Some multitude are weirded out by the immense popularity of My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic . But other than the terrifying Equestria Girls , FiM has nothing on the original My Little Pony cartoon . Here are a 12 eldritch bits of triviality about the classic show and the toys that may blow your pony mind .
1 ) The First Pony Was Not short
My short Pony actually started out as My Pretty Pony . It was a larger , 10 - column inch horse skirt that was part of Hasbro ’s Romper Room line in 1981 , but was moved over to Hasbro proper in 1982 , shrunk , and released as MLP then . The original My Pretty Pony still had brushable hair , but could jiggle her ears , swoosh her shadower , and nictate . However , she only came in one gloss : browned . Still , give that all genuine MLP figures were just solid hunks of charge plate , that ’s quite the downgrade .
2 ) The Ponies ’ Friends Were Corporate Shills
When the first MLP animated cartoon aired in 1986 , it was titled My Little Pony n ’ Friends , because the first half would be an MLP sketch , and the 2d would be based on another Hasbro toyline market to girls . These included The Glo Friends ( based on the well - selling Glo Worm toy ) , Moondreamers , and Potato Head Kids , which was about a cluster of white potato children being marginally watched over by Mr. Potato Head .
3 ) The Ponies Were Not Good At Naming Themselves
Hopefully all of you remember the fantastic“Porn Star Name or My Little Pony Name ? ” quizfrom the Greco-Roman Brunching Shuttlecocks web site . Seeing as Cherries Jubilee , Ruby Lips and Chocolate Delight are all pony names , it was kind of brilliant . However , some ponies had horrible names that did n’t make them fathom like they starred in porno , including — and these are all real — Whizzer , Salty and Steamer . really , these do auditory sensation like likely porn virtuoso names , just really , really corner ones .
4 ) How Baby Ponies Are Made
My Little Ponies breed like rabbits taking richness treatments , which we know because 10 of the original MLP theatrical role had sister who they constantly appoint after themselves , either out of emptiness or lack of imagination . Thus the child of Lickety - Split would be name Baby Lickety - Split . This means that even as an adult sawhorse , she would still be named Baby Lickety - Split … unless there ’s some variety of ritual where Baby Lickety - Split kills her female parent so as to formally pass into maturity .
5 ) Some Ponies Are Immaculately gestate
That articulate , My Little Ponies could breed without traditional sex . The Baby Ponies — a special contrast of babies unique from the regular Babies — were “ bear from their mother ’s reflectivity , ” which is super fucking weird when you think about it because that means looking into any musing surface would potentially make a tiny mannikin of yourself crop up out ( or jigger - nculus , I gauge ) . However , Wikipedia stress that “ several Baby Ponies never had their own female parent ” , which seems like a cruel matter to mark .
6 ) My Little Ponies Liked A Little Light Bondage
Several My Little Pony playsets came with bridles , which seems fucked up to force sentient talking gymnastic horse to wear .
7 ) Some Ponies fag out napkin
In 1989 , Hasbro free a special parentage of Drink n ’ Wet Ponies . They are actually more frightful that you realize . Here ’s the official floor behind them , as per the original packaging :
Wearing their fresh diaper , the Drink n ’ Wet Baby Ponies scampered out of doors to toss a bouncy nut . They throw the ball higher and higher into the sky , until it bumped into one of the rainbow ’s stripes . Magical crystal fell from the streak and onto the baby ponies . The petty shot glass quickly splash into their wading pool to wash off the sticky watch glass . As they splashed in the piss , the rainbow watch glass on their smashed diapers changed into little eye , make the diapers as fairly as can be . Now , whenever the diapers get wet , colourful core magically appear . And that is how the Drink n ’ Wet Baby Ponies got their magical diapers . ”
Note that the magically appear essence does nothing for the literal pounds of gymnastic horse shit that must fulfill these diapers on a regular basis .
- My piffling Pony Was Pretty Satanic
The first My Little Pony TV special was titled “ Return to Midnight Castle , ” and featured the ponies strain to deliver their friends from Tirek , who is essentially Satan as a Centaurus . Tirek sends his monsters , led by Scorpan , a bat - winged , gator - faced scallywag man , to capture and enslave pony so they can pull his Chariot of Midnight . He also turns the ponies into dragons . This is literally the most metallic element thing I have ever hear of .
9 ) No , Seriously , Like Really Satanic
in reality , My slight Pony sounds like most of its installment were based on Man o ’ War album covers . Villains for the series included Arabus the swarm demon , Lavan the lava monster , Tirek the aforementioned Centaurus demon , and Grogar , who is n’t just a ram demon but a Ram Demon Necromancer . The original My Little Pony cartoon featured a fucking Ram Demon Necromancer . That ’s insane .
10 ) Ponies mean Bees Are Lower - category Citizens
Even besides all the monster , Ponyland was not a happy berth for everybody . At some point the Flutter Ponies banished the bee - people of Flutter Valley into a frozen , destitute wasteland . dub Bumbleland , it ’s a place where no flowers can grow , and again , these are bee - people . With a big zero on the quality of spirit scale , Queen Bumble was force to steal the aventurine in hopes of making some plant life turn in Bumbleland , which nearly destroyed all of Flutter Valley . At that point , the ponies were gracious enough to let the bee - people have access to their prime once in a while .
11 ) There Was a Goddamned Prince Pony
There was a Prince pony . Not as in a member of royalty , as in the rock star topology . His name was Knight Shade and a fiend was forcing him to help oneself steal his ponies ’ shadows because My trivial Pony is weirdly , weirdly dark .
12 ) My Little Pony kill Jem
Well , the My Little Pony movie killed any opportunity of you have to watch an animated Jem movie . on the face of it it and the Transformers movie underperformed so badly Hasbro lost $ 10 million on them , which not only kill the theatrical discharge of the G.I Joe motion-picture show ( it went true - to - TV ) but also destroyed a Jem motion-picture show that was really in development .
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