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Bluey! Honorable mentions: Amazing World of Gumball Sonic Boom old 80s Care Bears George of the Jungle/Super Chicken/Tom Slick (1960s)

4 Pinkie Pie (5 including G3) 2 Rainbow Dash (3 including G3) 11 Applejack (15 including G1-3) 3 Twilight Sparkle 3 Rarity (4 including G3) 3 Fluttershy (used to have 1 G3 as well) That's off the top of my head. I think I have both a McDonald's and a brushable of most of them, at the very least. I also own or have owned other G1-3 ponies that inspired the mane 6, such as G1 Twilight and Sparkler, Surprise, Firefly, and G2 Skyskimmer.

I've been rewatching FiM and dreading getting to season 8, but I just finished season 7. Applejack is my favorite and I know it's downhill from here, especially in the episode where she is super competitive with Rainbow Dash again, which felt like they both forgot the lesson they learned about that in season 1, with the leaf falling race, and it was worse in their school competitive episode because it negatively impacted others as well. I don't think Applejack had any positive growth after season 7, maaaaaybe like a single episode. Not to mention she could have been removed from The Movie and not changed anything either.

I think the CMC got reasonable cutie marks. They were really into doing the same sort of stuff together, and it clicked for all of them at the dame time that they liked helping others find out what fulfills them in life. They don't need to stick together their whole life or just help others with cutie marks. They could do a whole host of other jobs and activities that help people find and be true to themselves.

I got to hear AJ and Dash's VA swap back and forth mid sentence live at BABScon, it is sort of a trip how fluidly she can change. Tabitha St. Germain has done a nice variety of voices in MLP, even in G3 as well. I heard that she didn't try out for Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie in FiM because they were too similar to her G3 voices for Wysteria and Minty respectively.

So, I know that we intentionally don't know how Bright Mac and Buttercup/Pear Butter passed, which is fine. But I'd like to collect any information that we do know about their time with their Apple kids before they passed. It seemed like Applejack and Big Mac didn't know anything besides their parents' names in The Perfect Pair, but since we know they passed after Apple Bloom was born, I'm a little surprised Applejack and Big Mac don't seem to say anything about them besides a generic "our parents would be proud". I'm only in season 7 of my rewatch so might be forgetting things from seasons 8-9. Even something like "that was mom's favorite flower" or "dad taught me this" would be nice to see.

If it were just the color scheme, then I'd deem it a coincidence and be able to easily make a custom toy of my OC if it got released as a brushable or blindbag, etc.

I love this blindbag giftset that includes 6 G3 ponies as G4 blindbags, including my favorite pony design if all time, Waterfire, though she is missing her sparkly hair and fire in her eyes. It also includes Periwinkle, another G3 pony I have. Have Fluttershy and Wysteria been mentioned yet from G3? I have a G4 Wysteria brushable, and G3 Fluttershy had slightly different colors but still had a butterfly cutie mark. I'd love to find a comprehensive list of ponies in G4 content and/or the G4 toys that are based on previous gens. I'd also include ones like Sprinkle Medley, who appears to be based on G1 Medley, who was the gentle contrast to Firefly. I love taking a bag of G1-G3 ponies to MLP events and sharing some FiM origins. I love FiM as well and it's so fun to join it with the ponies I've collected since childhood. It's also odd that they got to use several G1 villains in the show, at least by name (Tirek, Grogar, Somnambula), though I can't remember seeing toys for any non-pony villains except Discord. And we saw a generic likeness of Gusty on a book cover, and Moondancer is pretty spot on from G1.

What are any ponies fhat are important to you, but you wouldn't really say are your "favorite"? For example, my favorite ponies are G1 Chief, G3 Waterfire, and G1/G4 Applejack, but I'd say that G1 Firefly is my hero, G2 Skyskimmer was my first pony, G1 Cutiesaurus is my holy grail, etc. What about you? Do you have a hero, a first, a crush, an avatar, kin, ideal friend, leader of your herd, etc. that you don't really attach the word "favorite" to?