WEBVTT - Episode 41: My Little Pony 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.440 Hey, what's up. It's Nerdificent. How you doing nerd fam 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:18.840 As always, I am sitting acus from me Danny Fernandez. Yeah, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:24.079 today we're talking about a little something, my little something. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.439 I was going to say our little something. Now that 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:31.080 sounds like we're having a baby together. Sometimes whenever I'm 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.440 holding naomie or child, everyone's like, that's and that's if 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.040 he's wife. People say that all the time, like on 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.440 the twitch stream or something back when we're on hyper 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.640 and that is if he's wife. People talk or and 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.920 I kind of I could see that. Maybe that's close. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:55.920 You knows Latin, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Um, we are 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.720 talking about my Little Pony and Browny Con. I'm excited 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.480 about is because I don't know if you grew up 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.880 with it, Iffy, but I grew up with my Little Pony. Yeah. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.720 It was in the background, but it was when they 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.640 were really trying to like really shove gendered brands to kids. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.240 So like the boys got you Jos and the little girls, 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.880 you have Barbie and my Little Pony, and and you 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.800 had Polly Pocket and I forgot what was the other one? 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.280 Was the other one Max power or something? Um? I 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:28.240 played with everybody's toys. I think I have said on 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.399 here that I notoriously I would. I would, I would 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.120 switch out Ken and M My Barbie would bang M 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.280 G I Joe and Batman Bruce Wayne. Um. We are 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.880 joined today by transgender supermodel and television host a Reice Wanser. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.280 Thank you Hello. I know you wanted to talk throughout that, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.680 so I was like, I don't want to. I don't 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.640 want to stifle you anymore. I'm glad I can laugh 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.840 at your guys loudly now because everyone's like, where is 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.480 that third voice coming from? It's just always here in 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.720 the studio. Um. So, what was your first experience with 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.040 My Little Pony? Then? Um, I actually have to I'm 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.080 thirty two years old, A proud thirty two holler um, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.160 you know, child of the eighties, child of the nineties. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.240 So my sisters, though, are in their forties. So I 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.440 had all the original My Little Pony and they were 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.800 my hand me downs, and so I had like the 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.600 big Little Castle. I also had Sheera Togo with it. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.320 But yeah, so it was a pony mix. I didn't 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.800 realize they weren't the same cartoon for a while until 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.160 I started watching the movies and it was super cute, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.600 like there was there was a Careberrys movie too, but 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.440 we're not talking about that today. But I remember everything 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.480 was super trippy back then. Watching Psychedelic Yeah, if you 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.640 watch it now, it's like an adult, you're like whatever 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.400 they on when they made this, like it's kind of nuts. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.800 I think that's really funny because I find that about 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.920 a lot of cartoons, Like we've talked about Nickelodeon cartoons, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.560 and they slip in a lot of adult humor, like 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.880 in Rocco's Modern line, Oh yes, how he was a 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:03.280 sex operator, um and he would be like, oh baby 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.360 baby yeah, or like Mrs Bighead where she was like 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:12.160 sexually predatoring rock. Oh, she's like rack it. Yeah yeah, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.440 and if obviously Rent and Stimpy was very much adult humor. Yeah, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.840 Renis was actually really gross to watch as an adult. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.240 It's it's grotesque, but I'd like that they did that 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:26.040 on purpose, like the boogers and the like the animation. Yeah, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.959 the animation is really like the pimples and the words 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.960 and stuff. But of course as kids are like I 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.200 love it. Yeah, it's super cool, but as an adult, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.400 you can't eat and watch it. You can watch it, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.120 but I'm just like, oh god, no, I'm not gonna 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.880 even yeah, true, true true. Um so wait, you had 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.480 My Little Pony back when you were younger. Did it 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.520 re emerge in your life? Oh my god, yes, girl, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.360 because it came out on Netflix with With the Power 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.440 of Friendship one. What is it like? The friendship is 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.200 Friendship is magic. They don't impale me, guys. I have 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.560 a real job that is not involved by Little Pony. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.640 So I did watch the entire zero is that because 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.440 I don't have much to do with my real job. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.760 So you watched it while you were there? Oh yeah, Now, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.600 like like you know, it's just castings and auditions and 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.560 then sometimes you book something. Yeah, model life. But um 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.120 so when you're not you go home and watch Netflix. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.320 Yeah yeah, so I watched all of it and it 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.480 was quite enjoyable. Yeah. I, um, I haven't gotten back 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.479 into my Little Pony, but I still have. I was 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.760 telling you before we started recording, I had my Little 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.920 Pony birthday party, I think when I was two or three. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.960 So I have one of the original My Little Ponies. Um. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.960 I believe it's pink um. I think it has rainbow 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.440 here and it has a jewel and it's forehead. It's 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.320 very pretty actually and still in really good condition. Works. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.720 So you're a good kid. I was weird. I like 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:49.320 one my mom passed down her barbies from like the sixties. Yeah, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.080 so I had those when I was a little and uh, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.880 and then I had my little pot so those I 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.920 would play with. But my my little ponies, I guess 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.159 I kept. I think because it was from my birthday. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.719 My mom kept it in like a safe so smart. Yeah, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.800 just because I know a lot of kids who ruined 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.880 their toys. I was not one of them. Like I 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.279 had two little Mermaid dolls. One went in the tab 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.320 and one to not because one's hair. You can ruin 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.200 one you can not. Remember, my dad bought me like 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.640 the whole Star Trek collection of toys and and he 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.039 I obviously opened it up and played with it. And 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.280 I remember when the new trilogy started, all the different 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.880 news uh, I keep wanting to say news sites, but 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.279 it wasn't news. All the different like news reports that 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.719 were coming out for the new Star Wars trilogy. We're 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.440 talking about how expensive like toys from the original trilogy were. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.640 Was my dad was like, see, I had so many 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.360 of those toys. If you didn't open the today with them, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.440 it would be worth money right now. It was like, yeah, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.400 but I'm a child, of course I'm gonna play with him. Also, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.960 that's Star Wars. I had Star Trek toys. It's not 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.440 the same. Also, there's like history behind the Star Wars 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.240 toys of how like they really changed and read after 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.279 what action figures were, and I feel like that gave 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.919 more weight to why they costed money versus just it 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.880 being a Star Trek toy. It was next generation so 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.160 it wasn't even like that old by the time that 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.480 he was watching these news reports. Would you like us 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:21.080 to send this to your father? Yeah, I'm real big 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.479 at like bringing up like old stuff when I see 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.080 my day, Like every time, I'm like, dang, Dad, you're 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.359 making money off of playing video games, you know, and 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.919 you didn't want me to play. Love it well that 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.480 this is a therapy hour for you. Never mind, Dad, 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.440 you didn't have Yeah, yeah, it's not like I will 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.760 say though. I was, Oh man, I was a bratty 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.920 sister because my little brother came along and I did 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.560 not like him being the new center of attention. He 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.240 had a buzz light ear toy and I threw it 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:55.039 in the pool and it no longer talked. I was bad. Anyways, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.080 we're talking about My Little Pony um so much so 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.440 to get into it, My Little Pony, if you don't know, 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.320 is a toy line and media franchise developed by American 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.039 toy company has Bro. So this is interesting because this 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.040 we have seen as a trend as Iffie and I 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:15.560 have done this show that the toy was developed, you know, first, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:22.000 and then the show essentially to sell more toys a 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.800 long commercial essentially, and till this day, toys still run 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.280 the world. One of the biggest rumors out is that 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.840 the Justice League Unlimited show was canceled simply for the 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.240 fact that it wasn't selling enough toys. You know, I 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.520 haven't verified or fact checked that, but you know, I 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.360 know a few friends and animations and they, you know, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.840 they said that rings true in a way. Wow, I'm 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.680 still waiting for them to make a Barbie of me. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:57.080 I agree happening. Yeah, isn't that so dystopiant? It's like 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.320 Black Mirror. Not enough people like you, no Barbie, Yeah, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.400 you need more like if you want to bar Um. So, yeah, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.680 My Little Pony as a toy line and media franchise 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.800 developed by Hasbro. The first toys were developed by Bonnie Sasherley, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.080 Charles Mooinger and Steve de Iguano, and we're produced in 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.080 so the Pony's future, colorful bodies, mans and unique symbol 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.920 on one of their bodies like one of their sides. Um. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.600 Such symbols are referred to in the two most recent 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:30.360 incarnations as CUTEI marks. I Love that. My Little Pony 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.840 has been revamped several times with new and more modern 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.560 looks to appeal to a new market. They kind of 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.920 all seemed to be this. I mean, just from an outsider, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.959 I didn't realize that they had different looks to them. Um, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:44.880 would you say the ones that you see now are 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.760 different than your eighties They have lost us a significant 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:52.320 amount of way. Really, yes, they're like Ana Pony is like, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.400 they're they're a little they're a little thin. I'm going 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.280 you think it would be the opposite, because I feel 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.040 like people are embracing thicker bodies. The older ponies were 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.720 body positive. Oh my gosh, there were some thick girls 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.640 my Little Pony. I'm going to look at eighties verse now, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.040 Oh my gosh, I was already in there. That's so fascinating. Okay, 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.199 I will take a gander at that on our break. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.200 They got significantly thinner, but they're super kid. They just 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.520 look more like Powerpuff Girls version of My Little Ponies 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.480 whatever the eighties was going for, which is just an invention. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.320 I guess, yeah, what an imaginary pony would look like. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.000 But I love them all the same. Yeah, that makes sense. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.080 They represent magic and fun, kind of like the Powerpuff Girls, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.040 see exactly. So following the original My Pretty Pony toy 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.840 that was introduced in nine, My Little Pony was launched 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.360 in two, and the line became popular during the eighties, 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.880 and the original toy line ended up running from nine 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.319 eighty two to ten whole years in the United States 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.200 and to globally, so even after they stopped in the US, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.520 you know, people outside of it was like, we still 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.120 want these ponies, makes sense. So then they had two 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.000 animated specials and an animated feature length film and two 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.800 animated television series produced during the period up until and 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.319 then The First Incarnation's popularity pretty much peaked in the nineties, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.000 which is when you know, everyone at this table pretty 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.800 much remembers it clearly. But the following year Hasbro decided 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.480 to discontinue the toy line due to increased competition. One 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.200 hundred and fifty million ponies were sold in the eighties. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.440 There's a lot of ponies. I feel like I had 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.120 about eight. That almost makes me wonder if that was 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.960 the kind of beginning of the trope of like I 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.480 want a pony for my birthday. Oh my god. But 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.280 the thing is, you could get a pony for your birthday, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:39.880 but now it's a play on words, and your parents 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.040 still win. Right, Yeah, let me get this straight. So 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.800 the popularity picked and that's when it was discontinued. It 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:52.600 didn't come back until seven. I almost wonder if if 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.560 it then became like a prized kind of possession, because 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.520 for several years you couldn't buy new ponies. Um, me 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.120 and my neighbor used to trade them. Really, yeah, we 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.400 would trade my little ponies. In the early nineties, I 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.760 was like, let's call me like a seven year old boy. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.400 I'm transgender kids anyway, I was like, just so, you know, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:17.480 so I think I was a brownie at first, but 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.440 fun rules for trans people. But yeah, not anymore. Now 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.080 I'm just a regular my little pony, just like a 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.440 female I know that that makes me want because I 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.880 feel like the the and we'll get to this, the 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.439 idea of a browny. It initially started off as like 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.960 male My Pony Friends, because for some reason you have 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.120 to to to make that distinction, but it also seemed 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.720 to eventually encompa eventually encompassed like adult My Little Pony Friends, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.280 and then it went down the dark side. I feel 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.920 like there was a period of brownism where it was 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.240 it was, it was wholesome, and then very quickly, like 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.960 many adult men tend to do, make it sex. Oh god, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.559 I was serious. Well, and we'll get to we'll get 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.480 to browny con and everything. If people don't know what 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.200 we're talking about, we will get to that in a 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.440 little bit. But wrapping up here with the toys. Yeah, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.040 So the brand saw more popular revival in two thousand 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.120 three with the toys that were more closely resembled the 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:21.120 original toy line, and that sold a hundred million ponies globally. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.439 By interesting that it's like been able to stay relevant 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:29.160 this entire time. Gosh Um Hasbro launched the fourth incarnation 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.760 of the franchise, in which started with the animated series 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.160 My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, which you were talking 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.960 about on Netflix. Um. The brand grossed over six hundred 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.800 and fifty million in retail sales and over one billion 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:49.520 annually in retail sales. And What's so interesting about this is, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.040 even though I'm sure toys were in mind while it happened, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.800 this is an instance where the the animation came before 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.560 the toy and I feel like that what kind of 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.160 led to its success. I dabbled in Brownie is Um 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.440 for a hot sec because because you know, even though 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.480 I'm not an edge lord, I still have lots of 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.480 edge lord tendencies. And I loved how much people were like, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.240 Brownies are dumb, and I was like, all right, well, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.559 I'm gonna be a Brownie since you think it's dumb. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.160 Uh and and and one of the reasons that it 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.800 kind of blew up and even kind of spawned brownies 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.200 was because the source material, the animated show kind of 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.960 had that perfect formula of being made essentially for children, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.360 but anybody can watch it and enjoy it because it's 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.760 It was right around that period of animation where we 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.320 had shows that were technically quote unquote for kids, but 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.000 had enough weight where no matter your age, you'd like 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.080 it like Adventure Time and The Regular Show and the 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.199 World of Gumball and you know, and all those cartoons. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.080 It's you know, even though they're on Cartoon Network and 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.800 at prime time time for kids, a lot of adults 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.600 and older people really have been into the show because 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.640 they were written to the top of their intelligence instead 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.760 of just pandering to children. Yeah, I wanted to say here. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.679 Psychologist John Rosemond described My Little Pony toys as great soothing, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.240 quiet time toys. It's really interesting having none of the 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.280 violence or sexuality of other toy franchises. And I think 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.400 what they're alluding to is g I Joe, which was 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.120 also popular at the time, Transformers, he Man, some of 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.880 those other ones. I'm sorry. That also reminds me because 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.000 my sister, as you call it, a quiet time toy 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.600 she specifically requested at her first baby shower, said no 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.160 noisy toys, and My Little Pony would be perfect because 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.760 none of them make noise, squeak, they don't talk, they 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.360 don't do anything. And back to the toys too. They 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.800 also had like licensing with Build a Bear because I 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.240 have a big Build a Bear in mind. My little 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.560 play that a friend got me for my birthday and 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.720 now it sits in my closet, like guarding the closet, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.080 like up in the rafters. But um, it's interesting because 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.400 it's absolutely a quiet time toy because it doesn't make 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.560 any noise, They don't do anything. It is kind of 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.720 funny the people that get I think, like you were 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.560 saying that, um, the people that get attached to My 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.320 Little Pony because it represents um friendship and it represents 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.720 kind of this magical fantasy land. That's a way. I mean, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.400 I don't know if the current series does this, but 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:22.000 kind of you know, an escapism escapism essentially, and so 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.600 which is kind of the opposite of a lot of 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:28.040 its counterparts of that time that we're more violent. Um. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.360 But it is fascinating to me the people that grew 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.360 up with it, that stayed with it because I feel 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.800 like My Little Pony people are like very into My 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.480 Little Pony, um, which is like me growing up, I 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.600 was super into anime and that kind of I don't know, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.640 they have a lot of similarities. I think, I agree, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.360 because it's about, like think with the escapism just because 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.000 it makes you feel safe, especially like the world is 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.000 such a scary place when I see like the rainbow 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.360 coming out of the back of a horse just flying 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.000 to like go save her friend from this lightning storm. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:04.440 It's kind of nice. Um, well, we're going to get 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.080 into My Little Pony friendship is magic this show and 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.400 talk a little bit about um the origin and history 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:19.400 as well as Brony con right after this break and 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.280 we're back talking about My Little Pony and if he 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.360 before we move on, we have to talk about My 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.160 Pretty Pony. Yeah, you gotta talk about the predecessor before 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.080 you get into the actual, So you got to talk 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.080 about the source between that created the material and before 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.520 My Little Pony, there was a there was an unsuccessful 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.160 first launch which was called My Pretty Pony, which was 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.720 a pony figurine that has launched in one and it 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.680 was created by an illustrator by the name of Bonnie 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.400 Zacharly and a sculptor called Charles Moon Schinger. And it 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.000 was a ten inch tall hard plastic semi gro test 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.720 figure that was able to wiggle its your squishes tail 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.760 and ink one eye. This thing was huge and it 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.800 also kind of had like the early permanation of what 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.040 you would call a cutie mark, because there's some had 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.479 like just a whole bunch of a whole bunch of 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.959 hearts on the little, you know, rear flank of the 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.120 of the pony. But it was like big. We've all 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.640 we all looked at it during the break and commented 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.399 on how big it was. So it's so funny that 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.000 they that when it wasn't successful, they're like, it probably 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.400 was because it was too big. It looks like something 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.479 you throw. Yeah, you know, I'm just like, I hate you. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.760 It's creepy and it's sad. If it looks sad, it 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.800 has a sad horse eye. I don't like. I hate 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:44.680 when horses look sad. It's like, don't ride me. But 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.600 they didn't go out without a fight, because first, you know, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.040 they went my pretty party. Then they had my Pretty 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.679 Pony and Beautiful Baby, which came with a smaller baby 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.879 pony figure. And I think that was probably when people noticed, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.440 when they probably did one of those like uh, what 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.680 was those group test with kids, and they're like, oh, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.280 we like this, it's small. I don't pull my back 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.760 out lifting this, And that's what they went with. But 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.159 a recent I we're talking about during the break that 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:16.480 we both had um puppy surprise surprised puppy. Surprise was 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.960 a puppy that you opened its tummy and you could 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.560 take out puppies, and it's just it was a surprise 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.960 how many you got. Some people had, like my neighbor 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.240 had too, and I had four, so I was kind 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.080 of like the beacon winner. But it's so like we 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:32.919 were talking about this, and if I know that you 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.920 have you have a little girl, like, it's so fascinating 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.520 our fascination with baby, like to give a baby a baby, 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.400 because it's like you yourself are a baby. To give 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.959 them babies, well, it's one of the I feel like 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.040 the most earliest human traits that hasn't phased out where 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.359 it's like, well, yeah, you still give birth and have 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.600 to take care of it. And it is whild watching 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.679 like my daughter have a baby, like we never pushed 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.639 baby dolls on it. Like she started treating her stuffed 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.320 animals like before before we even got her a single 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.800 baby doll. It's just like a natural human thing. You 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.840 don't see little boys searching for spears and stabbing their 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.720 stuffed animals yet that And I think it's because it's 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.280 just still around and something that is I guess useful 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:22.040 to humans, but the baby toys across the border are 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.200 always weird. Like my daughter now has this Baby Alive, 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:30.199 which gets this weird Yeah, it's like I don't like 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.919 the name. Yeah, it's it gets worse. It eats. It 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.119 has like this weird like plato that you smush and 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.080 make spaghetti, and then like it's makes slurp sounds and 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.680 and and then it's supposed to poop the plato out, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.200 but if you're familiar with the the texture of plato, 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.080 all it does is get stuck and then creates this 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:55.000 weird imagery as Dad sticks a jad stick up there 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.920 to dig out the plato. And yeah, I feel so 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.520 bad because like she's staring at me and I'm like, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.920 I just got to get the food out for you. Baby. 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.200 It's first enema. Oh, it's so it's it's I'm like 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:13.320 this toy backfired big tea literally, So if Baby Alive 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.320 when we're not talking about it. Baby Alive first came 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.679 out in nineteen really and it had many iterations. I 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.600 had a Baby Alive when I was little. I was 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.800 in love with it. I think mine might have cried. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.399 There was like definitely a baby that I had a 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.440 baby alive. But then I definitely had a baby. Um, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.119 I had a water baby that was very popular and 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.240 a baby that would you would like squeeze it would 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.359 cry it with like tears would come out of its eyes. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:42.280 Back to My Little Pony depressed, So there was there 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.000 was a short road before we got to Friendship His Magic, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.200 So it didn't just jump there. That's kind of like 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.800 the best the biggest one right now, but you know, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:55.000 it started as as as early as six with My 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.600 Little Pony television series, which you know the language to 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.560 talk about My Little Pony mirrors that if you remember 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:06.000 the Transformers episode of their being jin one Gin two, 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.240 and that's kind of that era, that early kind of 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:14.240 small toy era. Then after there was another My Little 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:18.800 Pony series that was the My Little Pony Tails that 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.399 ran for a short bit and then we got to 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.040 My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, But it all started 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:30.000 with the first one called My Little Pony in Friends. Yeah, 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.120 and um, we should also mention that was produced by 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.280 sun Bow and that's why a lot of we we've 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.240 talked about Sunbow because they're the ones that the g 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:41.640 I Joe UM, So there is a lot of similarities. Um, 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.919 and I think Transformers. Yeah, yeah, Transformers as well. So 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.359 there is a lot of similarities all the Disney, like 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.360 all the uh not Disney. It's all that like McDonald's 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.359 toys that we used to get in Happymales that came together. 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.840 The Girl Boy the Sunbow had it on lock. Yeah. 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.480 Speaking of my little pony friend Chip is Magic Aresa. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.359 I wanted to know some of your favorite characters and 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.000 what they're like, Like, is there is there one that 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.560