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Apr
14th
2018

Saturday, April 14, 1984: "My Little Pony: Rescue from Midnight Castle” Premiered on TV · 4:29am Apr 14th, 2018

I can't claim to have watched it back then. See, that was my last year at university, and while I should have been studying so I wouldn't get a D in that database course and screw up my GPA so I wouldn't graduate cum laude, I was likely rip-roaring drunk that Saturday night. Even if I hadn't, I still would have been unlikely to see it, if just for the reason that my parents had full control of the house's sole TV on Saturday nights so they might watch such sophisticated fare as Love Boat and Fantasy Island.


"Look at my butt!"— I'm shocked too, Megan. Her butt isn't half as big as it is on the 80s toys.

I didn't get around to watching it until maybe 2014 or so, and thought it was okay.

Anyway, here's an amazingly superficial article over on the Lifetime site. It even mentions Bronies without using slurs.

So, I don't know, go and watch a grainy 4×3 copy on YouTube or something to celebrate the 34ᵗʰ anniversary of MLP on television. Or go full retro and find a VHS copy to view on a TV with a CRT.

Note: This is a cross post from a thread over in Over The Hill Authors. Go join the group if your drivers license allows.

† Don't judge me; the Googles found that.

Comments ( 12 )

I didn't watch it on its first broadcast, either.

Too young.

Also not american. I think we didn't get it until the next year.

Their butts were really big. I don't know why.

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To balance the head, and even that didn’t work out well with the collector pose figures.

We picked up a lightly worn 25th anniversary Snuzzles at a thrift shop last year for just a few dollars. The form sort of grows on you, but if you look at it hard enough, it takes a header.

Damn things are dangerous to have around, as now we’ve got a 35th anniversary Butterscotch MIB to go along with it, and my eBay watch list is filled with G1 white unicorns, although I’ve been hesitant to buy, being a noob vintage collector.

Edit: I never get "Snuzzle" right.

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I've got a couple of the collector's remakes, but none are white unicorns.

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Also not american

You don’t have to rub it in.
Make America Great Britain Again 🧐
(Slav, Scot, German combo here, raised on a combo of WB cartoons and Python)

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Happy birthday, MLP. :B

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Sorry: I was (typically) inarticulate/imprecise. I've been looking for vintage G1 unicorns (Glory and Moondancer), as well as few "special" others.

Looks like the 25th set came in four sets of three, all earth ponies as far as I can see. Of the 35th reissues, I've seen them packaged as singles only, Target and TRU, and the picture on the box shows a set of six earth ponies, the same as the 1983 release. I've no idea if they'll get to pegasus and unicorns later this year, and even if they did, it seems I almost never find the products others do.

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There were some of the rainbow ponies too.

I fondly miss my old collection of pony toys, more from nostalgia than any collectors eye, I'm sure they were quite battered from many years of playing in all sort of environments.

I definitely caught it much later as well, being too young, but very cool history lesson nevertheless.

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Recently, my son went through the remains of my G.I. Joes. He identified and organized the detritus into what we think were the original sets. We even washed and pressed the uniforms so the three remaining figures didn't look too shabby. I found it remarkable both what I remembered and what I forgot, and need that time machine to go back and tell myself to take better care of all those little pieces, and the big sets too, like the Mercury capsule. I've got a visorless helmet and the 45 RPM record for that.

Of the many, many toys that have disappeared over the years I really wish I'd have kept my Zeroids: Zerak, Zobor, and Zintar. Not a scrap of them remains.

4839976 The majority of my pony toys were garage sale finds so they were often in rough shape when I got them. Missing wings and such. I do recall a teen pony who still had her flower accessory. She was kind of a bitch in all my games ^^;

I suspect if pressed I could still identify most of the ponies I had.

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Finds like that appeal to me; I like fixing stuff.
We got a "loved" G3 Rainbow Flash at a thrift store a while ago, bagged with a few others ponies, and I've managed to get her looking halfway decent. Still trying to get her super-long hair looking its best. Too many flyers, like me I guess.

I've been hanging out on MLP Arena, learning stuff and things, and I am amazed at the restorations that can be performed by those with skill. Remarkable.

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