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My Little Pony
“I love you my little pony”
The My little Pony cartoon series was based on the toys produced by Hasbro. It was set in the mystical world of Ponyland where the three different types of ponies (Earth Ponies, Pegasus Ponies, and Unicorns) frolicked in the woods and fields of their home, Paradise Estates. It featured ponies such as Peach Blossom, Rosedust, Northstar and…
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It’s no good, I just can’t do it. I just can’t sully my blog with this complete claptrap. In the 80’s the boys got Thundercats and Transformers, and all the girls got Care Bears and My Little Pony. That hardly seems fair. What happened to equality of the sexes? Did Florence Nightingale die in vain!? I am surprised that there wasn’t a uprising in the streets. Forget burning bras, people should be burning their Barbies.
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I did discover some interesting things though. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, played a number of different parts in the show. In fact by doing this series on cartoons of the 80’s I’ve been amazed by the number of voice actors that keep cropping up over and over again. I suppose it was inevitable given that many of the programs were created by the same production studios.
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So anyway, tomorrow is the last day of advent and so there is only one more cartoon to go. Any guesses? i’ll give you a clue, it was responsible for one of the funniest lines in Hot Fuzz
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on Dec 23rd, 2007 at 11:50 pm
I may not make it back tomorrow. A very merry Christmas to you and the family.
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By the power of Greyskull!
on Dec 24th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I loved Skeletor the best – a much misunderstood and maligned chappy.
on Dec 25th, 2007 at 12:22 am
It’s probably time I jumped on here. I had loads of my little pony toys, and since Amy’s 4th birthday, she’s getting in to them too. We’ve even seen the christmas movie on Cartoonio.
Just to kill all my geek-cred, I used to get Care Bear comics and collected the posable figures. Although I did play She-ra with my friends in the playground at school, whilst the boys played He-man, so perhaps all is not lost.
on Dec 25th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
@thundercats: Panthro was my favorite. I also have the tank.
@ GI JOE: we never had the early version of action man, but we do watched gi joe. I think it gave me at least one or two nightmares. I also have a jigsaw of it glued on cartboard :)
@ My little ponies: somehow I also watched this.
By the way, do you know Robot Chicken? If not, go search for it. Lot’s of funny sketches referring a lot to cartoons from the 80s. Thundercats, GI Joe and He-man are used a lot.
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