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Playset for the Library? As in, actually put out a toy highlighting the nerdiness of a main character? Yeah, like that’ll ever happen…
though if it did, it would be the first playset I’d buy since the toyline from the original release of Return of the Jedi
Seriously, the toyetic potential that hasn’t been realized in this show is far more astounding than the obvious merchandising mandates. Where is the line of fancy dresses for the large size class of brushables? Where are the infinite quantity of Background Ponies in the small brushable class? Playsets for the Library, Sugercube Corner, Carousel Boutique? Where’s the blimp? I’ve spent like three hundred bucks on Pony merchandise this week alone; I would pay solid American Dollars for a friggin’ remote control fish-shaped airship, amigo, you can count on that.
4Shit in a nutshell
What’s always particularly surprised me is that there are a lot of instances on the show that COULD have been used to sell toys, such as Fluttershy’s brief modelling career, but no such toys were made. In fact, it’s rather ironic that you bring up the Gala dresses, since as far as I know (I don’t really pay attention to the toys), no toys were released with those as accessories or something along those lines. There are also a bunch of toys that will probably never appear on the show, like that bizarre Applejack truck thing.
And Faust DID work on the initial planning stages for “A Canterlot Wedding.” In fact, as far as I know, the only change was that Cadance was originally written as just a unicorn. As for Princess Twilight… well, Faust DID say that she had always intended for Twilight to eventually become Celestia’s successor. I suspect Meghan may have decided that making her an alicorn was the logical conclusion of that, then Hasbro saw the idea and thought, “Hey, we can sell a lot of merchandise out of this idea!”
As for Equestria Girls… well, Meghan herself has admitted that THAT particular one was an executive mandate.
When the series started Hasbro went out of their way to give the writers as much freedom as they needed. The kind of meddling back then was so insignificant it’s not even worth mentioning, they weren’t expecting the show to do well and they weren’t particularly demanding with their requests. Who would mind if they wanted their toy train showing up once in a while, or that Rarity needed an ep about making dresses (something that would have gotten done one way or another at some point, even if they never asked)?
No, that was normal. The kind of heavy meddling that calls for a new third princess, a brother character for the main lead out of nowhere and later her permanent transformation into something else (twice), however, is not.
Now, I loved The Canterlot Wedding and how the staff turned around Hasbro’s forcing of Cadence and Shining, but one can only pull off miracles like this so often before they give up and stop trying. Even though that one time they made the best out of what they had to work with it’s hard to deny that the new characters’ introduction was hamhanded and lacked any set up.
->Implying that there were never any Hasbro mandates at all during the first two seasons.
It was plotted for 5. When they got to S4, they were told that would be it, and so JMS compressed what he had planned on S4 and S5 into one season.
And then midway through, suddenly they were told S5 was greenlit by TNT. So they had to scramble again to actually create something to carry the story into S5, hence why S5 is somewhat disjointed.
There is no creative control in the truest sense of the words anymore. It’s true that good writers tend to know better than fans, and the first two seasons demonstrated this well. But at this point “creative control” boils down to dancing around whatever decisions Hasbro drops on the writing staff.
But much more directed at the fourth wall.
So like suited for success?
@Mr. Horrible
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease
There was an episode of South Park about that subject, it’s the one with George Lucas “fixing” Raiders of the Lost Arc.
(The butler is a metaphor for Lucius Malfoy! >:D )
I feel so happy.
Welcome to the brony fandom , where any little small thing out of place will cause someone to rage about it breaking canon or fanon or something else.
But… WHY. It makes no sense, and the fact that something as out there and strange as THAT would cause some people to rage is just…why.
It’s been confirmed the thing is an award, mate. No one goes out and says “lol Twilight Velvet wrote daring do” anywhere.
But it is what it is.
Actually, people already had the “Twilight’s mom wrote Daring Do” fanon long before issue 11 of the IDW comic came out. I remember at least 3 fanfics that came out around the time season 3 was airing that at least mentioned the idea.
That’s dumb.