I've been a MLP fan for a long time. I'm more of a collector of the older toys (G1 and G3 especially), but I have seen most of the animations. Despite the whole Brony thing, I did find G4's Friendship is Magic very enjoyable. The other animations are a mixed bag. G3 is very simplistic, but it has some charm and the Minty Christmas episode is pretty good. The original G1 animations are so 80s, so kinda dated but are still worth a watch if you like cartoons from that era and MLP, and the artstyle of the ponies is so cute. (but when I say dated, I do mean there is this cringe episode with a "Sleeping Beauty" like plot where this entitled prince jerk feels like he has come and rescued this princess, but she doesn't want anything to do with him [who would?], but the ponies take the entitled prince jerk's side and that's... not a great lesson for little girls. Not at all.). The later G1 animation - Pony Tales is cute, but is pretty plain (as in it's not fantasy at all, and the ponies are pretty much just humans that look like ponies going to school lol).
G5 is okay, but I do not like the artstyle. I just can't get into it. I tolerated G4's artstyle despite not being pony like because it is cute, but the G5 just goes way too far off even further away from looking like ponies in any way (aside from the hooves).
Hey Hasbro, bring back My Little Ponies that look like ponies/horses, please?! Before G5 came about, there was a leaked document with potential different styles. I'm not even joking when the style they went with of all of the ones there was the one that back then I went "Ew. Anything but that!". There were some other great design ideas there. Sad. Oh well. Less toys for me to buy.
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