sábado, 20 de enero de 2018

My story with My Little Pony!

Hi all! On this entry I want to talk about me, and My Little Pony, of course! And how did I fell in love with this franchise

I started being interested in MLP in 2008, (Woah, 10 years now, kinda crazy to say) I was 5 at the time, my grandmother gave to me a pony for christmas, and i instantlly fell in love with it (If you may be asking which pony, It was a fakie I think, but I didn't know and either didn't care).
Sometimes when i was coming from school when I was like 6, my mum had gifts for me, those gifts were....ponies! I absolutely loved them.
I was not aware of My Little Pony as a thing itself, but well...I was a computer kid sooo as I looked a lot for LPS (I loved those little pets so much oh god) I started to look info about ponies too. So in 2010 I started to look to My Little Pony, The Hasbro franchise itself. At that time it was still G3.5, I fell in love with the ponies. But didn't know too much about the media and everything. So well, I remember one day I was coming home from school and I wanted to play some My Little Pony games at the site...and then...I saw they changed it! For new Ponies!

                                                    G4                                        G3.5


Okay, at first..I didn't like this change, like, at all. But I started playing the G4 Games, reading the ponies info (I still remember the personality test!) And of course watching the series, and I couldn't help it, i fell so hardly in love with these ponies! The very first G4 pony I've ever had was a McDonalds Pinkie Pie, my 8th birthday gift was Applejack's Sweet Apple Barn, And onwards my collection started.
I really loved this series, I felt especially identified with Fluttershy, I seriously loved everythig about it as a kid, it even helped me a lot to develop my art style. I used to draw a really similar style to MLP:FIM until I was like 12.
This is my first MLP drawing! I was 8 years old when I did it.

From 8 onwards, I started collecting all about MLP, I have around 50 ponies to date (In my country they were quite expensive, that's why I have a medium number of ponies) I have mostly G4 ponies, and some G3.5 ones. I have some other stuff, like coloring books that are untouched because I didn't like to color them and make them look bad, and some puzzle books. Oh, and plushies!
These were my ponies as for 2013? or 2014 I think. This picture isn't updated at all, but it's the only one I had! Now I have some other ponies (I'll take a picture and update it) It didn't grow too much, if im honest.

Currently, I would love to have a bigger collection, but with all gens, I especially love how G1 and G2 ponies look, and i'll love to have at least one of each, My 3d favorite are G4 ponies, but I only like 2010-2012 Ponies, because this ones where the most detailed (Compare a 2010 G4 ponies eye to a 2014-2015 Pony and you'll see). Also, their hair was a muuuch better quality.
Well, this is all for now! The last pony I got was last year, It was a Pinkie Pie, I bought her only because I  wanted to see how the new mold for G4 Ponies turned out...didn't like it...but well.

That's all, thanks for reading!

My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens


Hi everyone! So in this entry, i'm going to talk a little bit about this game!
Friendship Gardens is a game that was launched in 1992. In this game you can create your very own pony! You have to take care of it, and there are also some minigames that introduce the characters from G2.
In game, the ponies that you can find are: Lightheart, Ivy, Sundance, Sweet Berry and Morning Glory. Each one of them has a mini-game
You can dress-up Ivy and do her hair, you can play tic-tac-toe with Lightheart, bake a cake with Sweet Berry, Dance with...well...Sundance! and go to school with Morning Glory
Sadly, this game was a big failure.
My original intention was to record a video playing this game, but the audio wouldn't come as expected so I couldn't record it well :/, but i'll be featuring other videos/media/footage about this game.

Here is the most complete gameplay I could find, from Captain British.

Well, being honest it's not thaat fun, but I love the aestethic of the game. I also find it very calming and chilling, this could be quite really fun for a little girl, buuut not for me.

In the video below, you'll see ALL the sprites used in game, I found this one quite interesting if you ask me. They are plenty of sprites that I haven't seen while playing,




The cd of the game


Back cover of the game



viernes, 19 de enero de 2018

A little bit about My Little Pony first

On this first entry, I'm going to make a small resume about MLP'S history




My Little Pony is a toy franchise that was originally created by Bonnie Zacherle.

At first (1981) this franchise was known by the name of My Pretty Pony. The first toy, produced in the same year, was a talking, moving pony. 


                        Original 1981 toy

This same toy was later re-released in a different color variation, this pony later was released as a regular G1 toy (1983) named Peachy  


In 1983, regular-sized toys started to be produced, the first classic line was composed of 6 ponies
This gen, along with toys has also been featured in several other media such as different series and many movies

My Little Pony G1 stops being produced around 1997, where G2 starts being sold, this generation is remarked by the videogame Friendship Gardens.(Something curious that I noticed, is that in this gen they're all earth ponies!)



This generation lasted until 2003, when G3 started. 


This gen was pretty popular, same as G1, they were featured in series, short fimls and movies, they also had live musical shows such as The world biggest Tea Party.




This gen technically lasted until 2010, when they had a reboot with the same main characters as the short films (Called core 7) but in a more chibi-ish style, this gen is denominated as G3.5
G3.5 logo


This gen only went from 2009-2010. Later this year (2010), In october,they decided to go for a reboot featuring Lauren Faust.

This gen (2010-present)was featured in a show with 8 seasons to date, one movie, and a spin-off where ponies are humanoids.





That's all for now, thanks for reading!