Generation 3 or MLP:FiM?

[Bird Mom 900]

After watching episode after episode of both generations. I'm tied up. On one hand, Generation 3 is better in action and had more toys than MLP:FiM. Buuut..MLP:FiM on the other hand has way better graphics and more comedy, which, everypony hardly remembers Generation 1,2, or 3. So, My Little Pony franchise has been around since 1982 or 1983. And all other 3 generations were hand-drawn. Which is way more original. But Hasbro now uses Flash to make the graphics. Anypony can do that. So what do you like better? Generation 3, or MLP:FiM?? Your choice!

[Scootalove 10,685]

I think that the older generations were okay, but I'm going with Friendship is Magic.

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,330]

Freindship is magic, I tried watching G3 and I couldn't sit through 5 minutes of it.

[repsol rave 2,963]

i'm going with FiM here.

i never watched any of the earlier generations as a kid, tough i tried watching one episode and i have to say it just doesn't appeal to me the way FiM does.

Edited February 14, 2014 by repsol rave

[Candlewick13 32]

I never listened to G3. (I'm 14.)

 

I had a Pinkie Pie and a Applejack pony figure when I was six and used to play with them a bit. I got waaaayyyy out of them when I got older, though.

[Argumedies 1,748]

FIM is definetly the best out of all of them and would rank G1 as second... 2 and 3 however......(flush)

 

G1 had darker story tones despite its more "cartoony" characterization.

 

If they were to combine the two, that would be fan-freaking-tastic.

[Mandizeen 21]

I don't like the older generations at all actually. So I'll probably go for FiM. I used to watch generation 2 when I was younger.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,810]

FIM undoubtedly. I strongly disliked G3. There was hardly any conflicts, and life just seemed to perfect. I didn't even bother it. 

[Blackened 512]

FiM is the best in my opinion, but there was one character in G3 that was actually tolerable and had substance. That character is Minty.

[Bird Mom 900]

FiM is the best in my opinion, but there was one character in G3 that was actually tolerable and had substance. That character is Minty.

I totally agree. Minty was totally the best.

[Fhaolan 4,468]

I found G3 to be somewhat disappointing, as it was constantly in flux. There really weren't that many G3 'episodes' before they re-arranged stuff and shredded the cast down to Core 7. Then there were only a small number of 'episodes' before they converted over to G3.5, and everything *really* went pear-shaped. Ponies changed breeds without notice, the animation had some strange artifacts like constantly wibbling hair or inconsistent outlining, and the storylines were not particularly strong. Especially the two web-cast episodes that cumulated G3.5 which were just bizarre.

 

Otherwise, my favorite ponies were Sunny Daze and Kimono. Simply because Sunny was so unintentionally funny, and Kimono was so sarcastic. Unfortunately we lost them when they moved to Core 7.

 

So really, I feel it *could* have been good, but each phase of G3 didn't last long enough reach their potentials, and the various 'episodes' felt like more time and effort could have been put into them.

 

To balance that, the toy line was very extensive.

[KarentheUnicorn 218]

Are we going by toys or just the cartoon?

 

How I rank the toyline in order:

G1

G3

G4

G2

 

How I rank the cartoon (G2 did not have a cartoon)

G4

G1

G3

 

Overall combo of toy an cartoon

G1

G4

G3

G2

[Paleopony 691]

I like FIM way more than the generation 3 cartoon.

[dead account 2,705]

Friendship is Magic for me.

[Savygriffs 5,038]

While I did like G3 when I was a kid, I much prefer FiM. 

[EpicEnergy 22,558]

I prefer MLP FiM over gen 3. I've seen a few parts of it, and it looks much more girly and therefore much more uninteresting to me, and also the art style is unappealing to me as well.

[ExplosionMare 18,015]

I like them both a lot even though G4 is the one I think about more

[ZiggWheelsManning 7,788]

Friendship is Magic and no denial for it  

[RakanTheMan 124]

Friendship is magic =)

[Tom Gallagher 33,538]

Friendship is Magic forever!