Wind Chaser

I think it would majorly depend on who owned it and who produced it. For one thing, if it wasn't produced in-house by the networks, it would have been liable to be majorly screwed as far as scheduling. As a standalone IP, you bet Lauren and the rest of the crew would have had much more creative freedom. For one, there probably would have been a much larger adventure component to the show than there already is, a tighter continuity, and more flexibility as far as planning the episodes. There also would have been more room for experimental storytelling, but this has just as much potential to backfire ("Feeling Pinkie Keen") as it does to do good. The benefit would have been, depending on the theme of the show, that it could have allowed for a better context for more complex morals than presenting them as friendship lessons. In this hypothetical version of the show, toy mandates from "A Canterlot Wedding", "The Crystal Empire", and Princess Twilight to even the Crusaders (originally intended to only consist of Apple Bloom, in development named "Appleseed") would not have happened. I also have no idea how the slice-of-life and fantasy elements would have been balanced or interwoven. They would more likely have been interwoven under a tighter continuity unless network mandates would demand otherwise. As for the fanbase, MLP has a built-in support base of legacy collectors from the earlier generations and people who grew up with the nostalgia of the older shows, so that component of the fanbase would not be there. Nor would anyone else who jumped on purely to investigate how something with the My Little Pony name could overcome the inevitable stigma attached to it. However, if there's anything that the success of shows like Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Gravity Falls can tell us, it's that the right ideas can pull large amounts of fan support even if they aren't tied into 30-year-old franchises from other media. So even though the composition of the fanbase might have looked a little bit different, I still think the show could have been very successful on a large scale. But still, that goes down to the specifics of what exactly a non-MLP FiM series would look like.

Well, we could turn this into one big push to get adult blank flanks into the show. My OC is one and I think it would make a great episode. The idea of the Crusaders never getting their cutie marks just doesn't sound right. The pony's out of the barn, so to speak, and eventually closure on this character arc would be necessary. If not, it would be one giant disappointment.

Griffonstone looks like a completely anarchic state with no rules governing society or the economy whatsoever. A capitalist dystopia more readily calls to my mind a tyrannical monopoly that rules pretty much the same way any other type of totalitarian dictatorship would run, except based on money and backdoor deals rather than ideology, but a non-functioning state where everyone is left to fend for themselves is another possibility to arise from the same system. An anarchic society can very much be the basis of either a capitalistic or communistic system.

This is both hilarious and absolutely embarrassing that something like this would get through the cracks like a madman or axe-grinder over the White House fence. In the words of Ed Harris as Gene Kranz in the movie Apollo 13, "Tell me this isn't a government operation!" I'm really interested in finding out just where in the hell such a picture came from. Well, that's interesting. If this guy's goal was to get attention, he more than succeeded at that.

Hasbro has always been about the toys first and the media second. All that matters is selling the toys to the target demo, which they believe to not be discerning of quality. In fact, they didn't really care about the show that much at first either, until they found out just how talented the people working on it are when it got popular.

It is beyond belief amazing that the show would even think of doing this. I'll be satisfied as long as the fanservice doesn't preclude a good story.

I haven't heard of Jet Set and Upper Crust being unpopular characters, that's news to me. Usually these characters are cliché, and doubling them up usually hides their lack of chemistry with other characters or emphasizes their negative traits by showing how spineless the lackey is to the brains of the pair. Silver Spoon mindlessly follows Diamond Tiara, as Snips is usually the chief of screwing things up with Snails going along with him being a stock dolt.

The writers really need to use him better. If he can contribute to the plot without it depending on him screwing up or being an idiot, then they've done well.