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[edit] TV Series

There really should be an article for the TV series, which is only mentioned in passing here. Preferably not a POV ridden mockery like the old one.--Tenka Muteki 01:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

- It's now been created, by the same author as the POV ridden mockery no less. Huzzah! --Ssarl 01:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

-- I'm watching an early My Little Pony cartoon right now with my kids, 3 and 6, and I'm a bit surprised by how dark it is, if I had known it was like this when I was a little kid I might have watched it. There is some menacing demonic figure stroking what appears to be a beating heart in a sack while he admonishes some big scary demon and threatens a baby dragon. It's cool, but I'm pretty sure there are going to be some nightmares tonight.

[edit] Just a little editing

I'm not all that familiar with MLP myself, so I can't do any factchecking, but I cleaned up a little NPOV and second person and other cosmetic issues. But that "Baby Pony" section sounds like it should be under the laternate lines section. I'm not going to move it though because I don't really know anything about what was manufactured when. :)

I'd also consider maybe the references to year numbers, like "year 5" in the section I edited, and I think it says year 8 and year 9 farther down, be clarified somewhere. What do those year numbers mean, exactly? Errick 19:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I really don't have a clue why, but hardcore pony fans use 'Year 1' for 1982-3, 'Year 2' for 1983-4 and so on. I've replaced those references for sake of clarity. Baby Ponies were part of the regular line, just, y'know, smaller. --Ssarl 01:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I am a collector of these toys and I want to help improve this site. I edited to simplify a few things and have changed the tone a little. I will be doing some research so I can site pertanent references soon. I removed info about specific ponies and market pricing as it did not belong here. I have also removed the comment about Hasbro confirming the G1 license until I can find the article to site this claim. --Childwize 02:17, 25 Feb 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs pictures!

The My Little Pony style is very visually distinct. This article has no pictures of MLP toys! The screenshot from the animated series is nice, but really belongs in that article, not this one. Surely somebody has one or two pictures, of toys from the old style and the new, with undisputed copyright status? --Darksasami 03:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] picture from hebreu

i liftet the picteur of three poneys from the hebreu.It's named nomber 005, so i presume ther's more.--Pixel ;-) 01:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

While I love ponies as much as the next pony-lover, let's try to keep the external links sensible. Thx, everyone! El_C 20:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up

I just added the clean up tag to the article. There's a lot of POV statements in there, with non-enyclopedic sentences that sound more like reviews. I'll clean up a little later, right now I'm just putting in a head's up. Annie D 08:40, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To Wikipedia staff regarding collectors section and links

Dear Wikipedia Staff, I am writing to help clear up some confusion and errors in flagging in your article about My Little Pony. A July 25th edit removed and flagged a link to MLPTP.net. This website is not spam, nor is it inappropriate. I inadvertently overrode the link instead of adding the intended link to MLParena.com. If you visit the flagged website or search for it in Google, you will see that it is indeed relevant to the content of the article. I have been contacted about this by the original author of this section and tried putting the link and content back in, but as it has already been flagged, the edits do not hold.

Please unflag this website and allow the Collectors Revised section to stand. Thank you. Tracy

[edit] vandles(sorry can't spell)

randomly going throught the article for fun(reall hoping for pics and, at least a list of all the names.....) i found this

Mail-order ponies

All butt faces (typically a plastic bubble

it's the first part under that section header....i can't fix it but i thought i'd let you know

68.5.126.35 (talk) 20:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)ladykayra

I have removed it. Thanks for pointing it out. Deli nk (talk) 20:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup needed

Ah, I can see how this attracted a cleanup tag -- while this is pretty well structured for a toy-related article, and not overloaded with meaningless detail (a common problem with collector topics), there's an awful lot of POV material, an evident bias towards the earlier incarnations of MLP, and an almost total lack of references. I can't do much about the third (don't have the relevant expertise and this isn't a topic that lends itself to library research), but I'll try and copy edit to deal with the first two. Just noting my intentions here so people don't freak out.

Also, the picture at the top really should go; as the bulk of the article is about the toys, the most appropriate illustration would be a picture of them, and that would also avoid copyright problems which are pretty frequent when screen grabs are involved. Gusworld (talk) 02:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've had a first pass at it -- still lots to do though. I deleted the whole restoration section, as that's not relevant detail for an encyclopedia article. The popular culture section also needs serious trimming, if not outright removal -- only prominent and sustained references should be here, not any fleeting MLP reference. (Converting this from a list to text would also discourage people from adding random material.)
One factual problem someone else can hopefully address: The My Pretty Pony line gets mentioned in the lead, and then never recurs again. The lead is supposed to summarise the main content of the article, so this isn't appropriate -- either more detail on this predecessor should be added or this note should be moved into the article body. (I've also added a sentence regarding the subsequent generations, but the lead definitely needs work.) Gusworld (talk) 03:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and I also removed the list of ponies that have been faked, primarily as this is not encyclopedic and also as it's unlikely to stay accurate for any meaningful period of time. Gusworld (talk) 03:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)