The ponies were redesigned to sport large eyes, tiny muzzles, bodies that are proportionally small for their heads, and Moe quirks. "Generation 4" started in 2010 with the release of the TV series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic developed by Lauren Faust. The era finally came to an end in 2009 after the release of Twinkle Wish Adventure of G3.5, and Once Upon a My Little Pony Time which is linked to the Newborn Cuties variant of Core 7. The reboot was not well received, and the cartoons in particular were met with criticism. Another soft reboot a year or so later, which fans call "G3.5", featured the Core 7 ponies in forms similar to Ponyville plastic molds. This led to a soft reboot which retained the original G3 look and was called "Core 7" by fans. In 2007, Hasbro made the controversial decision to reduce the number of characters, in a franchise long known for numerous characters, to seven. Regardless of the quality of the animated adaptions though, G3 proved to be a well needed financial success after the poor reception to G2. No villains, conflicts are rare, and there's, well, lots of pink, but it had a certain charm to it. G3 is known for being the lightest and "pinkest" of all the incarnations. The setting is once again Ponyville, but this time with a slight fantasy element to it. Instead of a TV series, Hasbro opted to release a series of Direct-to-DVD movies and shorts. Hasbro went back to the stockier builds in 2003, marking the beginning of " Generation 3". In addition to being the shortest lived toy line, G2 is notably the only one without an Animated Adaptation, though there were comics and a video game. The new designs were not well met and this version only lasted a year in the US, though it continued in Europe until Generation 3. The toys were now slightly shorter than the previous generation, slender, and more "horse-like". Generation 2 actually began in 1997 when Hasbro gave the toys a major redesign. It notably set the trend of having the main setting be a town called Ponyville. The show took place in a universe pretty much identical to our own with the obvious exception that everyone is a multicolored pony, and focused on things normal kids deal with. Often mistakenly referred to as "G2", it's technically still part of G1, even though it has nothing to do with the various Dream Valley/Ponyland cartoons. In 1992 Hasbro released My Little Pony Tales, a Slice of Life series which was set in its own continuity and ran for a single season. The toys themselves often had short stories pertaining to the ponies in the box. There were also comics released in the UK that used the same characters but had their own canon. Contrary to what one might expect from a work of fiction based on the sugary sweet toys (and contrary to the perceived image of the franchise that the public seems to hold), these cartoons were mostly based around the theme of adventure, and featured some surprisingly dark and lethal villains, especially in the earliest episodes. These cartoons all took place in Dream Valley, part of Ponyland (or Ponyland, part of Dream Valley, or Ponyland, also known as Dream Valley - no two writers agreed on this point) where the ponies - with the help of a young girl named Megan – often have to fight off some Monster of the Week. A TV series, My Little Pony 'n Friends, was released later the same year and ran for two seasons before being cancelled in 1987. The toyline was eventually followed by two Television specials, one in 1984 and another in 1985, and a feature-length movie in 1986. Very soon, the toy line became a hit of absolutely enormous magnitude, and quickly became a highly recognizable part of pop culture. Generation 1 started humbly with the release of six pony toys in 1982. It is a history of friendships, of cartoons of varying degrees of sweetness, of little girls achieving their dreams and of grown men defying gender roles. The different incarnations of My Little Pony are commonly separated into "generations", as classified by collectors, based on the toy line. The legal stuff was finalized in 1983, which is probably why Hasbro counts it as MLP's birthyear and not 1982. Originally created by Bonnie Zacherle, My Little Pony officially started out as a toy line published and developed by Hasbro in 1982, following their 1981 My Pretty Pony toys. Long-Running multimedia franchise that started humbly with a large horse doll with a brushable tail and mane made of doll hair. Theme song for the ads and almost all incarnations.
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