Thoughts on gen 3.5?

[River wisp 93]

I know this has probably been done before, but the fandom is very different than it used to be.

I actually have the dvd somewhere in my house, and it’s not awful. 

[Gaines 1,213]

I've never seen the show, but I think it looks fine  I'm also pretty sure I had a Ponyville Minty and Ponyville Pinkie Pie toy when I was younger 

[North Star 4,997]

never been a toy collector, but I sort of associate gen 3.5 animated series with the 'Birthday' eps now (Rainbow Dash's Birthday and Pinkie Pie's Birthday), after watching them recently. The redubbing of Venus Terzo's iconic G3 rainbow dash put me off in the former might watch a few more but the comparison with G3 makes watching it less appealing, a bit like with Ponylife compared to FiM. 'Course that's just an impression... and a kinda hope I'm wrong, because I'd love to watch a bit more G3 silliness

Edited September 20, 2023 by North Star

[Fhaolan 4,476]

3.5 is one of those weird situations where it's not really clear *when* it happened. There was the 'Core 7' change when they sliced the number of characters down to 7, then there was a toy art-style change when they became 'bobbleheads', then later the animation art style changed to match that but also all the pegasi suddenly gained butterfly wings (which didn't happen for the toys), and then there was the newborn cuties.... thing.

If all of these things happened at the same time, it would be easy, but they happened over a span of years.

[Envy 6,122]

I'm not a big fan of the design and toys. I haven't even tried to watch the animation, IIRC. I suppose I do prefer the designs over G5,  though. Gotta be honest.