Thanks for watching! There's a clip of the show where the audio is unsynchronized, which is weird because it was perfectly fine in the video editor, but only messed up when exporting. There ain't no way I'm gonna re-export this behemoth of a video, so use your imagination to sync it up at that part!! Like I said in the vid, feel free to leave your thoughts on whether I should cover the Brushables or Equestria Girls dolls next!
Brushables is up to you but personally I would he excited to hear about the equestria dolls Even if we do spend half the video vomiting at the Royal high dolls The minis are amazing
I would love for you to cover the brushables, And I recommend to contact some people in the collector like OkamiGirl64 (who You actually mention in this video) and Silver Cascade. The mile pony fans and the Mlp collecting community are their own little subgroup of bronies and I bet they (my friends) would love to help you with the video!!
Brushables would be super cool next! Although it’s mostly the 1st and second wave that have background ponies I feel so it might get redundant since they lovee to rerelease the main six with tinsel and extra cutie marks 😭
please do!! id LOVE an equestria girls video!!! it probably won’t happen any time soon --but id really love to see a video on the Chinese my little pony merchandise !! or even the official game cards!!!!
I remember the waves which had like 20 translucent ponies (or ‘jelly ponies’ as my family called them) and like 5 normal ones. The translucent ones always felt like a bit of a booby prize.
Fun fact about those blind bag toys, they're durable as fuck. I brought one to school in 2nd grade and some kid chucked it into the cornfield next door. Three years later, we find it in that same cornfield. A little sun-bleached with a small chip taken out of the tail, but otherwise perfectly fine. I also had the Octavia with the cello. She fell out of my backpack pocket and got run-over by a school bus. Had to glue the cello back on, but otherwise perfect condition. Props to whoever formulated the plastic these things were made of, they're pretty-much indestructible.
i have a very similar story for the g3 minifigs! a year or two ago my mom gave me one of my old mini g3 ponies after finding her in one of her gardens (had to of been there for at least 6 years i think since i think thats the latest i would have put my old ponies into storage) which only had some nicks on the side of her face, the hair is a separate mold so not only did it not get sunbleached from what i can tell but basically all of the painted details were still intact lol
He's saying if they made it from the get go and used it as a pegasus variant, and they forgot to include the updated Fluttershy mold for like four years?
I’m not even being ironic when I say this: I freaking love videos where someone nerds out about something that I know nothing about. Lol if their personality shines through and they’re passionate I’ll sit and watch just about anything. I’ve seen a couple seasons of FiM but tbh I more so just enjoy hearing people talk about it.
@@EffMinusI’m glad you didn’t take offense! I should have mentioned I didn’t mean nerd as an insult. I have things I’m passionate about and nerd out about too!
Ahh blind bags, where my favourite pony had one single release and nobody is selling her online literally anywhere. I have a cute fluttershy figure but i'd *kill* For sunset.
The trick is to find bundles with her in it on eBay if you wanna be smart with resources. I found multiple listings of people selling her alone for like $40, but found packs with like 50 ponies with her included for $100 or so.
@@yandere_ninetailsI had a Zecora blind bag figure, but she didn't have a tail 😭 Like, I bought the blind bag in store, got home, opened it up, and she just completely lacked a tail! It didn't fall off in the bag or anything, she just didn't have a tail
I'm drawing right now and I am looking at this trying to find some background noise and I was thinking "Do I really want to watch a 3-hour video about My Little pony blind bags?" And the answer is OF COURSE I DO.
omg i did that too 😭 i remember not even knowing about the codes at first and being upset when i got some random character instead of one of my favorites lol
Our shop used to sell discarded, errorred and wrongly manufactured blindbag figures for dirty cheap. I used to own a pink Twilight recolor with orange mane and turquoise pinky with white mane and these looked super nice. I really hope to find these one day again
i have so much nostalgia for these, my parents used to always get me these after every hospital/doctors visiti had to make and it always cheered me up afterwards. i dont care anymore if theyre inacurate, theyre such a big part of my childhood
As a swedish mlp fan, I got MAJOR nostalgia when seeing that you brought up regnbågsspelet, gosh did I play that religiously as a kid. Thanks for reminding me🤩
I always loved that the blind bags recolored the mane 6 molds and tried to pass them off as “new characters” (and even when they got new molds they just recolored those over and over)
i had a glitter trixie she uh i had very messy hands whenever i held her i would throw her around and somehow she survived ...until she went missing rip glitter trixie....
For 52:57, she`s based off the early-on brushable versions of Luna. Back then, those colors were included into her toys. Probably for the same reason as Pinklestia She did get a more accurate color scheme around the G4.5 era of the toys
I think I remember the reason was that Hasbro thought Lauren Faust's designs aren't 'pink' and 'marketable' enough for princess ponies (getting this title instead of queen ponies was also a marketing decision) so they released them in more pinkish colors. Apparently this strategy turned against Hasbro, as girls didn't want to buy an innacurate Celestia.
Despite the inaccuracies, I have huge nostalgic feelings for these blindbags. There’s something I just love with the variation, simplicity and quality(which is honestly much better than most other toys minis are that I see nowadays)
Fun facc: horses rear up like applejack and Rainbow dash do in their figures. But it is only for a few moments but the pose is so cool that alot of companies make that pose a thing for horse toys in general
I’ve got to say that I loved collecting these as a kid and I love the wacky color schemes. The cherry one was actually my favorite as a kid. My friend and I would trade each other blind bag ponies and I traded one of mine to get her. I know they aren’t show accurate but I never really cared. I liked the different colors on the different molds. It might just be nostalgia but I genuinely loved the designs for these.
Bumblesweet was one of the many G3 ponies they nabbed to turn into blind bag ponies- her G3 counterpart has a honey pot as part of her cutie mark and her back card says she's a baker. "Everyone says Bumblesweet is just as sweet as honey - and they're right! She likes to make sweet things to eat, too - like fudge and jellybeans and rainbow colored - taffy! No wonder her friends like to drop by to see what's cooking!" Also hoo boy- when you move into the unreleased toys you're gonna get VERY used to sweetie blue. For such a random pony she has some insane lore. Same with Starswirl the Beardless I assume Comet Tail has weird looking eyes on his card because he's a recolor of Shining Armor, who as you established doesn't have an outline around his eyes in the card art so his eyes bleed into his coat
@@aquazdrawzI somewhat agree with the majority but I reword it; I don't like Fluttershy because her whole character development was about her getting over shyness and rarely shows her being kind to anyone that isn't an animal, at the very least not in a memorable way
2:08:22 I was not expecting the bin's toy bin jumpscare.. back when id collect pony stuff when i was a kid these two were so responsible for my passion. seeing it come full circle watching this for nostalgia is fantastic
i remember making my grandparents buy me so many of these and i still have an ENTIRE BAG OF THEM edit: on the Rainbow Dash one it always annoyed me how her hair colors are different like she has GREEN ON HER BANGS ON THE FIGURE BUT NOT THE SHOW edit: help i have most of the 2016 redesigns
Despite all their inaccuracies, I'd definitely say I'm more of a blind bag guy than a brushable guy. The blind bags (and minifigures in general) seem to have been made more with Bronies in mind than the brushables were, especially since they have solid manes and a wider range of molds, they had male ponies before the brushables did, and I think it says quite a bit they released Ditzy Doo, Dr. Whooves and all those other fan-favourite background ponies years before they even released Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Spike.
As someone who played with my little pony toys in the 90s, I didn't even know what their names were supposed to be and renamed most of them myself like pokemon. I never made much of a connection with the show. I always thought the shows were a spinoff from the toys, not the other way around
I remember getting three MLP blind bags at my local Walmart and ended up getting Lilac Breezie, Big Wig, and Pinkie Pie (favorite MLP fim character), I also wanted Cheese Sandwich and sadly I never got him at that time :' ( but I was overall still happy for what I got though : D also Eff your flower is really lovely ❤️😊
46:48 You know what is funny about it? I have a pretty accurate figurine of Nightmare Moon, FROM A RANDOM MLP MAGAZINE. Hasbro gave her an unique mold for a cheap magazine but couldn't do it for a (what I assume is) collectioner mini set. EDIT: 1:04:19 Oh look, it's Minuette from Pony Platforming 4 that was tormented in endless loop of nightmares! EDIT EDIT: People ripping the packages, what the hell are you doing?! THESE BAGS LITERALLY HAVE A CODE THAT SHOWS WHAT PONY IT IS
Finally, my moment has arrived, for me, to observe an Eff deep dive! I have a soft spot for these figures. They are rather...déclassé and inaccurate, plus i dislike that they over utilize certain molds, but i adore them. I merely wish that a Cozy Glow one would have been released, since she is the best thing that occured in my life. You look cute in this episode! This video will be entertaining.
While I'm not into My Little Pony anymore, I still have a huge softspot for these early toys. I remember I pulled a Roseluck out of one of these bags, she was my favorite one along with my Lemon Hearts. The day I lost her was devastating.
Love the thank you note at the end because I did indeed fall asleep during this video the first time then rewatched the last two hours today whilst partially just watching the video and partially also playing a video game (also I rewatched several sections so I hope this somehow contriputes to the overall watch time and this video finds insane success in the algorythm to a point where he can now finally buy more of the merchandising because there clearly isn't enough in the background)
you know what i hate most about the blindbags? the fact that a lot of them weren't just random ponies but actually returning G3 characters who were unfortunate enough to recieve the Mane 6 Recolor™ treatment that most characters got (Bumblesweet turning into a Pinkie Pie recolor, Coconut Cream an AJ recolor, Waterfire being a Twilight recolor, etc as examples) worst part is most of these characters never seen any release in the toyline other than that
i love your whole vibe, I'm not even part of this fandom and I really enjoyed this video. one note though - whenever people describe things as "lame ahh" or "dumb ahh" or whatever, they're censoring the word a$$. so your pronunciation should rhyme with that. a short a sound like bat or cat, not a long a sound like in car or far. ❤
The freaking Flutters with Dash's hair will never stop being hilarious. And as far as my faves, it was a short list; Pepperdance and Cherry Spices. They actuall have really cool concepts to me and I got them both.
Gotta thank you personally cause thanks to ur videos and many others, it’s finally inspired me to go and watch MLP FIM all the way through. As of late July 2024 I’m half way through season 4 after less than 2 weeks of binge watching.
Watched the entire video while I was working It was actually super interesting thank you for the entertainment and went insanely out of your way for all that Thank you again :]
With a name like "Sweetcream Scoops", I feel like she could've easily have been implemented as an ice cream vendor in the actual show. I mean, cows are harvested for milk and diary, and ice cream is a food item in the show. Soooo, that would've been cool. No pun intended.
Fun fact: sweetie blue (mentioned around 12:58) was almost made into a brushable, but never made it past the prototype stage. There are some prototypes floating around and they are worth a ton of money. They’re rumored to have been given to hasbro/MLP team members
I have a Pinkie piggy bank that was released around the same time that also has the big, swoopy curls. They were really pushing that design in the merch
I really liked these blindbags, even if my country hasn't recieved a new wave since around 2016, instead we got the same wave released till around a couple years ago. I wish I could have one of the newer ones, they look so much cooler ahah
The earth pony designs before the massive mold upgrades remind me of how the g3.5 mini ponies hair was like so it was possible based on those?? but MAN I had a good bunch of these and Im still peeved WaterFire, my favorite not Main character, g3 pony got stuck in only mini form but HER HAIR BECAME THE COLOR OF MAC N CHEESE AND NOT THE BRIGHT DEEP RED IT WAS!?!?
spent about a full minute screaming from excitement abt the mad men ponies, especially when you showed their show designs, they’re so cute 😭🫶 joan & roger at lunch together!!! freaking out abt this crossover, so unexpected, i needed ts 😭
never knew abt it bc i finished the show like a yr ago & started watching madmen abt a month ago, but srsly 2 things i’m obsessed w my autism is going crazy over this 😭 i love when they do this in the show bc the show designs of bg ponies who are meant to be references to other shows always so clearly were designed with sm love & detail by an animator/whatnot who’s obviously a fan & so i love that aspect of it. it adds more soul to their designs compared to all the copy-paste recolor bg ponies especially from early seasons before they expanded the amount of unique bg pony original “bases.” but this does make me wonder why don’s cutie mark is a hat and, in-world, how he’d’ve gotten it & what his SPECIFIC “talent” that’s linked to it wld be. my brain’s going down this crazy route rn thinking: hats are associated w disguises, so he cld’ve gotten it once he started using the fake name & living as a diff person. which wld kinda be sad considering the whole point of marks being a representation of who one truly is 💀 maybe instead it cld be related to his ability to sell ppl (on) shit or j represent being a businessman. looking at peggy’s typewriter cm, i get the feeling that she was an adult blank flank (rare but possible canonically) who found her calling when she started working on the belle jolie account & got her mark when she was promoted to copywriter which i just find so sweet for some reason 😭🫶 also kinda obsessed w peggy’s first name literally being pegasus… despite being an earth pony but ig it’d be even weirder for a pegasus to be named pegasus. but i love how it still allows for her to be called peggy as a nn. i imagine roger being born w that dollar sign since he was born heir to the company 💀
18:38 YEP. When I was a kid my mom found these at the store and got all of them for my birthday, but she couldn't find Fluttershy for the life of her. So she told me that and we started trying to find her every once in a while. I actually did find her later in a set based on the second episode with the everfree forest, and the toy actually looked really nice ❤️ I still have a box full of these little guys and I pull them out of the shelf every once in a while, unfortunately my dumb child self messed up some of them with acetone so I have to repaint them but it's all fine.
0:26 i'm still convinced the only reason cadence exists is so the merch makers would stop making celestia pink in toys because they had a different pink alicorn to sell now
Only about an hour into the video, but I love this so much! I love deep dive videos like these, especially when I'm drawing. This has been not only informative but super funny as well and I can't believe how many recolors of these existed! Thank you for such a fun vid!! ❤
Best believe I sat here and watched the entirety of this video💪 It was nice to go down memory lane and seeing which particular characters I had. ALSO I HAD THAT RAINBOW MAGIC GAME. I used to force my family to play with me 😝
@@EffMinus I don’t remember how the game worked 😞 I know that you had to build up the rainbow bit by bit but that’s all i remember. Other than that I know that I would cry everytime I lost 💀
Tbh, i don't care that the clear ponies didn't had a "normal" version of them, I just think it makes characters that i really love more special to have, plus they're so pleasing to look, especially the ones with their manes painted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
0:29 oh my god I had that toy. I don't think I watched MLP, but I loved horses, so. Pretty horse toy. Ive literally never thought about how it's pink. Wow
Cherry spices is beautiful sir! One of the only mini figures i own because i saw her in a second hand bag of ponies, bought it just for her and donated everyone else! She looks like a chocolate cake with strawberry filling! One of the more unique colour combos i've seen on a pony.
actually the description of Berryshine at 40:37 is quite indicative and lore accurate since Berry Shine (also called Berry Punch by the community and Pinot Noir by Laurent Faust) is the town Alcoholic,, since her first appearance when she cant control her urge to drink the punch to Greatest gift ever where shes litterally side to side with a bottle of whine,, also,, shes the only pony during the super squeezer 3000 who isnt part of the mane 6 and that already got her drink that stay and complain,, all the other are those who havent got drink or at least we didnt saw drink,, she is the exception who is not the mane 6 in conclusion,, the descriptive is indeed lore accurate edit: Pinot Noir for those who dont know is a type of whine
I was waiting the whole video for THIS moment 2:57:19 you don't have an idea how that pisses me off when there are plenty of characters who needed that fluttershy mold back then
I have that Shadowbolt Rainbow Dash Nightmare Night figure. It's a pretty neat display piece. I also have the movie because the local grocery store sold it for a buck in their bargain bin.
Thanks for watching! There's a clip of the show where the audio is unsynchronized, which is weird because it was perfectly fine in the video editor, but only messed up when exporting. There ain't no way I'm gonna re-export this behemoth of a video, so use your imagination to sync it up at that part!!
Like I said in the vid, feel free to leave your thoughts on whether I should cover the Brushables or Equestria Girls dolls next!
Brushables is up to you but personally I would he excited to hear about the equestria dolls
Even if we do spend half the video vomiting at the Royal high dolls
The minis are amazing
I would love for you to cover the brushables, And I recommend to contact some people in the collector like OkamiGirl64 (who You actually mention in this video) and Silver Cascade. The mile pony fans and the Mlp collecting community are their own little subgroup of bronies and I bet they (my friends) would love to help you with the video!!
Brushables would be super cool next! Although it’s mostly the 1st and second wave that have background ponies I feel so it might get redundant since they lovee to rerelease the main six with tinsel and extra cutie marks 😭
please do!! id LOVE an equestria girls video!!! it probably won’t happen any time soon --but id really love to see a video on the Chinese my little pony merchandise !! or even the official game cards!!!!
Cover the Equestria Girls dolls first. I'm principally interested in your opinion about the Dazzlings dolls.
as a kid i was the biggest hater of the recolours
same
lol me too
I hated the clear crystal ones too idk why
I would be so mad when I saw that the toy looked nothing like the one from the show
I remember the waves which had like 20 translucent ponies (or ‘jelly ponies’ as my family called them) and like 5 normal ones. The translucent ones always felt like a bit of a booby prize.
Fun fact about those blind bag toys, they're durable as fuck. I brought one to school in 2nd grade and some kid chucked it into the cornfield next door. Three years later, we find it in that same cornfield. A little sun-bleached with a small chip taken out of the tail, but otherwise perfectly fine. I also had the Octavia with the cello. She fell out of my backpack pocket and got run-over by a school bus. Had to glue the cello back on, but otherwise perfect condition. Props to whoever formulated the plastic these things were made of, they're pretty-much indestructible.
Bruh how
its not the formula its just like the whole point of why plastic is bad lol it takes thousands of years to decompose
yes
i have a very similar story for the g3 minifigs! a year or two ago my mom gave me one of my old mini g3 ponies after finding her in one of her gardens (had to of been there for at least 6 years i think since i think thats the latest i would have put my old ponies into storage) which only had some nicks on the side of her face, the hair is a separate mold so not only did it not get sunbleached from what i can tell but basically all of the painted details were still intact lol
Future archeologists are gonna find those blind bags and marvel at them.
If they actually made a Fluttershy mold early on then so many characters would look more accurate
They did make a fluttershy mold it was just made later on
They did make a Fluttershy mold eventually
bro they did 😭 i have both fluttershy molds
He's saying if they made it from the get go and used it as a pegasus variant, and they forgot to include the updated Fluttershy mold for like four years?
@@Justapikachu577 since the comment is edited it might have said "If they actually made a Fluttershy mold" without the "early on"
I’m not even being ironic when I say this: I freaking love videos where someone nerds out about something that I know nothing about. Lol if their personality shines through and they’re passionate I’ll sit and watch just about anything. I’ve seen a couple seasons of FiM but tbh I more so just enjoy hearing people talk about it.
thanks, that means a ton!
@@EffMinusI’m glad you didn’t take offense! I should have mentioned I didn’t mean nerd as an insult. I have things I’m passionate about and nerd out about too!
Ahh blind bags, where my favourite pony had one single release and nobody is selling her online literally anywhere. I have a cute fluttershy figure but i'd *kill* For sunset.
i have two sunset figures from these-
I just looked and I've seen a couple listings for a Sunset Shimmer blind bag figure on eBay.
The trick is to find bundles with her in it on eBay if you wanna be smart with resources. I found multiple listings of people selling her alone for like $40, but found packs with like 50 ponies with her included for $100 or so.
I NEED the Zecora mini figure 😭😭😭
I can’t find her anywhere
@@yandere_ninetailsI had a Zecora blind bag figure, but she didn't have a tail 😭 Like, I bought the blind bag in store, got home, opened it up, and she just completely lacked a tail! It didn't fall off in the bag or anything, she just didn't have a tail
I love how your hand gets progressively more glittery as you're showing off the glitter ponies haha
my headcanon for Magnate Bolt is that her transition went really well. I'm happy for her
here's a challenge for you: take a shot every time eff minus says "the card gaslights you"
Im already drunk from laughing at that💀
no thanks i like living
Or "what gives"
Or inaccurate
Alright, bet.
(Edit)
I woke up in the hospital-
18:40 the poor soul was me. i was devastated, because fluttershy was always my fav pony and when i couldn't find her it broke my ten year old heart
As a kid i had 3 granny smith figures
I cried everytime I got her
Lmao
😂😂😂😂
I'd cry too
I'm drawing right now and I am looking at this trying to find some background noise and I was thinking "Do I really want to watch a 3-hour video about My Little pony blind bags?" And the answer is OF COURSE I DO.
i'd love to see what you end up drawing!
Eff Minus looks so preppy with the flower
is that a good or bad thi
@@EffMinusdepends
@@EffMinus it’s a good thing 💯💯
"You go girl"
@@EffMinus i think it looks pretty /gen
Imagine having your most significant personality trait boiled down to "Really likes berries."
A 3-hour video on My Little Pony blind bags? I have been waiting my whole life for this moment
3 hour pony video dawg 💀💀💀💀
You know we’d all have it no other way
I just know I will be coming back here when I need to sleep but can't
it's worth it
Pigpiggamer’s 5 hour long video about pony is bigger
and i know you watched all of it
this bring backs memories of me religiously checking the codes on the bags at the supermarkets so that I only ever got characters from the show
sounds like a fun time!
omg i did that too 😭 i remember not even knowing about the codes at first and being upset when i got some random character instead of one of my favorites lol
I’m honestly obsessed with the flower clip- it’s adorable
it's here to stay!
Lily Blossom is like the Graggle Simpson of MLP
*gumbly, but yea
@@EffMinus *GRAGGLE
RAHHHHH/j
Our shop used to sell discarded, errorred and wrongly manufactured blindbag figures for dirty cheap. I used to own a pink Twilight recolor with orange mane and turquoise pinky with white mane and these looked super nice. I really hope to find these one day again
That's so fascinating! I would've loved to have a shop like that when I was majorly into collecting these figures, sounds like a field day to me
i have so much nostalgia for these, my parents used to always get me these after every hospital/doctors visiti had to make and it always cheered me up afterwards. i dont care anymore if theyre inacurate, theyre such a big part of my childhood
aww that’s sweet!
Thank you for making the absurdly long pony vid essays I’ve wished for this is amazing
more to come soon!
As a swedish mlp fan, I got MAJOR nostalgia when seeing that you brought up regnbågsspelet, gosh did I play that religiously as a kid. Thanks for reminding me🤩
that's sick! do you have any particular memories with it?
I’m also a Swedish mlp fan!
I always loved that the blind bags recolored the mane 6 molds and tried to pass them off as “new characters” (and even when they got new molds they just recolored those over and over)
i love the blind bag figures so much actually
i even like the inaccurate ones honestly i think they’re still super cute
Honestly as a VERY casual MLP fan, I actually really love the glitter ponies. I kind of want one. I love how outrageously shiny they are.
i had a glitter trixie
she uh
i had very messy hands whenever i held her
i would throw her around
and somehow she survived
...until she went missing
rip glitter trixie....
1:30:29 Flim's name being Flim Skim has me wish Flam's name was Flam Scam.
Maybe that was originally the plan, but I get the feeling the toyline likes to make it less obvious who the villains are.
For 52:57, she`s based off the early-on brushable versions of Luna. Back then, those colors were included into her toys. Probably for the same reason as Pinklestia
She did get a more accurate color scheme around the G4.5 era of the toys
I think I remember the reason was that Hasbro thought Lauren Faust's designs aren't 'pink' and 'marketable' enough for princess ponies (getting this title instead of queen ponies was also a marketing decision) so they released them in more pinkish colors. Apparently this strategy turned against Hasbro, as girls didn't want to buy an innacurate Celestia.
love seeing your hands get progressively more glittery throughout the video as you handle the glitter ones more lol
1:58:35 Sugar Cake is one of Pinkie Pies clones who changed her cutie mark in order to no get blasted out of exsistance.
There. Boom. New lore
When you brought up rarity’s redesign it actually blew my mind like i’ve literally never noticed it wtf
Despite the inaccuracies, I have huge nostalgic feelings for these blindbags.
There’s something I just love with the variation, simplicity and quality(which is honestly much better than most other toys minis are that I see nowadays)
WAIT SHOW RARITY WAS RE DESIGNED? I WATCHED THE WHOLE SHOW AND NEVER NOTICED
Yeah I wanna know too
Fun facc: horses rear up like applejack and Rainbow dash do in their figures. But it is only for a few moments but the pose is so cool that alot of companies make that pose a thing for horse toys in general
the fact that there’s enough info on this for a 3 hour long video makes me feel indescribable feelings
I’ve got to say that I loved collecting these as a kid and I love the wacky color schemes. The cherry one was actually my favorite as a kid. My friend and I would trade each other blind bag ponies and I traded one of mine to get her. I know they aren’t show accurate but I never really cared. I liked the different colors on the different molds. It might just be nostalgia but I genuinely loved the designs for these.
this video is giving major inspo to take all these blind bag ponies and give them a touch up....
Thanks for the likes so far!
If you see any ponies in the video, please tag the time so I can redraw them!
That's what I always wanted to do with these figurines, getting all these different molds and remake them
I actually did that!
Bumblesweet was one of the many G3 ponies they nabbed to turn into blind bag ponies- her G3 counterpart has a honey pot as part of her cutie mark and her back card says she's a baker. "Everyone says Bumblesweet is just as sweet as honey - and they're right! She likes to make sweet things to eat, too - like fudge and jellybeans and rainbow colored - taffy! No wonder her friends like to drop by to see what's cooking!"
Also hoo boy- when you move into the unreleased toys you're gonna get VERY used to sweetie blue. For such a random pony she has some insane lore. Same with Starswirl the Beardless
I assume Comet Tail has weird looking eyes on his card because he's a recolor of Shining Armor, who as you established doesn't have an outline around his eyes in the card art so his eyes bleed into his coat
Fluttershy is my fav character cuz I relate to her :(
and I, to Iron Will.. let's fight!
@@EffMinus AAAAAA
Same It’s so sad that people hate her all because she’s shy
@@aquazdrawz fr
@@aquazdrawzI somewhat agree with the majority but I reword it; I don't like Fluttershy because her whole character development was about her getting over shyness and rarely shows her being kind to anyone that isn't an animal, at the very least not in a memorable way
2:08:22 I was not expecting the bin's toy bin jumpscare.. back when id collect pony stuff when i was a kid these two were so responsible for my passion. seeing it come full circle watching this for nostalgia is fantastic
The moral of the story is 👏HASBRO 👏 DOESN'T 👏 CARE 👏
This reminds me of recolors of Sonic characters that 8 year olds did, juts put some different colors and done! It's someone else!
Omg 3 hours! Thank you for this new sleep material
Yo ggs! Welcome to the early noti gang🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
I’m glad to be of service!
I believe that rarity has the two colored main and the early blind bags as her early concept art included the two hair colors.
i was a little girl in 2012, can confirm i wanted celestia to be accurate.
can also confirm. i am now a grown man
More 3 hour deep dives on toys is all I need in life
ask and ye shall receive! more to come!!
i remember making my grandparents buy me so many of these and i still have an ENTIRE BAG OF THEM
edit: on the Rainbow Dash one it always annoyed me how her hair colors are different like she has GREEN ON HER BANGS ON THE FIGURE BUT NOT THE SHOW
edit: help i have most of the 2016 redesigns
I love the pure glitter jelly looking figures sm because why and also kinda pretty....
you and shunks are giving me life with these pony videos in 2024
Honestly most of these ponies have nothing but potential, if only they had an adaptation in the show
Despite all their inaccuracies, I'd definitely say I'm more of a blind bag guy than a brushable guy. The blind bags (and minifigures in general) seem to have been made more with Bronies in mind than the brushables were, especially since they have solid manes and a wider range of molds, they had male ponies before the brushables did, and I think it says quite a bit they released Ditzy Doo, Dr. Whooves and all those other fan-favourite background ponies years before they even released Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Spike.
Omggg congrats on your transition magnet bolt 🧲 ❤
As someone who played with my little pony toys in the 90s, I didn't even know what their names were supposed to be and renamed most of them myself like pokemon. I never made much of a connection with the show. I always thought the shows were a spinoff from the toys, not the other way around
I remember getting three MLP blind bags at my local Walmart and ended up getting Lilac Breezie, Big Wig, and Pinkie Pie (favorite MLP fim character), I also wanted Cheese Sandwich and sadly I never got him at that time :' ( but I was overall still happy for what I got though : D also Eff your flower is really lovely ❤️😊
I love how with every glitter pony you show your hands become more and more glittery symbolizing your minds’ descent into madness
46:48 You know what is funny about it? I have a pretty accurate figurine of Nightmare Moon, FROM A RANDOM MLP MAGAZINE. Hasbro gave her an unique mold for a cheap magazine but couldn't do it for a (what I assume is) collectioner mini set.
EDIT: 1:04:19 Oh look, it's Minuette from Pony Platforming 4 that was tormented in endless loop of nightmares!
EDIT EDIT: People ripping the packages, what the hell are you doing?! THESE BAGS LITERALLY HAVE A CODE THAT SHOWS WHAT PONY IT IS
Finally, my moment has arrived, for me, to observe an Eff deep dive!
I have a soft spot for these figures. They are rather...déclassé and inaccurate, plus i dislike that they over utilize certain molds, but i adore them. I merely wish that a Cozy Glow one would have been released, since she is the best thing that occured in my life. You look cute in this episode! This video will be entertaining.
While I'm not into My Little Pony anymore, I still have a huge softspot for these early toys. I remember I pulled a Roseluck out of one of these bags, she was my favorite one along with my Lemon Hearts. The day I lost her was devastating.
The fluttershy toy will be the channel enemy
i think normal fluttershy fills that role plenty!
along with fl*sh i guess
The reason that the original Rarity figure has pink in her mane is that her figure is partially based on her concept design which has pink hair in it
Love the thank you note at the end because I did indeed fall asleep during this video the first time then rewatched the last two hours today whilst partially just watching the video and partially also playing a video game (also I rewatched several sections so I hope this somehow contriputes to the overall watch time and this video finds insane success in the algorythm to a point where he can now finally buy more of the merchandising because there clearly isn't enough in the background)
you know what i hate most about the blindbags? the fact that a lot of them weren't just random ponies but actually returning G3 characters who were unfortunate enough to recieve the Mane 6 Recolor™ treatment that most characters got (Bumblesweet turning into a Pinkie Pie recolor, Coconut Cream an AJ recolor, Waterfire being a Twilight recolor, etc as examples)
worst part is most of these characters never seen any release in the toyline other than that
Love the flower! Almost made me forget about your sunset body pillow…
you mean the real Sunset
@@EffMinus sure..
@@RosiesArt28 SHE'S REAL SHE SPEAkS TO ME
@@EffMinus what did she say? Encouraging words for your haircut? 😭
@@RosiesArt28 she mourned the loss of my hair
I fell asleep watching this. *I never sleep.*
Thanks man your voice for 3 hours is amazing.
i love your whole vibe, I'm not even part of this fandom and I really enjoyed this video.
one note though - whenever people describe things as "lame ahh" or "dumb ahh" or whatever, they're censoring the word a$$. so your pronunciation should rhyme with that. a short a sound like bat or cat, not a long a sound like in car or far. ❤
?? Is the note necessary? Did you seriously care that much? Lmao 😂
@@diminie_chimket just helping share knowledge, did it bother you that much? 🤣
4:43 I've never noticed that change until now
Just when I think my niche is too rare for anyone else to be interested in, boom! 3 hour video. I love my inaccurate blindbag army.
The freaking Flutters with Dash's hair will never stop being hilarious.
And as far as my faves, it was a short list; Pepperdance and Cherry Spices. They actuall have really cool concepts to me and I got them both.
Gotta thank you personally cause thanks to ur videos and many others, it’s finally inspired me to go and watch MLP FIM all the way through. As of late July 2024 I’m half way through season 4 after less than 2 weeks of binge watching.
Watched the entire video while I was working
It was actually super interesting thank you for the entertainment and went insanely out of your way for all that
Thank you again :]
more hours-long ventures to come!
7:12 theres a story called "the fox and the grapes" if that counts s a fairytale
12:23 what if sweetie blue is mrs cake and thats her maiden name
Except the show confirmed that Mrs Cake’s maiden name was Chiffon Swirl so that wouldn’t really work
With a name like "Sweetcream Scoops", I feel like she could've easily have been implemented as an ice cream vendor in the actual show. I mean, cows are harvested for milk and diary, and ice cream is a food item in the show. Soooo, that would've been cool.
No pun intended.
33:12 I love the ladybug and cat noir references 😂
Fun fact: sweetie blue (mentioned around 12:58) was almost made into a brushable, but never made it past the prototype stage. There are some prototypes floating around and they are worth a ton of money. They’re rumored to have been given to hasbro/MLP team members
I have a Pinkie piggy bank that was released around the same time that also has the big, swoopy curls. They were really pushing that design in the merch
1:23:45
FINALLY I CAN PUT A NAME TO THIS FIGURINE I HAVE SINCE A KID!
Thank you Eff TwT
I really liked these blindbags, even if my country hasn't recieved a new wave since around 2016, instead we got the same wave released till around a couple years ago. I wish I could have one of the newer ones, they look so much cooler ahah
Need the 7 hour video on why gummy has no teeth next.
The earth pony designs before the massive mold upgrades remind me of how the g3.5 mini ponies hair was like so it was possible based on those?? but MAN I had a good bunch of these and Im still peeved WaterFire, my favorite not Main character, g3 pony got stuck in only mini form but HER HAIR BECAME THE COLOR OF MAC N CHEESE AND NOT THE BRIGHT DEEP RED IT WAS!?!?
Torchwood fan spotted 🫵
spent about a full minute screaming from excitement abt the mad men ponies, especially when you showed their show designs, they’re so cute 😭🫶 joan & roger at lunch together!!! freaking out abt this crossover, so unexpected, i needed ts 😭
never knew abt it bc i finished the show like a yr ago & started watching madmen abt a month ago, but srsly 2 things i’m obsessed w my autism is going crazy over this 😭 i love when they do this in the show bc the show designs of bg ponies who are meant to be references to other shows always so clearly were designed with sm love & detail by an animator/whatnot who’s obviously a fan & so i love that aspect of it. it adds more soul to their designs compared to all the copy-paste recolor bg ponies especially from early seasons before they expanded the amount of unique bg pony original “bases.”
but this does make me wonder why don’s cutie mark is a hat and, in-world, how he’d’ve gotten it & what his SPECIFIC “talent” that’s linked to it wld be. my brain’s going down this crazy route rn thinking: hats are associated w disguises, so he cld’ve gotten it once he started using the fake name & living as a diff person. which wld kinda be sad considering the whole point of marks being a representation of who one truly is 💀 maybe instead it cld be related to his ability to sell ppl (on) shit or j represent being a businessman.
looking at peggy’s typewriter cm, i get the feeling that she was an adult blank flank (rare but possible canonically) who found her calling when she started working on the belle jolie account & got her mark when she was promoted to copywriter which i just find so sweet for some reason 😭🫶
also kinda obsessed w peggy’s first name literally being pegasus… despite being an earth pony but ig it’d be even weirder for a pegasus to be named pegasus. but i love how it still allows for her to be called peggy as a nn.
i imagine roger being born w that dollar sign since he was born heir to the company 💀
congrats on your transition, Magnet Bolt!
18:38 YEP. When I was a kid my mom found these at the store and got all of them for my birthday, but she couldn't find Fluttershy for the life of her. So she told me that and we started trying to find her every once in a while. I actually did find her later in a set based on the second episode with the everfree forest, and the toy actually looked really nice ❤️ I still have a box full of these little guys and I pull them out of the shelf every once in a while, unfortunately my dumb child self messed up some of them with acetone so I have to repaint them but it's all fine.
If twilight is a unicorn in blindbags, it confirms it was before the season she became an alicorn. Peace!
0:26 i'm still convinced the only reason cadence exists is so the merch makers would stop making celestia pink in toys because they had a different pink alicorn to sell now
my first blindbag pony was pinkie pie, i remember that her figure couldn't stand properly but i get huge nostalgia from seeing these
Only about an hour into the video, but I love this so much! I love deep dive videos like these, especially when I'm drawing. This has been not only informative but super funny as well and I can't believe how many recolors of these existed! Thank you for such a fun vid!! ❤
The berry green joke made me like this 😂 (also I appreciate what you go through to make a good video)
your longer videos are very comforting for me. thank you for making them 💜
As a kid i was always mad that fluttershy didn’t get her own mold at first cause it was inaccurate and fluttershy was my favorite lol
Best believe I sat here and watched the entirety of this video💪 It was nice to go down memory lane and seeing which particular characters I had. ALSO I HAD THAT RAINBOW MAGIC GAME. I used to force my family to play with me 😝
how was it??
@@EffMinus I don’t remember how the game worked 😞 I know that you had to build up the rainbow bit by bit but that’s all i remember. Other than that I know that I would cry everytime I lost 💀
Tbh, i don't care that the clear ponies didn't had a "normal" version of them, I just think it makes characters that i really love more special to have, plus they're so pleasing to look, especially the ones with their manes painted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think they’re cool lookin’, but it doesn’t hurt to make normal ones too 😭😭😭
@@EffMinus Apparently for Hasbro is a strong kick in the nutsack, but okay, have a trillion re-releases of the mane six with a slightly eye misprint
0:29 oh my god I had that toy. I don't think I watched MLP, but I loved horses, so. Pretty horse toy. Ive literally never thought about how it's pink. Wow
3:00:00 that flurry heart got released for the brushables with cadence FIRST and then they also put the figure into the blind bag series.
that explains everything!
@@EffMinus yeah lol. It'd be quite confusing to have a giant flurry only to be in bling bags
Cherry spices is beautiful sir! One of the only mini figures i own because i saw her in a second hand bag of ponies, bought it just for her and donated everyone else! She looks like a chocolate cake with strawberry filling! One of the more unique colour combos i've seen on a pony.
actually the description of Berryshine at 40:37 is quite indicative and lore accurate since Berry Shine (also called Berry Punch by the community and Pinot Noir by Laurent Faust) is the town Alcoholic,, since her first appearance when she cant control her urge to drink the punch to Greatest gift ever where shes litterally side to side with a bottle of whine,, also,, shes the only pony during the super squeezer 3000 who isnt part of the mane 6 and that already got her drink that stay and complain,, all the other are those who havent got drink or at least we didnt saw drink,, she is the exception who is not the mane 6
in conclusion,, the descriptive is indeed lore accurate
edit: Pinot Noir for those who dont know is a type of whine
congrats on magnet bolt's transition
I was waiting the whole video for THIS moment 2:57:19 you don't have an idea how that pisses me off when there are plenty of characters who needed that fluttershy mold back then
WOOHOOO!!!!!!!! NEW BIG EFF MINUS VIDEO! it feels like i've waited ages for it :D
I really liked that Sunset Shimmer figurine, but my cousin stole it from me. She adored Sunset as a character, and I just liked the design.
your cousin has impeccable taste!
I have that Shadowbolt Rainbow Dash Nightmare Night figure. It's a pretty neat display piece. I also have the movie because the local grocery store sold it for a buck in their bargain bin.