The UK version had a queen who rules over everything? I am shooketh. EDIT: y'know... I was joking about it being royal propaganda... But then it had to go all "you commoners shouldn't be so greedy and want all my riches" off the bat. 0__0
I mean hey, the land was changed into ice cream, so it's technically new land found by her subjects, thus belonging to her. Any inhabitants that may or may not have survived the process are now illegally living on her land, and Spike is an illegal alien trying to consume and destroy her land. Obviously he must be stopped
I’m wondering if the ponyfeathers thing is an attempted play on “horsefeathers”, which was an older British saying that’s basically going “that’s stupid” or “I don’t believe you”.
@@AllisonPregler But only in the UK...they obviously don't know the proper usage of the word it's based on. Horsefeathers originated in the US in the 1920's.
Hell you? I just now learned from you lol. Up until now I thought it meant someone had a fort and they were gonna sleep in it for a night . I’m so dumb .
when i looked after kids i got them playing with ponies and dinos 2 weeks later there were 3 generations of intermarried dino pony families and the grandparent dinos fought off a evil croc who spied on the kids
The buck teeth are really throwing me off, to the point that despite the surrounding design, my brain keeps insisting that he's supposed to be a beaver or something.
The UK Transformers comics of the time also used US only toys as characters, because they were 50/50 reprints of the American comics mixed with British ones. We readers knew there were toys that we just weren't going to get, Devastator, Swoop, Shockwave, and so-on were just out of reach. Every so often the letters page of the UK comic, hosted by a transformer in a weird in-universe joke, quite often explained that the UK market was too small for the toys to all come out. Which sucked.
This kind of reminds me of how there were UK-specific Marvel comics with their own stuff going on: for instance, their version of the Transformers had a robotic bounty-hunter antihero named Death's Head who eventually spun off into his own comic and had a crossover with Doctor Who. So in Marvel UK, there's a character who had a run-in with Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor immediately after having an adventure with the Transformers. (He was originally Transformer-sized, but the Doctor shrank him down to human scale using the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator! The Seventh Doctor always was a bit of a gangster.)
UK Marvel also did the comics for ThunderCats in the 80's as well. Some of the original comics were based on episodes or just a re-issues of the the North American Star Comics ThunderCats line. But the Star line only lasted 24 issues, while UK Marvel made 129 issues. Like MLP and Transformers, the UK Marvel line kinda did its own thing with stories. =)
I DO want to see more of these! My friend in Finland had these too, We used to play with ponies and He-man figures in our own little world where they co-existed! (I am the He-Man guy, she had the ponies) this brings back so many memories...
That's basically the way a lot of those toyline tie-in comics in the UK worked, I think,, including the oddly high issue count. Transformers UK, e.g., was released weekly.
UK Marvel's ThunderCats line had 129 issues over 3 years. They published weekly issues, compared to Star Comics, the North American ThunderCats publisher, who published 24 issues in the same 3 years due to publishing bimonthly (before switching to monthly). Considering the amount of content UK Marvel was pumping out, and the frequency, it's no wonder they had to get a little creative with stories.
I also saw the format of these "comics" again thanks to Chuboh covering TV Toyland on Twitch, where each panel is captioned with a whole paragraph of prose rather than trying to fit dialogue into the art itself.
@@BagOfMagicFood It is rather closer to a compressed picture book than a traditional comic, but I imagine that either a) it was a lot faster than trying to do traditional comic book storytelling or b) there was an art style mandate from Hasbro that would have made it too difficult to do otherwise.
@@jonothanthrace1530 It also allowed the writers to change up the context of the artwork at the last minute if they felt the need to! I remember speculation that one issue's "Evil Orange Empress Queen" was probably a rewrite of a friendly character to add conflict from just looking at the art.
oh so good to see someone diving into these comics! i would be VERY interested in a part 2, these comics get even more insane with the plots later on, gotta love how a solid chunk of them are just "the ponies organize a nice party but then interdimensional demons show up and force them into slave labor and they must find a way to escape". everyone always talks about the one with applejack and the wizard, but theres also the ice cream witch one which was super bonkers.
I’m from Sweden and we had My Little Pony sticker books and they were awesome. You would buy the stickers in packs like baseball cards and each sticker had a number that matched a frame in the sticker book. I collected all the stickers and filled my sticker book. It was one of my crowning achievements as a young child.
9:51 Had a Piper Halliwell flashback with the way you said "The Flying Dragon" (who killed a bunch of people in San Francisco because of a negligent mother).
13:46 - I mean... it's weird for the babies to be the children of those characters too, since they're literally just named the same as their parent but with "baby" in front and look like little clones. I feel like the most sensible idea behind them would just be "they're the baby version of those grown-up ponies", but I guess the creators wanted them to be separate characters!
This is like the Wonder Girl/Wonder Tot situation, isn't it? "Wait, is this Wonder Woman when she was a girl, or is it somebody else? We forgot. And since we're writing the stories, now you'll be confused too."
My elder sister (just over 1 year older than me) had My Little Ponies and we used to play together a lot, so I know the ponies very well! She had the castle (including Majesty), as well as the grooming parlour set and a ballet/dance school set - the front flipped open and you could stick ponies onto three turntables and make them twirl by rolling a gear at the side. She had a huge number of the ponies, and even I had one - they did lines of "family" ponies, so there was mum, dad, sister and brother, and I think mine was something like Boy Celebrations - although I think they all were sold for pennies when my parents downsized 15 years ago. My sister and I played together with all our toys (and we had a lot of aunts and uncles, and were very lucky to have a lot of toys), so it was a whirlwind of Lego, MLP, transformers, He-Man, Barbie and Sindy dolls (who would go on dates with Action Man and B A Baracus dolls, Thundercats and Key-pers (amazed if anybody else remembers those). It's a nice trip down memory lane, thanks Allison ☺️
Since you mentioned Gen 1 Ponies not having much personality, I think that was actually by design. The idea was probably to leave them uncharacterised enough so that young girls could imagine their personalities for them, only having enough characterisation to get them started
Glad you're making videos. The wholesomeness of anything you are interested in is what adds to the feel good factor of your comedy. I really like the Swan Princess videos you did for example, your funny noises and faces make it funny and relaxing.
Im a British millennial who was born in 88 and i grew up with both G1 and G2 there was also that cassette tape with stories and music, even the silly pony applejack
Allison, you and your collection broke the camels back. Ive always wanted G1 pony toys after watching the both of the G1/2 TV shows. Parents denied me. After watching your video...bam...ordered my own pony. 😂 Pretty dang stoked.
It seems like not letting the Sea Ponies stand on their own would greatly limit their play value. Like, give them a molded base, I don't think the little kids would have minded! Anyway, this was a very cute video and I hope to see more MLP stuff from you.
I love how Allison's content can be summarized as i found this obscure media from the past and realized how bonkers it was! Now let's review it! And i love every minute of it.
0:00 hey that's what I came for but I stayed for your enthusiasm so I'm happy either way as long as you're sharing something your happy about (or bewildered by that flavor of schadenfreude works too) .
That artwork is giving me flashbacks! Although given that my sister collected MLP when we children, I probably read it back in the day! The concept of the title page being part of the story also triggered a vague half memory...I wonder if any other comics in the UK did that?
This was delightful to watch, I'd love to see you cover more issues of this haha! Also extra nice to see looks back to the older my little pony generations from more of an appreciative/positive stance since during my brief stint into like gen4 fandom almost every mention of the older gen I saw had a very negative and mocking stance, and as someone who had some mild nostalgia towards the old stuff I wasn't fan of all the negativity.
Thanks for making me regret getting rid of my MLP comics. Shaking my fist at my preteen self for being too old for them. I was obsessed! Got the comic every fortnight (or two weeks!) Even was in the fan club! Some of the stories were quite dark (the twinkle eyed ponies for example) and some of the story frames for recycled for new stories later on. Pony feathers was used a lot. Still have some of my ponies, though years in the loft have not been kind to them. Thanks for giving this 44 year old a nostalgia trip😁
Definitely like to see more of these. Reminds me of the mini comics that used to come with action figures. The stories and backgrounds for the characters were all over the place, and rarely matched the cartoons.
My first encounter with the word "fortnight" was The Simpsons when they had to hire Milhouse a tutor, so I was expecting a clip of that. Also, I subscribed long before the Trek stuff, been a fan of Allison's going back to times we don't talk about...
I had very few My Little Ponies as a kid and Glory and Baby Moondancer were two of those few. Glory always fell over, as she demonstrated throughout your video. I think that made me very quickly fall out of love with the toys. I didn't know there was a comicverse from the 1980s. And you got the first issue! I loved this video. Thank you for taking us through the first issue. I, like you, thought the Babies were the children of the adult ponies. That's some strange dimensional travel quantum physics going on. Like there's an adult version and a baby version in the same world and none in the world the babies just left by going through the mirror. I guess it works better if you just go with it instead of overthinking it.
This was surprisingly delightful. If you decide to make a regular thing of going through this odd pony comic continuity issue by issue, I'll be happy to watch along. I was going to explain the "ponyfeathers/horsefeathers" thing, but it seems like the rest of the comments have that covered.
Wow, that waterfall playset commercial unlocked memories. I was very much not into MLP as a kid, but that playset looked so incredible it forced me to reconsider. Unfortunately, yeah, it seems to have disappeared from local stores pretty quickly.
The UK had a lot of it's own comic series for things - we had our own version of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics by Fleetway, which were massively different to the Archie ones and even to the adventure games themselves
Wind Whistler is one of my favorites too, alongside Fizzy and G3 Pinkie Pie. I love all the pre-G4 eras of MLP with the exception of Tales. I also don't really care about G4 and G5. Speaking of crazy lore, Allison, I would love to see you talk about Will Vinton Claymation one day, specifically Adventures Of Mark Twain, Claymation Christmas, California Raisins Meet The Raisins/Raisins Sold Out, The Noid commercials, Claymation Comedy Of Horror, and Claymation Easter.
The part about the comic featuring characters who weren't even sold in the UK reminds me of how Simon Furman, the main writer for the UK Transformers comics, said Swoop was his favorite character despite him not being available there.
My dad sold all my ponies at a jumble sale when I was about 13 or 14 and it was devastating to me. I loved him, he wasn't a bad guy, but goddamn that was something he shouldn't have done! I feel people here will understand.
Yay more pony content. And to answer Sparkler's question my collection is Halloween and Christmas lifesizes. It's mostly Lifesize animated Witches. It's actually quite cool. I have some vidoes of these things too.
UK person here and had NO idea that ‘fortnight’ wasn’t a word Americans used 😂 thanks for the fact! I shared this with my friend who’s a massive Pony fan and would be very jealous of your collection - I had no idea the UK had their own comic series. We had our own Sonic comic series too which I did read growing up but sadly lost them many years ago
I would love to hear more of those comics, never seen those before! Awesome to see stories including Lemon Drop who was my favourite pony as a kid and she never was in the cartoons (if I remember right).
Love this shit. I was a G4 brony back in the day and I'm sorry if we scared you away from this kind of content, but I love seeing your perspective on any MLP stuff
Man, I was hoping this was going to be another Marvel comic like GI Joe and Transformers and share continuity with them. There would be something infinitely hilarious about Ponies fighting Cobra.
I loved My Little Pony when I was a kid and at one time had quite a few of the ponies and some of the toys. I wish they would’ve made the comics here in the states, that would’ve been awesome! Please keep reviewing them and anything My Little Pony related; it was a nice trip down memory lane.
The Transformers UK had a similar problem when it came to featuring toys that weren't actually sold there. Let's just say I was pissed that the Predacons and Constructions weren't available in Ireland - until imports and overseas shipping became a thing.
Yep, Swoop was the only Dinobot not sold in the UK (due to stricter safety laws and how notorious fragile his toy was) yet he easily got the most characterisation and storylines out of all the Dinobots bar Grimlock. Fortress Maximus failed safety checks too (probably tipped over and crushed a kid, I dunno). Shockwave and Omega Supreme's toys were already licensed to non-Hasbro companies so came out as non-Transformers. Roadbuster and Whirl were part of the Wreckers even though we didn't get their toys either. Of course there are toys of all these characters in UK these days and hey even Death's Head is getting a Marvel Legends figure this year for SDCC :)
