a while now and they don't do anything together. Will try the other program again later when I have time.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 05, 2011, 09:46:11 am
Well I couldn't resist. I know there was a bit of controversy about some of the T-shirt designs that Hot Topic is selling, but it seems to have been handled nicely for all parties involved. I had some petty cash in my pocket and decided to buy the Rainbow Dash shirt. This makes my total of MLP oriented shirt come to 3. I can now wear a nice MLP shirt every other day through the week to show off my Bronyness. If you haven't seen the shirt design, I'm talking about, here is a small pic:

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqa9q6PMHE1qdf51c.png)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 05, 2011, 10:06:19 am
Something interesting they included. If you activate Both Lyra and Bon-Bon they hang out together. Bon-Bon follows Lyra around and at times they seem to be nuzzling.

Lyra will take a seat on her bench and call Bon-Bon over and she actually will respond. its very cool. I wonder if any others are like this with each other?

EDIT: Glida and Dash pair. Gilda follows Dash around and Dash makes her do the junior speedsters chant, which they recite together.

I do like the interactions in Desktop Ponies. But it also gets a bit to active/cluttered for me to keep the interactions enabled all the time. I'm one of those who likes a very clean desktop as it is, so it's the mane 6 + derpy or spike at the most for me. And I end up turning off the speaking and interactions. It gets to be too much for me.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 06, 2011, 12:16:40 am
(http://www.welovefine.com/img/p/655-1561-large.jpg) (http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=655)

It will be mine... As soon as I double check a sizing question since ordering off We Love Fine and not a store shelf. I did try checking my local Hot Topic and they didn't have anything in. I looked on their website and the one Leidt posted would be the only one I'd think about getting, but Vinyl Scratch has always been my favorite pony of the whole show. Fluttershy was just my fave of the mane 6.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 06, 2011, 05:03:58 pm
I cried at the end. Beautiful song and I think because of it I've just become a fan of A.J.
Excuse me I need to clear my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWbYtC4y4ZE&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ryffnah on September 06, 2011, 05:16:07 pm
I cried at the end. Beautiful song and I think because of it I've just become a fan of A.J.
Excuse me I need to clear my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWbYtC4y4ZE&feature=player_embedded

I love the pony show... and I love that song... but that did not work for me.  The tones just don't match.  I mean, I guess, if they cancelled the show, I could see writing a song parody using Fields of Gold about remembering it.  Or, I don't know, if Applejack died, I could see using Fields of Gold to write a song about her.  As it stands, I find the serious, sad, bittersweet reminiscent tone of the song completely at odds with my image of Applejack.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on September 06, 2011, 06:50:09 pm

It will be mine... As soon as I double check a sizing question since ordering off We Love Fine and not a store shelf. I did try checking my local Hot Topic and they didn't have anything in. I looked on their website and the one Leidt posted would be the only one I'd think about getting, but Vinyl Scratch has always been my favorite pony of the whole show. Fluttershy was just my fave of the mane 6.

Yeah their sizes make no sense. The only way I could see it making sense is if the tshirt is laying flat and they're measuring across, instead of around a human form. Cute shirts though. I rather like this one: http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=742

Honorable Mentions:
http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=681 Rarearri
http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=640 Steampunk ponies
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 06, 2011, 07:03:06 pm
The length and chest measurement matches up when measuring one of my other shirts. The shoulder measurement had to be measured on my body. There was a 4-5" difference between that and measuring the arm hole seam on a shirt, which is where the question came up. I will say it sounds oddly sized because my shoulders matched up to an XL, but length and chest matched regular large and that's what I normally wear. They also said their shirts are NOT pre-shrunk, so I think I'll go XL and count on the shrinking to fit well. They also said they do free exchanges if it doesn't fit right and you do so within 14 days of delivery. So that makes me feel better about it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 07, 2011, 01:25:35 pm
Anyone know much about Live Stream? The Brony Show has their 12 hour marathon coming up to say hello to season 2 and it was gonna be live on Live Stream. I'd love to tune in, but I'll likely be driving. I've got an Android phone, so I was wondering if they have an app for it (didn't see one on the Market) or maybe I could stream from the main site via the phone. Hopefully it doesn't require the latest flash player too. I recently found out Adobe doesn't support my phone for it and can't watch youtube vids from the desktop version of their site.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 07, 2011, 02:02:44 pm
Gosh Narei that's terrible! :(    How on earth do these companies expect us to get our fixes at anytime when their devices are like that? I wish i had an answer for you bro.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 07, 2011, 02:09:50 pm
Fresh off the MLP:FiM Facebook page. Season 2 screenshot. Let the guessing games begin!

(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/294065_282260175124760_118429394841173_1329235_1495598664_n.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 07, 2011, 02:27:13 pm
It was known that Luna was going to be involved with the season opener. So this is obviously her causing some mayhem. I wonder if Celestia has any bananas to give to her?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 07, 2011, 03:54:43 pm
I been thinking that the reason we haven't seen much of Luna in season 1 is because she's been in like a coma or something. As if all the years as NMM had almost entirely drained her and this had become evident AFTER she returned to the castle at the end of ep. 2. So now I'm betting this is probably Luna finally waking up and being restored.

This would explain why the mane 6 are there, it would be a perfect chance to have Luna interact with them and get some exposition out of the way. It would also explain the expression on Celestia, perhaps she needed the mane 6, being the elements of harmony and all, there to help her with a spell to wake her. She looks determined almost, as if she's thinking "Come on...WORK!"


Or! Or it could be the light is Discord teleporting from nowhere and Celestia knows who it is and she's bracing for the inevitable strom thats coming.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 07, 2011, 09:14:44 pm
Was just watching Green Isn't Your Color. I noticed there was a quick flash of a cutie mark on Photo Finish when she turns around (at 5:49 if you want to find it). So, I paused it and stepped through frame by frame until I got one that showed enough of the cutie mark to make it out. Result?

(http://i.imgur.com/4GZ15.jpg)

Photo Finish is Twilight's alter-ego?
I'm a bit disappointed that they just copied Twilight's cutie mark for Photo Finish. Sure, it's just a split second of exposure, but they could have just as easily made it a camera or gold star or something.

Then again, they never figured that the show would be watched with quite this much scrutiny, so I can't fault them too much for it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 08, 2011, 08:10:45 pm
Seems like everypony's celebrating the coming of season two with marathons. first the Brony Show had a 24 hour marathon of all things pony, I caught the tail end and saw that 24 straight hours of pony will drive a brony more mad than Pinkamena Diane Pie. :o

And now Issac Shark on Synchtube is throwing a marathon.

Its got me wondering, is anypony here doing anything special to celebrate season 2's coming?

Pony Parties? Marathons? Figurine shopping? Perhaps you'll stay up late and finish your fan fic? (Don't lie, you know you at least got one brewing in your head ;) )

Perssonally I think I'll check out other Target stores while I'm on vacation this weekend (Maybe a Toys R Us) and see about a toy or two. I been a brony long enough and I've been dying for a pony figurine to add to my already growing collection of toys of Transformers and Sonic 20th anniversary figures.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 08, 2011, 08:29:25 pm
I'm gonna try to tune in to the Bronyville marathon podcast on Saturday (noon to midnight PST) as much as I can. Can't really do anything else special, but we do have the Hub in the drivers lounge at the distribution center I'm based out of. May try to watch it live there if all the stars in the galaxy line up and I'm able to actually be there and no one else is watching anything.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 08, 2011, 08:34:44 pm
I'm gonna try to tune in to the Bronyville marathon podcast on Saturday (noon to midnight PST) as much as I can. Can't really do anything else special, but we do have the Hub in the drivers lounge at the distribution center I'm based out of. May try to watch it live there if all the stars in the galaxy line up and I'm able to actually be there and no one else is watching anything.
I think it would be hilarious if you were in the middle of the show and some really big hairy bear of a trucker came in, reached up to the tv and instead of changing the channel turned it up and sat down to enjoy the ponies too. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on September 08, 2011, 08:41:53 pm
Might have a party. Probably won't get up early or anything to watch it, but might take the high res youtube videos of the first season and the high res video of the second season opener when its available and watch them all at once with my pony loving friends. None of us have cable, or rather one does but I don't think he gets the Hub. 
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 08, 2011, 08:50:55 pm
At least you have pony loving friends. My mate is starting to to get annoyed with my obsession and refuses to watch them, and no one else I can talk pony to outside of this forum
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 08, 2011, 09:16:57 pm
At least you have pony loving friends. My mate is starting to to get annoyed with my obsession and refuses to watch them, and no one else I can talk pony to outside of this forum
I feel your pain, my dad is pretty much reached his limit with my pony love.

This morning as I was getting ready for work we were watching Loony Tunes on Cartoon Network when a MLP toy commercial came on. (Seriously why are there always little girls playing with those toys? I don't get it.)
He just chuckled and asked if I wanted one for my birthday. I smirked and toldd him "No, because those aren't right. Princesss Celestia's toy is pink and she's not supposed to be. Celestia is White. Graanted, she has a pink outline but her main coloration is white, not pink."

He just gave me a look. :D
So I decided to see how far I could push it.

"They always mess up the toys. AppleJack's hat is blue, when its supposed to be brown. Twilight Sparkle's mane is too long. At least the fans can make good figures. They know that Rainbow Dash is sky blue with a rainbow colored mane, AppleJack is mostly orange with a blone mane thats tied back and has three white freckles. Pinkie Pie is of course, pink."

*starting to look at me strange as I rant*

"Rarity is white with a purple mane, Twilight Sparkle is purple with a mane that is darker purple and has a light purple stripe and Fluttershy is yellow with a pink mane."

He looked at me and said "It's disturbing that you know all that off the top of your head.
I was about to go further with naming and describing from memory the background ponies but he stopped me. :D

My dad and I are best buds though so its cool and all in good fun. We constantly mess with each other like that. We're total nerds, just about different things. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 08, 2011, 09:49:03 pm
Speaking of bad toys. Anypony else catch the miss-colored, winged "Twilight" in the princess for a day set with her and Pinky Pie? They posted it to their facebook page and everypony was like "That's not Twiiiiilight. That's Princess Luna!" Lol :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 08, 2011, 09:54:00 pm
no, got a link?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 08, 2011, 10:24:49 pm
 Facebook thread here. (http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=270924542924990&id=118429394841173&set=a.134316363252476.23944.118429394841173&refid=20&_ft_a=118429394841173&_ft_tf=270924542924990&_ft_tpi=118429394841173&_ft_ti=7&_ft_fth=c9616466e3cbbff1&_ft_time_ft=1315534542)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 08, 2011, 10:40:12 pm
lol, I looked thru some of the other threads, Maybe now Hasbro will realise like the show creators have, just how many billions of dollars they're losing out on by not having show accurate merch.

Meaanwhile the custom pony creators out there who put actual effort into their ponies and sell them on eBay arre making a killing! :D

It looks to me as though Hasbro is still trying just a tiny bit too hard to keep the show and merch aimed at young girls.

Psst, guys, target the bronies. They have much more money and they'll spend a lot more of it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 08, 2011, 10:52:12 pm
Psst, guys, target the bronies. They have much more money and they'll spend a lot more of it.

I've heard that they have stuff aimed more for us in the works. No clue if that's in the form of shirts, plushies, more show-accurate models, what have you. Wonder if we'll start seeing some of that stuff crop up just in time for Christmas...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 08, 2011, 10:56:12 pm
Can't blame them really. Their company is built around kids toys, and kids don't care much about show accurate stuff. Case in point, my 2 year old daughter doesn't care that her Pinky Pie plush has a punk rocker mohawk for a mane that makes me cringe. They can cut corners like that to make a hefty profit and it works for that business model.

Making show accurate merch would surely cost a lot more to make because of the attention to detail, and need to be sold at a lot higher price to turn a profit Would be a drastic shift for a company that size and investors may be slow to accept it. Apparently they are working on brony-aimed merch, so give it time. May see stuff come out as "collectors edition" type merch with little advertising. Not that they would need to. Lol
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: redyoshi49q on September 09, 2011, 12:19:58 am
Facebook thread here. (http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=270924542924990&id=118429394841173&set=a.134316363252476.23944.118429394841173&refid=20&_ft_a=118429394841173&_ft_tf=270924542924990&_ft_tpi=118429394841173&_ft_ti=7&_ft_fth=c9616466e3cbbff1&_ft_time_ft=1315534542)

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Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 09, 2011, 12:30:19 am
Odd. I logged out of FB and could still view the thread.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: HockeyRaven on September 10, 2011, 05:48:46 pm
I thought that, rather than posting in the art section, I'd go ahead and post Pony fan art here. If that's ok.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6469108

It's ever-so-proper-British Derpy Hooves with an English muffin (and tea, because you can't have muffins without tea). I got this idea last night when reading my ever-so-proper-British mystery novel when some of the characters were talking about proper muffins with butter and all I could think of was Derpy and her muffins. I had a laugh at it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 11, 2011, 12:53:20 am
Pony reference

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 11, 2011, 02:06:11 am
Anypony else tune in to the Bronyville stream(s)? The main room never had a chance for me to get in. Like a lot of others, the overflow that Brony Show ran wasn't giving me the experimental option that you needed to get it to play right (and the mods seemed to thing all of us were just too blind to find it), so I listened via the justin.tv mirror some. Unfortunately my work schedule caused me to miss most of it, so hoping I can grab the highlight reel later on.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 11, 2011, 10:05:20 am
i caught some of it late last night. They had someeone who works on the show drop by, but I don't know who she was.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on September 11, 2011, 05:37:43 pm
i caught some of it late last night. They had someeone who works on the show drop by, but I don't know who she was.

Sibsy?  Yeah, I heard that interview.  No Earth-shattering revelations, but it was fun to get an insider's perspective on some things.  For example, I realized that there was a lag between show production and the team finding out about bronies, but I was surprised to hear just how far along season 2 was when they did hear about us.

Also...


MAGNETO!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 11, 2011, 06:32:47 pm
Yes. Magneto! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknRH8dRTBU&feature=feedf)

I was lucky enough to catch that part. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 12, 2011, 12:23:19 am
I was in and out during the Bronyshow Livestream. Caught the very beginning and saw the 1100+ bronies that were viewing, then everytime I returned it seemed to be around 700. I didn't have the endurance to stay up to 2am so I missed the slap happy Gala episode. Sounded hilarious. Apple Cider did a pretty good Magneto improv especially after talking for 13 hours by then.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 12, 2011, 12:32:03 am
Yeah, I was watching when they dropped about 400 all at once. I think it was a combination of banning spammers and people giving up on getting that stream to work, heading over to tertiary stream.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 12, 2011, 03:21:22 pm
Magneto, the biggest threat to ponies since Krastos the Glue Maker! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 12, 2011, 03:52:06 pm
I can't believe season 2 starts this weekend... so close now!
Too bad I'll have to wait for it to show up online somewhere to see it. Hopefully they'll either have it up on the Hub's site quickly, or somepony will be quick with putting it on youtube.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 12, 2011, 04:49:07 pm
The livestream mentioned a group that will broadcast the episodes online. But i forget who it was.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 12, 2011, 05:23:31 pm
Seems THESE GUYS (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/live-hub-stream-stress-test-from-brony.html#more) are going to be streaming it live and just did a stress test of the stream. Not sure how that went though.

THIS USTREAM (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/my-little-pony-season-2-celebration) claims to stream episodes live too, but haven't found any feedback one way or the other on how trustworthy it is. I also know that Ustream at least has an Android app if anyone needs it. Though, I intend to catch this on my computer and hope I'm shut down at the time. Otherwise, I'm betting it'll be up by noon on youtube.

As a side note:

PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THE BRONIES THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO WATCH THIS LIVE. LET'S TRY TO REFRAIN FROM POSTING SPOILERS AT LEAST UNTIL THE ACTIVE THREAD MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH.

If you really feel like you need to post a spoiler, there's a way to hide it from accidental viewing so you have to hover your mouse over a spoiler alert to see the actual text. To see how, hover over the spoiler notice below in this post for instructions.

Spoiler: show
To hide any text behind a "spoiler warning", simply put the tags [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ] around it minus the spaces, the same as you would to bold, italicize, etc with BBCode :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on September 12, 2011, 06:26:21 pm
Yes, thanks for emphasizing that, Narei.  I am among those who can't watch new episodes as they air, so I appreciate everyone's consideration in not posting spoilers openly.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 12, 2011, 08:20:12 pm
*notices the thread move* Yay, we apparently have an MLP section here now. Behold the power of ponies! XD
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on September 12, 2011, 08:43:08 pm
*notices the thread move* Yay, we apparently have an MLP section here now. Behold the power of ponies! XD

I know this isn't an imageboard, but this pic sums it up too nicely to resist...

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13875233/saruman%20power%20of%20ponies.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 12, 2011, 09:44:37 pm
PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THE BRONIES THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO WATCH THIS LIVE. LET'S TRY TO REFRAIN FROM POSTING SPOILERS AT LEAST UNTIL THE ACTIVE THREAD MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH.

If you really feel like you need to post a spoiler, there's a way to hide it from accidental viewing so you have to hover your mouse over a spoiler alert to see the actual text. To see how, hover over the spoiler notice below in this post for instructions.

Spoiler: show
To hide any text behind a "spoiler warning", simply put the tags [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ] around it minus the spaces, the same as you would to bold, italicize, etc with BBCode :)


Since we have a sub-forum now, I would suggest that we create a new 'spoiler' thread for discussing the happenings of the new season. This way regular pony discussion can continue in the general thread, and people can easily avoid spoilers by avoiding the spoiler thread. I say we start with a single thread and see how far the discussion gets. We may choose to re-make a new spoiler thread whenever the current one seems to mature (could be a new one per episode, or have one exist over a few episodes until it gets unwieldy.

But we know discussion of the new eps will be inevitable. Might as well contain it to a location that's easy for people to avoid. Spoiler tags are too easy/tempting to mouse over. some of us have low will-power >.>
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on September 12, 2011, 09:48:13 pm
PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THE BRONIES THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO WATCH THIS LIVE. LET'S TRY TO REFRAIN FROM POSTING SPOILERS AT LEAST UNTIL THE ACTIVE THREAD MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH.

If you really feel like you need to post a spoiler, there's a way to hide it from accidental viewing so you have to hover your mouse over a spoiler alert to see the actual text. To see how, hover over the spoiler notice below in this post for instructions.

Spoiler: show
To hide any text behind a "spoiler warning", simply put the tags [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ] around it minus the spaces, the same as you would to bold, italicize, etc with BBCode :)


Since we have a sub-forum now, I would suggest that we create a new 'spoiler' thread for discussing the happenings of the new season. This way regular pony discussion can continue in the general thread, and people can easily avoid spoilers by avoiding the spoiler thread. I say we start with a single thread and see how far the discussion gets. We may choose to re-make a new spoiler thread whenever the current one seems to mature (could be a new one per episode, or have one exist over a few episodes until it gets unwieldy.

But we know discussion of the new eps will be inevitable. Might as well contain it to a location that's easy for people to avoid. Spoiler tags are too easy/tempting to mouse over. some of us have low will-power >.>

Try to be careful so as to not create too many spoiler and/or duplicate threads. I don't relish having to move, lock, etc. so many threads if there's a ton of duplicity.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Landrav on September 12, 2011, 09:52:14 pm
I think a single spoiler thread should suffice.  Sure, the topic will wander, but the point of the thread would be to contain spoiler discussion.  Set the rules to be that you can't discuss an episode or its contents outside the spoiler thread until two weeks after an episode airs.  That should be long enough, and it will keep discussion relevant to the past two weeks of episodes.  It seems to have worked well elsewhere, so far as I've seen.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on September 12, 2011, 09:52:37 pm
Too bad I'm not standing next to Liedt so I can see the look on his face when he sees the new MLP community. I'm sure his jaw will probably drop to the floor.  LOL!  :D  :D  It would definately be a Kodak moment!  :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 12, 2011, 10:14:31 pm
Try to be careful so as to not create too many spoiler and/or duplicate threads. I don't relish having to move, lock, etc. so many threads if there's a ton of duplicity.

I figured you'd say something like this.
But the way I see it, even if we created a new thread each week to discuss each episode individually as they go along, this is not creating duplicate threads. Each new episode is very different from the last, and should be a valid 'new topic' and not count as a duplicate. If it were done like this, the threads would just be '<ep 1 title> discussion' and '<ep 2 title> discussion', etc.

Stripping it down to basic concepts, I don't see how this is any different than the Conventions section having separate threads for discussing each different convention within the same calendar year.  /rant about forum technicalities that won't even be an issue cause we'll probably just lump it all into one continuous thread anyhow

~~~~~~~~

I do want to thank the staff for putting this section here (I recall it being mentioned early on and being ignored initially because nobody realized it would get as big as it did) :D
It will help keep everything organized/contained a little better.

Though it does play right into Liedt's hooves, doesn't it? :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on September 12, 2011, 10:21:35 pm
Try to be careful so as to not create too many spoiler and/or duplicate threads. I don't relish having to move, lock, etc. so many threads if there's a ton of duplicity.

I figured you'd say something like this.
But the way I see it, even if we created a new thread each week to discuss each episode individually as they go along, this is not creating duplicate threads. Each new episode is very different from the last, and should be a valid 'new topic' and not count as a duplicate. If it were done like this, the threads would just be '<ep 1 title> discussion' and '<ep 2 title> discussion', etc.

Stripping it down to basic concepts, I don't see how this is any different than the Conventions section having separate threads for discussing each different convention within the same calendar year.  /rant about forum technicalities that won't even be an issue cause we'll probably just lump it all into one continuous thread anyhow

~~~~~~~~

I do want to thank the staff for putting this section here (I recall it being mentioned early on and being ignored initially because nobody realized it would get as big as it did) :D
It will help keep everything organized/contained a little better.

Though it does play right into Liedt's hooves, doesn't it? :P

Whatever you guys do, Just try to create something simple and effective, that's all. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 13, 2011, 10:11:26 am
I like the idea of the one thread per episode idea for season two, and the rest being general pony related topics and/or topics pertaining to season 1. On one hoof, it keeps spoilers contained (no accedentals when spanning a thread for several episodes and someone is only wanting to see the initial episode information in said thread). On the other, I don't think the threads will be long lived since those people will move on to the next episode pretty quickly I think.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 13, 2011, 10:36:06 am
I personally like the idea of just having one phread with the entire season on it. That way as the season goes on, the phread will be organic and move along with the show. If someone wants to see comments from an earlier episode, they just have to turn back a page or two to find it.

Perhaps a clever pony (Like Kaloyan Alett since he's a Mod) can make a note on the first post of every page which episodes are covered on that particular page. Something like this at the top of the actual post:

##Brony Note: This page covers discussion on Episodes 1 through 5##


using a highly visible color like Yellow would be a good thing too.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 13, 2011, 12:00:15 pm
I personally like the idea of just having one phread with the entire season on it. That way as the season goes on, the phread will be organic and move along with the show. If someone wants to see comments from an earlier episode, they just have to turn back a page or two to find it.

Perhaps a clever pony (Like Kaloyan Alett since he's a Mod) can make a note on the first post of every page which episodes are covered on that particular page. Something like this at the top of the actual post:

##Brony Note: This page covers discussion on Episodes 1 through 5##


using a highly visible color like Yellow would be a good thing too.

I like that idea. I think we could just leave it up to whoever ends up with a post at the top of a page to include some colored text to indicate which episode is being talked about on said page. That, or just have a very obvious post at the start of every new episode.

I've found myself really looking forward to the music for the next season. I've been listening to the soundtrack and super ponybeat whenever I'm in the car (that's all I could fit on the CD I burned).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 13, 2011, 12:55:33 pm
I agree with Ziel here. If somepony wants to start disscussion on a new episode simply put at the top of his post what episode he is disscussing and let things flow from there. If one wants to go back they can mark their post like so

I'll use teal to make my points about a note brought up in episode 3: blah blahblah ponies blah blah blah blahblahblah mane 6 blah blah Join the herd blah friendship is magic and we have cookies blahblah

And after making your point you can return to the normal forum color to resume the conversation. We DO NOT need Several colors in talking about each individual previous episode, there's not enough colors everpony. We should instead agree on a color that we shall use collectively to talk about previous eps and simply state the ep we are talking about as we make our point, or just move the conversation onto PMs. These tactics will help others know what lines are disscussing previous episodes, will show tthem what episodes have alreaady been talked about and show them the flow of conversation about what is happening currently.

Another tactic we can use is to spperate lines using a few dashes.

----------------------------------

Not many, just a few will do. Everything above will be for one subject and everything below will be another. again, everypony needs to agree on the format we'll use to discuss.

If we use colors, what color do we use?

if we use the dashes is the text on the top row disscussions of episodes past or the current disscussion?
Or am I just making this all WAAAAAYYYY too confusing? (:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 13, 2011, 01:49:57 pm
You're making it more difficult then it has to be. Just a simple blurb at the top of the page is all that is needed. Remember that although the discussion will be organic there might be some non-linear discussion, such as somepony that saw an episode a week or two late and is discusing thoughts of Episode 3 when the rest of us are talking about #5. Just something that looks like this is all we need:

## This is page 5, we are discussing episodes 4, 5 and 2.


See what I did there? i was non-linear but made it simple enough for anypony to understand what is on that page.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on September 13, 2011, 02:29:53 pm
You're making it more difficult then it has to be. Just a simple blurb at the top of the page is all that is needed. Remember that although the discussion will be organic there might be some non-linear discussion, such as somepony that saw an episode a week or two late and is discusing thoughts of Episode 3 when the rest of us are talking about #5. Just something that looks like this is all we need:

## This is page 5, we are discussing episodes 4, 5 and 2.


See what I did there? i was non-linear but made it simple enough for anypony to understand what is on that page.


I think this is a good idea too.. Some of us with eye problems can't see different
colored text very well.

Also keep it simple. If we want to title pages for episodes Liedts idea seems like
a good way to do it. Also each poster can say this is on episode #-- if they
like.

My thoughts.

Old Rabbit :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 13, 2011, 02:48:20 pm
Alright then, good ideas everypony. :)

On other news I just finished downloading every podcast episode of the bronyville podcast. Now To load them into my mp3 player and catch up on very old pony news that is long out of date. :D

Never know when we're gonna need backups if Magneto uses his powers to magnetically wipe clean the computers of our most popular bronies. :o
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 13, 2011, 04:00:33 pm
I would go for Liedt's idea if we're not doing the seperate threads. I liked the thread ideas so at least then the discussions would be linear and not have to worry about jumping around a thread to find the stuff you want to talk about. With Liedt's idea, at least it helps address what you'll see before you read down and find something out you didn't want. I guess it comes down to how "safe" you want to play it vs. how condenced you want it (one main continuing thread vs several).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Ziel on September 13, 2011, 04:33:51 pm
I also support how Liedt showed it. The only problem is that whoever owns the top post on the page would have to constantly monitor which episodes are discussed as that page develops, and edit accordingly.

I think for a general top-of-page heading, the owner of the top post should only be responsible for tagging with the latest episode number being discussed on that page, rather than listing every episode that gets discussed. This way, only the top post on pages where we transition from one ep to the next will actually need updated.

Also, when somebody is the first person to post on a new episode, use some sort of clear indicator at the top of the post that it begins discussion of the new episode number.

Aside from that, if people want to discuss multiple episodes in a given post, let them mark that however they want.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on September 13, 2011, 06:02:38 pm
I guess I'm the only one that would rather have separate threads, and not have to deal with reading different colors (which is hard on anything not the default furtopia option which by the way I know I'm not the only one who has) or keeping up with which episode is being discussed on a particular page. Which at that point is kinda redundant--we have spoiler tags if you think someone may be spoiled by what you're about to say, and people should have the common courtesy to spoil tag if you're unsuremak. So we don't get multiple people trying to make an episode thread, perhaps a willing mod could make one. A title like " 'Episode 1, The Return of Discord' discussion thread" makes it very clear that the thread will have discussion and possible spoilers to episode one. By the time we get to the episode 2 discussion thread, its reasonable to assume that spoilers for episode 1 would not be needed but spoilers for ep 2 would. And so on and so forth.

I'm only taking a page from the Jack forums--the various Arcs, Short Stories, and one shots all get their own discussion threads, and that works out pretty well, even if we don't have to worry about spoilers.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 13, 2011, 06:19:55 pm
Well we still have a week till the show premeirs. We don't have to have any final desicions till then.

Personally I can go either way, They both sound good to me but I can see how a thread for each episode can be more conveinent. But it would also mean making numerous threads in this section that we know are going to likely be moot with a month or so of the broadcast. Plus if set up individual threads for the episodes where does that leave this thread? I guess it could be used for taalking about other things.

The single thread can be made organised too if we keep to a code of conduct, which requires all of us to have disipline. It can keep things neatly stacked for talking about season 2 episodes.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: TCD on September 13, 2011, 06:30:25 pm
What should we do with the ep discussion threads? We could just leave them here. Its not like we clutter up the main forum with them if all the pony stuff goes here. (Hell, if we leave them here as opposed to deleting or archiving we could read back on discussion super easily.)  If the mood suits, you could also lock them after discussion has fallen off, though thats not necessary since we do have the 6 month anti-necro rule.

I mean, either way its not going to take up any less digital space, because the "One Big Discussion Thread" will probably end up taking as much room as several smaller ones. I mostly worry about spoilers and being able to avoid them while still taking part in discussion, because I'm one of the people who has to wait to see the episodes.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on September 13, 2011, 06:49:49 pm
I really have no ideas what to tell you guys. My only advice would be to try and keep things as simple and efficient as possible without having too much moving, locking, or editing of things, and/or too much duplication of subject matter. I know that won't be easy, but I'm just looking at things from a staff person's perspective and trying to make our jobs as easy as possible without too much extra workload. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Storm Fox on September 14, 2011, 01:47:24 am
Just offering up an opinion as I’ve seen this sort of thing on other forums…

If you go with a thread per episode method, then there should be an episode dedicated sub-forum / sub-folder.

There are a few internet radio forums that use a (thread per episode method) and the episode threads monopolize 95% of the board,
Making other non-episode specific threads hard to read / find.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 14, 2011, 04:48:49 pm
For those who wish to listen to the "Best Of" from this past weekend's 13 hours of MLP Mare-athon goodness, you can listen to the podcast at: http://bronyshow.com/?p=505#comment-664

It has a lot of the highlights and out takes and just all around funny stuff. 1100+ ponies cannot be wrong.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Old Rabbit on September 14, 2011, 05:06:03 pm
Perhaps just starting a season 2 MLP thread?  I kind of imagine since there is a week
between them most of the comments will be finished by the following week.

We have talked about various episodes on this thread in the past, so a few
posts for previous shows mixed in here n there shouldn't hurt that much.

My thoughts. :orbunny:

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on September 14, 2011, 06:46:28 pm
Just offering up an opinion as I’ve seen this sort of thing on other forums…

If you go with a thread per episode method, then there should be an episode dedicated sub-forum / sub-folder.

There are a few internet radio forums that use a (thread per episode method) and the episode threads monopolize 95% of the board,
Making other non-episode specific threads hard to read / find.


I hate to be a downer, but I'm going to give some not too enthused advice.
I really would not be thrilled (and would be against) seeing a whole ton of "sub-forums" for either each MLP season and/or every single episode from every season. Creating a whole mess of mini sub-forums/child boards is taking things way too far IMO.  :P
You'd end up having something like:
COMMUNITY GROUPS FORUM
.........etc., etc., etc.  :P

I think it would be much better if you just created a "Season 1" thread, A "Season 2" thread, etc. and just put spoilers betwwen spoiler tags as mentioned here:
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,39242.0.html
.
Since there is no Season 3 yet, then there is no need to create a thread for that until the actual season starts.

OR.........

You can just keep on discussing seasons and episodes as normal in this thread or this thread:
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=40722.0
.
Whatever you do, At least try to follow the old acronym of:

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion
Post by: Kay Alett on September 14, 2011, 07:05:47 pm
:D great advice Kobuk.

I think since everyone here want to be able to go back at some point and discuss episodes after they've aired but still want to have a thread where they can talk about current episodes I think we should just make a new thread for the new season and label it as having spoilers and just follow how we did things in this thread. Just talk about the episodes you want to talk about and let things flow. in this thread we didn't really concern ourselves with different colors or worrying about spoling things for anyone who may not have seen the show yet.

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Season One Discussion
Post by: 489109 on September 14, 2011, 10:31:40 pm
Something you should all keep in mind...

Pony starts with a P,
Thread as in message thread does not.

Lets Ponify the word and use Phread for now on.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Season One Discussion
Post by: Kobuk on September 14, 2011, 10:38:35 pm
Something you should all keep in mind...

Pony starts with a P,
Thread as in message thread does not.

Lets Ponify the word and use Phread for now on.

Since I'm a carnivore, I'll use whatever I please. Thank you very much.  :goldbloody:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Season One Discussion
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 14, 2011, 10:47:46 pm
I'm sticking with "T". Phread sounds like someone trying to speak with a lisp.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Season One Discussion
Post by: TCD on September 15, 2011, 01:08:12 pm
Something you should all keep in mind...

Pony starts with a P,
Thread as in message thread does not.

Lets Ponify the word and use Phread for now on.

Yeah, no.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 15, 2011, 01:16:41 pm
Something you should all keep in mind...

Pony starts with a P,
Thread as in message thread does not.

Lets Ponify the word and use Phread for now on.

Yeah, no.
:D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 15, 2011, 03:59:37 pm
Y'all say know right now, but just you wait, like I said back on January 9th when I brought Brony into Furtopia: it will grow on you.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 15, 2011, 04:05:47 pm
Y'all say know right now, but just you wait, like I said back on January 9th when I brought Brony into Furtopia: it will grow on you.
I don't think so. This is different from liking the show or occasionally saying "Everypony". This is beyond silly to me. Ph is a type of "Ffff" sound whereas  "Thread" begins with "Th". They may sound close but in saying and spelling they are very different. Its beyond silly and goes into the asinine.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Old Rabbit on September 15, 2011, 07:52:57 pm
Y'all say know right now, but just you wait, like I said back on January 9th when I brought Brony into Furtopia: it will grow on you.
I don't think so. This is different from liking the show or occasionally saying "Everypony". This is beyond silly to me. Ph is a type of "Ffff" sound whereas  "Thread" begins with "Th". They may sound close but in saying and spelling they are very different. Its beyond silly and goes into the asinine.


Looks like it's been P+hread'ed already.   :D

At least here.. 
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on September 15, 2011, 11:48:26 pm
Y'all say know right now, but just you wait, like I said back on January 9th when I brought Brony into Furtopia: it will grow on you.
I don't think so. This is different from liking the show or occasionally saying "Everypony". This is beyond silly to me. Ph is a type of "Ffff" sound whereas  "Thread" begins with "Th". They may sound close but in saying and spelling they are very different. Its beyond silly and goes into the asinine.

Thank you. Totally cosigned.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 15, 2011, 11:57:29 pm
Ack! I gotta wait an extra day now. I thought Friday was the MLP release but looked it up on the Hub schedule and they don't show it until Saturday morning:

 My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
Rating: Y
The Return of Harmony - Part 1
8:00am EST Saturday the 17th, 2011

Does anyone know of an earlier showing that I just did not see????
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on September 16, 2011, 12:32:45 am
Wishful thinking, Liedt!  Saturday is the first broadcast of season 2. 
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 16, 2011, 03:13:54 am
:P Sadly I'll be at work when the episode airs. :'( Why must I work so early in the morning?!  :goldhowl:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 16, 2011, 02:38:43 pm
EQD posted a really nice retrospective interview with Lauren. I really recommend everypony to check it out. I read a lot of neat stuff about Season 1 and Pre-season 1. Didn't find any real spoilers for Season 2 so its very safe to read without learning anything we don't know already.

Check out the interview HERE (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/exclusive-season-1-retrospective.html).

Only 18 hours remaining til season 2.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 16, 2011, 02:52:00 pm
*bounces around like Twilight in Cutie mark Chronicles*
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Tomorrows truck got cancelled so I get to watch the premiere!!!!
*takes in super deep breath* yaaaaaaaaaay
:)

EDIT: This is so exciting! Are you excited? I'm excited! I've never been so excited!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 16, 2011, 04:06:22 pm
EDIT: This is so exciting! Are you excited? I'm excited! I've never been so excited!
Except for that one time I saw you and was like BWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH But really how can you top that?

(yay Anthology)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Old Rabbit on September 16, 2011, 04:29:58 pm
I wonder how long it takes for the first episode to be online.. Heh..
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 16, 2011, 04:35:15 pm
I wonder how long it takes for the first episode to be online.. Heh..
It'll be airing on the HUB at 7 am EST/6 am CST. (Thats central, where I am. *squee*)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 16, 2011, 05:14:35 pm
Expect the first YouTube and hopefully Hubworld versions ready to watch in approximately 32 minutes after the start of the premire episode.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 16, 2011, 06:07:55 pm
Sorry to burst some bubbles, but it airs at 8 am EST, 7 AM CST. And I read somewhere on their facebook page that they will make episodes available on Itunes the day after  and hubworld a week after initially airing.

Though I've said all along to expect a good version on youtube by noon tomorrow.  Lol
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 16, 2011, 06:47:18 pm
Everybrony must be celebrating so much right now. I feel a little out of place since I've been in the fandom since last month. And I'll have to rely on youtube to see the episodes... But what if they're still cracking down and taking off videos? Oh, I wish I had the HUB...

*Random bronies sing*
A year of watching re-runs, of such an awesome show!
We've kept our fandom going strong and never let it slow.
But the new season is coming out and we can't re-run the old.
I truely love M-L-P fim, and don't mean to sound cold.

*I sing*
The time has come for season two
and all things great and new.
But its also time to say goodbye
As season one must leave.
How can I help I'm new you see,
What does everybrony do?
How do I watch if youtube cracks down?
I haven't got a CLUE!

*chorus*
Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Lets finish our Marathon cheer!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!
Cause tomorrow two is here!

Brony 1*

Brining home a figurine for my collection wow
Its Pinkie Pie and she's so cute, I'll throw a party now!
I've got balloons and the sweets are all set.
When the guests get here they will be so surprised I'll bet!

*chorus*
Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Lets finish our Marathon cheer!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!
Cause tomorrow two is here!

Brony 2*

Get to bed so early now so I'll be up at dawn
I'll be a little sleepy head but I will never yawn.
The seasons got to be the bestest cause its been so long!
Its already so fan-tas-tic cause we've all burst into song!

*chorus*
Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Lets finish our Marathon cheer!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!
Cause tomorrow two is here!

Brony 3*

 No easy task to set livestreams, set the proper speed.
With good connection online, everyone will see
Twilight Sparkle, Rarity. Spike and Rainbow too!
We must work so very hard its just so much to do!

*chorus*
Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Lets finish our Marathon cheer!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!
Cause tomorrow two is here!

*I sing sadly*

Now that I know what they all do
I have to find my place.
And not miss any time of it.
Tough task ahead I face.
How can I watch if there's no youtube or a livestream at least?!
I wanna see it but don't have HUB
Why's my cable suck?!
Why's my cable suck?!

*chorus*
Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Lets finish our Marathon cheer!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!

Season wrap up
(season wrap up)

Cause tomorrow two is here!
Cause tomorrow two is here!!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 16, 2011, 07:44:45 pm
The only people that were "cracking down" on youtube vids was Habsro (basically parasprites). Though with the coming of the new season, the recognition of the huge fan base with their own cash instead of asking mommy and daddy, and the near immediate releasing of the iTunes videos, I could see Hasbro starting to crack down for real. I have no clue if that would happen and not trying to start rumors, but I guess just be prepared because it's plausible. By the same token, they have been kind to us.

I don't know if they made much off the iTunes season 1 sales with all the errors that I heard about that made it inferior to what was actually shown on TV. Only time will tell what they eventually plan to do.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 16, 2011, 07:49:40 pm
But what did you think of the song? :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 16, 2011, 08:06:43 pm
Poor Kalo, got burned. Perhaps if you liked the word 'phread' ponies would have liked your song too.

haha, I slay me.

Anyway, I did like the song very much, best thing I read in these pages for awhile. I did a filk song to Art of the Dress about posting in the Brony Chatrooms. I'll copy and paste it i here later after people get to see and read your song first.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 16, 2011, 08:08:19 pm
Didn't have time to look at the whole song, but sounded interesting from the first bit. need to go back and listen to the actual song to know how it's sung. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 17, 2011, 02:56:45 am
Woot! I'm in a Ustream channel that seems to be pretty stable doing a marathon of shows leading up to a live stream of the show. Gonna hold my place and stay in while I get some shut eye. Channel is over at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hax-mega-s-mlp-fim-season-2-countdown

Great... Suited for Success just started. *watches from the bed*

Found a Justin/twitch stream too (site comercial free, unlike the Ustream link I posted for guests). http://www.twitch.tv/dizaster321

So with all these links I've posted, no one should have trouble getting in to watch live.

The other two links I posted prior to this:

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/live-hub-stream-stress-test-from-brony.html#more

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/my-little-pony-season-2-celebration (seems inactive so far, so not sure if this channel will pan out or not)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 06:11:34 am
I started watching in that very stream room and left cuz it was actually so unstable. :o.  Guess he managed to get it running well.
The funniest part was We were testing the connection with Party of One and a little after Pinkies psycho eyes moment she has a twitch and the stream froze RIGHT when it hit her. So perfect. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 17, 2011, 06:27:30 am
It's Saturday morning, I'm awake and ready for some Pony. Bring on the 'toons.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 17, 2011, 08:35:28 am
*yawns* Just five more minutes Celestia. Zzzzzzzzz

J/K. :P I'm getting up and about and ready to watch. YAY
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 08:52:05 am
just gotta make it through Strawberry Shortcake...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 09:04:01 am
I forgot commercials still exist with network shows... :P

AHHH get back to the show!!!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 17, 2011, 09:04:39 am
LOL. XD
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 10:00:48 am
I forgot commercials still exist with network shows... :P

AHHH get back to the show!!!

This. But it gave me time to make breakfast :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 10:04:40 am
I forgot commercials still exist with network shows... :P

AHHH get back to the show!!!

This. But it gave me time to make breakfast :D
No coffee and donuts for me. Or pancakes or any real breakfast food. Those of us who've been up all night in the mare-athons are in no mood for such stuff... I'm gonna fix a bacon cheese burger and fries and then take my hindquarters to bed.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 10:09:17 am
No coffee and donuts for me. Or pancakes or any real breakfast food. Those of us who've been up all night in the mare-athons are in no mood for such stuff... I'm gonna fix a bacon cheese burger and fries and then take my hindquarters to bed.

I'm too weak for an all-night mare-athon. And I spent the last couple weeks going through season 1 at a pretty relaxed pace anyhow.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 10:27:26 am
It's on youtube now, in 480p. I'm gonna re-watch it at better quality now before I actually start cleaning.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 10:38:36 am
It's on youtube now, in 480p. I'm gonna re-watch it at better quality now before I actually start cleaning.

:o That was fast. Damn Bronies work quick.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 10:51:12 am
Finished re-watching.
Still loved it.

Time to clean...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 10:53:54 am
Saw this comment on youtube.

Spoiler: show
Sister wants attention?
Send her to the moon!
Find an ancient evil that can be unleashed by arguing?
Put it in the garden!

:D :D :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on September 17, 2011, 11:05:06 am
My friend has it on her DVR, so I'm going over to watch it this afternoon with her and her fiance.  Ah, the magic of friendship with people who can afford cool toys ;)

Saw this comment on youtube.

{snip}

Care to put that in spoiler tags?  I'm trying to keep my mind free of any season 2 stuff until I watch the episodes.  It might not reveal a whole lot, but every tiny spoiler adds up, and I wish I hadn't heard any of them by this point :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 11:10:49 am
Oops, sorry. I posted in the wrong thread. :-[
My bad everypony.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 17, 2011, 11:21:03 am
Don't worry Landrav, even after all the spoilers before the show aired, I was still blown away. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 11:30:22 am
Don't worry Landrav, even after all the spoilers before the show aired, I was still blown away. :)
Same here. In fact I read as many spoilers as I possibly could cuz frankly I have no will power whatso ever... :-[
And even after all of that I was still floored by the episode.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on September 17, 2011, 12:51:27 pm
So let me get right to the heart of the matter. I'm curious on the following: Why the huge interest in MLP all of a sudden? Not just here at Furtopia, but elsewhere IRL and on the Net too. Why does this show appeal to so many? From my POV, It looks like it's mostly a show meant for kids 6-12 years and mostly females. But it appears to have a following of all age groups and also males too.
So why the resurgence of MLP? Is this just Hasbro or some other company making a marketing ploy to bring something nostalgic from the 80's and 90's to the 2000's for a new generation of kids and teens? I guess I just don't understand this fascination/craze with this show.  :P

I'm being very serious with my post here. I'd really like some honest and thoughtful opinions.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 01:10:50 pm
So let me get right to the heart of the matter. I'm curious on the following: Why the huge interest in MLP all of a sudden? Not just here at Furtopia, but elsewhere IRL and on the Net too. Why does this show appeal to so many? From my POV, It looks like it's mostly a show meant for kids 6-12 years and mostly females. But it appears to have a following of all age groups and also males too.
So why the resurgence of MLP? Is this just Hasbro or some other company making a marketing ploy to bring something nostalgic from the 80's and 90's to the 2000's for a new generation of kids and teens? I guess I just don't understand this fascination/craze with this show.  :P

I'm being very serious with my post here. I'd really like some honest and thoughtful opinions.
Why I enjoy the show: (Cuz I can only speak for myself)

The plots of each episode have a nice mixture of seriousness and sillyness which reminds me of shows like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain.
The characters are solid and have good, distinct personalities from each other and its easy to cheer on any of them as you wish.
Its a great refreshening to have a show with a solid cast of strong, confident females who don't have to play the "damsel in distress" role, making them feel like real (or organic) personalities. You can believe them.
I like the mythology of the world, each "type" of pony has their own strengths and weaknesses and the world technology desgined around their biology design feels pretty real and fitting at times.
The writing is clever and distinct from cartoons out nowadays, the animation is clear and not "blocky" or sloppy and rushed looking, though at times it can have quite a "toony" look to some things that I don't mind much because these parts are not often.
It's silly but has serious moments and gives a good moral witout talking down to the audience, or seeming as though its assuming the audience is totally brain dead. It delivers the morals in a practical way and despite being a kids show tells them in a mature fashion.

Lastly, I find it absolutely hilarious that I like a My Little Pony show and can have a laugh at my own expense for it and enjoy it so that goofy aspect is gravy for me.

If I had a daughter I'd want her to watch this show because it really does seem to show in a practical way that girls can be strong, have adventures and take on any task a boy can. I can see it being an empowering tool for young girls.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 17, 2011, 01:41:57 pm
Echoing what Kalo said, I'll add my own. I enjoy a lot of the little things, like the references only adults would get because of generation gaps. The snortting when they get angry. The little reactions you see for just a split second, like Rarity's oh please look on Best Night Ever right after the mice-horses ran off and she says "whatever shall we doooo!" Applejack's smug crossed hooves stance. Stuff like that.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 02:00:27 pm
So let me get right to the heart of the matter. I'm curious on the following: Why the huge interest in MLP all of a sudden? Not just here at Furtopia, but elsewhere IRL and on the Net too. Why does this show appeal to so many? From my POV, It looks like it's mostly a show meant for kids 6-12 years and mostly females. But it appears to have a following of all age groups and also males too.
So why the resurgence of MLP? Is this just Hasbro or some other company making a marketing ploy to bring something nostalgic from the 80's and 90's to the 2000's for a new generation of kids and teens? I guess I just don't understand this fascination/craze with this show.  :P

I'm being very serious with my post here. I'd really like some honest and thoughtful opinions.

To echo some of what Kalo said with my own twist:
~The characters are well developed and actually have depth. You can't help but love them all. It's vastly different than the old MLP shoes (I've only watched a portion of one, but it was painful). What I saw on those was a lot of pink, rather shallow characters, and not much plot at all. Aside from the opening song (just the balloon and logo, really) and Pinkie Pie, FiM doesn't attack you with pink.
~The plot is very well thought-out. It's obvious that a lot of planning went into not just every episode, but the season as a whole.
~The animation is very good. I've noticed only a few things here and there that are a bit off. But the movements are very smooth, and the expressions are priceless.
~Jokes/references that go right past the kids, but that we pick up on. And it's not all dirty humor like what some shows that try to accomplish this sort of thing do. A lot of it includes throwbacks to the classic cartoons that we grew up with.
~Derpy Hooves
~I'm a fan of the slice-of-life format in general.
~22 minute episodes. Many cartoons run in 3x7 minute or 2x11 minute segments, with a different mini-plot in each segment. I have nothing against this at all (many great classics used these formats), but the full 22-minute episodes is what really makes FiM work. It allows for a slightly slower-paced show and gives time for the characters and plot to develop more fully than a segmented style would. It almost feels more like I'm watching a slice-of-life anime series than a cartoon aimed at pre-teen girls.
~The lessons learned are applicable to anybody at any age. There are situations in the show that anybody can relate to. There haven't been many episodes where I can't look at one of the ponies and think "I've been through that before".

On a slightly related note, I read an article online recently about a study that explored how the fast-paced totally-random shows (Spongebob was the example they used) may contribute to attention-deficit disorders in kids. Well, more that the super-random fast-paced kids shows have shown to decrease ability to focus and remember things learned right after watching the show.

Also, the best way to understand why it's become such a big thing is to just sit and watch it. Just 4 episodes. 88 minutes... Seems to be all it takes for most people to understand (and become hooked themselves :D )
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 02:23:39 pm
Also, the best way to understand why it's become such a big thing is to just sit and watch it. Just 4 episodes. 88 minutes... Seems to be all it takes for most people to understand (and become hooked themselves :D )
Well for me I wasn't TOTALLY hooked till episode 7: Dragon shy. Thats the episode that cemented the show for me. But yeah its true. The best way to understand is just to come inside and see what all the buzz is about for yourself.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Old Rabbit on September 17, 2011, 04:54:53 pm
I did watch all 26 episodes in under 15 hours a while back. Wheeee.. :)

I like the way they made virtually all the main characters female.  When
I write a story I always try to make a female the lead or a strong second.

I am glad to see a female oriented cartoon show for young girls made
with great production, and writing.

It only took three episodes for me to find I enjoyed watching it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on September 17, 2011, 04:57:31 pm
I kinda thought Applejack was a male pony?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 05:27:51 pm
I kinda thought Applejack was a male pony?

Nah. Dashie is the one most likely to be confused for being male at first. Mostly because she's a total tomboy.

I can see the confusion, with 'Jack' being a main part of her name. But somehow when it goes to 'Applejack', it seems fitting for, well, either gender.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 05:29:51 pm
I kinda thought Applejack was a male pony?
Really?
I've heard of folk confusing Rainbow Dash for a male for a while, but I think you're the first I've ever heard to mistake A.J. for a colt.

I kinda thought Applejack was a male pony?

Nah. Dashie is the one most likely to be confused for being male at first. Mostly because she's a total tomboy.

I can see the confusion, with 'Jack' being a main part of her name. But somehow when it goes to 'Applejack', it seems fitting for, well, either gender.
Eeyup. But I like "tomcolt" over tomboy for ponies. But I don't thinkk either word has ever been said in the show at all.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on September 17, 2011, 08:00:38 pm
http://www.furaffinity.net/

^ *points to banner image at top of FA page*  >:( Damn bronies!  >:(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Old Rabbit on September 17, 2011, 08:20:03 pm
I kinda thought Applejack was a male pony?

AppleJack is a standup for herself country gal. So she is tomboyish
at times. So thinking she is a male isn't out of reason. Especially if
one hasn't watched much of the show.

One episode has AppleJack competing with Rainbow Dash to see who is the
strongest if I remember right.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 17, 2011, 08:31:23 pm
http://www.furaffinity.net/

^ *points to banner image at top of FA page*  >:( Damn bronies!  >:(
We are everywhere. We are where you least expect us. We are in ever aspect of your life whether you know it or not. We are in your tubes making your interwebs 20% cooler with tolerance and love. We shall take over all areas of the internet.
We are the herd. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile and friendship is magic.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 17, 2011, 08:36:16 pm
Several of us eluded to this today, but I'm going to say it officially; I'm so glad MLP is back. I really missed seeing new episodes for the past few months. Big Cheers for Hasbro and their Magic..~yay.     
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 17, 2011, 08:46:45 pm
http://www.furaffinity.net/

^ *points to banner image at top of FA page*  >:( Damn bronies!  >:(

Brilliant. I screencapped it for my archives. Couldn't decide which folder to put it in though: furry stuff or pony stuff?
Fender makes a good pony, too :P

Eeyup. But I like "tomcolt" over tomboy for ponies. But I don't thinkk either word has ever been said in the show at all.

Hadn't heard that one before, actually.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Acton on September 18, 2011, 02:31:59 am
LIke Kobuk I am facinated and down right jellious. Inmagine if it was Sanrio instead. Hellokitty for men- yes!
 Now wahts with me; I was lookign at  Pinkie Pie  jumbo plush.

Actually Sanrio would beat Hasbro if a male fandom for Sanrio developed. One of Sanrio stringths is they are very good with corroboration with other companies. For example  Hello  Kitty with Mac makeup products, van shoes and so on.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on September 18, 2011, 04:07:05 am
EDIT: This is so exciting! Are you excited? I'm excited! I've never been so excited!
Except for that one time I saw you and was like BWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH But really how can you top that?

(yay Anthology)

Bwahaha. I thought the same thing!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on September 18, 2011, 12:25:49 pm
LIke Kobuk I am facinated and down right jellious. Inmagine if it was Sanrio instead. Hellokitty for men- yes!
 Now wahts with me; I was lookign at  Pinkie Pie  jumbo plush.

Actually Sanrio would beat Hasbro if a male fandom for Sanrio developed. One of Sanrio stringths is they are very good with corroboration with other companies. For example  Hello  Kitty with Mac makeup products, van shoes and so on.

You realize that Hasbro also owns Transformers, Xmen, DnD/Wizards of the Coast, Magic the Gathering, GI Joe, Tonka, Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, AND Tiger Electronics.....right? Its really up there with Viacom as an entertainment umbrella corp.

Also, my pony party tonight. We will be serving cupcakes, "a big tasty stew"* and...other things I can't talk about because they're only for adults 21+.

*Weeknight Brazillian Stew
1 onion, chopped
5 or 6 cloves garlic, smashed
1 lb or so of sweet potato, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 14.5oz can diced tomatoes, with liquid
2 14.5oz cans black beans, rinsed and drained
1 mango, peeled and chopped
Large handful fresh cilantro, chopped
Salt
Oil
Flour tortillas

As each step cooks, one can do the prep for the next step.

First, saute the onion in some oil in a largish pot for about 5 minutes, until softened.
Then add the garlic, and go for a few more minutes.
Next in is the sweet potato.
Then the bell pepper.
Then the tomatoes.
Bring to a boil, then place the lid on the pot and simmer on medium-low for about 15 minutes, or until the sweet potato is tender. Towards the end of this, start heating up your griddle to cook the tortillas.
Remove the lid, and add the black beans. Cook these for a few minutes, until heated.
Next in is the mango. Stir this in and give it a minute or two to get hot.
Stir in the salt and the cilantro, and remove from heat.
Serve to your family with the tortillas (I put hot chile sauce on mine).

All gluten free, because my boyfriend can't have that, and the main course is vegetarian/vegan, just like the ponies eat! I'm resally seriously stoked about it! Almost more than the episode. Its good to have good friend and good food while we watch a good show!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 18, 2011, 12:45:28 pm
Sounds like a great party stew TCD, hope it all goes good. :)

Also: Cupcakes! So sweet and tasty! Cupcakes! Don't be too hasty! Cupcakes! Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes!!! :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on September 18, 2011, 01:57:07 pm
Thanks, TCD.  :D  Stew sounds tasty right now with the cooler weather hitting up north, but I prefer traditional beef stews.

Also: Cupcakes! So sweet and tasty! Cupcakes! Don't be too hasty! Cupcakes! Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes!!! :D
*hands Kalo a cupcake pan to spin on his nose*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Rocket T. Coyote on September 20, 2011, 05:27:02 pm
There were cartoon horses withtheir own series long before MLP:

Quickdraw (http://youtu.be/omAmj35wZAc)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on September 29, 2011, 05:46:04 pm
I'm curious: Why no male characters in MLP? The only exceptions seem to be Spike the Dragon, and Discord. Otherwise, practically every other character is female. Why? Isn't that discrimination?  >:(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 29, 2011, 05:52:45 pm
I'm curious: Why no male characters in MLP? The only exceptions seem to be Spike the Dragon, and Discord. Otherwise, practically every other character is female. Why? Isn't that discrimination?  >:(
Okay... I'm going to say this slow so everypony can understand...

There...ARE...Males...

They're in the backgrounds, but they exist.

Big Mackintosh, Dr. Whooves/Sepia Tock, Snips and Snails, Hoity Toity, and the duo who pulled them to the gala just to name a few.

Personally I welcome the fact that the males have a low profile, it emphasises the fact of the strong female lead on the show and makes them stand out more and helps drive home the point that the girls can be just as awesome if not more awesome than the boys.

Besides guys, we're the main focus in just about every other cartoon in known existence. Can't we let the ladies have the spotlight here?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 29, 2011, 05:57:50 pm
Edited for proper pony pronouns:

There...ARE....Males. Colts...

They're in the backgrounds, but they exist.

Big Mackintosh, Dr. Whooves/Sepia Tock, Snips and Snails, Hoity Toity, and the duo who pulled them to the gala just to name a few.

Personally I welcome the fact that the .Males. Colts have a low profile, it emphasizes the fact of the strong .females. Fillies lead on the show and makes them stand out more and helps drive home the point that the girls can be just as awesome if not more awesome than the boys.

Besides guys, we're the main focus in just about every other cartoon in known existence. Can't we let the .ladies. fillies have the spotlight here?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 29, 2011, 06:12:01 pm
Edited for proper pony pronouns:

There...ARE....Males. Colts...

They're in the backgrounds, but they exist.

Big Mackintosh, Dr. Whooves/Sepia Tock, Snips and Snails, Hoity Toity, and the duo who pulled them to the gala just to name a few.

Personally I welcome the fact that the .Males. Colts have a low profile, it emphasizes the fact of the strong .females. Fillies lead on the show and makes them stand out more and helps drive home the point that the girls can be just as awesome if not more awesome than the boys.

Besides guys, we're the main focus in just about every other cartoon in known existence. Can't we let the .ladies. fillies have the spotlight here?
Technically either way works.  >:(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 29, 2011, 10:35:41 pm
So, I just got back from Target. It was a larger trip for me, so I actually took a cart this time, and I decided to wander the store a bit more than usual. Now, I've previously been there and wandered by the pink aisle, pondering ponies. But I hadn't yet made the turn to actually go into the aisle.

Until today, that is. I decided to nonchalantly wander into the aisle and just take a look. Now, the interactive/educational electronics toys happened to be on the other side of the aisle (you know, the LeapFrog sort of stuff). This may seem trivial, except for the fact that EVERY 3 FEET ON THAT SIDE OF THE AISLE WAS AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY WITH MOTION-ACTIVATION.

It was like some sort of elaborate brony trap or something. A set-up to detect the presence of a brony in the pink aisle, and alert the entire store (or at least all nearby shoppers) that somebody was in that aisle almost every time they take a step. The lights, the bells, the music... there was no way to make it stop if you wanted to actually stay in the aisle long enough to contemplate a purchase.

So I noticed that a few people nearby seemed to take notice of the commotion. I got scared and just started walking all business-like straight through and out of the aisle, and made my way to the registers.

This may not be the success story you were expected at the start of the story. But it was a small step in the right direction. A personal victory, regardless of how small it was. I have been in the pink aisle.

Two things to make note of:
1. I don't have any hangups about actually purchasing something pony. Going through the register with it is a non-issue for me. It's the whole standing in the aisle while trying to make a decision that gets me. I could probably be there for 15-20 minutes just staring at the options and picking which to buy. And that's not something somebody would do if they were just there to buy something as a gift for a daughter or friend. Not to mention that while I guess I am old enough to realistically have a child, I certainly don't look my age at all. When I tell people that I graduated last year, they think high school, not college. Anyhow, I just need to stop worrying about other people so much >.>

2. There was a relatively decent looking Twilight plush there, but all I could see is that she came with something else, too. I just looked on the website, and she's not a plush, but an 'animated storyteller'. I was a bit let down. I'd probably buy a plush before most other pony toys. But not an 'animated storyteller'. Also, upon looking closer at it online, it doesn't look quite as good as it did as I was breezing by in the store.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on September 29, 2011, 11:26:11 pm
Yeah the storyteller thing isn't all that good. I don't like her mane and her voice isn't actually Twilight's.

As for the motion detectors, you have my sympathies. I know all too well what you mean. And those aren't the only toys either. There are these little "Baby Alive" toys in my target and wheen you get near them they laugh and giggle and jump around in their playpen. It creeps me right out every time it happens.

I keep expecting to hear from behind me "I'm Talky Tina and I don't like you."
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on September 29, 2011, 11:40:46 pm
Yeah the storyteller thing isn't all that good. I don't like her mane and her voice isn't actually Twilight's.

As for the motion detectors, you have my sympathies. I know all too well what you mean. And those aren't the only toys either. There are these little "Baby Alive" toys in my target and wheen you get near them they laugh and giggle and jump around in their playpen. It creeps me right out every time it happens.

I keep expecting to hear from behind me "I'm Talky Tina and I don't like you."

Holy cow, I am soooo glad I'm not the only one! We had one of these kiddy laptop things go off, and it literally scared the bejezzus out of us. I hate the kids aisle.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on September 30, 2011, 05:07:25 pm
Found this on the news blotter this afternoon:

Quote
My Little Pony
Dont't forget to check your newspaper this Sunday for some truly magical coupons for your favorite My Little Pony products! What could be better?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on September 30, 2011, 07:00:33 pm
Found this on the news blotter this afternoon:

Quote
My Little Pony
Dont't forget to check your newspaper this Sunday for some truly magical coupons for your favorite My Little Pony products! What could be better?

Target's website has an online 20% off coupon for all Canterlot sets.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on October 04, 2011, 03:23:03 pm
Something I did not know: The voice actress that does the best Pony, Rarity, does a number of other voices from the show as well:

Tabitha St. Germain the actress behind Rarity also does the speaking parts for: Nightmare Moon, Luna, Zecora and Granny Smith. Seems everytime they need a mature Pony voice, Tabitha is their go-to girl. I'm going to have to rewatch the early episodes of season one to see if I can pick out Rarity's voice in some of these other parts.


For fans of some of the second best to Rarity ponies out there, you can see who your actress plays Here (http://bronymoonshot.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post.html).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on October 07, 2011, 01:09:20 am
http://iambrony.com/

Apparently i am a Mega Brony.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on October 07, 2011, 08:20:21 am
http://iambrony.com/

Apparently i am a Mega Brony.
69% - Fully Approved Brony here.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on October 07, 2011, 08:47:49 am
Mega Brony at 81%.  That's up from my last score, I think.  In this version of the test I did poorly on the questions about Fluttershy feeding the worms to the birds, Rainbow Dash's Best Young Flier competitor number(s), and Rarity's fake eyelashes.  I can't believe I missed such obvious ones.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on October 07, 2011, 09:10:24 am
Don't worry,  I didn't have a clue about any of those. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on October 07, 2011, 09:36:44 am
I'm disapointed, only got 87%. Got the Twilight Sparkle sandwich question wrong. I thought for sure she ordered a grass burger. And yeah, the Rainbow Dash number sequence is wicked hard.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on October 07, 2011, 10:08:10 am
I scored 72%, "Fully Approved Brony."  Not too bad considering the fact that I have only been a Brony for about a month!  I've really been soaking this stuff up!   :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on October 07, 2011, 04:44:47 pm
62% Fully approved.

I skipped the numbers to the best young flier competition. I looked at that one and thought "Are you serious?"

I think I did well though :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on October 07, 2011, 06:10:14 pm
You got 350 of 500 possible points.
Your score: 70 %
Fully approved brony

Fake eyelashes? Rainbow Dash's numbers? Times Applejack fell? Whaaat?

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on October 09, 2011, 12:42:53 am
Let's see... I can't draw, I can't make PMV's, I'm not a good enough writer, and my job keeps me from doing anything note worthy in the Brony (or any other) fandom for the most part. But I finally found a way I can leave my little hoof mark on the community. I've mentioned the Friendship is Madness podcast a few times on here, and while it isn't the most refined, it certainly lives up to its "madness" name.

Seems they have been hitting the bandwidth limit of their podcasting host site. I recently found out my little used webspace went to unlimited bandwidth allotment, plus I still have tons of space unused. So I'm partnering up with them to mirror their episodes in case their main site starts blocking downloads. Still working on setting it up since I had to move my site to a different server so they could have their own FTP access, but hopefully that will be taken care of tonight and can start listing them tomorrow.

YAY! I'm helping. :)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Old Rabbit on October 09, 2011, 12:35:55 pm
Let's see... I can't draw, I can't make PMV's, I'm not a good enough writer, and my job keeps me from doing anything note worthy in the Brony (or any other) fandom for the most part. But I finally found a way I can leave my little hoof mark on the community. I've mentioned the Friendship is Madness podcast a few times on here, and while it isn't the most refined, it certainly lives up to its "madness" name.

Seems they have been hitting the bandwidth limit of their podcasting host site. I recently found out my little used webspace went to unlimited bandwidth allotment, plus I still have tons of space unused. So I'm partnering up with them to mirror their episodes in case their main site starts blocking downloads. Still working on setting it up since I had to move my site to a different server so they could have their own FTP access, but hopefully that will be taken care of tonight and can start listing them tomorrow.

YAY! I'm helping. :)

Well done. I am sure they, and other Brony's will appreciate the mirror site too.. :orbunny:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on October 09, 2011, 03:51:25 pm
Awesome job Narei! Way to contribute to the community. :D

Now if you get mentioned on EQD I can go "I know that guy."
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on October 10, 2011, 04:34:43 am
Now if only Go Daddy would hurry up. Seems I needed to change to a different server for my hosting, and apparently I went to the one that is having issues, delaying the transfer and ftp access. XD

And Kalo, don't expect to see my name up there. Mirrors usually don't get that kind of notariety. :P
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on October 11, 2011, 02:49:07 pm
So, shame on me for not noticing this in time but yesterday was a major milestone in MLP history. MLP: FiM celebrated its One-Year Anniversary yesterday, October 10th.

Can you believe that this show, originally thought to be for little girls only, would grow to what its become today? And in only a year! And the fad itself has not drifted off as so many fads have in the past after a few months.

I may not have joined this takeover of the internet from the beginning, but I'm glad to have brought over to Furtopia when I did. I started to notice and became involved as a brony late December 2010, after a week or so, I was hooked and made the first post about here in early January 2011.

As interest started to grow and a fan base was being deeloped from within our Furtopian ranks, there was a lot of discussion on how to handle the amount of traffic being generated. Posts were being made just to cross-reference other posts and to loosely tie them all together, until we finally earned our own sub-forum as we have now. We haven't finished growing and developing yet either. With season two going full swing now and new content and resources being launched continuously, only Celestia knows how long we'll be going.

I know at some point we Bronies will quiet down and less traffic will be generated, but we've past the rennaissance period and now well into our industrial age. To paraphrase the battlecry that more or less started the movement as we know it: "The Mods are alseep, post ponies!".
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on October 11, 2011, 03:39:45 pm
I honestly think it's still in the rennaissance period, the golden times. When we start to get into the times of the production when Lauren wasn't as involved we'll see what happens. She was still majorly involved with Season 2 like Season 1 but they were wrapping 2 up when she left.

Fraankly the Bronies have, I think, have become practically a new culture in themselves. I hope to see it continue onward with strength.

Also yeah yesterday was international Friendship Day. I celebrated by making a new friend on Steam and introducing him to MLP. He laughed in my face but we still had a good time. I think he might check out te show but you know how newfoals are. I myself was highly against the ponies when I first found them. Its just the first stage. He'll come around.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Loc on October 14, 2011, 05:35:39 am
I think this is the right thread.

I started watching MLP from the beginning last night. Several episodes on, I can conclude that I love this show :3
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on October 14, 2011, 08:49:11 am
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--goDXvVJ15k/Td3oxY21OGI/AAAAAAAAAFs/QwxIUTEJwSQ/s400/welcome_to_the_herd-%28n1303016720556%29.jpg)

Standard Questions Time:

1) Who is your favorite Pony of the Mane 6?
2) What is your favorite episode?
3) What is your favorite part of the show?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Loc on October 14, 2011, 09:39:58 am
I've only watched the first five episodes, so I can't really answer the last two yet, but I think Fluttershy is my favourite pony so far. I just want to hug her.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on October 14, 2011, 10:50:25 am
Wait till you get to episode seven Loc, you'll love it.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Loc on October 14, 2011, 04:04:49 pm
Wait till you get to episode seven Loc, you'll love it.

I'm halfway through it and Omigawd she is adorable! ^^ I just want to give her a hug and tell her it'll be okay. Aaaw.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: 489109 on October 14, 2011, 05:23:18 pm
Now wait til Episode 26 and you'll see her in a whole new light. "You will Love me!"
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on October 15, 2011, 06:01:01 am
Standard Questions Time:

1) Who is your favorite Pony of the Mane 6?

We have an entire thread in this forum dedicated to that particular question:  MLP: FiM Pony Favourites (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=41872.0)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Loc on October 16, 2011, 09:40:14 pm
3) What is your favorite part of the show?

I can safely say episode 9, where "Flutterguy" is singing the song about Zecora :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on October 22, 2011, 10:53:38 am
So... S2E4 airing an hour late... and I wasn't aware of this before this morning.
Still waiting for it to show up on Youtube. I expect to see it in another 10 minutes or so. Think that's about how long it took the first two of this season to appear.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on October 22, 2011, 11:02:58 am
I saw it. Twice. And it's a fun episode. Just make sure you keep its discussion to the Season 2 thread due to spoilers. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on November 03, 2011, 07:26:43 am
Foiled again!

I'll be away again this weekend, and as such won't be able to watch the next episode on Saturday. I won't be back here until Monday night. So it'll either be Monday night or Tuesday after work before I get to see this one.

Really looking forward to it, though. I hope they keep up with something that feels back to normal with the first season. Oh, and it's about time for a song...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on November 03, 2011, 10:57:16 am
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html

I don't care what they're called. The fanon names are so much better. And I like Lyra much more than "Heartstrings"

Although "Lyra Heartstrings" isn't too bad a name.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: redyoshi49q on November 03, 2011, 02:46:39 pm
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html

I don't care what they're called. The fanon names are so much better. And I like Lyra much more than "Heartstrings"

Although "Lyra Heartstrings" isn't too bad a name.

There's something really broken here.  The only reason that I can see why everyone involved (Hasbro and fandom) would not benefit from the show adopting fanon names is because Hasbro might get sued by somebody claiming to have come up with one of the names.  I don't think the legal system is set up to adequately handle the relationship of and the sharing of content between centralized (Hasbro) and decentralized (fandom) entities that create literary and artistic media.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on November 03, 2011, 06:20:45 pm
To me, Hasbro seems to be making some really dumb business decisions.  As much as I can understand that it's difficult for a huge company to follow trends for each of its toy lines, you'd think that they would have realized what the brony phenomenon means for their toys.  They were already planning to make pony toys X, Y, and Z, so a few more minutes picking the right models/colors couldn't have hurt them.  I can forgive them for not following the fan names, but if they were smart they would have been at least naming, if not releasing, the background ponies a long time ago. Then the fan names wouldn't have taken root and there would be less controversy.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on November 03, 2011, 09:03:04 pm
To me, Hasbro seems to be making some really dumb business decisions.  As much as I can understand that it's difficult for a huge company to follow trends for each of its toy lines, you'd think that they would have realized what the brony phenomenon means for their toys.  They were already planning to make pony toys X, Y, and Z, so a few more minutes picking the right models/colors couldn't have hurt them.  I can forgive them for not following the fan names, but if they were smart they would have been at least naming, if not releasing, the background ponies a long time ago. Then the fan names wouldn't have taken root and there would be less controversy.

Controversy or not, people will buy them because to us, they ARE the names/characters we've turned them into. Who cares what it says on the card? The biggest problem is that a lot of them are just colored like the bg ponies, but they didn't do a whole lot in terms of getting their manes/tails right.

HOWEVER, I think this is a little bit forgivable. Companies have budgets. It is far cheaper to recolor the same mold than to create a whole new mold. Most of these budgets are determined the previous year. Hasbro couldn't have had a clue that all this would happen when they were making up the budget for the year. They didn't have 'make more show-accurate molds' on their priority list, and so there was nothing put into the budget for it.

From this perspective, you could say 'well, they made a new mold for the male blind bags'. Yes, they did. But let's say that means they had enough in their budget for one new mold to be made. It wouldn't really make sense to use that money to replace a single existing mold. For one thing, you have no net increase in molds. For another, you'd have to pick which pony gets the more accurate mold, while the rest still remain as-is. I think putting out the male ponies was a good middle ground here.

So perhaps the budget for next year will include re-vamping their current molds to make them more show-accurate. We'll just have to wait and see. What we DO know is that they are going to make some sets of glasses and lamps and other odds and ends, but those won't come around until later next year. I wouldn't say these are more targeted to the bronies, but they do have a bit of a wider appeal. I would consider getting a set of 6 juice glasses with the mane 6 on them. As long as they use the same sort of styling/vectors from the show.

As for the names, I'm pretty sure Carrot Top couldn't be used. And Lyra is oddly short for what seems typical of Equestrian names. Though I do like Lyra Heartstrings. That could work alright. But Berryshine and Golden Harvest... we SO got the better names on those two.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on November 03, 2011, 11:32:09 pm
Yeah companies can't really flow along with trends too well, especially if they are really big like Hasbro. They are too focused on costs.

So like always if you want your show accurate merch you have to turn inward to the fans. They will be accurate. They will be created with love and attention to fine details. They will be expensive as hell.

So do you sacrifice the extra cash for quality? Just how badly do you want that figurine of fanon Berry Punch holding a glass of her favorite drink? Or figures to make a scene of Octavia giving Vinyl Scratch a private performance on her double bass? Or Lyra and Bon Bon Heartstrings sitting on a bench together?

How much is it worth to you?

Hasbro is a company first and foremost so they cannot afford to bend to trends. They have no guarentee that this brony thing will last long enough for them to turn a profit off it if they spend the extra money to make show accurate detailed molds.
Frankly I'm shocked they went so far as to even TRY the background ponies at all.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on November 04, 2011, 12:33:55 am
Ziel, I do agree with what you're saying about the molds. I did mean to spell "models."  Picking the correct model for Berry Shine so she is an Earth Pony and not a Unicorn would have been a decision that mattered to bronies, but left all other sales estimates exactly the same.  Hey, maybe they'd even save a few thousand dollars by not using the plastic to cast the horn!

And yes, the more accurate the models get, the more expensive they'll be.  I'm flexible enough to accept the level of quality Hasbro is producing, but the only models that have been close enough to the show for me to buy have been the solid-hair models of the Mane 6 (and Fluttershy's hair STILL bugs me).  Now it looks like there will be a Big Macintosh. Hmm...
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on November 04, 2011, 11:46:14 pm
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Hasbro has pretty much said they WILL NOT be catering to bronies. If bronies buy their gear, great. If they don't, then that's great too because the intended audience will be. To wit, little girls. They don't care if Berry's an earth pony or a unicorn pony or if Fluttershy's hair is imperfect or that there's five or six main cast recolor toys oh my god seriously guys have you SEEN THESE THINGS. They literally take "Twilight Sparkle" and "Fluttershy" and turn them pink and orange respectively it's horrible. UGH.

Also, The background ponies aren't anything more than "other ponies to play with" for little girls, we're the only nerds to see them and make these huge epic deals (entire lives) about them.  We're the only ones who care about TV accurate. And we're simply not enough of a market....at least not compared to the frightening tidal wave that is Little Girls.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: furtopia02 on November 05, 2011, 03:19:35 am
I bought a MLP FiM 2012 calendar today from Dollar Tree for $1. :) Put it in my little girl's room to keep track of dr. visits and stuff.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: furtopia02 on November 05, 2011, 03:25:05 am
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html

I don't care what they're called. The fanon names are so much better. And I like Lyra much more than "Heartstrings"

Although "Lyra Heartstrings" isn't too bad a name.

lol omg, no way... I'm gonna have to buy one of those and put it in LYRA'S room (my 3 week old little girl). What makes it even funnier is that she has a birthmark almost that shape on her rump.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on November 05, 2011, 09:19:45 am
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html

I don't care what they're called. The fanon names are so much better. And I like Lyra much more than "Heartstrings"

Although "Lyra Heartstrings" isn't too bad a name.

lol omg, no way... I'm gonna have to buy one of those and put it in LYRA'S room (my 3 week old little girl). What makes it even funnier is that she has a birthmark almost that shape on her rump.
Amazing! Lyra has finally crossd the realms and achieved her dream of becoming human! :o

(really, one of the points of the fandom is that Lyra is therian and desperately wants to be human.)

You totally need to get her a Lyra pony.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on November 05, 2011, 11:24:44 am
I bought a MLP FiM 2012 calendar today from Dollar Tree for $1. :) Put it in my little girl's room to keep track of dr. visits and stuff.

DO WANT. Dollar store, here I come!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on November 10, 2011, 08:28:16 pm
Sorry for th double post, but can anyone get to WeLoveFine?  Site's not loading for me and I wanna see the recently-promoted-on-EqD hoodies!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on November 10, 2011, 08:41:30 pm
After my experience with their lack of quality, I refuse to go to their site anymore.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on November 10, 2011, 11:10:33 pm
I'm sad to hear about the quality issue, since they seem to be good at making good designs available.  Maybe the hoodie quality would be better than the other shirts, if someone were willing to try it out... *looks around expectantly*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on November 11, 2011, 03:57:18 am
Sorry for th double post, but can anyone get to WeLoveFine?  Site's not loading for me and I wanna see the recently-promoted-on-EqD hoodies!

As of the time that I am posting this, I am able to load the WeLoveFine website without any issues.

After my experience with their lack of quality, I refuse to go to their site anymore.

Aw nuts!  I wish that I had come across this post 72-hours earlier!  After several weeks of mulling over the decision, last Tuesday I finally caved in and bought my first two MLP:FiM-themed t-shirts from WeLoveFine.  I was hoping to wear them at the rapidly approaching Midwest Furfest convention and show my Brony pride!  At $25 apiece those shirts definitely weren't cheap, so now after reading Narei Mooncatt's condemnation of the company's products I am hoping beyond hope that when my shirts get delivered they won't turn out to be of poor quality as well.  I am anything but made of money these days, so I bought these shirts as a very special treat for myself.  I will be very upset if it turns out that I threw my money away!  *sigh*  And to think that I was so excited about my recent purchase too...   :(

Anyway, if anyone is curious about which two WeLoveFine t-shirts that I purchased, they were:


It was the "Mobile Dash" t-shirt that finally put me over the edge and convinced me to buy some shirts.  I recognize that Mobile gas station logo, and I really liked the parody of it!  Oh well, I guess I will have to give everyone here an update about how I feel about the quality of my WeLoveFine's t-shirts after they arrive and I get the chance to wear them.  Who knows, maybe the company's quality has improved since Narei Mooncatt's experience with them.  *crosses fingers!*
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on November 12, 2011, 04:33:19 am
On The Nick D. Show on WGN 720 radio (a 50,000-Watt AM broadcast radio station in Chicago, IL) this morning they were discussing who the best characters were on shows that are currently airing new episodes on TV.  Excitedly, I e-mailed in my own short list of favorite TV show characters to both the show's host and his producer.  My list started off innocently enough-- my first pick was the character Dr. Walter Bishop from Fringe, and my second pick was the character Danno from Hawaii Five-O.  While those choices were unusual enough compared to the characters all of the other listeners were saying that they liked, I then threw in my real curve ball: my third pick of Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!  The host didn't quite know what to think about that one!   He probably would have labeled me as a loon right there and stopped reading the rest of my list, but I mentioned in my e-mail that my favorite TV show character of all time was Al Bundy from Married: With Children, and to that Nick D. said, "There is absolutely nothing wrong about that!"   :D

Ah, the fun of listening to AM talk radio at a quarter after three in the morning while staying up and waiting for the new episode of MLP:FiM to air!   :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: TCD on November 14, 2011, 07:26:25 pm
Was this basically the review post, Narei?

Quote
On another note, I would like to say I got my Vinyl Scratch shirt today from https://www.welovefine.com/ and I must say my first impression is not that good. It LOOKS nice, but that's about it so far. As I mentioned in one of the other threads, there was a question about sizing and I decided to go one size larger than normal to allow for shrinkage in the wash. I got it today and it looks nice, but the fabric felt very thin and light weight. Kinda makes me wonder how well the image will hold up on it. It fit well in the areas I measured for ordering, but the sleeve hole diameter feels tight. Almost like you'd see some muscle shirts. Not only is that uncomfortable, but I could see it easily ripping a seam when trying to pull it off. I have a feeling I'd have to order the XXL at least for the sleaves to fit right, but then I'd be swimming in it.

It's currently in the wash to see how it fits after the shrinkage, but I don't have very high hopes because of the sleeve issue and that the shirt just feels "weak" for someone that would wear it as an every day shirt. I'll update this again after it's dry and I try it again. Speaking of which, I am washing according to the tag instructions for the first go around and I noticed 2 things. One, they mis-spelled "DRY" as "DYE". Unless I'm supposed to somehow dye it on low temperature.  I also noticed it is labeled made in China. While that alone isn't enough to turn me off of a purchase, it does affect my buying decisions when I'm paying nearly US$30 after shipping for a low quality and poor fitting shirt. By comparison, one of my favorite brands of shirt (The Mountain) makes extremely nice animal print t-shirts that are made in the U.S. for only $20. Not sure if they still have the design available, but they used a couple of Golden Wolf's designs, and can come in a nifty t-shirt shaped cardboard box. My only hope is they are paying a hefty royalty to the artists for how much they are charging for their shirts.

Hate to be a downer on this, but it needed to be said I think. And now I'm really considering sending it back, picking out a Vinyl Scratch image and getting the artist's permission to take it to a t-shirt shop and have my own made on a higher quality shirt.

EDIT: Yeah, I'm gonna just try  to send it back for a refund. Allie said it feels like the material they use to make female baby doll tees with. The body of the shirt still fit well after washing, but the arm holes are just going to be too tight for an every day shirt. My arms aren't overly large, just the sleeves are that small. Short too. Raising my arms, the bottom of the sleeve would pull back to my body.

Final judgement (for men anyway): I threw money at them, now I want it back.

Cuz you're not the only one who felt similarly. Bladespark posted a beware on Arists Beware (which apparently I can't find at the moment) basically saying the same thing. Maybe I'll just avoid them. Sucks though, they're so expensive. Did you end up getting your money back?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on November 15, 2011, 12:41:12 am
That would be the review. Yes, I forgot to update that I did get my money back no questions asked. Well, except return shipping to them, wich is typical of most anything bought online and returned. Since I paid with a debit card online, the refund was direct deposited to my account and not a check in the mail. The only requirement they have is that it still be in a "like new" condition. So no stains or tears or anything (unless it's a defect and exchanging of course), but it's ok to run it through the wash so you can check fit after the shrinkage.

And to be clear, the shirt I got was a mens T-shirt and expected a typical mens fitment and strength. If you would like something with the kind of "feminine" fabric they offer, you just have to be delicate with it and have small arms. If you're looking for a hoodie, my guess is those will have a different design since they are usually a heavy weight fabric for warmth. Those may fair better in a review, but I don't like hoodies myself and wouldn't be ordering that regardless.

I did try to look for other reviews of WLF shirts on Google, but I couldn't come up with anything either. I found a few small blurbs on EQD mentioning to watch out for sizing issues, but that's about it. Now I'm tempted to dust off my LJ and make a full review post of my experience so it would hopefully start to show up on search engines.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on November 15, 2011, 04:45:07 am
I haven't received the two WeLoveFine MLP:FiM t-shirts that I have ordered yet, but at the Lake Area Furry Friends Bowling meet that I was at last Saturday I spoke with a furry friend of mine who had bought two of their MLP:FiM shirts in the past, and sadly his impressions of the shirts that he received from them were very much along the same lines as Narei's.  Along with what Narei said, my friend also added the complaint that they placed the MLP:FiM artwork up way too high on his shirts so that the artwork was positioned just below his neck instead of a more centered location across his chest.  Like Narei, my friend will never buy from them again.

This is such a shame.  I buy t-shirts from the Internet all of the time, including from random sellers on eBay, and the vast majority of the time all of my t-shirts that I receive are at least alright.  There are always some shirts that turn out better than others when it comes to the quality of the t-shirts used and the methods used to transfer the artwork onto the shirts, but they almost always turn out to be at least acceptable to wear for daily use.  Considering the fact that I tend to prefer t-shirts that use a heavyweight cotton (especially Jerzees t-shirts), the fact that the WeLoveFine t-shirts are being described as being made from "the material [that] they use to make female baby doll tees" out of doesn't bode very well for me.  I am still hoping beyond hope that maybe in some miraculous way the people at WeLoveFine have recently seen the error of their ways and have reformed themselves so that my t-shirts will turn out alright.  I realize that there is a snowball's chance in heck of that actually happening, but I was originally extremely excited about buying these shirts, so I really don't want to receive them only to feel cheated and disappointed.  :(
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on November 15, 2011, 05:54:11 am
I think i mentioned already that I got a Brony Tee from  Hot Topic a while back. The shirt is fine, a bit thin but that isn't a problem for me as i like feminine feeling fabrics. After a wash it faded a tiny bit but nothing that made me angry or want to swear off buying another. I have yet to get another shirt from them mostly because they don't have any designs that interest me.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Sheeta on November 15, 2011, 10:23:00 pm
Hmm...

I guess I'm going to have to get my designs printed on my own, after hearing the We Love Fine reviews from you guys.  From both an artist and consumer's point of view, that's quite a shame considering how many designs they seem to be taking from artists without showing or giving them a sample of what their artwork will be represented on. 
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on November 27, 2011, 03:50:35 pm
(http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_fluttershy.jpg) (http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?q=NTkyOHw0Njk1OA!!)

Wow, I thought I was most like Twilight, but those guys weren't kidding when they said I was their group's Fluttershy!  :-[ :-[

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13875233/54187757884aaf8c2e945b7946443cb6.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on November 27, 2011, 11:20:01 pm
Here was my result from the Bronyland Pony Personality Test:

(http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_twilight.jpg) (http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?q=MTQ4N3w0ODY0OA!!)

This result doesn't surprise me at all.  I also scored as Twilight Sparkle when I took the Quizazz.com "Which My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Pony Are You?" (http://www.quizazz.com/quiz.php/888694/Which-My-Little-Pony-Friendship-is-Magic-pony-are-you/) quiz that Deval linked to in another thread here back in July (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=41872.msg801928#msg801928), and I am an INTP on the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, which according to the Pony MBTI Chart (http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/129/180/Myerspony.jpg?1306994816) is also the personality type for Twilight Sparkle.  So I guess I am Twilight Sparkle through and through!    :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ryffnah on November 27, 2011, 11:40:54 pm
I got Twilight Sparkle in that quiz too.  This didn't surprise me.  I was surprised though that I came out as less Fluttershy than average.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Acton on November 28, 2011, 02:41:34 am
 (http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_rainbowdash.jpg)

It figures
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on November 28, 2011, 07:38:36 am
(http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_applejack.jpg)

I'm actually a little surprised because I'll be honest here and say that I'm usually not as motivated and hard working as AJ is :-[.

When you read the description though, it seems to talk about traits you don't always hear about with her.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: redyoshi49q on November 30, 2011, 02:30:19 am
http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?q=NjUwM3w1NDcyNQ!!

...Apparently, my Fluttershy rating is off the charts as well...

(http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?img=plz&q=NjUwM3w1NDcyNQ!!)

I'm surprised that my Twilight rating was as low as it was, though.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on November 30, 2011, 09:14:17 am
I took that test too. Told me i was most like Fluttershy yet there was some very strong ties to Twilight and Applejack. So i think i'm a good balance of those three really. I have a lot of AJ's strengths in loyalty and honesty and dependability and telling it like it is bluntly. I have Twilights smarts and nerdyness and like Fluttershy i'm very introverted and shy.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on December 01, 2011, 04:59:59 pm
Ok, this I didn't expect (nor agree with, but whatever).  :o

(http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?img=plz&q=NjMzNXw2MjY3MA!!)

I'm no where near as bouncy and crazy as Pinkie Pie.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on December 01, 2011, 09:54:24 pm
maybe your bouncy crazy slots were filled by traits from appledash?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on December 01, 2011, 11:31:53 pm
I pretty much was appledash (they were almost equal, with AJ edging out RD just a tad), and very strongly was not Rarity.

Can't say I'm too surprised. It kinda matches very closely with my order of preference of the mane 6. I was surprised at first that Fluttershy wasn't all that close to AJ/RD. But my similarity with her kinda stops at her most obvious traits (quiet/shy). I do stray from her a bit when you dig a little deeper into her character.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ryffnah on December 14, 2011, 03:43:40 pm
My four-year-old daughter is performing the song from the beginning of May The Best Pet Win, acted out with various toys.  She apparently has the entire song memorized.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ryffnah on December 14, 2011, 04:20:17 pm
Now she's moved on to re-enacting the entirety of "The Secret of My Excess" with a plastic Siberian tiger playing the part of Spike.  These episodes stand up surprisingly well to theatrical re-interpretation.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on December 14, 2011, 05:16:02 pm
These episodes stand up surprisingly well to theatrical re-interpretation.

I lol'ed. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on December 14, 2011, 05:33:44 pm
Now she's moved on to re-enacting the entirety of "The Secret of My Excess" with a plastic Siberian tiger playing the part of Spike.  These episodes stand up surprisingly well to theatrical re-interpretation.

By a four year old, no less :D! That's awesome!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ickyrus on December 15, 2011, 06:06:07 am
All you people with your large purple areas on that test. Apparently I have no kindness or honesty in me at all xD No Applejact traits or Fluttershy, and no surprise.


(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4107/c0174d9673a2a77c93403a4.jpg)

(http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_pinkiepie.jpg)

On the quizzer quiz, I got Rarity, and according to the MBTi pony chart I'm applebloom. erk.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ryffnah on January 05, 2012, 01:43:09 am
My daughter got the main six ponies for Khristmas last week, and today she received a late Khristmas present from a friend -- the glitter-winged Rarity.  Right now, she's playing with her ponies, re-imagining the history of Equestria.  Apparently, the glitter-winged Rarity was the first pony and created all the other ponies, one at a time, beginning with Applejack.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on January 05, 2012, 01:49:40 am
My daughter got the main six ponies for Khristmas last week, and today she received a late Khristmas present from a friend -- the glitter-winged Rarity.  Right now, she's playing with her ponies, re-imagining the history of Equestria.  Apparently, the glitter-winged Rarity was the first pony and created all the other ponies, one at a time, beginning with Applejack.
That is because Applejack is best pony.
Your daughter has my eternal respect for catching this so early.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on January 05, 2012, 06:24:49 pm
That is because Applejack is best pony.

Yes! Another Applejack fan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4sqiqh1-EM

Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Nicholai on January 05, 2012, 08:14:34 pm
All you people with your large purple areas on that test. Apparently I have no kindness or honesty in me at all xD No Applejact traits or Fluttershy, and no surprise.


(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4107/c0174d9673a2a77c93403a4.jpg)

(http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_pinkiepie.jpg)

On the quizzer quiz, I got Rarity, and according to the MBTi pony chart I'm applebloom. erk.
Every time I do one of those pony personality tests, I end up as Twilight. WITHOUT FAIL. It's like, a natural law at this point.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on January 08, 2012, 05:32:56 am
Hey! Season 2 episode 12! Discuss!

This has got to be one of my favorites. It completely contradicts everything that was said about Ponyville previously, by which I mean the PREVIOUS EPISODE, but Apple family is best family.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on January 08, 2012, 05:59:59 am
Hey! Season 2 episode 12! Discuss!

This has got to be one of my favorites. It completely contradicts everything that was said about Ponyville previously, by which I mean the PREVIOUS EPISODE, but Apple family is best family.

Dude!  We already have a thread specifically dedicated to discussing Season 2 MLP:FiM episodes! (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42340.0)  You yourself have posted in that thread as recently as a little over a week ago!  Why would you suddenly want to bring the season 2 episode discussion over here when we have been dutifully discussing it in the dedicated thread every week since last September!?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on January 08, 2012, 12:40:03 pm
Hey! Season 2 episode 12! Discuss!

This has got to be one of my favorites. It completely contradicts everything that was said about Ponyville previously, by which I mean the PREVIOUS EPISODE, but Apple family is best family.

Dude!  We already have a thread specifically dedicated to discussing Season 2 MLP:FiM episodes! (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42340.0)  You yourself have posted in that thread as recently as a little over a week ago!  Why would you suddenly want to bring the season 2 episode discussion over here when we have been dutifully discussing it in the dedicated thread every week since last September!?
Dude, calm down. Just point it out politely please.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on January 08, 2012, 05:18:46 pm
Hey! Season 2 episode 12! Discuss!

This has got to be one of my favorites. It completely contradicts everything that was said about Ponyville previously, by which I mean the PREVIOUS EPISODE, but Apple family is best family.

Dude!  We already have a thread specifically dedicated to discussing Season 2 MLP:FiM episodes! (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42340.0)  You yourself have posted in that thread as recently as a little over a week ago!  Why would you suddenly want to bring the season 2 episode discussion over here when we have been dutifully discussing it in the dedicated thread every week since last September!?

Perhaps because it was 3:30 AM at the time I posted :(?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on January 09, 2012, 08:51:44 pm
Perhaps because it was 3:30 AM at the time I posted :(?

 /hugs Shim forgivingly

:)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on January 10, 2012, 03:22:44 am
Who watches the "Watchers?"  Apparently I do...

(http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/e/e6/Watching.png)
Forever!!!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on January 26, 2012, 10:31:07 pm
For those who may not check EQD on a daily basis (or more often >.>), this was announced today:
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/bronycon-turned-upside-down-starts.html

Yes. Add John De Lancie to the list of special guests attending.
I won't lie, it makes it awful tempting to go. But that may depend on where my life takes me in the next few months.

Oh, and they changed venue and raised the attendance cap to 4000.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kay Alett on January 26, 2012, 11:46:37 pm
Man I wish I had money. The chance to meet the legend, John DeLancie!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on January 28, 2012, 03:23:45 pm
I originally visited Furtopia this morning to attempt to be the first Brony to comment on the new MLP:FiM episode, "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" here since I have been *extremely* excited about it since I finished watching the episode on HUB 50-minutes ago, but gosh darn it, it looks like the episode hasn't been uploaded to YouTube yet, and without having the episode available on my computer screen to be able to replay and replay and replay so that I can break down and analyze the episode down to the most obsessive detail, my comments about it will just have to wait.

That however does remind me of something that I have wanted to bring up in this discussion thread for a long time, and that is the suddenly much more active and offensive role Hasbro's legal department has suddenly been taking against sites either hosting or linking to complete My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episodes.  This renewed copyright enforcement campaign started off with a Death Star-shattering-Alderaan-sized-bang when Hasbro, Inc. moved it's giant orbital friendship cannon of mass destruction against the website Pony Archive (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/12/ponyarchive-officially-shuts-down.html), and has been ongoing since then with a far more aggressive campaign against the hosting of complete episodes on YouTube.  While not carried out by Hasbro, the destruction of Megaupload.com by U.S. and New Zealand authorities was yet another serious blow as that was where many MLP:FiM episodes were hosted.  As a result it has become *much* harder to see these episodes on the web, and it is only through the effort of Bronies actively defying Hasbro and risking repercussions that we are still able to see MLP:FiM episodes on the web at all.

This is an interesting turn of events, as for the longest time Hasbro was extremely lax about fans hosting complete MLP:FiM episodes on the web, and I would argue that it was this very lenient policy that allowed the entire web Brony movement to form on the web in the first place.  Now I happen to be extremely lucky with the fact that I have a cable provider that offers the HUB channel, but from what I have read over the past few months on Brony fan sites like Equestria Daily, there are many many Bronies who live in parts of the world where there is no television channel like the HUB or its few international partners broadcasting MLP:FiM, and there are even several countries out there where the iTunes store doesn't do business, shutting out that possible legitimate source for watching episodes in those regions as well.  These Bronies relied on video upload sources like YouTube and Pony Archive to be able to see the show at all, and with these resources gone those Brony communities are being slowly (if inadvertently) cut off, which is a sad turn of events.

Now, I didn't start writing this post to argue the right or wrong about Hasbro's now more hard-line take-down policy of videos.  MLP:FiM is their property, and they are free to enforce their intellectual property rights however they see fit.  If they want to disallow the hosting of complete MLP:FiM episodes across the web I really don't have any right to complain.  What I did start writing this post about however, is that I wonder how much further Hasbro will go with their enforcement policies from here.  As of right now, all still seems to be more good than bad in the Brony fandom world-- sites like Equestria Daily are have so far been largely unthreatened, I haven't heard about any of the MLP:FiM derived game projects like "Fighting is Magic (http://www.mane6.com/)" getting any threats, and Bronycon still seems to be getting a nod of approval, or at the very least a disinterested look of indifference, from the suit-wearing warlords at the top of Hasbro's corporate ladder.  But I have to wonder, will things stay this way, or will the Brony community become more clamped down upon once Hasbro can find ways to monetize more things that up until this point the bronies have been traditionally doing?

To explain what I mean, fan-speculation has it that the reason why Hasbro has suddenly become far more interested in taking down uploaded episodes from the web lately is because they have started releasing retail DVD's of some of the show's episodes and made the show's episodes available for purchase on iTunes.  In other words, Hasbro has now monetized recordings of the episodes, so now the act of fans uploading recordings of the episodes for free downloading or viewing is no longer O.K.  Alright, that makes reasonable business sense, I guess.  The danger comes in when Hasbro decides to monetize something else related to MLP:FiM.  Take for example if Hasbro decided to start selling MLP:FiM video games commercially.  I'm not talking about small flash-based games like the one that they currently have on HUB World.  Instead, I mean large commercial games, such as releasing games for handhelds such as for the iPhone or the Nintendo3DS, or for consoles such as the Nintendo Wii or the XBOX 360, or even releasing MMORPG's based around the land of Equestria.  In that case, would Hasbro's legal team start launching a legal assault against pre-established fan-made alternative games such as the before mentioned "Fighting is Magic," or other fan-made games that are in the works such as "Equestria Tales (http://byrpheros.pl/index.php?pg=main)," or "MLP Online (http://www.mlponline.net/)?"

The reason why I have suddenly become so concerned about this is because some time ago I myself started working on a large MLP:FiM-based project.  Every year I try to make a New Year's Resolution that I am going to complete one large project out of my now absolutely massive Project Destiny Studios project database (because otherwise I have a great knack for starting interesting projects and then never finishing them), and for 2012 I chose to try to concentrate my efforts on "Project #88," which happens to be a huge MLP:FiM-based video game project.  When I first came up with the idea for this project last Fall all was still right in the Brony world: the Pony Archive website was still alive and well, there were multiple bronies that had entire YouTube channels dedicated to hosting complete 1080p MLP:FiM episodes, and it looked like Hasbro was letting the fans do whatever derivative works based on MLP:FiM that they wanted, including selling fan-made merchandise such as custom made plushies, artwork, and repainted toys without fear of reprisal.  I am normally very cautious about making fan-made works based on other peoples' properties that I don't personally have written permission to use, and as a result I haven't created any fan artwork of any movie and TV show characters for literally years.  I just haven't done it.  I used to draw fan artwork of my favorite furry and cartoon animal characters from TV shows and movies all of the time, but has been 7-years now since I last have.  However, the sheer amount of fan works being created around MLP:FiM, combined with Hasbro's lack of condemnation against it, was rather a rather relaxed and appealing environment.  It caused me to lower my usual reservations about fan artwork, become caught up and deeply inspired by the brony movement, and start planning MLP:FiM-based projects of my own.  The success and attention that some MLP:FiM fan artists have been getting along with the advice given by a famous animator on his blog (http://jhonenv.tumblr.com/post/12485645868/getting-noticed) only helped to encourage me even further.

Now that Hasbro's legal department is showing that it does indeed have teeth and that it is not hesitant to use them, I am once again starting to become hesitant about continuing with my plan of making a large MLP:FiM-based project.  It's one thing to draw a fan-drawing and be asked by your ISP to take it down due to a DMCA Takedown request.  It's another thing to plan out an expensive game development project that I am going to be pouring my heart and soul into for the next 18+ months and then have *that* ordered to be taken down.  That would be tragic.  In addition, the fact that I have been told that there are already two existing MLP:FiM games that are similar in theme and game-play to my own game (but simpler and for different platforms) doesn't help my confidence with choosing to continue to keep moving ahead with my own project either.  [I did come up with the idea for my game completely independently without ever seeing the others, but apparently the idea that I came up with for a MLP:FiM game was a natural one.  I haven't seen these other games personally, as I have been intentionally avoiding them to keep them from contaminating my own ideas (and thus hoping to prevent people from accusing me of any idea-stealing through the "Chinese Wall Technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design)"), but the fact of the matter is that even though I personally feel that I am probably building a far better "mousetrap" for an as-yet untargeted platform, it still makes me wonder if I will still get jeered by the community for building another "mousetrap" at all, metaphorically speaking.]  I have already thrown some money into this project, but I am not yet at the point of no return, so I am left scratching my head and mulling about whether or not I want to possibly consider abandoning the massive endeavor and move onto something else.

Now that you have heard my thoughts, I have to ask you for your own-- I know that there are others here at Furtopia that are writing MLP:FiM fan-fictions, drawing MLP:FiM fan art, and in at least one case actually selling MLP:FiM fan-made merchandise.  Does anyone here share my concerns, or am I being completely hyper-vigilant here?  I'm curious if anyone else here worries about their own brony endeavors or the really large fan projects like Equestria Tales and MLP Online getting turned on by Hasbro, or if I am the only person around here who sees these kinds of storm clouds possibly appearing on the horizon.  Please let me know-- I would be curious to learn if anyone else has been picking up on any bad premonitions based on Hasbro's more recent somewhat-draconian behavior.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on January 28, 2012, 03:42:32 pm
For starters, the episode is up on youtube and has been for a while. I always go to Derpy Hooves News (http://derpyhoovesnews.com/) to get the link to the newest episode. I think they only keep it at the top of their page for a short time though, as I've seen it gone when looking about half way through the week. They XyroTR1's channel for the HD version. Today's episode link HERE btw. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jwKGGWjAY&hd=1)

About the site take downs and such, I also think it's just them gearing up for DVD releases. Like it or not, the Brony community has to accept that Hasbro has the final say in anything that's put out there. They do also have to protect their copyright. Even if they think it'd be a good business practice to let us share and share alike (I.e. thinking the extra attention will generate more sales than blocking it on places like Youtube and Pony Archive), they can loose their copyright protection by doing so. However you look at it, they probably didn't have a choice if they wanted to mantain full control of their product. It shames the community as a whole when people start whining about Hasbro taking something down. Even more so when they think "But I'm sharing the power of friendship" is a valid argument for posting full HD episodes. I'm actually glad that the Pony Archive is gone after seeing their true colors in the defiance against Hasbro's take down notice (Excepting the one guy that bowed right from the first notice like a responsible adult of course). We don't need that kind of people in the community. Sure, I can understand questioning the emails to verify their legitimacy, but do it in a respectful manor!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on January 28, 2012, 04:38:15 pm
For starters, the episode is up on youtube and has been for a while. I always go to Derpy Hooves News (http://derpyhoovesnews.com/) to get the link to the newest episode. I think they only keep it at the top of their page for a short time though, as I've seen it gone when looking about half way through the week. They XyroTR1's channel for the HD version. Today's episode link HERE btw. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jwKGGWjAY&hd=1)

I realize that the episode is up now, but it asn't when I had started writing the post.  Keep in mind that it takes me about 4-hours to bang out a wall-of-text with embedded hyperlinks of that size.

About the site take downs and such, I also think it's just them gearing up for DVD releases. Like it or not, the Brony community has to accept that Hasbro has the final say in anything that's put out there. They do also have to protect their copyright. Even if they think it'd be a good business practice to let us share and share alike (I.e. thinking the extra attention will generate more sales than blocking it on places like Youtube and Pony Archive), they can loose their copyright protection by doing so. However you look at it, they probably didn't have a choice if they wanted to mantain full control of their product. It shames the community as a whole when people start whining about Hasbro taking something down. Even more so when they think "But I'm sharing the power of friendship" is a valid argument for posting full HD episodes. I'm actually glad that the Pony Archive is gone after seeing their true colors in the defiance against Hasbro's take down notice (Excepting the one guy that bowed right from the first notice like a responsible adult of course). We don't need that kind of people in the community. Sure, I can understand questioning the emails to verify their legitimacy, but do it in a respectful manor!

Before the purpose of my last post gets misunderstood, I am not trying to complain about what Hasbro has already done, such as take down Pony Archive, strip episodes from YouTube, and the like.  Instead, I was wondering if anyone else here was as concerned as I am that Hasbro may start going further, such as going after the larger fan-made projects such as the video games that I mentioned in my last post, the large fan websites like the Derpy Hooves News site you referenced, and so on.  In other words, do you think that the video take downs are both the beginning and the end of Hasbro's actions, or do you think that they might possibly go further and come after high-profile derivative works?  I realize no one here will know for sure what the corporate-types at Hadbro are thinking and thus can't predict the future, so instead I am just asking whether or not anyone here shares my feelings of concern.  In other words, has anybody else's brony-related endeavors been effected or future plans changed by these recent developments?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on January 28, 2012, 08:19:57 pm
Before the purpose of my last post gets misunderstood, I am not trying to complain about what Hasbro has already done, such as take down Pony Archive, strip episodes from YouTube, and the like.  Instead, I was wondering if anyone else here was as concerned as I am that Hasbro may start going further, such as going after the larger fan-made projects such as the video games that I mentioned in my last post, the large fan websites like the Derpy Hooves News site you referenced, and so on.  In other words, do you think that the video take downs are both the beginning and the end of Hasbro's actions, or do you think that they might possibly go further and come after high-profile derivative works?  I realize no one here will know for sure what the corporate-types at Hadbro are thinking and thus can't predict the future, so instead I am just asking whether or not anyone here shares my feelings of concern.  In other words, has anybody else's brony-related endeavors been effected or future plans changed by these recent developments?

I wouldn't be all too worried about things like that. The distribution/availability of the episodes is a very direct impact on their profits and ratings. Only viewers on TV and purchases from iTunes are going to boost their ratings. None of the people waiting for the eps on YouTube or watching them streamed live on Saturdays are counting toward the show's ratings. And that's what it is all about.

I also think they are reasonable enough with us that on the off chance that they did start to want people to back off on various fan projects, they would be cool about it.

But they have to realize that we need some quantity of creative freedom, which will include the use of their own characters for various things. Without that, this community would be stifled pretty quickly. And I think we've proven to be a big enough group that they don't want to risk upsetting that balance as well.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ryffnah on January 28, 2012, 11:07:14 pm
"they can loose their copyright protection by doing so"

This is not true.  You don't lose your copyright when you allow people to copy your work.  That's trademarks.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ryffnah on January 28, 2012, 11:12:30 pm
My thoughts on this subject are that Hasbro successfully sucked me into being a fan of this show by letting it be copied freely on Youtube.  I wouldn't have watched it otherwise.  In return, I became a loyal fan, and I've bought a bunch of their toys for my daughter.  I also would buy a good DVD set of a whole season if they put it out.  However, their current behavior -- constantly taking down episodes from Youtube -- has led to a lot of sadness and conflict in my house.  My four-year-old daughter does not understand why the episodes that she previously used to be able to easily access on her computer (because I added them to a favorites list that she can get to) keep disappearing.  No matter how I try to explain it to her, it doesn't make sense.  It makes her sad and angry when it happens.  And thus it makes me sad and angry.  Especially angry.  I personally think that they are behaving very poorly in doing so.  But, then, I think that's true of pretty much every giant corporation that "owns" any significant amount of culturally valuable "intellectual property."
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on February 02, 2012, 06:07:21 pm
Well, we done screwed up. Bigtime.

A group of people sent complaints in to Hasbro and even directly to the writer for The Last Roundup. This is all regarding Derpy, and how she was presented. Now it seems that Hasbro is asking WeLoveFine to remove all their stuff with Derpy on it. And the episode has been removed from iTunes for now. I'm guessing that they are modifying it to either take Derpy out entirely and insert a random other pony, or un-Derping Derpy.

This makes me sad. Very sad indeed. Some people apparently couldn't just be happy with Derpy being made canon and enjoying the shout-out to the Bronies. I'm pretty sure she'll be gone forever now. I'd expect the opening to have her removed from the train during the title song, and we probably won't see her again in the background anywhere. Or at the very least, she'll be un-Derped.

What worries me most is that this is twice now that Hasbro has seen some backlash from the community. And this time, some went straight to one of the writers... I doubt this will happen now, but if things like this happen too much more, or if they get more severe, I could see them cancelling the show because of us. Well, because of what I figure is a fairly small but vocal portion of us. And I'd be a bit surprised if we see even the most subtle of nods to the community ever again.

Keep in mind that we've not yet had confirmation of Season 3. I just looked it up, and S2 was officially announced on March 25th last year. Assuming a similar timeline, that means all this drama has likely happened as they were still considering a third season (or at least early enough that they could still pull it).

I'm coming off as very negative here. And I try not to be, but I'm frustrated and concerned about this. I'd rather the show not end after just 2 seasons. It's too good for that.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on February 02, 2012, 06:13:41 pm
I thought the Derpy inclusion was one of the funniest things I've seen on the show. It was amazing. I don't get why so many people complained.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on February 02, 2012, 06:43:15 pm
I thought the Derpy inclusion was one of the funniest things I've seen on the show. It was amazing. I don't get why so many people complained.
Because some people just want to take things too seriously and cause trouble instead of enjoying it for what it is. Being accused of making fun of retarded people is one of those things that can be a death nell for a large corporation, so they will always have this kind of knee jerk reaction instead of being reasonable.

Also throw in the fact that some people have an insatiable distaste for any big business and sprinkle on a helping of being pissed off that Derpy wasn't portrayed exactly to a few fans' expectation and this is what you get.

If things do go downhill with Derpy, I have a feeling Hasbro and Studio B are going to get an even bigger ear full and less cha-ching as the rest of the Bronies counter vote with their own letters and dollars.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on February 02, 2012, 06:46:26 pm
Because some people just want to take things too seriously and cause trouble instead of enjoying it for what it is. Being accused of making fun of retarded people is one of those things that can be a death nell for a large corporation, so they will always have this kind of knee jerk reaction instead of being reasonable.

Also throw in the fact that some people have an insatiable distaste for any big business and sprinkle on a helping of being pissed off that Derpy wasn't portrayed exactly to a few fans' expectation and this is what you get.

If things do go downhill with Derpy, I have a feeling Hasbro and Studio B are going to get an even bigger ear full and less cha-ching as the rest of the Bronies counter vote with their own letters and dollars.

Pretty much this.

And yes, I am worried about the backlash for whatever they might be doing because of the initial backlash. We just need to lay low for a while and roll with whatever happens. Perhaps even send some positive feedback to Hasbro and Studio B, with no mention of Derpy whatsoever.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on February 03, 2012, 03:50:40 am
First of all, I would like to sincerely say that I am very saddened to learn about all of the reactionary measures being taken against Derpy and the episode "The Last Roundup" by Hasbro.  For the most part I really liked Derpy, and her latest portrayal in the recent episode "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" re-secured her place amongst my favorite ponies, as I chuckled every time I saw her with hilarious googly-eyed expression happily hovering and singing in the background.  With that said, I am absolutely not surprised even in the slightest that this backlash against Derpy's portrayal in "The Last Roundup" happened.  I so called this!  If you remember, on January 21st, 13-days ago, I wrote in the "MLP:FiM Season 2 Discussion Thread:"

Even worse, I now have a bad feeling that Hasbro and Studio B just might have just set themselves up for some real backlash over this, because I am sure that if I interpreted Derpy as acting a little literally mentally challenged than I am probably not the only one who noticed.  While I am by no means a stickler for political correctness, there are a lot of people out there that may take some serious offense to that.  Because of this, I am interested to see what the public at large's reaction to Derpy's new speaking part is, and how everything ends up playing out in the fandom.

So as you can see, I absolutely positively knew that this crap-storm was going to happen, and everything has played out pretty much exactly how I expected it would.  Why did I see this coming?  How was I so sure that this maelstrom against Derpy was going to happen?  Because for a few years I was a professional newspaper comic strip cartoonist, and I have *personally* been through these kinds of situations before.  That's how I knew.

To explain, from 2002 until 2005 I was drawing two different comic strips professionally for two different newspapers.  One of my comic strips, "Tiggerman," was a comic strip about the daily mis-adventures of a hapless cartoon house cat named Tiggerman.  It was drawn for the newspaper of Illinois State University, The Daily Vidette, and had an average daily readership of about 30,000 students, faculty, and alumni.  Being a college newspaper with the vast majority of the readership being above the age of 18, and with this being the era of edgier adult shows such as Family Guy and South Park, there were some times where I tried to push the envelope of my humor a bit to help me cater to that audience.  Most of the time my own sensibilities of what I could and could not get away with in regards to the humor in my strip were in-line with what my editor would allow, but every once in a while I would push things a little bit to far, the editor would reject the strip and request changes, and I would have to re-work my strip to bring things into line.  However, despite the usual success of this system, every once in a while something in my comic strip would get approved by both myself and my editor and yet would still end up unexpectedly making readers upset.  Sometimes, what upset the readers were the most bizarre, unexpected, or unintentional things imaginable.  For example, I once had a comic strip where Tiggerman's girlfriend, a girl cat, accidentally sat on a spider.  When she was bitten by it she yelped and jumped into the air, landing on top of poor Tiggerman and knocking him over.

Now this comic strip was one of the tamer ones that I had ever drew at the newspaper.  Sometimes my Tiggerman comic strips contained double-entendre type humor in the text, making their text sometimes a bit edgy in the otherwise G-rated comic strips if you wanted to take it that way.  But this strip had none of that-- it was showing physical humor the likes of which you would see in any "Three Stooges" short or "Tom and Jerry" cartoon.  Even so, the reader complaints started coming in.  The readers saw the girl cat landing on top of the boy cat in the last panel and decided that they were seeing something sexual in nature and wrote in to complain about the "inappropriate artwork" that they were seeing in that morning's newspaper.  Obviously, that is not what I intended the readers to see at all-- I had wanted them to see a girl cat getting bit by a spider that she was sitting on, launch herself in the air through reflex, and accidentally flatten her boyfriend on the way down.  That is all.  But the problem is that when you have an audience as large as 30,000 people reading your comic strips each week some of them are bound to see things differently than you had intended.  People will see things that aren't really there.  People will misinterpret things.  People will see a comic strip, relate it to something negative that happened in their own personal lives, and then erroneously jump to the conclusion that you were somehow personally attacking them.  In the end it doesn't matter if you had actually intended the comic strip to be interpreted that way or not-- as a professional you are still always at fault, you still always need to apologize, and you always need to be far more careful about not repeating that mistake the next time.

Because of these hard lessons that I learned through experience as a professional cartoonist, I have been forced to become far more aware of what jokes might end up inadvertently offending people.  When I saw Derpy's speaking performance in the episode, "The Last Roundup," my red flags immediately went up.  Now, keep in mind that I was in no way personally offended by Derpy sounding, well, you know, "derpy" in that episode.  In general I enjoy politically incorrect humor, and I am not easily offended by such things.  But my professional cartoonist's sense, the one formed from three years of writing humor for a large audience, instantly *knew* that if I noticed something kind of unsavory about Derpy's speaking voice that other people would definitely be noticing something unsavory about it as well.  And since MLP:FiM has an audience that is far greater in size than my comic strip did, I knew that the backlash over Derpy was also going to be several times greater.  In fact, I knew that the backlash was going to be huge.

Well, we done screwed up. Bigtime.

Going along with what I said about how the professionals *always* have to take responsibility for incidents like this, it the pre-production staff at Hasbro Studios (and possibly the staff at Studio B and Voicebox Productions) that are the ones who screwed up big time here-- not the fans.  Don't blame the viewers for how they end up interpreting things-- different people interpret shows in different ways, and that is just a fact of life that all media producers must deal with.  Just like when I was writing my comic strips for the newspaper, Amy Keating Rogers needed to have a really good personal idea about what kind of humorous content she could and could not get away with in this episode, especially since this show has really strict "educational and informational" standards imposed on it by Hasbro, and she apparently slipped up here.  With that said, the situation is not all her fault as there should be an entire pre-production staff (the equivalent of my newspaper editor) that should go over her work before the script gets finalized.  The questionable Derpy scene should have been caught there if it hadn't been caught by Ms. Rogers herself.  Failing that, the Derpy scene could have also been flagged once Studio B sent the storyboards back to the staff at Hasbro Studios for final approval before the show was animated, or the scene could again been flagged once the dialog was recorded at Voicebox Productions and sent back to Hasbro Studios for final approval.  There was multiple missed opportunities for the staff to catch this particular potentially inflammatory scene and remove it, and to their discredit it somehow managed to slip through all of them.  You can bet that after this disaster Hasbro is going to be really tightening the reins on these guys quite a bit to make sure that something like this never slips through again.

With that said, the executives at Hasbro, Inc. also need to be taken to task for how they are handling this situation.  Referring back to my story about my "Tiggerman" newspaper comic strip, during cases where something slipped by both the scrutiny of myself *and* my editor, and somehow still ended up offending people unexpectedly and unintentionally, we still had to take full responsibility for it and apologize even during the times when we thought that the few complaining readers were being very unreasonable.  The readers were always right, after all.  My editor was usually pretty supportive of me during incidents like that and understood that sometimes there are oversensitive people out there that manage to get offended by the tiniest of things, but we still had to adjust how we did things to correct the situation and make sure that it never happened again.  Because of my good working relationship with my editor, my comic strip never got pulled or canceled from the newspaper in reaction to any backlash, and I never personally got in trouble.  We just worked harder at it and altered our course when we needed to.  Hasbro should be doing something along those same lines-- I could see them making a public apology saying that any offense was accidental and not intended, and I can see them removing the offending scene from further showings of that particular episode, but I am rather shocked that they are actually going as far as trying to stop the sale of Derpy merchandise from We Love Fine and possibly removing the adorable cross-eyed mare from the show altogether.  Considering how long Derpy has been around without catching the ire of anyone, Hasbro should have just taken this recent incident as one of those inevitable hiccups that every show with a really large fan base ultimately has and just kept on rolling with it, much like my editor did with me.

Now before people start getting upset with me, let me make it quite clear that I have never contacted Hasbro, Studio B, Amy Keating Rogers, or anyone else about Derpy.  In fact, so far I have never contacted anyone involved with Hasbro or anyone involved in the production of the show about anything, anytime, ever.  And the only place where I shared my own observations about Derpy in that episode was here, in the post quoted above, on Furtopia.  If you recall, later on in that same quoted post I even wrote:

I still love the character, but now I am going to have to say that I love my own personal take on the character more than the new canon one.  I have a whole bunch of Derpy fan art that I want to draw, and to keep myself enthusiastic about it I am just going to have to pretend that the scene where she is helping Rainbow Dash decorate the town hall just didn't happen for now!

So in other words, my own personal solution to the Derpy problem was to ignore it and keep on continuing on with my own Derpy fan-creation endeavors as if I had never seen her in "The Last Roundup," and that is exactly what I ended up doing.  This whole issue was barely even a small bump on the road for me as a MLP:FiM fan, and as far as I am concerned Derpy's later more typical appearance in "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" fixed everything for me.  For me personally this Derpy incident was definitely not something worth my time to actually write angry letters to people about-- believe me, if I ever feel the need to write a cross letter to someone I have plenty of bones to pick with recent bills being introduced by my local Illinois state legislators.  With that bunch of clowns constantly attracting my ire, Derpy is not even on my RADAR!

Hopefully Derpy will still be allowed to be a comic-relief background pony in future episodes, and that the decision to stop the sale of Derpy-related merchandise is reversed.  I have personally been particularly endeared to the little cross-eyed mare ever since I saw her accidentally drain the tub in "Luna Eclipsed," and I am hoping that I will be able to see her in new entertaining moments like that again in future episodes.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Foxxhoria on February 03, 2012, 09:04:58 am
It truly is a sticky situation.

But, by some of the developments that have been happening on Ponychan, it seems like all parties involved could do with better communication.

We have no idea what is happening; apparently it had died down; positive emails sent to the writer, some to Hasbro and DHX media by the sound of it too, with encouraging replies; but then the episode is removed from iTunes, and makes it look like we did have an effect.  And then WeLoveFine tell us they're removing "Derpy" (as in the name) from their catalogue, and it makes the whole thing even more scary.

We have no idea why the episode is not currently available on iTunes, we have no idea why WeLoveFine have been asked to remove Derpy from their website and products, and it doesn't sound like the Studio B team had much of an idea what was happening either.

Tabitha St. Germain has apparently removed all instances of the word "Derpy" from her IMDB page (or something like that), though this is probably just to avoid further controversy.

With all these ominous things occurring, you can't really blame the fandom for how it's acting at the present time.

But in the end, by how things seemed to have evolved on Ponychan, it just seems like a huge shitstorm over nothing; exaggerated reports of complaint emails sent to the writer, supposedly causing her to apologise (which never apparently happened, at least not as significantly as it had made it sound), and apparently emails to Hasbro who apparently then said they were "looking into it" causing a load of fans to send emails expressing their delight at Derpy to the writer in response who then said she'd only had 5 or so emails complaining, compared to the 30+ that were sent in response.

Then everything starts happening, and it seems like our positive kerfuffle might have just appeared to have been any kerfuffle to Hasbro, who then react "accordingly".

It is however important to note that the episode is apparently still available to watch on their website and the DVD being released has the episode on too (which has by the way been confirmed to not be being edited or anything).

WeLoveFine also, so I can gather, don't have copyrighted names in their products (in, not necessarily on), so there is the smidgen possibility apparently that Hasbro might have asked them to remove it because they're planning to copyright it.

While that probably really is a long-shot, it really is unclear exactly what is happening.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on February 03, 2012, 03:52:24 pm
We have no idea what is happening; apparently it had died down; positive emails sent to the writer, some to Hasbro and DHX media by the sound of it too, with encouraging replies; but then the episode is removed from iTunes, and makes it look like we did have an effect.  And then WeLoveFine tell us they're removing "Derpy" (as in the name) from their catalogue, and it makes the whole thing even more scary.

We have no idea why the episode is not currently available on iTunes, we have no idea why WeLoveFine have been asked to remove Derpy from their website and products, and it doesn't sound like the Studio B team had much of an idea what was happening either.

Tabitha St. Germain has apparently removed all instances of the word "Derpy" from her IMDB page (or something like that), though this is probably just to avoid further controversy.

Well, to add to the saga...

Derpy is still Derpy on WeLoveFine. Everything on that end seems safe. Still unsure about the iTunes episode (it's still down). No clue if this means it is being edited, or if iTunes pulled it on it's own accord. Last I heard, the episode was still on The Hub's website, with no modifications.

And the blanking out of all mentions of Derpy on Tabitha's blog seems (for now) to be simply in jest. I could agree with that, because I feel like Hasbro would have had her take down any posts that referenced Derpy. It's probably just her way of saying 'Calm down, guys. It'll all work itself out.'

It's a lot of drama over drama over nothing. But I still prefer that we, as a community, stay mostly off Hasbro's radar, unless it's for something positive.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on February 10, 2012, 05:51:22 am
Derpy is still Derpy on WeLoveFine. Everything on that end seems safe.

I can personally confirm that!  I just bought the brand new uber cool Derpy mail messenger bag (http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1711) and the Derpy "I just don't know what went wrong" t-shirt (http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1724) from WeLoveFine earlier tonight.  I really shouldn't be spending money on such things, but that Derpy mail messenger bag was so absolutely awesome that I just couldn't resist it!  Every once and a while you come across something that you absolutely must have, you know?

Since I was apparently in a real "I <3 Derpy" kind of mood tonight, to boost up my order total just high enough to qualify for the free shipping I also bought myself my very first Derpy t-shirt (every MLP:FiM t-shirt that I have owned up until now has featured Rainbow Dash in some way or another).  I went with the "I just don't know what went wrong" t-shirt because I find its double-entendre meaning absolutely hilarious-- on one hand it is a line taken straight from the show, but on the other hand it also refers to the whole debacle that occurred from Derpy's first speaking part.  I find that kind of humor to be priceless, and I am still literally chuckling out loud every time that I look at the shirt!

In any case, I suppose that in my own small way I just did my part to help save Derpy-- I am sure that Hasbro is going to get some kind of small royalty payment from the sale of that messenger bag and shirt, and with money being the only language that large corporations truly understand if there are a lot of other bronies out there that happen to be buying Derpy merchandise like I am then Hasbro might eventually take notice.  The change.org petition that I have seen to save Derpy is great and all and may help, but I have a feeling that the Derpy character generating income for Hasbro will ultimately mean a lot more to them than signatures.  Or it least I hope it does!

In other news, I ended up reading a few articles on Equestria Daily tonight, and one of them ended up catching my interest (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/gentlecolt-collaborations-voice-promo.html).  Did any of you know that there is a fan-made My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic dating-simulation video game that is in the works?  When I first learned about that tonight my jaw just dropped.  This is one of those things that I just *know* that I shouldn't be taking any kind of an interest in, but at the same time I just can't help but have my curiosity piqued!  Now, before you all start to get the wrong idea about me, to the best of my recollection I don't think I have ever played a dating sim game before.  I know of their existence thanks to articles in the press like this one (http://boingboing.net/2009/11/24/footage-from-the-fir.html), but they have never been anything that generated any interest for me.  But this upcoming "My Little Pony: Love is Magic" one is supposed to have first-rate fan voice-actors and everything, and be very polished and well-done.  Plus it's ponies.  Because of that, I can't help but be curious and want to play it for a laugh-- what will Rarity say when you aggravate her and tick her off?  Could the often annoying, always random, and sometimes 4th-wall-breaking Pinkie Pie ever be portrayed in a romantic light? Will Rainbow Dash take any interest in you if you're a dude?  ( :D )  How far is this game even planning to go with the so-called "dates?"  Inquiring minds would like to know!

So, has anybody else here heard about this project and/or raised an eyebrow about it like myself, or have I finally fallen into the deep end of the brony pool and drown with this one?  Once again, inquiring minds would like to know!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on February 10, 2012, 06:09:45 am
Haven't heard of the game, but then again, I don't keep that up on fandom stuff.

Let us know if the shirt quality has improved any from when I reported on the one I got. In the latest Bronyville episode's We Love Fine spot, they mentioned something about them that eluded to a possible change in production.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on February 10, 2012, 11:36:33 am
Haven't heard of the game, but then again, I don't keep that up on fandom stuff.

For the most part I haven't done a very good job keeping up with the fandom stuff for the last couple of months either.  There was a time last Fall where I was reading every new article posted to Equestria Daily every single day, saving all of their posted "Drawfriends" images, saving all of the new MLP:FiM wallpapers images, etc.  Then Midwest Furfest came along.  Being an artist in the convention's art show, I had to do a ton of work before the convention to prepare for it.  That kept me from having enough time to check Equestria Daily every day, and that knocked me out of the daily habit of checking, and now I am so far behind on all of their new posts that I don't even know if I could ever possibly catch back up again.  I actually only went to Equestria Daily for the first time in quite some time last night to look up what their special "10% off" promotion code was for WeLoveFine orders (it's "EQUESTRIA10" by the way), and while I was there I happened to see the article about the "My Little Pony: Love is Magic" dating sim game on the front page.  Had I not been going shopping for Derpy stuff last night, I would have never have learned about the game!

Let us know if the shirt quality has improved any from when I reported on the one I got. In the latest Bronyville episode's We Love Fine spot, they mentioned something about them that eluded to a possible change in production.

I had thought for certain that I had posted my opinion of the two Rainbow Dash t-shirts that I had bought from WeLoveFine back in November here, but I looked back through the posts in this thread and to my surprise I hadn't.  Shame on me!  I literally received the t-shirts from my last order from UPS the day that I left for the Midwest Furfest hotel, so I will once again blame the overwhelming organized craziness that is Midwest Furfest for knocking me out of my routine and causing me to forget to write my review about them here.  My overall impression of my two previous WeLoveFine t-shirts that I had bought were that they were just "O.K."  Reading the overwhelmingly negative reviews of WeLoveFine's shirts here in this thread and hearing additional complaints about them from one of my buddies in the Lake Area Furry Friends (LAFF) group, I was absolutely terrified that I had just thrown my money away when I had bought my two t-shirts from them back then.  Luckily, things didn't turn out as bad as I was fearing it would.  As many have mentioned here before, the material of the t-shirts was a thin lightweight cotton.  Much thinner than any of the other t-shirts that I have, and definitely not a material that I would ever purposely seek out.  It wasn't quite as bad as you had personally made it sound, Narei, but then again you mentioned that your WeLoveFine t-shirts were labeled as being "Made in China."  Mine were labeled, "Made in USA, Assembled in Haiti," so perhaps I got some slightly better quality t-shirts than you did.  So on one hand I was slightly disappointed with how lightweight the t-shirts were because I very much prefer heavyweight cotton t-shirts and the thinner material wasn't as flattering-looking as a thicker material would be while being worn on such a large guy as myself, but at the same time the t-shirts are by no means unwearable.  If I had to give the quality of the material used with my t-shirts a letter grade, it would be a C-.  Not terrible, not great, just leaving something to be desired.

Another problem that has been mentioned about WeLoveFine shirts, especially by my one LAFF friend in particular, is that they put their shirt artwork up way too high on the shirt, almost at the neckline.  Sadly, I too found this to be true with my t-shirts.  On my Rainbow Dash "20% Cooler" t-shirt this isn't too much of a problem since the logo is really long vertically and that kind of compensates for it, but on my "Mobile Dash" t-shirt the too-highly placed logo is much more apparent and it actually detracts from the appearance of the shirt.  I'm sorry, but I have to give WeLoveFine a letter grade of a D for that one.  A "D" is still a passing grade, but just barely.  Where the logo is placed on the shirt is such a simple thing for them to fix, and it kills me that they don't do it to make their t-shirts look better.

My experience with WeLoveFine wasn't all a disappointment, however.  There were two instances where they went out of their way to help me, and I have to say that I really appreciated that.  Firstly, I had found out a day or so before I went to order my "Mobile Dash" t-shirt from their website that the website suddenly indicated that the t-shirt was no longer available in my size.  I e-mailed WeLoveFine and told them how much I really wanted a silver-colored version of that t-shirt in my size, and they actually obliged me and made the shirt that I wanted available again on their website in my size.  Later, their customer service also helped me out was with shipping.  If I remember correctly, I had ordered my t-shirts from them about 13-days before the start of the Midwest Furfest convention with the hope that the t-shirts would make it to me before the convention so that I could wear them there.  I even left WeLoveFine a special note with my order telling them that I would really appreciate it if I could get the t-shirts shipped to me before the day that I left for the convention.  Well, as you know, they make your t-shirts for you custom, right after you order them... and it took 10-days before they even bothered to finally make them.  Since I had paid for UPS Ground shipping which would take a few days, it had looked like it would be absolutely impossible for me to get my t-shirts shipped to me by before I had to leave for the convention.  But then the people at WeLoveFine really stepped up and surprised me!  They must have read my note saying that I needed those t-shirts by before Midwest Furfest, because they actually shipped my t-shirts out to me via an upgraded UPS 2-Day Air at their expense just so that I would get them on time before the con!  I never asked them to do this-- they just went ahead and did it!  I was absolutely shocked by this and very grateful, especially since the t-shirts did arrive on time and I did get to wear them at Furfest!

So with that said I have to say that I can't really be upset with the company.  Are their t-shirts made from a nice premium heavyweight Jerzees-brand t-shirt or anything like them?  No, but they are wearable and not too bad.  Do the t-shirts look nice?  Definitely, if you have a long vertical logo placed on them.  If you have a small round logo placed on them, then they will only look O.K. because logo will be placed up too high.  But the company really did bend over backwards to please me by making the t-shirt that I wanted available for purchase again, and for getting my t-shirts shipped to me when I needed them.  They also included a bunch of neat little extras with my order, including a MLP:FiM "Steampunk" poster, some stickers, and even a free cloth bag, so that has got to count for something as well.

Now, the primary new product that I ordered from WeLoveFine last night was a thick cotton canvas Messenger Bag.  That makes all of my previous misgivings about the company a moot point because the bag is not made from t-shirt material and there is no t-shirt neck hole to place the design too close to.  With that said, I am also casting the die once again and buying yet another t-shirt from them with this latest order, this time around in the form of a Derpy "I just don't know what went wrong" t-shirt.  As I said above, the two t-shirts that I got last time, while not the best, were at least wearable, so I have made peace with the fact that I am going to likely just get another not so great but still wearable t-shirt.  If that is the price that I have to pay to have a hilarious and fun Derpy shirt to wear at the LAFF furry bowling meets each month then so be it, I guess.  As I mentioned in my last post to this thread, I needed to spend a little more than just the cost of the messenger bag to be able to qualify for WeLoveFine's free shipping, so the cool-looking Derpy t-shirt is what I used to get there.

With that said, I also once bought a MLP:FiM t-shirt that actually wasn't from WeLoveFine in the past.  It was from the t-shirt company OffWorld Designs (http://www.offworlddesigns.com/).  They are a pretty well known t-shirt company in the local Chicago-area fannish convention scene, as they are the company that produces the official t-shirts for Midwest Furfest, DucKon, Chicon, Gen Con, and probably some other conventions as well.  The MLP:FiM t-shirt that I bought from them features Rainbow Dash in a parody of the Ford Mustang emblem with the word "Brony" printed underneath.  If you are interested, you can buy the "Brony" t-shirt for yourself on their website here (http://www.offworlddesigns.com/p-706-brony-t-shirt.aspx).  The actual t-shirt that they placed the logo onto was a Gildan Heavyweight 50-50 Cotton/Polyester Blend, "made in Honduras."  While this t-shirt material is not quite as nice as a Jerzees-brand t-shirt would have been, it is still an extremely nice t-shirt, and the material is way better than what WeLoveFine is using for their t-shirts.  At $20, the OffWorld Designs t-shirt is also a little bit less expensive than WeLoveFine's offerings too.  But unfortunately, that is where the party ends.  Where WeLoveFine has dozens upon dozens upon dozens of different MLP:FiM t-shirt designs to choose from, OffWorld Designs has only this one single design, so if you happen not to like it you're out of luck.

Anyway, enough about t-shirts.  If when I get my new WeLoveFine products they turn out to be of a significantly better or worse quality than what I got last time, then I will definitely let you know.  Hopefully the quality of the new WeLoveFine Derpy "I just don't know what went wrong" t-shirt will be of a better quality this time around like the Bronyville episode that you listened to hinted at-- that would be a very pleasant surprise indeed!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on February 25, 2012, 04:24:59 am
*GASP!*  Oh no!  Derpy's been un-derped! (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/derpy-has-been-modified.html)

It's horrible, but it's true!  According to an article that was posted on Equestria Daily earlier today (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/derpy-has-been-modified.html), our poor hapless cross-eyed pegasus mare has had her eyes uncrossed, her voice changed, and her name "Derpy" removed from her speaking scene in the beginning of the episode, "The Last Roundup!"  That's right, she's been "politically corrected," in a manner that was probably similar to this:

(http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/pics/rabbitshoe1.jpg)

That's right, I have a feeling that our beloved cross-eyed Derpy was seized by the scruff of her mane by one Judge Doom, Hasbo's Educational and Informational (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E/I) Programing Director, and forcibly held in a drum of Acetone, Turpentine, and Benzene (a.k.a. "The Dip") until the corporation was finally rid of her.  What you see in the new edited scene from the episode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X2CRjPO73Dg) now is probably a brand new educational and informational Derpy-who-will-never-again-be-called-Derpy that they recently grew in a Mason jar to replace her.

Now it's no secret that I was not a fan of Derpy's original voice, that they had her speak at all, or even that entire scene from that episode.  This wasn't because I was offended in any way.  Instead, I have never been one of the bronies that clamored for Derpy to ever speak, and I personally felt that comedically she worked best as a pantomime character.  As I wrote in the Season 2 Discussion thread (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42340.msg828348#msg828348), I also foresaw the resulting crapstorm from her new voice coming a hundred miles away, so this fallout from Hasbro is anything but shocking to me.  However, with that said I still absolutely adored Derpy and her cross-eyed look, and because of this I am immensely saddened that Hasbro decided to un-cross her eyes in the revised scene.  I sincerely hope that this is a one-time deal, and that she will remain cross-eyed in all of the other episodes that she appears in, both past and future.

While I don't particularly mind her new voice in the revised scene (once you get by the fact that I never wanted her to talk at all, that is), as far as I am concerned this scene now works even less well comedically than it did before.  While initially I didn't like the scene to begin with (I originally wrote in the Season 2 Discussion thread that it was "shotgun comedic timing gone wrong" (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42340.msg828553#msg828553)), now it's shotgun comedic timing gone wrong that doesn't make much sense.  To explain, we originally knew that Derpy was a klutzy hapless ditz of a character from her obliviously happy attitude and goofily cross-eyed expression.  As a result, just by looking at her you knew that when she was going to get involved in something that disaster was going to ensue.  If you take away all of that visual information, which is exactly what Hasbro made the animators do, apparently, then you lose all of those visual clues and you no longer know why Derpy is such a screw up scorching Rainbow Dash, destroying half of town hall, putting holes in the floor, etc.  She just looks like a regular pony now in that scene, so if you didn't know her already from past episodes you wouldn't have any idea why she is so different and such a screw up.  In other words, they took was was already a pretty underwhelming comedic scene and completely hobbled it.  They might as well just have ripped the entire scene out at this point.  *sigh*  Oh well, I wrote as early on as October 17th of last year in some of my comments on the episode "Lesson Zero" (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42340.msg813888#msg813888) that I hoped that Studio B wouldn't cater to the Brony community too much because it could possibly lead to trouble.  Those people really ought to seek me out and start listening to me-- my sage-like wisdom would have saved them a lot of grief by now!  :D


Anyway, at least I also have some more pleasant 'Pony-related news to share!  First of all, I was at Wal*Mart earlier tonight on a mission to get myself some Kitty Softpaws (http://www.amazon.com/Puss-Boots-Antonio-Banderas/dp/B004LWZW7Y/ref=wl_mb_hu_m_7_dp) when I came across a copy of this: the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic "Adventures in Ponyville" DVD (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/10/new-fim-dvd-showing-up.html)!  Now I already have every Season 1 episode of MLP:FiM safely stored away in .mkv format on my HP MediaVault, so I definitely didn't need to buy a DVD which featured the three episodes "Swarm of the Century," "Sonic Rainboom," and "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" on it, but since the DVD only cost $3.97 I decided what the heck, I could never have enough copies of Ponies!   :)  My only complaint is with the DVD's packaging-- it is absolutely loaded with huge amounts of pink, magenta, and purple all over it!  So much so in fact that when I handed it over to the Wal*Mart cashier in the Electronics Department I actually felt a little embarrassed, as if I was buying a DVD of a little girls' cartoon show or something!  Can you imagine!?  It just doesn't make any sense, right?   :D

I also got an e-mail from the WeLoveFine shop last Wednesday that my order containing the Derpy mail messenger bag and the Derpy "I just don't know what went wrong" t-shirt that I mentioned that I had bought from them in an earlier post had shipped.  I haven't received the two items yet, but according to their UPS tracking number, I should be receiving them on next Tuesday, the 28th.  I absolutely can't wait to receive these two things!  I have been wanting to rock my favorite cross-eyed pegasus mare on a t-shirt so bad, and this Tuesday I will finally get to!  I also wonder what all of the other programmers at my upcoming SQL Connections Chicago Suburban Users Group and Chicago .NET User Group (http://cnug.org/) meetings are going to say when they see my brand new stylish Derpy netbook computer bag!  I bet everypony there will be soooo jealous of me!  *squee!*  :D  I am definitely going to be counting down the minutes until these two things arrive!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on February 25, 2012, 10:54:45 am
I wonder if given time for the obvious pro-Derpy mega push that's bound to happen passes, things settle back down, and Hasbro realizes that she will always be Derpy to us even after this "blows over", they'll realize that their attempts at modifying her will fail and that the fandom still sees her as that beloved klutz of an ANIMATION ERROR and not making fun of retarded people. To paraphrase a definition I saw earlier, the term "derp" has never refered to someone's mental capacity, but to someone's klutzy action. I love when political correctness runs amuck and people push to change something they percieve is wrong when the real meaning is nothing of the sort.

Like others have said, I too love the new voice. It will never make up for those adorable mis-aligned eyes and her fannon/semi-cannon name, though.  :goldbloody:
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on February 25, 2012, 03:46:22 pm
I won't be surprised if it eventually goes back to normal :o.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Foxxhoria on February 25, 2012, 04:41:27 pm
To paraphrase a definition I saw earlier, the term "derp" has never refered to someone's mental capacity, but to someone's klutzy action. I love when political correctness runs amuck and people push to change something they percieve is wrong when the real meaning is nothing of the sort.

This video strangely accurately describes this situation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xoskcss_g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xoskcss_g)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Acton on February 25, 2012, 08:08:43 pm
Ok folks I am just lurking, I did up to episode six of the first season. So I not sure where I sand on the Pony creads  scale.

As for derpy could something more insidious: Political Correctness. After all  we are now living in a society in America that turns  chink in a Armour into a racial slur or a high school can call their team  Cougars because some self righteous school administer think  cougars are discouraging to women.  Like many larger corporation Hasbro dose not want any negative publicity. All it takes is one school administration to ban My Little Pony because derpy is  offensive to some fictitious people group. See precautionary principal.

Looking at discussion at Equestria Daily, I thoroughly disgusted at the tone. It time to wake up and smell the coffee; the world dose not revolve fandoms. Just remember the word fan is a play on the word fanatics.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on February 28, 2012, 10:55:17 pm
Just wanted to throw it here for those who don't regularly (or borderline obsessively >.>) check EQD.

There's a brony survey (http://www.bronystudy.com) out right now, and they could always use more contributors. They are actually looking for both brony and non-brony participants, so if you don't consider yourself a brony but still read this thread, feel free to take the non-brony portion as well to help the study out.

I already took it. It's pretty painless, takes 20 minutes or so, depending on how distracted you are while filling it out. I absolutely love statistics and surveys and such, so I'm always more than willing to give my input for things like this.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on March 01, 2012, 12:17:18 am
And here's the final word in Derpygate. AKR herself responds to the crisis: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/amy-keating-rogers-response-to-derpy.html
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on March 01, 2012, 12:22:05 am
I think this is far from the final word on the issue, but I agree it sheds a lot more light on what's going on.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on March 02, 2012, 07:37:52 pm
I still think this was innocent play that got way out of hand.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-_HeVNYOk&feature=youtu.be

BLUH!?
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on March 03, 2012, 05:49:39 am
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-_HeVNYOk&feature=youtu.be

BLUH!?

I was going to post a link to that video here myself, but gosh darn it Shim you beat me to it!  Man, I thought that *I* was being way over the top and melodramatic when I made that whole Judge Doom melting Derpy in "the dip" reference in an earlier post above, but wow, what I wrote doesn't even begin to hold a candle to this video!  Watching that sad little crushed and crying Derpy makes even me feel horrible and guilty, and I never did anything to hurt Derpy and love Derpy as a character overall!  Heck, I must love Derpy considering the fact that I recently blew $64.00 on WeLoveFine Derpy merchandise... Ouch!  On a side note, if the makers of the show had just used this fan's Derpy voice instead of the original voice that they decided to go with, I bet that everything probably would have been fine-- go figure.

Speaking of my WeLoveFine Derpy merchandise purchase, I did receive it on last Tuesday, February 28th, as promised!

Let us know if the shirt quality has improved any from when I reported on the one I got. In the latest Bronyville episode's We Love Fine spot, they mentioned something about them that eluded to a possible change in production.

On the positive side, and it is a huge positive side, the sand-colored Derpy messenger bag that I bought is absolutely *awesome!*  It's made of a really thick cotton canvas, and feels like one of those heavy old military-style messenger bags that you can get from an army surplus store.  It also came with two cute little buttons, one of a muffin, and one of Derpy's cutie mark, to decorate the outside with!  It's pretty big in size, and it can hold a laptop as big as 17-inches easily!  In fact, it is probably massive overkill to carry the brand new netbook computer that I recently won from an Information Technology trivia competition, but hey, I will have the most rockin' laptop bag out of anyone at my various Microsoft developer user group to be sure even if it is a little big for the computer!  I am absolutely ecstatic about this purchase as the bag turned out to be of really high quality, and it is definitely worth every last cent of the $39.00 that I paid for it!

As for the "I just don't know what went wrong" Derpy t-shirt that I also purchased, well, if the WeLoveFine people are going to be changing the quality of the t-shirts that they use in their production they haven't done so yet.  My new t-shirt was the exact same really thin and lightweight cotton "Made in USA, Assembled in Haiti" Pacific-brand t-shirt that my "Mobile Dash" and "20% Cooler Long Pose" t-shirts that I bought back in November were, so there was absolutely no change there.  Oh well, I made the purchase knowing full well what kind of t-shirts WeLoveFine puts their designs onto, so I guess that I can't complain.  The t-shirt is O.K. and wearable, despite the material being so thin.  It just would have been nice to have been pleasantly surprised by a better quality t-shirt, you know?  In any case, I absolutely *adore* the Derpy design on the front, and I absolutely can't wait for the upcoming Lake Area Furry Friends monthly bowling meet next weekend so that I can show this awesome t-shirt off!

As with last time, WeLoveFine included some extra odds and ends with my order.  One of them was a large foam "Mighty Fine" red heart-shaped (floating?) key chain ( :P ).  I also got a "DJ Pon-3/ Vinyl Scratch" We Love Fine decal, and a pony-less We Love Fine-logo decal.  However, the biggest freebie by far was the absolutely massive "Mighty Fine" fabric bag that I received that featured "Hello Kitty" on one side and Rainbow Dash wearing steampunk-style flying goggles on the other.  This bag is *huge.*  I don't have it sitting in front of me at the moment so I am guesstimating its size from memory here, but it is somewhere along the lines of 3.5 to 4-feet tall and 2.5 to 3-feet wide.  At the same time however, the material that it is made out of seems to be really thin and extremely flimsy, so despite its large size I would not trust putting more than a couple of t-shirts into it.  Actually, trying to fill its large capacity with stuff would probably be a no-no, because your stuff would probably end up back on the ground again in short order in you know what I mean.  So while the bag may more than big enough to hold an entire Silicon Graphics Indy graphics workstation (http://www.obsolyte.com/sgi_indy/) with all of its peripherals inside of it, fight the temptation and don't do it man!  The bag just won't be able to handle it, and you'd end up with a broken Indy!  The best feature about this massive freebie bag has to be its appearance, since the designs on each side cover the entire bag and the colors are very bright and vibrant.  As a result, the bag would probably make a far better wall decoration than a bag, really.  With that said, that probably won't be happening any time soon on my walls, because currently every inch of my bedroom wall space is taken up by animation production artwork, with the majority of it being my "Duchess" from The Aristocats shrine.  Ah Duchess-- now there's one mighty fine feline!  *sigh*

And here's the final word in Derpygate. AKR herself responds to the crisis: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/amy-keating-rogers-response-to-derpy.html

Like Narei Mooncatt said, I highly doubt that this is anything close to the final word in this whole Derpy SNAFU.  However, it does provide a little bit of insight into the production process of the show and sheds some more light on how the wheels came off the bus as far as final content review on this episode.  Here are some of my own personal thoughts and interpretations on Amy Keating Rogers's e-mail response:

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When I first wrote this episode, the character under such harsh scrutiny was named Ditzy Doo. We had already established in previous episodes that she was clumsy (she is not the pony you want on your moving crew). And we named her Ditzy Doo thinking of her as a being a bit dingy.

I had actually figured as much, and while hindsight is 20/20, it probably would have been better if they had just kept "Ditzy Doo" as this poor mare's name.  That particular name had previously been mentioned once in "Winter Wrap Up" without incident after all, and they also could have better argued with any mis-interpreting fans and/or overreacting network executives that Ditzy Doo is just an innocent klutzy ditz just like her namesake says.  Oh well, it's too late now.

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For the second draft, I was asked to change Ditzy's name to Derpy as a "tip of the hat" to the fans. So, not knowing that Derpy meant anything beyond klutzy and clumsy, I did as requested And then I was finished with this episode.

Now here is where things start to go astray.  Ms. Rogers does not specify in her e-mail who it was that asked her to modify her draft to include Derpy's name in it as a "tip of the hat to the fans," but man, if I was an executive-level Grand Pooh Bah at Hasbro, Inc., I would be chewing that guy out right about now.  That person should have known better.  To elaborate, while Mr. Mooncatt here may feel that "the term 'derp' has never referred to someone's mental capacity, but to someone's klutzy action," not everyone in the entire world interprets the term that way.  See the third definition for the word "derpy" on Urban Dictionary for example-- it defines "derpy" as a drop-in replacement for the word "retarded."  And while that may not be the #1 definition for the word "derpy" on the site, it's definitely there, which means that there are definitely people out there who interpret the word that way.  And while you may not personally agree with that interpretation, can you imagine the executives at Hasbro taking your position and trying to explain to both angry brony fans and upset parents that *they're wrong* and not interpreting a nebulously-defined slang word correctly?  Heck no-- the executives are going to apologize to all of them and make the required changes post-haste, which is exactly what Hasbro ended up doing.

You know, in a way all of those people fighting over the proper definition of the word "derpy" kind of reminds me of the 30-odd year long fight within the computer hacker subculture to change the popular meaning of the world "hacker."  They have tried over and over again for decades to convince both people and the mass media that the word "hacker" means something along the lines of "one who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations," instead of "malicious computer criminal, vandal, or fraudster," but so far they have been overwhelmingly unsuccessful.  They even tried to make up new terms such as "cracker" and "white hat" and "black hat" to differentiate between the two meanings, but that too has been largely to no avail.  In fact, all that they probably managed to accomplish was to confuse the issue further.  The fact of the matter is that as soon as some portion of the population starts to perceive a word a certain way, whether you feel that they are correct or not, you still have to now take into account that people are perceiving the word that way.  This seems especially true in an American culture that seems to be absolutely obsessed with political correctness these days.  In fact, for the past two days two of the top stories on MSNBC have been about people being caught not being politically correct and how their heads should be served up on a platter for it, with the first one being some Federal Judge in Montana and now (big surprise) conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh.  You need to be *especially* careful when your dealing with a children's show, and there are probably overly sensitive parents out there that will be shocked and appalled by almost *anything.*  As a result, having Derpy being actually called "Derpy" in the show was really a pretty big blunder, especially when you consider that during the first season of the show Hasbro's Educational and Informational staff barely even let the term "egghead" get used because they thought that that term was too offensive!  With that in mind it is absolutely amazing that somehow "derpy" got through!

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I had nothing to do with the original voice casting. In my mind, she was ditzy, as her original name implied. But that's not anything I was ever involved with MLP.

While calling Derpy "Derpy" in the actual show probably lit the fuse, the original voice that the production staff recorded for the character is what I have long believed to have been the powder keg.  I remember back when I first saw that part of the episode I ended up immediately asking myself, "What the heck were they thinking?", and now, all of these weeks later I am still asking myself that same question.  I sincerely believe that Ms. Rogers is telling the truth when she says that she always viewed Derpy as only being a ditz, and all of this was completely unintentional on her part.  Derpy's portrayal in all of the episodes before this prove this to be true.  But it seems to me that Derpy's original voice actor didn't interpret Derpy's character in quite the same way.  While no one person can ever predict how everyone is going to react to everything, and Derpy's voice actress may have had no idea that she was making a voice that could be viewed as being potentially offensive, that is why there is a multi-stage review and editing process with several drafts, multiple stages of production that need to be approved by several different people, etc. for show like this.  In a show as tightly controlled as MLP:FiM where terms like "egghead" get placed under scrutiny, I just can't believe that someone at DHX Media/Studio B, Hasbro Studios, etc. didn't catch this and say, "hey wait a minute here, somebody might misinterpret this."  It still blows my mind that this got by *all* of them without any of them questioning it.

As far as why I still care so much about this so much that I am standing on my soapbox and griping about it yet again, it is because like the rest of you I loved Derpy/Ditzy Doo, and I am as bothered as everyone else here on how she is being altered and possibly even eventually removed from future episodes.  I'll really miss her if she goes.  However, unlike a lot of bronies out there who seem to be content with blaming those who got offended as being overly sensitive, or blaming people for interpreting the word "derp" wrong, or what have you, I really want to blame whoever the person was within Hasbro's studio system that told Ms. Rogers to change her script and call the character "Ditzy Doo" "Derpy" as a "tip of the hat to the fans."  Geez, come on people at DHX Media and Hasbro Studios, whatever you do, don't tip your hats to us!  We are an adult periphery demographic for a children's show!  We may represent an interesting set of "golden eggs" to you figuratively and monetarily speaking, but pander to us too much and we'll poison your golden goose!  We call things politically incorrect names like "derpy," talk about how the mares have fantastic "plot," write "clop-fics," draw Rule 34, create works like "Cupcakes" and characters like "Mollestia," and have probably done some even more deplorable anti-social things that I haven't even learned about yet!  Look at how outside people perceive us! (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/my-little-brony.html)  Keep us as far away from influencing the show's production process as possible, please, because otherwise we will tarnish its reputation!  If you want to make a "tip of the hat to the fans" do it through some of the other outside things that you're already doing like making convention appearances, making more show-accurate toys, and answering the occasional fan question online-- just keep us out of the production process, because we are an entirely different culture than what the show was designed for and will run afoul with what the network executives are willing to tolerate.  I don't want to hear someday about how the entire show got canceled because some production staff member decided to make a "tip of the hat to the fans" by sneaking a romantically kissing Lyra and Bon Bon into the background of some scene only to have some conservative parental advocacy group find out about it!  I don't need the potential for a "Hot Coffee"-style scandal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_mod) with my 'Ponies!  Luckily, I think this Derpy incident really shook things up, so that won't happen.  Probably both to our benefit and our detriment, I bet there will be a much tighter scrutiny on new MLP:FiM episodes by the production staff from now on.  As I mentioned above, the production staff shouldn't really be letting us influence them too overly much because we're nothing but trouble.

As a side note, if we can accept everything that Ms. Rogers wrote word-for-word in her e-mail as fact then I am *very* surprised by how little input the show's writers seem to have in the production process once the final draft of their script is turned in.  Considering the fact that the writers are a pretty important part of the creative process, I would have thought that there would have been more collaboration between the writers, the storyboard artists, the animators, the voice actors, the executive producers, etc. throughout the entire production process, but I guess not.  I suppose that some of this lack of collaboration is due to the intense pressure of keeping to a television production time schedule, but still, I would have never have imagined that the writers would have been kept out of the loop to such a degree.  I mean, according to Ms. Rogers e-mail, she didn't even know that they shortened the Derpy scene that she had written into her script until she saw the episode air on TV.  That's pretty nuts.  I guess this shows me two things:

1. A lot of the little story problems that I often find and nitpick when I am doing my reviews of the MLP:FiM episodes in the Season 2 discussion thread may not be the fault of the writers at all, but the fault of the rest of the production staff chopping up the writer's script later during production, and

2. I really need to read that book that I got for Christmas on television animation production, Creating Animated Cartoons with Character: A Guide to Developing and Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film (http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Animated-Cartoons-Character-Developing/dp/0823033074/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330766162&sr=8-1) by Joe Murray.  It would be interesting to gain some additional insight into the process!

In any case, it looks like we finally get some new 'Pony tomorrow, and I can't wait for it.  I don't know when I will be able to write my thoughts about the new episode because they are now being aired during the middle of the day when I, a nocturnal creature, will be sleeping, and since I also have a meet-up with the Chicago-chapter of the Software Development Community early the next day (we're going to hear a presentation on Microsoft's new Silverlight 5-- woo hoo!), that means that I can't spend 8-hours on Saturday night/Sunday morning writing about it since I will need to hit the sack early that night.  Oh well, I am sure you will all get to read my thoughts about the new episode "Putting Your Hoof Down" sometime, because my massive text-walls of doom are more inescapable than one of Ahuitzotl's temple death traps!   :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on March 23, 2012, 03:01:08 am
Here's a heads-up-- This DerpyHoovesNews.com article has some pretty huge MLP:FiM-related news for all of you John de Lancie/ Discord fans out there:

Derpy Hooves News - The Return of John de Lancie to MLP (http://derpyhoovesnews.com/the-return-of-john-de-lancie-to-mlp/)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on March 23, 2012, 05:02:59 am
*rubs his chin* Veeeerrrryyy interesting.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on March 23, 2012, 07:33:20 am
-drinks his glass, throwing the liquid away-

Very interesting indeed.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on March 23, 2012, 08:45:29 pm
I'm really not into MLP  :P , but I do have to admit that I do like the fursuits that have been created. ;) Saw the following while browsing the Net tonight.  :o


(http://d.facdn.net/art/sophiecabra/1316387557.sophiecabra_6147590634_49c95698e4_z.jpg)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on March 23, 2012, 11:56:32 pm
I saw both Derpy and Fluttershy at MFF. Great suits!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on March 24, 2012, 08:17:17 am
I saw both Derpy and Fluttershy at MFF. Great suits!

Here are the photos that I took of the absolutely mind-numbingly adorable Derpy fursuit last year during the fursuit parade at MFF:

(http://www.hoagiebot.furtopia.org/furtopiaforumimages/DerpyHoovesFursuitMidwestFurfest2011-1.jpg)

(http://www.hoagiebot.furtopia.org/furtopiaforumimages/DerpyHoovesFursuitMidwestFurfest2011-2.jpg)

(http://www.hoagiebot.furtopia.org/furtopiaforumimages/DerpyHoovesFursuitMidwestFurfest2011-3.jpg)

I can't even tell you how much I loved that Derpy fursuit!  It was so insanely great that words cannot even describe it!   :)

Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of the Fluttershy fursuit because every time that I happened to see it I sadly didn't have my camera on me.  I have one of those big and bulky several-year-old exchangeable-lens digital cameras that's a real pain to keep slung around my neck for long stretches of time while walking on the convention floor, and as a result I tend to not carry it around with me very much.  As you would expect, that causes me to miss out on a lot of random impromptu photo opportunities.  :(

I will tell you one thing though-- if an attractive girl ever walks up to me wearing a Cheerilee (or Spitfire!) fursuit that looks as good as that, and she has a SiCortex SC072 personal supercomputer (http://www.pclaunches.com/computers/sicortex_sc072_catapult_is_a_72processor_cluster.php) slung under one arm and a 24-case of Jolt Cola in the other, I will know that I must surely be dead because at that point I will be in heaven!   :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on March 24, 2012, 08:41:46 am
I don't remember, but who makes those suits? What maker? I want to check his/her website.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on March 24, 2012, 10:56:30 am
I don't remember, but who makes those suits? What maker? I want to check his/her website.

I wish that I knew, Kobuk, but I don't.  Does anypony else here know who is responsible for those absolutely wonderful MLP:FiM fursuits?  I wouldn't mind checking out their website as well!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on March 24, 2012, 03:33:23 pm
I don't remember, but who makes those suits? What maker? I want to check his/her website.

I wish that I knew, Kobuk, but I don't.  Does anypony else here know who is responsible for those absolutely wonderful MLP:FiM fursuits?  I wouldn't mind checking out their website as well!

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sophiecabra/
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Kobuk on March 24, 2012, 04:40:50 pm
I don't remember, but who makes those suits? What maker? I want to check his/her website.

I wish that I knew, Kobuk, but I don't.  Does anypony else here know who is responsible for those absolutely wonderful MLP:FiM fursuits?  I wouldn't mind checking out their website as well!

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sophiecabra/

It's probably not going to be long until her (or someone else) makes a Princess Celestria fursuit, a Discord fursuit, and a Spike the Dragon fursuit.........if they haven't been built already that is. ;)
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Hoagiebot on March 27, 2012, 12:46:39 pm
I don't know how far or how often everyone here strays out of the MLP subforum, but if by chance you never saw my post in Furtopia's "Good News" thread that I made back in February (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42562.msg831118#msg831118), I was fortunate enough recently to win a brand new Acer Aspire one D255E Netbook PC by ranking in the top 25 highest scoring participants in a 3-month long Information Technology trivia competition.  I received the netbook a couple of weeks ago, and I decided to be somewhat adventurous with it and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto it (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=43494.0) to try the beta version of Microsoft's upcoming operating system out.  Now that I have played around with the new OS for a little over a week I have decided to keep it on the netbook the time had come to customize the OS's appearance... with ponies.

Now I had a few MLP:FiM desktop wallpaper images saved locally on one of my desktop machines already-- 68 of them in fact.  But most of those were older MLP:FiM desktop wallpapers that I found during one crazy rushed all-night session last September.  Those of you who have been following my threads here on Furtopia for a while may even remember why I was searching for MLP:FiM wallpapers at that particular time-- I was pulling the crazy all-nighter trying to get a 22-year old Sun SPARCStation 2 workstation ready to exhibit at a Vintage Computer Fair (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=42460.0) that morning, and with only a couple hours until the Vintage Computer Fair to go and a rather vanilla-looking and mundane SPARCStation 2 on my hands I came up with the last-minute idea of trying to add some sharp-looking Rainbow Dash wallpapers to its Common Desktop Environment desktop (which turned out to actually be quite an involved project).  In any case, it had been a *really* long time since I had gone out and seen what new MLP:FiM wallpapers had been made by fans, and with a brand new netbook with a brand new OS just begging to be pony-ized, I decided to seek some new MLP:FiM wallpapers out.

While I don't check out the latest headlines on Equestria Daily nearly as often as I used to, I still remembered that they often had "Wallpaper Compilation Posts (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Wallpaper)" on their site, which collected some of the latest and greatest wallpapers being produced at the time of the post by the Brony fandom.  So I went to the website and checked it out, and found that their most recent Wallpaper Compilation Post was "Wallpaper Compilation Post #43 (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/wallpaper-compilation-43.html)."  For whatever reason, I had thought that I had gotten some of my MLP:FiM wallpapers from these EQD Wallpaper Compilation Posts in the past, so I decided that now was the perfect time to catch up with them, work my way backwards and check out every single Wallpaper Compilation Post that I hadn't already hit, and slurp up any MLP:FiM wallpaper that struck me as ranging anywhere from being just O.K. to mind-blowingly awesome.  At one point, several hours into this crazy endeavor I came to a massive realization-- apparently, I had never gone through an EQD Wallpaper compilation post in the past, I had gotten all of my current MLP:FiM wallpapers from elsewhere, and that if I was going to catch up with all of these Wallpaper Compilation Posts that I was going to have to go through every single one of them!

I stuck with it though, and after going through all 43 Wallpaper Compilation Posts I ended up with:


Even more incredible is the fact even after the nearly 1000 total MLP:FiM wallpapers that I have now amassed that I still have a feeling that I have only barely scratched the surface of how many fan-made MLP:FiM wallpapers might actually be available out there.  I almost wouldn't be surprised if there were several times more wallpapers on the web that I haven't even seen yet!

I now also have a serious problem, and that is that now that I have so many great MLP:FiM wallpapers, which one of them should I choose?  I could have a different MLP:FiM wallpaper on my netbook display each day for the next two-and-a-half years and never have one repeat!  Oh well, I suppose to paraphrase Fluttershy from the episode "May the Best Pet Win," that is probably a good problem to have!

Speaking of Fluttershy, I found one Fluttershy wallpaper in my search that I thought was so funny that I literally laughed out loud when I first saw it!  It's called "Fluttershy kicks a bear wallpaper," and can be found on DeviantArt here:

http://murknl.deviantart.com/art/Fluttershy-kicks-a-bear-wallpaper-275728596 (http://murknl.deviantart.com/art/Fluttershy-kicks-a-bear-wallpaper-275728596)

I hope that you all find it as funny as I did!  Enjoy!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on March 28, 2012, 07:22:41 pm
My backpack!
(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff478/Junyad/Backpack.jpg)

MOAR...BUTTONS!

I made all of the cutie mark ones (and the player pin) myself :).
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on April 04, 2012, 01:14:14 am
Double post. For shame x_x!!

I've added 3 more. Celestia, Luna, and Zecora. I have a serious problem. Oh, and a friend gave me the Cheerilee toy from McDonalds so I now have 2 key chain thingies!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Landrav on April 04, 2012, 07:14:29 pm
Double post. For shame x_x!!

I've added 3 more. Celestia, Luna, and Zecora. I have a serious problem. Oh, and a friend gave me the Cheerilee toy from McDonalds so I now have 2 key chain thingies!

Somehow I've managed to keep myself to two buttons!  And I got a Fluttershy McDonalds toy, but they discontinued them before I could get a Twilight :(

I think Fluttershy will go in my car.  Maybe.
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Narei Mooncatt on April 04, 2012, 07:53:09 pm
Somehow I've managed to keep myself to two buttons!  And I got a Fluttershy McDonalds toy, but they discontinued them before I could get a Twilight :(

I think Fluttershy will go in my car.  Maybe.
I have Fluttershy hanging in the windshield of my semi. :D
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Shim on April 04, 2012, 09:14:38 pm
But hey, it got me a brohoof from some random guy when I went up to Milwaukee for placement testing for school next year :D!
Title: Re: MLP: FiM Brony & Pony Discussion Phread
Post by: Ziel on April 24, 2012, 10:24:06 pm
Not sure if any of you play League of Legends at all, but you guys should appreciate it anyhow.

There's already an item in the game called 'Chalice of Harmony', which has been around for a long while now (in the pre-pony period). Now, they're going to release an item soon which they are calling (possibly just unofficially, but we'll see) 'Chalice of Discord'.

This follows the release of Hecarim (http://s.sk-gaming.com/image/image/ea146d244e412571x.jpg), a pony-inspired champion. One of the things he says in game is even 'Suffering is Magic'.

Granted, there's no secret that quite a number of the game devs have been drawn into ponies. They've even started 'mods are asleep, post ponies' threads themselves. But still, it's cool to see the subtle nods to the show getting put into the game. :D