Dear Hasbro, More Ponies Please
The following guest post is by my wife, Diane. She’s a My Little Pony fan who has some issues with Hasbro. I find it interesting that the issue she has parallels the feelings of a lot guys have who collect toys like Joes and Star Wars figures, especially when the 25th Joes were in their first year:
Dear Hasbro,
As a collector of My Little Ponies, I am considerably disappointed in your recent My Little Pony offerings. The fun of the previous series was that each new wave of Ponies brought new characters with new special gimmicks. What you’re giving me now is the same 6 Ponies with new add-on crap (cowboy hats? surf boards?) and a slightly different paint job. It’s hard for me to get interested in buying the same ponies over and over again. Now, I know you may be gearing this line towards kids, so you really don’t give a crap that I don’t want 2 Scootaloos even if one comes with a tennis racket. But, when the toys were originally released in the early 80’s, I was a kid and I ate that shit up like birthday cake. Call me crazy, but I’m thinking it still works that way. You can keep releasing the play sets with the creepy Pony clothes for the kiddies, but keep up with the variety for the adults with money to spend.
Sincerely,
Diane M. Rudolph
February 24th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
My wife feels exactly the same way, only as a collector of ponies she won’t even buy the “new sculpt” ponies (except that SDCC exclusive Art Pony). So she’s like the ARAH collector guys on the joe boards who won’t buy anything made past 1989.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
amen! I feel exactly the same way about the most recent MLPs, as a pony collector myself. I sent a similar letter to hasbro just now!
Glad to see I’m not alone in being disappointed with this recent wave of ponies…