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I thought that the buffalo considered that particular plot of land important. It was tradition to charge through there and it was bad luck the settlers picked that one area to plant in, or something like that.

I got Twilight with a heavy skewing toward Rarity and slightly less skewing toward Fluttershy. That sounds about right as those are the ones that identify with most strongly. I got nowhere near Pinkie, which I think is a little odd, but odder was being closer to Applejack and Rainbow, whom I don't identify with at all.

I like this test very much.

If you mean mlp in general, I was born in 1986 and so in the height of their popularity! I had a lot of them, and even rescued ones from charity shops etc I wish I knew where they went, I assume my collection got left behind when we moved once. Huge bummer... i also watched the movies and tv shows, and also got the magazine and books!

If you mean FiM then I noticed a lot of gifs and such on tumblr around March, and googled it. At first I hated the fact they made a new mlp! I thought the style was so different! A friend at Kitacon 2011 started talking about it also, and persuaded me to check it out. After I learned it was Lauren Faust who designed it, that wavered my opinion a little, and after watching it... WELL! I was hooked!

This is almost exactly my story too, for both My Little Pony in general and Friendship is Magic, except I fell in love with Friendship is Magic from the first screenshots. Right down to being born in the same year.

I first heard about the ponies back in February. A friend of mine mentioned how he liked the show; it didn't seem very unusual for him to like it, but I didn't think I'd ever be into it. I heard about it again when my sister started getting into it. Again, her being into it wasn't all that unusual to me; what was kind of unusual though was that it was her boyfriend who had introduced her to it. Still, I didn't even think about watching it.

A month or so later, I read "Cupcakes", out of curiosity after it was posted on a site I frequent and thought that was pretty weird. Still, I didn't investigate what it was based on. It wasn't until the end of May, when one of my other friends, and this time someone I never would have thought would be into a My Little Pony show said he was into it that I decided to investigate.

I was hooked from the first episode. Watched the whole series in two days. Then I spent a whole other day exploring youtube for fan videos. A couple weeks later I was completely obsessed and even writing my own FiM fanfiction.

I'm so proud to have played such a big role in your conversion

Actually, I find myself reminded of a different Faustian era, back when Foster's Home was in full swing. I'm fairly certain they had an episode similar to this where a ton of kids had all made their own version of Bloo, but because they couldn't quite get it right they sent them all to Foster's, where they pretended to be the original Bloo to tag along with Mac to see some show on ice.

All in all, if you want this kind of scenario done right, I'd recommend watching this episode. None of the clones are banished, and they are actually put through a quiz and inspection to determine the real one, because who knows how one acts better than their best friend? I thought the MLP version would become this, but their solution left a lot of 'splainen to do, both morally and for the answer they came up with. After all, could one of the Pinkie clones actually have developed a love for 'her' friends and faced enough of an existential crises to truly want to remain in Ponyville?

EDIT: The episode was called 'Bloo's Brothers'.

I'm glad someone else here remembers that. I was really hoping for the Pinkie duplicates to become progressively more deformed like the Bloo ones did, although that was only because the kids making Bloos weren't remembering the details perfectly or trying to improve upon the original. I suppose there was no way to do that with the Pinkie duplicates.

Yes, returns to the 'cartoon for little girls' thing...

Yay! Flesh balloons! I think that would have really unsettled me as a child.

I love the panicking ponies as Chrysalis watches.

I think people like Chrysalis for "This Day Aria".

It was a little different for me. I liked G1 and saw screenshots (I had no idea at the time about the fandom at the time), so I decided immediately to watch Friendship is Magic as soon as possible. I ended up seeing "Fall Weather Friends" first, and while I enjoyed the animation and characters, I remember feeling slightly disappointed there was no villainous monster like there usually was in My Little Pony 'n' Friends. Nevertheless, I wanted to see more, which I did completely out of order, and I still knew that Friendship is Magic was more cleverly written than past incarnations. I might have decided it was a firm favorite of mine while seeing Pinkie's breakdown in "Party of One".

Those are interesting looks for Rainbow and Fluttershy. I also really like that one with Rarity and Fluttershy.

For me, this was the creepiest episode, to the point that the second I was done watching I rushed to add it to the Nightmare Fuel page, putting up the first two entrees for the episode. Flesh balloons! Real Pinkie! I also now wonder what kind of things Pinkie would do if she gets really bored. So of course, this will go down as one of my favorites.

I do think it was an overly-complicated test to find the real Pinkie. Twilight didn't even try to learn if the clones shared the same memories and ask them something only the real Pinkie would know. Surely Pinkie didn't give every detail of her life to the duplicates? I also wish we had more time to see the havoc the duplicates brought on Rarity and Fluttershy; all we have is hearing about it.

I really liked that cranky-looking mare at the very beginning, standing off to the left. I wonder if her meal was late?

Rarity's "au couture ensemble" at the beginning is kinda hot...

It was very pretty. I liked seeing her mantle again too.

Heh.... Dash reading the Daring Do again...

I loved that. I wonder if Rainbow will ever start reading anything else though?

So there are hidden books in Twi's own library she doesn't know about now... how interesting... and convenient...

I wonder what else is hidden there?

Was that Fancypants in Ponyville? Wonder what he's doing in town...

Maybe he was there to look at Rarity's latest dresses?

XD It's $14.97 on the Midtown Comics site.

That's a rather arbitrary price.

Why is this cover so expensive? http://www.dynamicfo.../p-C120067.html

$19.83 = 1983, the year My Little Pony was first released.

Yep... and knowing me, I won't be able to resist buying any of them...

Me too. I would love if they make as many different titles as the Adventure Time comic series. Alternative universes with everypony's sex is the opposite! Crossovers with other IWD properties such as Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Transformers! Miniseries dedicated to minor characters like Lyra and Bonbon, Gilda, Octavia, and Steven Magnet! An orgy of increasingly bizarre fandom nods, impossible for television but all too real for print.

I imagine so. The samples I've seen look great.

Eh, people say that. Then they wanna know what happens in it and then they also realize that cover art on a comic just about never reflects the art of the actual comic.

That's true. I didn't ask if they were only going by the covers.

Pinkie reminds me of the title character of Stephen King's "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" in that clip. Obsessed with going places in the shortest amount of time.

So, Twilight can turn living beings into fruit if she wants to. More reasons to stay on her good side.

That mouth is a little strange to me. Not too bad though.

I spoke to some friends of mine who seem put-off enough by the comic art that they don't want to read these. I think that's rather extreme.

That was adorable! I'm so looking forward to this. I hope it turns out like the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Bloo's Brothers" and the later clones start coming out looking less and less like Pinky and becoming more deformed.

Each issue will focus on a single member of the mane 6. Twilight is first.

Like the 4-issue Teengage Mutant Ninja Turtles micro-series (also published by IDW), each issue of the MLP micro-series contains a self-contained story staring one of the main characters.

How fun! A closer look into their daily lives will be very helpful regarding inspiration toward fan-fiction and role-playing.

I'm intrigued. I wonder what the micro-series will be about?

The French magazine is quite nice. The paper is of a good quality, and the screen shots clear (although reversed).

Still need to scan it at some point...

I do hope the program portrays Saddle Arabia in this series. A settling like that might be a fun change of pace.

So difficult to chose! I really like most of those. This one will require some time to ponder.

I voted for Sombra for being most like the villain I would pretend to be when playing with G1 ponies and because he had the foresight to back plans up. Also I like lawful evil villains the most. I probably would have voted for Chrysalis otherwise because that one plan she had was quite good. A shame she didn't have any contingency plans. Hopefully if she appears again she would have thought things out a bit more.

It just occurred to me while watching the season 3 premiere again that one reason I might like Sombra so much is that back when I played with the G1 toys I liked to imagine the ponies having to go up against a vast dark overlord that was enslaving ponies until only a few remained to fight back. They made one of my childhood dreams come true!

If it doesn't turn out to be true then at least it makes great fan-fiction fodder. I wouldn't writing that at all.