The My Little Pony Thread!

[DiffydaDude]

Calling all Bronies and Pegasisters!

This is a thread for fans of MLP and brony stuff! I started rewatching the show recently so I decided to make a thread so people would talk about it more!
If you aren't already familiar with the show, its about the adventures of 6 silly ponies going on adventures in Equestria and learning about friendship from them. The show is really damn awesome and is really addicting to watch because the episodes are written really well, and are full of tense drama, pop culture references, a good sense of humor, fun characters, and isnt just good for kids, but adults too. Probably the best comparison I could make would be Bluey, which is also really popular with adults and kids.



The show also has amazing music, and the fandom has made amazing music too. My favorite songs overall are Babs Seed, Rainbow Factory, Discord (the original eurobeat one), Awoken, and Raise this Barn.

If you haven't watched this show before, ignore anyone who says its cringy and for kids and give it a try. It's an amazing show and i think yall'd probably love it. Its 2 hooves up, and i would totally give it 3 if i had a 3rd hand 

[Fish]

MLP WOOOOO 

It took me literally until 2021 to finally sit down and watch some of this show and man I can see why people are obsessed with this show. It really is one of the best example of childrens shows that are also just so well made that anyone can watch them. It's funny though because when this show came out I was a 6/7 yr old who thought he was too cool for a show about talking ponies. Then I watched Smile HD and got too scared to watch the show  Again, took me a bit too watch the show but I'm glad I did.


Also, has anyone else seen mlp related horror get popular again? Feels like the 2010's all over again 

Also also, I have a link to a pretty good site that has the show along with subs in like 3 languages. Not sure if we're allowed to link to sites like that though

[McMagnetic]

Also, has anyone else seen mlp related horror get popular again? Feels like the 2010's all over again 

I thought it's kind of funny. Stuff like that new MLP infection au or what ever are popular with the kids now. Just like they were popular with the kids ten years ago!
It's great. History is repeating itself in a good way!

[wygolvillage]

I know this thread is probably just about FiM (which I also quite enjoyed as a kid) but shoutout to G3 pony stuff... Recently I went back and played a bunch of the flash games from that era, I was also super addicted to the Runaway Rainbow CD-ROM game back in the day as well as the Best Friends Ball one... I also like the movies, they're very cute and excessively pleasant, like cinematic cotton candy 

My favorite pony is Minty but I really like Star Catcher too ^_^

[Hyde]

YOOOO I LOVE MINTY shes just like me fr

[MrsMoe]

I used to be OBSESSED this show as a 10-13 year old. It was literally my whole life for a while, to the point where I'd read Equestria Daily and watch an episode every day. The best part of it though was watching the show with my dad whenever a new episode aired. He surprisingly loved the show as much as I did.

I kinda lost interest in the show around 2016 or so though. After getting into other cartoons (Gravity Falls, SU, OTGW, etc.), I was pretty put off by how quickly they redeemed Starlight Glimmer. I started becoming more critical of the show's writing until I just lost complete track of it. Regardless, I still have so much nostalgic fondness for this show.

[egbert]

Also, has anyone else seen mlp related horror get popular again? Feels like the 2010's all over again 

oh yeah for sure, the kids that got scared from watching stuff like smile hd and such like 11 years ago all grew up and are having a sort of reprise. its the first instance of this phenomenom i have ever witnessed but i can't wait to see it again! inb4 gennalpha starts making skibidi toilet smile hd parodies in 2035

[gregmoondancer]

I'm sure its rly obvious if u took one look at my profile but this series is literally everything for meee I honestly think everything about generations 1-4 are perfect idc what anyone says(g5 just personally isn't for me). There's just so much charm and love and joy and happiness in the shows and toys like I can't Pretty much all the art I make is inspired one way or another by mlp cuz I just have such an attachment to the characters and shows and stuff. I'm also a really big fan of mlp related music projects, literally two of my favorite people to listen to right now are Cats Millionaires(and also Devi Mcallion's two hundred other projects but I especially like this one cuz ponies ) and Vylet Pony(She's mainly branched off from the main series to make music about her original characters and stuff-which that's a whole other hyperfixation I live in vronut paradise fr-nowadays but it's still so peak). Cats Millionaires especially evokes such a specific feeling that I can't rly put into words but like, i love it and i rly want to convey the same kind of emotions in my art that I get whenever I listen to her music. But yeah I love mlp its so so good and I would definitely recommend u atleast watch g4 if u haven't  Also heres a list of some of my fav characters from gens 3 and 4 cuz I'm silly

Gen 3:
-Minty
-Starcatcher
-Thistle Whistle
-Rarity
-Heart Bright and Star Flight(I know what they are )
Gen 4:
-Pinkie Pie
-Discord (He's literally me trust)
-Trixie
-Queen Chrysalis
-Vinyl Scratch/Dj pon 3
-Princess Luna

[Twigz0n]

I'm sure its rly obvious if u took one look at my profile but this series is literally everything for meee I honestly think everything about generations 1-4 are perfect idc what anyone says(g5 just personally isn't for me). There's just so much charm and love and joy and happiness in the shows and toys like I can't Pretty much all the art I make is inspired one way or another by mlp cuz I just have such an attachment to the characters and shows and stuff. I'm also a really big fan of mlp related music projects, literally two of my favorite people to listen to right now are Cats Millionaires(and also Devi Mcallion's two hundred other projects but I especially like this one cuz ponies ) and Vylet Pony(She's mainly branched off from the main series to make music about her original characters and stuff-which that's a whole other hyperfixation I live in vronut paradise fr-nowadays but it's still so peak). Cats Millionaires especially evokes such a specific feeling that I can't rly put into words but like, i love it and i rly want to convey the same kind of emotions in my art that I get whenever I listen to her music.

YESSS!!! VYLET AND CATS MILLIONAIRE MENTION IN THE SAME REPLY!!!    I adore their music and art so much too. >w<  I love what you wrote about cats millionaire too, I definitely feel similar strong emotions/feelings when listening to her music that I just can’t describe but motivates me to try and communicate those feelings through visual art! :D

It’s so insane sometimes for me to think about how young I was when I got into the show and the circumstances around how I got into it. I remember the memory a bit vaguely but still specific enough. I was in a toy store with my mum and maybe also my older brother? Can’t quite remember but I saw this collection (scroll down) of four of the mane six blind bag ponies all in one tube. idk what made me buy them because I had never heard of/seen the show yet (my theory is that I just thought it was cool that one of them had wings and rainbows lol). I don’t quite remember what happened next, but my older brother showed me this exact upload of the season two episode Hurricane Fluttershy (absolutely banger episode to get hook me into the show ngl) and I became obsessed, immediately. I low-key wonder if my brother was a brony at the time too because he was quite literally an animation student and definitely kind of fit in with the type of ppl within the brony crowd (neurodivergent, obsessed with cartoons and video games). Which is low-key a bit scary for me to think about how the actions of just one person showing me this pony cartoon would change the whole and entire trajectory of my life.

But nonetheless, I think the thing that grabbed me the most with the show besides the adorable character designs and beautifully handled art direction was just the amount of fun and engaging lore that the world of the mlp g 4 series had to offer. As well as the immense comfort and familiarity the show’s characters and stories gave to me as a kind of quirky autistic child. It’s both funny and also kind of worrying how much of my socialisation came from mlp g 4 ngl..

I do like some of the older generations too! I was especially quite obsessed with alot of the plastic g 3 play sets. I just loved all of the unique and cozy designs for all of the big houses, as well as all of the little interactive features for them too!  I also loved the g 3 flash games too! I remembered I would play them for quite a while on my dads old ass pc as a kid lol. I also personally really love the art style for generation 3.5, which I know might be a little controversial to some people. I just really loved the artwork and proportions of the ponies from that gen, they feel kind of moe styled? In the big stubby hooves and large heads anyway.

I genuinely kind of fear a universe where mlp g 4 doesn’t exist, because it was genuinely so informative for me not just as an artist but a person too. That show has done so much for me in the past I really find it beautiful that it got as popular as it did with all sorts of people because of it’s comforting atmosphere and stories/lessons advocating for creating and maintaining friendships and community.

Idrk how to end off this reply lol, but it’s wonderful to see how many people there are out there who’ve resonated with the show so deeply to consider it a part of their identity like how I do at times. Despite not watching the show as often as I used too I’m still always seeing/thinking about those funny colourful horses and their fun personalities and stories. ^w^