[0339] Little Red Riding Pony
└ posted on Thursday, 5 January 2012, by Novil
A series of pony strips was inevitable sooner or later. I watched my first episode “Fall Weather Friends” in February last year. My favorite episode is “Sonic Rainboom” which I already endorsed in my post on 28 March 2011. Although Rainbow Dash has some of the best moments in the series, my favorite pony is Fluttershy, shortly in front of Twilight Sparkle. I really wish there were My Little Pony action figures of the same quality as my Wallace & Gromit or even my Princess Mononoke action figures. Powree is, of course, also a pony fan.
- Little Red Riding Pony: Oh, Princess Celestia, why aren’t you wearing the royal tiara?
- Little Red Riding Pony: … And oh, Princess Celestia, why is your horn so short?
- Little Red Riding Pony: … And oh, Princess Celestia, why are your fur and feathers pink??
- Princess Celestia: All this is because the pinheads at Hasbro don’t understand that all pony fans over the age of 10 want lifelike action figures of their heroes instead of cheap plastic toys.
So… do we get any hints on whose hands those are?
Richard the Warlock likes this strip.
I heard that store owners SPECIFICALLY ASKED for the toys to be pink…
True Story…
@ DHJones:
Is the MLP’s on fire??? No… then its not Larisa.
@Novil
There are Princess Mononoke… action figures! (O_o)
Where does he get those wonderful toys?
Awersome. Great strip!
But… she IS wearing the tiara!
She’s missing the armour though.
Why is it that every comment telling the truth about how much the strip has sucked lately get thumbs downed? Most of them are right! I’ll be honest, from you I wasn’t expecting brony jokes. I never thought that you would go that low… I’m sorry for speaking my mind, but this is what I think.
@ Holygriever:
/)(\ lol Ponies, yay!! …
I really never thought I would say that, curse my brother!! lol I have also never noticed that she’s the wrong colour, but that’s because we have no good toy stockist near where I live, the major one that annoys me is that Pinkie Pie comes with a frog or something, what happened to Gummy? lol 😀
@ Jay: Although I do agree that Sandra and Woo should be a little more centralized, how is this a gimmick strip?
Actually, Lauren Faust said in an interview at one point that demands such as this — specifically, Pink Celestia — were dictated by the toy stores and retailers, not Hasbro. Since those retailers are THE major source of income for the show, the toys are made to satisfy them rather than the end consumer.
Valid point. I mean, do they even TRY with Pinky Pie’s hair?
Starscream vs Rainbow Dash. This blew my mind.
Antonio wrote:
thats old 😀
http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/66
Yeah, this will be so on EQD.^^
@nyditch
If you make show-accurate figues of Celstia, Luna and the Mane 6 then you gonna swim in money. Someone made a white Celestia, with correct mane and everything. He got over 900$ for it on an auction. Not kidding. Bronies are a money pool, just have the right dip net (unlike Hasbro) and you gonna have a bucket full of money. ;D
@ Sire H:
Check for goatee.
For what it is worth, the working THEORY I have always heard is that the stores would order MUCH fewer Celestia’s if she wasn’t pink. They wouldn’t be sure about selling them, and wouldn’t want to take the risk. Since Hasbro gets its money when the toys are ordered or delivered* rather than when they sell to the consumers, Hasbro hedged its bets. This doesn’t explain all the problems, and it still leaves one to wonder if they will ever do one or more a “special edition” toys for the Bronies and Pegasisters.
*Not sure which, and for these purposes it doesn’t matter.
So far I’ve seen guesses that it’s Sandra or Larisa, but given the cross-demographic appeal, why not Mr. North? Actually, it’d be kind of a hoot to see Woo doing it.
Another Brony reference? I swear, you’ve already secured your spot in my top 5 favourite web comics of all time. <3
Ah, brilliant~! A combination of MLP and fairytales is just perfect for me. And that’s so true.
(Btw, if you’re a pony fan, you’ve probably come arcoss Kimono’s Townhouse already, but still thought to mention it. An online pony comic.)
Sandra’s dad must watch the show too. I mean, not only does Sandra have a plushie Fluttershy you can only get for hundreds of dollars on ebay, but the recolor of Twilight actually has the correct hairstyle! You need at least a paypal account in order to have those!
Unless of course, ya know how to style pony hair and how to recolor it… Or is one of the Twilight recolors that’s on the market? I forget if there is a blonde one…
More Woo please!
The fans who notice are younger than that. Even my daughter was bothered by it and she turns 3 in March.
@ Bartimaeus:
I think store owners are idiotic fools and think that all girls want pink.
@ Carolthefool:
*palmface* you do realize that Novil (the creator of this comic) is the one that introduce MLP:FiM series to his/her own reader last year right? and this is a webcomic about an adventure of a little girl and her pet raccoon. What do you want? DC superheroes and their degrading female characters?
@ Carolthefool:
Just because you hate something doesn’t mean everyone had to follow you. And vice versa.
I just thought I’d let you know that I submitted this link to EQD to be featured. I’ve already gotten an e-mail back acknowledging that it has been added to the queue, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. You’re welcome!
@ pyro b:
Inb4 PonyArchive.
and they even show her being white and big-horned in the VERY COMMERCIAL that advertises the monstrosity.
@ DHJones:
It’s Cloud’s dad! 🙂
Pardon? O_o
You know, Celestia toy sucks in many regards, but it has both tiara and horn like in the show? Was it supposed to be sarcasm?
Plus, you missed collar both toy and show version have ^^”
YESYESYESYESYES!!!! I agree, I wish they would make accutate toys.
@ DHJones:
I’m guessing Cloud
@ DHJones:
Larisa.
400 new fans gained, all bronies
@ thatwyomingpony:
Hah. I just sent it in hoping it would like the Nightly Roundup.
Jim wrote:
Welcome to the Internet.
Population: Ponies
I for one welcome out new pony overlords.
@ Fauxlosopher:
OMG it’s become a meme… oh well, as long as I’m not the one responsible for it.
So who’s doing this? Sandra or her friend (can’t remember her name). I know the pyro still plays with dolls
@ Jim:
Is nowhere safe, you ask, my friend?
But this is only how it begins.
Imagination finds it root in dreams,
Of ponykind — and man, it seems.
The Princess’ lesson speaks to all
Young and old, great or small.
So ponykind shall eclipse the rest,
And dominate these ‘Internets.’
…this is why someone shouldn’t post at 12:30am. You end up trying to make a reply in Zokora’s voice and then realizing “Oh, god, I’m a 30-odd year old woman and I know how to do Zokora’s voice.”
*hangs head*
Ponies…
…
*Tosses the ponies on the barbecue… And lights the bronies on fire for good measure*
My fave pony is Dinky Doo aka Derpy Hooves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMAhGnH8SO8
Episode 1 of “The Doctor and Assistant” (there are 4 episodes currently)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR_y8uRYI8Y
If you didn’t know better, you’d swear this song was from the actual show.
While MLP:FIM complains about all the innacurances of their “cheap plastic” toys, I’ll realign Bludgeon’s “cheap plastic” sword – As the remaining of this SAMURAI FROM HELL is made of good plastic. Oh, and Walmart Exclusive Optimus Prime is also way more accurate to the movie than the other “voyager” models.
Of course people will “dislike” this, but you have to admit: Even my cheapest Transformer, even being innacurate, is still better than Sandra’s MLP:FIM toys. Have a nice day.
And yes, Sandy… Buy yourself a Transformers: Prime Arcee. Seriously. It comes with Mass conservation intact! =P~
Well for starters the cheap plastic toys from the 1970s-1980s are worth HUGE bucks now hehe
/ignores brony stuff in favour of an older obsession
WHOA WHOA WHOA
BACK THE … TRUCK UP.
“Princess Mononoke”…
…“Action Figures”
Please, a link, for the love of all that is good and wholesome in this world?
And if there’s any Nausicaa, Lupin or Sheeta/Pazu ones I may just squeal like a little girl at a boyband concert.
@ AckAckAck:
I try warning my friends about this, and they don’t believe me.
Sooner or later I’m going to find them dying their hair and applying temporary-tattoo cutie mark things to each other with a glazed-over look in their eyes.
Personally, I’m staying the god damn hell away from it all until all the crazed, faddish fuss has moved on, and will watch it in a language I don’t speak with subtitles in a font that’s hard to read unless I look directly at it, so as not to be subsumed into whatever bizarre hypnotic hivemind its producers have managed to create.
@ SchitzoTiger:
Although I cannot accept the outcome due to certain errors of physics (even cartoon physics) and an undying devotion to G1TF vs all forms of Girly Cartoons 😉 … that was still flippin’ hilarious.
@ …:
Using a stolen account.
I’m inclined to believe Hasbro fouled up with the merchandise and translating what the cartoon offered. Classic considering what they did to GI Joe and Transformers in the 80’s.
In any case, there’s always the fan based Garage Kits and customs. For those looking for something more than plastic parts.
Pony in Carbonite There’s other stuff out there.. but I couldn’t find the Princess…
i don’t like ponies that much.,…but im not complaining because i watch Lucky star…great anime by the way…nice slice of life stuff just like this comic…but anyway
@ Jay:
i noticed that there is a seemingly giant hand guiding the Pony…so it could be sandra playing with them…and if that’s the case woo will be involved…..so at that note suddenly this might be very needed in the near future. so my advice as a fan….if you don’t like something..or question is relevance….just keep silent for a few strips to see if the whole picture unfolds….you might be surprised what this author can do 😉
Wolf in Bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d suspect)