The UK version had a queen who rules over everything? I am shooketh. EDIT: y'know... I was joking about it being royal propaganda... But then it had to go all "you commoners shouldn't be so greedy and want all my riches" off the bat. 0__0
I mean hey, the land was changed into ice cream, so it's technically new land found by her subjects, thus belonging to her. Any inhabitants that may or may not have survived the process are now illegally living on her land, and Spike is an illegal alien trying to consume and destroy her land. Obviously he must be stopped
Hell you? I just now learned from you lol. Up until now I thought it meant someone had a fort and they were gonna sleep in it for a night . I’m so dumb .
The buck teeth are really throwing me off, to the point that despite the surrounding design, my brain keeps insisting that he's supposed to be a beaver or something.
I’m wondering if the ponyfeathers thing is an attempted play on “horsefeathers”, which was an older British saying that’s basically going “that’s stupid” or “I don’t believe you”.
@@AllisonPregler But only in the UK...they obviously don't know the proper usage of the word it's based on. Horsefeathers originated in the US in the 1920's.
when i looked after kids i got them playing with ponies and dinos 2 weeks later there were 3 generations of intermarried dino pony families and the grandparent dinos fought off a evil croc who spied on the kids
The UK Transformers comics of the time also used US only toys as characters, because they were 50/50 reprints of the American comics mixed with British ones. We readers knew there were toys that we just weren't going to get, Devastator, Swoop, Shockwave, and so-on were just out of reach. Every so often the letters page of the UK comic, hosted by a transformer in a weird in-universe joke, quite often explained that the UK market was too small for the toys to all come out. Which sucked.
This kind of reminds me of how there were UK-specific Marvel comics with their own stuff going on: for instance, their version of the Transformers had a robotic bounty-hunter antihero named Death's Head who eventually spun off into his own comic and had a crossover with Doctor Who. So in Marvel UK, there's a character who had a run-in with Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor immediately after having an adventure with the Transformers. (He was originally Transformer-sized, but the Doctor shrank him down to human scale using the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator! The Seventh Doctor always was a bit of a gangster.)
UK Marvel also did the comics for ThunderCats in the 80's as well. Some of the original comics were based on episodes or just a re-issues of the the North American Star Comics ThunderCats line. But the Star line only lasted 24 issues, while UK Marvel made 129 issues. Like MLP and Transformers, the UK Marvel line kinda did its own thing with stories. =)
oh so good to see someone diving into these comics! i would be VERY interested in a part 2, these comics get even more insane with the plots later on, gotta love how a solid chunk of them are just "the ponies organize a nice party but then interdimensional demons show up and force them into slave labor and they must find a way to escape". everyone always talks about the one with applejack and the wizard, but theres also the ice cream witch one which was super bonkers.
I DO want to see more of these! My friend in Finland had these too, We used to play with ponies and He-man figures in our own little world where they co-existed! (I am the He-Man guy, she had the ponies) this brings back so many memories...
That's basically the way a lot of those toyline tie-in comics in the UK worked, I think,, including the oddly high issue count. Transformers UK, e.g., was released weekly.
UK Marvel's ThunderCats line had 129 issues over 3 years. They published weekly issues, compared to Star Comics, the North American ThunderCats publisher, who published 24 issues in the same 3 years due to publishing bimonthly (before switching to monthly). Considering the amount of content UK Marvel was pumping out, and the frequency, it's no wonder they had to get a little creative with stories.
I also saw the format of these "comics" again thanks to Chuboh covering TV Toyland on Twitch, where each panel is captioned with a whole paragraph of prose rather than trying to fit dialogue into the art itself.
@@BagOfMagicFood It is rather closer to a compressed picture book than a traditional comic, but I imagine that either a) it was a lot faster than trying to do traditional comic book storytelling or b) there was an art style mandate from Hasbro that would have made it too difficult to do otherwise.
@@jonothanthrace1530 It also allowed the writers to change up the context of the artwork at the last minute if they felt the need to! I remember speculation that one issue's "Evil Orange Empress Queen" was probably a rewrite of a friendly character to add conflict from just looking at the art.
9:51 Had a Piper Halliwell flashback with the way you said "The Flying Dragon" (who killed a bunch of people in San Francisco because of a negligent mother).
13:46 - I mean... it's weird for the babies to be the children of those characters too, since they're literally just named the same as their parent but with "baby" in front and look like little clones. I feel like the most sensible idea behind them would just be "they're the baby version of those grown-up ponies", but I guess the creators wanted them to be separate characters!
This is like the Wonder Girl/Wonder Tot situation, isn't it? "Wait, is this Wonder Woman when she was a girl, or is it somebody else? We forgot. And since we're writing the stories, now you'll be confused too."
Glad you're making videos. The wholesomeness of anything you are interested in is what adds to the feel good factor of your comedy. I really like the Swan Princess videos you did for example, your funny noises and faces make it funny and relaxing.
I’m from Sweden and we had My Little Pony sticker books and they were awesome. You would buy the stickers in packs like baseball cards and each sticker had a number that matched a frame in the sticker book. I collected all the stickers and filled my sticker book. It was one of my crowning achievements as a young child.
Im a British millennial who was born in 88 and i grew up with both G1 and G2 there was also that cassette tape with stories and music, even the silly pony applejack
I love how Allison's content can be summarized as i found this obscure media from the past and realized how bonkers it was! Now let's review it! And i love every minute of it.
Allison, you and your collection broke the camels back. Ive always wanted G1 pony toys after watching the both of the G1/2 TV shows. Parents denied me. After watching your video...bam...ordered my own pony. 😂 Pretty dang stoked.
0:00 hey that's what I came for but I stayed for your enthusiasm so I'm happy either way as long as you're sharing something your happy about (or bewildered by that flavor of schadenfreude works too) .
My elder sister (just over 1 year older than me) had My Little Ponies and we used to play together a lot, so I know the ponies very well! She had the castle (including Majesty), as well as the grooming parlour set and a ballet/dance school set - the front flipped open and you could stick ponies onto three turntables and make them twirl by rolling a gear at the side. She had a huge number of the ponies, and even I had one - they did lines of "family" ponies, so there was mum, dad, sister and brother, and I think mine was something like Boy Celebrations - although I think they all were sold for pennies when my parents downsized 15 years ago. My sister and I played together with all our toys (and we had a lot of aunts and uncles, and were very lucky to have a lot of toys), so it was a whirlwind of Lego, MLP, transformers, He-Man, Barbie and Sindy dolls (who would go on dates with Action Man and B A Baracus dolls, Thundercats and Key-pers (amazed if anybody else remembers those). It's a nice trip down memory lane, thanks Allison ☺️
Since you mentioned Gen 1 Ponies not having much personality, I think that was actually by design. The idea was probably to leave them uncharacterised enough so that young girls could imagine their personalities for them, only having enough characterisation to get them started
This was delightful to watch, I'd love to see you cover more issues of this haha! Also extra nice to see looks back to the older my little pony generations from more of an appreciative/positive stance since during my brief stint into like gen4 fandom almost every mention of the older gen I saw had a very negative and mocking stance, and as someone who had some mild nostalgia towards the old stuff I wasn't fan of all the negativity.
It seems like not letting the Sea Ponies stand on their own would greatly limit their play value. Like, give them a molded base, I don't think the little kids would have minded! Anyway, this was a very cute video and I hope to see more MLP stuff from you.
The UK had a lot of it's own comic series for things - we had our own version of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics by Fleetway, which were massively different to the Archie ones and even to the adventure games themselves
Definitely like to see more of these. Reminds me of the mini comics that used to come with action figures. The stories and backgrounds for the characters were all over the place, and rarely matched the cartoons.
My dad sold all my ponies at a jumble sale when I was about 13 or 14 and it was devastating to me. I loved him, he wasn't a bad guy, but goddamn that was something he shouldn't have done! I feel people here will understand.
Wow, that waterfall playset commercial unlocked memories. I was very much not into MLP as a kid, but that playset looked so incredible it forced me to reconsider. Unfortunately, yeah, it seems to have disappeared from local stores pretty quickly.
Such a shame Leonard Nimoy never voiced a Pony. G4 would've been a perfect setting, since they already had John de Lancie, and William Shatner at one point.
The part about the comic featuring characters who weren't even sold in the UK reminds me of how Simon Furman, the main writer for the UK Transformers comics, said Swoop was his favorite character despite him not being available there.
That artwork is giving me flashbacks! Although given that my sister collected MLP when we children, I probably read it back in the day! The concept of the title page being part of the story also triggered a vague half memory...I wonder if any other comics in the UK did that?
Thanks for making me regret getting rid of my MLP comics. Shaking my fist at my preteen self for being too old for them. I was obsessed! Got the comic every fortnight (or two weeks!) Even was in the fan club! Some of the stories were quite dark (the twinkle eyed ponies for example) and some of the story frames for recycled for new stories later on. Pony feathers was used a lot. Still have some of my ponies, though years in the loft have not been kind to them. Thanks for giving this 44 year old a nostalgia trip😁
My first encounter with the word "fortnight" was The Simpsons when they had to hire Milhouse a tutor, so I was expecting a clip of that. Also, I subscribed long before the Trek stuff, been a fan of Allison's going back to times we don't talk about...
The Transformers UK had a similar problem when it came to featuring toys that weren't actually sold there. Let's just say I was pissed that the Predacons and Constructions weren't available in Ireland - until imports and overseas shipping became a thing.
Yep, Swoop was the only Dinobot not sold in the UK (due to stricter safety laws and how notorious fragile his toy was) yet he easily got the most characterisation and storylines out of all the Dinobots bar Grimlock. Fortress Maximus failed safety checks too (probably tipped over and crushed a kid, I dunno). Shockwave and Omega Supreme's toys were already licensed to non-Hasbro companies so came out as non-Transformers. Roadbuster and Whirl were part of the Wreckers even though we didn't get their toys either. Of course there are toys of all these characters in UK these days and hey even Death's Head is getting a Marvel Legends figure this year for SDCC :)
Fortnight is a contraction of "14 nights"! Also Comic Spike is kind of horrifying (and was presumably laterr drawn and quartered for High Ice Cream Treason)
Man, I was hoping this was going to be another Marvel comic like GI Joe and Transformers and share continuity with them. There would be something infinitely hilarious about Ponies fighting Cobra.
Wind Whistler is one of my favorites too, alongside Fizzy and G3 Pinkie Pie. I love all the pre-G4 eras of MLP with the exception of Tales. I also don't really care about G4 and G5. Speaking of crazy lore, Allison, I would love to see you talk about Will Vinton Claymation one day, specifically Adventures Of Mark Twain, Claymation Christmas, California Raisins Meet The Raisins/Raisins Sold Out, The Noid commercials, Claymation Comedy Of Horror, and Claymation Easter.
I had a cassette tape of the Applejack and Lickety Split themes as a kid. I ordered them from the magazine. I also had two random small ponies from the magazine. I remember this vividly because I sure AF couldn't afford regular ponies. I think the tape might also have had a story based around Applejack and Lickety Split but I don't remember it other than one likes apples and one likes ice cream.
It would have been nice if the comics had been available here in the US, but I was happy with the cartoon as a kid, and I think I would have preferred it even if the comics had been available. From what I know of them, the craziest comic is supposed to be the origin story for the Twinkle-Eyed ponies.
Oh yeah, we were much had characters appear in comics whom you could not get in the UK or Europe, in other franchises too. We had Swoop from the Dinobots for example who was banned due to his super eye-pokey wings and beak.
I would love to hear more of those comics, never seen those before! Awesome to see stories including Lemon Drop who was my favourite pony as a kid and she never was in the cartoons (if I remember right).
This was surprisingly delightful. If you decide to make a regular thing of going through this odd pony comic continuity issue by issue, I'll be happy to watch along. I was going to explain the "ponyfeathers/horsefeathers" thing, but it seems like the rest of the comments have that covered.
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Can't believe Spock has a ponysona.
Yeah. TAKE THAT rule 85 creators!
Well Q has Discord in Gen 4
The needs of the pony outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. =p
Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, hers was the most... Pony
Pony and pony, what is pony?
"If you subscribed for Star Trek reviews"
Baywatching actually.
But I'll watch whatever, its always pretty good ;)
The UK version had a queen who rules over everything? I am shooketh.
EDIT: y'know... I was joking about it being royal propaganda...
But then it had to go all "you commoners shouldn't be so greedy and want all my riches" off the bat. 0__0
I mean hey, the land was changed into ice cream, so it's technically new land found by her subjects, thus belonging to her. Any inhabitants that may or may not have survived the process are now illegally living on her land, and Spike is an illegal alien trying to consume and destroy her land. Obviously he must be stopped
Uk comic Spike's 360 degree, thousand yard stare will haunt my nightmares tonight.
The original Fluttershy...
I wonder if Allison's My Little Pony collection is bigger than Phelous' Ghostbuster collection?
Brilliant question ❤
...horses (and, presumably, ponies) are lactose intolerant in adulthood, so making a bunch of icecream is a curious power for a pony to have...
she's a serial killer
Simple, it's dairy-free ice cream! You can make a creamy alternative IRL using coconut cream and soft tofu as a base
I love Spike's dumb little face. It's so cute
Growing up, it took me a little too long to put together that "fortnight" is short for "fourteen nights".
I was today years old...
Oh my God that explains so much
Hell you? I just now learned from you lol. Up until now I thought it meant someone had a fort and they were gonna sleep in it for a night . I’m so dumb .
WHAT?!
I'd forgotten how derpy the original Spike was.
I could have gone my whole life without seeing it and probably been happier.
he looks like a bootleg of himself.
The buck teeth are really throwing me off, to the point that despite the surrounding design, my brain keeps insisting that he's supposed to be a beaver or something.
Came for the Trek, stayed for the ponies. Gotta love 80s products.
To be fair, "weird alternate universe mirror babies" are par for the course in comics
I’m wondering if the ponyfeathers thing is an attempted play on “horsefeathers”, which was an older British saying that’s basically going “that’s stupid” or “I don’t believe you”.
Maybe, but it definitely is used for positive exclamations in the comic as well!
@@AllisonPregler But only in the UK...they obviously don't know the proper usage of the word it's based on. Horsefeathers originated in the US in the 1920's.
it's also the term for the long hair some horses have on their ankles, iirc
Sorry, I didn't scroll down far enough to see you had already made the same comment. Far more politely too.
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Duck Soup seems kind of cruel name for a duck, but I guess it's still better than a puppet sheep called Lamb Chop.
Or Mutton.
when i looked after kids i got them playing with ponies and dinos
2 weeks later there were 3 generations of intermarried dino pony families and the grandparent dinos fought off a evil croc who spied on the kids
Sounds exactly like the kind of games i played as a child
Typical for kids 😂
MLP is a goldmine of oddities.
“Pony Feathers!” sounds like Pony-speak for “Aw shit!”
the ponys gently falling over *boop*
"Pony feathers" has got to be the strangest exclamation in children's media. Right?
DUCKTALES '87: Oh, duck pajamas! That's nothin'!
The UK Transformers comics of the time also used US only toys as characters, because they were 50/50 reprints of the American comics mixed with British ones.
We readers knew there were toys that we just weren't going to get, Devastator, Swoop, Shockwave, and so-on were just out of reach.
Every so often the letters page of the UK comic, hosted by a transformer in a weird in-universe joke, quite often explained that the UK market was too small for the toys to all come out.
Which sucked.
This kind of reminds me of how there were UK-specific Marvel comics with their own stuff going on: for instance, their version of the Transformers had a robotic bounty-hunter antihero named Death's Head who eventually spun off into his own comic and had a crossover with Doctor Who. So in Marvel UK, there's a character who had a run-in with Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor immediately after having an adventure with the Transformers.
(He was originally Transformer-sized, but the Doctor shrank him down to human scale using the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator! The Seventh Doctor always was a bit of a gangster.)
UK Marvel also did the comics for ThunderCats in the 80's as well. Some of the original comics were based on episodes or just a re-issues of the the North American Star Comics ThunderCats line. But the Star line only lasted 24 issues, while UK Marvel made 129 issues. Like MLP and Transformers, the UK Marvel line kinda did its own thing with stories. =)
There's a Captain Britain
Death's Head finally getting a Marvel Legends figure for SDCC this year. :)
oh so good to see someone diving into these comics! i would be VERY interested in a part 2, these comics get even more insane with the plots later on, gotta love how a solid chunk of them are just "the ponies organize a nice party but then interdimensional demons show up and force them into slave labor and they must find a way to escape". everyone always talks about the one with applejack and the wizard, but theres also the ice cream witch one which was super bonkers.
"It's become quite a problem"
I DO want to see more of these! My friend in Finland had these too, We used to play with ponies and He-man figures in our own little world where they co-existed! (I am the He-Man guy, she had the ponies) this brings back so many memories...
A...Hasbro-verse, if you will...
@@Rhiorrha but he-man is mattel. :O
I love that derpy face that spike has. Definitely the annoying little brother insert.
I am on my hands and knees begging for more pony content. This was so fun lmao
Good to see you back at a table solo talking about media.
14:44 "They're just saddled with these kids now"
Eyyyy, I see what you did there!
"Pony feathers" feels like gadzooks to me
Mean ponies bullying a toddler. That's pretty British.
So Very British.
That's basically the way a lot of those toyline tie-in comics in the UK worked, I think,, including the oddly high issue count. Transformers UK, e.g., was released weekly.
If only Death's Head had shown up here, too.
UK Marvel's ThunderCats line had 129 issues over 3 years. They published weekly issues, compared to Star Comics, the North American ThunderCats publisher, who published 24 issues in the same 3 years due to publishing bimonthly (before switching to monthly).
Considering the amount of content UK Marvel was pumping out, and the frequency, it's no wonder they had to get a little creative with stories.
I also saw the format of these "comics" again thanks to Chuboh covering TV Toyland on Twitch, where each panel is captioned with a whole paragraph of prose rather than trying to fit dialogue into the art itself.
@@BagOfMagicFood It is rather closer to a compressed picture book than a traditional comic, but I imagine that either a) it was a lot faster than trying to do traditional comic book storytelling or b) there was an art style mandate from Hasbro that would have made it too difficult to do otherwise.
@@jonothanthrace1530 It also allowed the writers to change up the context of the artwork at the last minute if they felt the need to! I remember speculation that one issue's "Evil Orange Empress Queen" was probably a rewrite of a friendly character to add conflict from just looking at the art.
Figures the British MLP comics would make the Queen Pony the head of everything.
Princess Celestia before there was Princess Celestia.
@kgjames3603 yes but at what cost, the monarchy costs the government millions of jangles a year.
I remember finding that comic book in a charity shop in my 20s
I love the Lisa Frank vibe you have going with the color filters. It's like you're posting from a middle school notebook.
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My Wife and I had a blast! Please do more of these reviews when you can!
9:51 Had a Piper Halliwell flashback with the way you said "The Flying Dragon" (who killed a bunch of people in San Francisco because of a negligent mother).
But she couldn't bind his powers....for reasons!"
13:46 - I mean... it's weird for the babies to be the children of those characters too, since they're literally just named the same as their parent but with "baby" in front and look like little clones.
I feel like the most sensible idea behind them would just be "they're the baby version of those grown-up ponies", but I guess the creators wanted them to be separate characters!
This is like the Wonder Girl/Wonder Tot situation, isn't it? "Wait, is this Wonder Woman when she was a girl, or is it somebody else? We forgot. And since we're writing the stories, now you'll be confused too."
In the UK, in the late 80s, it was common knowledge that my little pony were skinny and boney, fell in the river and turned into liver.
That's a VERY neon set.
Glad you're making videos. The wholesomeness of anything you are interested in is what adds to the feel good factor of your comedy. I really like the Swan Princess videos you did for example, your funny noises and faces make it funny and relaxing.
I’m from Sweden and we had My Little Pony sticker books and they were awesome. You would buy the stickers in packs like baseball cards and each sticker had a number that matched a frame in the sticker book. I collected all the stickers and filled my sticker book. It was one of my crowning achievements as a young child.
Im a British millennial who was born in 88 and i grew up with both G1 and G2 there was also that cassette tape with stories and music, even the silly pony applejack
My partner and I were in hysterics watching this. I wish this video was 3 hours long. please make more
I like how much this reads like someone's cracked-out fanfiction about their favowite pony Majesty and how much they hate dum-dum Spike.
This is the content I wanted to see. I hope downtown julie brown horse makes an appearance in the comics.
I love how Allison's content can be summarized as i found this obscure media from the past and realized how bonkers it was! Now let's review it!
And i love every minute of it.
Allison, you and your collection broke the camels back. Ive always wanted G1 pony toys after watching the both of the G1/2 TV shows. Parents denied me. After watching your video...bam...ordered my own pony. 😂 Pretty dang stoked.
Yay!
0:00 hey that's what I came for but I stayed for your enthusiasm so I'm happy either way as long as you're sharing something your happy about (or bewildered by that flavor of schadenfreude works too) .
My elder sister (just over 1 year older than me) had My Little Ponies and we used to play together a lot, so I know the ponies very well! She had the castle (including Majesty), as well as the grooming parlour set and a ballet/dance school set - the front flipped open and you could stick ponies onto three turntables and make them twirl by rolling a gear at the side. She had a huge number of the ponies, and even I had one - they did lines of "family" ponies, so there was mum, dad, sister and brother, and I think mine was something like Boy Celebrations - although I think they all were sold for pennies when my parents downsized 15 years ago.
My sister and I played together with all our toys (and we had a lot of aunts and uncles, and were very lucky to have a lot of toys), so it was a whirlwind of Lego, MLP, transformers, He-Man, Barbie and Sindy dolls (who would go on dates with Action Man and B A Baracus dolls, Thundercats and Key-pers (amazed if anybody else remembers those). It's a nice trip down memory lane, thanks Allison ☺️
I haven’t been this tickled pink by a MLP review since TLR😂
Since you mentioned Gen 1 Ponies not having much personality, I think that was actually by design. The idea was probably to leave them uncharacterised enough so that young girls could imagine their personalities for them, only having enough characterisation to get them started
my favourite issue is when Lickity -split and Bunny Rabbit have a rap battle
This was delightful to watch, I'd love to see you cover more issues of this haha!
Also extra nice to see looks back to the older my little pony generations from more of an appreciative/positive stance since during my brief stint into like gen4 fandom almost every mention of the older gen I saw had a very negative and mocking stance, and as someone who had some mild nostalgia towards the old stuff I wasn't fan of all the negativity.
Thanks for the pony content! I am definitely up for more UK pony comic reviews.
I just watched the my little pony tales review last night so this is some excellent timing
I'd definitely be down to watch more of these. They're just so nutty and out there. It's great
Majesty is Mitch's ponysona, confirmed
Zordon: Too much pink energy is dangerous.
So UK ponies had a Celestia....
I really relate to the pony collection of embarrassing size...
The pony smiles with rage.
yes, please keep showing us more about the comics...
It seems like not letting the Sea Ponies stand on their own would greatly limit their play value. Like, give them a molded base, I don't think the little kids would have minded! Anyway, this was a very cute video and I hope to see more MLP stuff from you.
PLEASE do as many of these as your interest holds for!
I used to watch your videos back in the "Thatguywiththeglasses" era. It is wild that I'm only now rediscovering your content!
Your My Little Pony Tales video is something still watch often.
The UK had a lot of it's own comic series for things - we had our own version of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics by Fleetway, which were massively different to the Archie ones and even to the adventure games themselves
Definitely like to see more of these. Reminds me of the mini comics that used to come with action figures. The stories and backgrounds for the characters were all over the place, and rarely matched the cartoons.
My dad sold all my ponies at a jumble sale when I was about 13 or 14 and it was devastating to me. I loved him, he wasn't a bad guy, but goddamn that was something he shouldn't have done! I feel people here will understand.
Imagine if MLP did an afterschool special with a pony with a drink problem called Mint Julep
Can't wait till you get to Applejack and the Jewel Eye ponies comic.
I’m down for more UK pony story time. Heard a bit about these on EQD and they sound ridiculous.
Alison getting mad at the pony for falling over is delightful
Seaponies?! SEAPONIES! And I thought Star Wars had some weird creatures!
Wow, that waterfall playset commercial unlocked memories. I was very much not into MLP as a kid, but that playset looked so incredible it forced me to reconsider. Unfortunately, yeah, it seems to have disappeared from local stores pretty quickly.
Such a shame Leonard Nimoy never voiced a Pony. G4 would've been a perfect setting, since they already had John de Lancie, and William Shatner at one point.
I started to say "He's so serious, he'd probably consider it beneath him"...then I remembered that music video he did dedicated to Bilbo Baggins.
The part about the comic featuring characters who weren't even sold in the UK reminds me of how Simon Furman, the main writer for the UK Transformers comics, said Swoop was his favorite character despite him not being available there.
That artwork is giving me flashbacks!
Although given that my sister collected MLP when we children, I probably read it back in the day! The concept of the title page being part of the story also triggered a vague half memory...I wonder if any other comics in the UK did that?
Thanks for making me regret getting rid of my MLP comics. Shaking my fist at my preteen self for being too old for them. I was obsessed! Got the comic every fortnight (or two weeks!) Even was in the fan club! Some of the stories were quite dark (the twinkle eyed ponies for example) and some of the story frames for recycled for new stories later on. Pony feathers was used a lot. Still have some of my ponies, though years in the loft have not been kind to them. Thanks for giving this 44 year old a nostalgia trip😁
I would love more MLP vidoes from you.
The lighting and colors gave me diabetes and several cavities. Very on-brand.
My first encounter with the word "fortnight" was The Simpsons when they had to hire Milhouse a tutor, so I was expecting a clip of that. Also, I subscribed long before the Trek stuff, been a fan of Allison's going back to times we don't talk about...
more please - adore the juxtaposition of adorable drawn ponies vs ataxic and dead 17:35 real life ponies
At kiddos sport event and while I come here for Star Trek I love your personality; so I enjoy even my little pony info from you
The Transformers UK had a similar problem when it came to featuring toys that weren't actually sold there. Let's just say I was pissed that the Predacons and Constructions weren't available in Ireland - until imports and overseas shipping became a thing.
Yep, Swoop was the only Dinobot not sold in the UK (due to stricter safety laws and how notorious fragile his toy was) yet he easily got the most characterisation and storylines out of all the Dinobots bar Grimlock. Fortress Maximus failed safety checks too (probably tipped over and crushed a kid, I dunno). Shockwave and Omega Supreme's toys were already licensed to non-Hasbro companies so came out as non-Transformers. Roadbuster and Whirl were part of the Wreckers even though we didn't get their toys either. Of course there are toys of all these characters in UK these days and hey even Death's Head is getting a Marvel Legends figure this year for SDCC :)
Fortnight is a contraction of "14 nights"! Also Comic Spike is kind of horrifying (and was presumably laterr drawn and quartered for High Ice Cream Treason)
I'm watching this inebriated as hell.
I don't feel like watching this sober would be any different.
I would love more videos on these comics, as well as a video going through your collection would be cool!
Man, I was hoping this was going to be another Marvel comic like GI Joe and Transformers and share continuity with them.
There would be something infinitely hilarious about Ponies fighting Cobra.
0:03 I subscribed for the Dr. Crest Saga.
It’s been a minute, huh?
RIP Dr. Crest
@@AllisonPregler Did she die on the way back to her home planet?
I actually used to have almost every 80s MLP. They "disappeared" in an estate sale that my family had before I could get a chance to claim anything.
Wind Whistler is one of my favorites too, alongside Fizzy and G3 Pinkie Pie. I love all the pre-G4 eras of MLP with the exception of Tales. I also don't really care about G4 and G5. Speaking of crazy lore, Allison, I would love to see you talk about Will Vinton Claymation one day, specifically Adventures Of Mark Twain, Claymation Christmas, California Raisins Meet The Raisins/Raisins Sold Out, The Noid commercials, Claymation Comedy Of Horror, and Claymation Easter.
I had a cassette tape of the Applejack and Lickety Split themes as a kid. I ordered them from the magazine. I also had two random small ponies from the magazine. I remember this vividly because I sure AF couldn't afford regular ponies.
I think the tape might also have had a story based around Applejack and Lickety Split but I don't remember it other than one likes apples and one likes ice cream.
It would have been nice if the comics had been available here in the US, but I was happy with the cartoon as a kid, and I think I would have preferred it even if the comics had been available. From what I know of them, the craziest comic is supposed to be the origin story for the Twinkle-Eyed ponies.
Another excellent video! I really liked the lighting and color palette you used. It's very complimentary IMO.
"what a magical time to be alive! In 1985..." That hits Brits like a tonne of bricks! Margaret Thatcher and such... Just an amazing juxtaposition tbh
This was good. I love your Star Trek and Baywatch videos, but I could see these becoming a new favourite :)
Oh yeah, we were much had characters appear in comics whom you could not get in the UK or Europe, in other franchises too. We had Swoop from the Dinobots for example who was banned due to his super eye-pokey wings and beak.
I like to think that Spike was once Barney's conjoined twin and then was banished to attic and fed a bucket of fisheads weekly
I would love to hear more of those comics, never seen those before! Awesome to see stories including Lemon Drop who was my favourite pony as a kid and she never was in the cartoons (if I remember right).
This was surprisingly delightful. If you decide to make a regular thing of going through this odd pony comic continuity issue by issue, I'll be happy to watch along.
I was going to explain the "ponyfeathers/horsefeathers" thing, but it seems like the rest of the comments have that covered.
This was so cute, no notes, more please