So I’m not a hardcore My little pony fan, however I quite liked the episodes I watched from G4 which is what started the whole Fluffy thing. Due to this, youtube’s algorythm suggested me this video. Which I put as background sound at first but the more I listened the more it sounded like kind of a fluffy world actually and I wanted to make a little thing about it and give it a shoutout in case someone wants to watch the awful show about colorful but boring ponies being stupid assholes and lacking lots of self-awareness which might be the clossest thing we’ll ever have to a Fluffy cartoon:
*Ponies frequently bully each other.
*They’re all incredible selfish and tend to put themselves over everyone else.
*They frequently assault each other and also emotionally abuse their friends.
*They base their diets on ice cream, kinda like the sketti thing.
*Parents don’t put much effort on discipline their children.
*In one episode we can see they are also kind of racists and funny enough the ponies they held such stereotypes are brownish.
*Beside the Tropical Island ponies there’s only 2 brown ponies in the series and have no relevance.
*Emotional dependance kinda like poopies with their awful mothers. Best example being Sweetheart.
It’s basically a world filled with the “bestest babbehs” obviously there’s no blood or explicit violence but the attitude we tend to give to most fluffies of “cute and gentle when circumstances say so but are actually selfish brats” it’s enough to either love or hate the show. It was a mixed back for me, many episodes were really boring but others were hard to believe, I specially love the tropical island one with the ponies being cooked alive or thrown into a volcano.
All my life I enjoyed watching characters being total assholes from a distance, where I would not have any type o affection or emotional bond towards them.
Hell, “Ugly, Dirty and Bad” by Ettore Scola and “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lovers” by Peter Greenaway are two of my all time favorite movies just because of this one thing: asshole characters being dickheads and unapologetically fucking with the lives of others around them.
The thing that dragged me into The Fluffy Pony Rabbit Hole is the way fluffies are this stupid, rotten, self entitled shitheads that throw themselves into a puddle of shit and agony because they don’t know any better. I’m fascinated by their raw selfishness, prejudice and ignorance.
I don’t really know much about how this whole fluffy thing began, but the info about how much the MLP G4 (?) resembles the conceived fluffy lore gained my interest, so I might take a look at the video linked in the post. Maybe even watch the show, I dunno, seems entertaining enough!
Yeah, by 1992 Hasbro stopped giving a fuck.
all of their big 80’s tenpole franchises MLP, Gi-joe, Transformers were either winding down or being down sized.
Transformers, went on to G2 and then Beast Wars, and never really regained its massive cultural hold of the 1980’s
Not untill 2007 anyway and even then the toy line was still tiny. (arguably 2002 made a huge impact too )
Gi- joe keeled over in 1994 and has since 1999 made a hard push towards the older collectors
( muh stalgia and memberries in other words )
MLP kinda floundered.
G2 was a big fat nothing.
G3 did better from 2003 till 2009 and it at least got a load of straight to dvd movies.
While skewing towards a younger audience.
It kinda stopped floundering in 2010…wonder why.
Welp, unfortunatly it’s happens with a lot of franchises who started as toys. The 80’s was basically this culture that started to see shows as pure marketing to sell toys, the first stories kinda worked because it was their presentation, I don’t remember anything special from MLP G1 or CareBears more than the basic rules of characters and world building. And new generations tend to fail due this unless there’s an actual interesting story around it like happened with G4 and unless they realize it we’ll have a lot of wild stuff in the middle or trying to be forgotten forever.
But hey! At least they kinda saw into the future and gave us a fluffy-like show!
Ain’t see much interest on TMNT recently honestly. It also started as comics, but were spined 180° to be family friendly so yeah, the TMNT concept we know is technicly toy-line.
The hype is not the same with Rise tho, including me. I LOVED the animation but the story and characters didn’t click for me, but I guess it’s doing good enough. I suppose it’s just another of those mixed eras. hope they do well!
TMNT as we know it was a vehicle for the Playmates toyline.
Being the hipster CPU I am, i’m familair with the comics off course.
For me Rise was a huge huge letdown after the excellent 2012 series.
But I’m sure they are working on anew incarnation.
TMNT is nearly 40 years old doubt they are gonna let it die any time soon.