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My Little Pony was first released in 1982.
The colorful ponies of the first generation, or gen1, were popular
though the 80's. The ponies were released in all colors of the rainbow
and each pony had his or her unique symbol. Over 600 ponies were
released and some with special features like a so-soft fur, dancing
ponies, ponies that could move their legs etc. etc. There were Earth
ponies, unicorns and pegasi, but also very special ponies as sea
ponies or flutter ponies. My Little Pony even had it's very own
feature length movie. The first line of My Little Pony was
discontinued in the early 90's.
In 1997 the second generation of My Little Pony was released. These
ponies were quite different from their ancestors in that they were
skinnier and smaller. Even though they were first released in America
and Europe, they were soon discontinued on the American continent and
only available in Europe were they continued to be quite popular. Over
150 second generation ponies were released before they were
discontinued in Europe as well in 2003, in favor of the new, third
generation ponies, even though you might find some gen2's here and
there still in European toy stores.
The third generation ponies were first released in spring 2003 and
resemble the first generation ponies more than the second generation
did. The ponies were chubbier and had big, round eyes. They have a
magnet in their hoof to activate their playsets and have their symbol
on one side of their body only instead of both sides like gen1 and
gen2 had. In 6 months Hasbro sold almost four million of these ponies,
a nice indication of their popularity. Gen3 is currently being sold
all over the world and Hasbro has lots and lots of nice future plans
for this generation!
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