1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ ??? (customanon) http://rainbowdash.net/customanon http://rainbowdash.net/notice/262725 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/2047" class="url"><span class="fn nickname">leonkfox</span></a></span> Yeah, I think there was a distinctively different approach to G1 than G4. They were sold as a group, not as a personality. The ponies were rather indistinct and there was a bigger focus on the people in ponyland vs. individual ponies which probably makes for a better business model. Instead of saying &quot;I want those 6 ponies I know well&quot; girls might say &quot;I want a horde of ponies like Megan!&quot;- it's almost pokemon-like, in that the show offers little details about each pokemon and focuses more on the interaction with a lot of pokemon, so you want them all. Not that it makes for a better cartoon, of course.