Tuesday, May 22, 2012

title pic Chuck E. Cheese: Where a kid can be a… My Little Pony?

Posted by Hillary on April 24, 2012

In the 80s and 90s, My Little Pony had a special promotion going with Chuck E. Cheese restaurants. One of your prize options was… a special My Little Pony with the Chuck E. Cheese logo symbol on her rump exclusive to Chuck E. Cheese locations. (Symbols are what cutie marks used to be called, youngster. [...]

title pic My Little Pony Petite Ponies featured mini playsets long before Ponyville

Posted by Hillary on April 10, 2012

Oh, Petite Ponies! My littlest ponies! You’re this little, but I love you this big! Your world is this little, but I love it this big! Petite Ponies were plastic ponies of an inch high, some of which had brushable hair. Their bases had a horseshoe pattern that allowed you to activate their playset features. [...]

title pic My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Toy Origins: Pinkie Pie

Posted by Hillary on March 27, 2012

The Original 2003 Pinkie Pie [photo credit MyLittleWiki I’ve been wanting to do a series like this for a long time so a big thanks to trviamaven for teeing me up with last week’s trivia question. Now if only we can sneak them all in as trivia columns, I might actually get to do the whole [...]

title pic Second generation (G2) pegasus ponies, the only flying My Little Pony with removable (and wearable) wings

Posted by Hillary on March 13, 2012

The second generation was different in a lot of ways but none more obvious then when it came to pegasus ponies. In addition to the fact that this was the first generation where some unicorns also had wings, the pegasus ponies of the second generation could… remove their wings entirely! As Princess Twinkle Star on the [...]

title pic Could new My Little Pony toys that look more like the Friendship is Magic characters be a bad thing?

Posted by Hillary on March 7, 2012

Time and again, the thing everyone seems to clamor for from Hasbro are pony and playsets that more closely match the look of the ponies on The Hub‘s Friendship is Magic show. This request is also closely followed by requests for characters from the show that have never been made into toys (such as the controversial Derpy [...]