We’re all just kids at heart.''MY LITTLE PONY,'' a full-length animated film based on a pastel toy with a bushy tail, is probably the longest self-advertisement since ''The Care Bears.'' Both of these sticky-sweet creations typify a new idea in marketing. “I think it just makes us all feel like kids again. “After watching the show, I could see why anyone of any age would like it,” she said. Twenty-year-old My Little Pony fan Gabby Pantaloni of Hershey, Pa., said she was kind of shocked that so many guys like the show, as she stood in a line at Bron圜on to get her picture taken with other enthusiasts dressed like her favorite character Rarity. “I like the community away from the show.” “It’s colorful and innocent, which is something I don’t have in my life,” the 26-year-old Sam’s Club worker said. He dressed as his favorite character, the antagonistic Discord, wearing a hooded and multicolored costume complete with a dragon tail, since Discord is a pony-dragon hybrid. Zac North traveled from his hometown of Dayton, Ohio, to be with fellow Bronies in New Jersey this weekend. De Lancie is the voice of Discord on “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and is perhaps best known for playing “Q” on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” To set the record straight about Bronies, Faust, John de Lancie and others are producing a documentary that filmed over the weekend at Bron圜on. I think it’s unfair to men and I think it’s unfair to girls and women.” “And it’s upsetting to me that people jump to those conclusions. “I don’t think you have to have bad intentions to like little girls or to like the things that they like,” Faust said. “They think there’s something wrong with that, something devious about it. “There are a lot of people who when they first hear about men watching a show for little girls, they’re taken to a creepy place,” she said. … They’re proud that they’re forward-thinking and modern enough to look past this misogynistic attitude.”įaust said she, like the Bronies, is disturbed at the negative images some people have about men who like the show. “I think that’s awful and I think that kind of attitude needs to be changed,” she said. “We live in a society where saying that something is for girls is the equivalent to saying that something is stupid, or saying that something isn’t worthwhile,” Faust said. She said her main target was little girls, but she hoped to draw in moms and perhaps some boys with strong characters and compelling story lines. But along came animator Lauren Faust, who was hired by Hasbro and sparked new life to My Little Pony when she created the “Friendship is Magic” series.įaust had worked on “The Powerpuff Girls” and “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” before dreaming up the land of Equestria, where My Little Pony characters like Twilight Sparkle, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie get into all kinds of adventures.įaust told The Associated Press at Bron圜on on Saturday that she never imagined the show would be such a hit with teenage boys and young men. The brand stuck around through the years. Hasbro released the first My Little Pony toys in 1983, and they led to television specials, a film and the first TV series from 1986 to 1987. Now there are thousands of Bronies across the country. It was just over a year ago when Bron圜on attracted about 100 people to some meeting rooms in New York City. Staff appeared to be a little overwhelmed at times. Stars who do the show’s voices signed autographs and gave speeches. Inside, vendors sold stuffed ponies, pony accessories, pony signs, pony hats and just about every pony item imaginable. One observer said it almost felt like a Grateful Dead concert. Outside the convention center, young men danced and sang along with songs from My Little Pony cartoon that blasted from loud speakers as a video screen on a large truck showed the show’s characters. “I discovered that there’s nothing to be ashamed of being a Brony,” said 19-year-old James Penna of Mastic in Long Island, N.Y. They’re all about the show, friendship, love and tolerance, and they have no bad intentions, they say. “It’s just a great show … the story line, the plot, the beautiful animation.”īronies say they’re a misunderstood lot who’ve gotten a bad rap from the media. It’s a … show for little girls,'” said Fjordbotten, from Staten Island, N.Y. Like many “Bronies” - boys and men who like the cartoon “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”- the 25-year-old college student turned out over the weekend for “Bron圜on Summer 2012” at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, which drew 4,000 men, women, boys and girls, many in colorful wigs and costumes. Dale Fjordbotten is a proud “My Little Pony” fan, with the shiny blue body suit and yellow lightning bolt, blue wings and blue tail to prove it.
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