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MLP: Half the ponies, twice the excitement! Season 5 in Spring 2015!!!
Riokenn
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Welcome to the pony thread! Where we have intellectual discussions about what drives us to watch colorful pastel ponies teaching us morals on friendship. Or we can argue at each other which pony is best pony...
We got season 4 coming November 23rd, excellent comics by amazing artists/writers and the Collectable Card Game coming out soon!
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No linking to full episodes, with the exception of The Hub's website which has an episode or two plus a bunch of clips. The full series (including new episodes as they air) is available on iTunes. Season One is on DVD as well as Season Two on DVD. If you're not in a country where they offer it there, pester them until they do, I guess. Oh yeah, and seasons one, two and three are now available to stream at Netflix. There is also a pony movie which most people thought was alright. It's on DVD and Blu-Ray if that's your thing. It can also be viewed on Netflix.
Past Threads:
Friendship is Magic: Rarity Goes Overboard. Derpy Hooves is Still Canon
Friendship is Magic: Mild west dances, Pinkie Pie! MILD west!
Pony Thread III: Friendship is Magically Multimedia
Applejack's Wholesome Small-Town Apple Orchard
PonyThread Q: To Be Continued...
Pony Trek VI: The UnDiscorded Country
MLP: FiM: Transmuting Fanon Into Canon Since 2010
MLP: FiM: For the New Lunar Old Republic
MLPFiM: Season 3 November 10th
MLP:FIM: The show is now ruined forever (or not)
MS Pony Adventures: Shipping Is Magic
MLP: Season Four airs in Brovember.
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The former's all but guaranteed. The latter... might actually be a good guess, too. Boxes of starter decks come with eight decks, and I would assume they didn't repeat any.
Although doing some digging into the deck boxes finds a old entry on the Enterplay site that mentions that the theme deck boxes come with two characters, and so the box might come in a 2x4 spread. (One has a Foil RD and non-foil Rarity, and the other has foil Twi and non-foil AJ.) So PP and Fluttershy would be covered by the two-player starter.
EDIT: Of course, that's why I should at least take a look at the Facebook, since this just went up.
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Actually, Equestria Girls is only available on disk. No streaming, which is unfortunate because I kinda want to see it.
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@PMAvers Is that packaging one deck or two? Ima run me a Fluttershy deck and have no one to play with.
The songs are also super generic and cringe-inducing. I guess it's one of those things you have to see for youself, but you can tell throughout the movie that the writers tried to make the best of Hasbro's desires to somehow sell Barbies from MLP.
Too bad MisterDavey is such a gore freak, guy has a lot of talent animating and drawing.
As I understand it, it's one deck (seeing as how they're like $7 or $8), but it comes with both mane characters and they're built so you can swap between the two.
So the RD/Rarity one will be a mix of Generosity/Loyalty cards, and the Twilight/AJ one will be Magic/Honesty. (Just like the GenCon demo decks, actually...)
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Then when you finally win it's with Luna coming in on the last turn 'hello Ponies, did I miss anything?' 8->
Who knows, though.
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Also, while I couldn't really sit through the whole thing, the movie is still loads better than a lot of other girl-oriented entertainment out there.
Anyone want to make a guess the the % of bronies who would have struggled with issues of chronic emotional abandonment (For what ever reason) at some time in time in their lives?
I think It might be quite a high percentage. But I'm not sure... but the issue which all the the characters face is feeling emotionally abandoned in one form or another is a common theme to what makes the whole premise of the show enticing. It's a fantasy world in which friends come together to help each other overcome the abandoned each character faces. It's literally the premises to every single episode.
If my theory was close to being correct I would argue the difference between those who like the show and those don't get what the whole thing is about. (Not meaning those who hate it that's another different thing) are people who don't struggle or have healthy ways resolve their abandonment issues so they don't need that fantasy the show offers.
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I so cannot wait for the Luna micro.
What you're saying is, "MLP is the fantasy of emotionally stunted young men". I know that's not what you're trying to say, but that is the implication that directly arrives from your premise. You're suggesting that MLP is being used as a form of self therapy, which in turn implies that we need a deeper reason to enjoy a cartoon.
(I'm curious to find people who haven't felt emotionally abandoned at some point.) You're trying to draw a causal line between emotional states and fandom. Personality causality doesn't work that way.
Some people like the show for escapism. Some like it for the character personalities. Some like it as mindless brain candy. Some like it because its bonding with their young children to watch. Some like it because years of anime have worn away the taboo against adults watching cartoons. Some people emphasize with the aesops the show purports to tell.
You see this same kind of search for a basic "reason" with furries, gays, anime fans, Dr Who fangirls, anything. Research is done, and you end up with a bunch of useless correlations to the amount of "MLP fans have a 10% higher chance of scoring x on measure y!" As someone with a degree in Psychology, I can confidently tell you that those surveys are worth dog piss in terms of validity or longevity.
There is no concrete cause. We can't sweep our arms and say "this is why!" for MLP any more than we could for people who love Shakespeare. Art is about resonating with individuals, and popular art is that which is sufficiently flexible to hit vastly different people and draw them together.
Is the pony community awkward? Yeah, it is. We have a lot of young men with little experience modulating emotion and little societal framework for how to express them. Take a deep breath; take a step back; realize that emotional growth is as gangly and awkward as the physical kind. Its not necessarily indicative of an underlying issue any more than acne at 15.
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I have no idea why the deuce they sent these in such a huge box.
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That particular show joke will never get old.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
I wasn't trying to imply my thoughts were accurate, It's was just something I was thinking about. Sure the value could be low, or that I arrived at the wrong conclusion. I just think that a lot of the character hooks in the show of the main six are their struggle with these sorts of emotional issues. That's what makes them relatable and deeper characters. I was trying to work out what makes those character hooks effective. It might be less to do with the issues and more to do with the delivery of the show. Shrug. I don't know. Was just thinking about it.
All I can figure is "something something shipping via air mail"
No worries. If you're looking for what makes a character hook effective, look at what a person adds to the character that doesn't exist in canon. Do they latch onto Rarity and turn her into the perfect high culture girl? Do they interpret Rainbow Dash's energy as confidence and excitement? Each of the Mane 6 has a very broad personality, and their maturity levels fluctuate wildly for the needs of the story. Observing which facets are important to which people shows you what version of a pony they love.
I mean, I adore Sweetie Belle, but its probably because I'm the youngest in my family, and its easy for me to fantasize the perfect little sister role. (Conveniently tuning out the episodes where she's an annoying little snot). I also adore Celestia, because she has that sexy smooth way of talking (Blame Kikuko Inoue)...which is a little creepy, considering that's basically like hitting on Twilight's mom.
Brb, fan fic incoming.
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Wife tossing is a perfectly wholesome activity, as long as it stays between husband and wife. Bringing in a third party is just messed up.