This Is What I Wanted · 12:54pm Sep 9th, 2021
This is exactly the kind of Pop Goes The Weasel that I wanted to find for the fight against Toy Maker in Apple Bloom's Mansion 4. Just remove the gentle beginning and make a version that loops nicely (maybe a bit longer) and it would be perfect!
This is the kind of soundtrack that I wanted for the Guardians. If only I could make my own musics...
One thing I don't think I commented on due to mostly reading that story as it was released: look at the four Guardians again. Omega and the Abomination have clear conceptual ties to death and Thanatos, Big Brain had his whole "treacherous advisor" and "literally building himself into the castle" deal, and Toy Maker is made all the more terrifying in retrospect for being considered their equal without even being strictly malicious.
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I think this is why Toy Maker is my favorite among the four Guardians. He wasn't evil or "doing things for the good of everyone." He was just mad. Mad from sadness. Mad from hate. Mad from love.
A child in an adult body who loved his toys too much.
What's more, he was something of a last hurrah for the "silly" gimmick ghosts that the series prefers. If they'd had a better map they might have deliberately gone after him first on the assumption that he'd be easier or at least less terrifying, and gotten their first taste of just how much more dangerous this "game" was going to be.
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It would have been so that!