Friendship is Magic

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:22 am

I had a fling with a trans female once. I don't recomend it. You get both girl crazy and boy crazy in one package.

And on topic, I own the mane 6, a couple dozen blind bag ponies, and a pinky pie plush.

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:30 pm

I have to head to Wal*Mart and see if I can get some pony posters.

I think the star in the store's name is accurate.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:55 pm

Darth Rabbitt wrote:
Shrapnel wrote:Hasbro intended Transformers to be a successful toy line. With My Little Pony, not so much. It was mostly intended as a space-filler. Notice that things like Bot-Con are far, far, FAR more popular than any Pony-type convention. Notice that people will quote from the TF movie (the '87 one, not the 2007 one, although even that one grossed millions of millions). Notice that Optimus Prime and Megatron are more well known names than Pinkie-Pie or whatever.
It is true that I bear My Little Pony no love, and whether Friendship is Magic lives or dies is a matter beneath my notice, but it doesn't seem fair to hear a preference of Transformers over anything from someone with an Insecticon as an avatar and user name.

Conversely, I'd take glowing recommendations of anything My Little Pony related from someone with a username like Twilight Sparkle with a grain of salt.

May I point out that many of the people on this thread extolling the virtues of My Little Pony have pony or pony-related images as their avatars?

So, I'm not really sure why it's not fair to hear preference of Transformers from me bacause I have an Insecticon avatar, and yet you have no problem with the likes of erik - who, for example, has a My Little Pony toy thing as his avatar - saying that My Little Pony is great. Do you realize the wrongness that is going on here?

In fact, I'll change my avatar just so I can talk about Transformers and not seem biased.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:44 pm

Hmm, i need to see if there is a Transformers MLP Crossover somewhere . .
edit: well, that was fast http://www.mylittletransformer.com/info.html
and it's not even remotely close to good, but there it is . .

As an aside:
DC killed off the Transformers / Justice League Cross-Over <.<

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:46 pm

A fair point. I would say Darth Rabbit covered himself by saying he'd also not take heed from a likewise devoted Pony fan except indeed he did only specifically call you out rather than the 11 previous pages of various similarly blatant pony fans doing the same.

And for history's sake, my MLP avatar is from something that predates Friendship is Magic. I thought it was an awesome idea that they should have given actual serious consideration towards (except for using D20 modern system, that's how you could tell it was an April Fool's gag).

And now, a Peace Offering!

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:15 pm

Actually, that link i posted seems to be from 2004, which is Gen3 Ponies, not Gen4 FIM.
THIS one, on the other hand, is 20% cooler in 10 seconds flat:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8er83h9Bbn8

Also: your Picture is SO AWESOME!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:25 pm

erik wrote:A fair point. I would say Darth Rabbit covered himself by saying he'd also not take heed from a likewise devoted Pony fan except indeed he did only specifically call you out rather than the 11 previous pages of various similarly blatant pony fans doing the same.

Well, I just found it odd for someone to go into (what is presumably) an appreciation thread to My Little Pony and talk about hating it.

That's a flamewar waiting to happen.

And I call haxx on the Starscream vs. Rainbow Dash video (spoilered for length and nerdrage)

[nerdrage]The Mach 5 calculation is hand-waving bullshit, which they pretty much admit (you could use the same level of technobabble to argue that Starscream's null rays would work on animals, because it would disrupt electrical impulses in the body and all.)

And Starscream hits plenty of Autobots in the Transformers 1980s movie; his aim isn't THAT bad (none of the Decepticons ever hit anyone in the show.)

Now Starscream is pretty much an idiot, so he might very well fuck up the fight anyways and lose (especially since he's fighting a good guy from another Hasbro series, and the good guys always win in Hasbro series,) I'll give that.

But, Starscream's spark can control organic components (all of the season 1 Beast era transformers had organic alt modes for the sake that organic materials weren't affected by the amount of Energon on prehistoric Earth, and he possessed Waspinator; also they bring up Kiss Players *shudder*, in which he possesses a cyborg jailbait abomination KILL IT WITH FIRE) so he'd be able to possess Rainbow Dash anyways, and then probably raise an army of bronies to overthrow Megatron and defeat the Autobots through raw attrition and the power of slavery friendship.

But then he'd be a pony and might die from the embarrassment of going through all of that shit.

So I'd call it a draw at best.

TL;DR, the makers of the video gave too much hand-waving bullshit in Rainbow Dash's favor and none at all in Starscream's.

It's kind of like if I claimed Boba Fett could kill Sephiroth (who is IMHO the most overrated villain ever, but I admit that he would kick Fett's ass) because in some shitty Extended Universe comics Fett fights Darth Vader to a draw.[/nerdrage]

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:03 am

In all honesty, I just wanted an (non)reason to change my avatar* (like I really needed one. Or lack thereof). I do not like My Little Pony, but that is due to the reaction of most of my gender towards it. For the record, I also think that Transformers: Prime, which is the new show that is sharing the airwaves with MLP:FIM, sucks green dinosaur balls too. So, bascially, I hate the Hub. A bad move all around. Also, the TF:Animated ponys make my head hurt. And yet, I'd probably buy them, too. The curse of blind brand loyalty. It's why I own Pokemon White and will probably buy Pokemon White2 as well.

Also, since my day is not complete without at TF reference: Did you know that Flamewar is the name of a female Decepticon?

I forget her deal, but she was a redeco of the TF:Energon Arcee figure, and was exclusive to the 2005 BotCon. So, whenever I hear the phrase "flamewar" (which admittidly isn't often), I think of her.

Oh, and DR. You'r totally fucking right. Starscream would just throw a couple of cluster bombs down the pony's throat, fly off at speeds that would make a blind man see, and then null ray the fuck out of it's brains. I'm not sure if that's the gist of what you said or not, because I'm too lazy to look at your post, but there.

EDIT:
Okay, I just did. I have this to say:

Darth Rabbitt wrote: But, Starscream's spark can control organic components...

Starscream's spark doesn't just possess organic-y stuff. It can possess ANYTHING: Organic, mechanical, biomechanical, phantasmic, etc. etc.

That is all.

EDIT:

erik wrote: And for history's sake, my MLP avatar is from something that predates Friendship is Magic. I thought it was an awesome idea that they should have given actual serious consideration towards (except for using D20 modern system, that's how you could tell it was an April Fool's gag).

I did not know this. All I knew was that it was a plastic pony and it was your avatar. Now I do know, and knowing is half the battle.

YO JOOOOOEEE!!!

...I'll let you all get back to your regulary scheduled pony-gramming...

*I may change it back. I may not. You never know with these things, do ya?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:59 am

Found it, shared it, i have done what duty demands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jtp_Ldm ... r_embedded

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:22 pm

Pinky Pie is the Minotaur. All ponies are the Minotaur. It will never be your birthday again.

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:26 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Pinky Pie is the Minotaur. All ponies are the Minotaur. It will never be your birthday again.

Seanbaby is the shit.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:04 pm

Input?

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:05 pm

Stahlseele wrote:Input?

About the Seanbaby reference? The count's minotaur quote comes from this, as far as I can tell.

More Seanbaby, this time germane to this forum.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:05 pm

ah, i see, thank you.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:09 pm

so, anypony read this one yet?
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/41270/1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDdL4z5q ... re=related
The bar for fan made animation has been raised O.o

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:58 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJmNFK99 ... ure=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtvNZdIw ... ure=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDRWddH ... re=related

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:51 pm

So, this is possibly the funniest thing regarding Ponies I have ever seen.

This pertains to My Little Pony: The Movie.

From an interview with Buzz Dixon regarding his initial "punch up" of the script:

Buzz Dixon wrote:At one point one of the Little Ponies had to go looking for...something or someone, I forget. I suggested she encounter some of the Transformers and Joes in her search, specifically, a scene where she flies up to Shipwreck who is drinking some amber fluid from a bottle.

Shipwreck would just stare at her in bug-eyed disbelief and she’d fly on, then Shipwreck would smash the bottle, take his cap off his head, put his left hand over his heart and raise his right hand in an oath, muttering frantically under his breath. Hasbro said, "Very funny. No."

He later said this,

Buzz Dixon wrote:I suggested one of the Ponies go look for help against the menace facing them. The first person she would have asked would have been Optimus Prime, the second would have been Shipwreck (who would assume he was suffering from DTs & pour out the beer he was drinking).

Alas, humorless spoilsports cooler heads prevailed and those scenes were never animated…

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:50 pm

*snickers* ^^

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:04 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWETk7Ri2ac

That is the first 8 minutes of Crystal empire part 1

A lot of interesting things going on, but a lot is open to wild speculation. So here goes:

I'm thinking that Luna will continue to play a role in the episode, judging by how pissy she looked in the clip. Perhaps a bit of jealousy by how much Celestia favors Twi?

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:39 am

Ted the Flayer wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWETk7Ri2ac

That is the first 8 minutes of Crystal empire part 1

A lot of interesting things going on, but a lot is open to wild speculation. So here goes:

I'm thinking that Luna will continue to play a role in the episode, judging by how pissy she looked in the clip. Perhaps a bit of jealousy by how much Celestia favors Twi?

Not sure. I'm wondering if they are setting up an Ascension arc for Twilight. Its always been something of a possibility, and it would also explain some of Luna's reaction. But the dialogue between Celestia and Luna makes it pretty clear that the Empire is just the test, and the Real Thing is even bigger than that.

But still, bitchy, cynical Luna is a bit of surprise after the Nightmare Night episode. Jealously may well be in play. I'd also like to see a mention of what Luna was up to during the Wedding Fiasco.

I am disappointed that the Failure Song has nothing to do with actual failure on Twilight's part. Dealing with failure would have been a reasonable lesson for the show, and this was more just a reaction to having a 'real' problem to deal with rather than an academic test, which really isn't meaningful for Twi at this point.

But anyway, glad to see an ominous and Serious Business season opener.

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:42 pm

Gotta watch me some ponies now!

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:12 pm

*nods*
am waiting for season 3 and trying to avoid spoilers . . .
it's fucking hard to do and close to impossible though <.<

Essence · Post by **Essence** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:17 am

Shrapnel wrote:
Buzz Dixon wrote:At one point one of the Little Ponies had to go looking for...something or someone, I forget. I suggested she encounter some of the Transformers and Joes in her search, specifically, a scene where she flies up to Shipwreck who is drinking some amber fluid from a bottle.

Shipwreck would just stare at her in bug-eyed disbelief and she’d fly on, then Shipwreck would smash the bottle, take his cap off his head, put his left hand over his heart and raise his right hand in an oath, muttering frantically under his breath. Hasbro said, "Very funny. No."

That's a terrible pity. There is far too little cognitively advanced self-referential humor in the guise of children's entertainment these days.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:38 am

that's sarcasm, right?

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Nov 02, 2012 4:24 am