Did You Ever Watch Generation 1, 2, 3, or 3.5?

[River wisp 94]

I had the 3.5 dvd. My younger cousin was OBSESSED with it, the songs were ok but the rest of it was really bad

[Antiyonder 1,153]

Need to rewatch, but yeah I saw G1 and G2 at times in the 80s and 90s.

They actually reran the first two Gens on the Disney Channel.  Yeah, up to the first couple years in the 2000s they aired plenty of Non-Disney content.

[Twitchy-Tremor 297]

I watch a good amount of g1 and movies then all of pony tales then all g3 movies and a few episodes then the only one I really didn’t like was newborn cuties but I’m not sure if it was just the one I saw or if there were more. I’ve watched all of g4 and all of g5 so far.

I had a heck of a time finding g1 stuff though. If anyone has a guide or know where to watch it I’d love to know…

[Antiyonder 1,153]

23 minutes ago, Twitchy-Tremor said:

I had a heck of a time finding g1 stuff though. If anyone has a guide or know where to watch it I’d love to know…

Yeah, some if not all of it is on Tubi.

And there was a one shot special comic My Little Pony 40th Anniversary.

Has three stories.  One involves some fans of G1 working to save their stable from being sold, one is a G5 story where the Main Five read about Dream Valley and the last one has a girl & her aunt playing with some G1 figures when the power at their place goes out.

And while underwhelming with the original Ponies, there is the crossover mini with FiM, Generations which has been reprinted.

[Solar Power 302]

I have recently started to do something I always thought and said I would never do...I've started watching the early generations. I don't know why but I just decided to do so, and so now I'm currently making my way through generation 1. I've only seen the two specials Rescue at Midnight Castle and Escape from Catrina so far. It's very quaint but entertaining enough. Albeit something I'll probably not want to watch twice. Next up is the 1986 movie.

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

I've watched all of G1 and G3, never seen any G2 and as for G3.5 I tried it but it was kinda weird. 

[Solar Power 302]

I'm about halfway through generation 1 now. It's still watchable but also pretty lame to be frank. There's no way a cartoon this quaint would be made today. I also struggle to keep up with who is who. There are so many ponies and none seem to have any distinguishing personality traits. And they all just seem to come and go. Spike seems to have vanished by this point and the G1 Applejack is only in one episode.

Every time I heard Gusty speak I kept thinking 'where have I heard that voice before?' So I looked up her voice actress and it's Nancy Cartwright who does the voice of Bart Simpson.

By the way...remember those three G1 screenshots that appeared on a TV screen in the 2021 A New Generation movie? If you were wondering where they were from....One of them is taken from the opening titles of the 1986–1987 series and the other two are from the same series in the the episode The Ghost of Paradise Estate Part 1 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Solar Power

[Pascalle 62]

I watched G1 because I think it's really cool to see how the show developed over the years.

[FriendGuy 43]

My Little Pony Tales is a hidden masterpiece, it's beyond wholesome. 

I love Patch

I love when she tries to give everyone the reality check on who she really is when her friends literally try to pressure her into abandoning her adoptive parents just to be a royal...

Idk if it constitutes as g.2 or g.2.5 or whatever but omg I love it.

g.1 can get pretty dark and it's very enjoyable as well

But I enjoy MLP Tales, it's wholesome and it's got good life lessons in it.

Patch shows us that it's important to maintain good spirits and a sense of humor despite your situation, it's her core, there are many episodes of this I love.

[Lnx1ynight16 628]

I heard of G2 but I never seen it. What was it like?

[Snow 7,036]

Aaahh not just yet!  I've had it on my mind to check out G1 at the very least least though that has yet to happen 

I've heard good things about G1 but less so for 2 / 3 / 3.5, maybe they'll get a fair go at some point too.

[Octavian 5,421]

and I made a G3 fanfic Delivering on Sweetness & Beyond - Fimfiction

[Jamis 16]

On 2024-09-07 at 5:01 PM, Lnx1ynight16 said:

I heard of G2 but I never seen it. What was it like?

There was no animated show for G2 - only toys and videogame: https://mlpg2.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_G2_Wiki

[Lnx1ynight16 628]

7 hours ago, Jamis said:

There was no animated show for G2 - only toys and videogame: https://mlpg2.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_G2_Wiki

Really? No show, that’s a surprise. I though every generation of MLP had a tv show?

[Rock-O-Jello 218]

I've seen a little bit of G3. I thought it was just ok.

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,321]

Not at all, but I have seen some G1 episodes and Firefly's Adventure on VHS.  

[Fhaolan 4,483]

On 2024-09-09 at 12:27 PM, Lnx1ynight16 said:

Really? No show, that’s a surprise. I though every generation of MLP had a tv show?

Nope. G1 had *two* animated series, My Little Pony n' Friends (1986), and My Little Pony Tales (1992). A lot of people mistake the second series as being G2, because it was set in a modern world unlike the first one which had the ponies live in a pseudo-historical fantasy setting. While the art-style of the two series was slightly different the silhouettes of the ponies were all definitely G1.

The G2 toy line started in 1997, five years after they stopped making My Little Pony Tales. G2 *did* have non-toy media, but it was all comics, computer games, and the like, not animated tv shows. The G2 art style and characters are *significantly* different from G1. The ponies are all tall and slender compared to the G1 more rounded and blocky look. For some reason most of G2 was distributed in Europe and South America, and didn't have much inroads in North America.

[hanguangjun 37]

I've watched Gen3, Core 7, and one episode of Newborn Babies. I think these are definitely more lighthearted and I guess that makes it easier to tell that MLP movies, videos, whatever were made to promote toys. The one issue I have with Core 7 is that they didn't add Minty considering how she was a fan favorite (I know she was my favorite) so I did feel a bit disappointed when I saw she wasn't a part of Core 7. As for Newborn Babies, the animation is so... clunky and jarring which seems weird to me but maybe there was something going on at the time? (budget issues? lack of time?) Or maybe they just figured that since it was geared towards really young kids, the kids wouldn't mind. And I mean, maybe some wouldn't, but some definitely would. I do plan on trying to watch as many Newborn Babies episodes as possible just for the sake of completionism.

(edit: Nevermind, it turns out I watched all of the Newborn Babies episodes but I forgot haha)

Edited September 20 by hanguangjun

[Fhaolan 4,483]

4 hours ago, hanguangjun said:

I've watched Gen3, Core 7, and one episode of Newborn Babies. I think these are definitely more lighthearted and I guess that makes it easier to tell that MLP movies, videos, whatever were made to promote toys. The one issue I have with Core 7 is that they didn't add Minty considering how she was a fan favorite (I know she was my favorite) so I did feel a bit disappointed when I saw she wasn't a part of Core 7. As for Newborn Babies, the animation is so... clunky and jarring which seems weird to me but maybe there was something going on at the time? (budget issues? lack of time?) Or maybe they just figured that since it was geared towards really young kids, the kids wouldn't mind. And I mean, maybe some wouldn't, but some definitely would. I do plan on trying to watch as many Newborn Babies episodes as possible just for the sake of completionism.

(edit: Nevermind, it turns out I watched all of the Newborn Babies episodes but I forgot haha)

From what I remember at the time, Newborn Cuties were web-only episodes done in Flash, which was still relatively new. It was... something, that's for sure. Especially since only about a year or so later, Friendship is Magic came out, from a different studio but also using Flash as the primary animation tool. The stark difference in animation quality does a lot to show that the tool itself was not the limiting factor, but more likely the time and effort (re: money) thrown at the project.

It's a lot like the silly 3D MLP animations that I myself produced in Blender. They're not good, but it's not Blender that's the problem, it's the fact that I'm not really an artist. I just muck around with tools and see what I can do with them.

[Rafa Stary 3,034]

I watched the first 16 episodes of G1's "MLP'n Friends" and the 1986 movie, I enjoyed some of it but the series wasn't interesting or exciting enough for me to continue watching it, I find the characters mostly unremarkable (specially the humans) and most of the villains are just way too silly to me. Never watched any of G3 or G3.5, but based on what I saw people saying about them, and in some images, It doesn't look any interesting for me as well, seems to be way too lighthearted, and I like lighthearted/silly stuff, but the way it's seem in these i believe it's just not for me.

[DebonedAngel 197]

I love love love G1 and G1.5, I don't care what anyone says, they are charming and sweet, and Fizzy and BonBon are two of my favorite ponies from any generation... 

I did watch (kinda, it was more in the background while I wrote or played a game) G3, and I did like the energy a lot, it was a ton of fun, but it didn't really hold my attention very well despite that. I do watch A Very Minty Christmas every year though, me and my sister kinda turned it into a "drinking game" but without alcohol, we eat chocolate orange slices whenever socks come up, whenever Minty stims, whenever Thistle Whistle whistles, and whenever Minty motor mouths. It's a fun tradition, and we always end up having a blast.

G3.5... I saw some of it, but... It wasn't for me. It had some fun parts, but overall I just wasn't interested.

[hanguangjun 37]

18 hours ago, Fhaolan said:

From what I remember at the time, Newborn Cuties were web-only episodes done in Flash, which was still relatively new. It was... something, that's for sure. Especially since only about a year or so later, Friendship is Magic came out, from a different studio but also using Flash as the primary animation tool. The stark difference in animation quality does a lot to show that the tool itself was not the limiting factor, but more likely the time and effort (re: money) thrown at the project.

It's a lot like the silly 3D MLP animations that I myself produced in Blender. They're not good, but it's not Blender that's the problem, it's the fact that I'm not really an artist. I just muck around with tools and see what I can do with them.

Thanks for the information about Newborn Cuties. And regardless of how clunky your Blender animations are, I'd like to see them if you don't mind sharing.

[Magitronique 48]

I've seen a handful of episodes from both of the G1 series, and Rescue at Midnight Castle was actually the very first piece of pony media I ever saw as a youngin'! wouldn't have ever admitted it at the time because I was like... 11? 12?  but I actually liked it. if only my younger self Knew What Was to Come lmao As of last year A Very Minty Christmas is A Very Welcome Part of my Holiday Media Routine, but otherwise (unless the Runaway Rainbow GBA game somehow counts for something lol) I haven't seen anything else from G3 yet, or 3.5 for that matter.

At some point I'd really like to dive head first into all of the pre-G4 stuff!
 

[LilAntwanP 105]

No But I Really Wanna Watch G3 And G2 G1 I Dont Really Like Tbh But Other Genorations Are Good And I Would Watch Them