Welp, it's official. Hasbro has given up on little girls and is catering to bronies fulltime. BEHOLD.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...4841173&type=1
That would be a White Celestia, Great and Powerful Trixie, Zecora, DJ PON-3, and Nightmare Moon. Harbo is full of Brony love. Apparently these are all Toys-R-Us exclusives though.
Edit: And apparently Lyra (or rather... heartstrings) is one the way as well.
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I'm totally going to Toys R Us to get me some ponies.
toys r us party over here
This post brought to you by the power of boobs. Dear lord them boobs. Amen
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I feel ya. They come out this coming fall, I've got orders to Korea in 2 months. Anyone know if there's a toys-r-us in Ch'ongju?Originally Posted by Pike
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Also, pony group ftw.
In the year I was there I never saw a single Toys 'R' Us, or a pony
I'll get my old pals to make us a Ponies and Bronies group. If they let me make a The Society of Genetically Mutated Were-Chickens and an Óglaigh na hÉireann group I don't see why they won't let us have this.
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There's one down the street from my house. Do you want anything?WHY IS THERE NO TOYS-R-US AROUND HERE
I've got to say that I'm currently unimpressed with the toy line even with the new additions. Celestia looks good, but I'm not sure about the rest. I honestly would prefer ponies without combable hair. Their hairs are such an important part of their individual looks and the combable hair just ruins it for me. I'd rather have a fully hard molded figure.
I have to agree and the positive message of that episode almost makes up for the horror that was "Feeling Pinkie Keen." I just watched that one again with my wife and it also left a very bitter taste in her mouth. Terrible message in my opinion. Luckily the next episode (Sonic Rainboom) was a new high bar at that point in the season. I really feel like that one and "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" were some of the best in S1.I'm a little late, but I loved the reading episode and was going to say more about it, but I've missed my mark I fear. I will watch the latest episode tonight or tomorow night - looking forward to it.
EDIT: back on the topic of toys, I've been really impressed with some of the plushes coming out of the community. Obviously more people are making Rainbow Dash and many of them look incredible. I haven't seen a truly awe inspiring Fluttershy yet. I wish Hasboro could make some comparable plushes because I'd be all over that.
http://home.eyesonff.com/group.php?groupid=36
Let's find a better group picture.
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Blind bags, my friend.
Though you'll have to put up with Fluttershy looking the same as RD but with different hair. I don't know why they found it too hard to make a sixth mould to put pony-making juice into, but meh.
I bought a set that has the Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Twilight Sparkle blind bag figures in. I got Fluttershy and Applejack on eBay and they've recently brought out the third wave of blind bags here in the UK. I picked one of those up and got Carrot Top! (Or Golden Harvest, as Hasbro like to call her).
Not to start a debate but that episode doesn't really bother me because Pinkie Sense was an observable natural phenomena so to me it was more about Twilight accepting that sometimes nature does weird crazy things. You know, sometimes scientific breakthroughs seem really out there until years (or decades or whatever) later when we figure more of it out.
This sold for a couple of thousand on eBay, if I recall correctly.
I see where you're coming from Pike. I actually try to look at it more positively. I think TS makes a horrible argument early on when comparing magic to Pinkie Sense by saying that she, TS, can control it and so that makes it different. It doesn't. Not all things with natural causes re controllable.
I also would agree that just because we can't explain something currently doesn't mean it's not a real thing and that it won't at some point be explainable. Sadly, I feel like the episode pushes a little further than that into the "just believe" category.
I'd love to give it all a pass though. I don't tend to get upset about things of this sort in fictional worlds. Like in The Elder Scrolls for example, there is evidence for the deities and such so I'm not going to be bothered by religion and faith based things in those games (because it's not really faith).
I'm also willing to give the idea of Pinkie Sense a pass because that seems totally reasonable in Equestria. What I don't like is that the episode is trying to teach a lesson and that lesson doesn't seem to be a good one. It's the same lesson that makes people into anti-vaxxers or causes people to use homeopathy or accupuncture instead of real treatments that could actually save their lives.
I guess I should try to think of it from the angle that TS is blatantly ignoring evidence that Pinkie Sense is real. That's a pretty unscientific stance she is taking and even if she can't explain the process and the cause, she's being silly to say it's not a real thing after so much evidence.
EDIT: OMG that Fluttershy looks amazing. I'm tending to find that they often get either the eyes or hair wrong, but that one looks great and in Rarity's dress no less.
I see where you're coming from, Yearg, and they probably could have made the episode's moral better. Personally I thought there were other eps that had even "iffier" morals. Like the "It's okay to take Native American lands because we'll give them presents" one, or the "Whining is a girl's best self-defense" one. Ultimately, though, that's just me being nitpicky if I wanted to and I still love all the eps because I don't take ponies terribly seriously
NEW PONY TOYS. I'll probably just see if I can order online, though, when those new toys come outThere's one down the street from my house. Do you want anything?WHY IS THERE NO TOYS-R-US AROUND HERE
Oh god yes. I generally dislike any show that gives a treatment to the Native American thing because they always find a way to whitewash it to the extreme and I'll agree it was certainly worse than Pinkie Sense.I see where you're coming from, Yearg, and they probably could have made the episode's moral better. Personally I thought there were other eps that had even "iffier" morals. Like the "It's okay to take Native American lands because we'll give them presents" one, or the "Whining is a girl's best self-defense" one. Ultimately, though, that's just me being nitpicky if I wanted to and I still love all the eps because I don't take ponies terribly seriously
On a totally different topic, does anyone notice how many awesome music quotes show up in the show? I love trying to catch them. Here's one my wife caught last night. It's perfectly fitting to put a bit of "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" in the bit with Fluttershy at the fashion show.
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Fluttershy at the fashion show
Man, I can't believe some of these plushes go for that much. I saw that Fluttershy and wanted to get it, but that's hundreds times more than I'd be willing to pay.
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