Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-71.237.84.145-20111105115530/@comment-75.110.141.94-20111106161930

Its actually a trademark issue. Trademarks are for names, copyrights are for ideas. Hasbro knows how to work around those. They've been doing it with Transformers for years. They might not want a trademark conflict through out the entire show for marketing reasons, but for a single episode they might end up being usable.

Also Hasbro, with the Transformers, has also been known to clear names previously unavailable. For example Ratchet and Bumblebee were unusable for a good number of years. Shockwave, Bluestreak, Ravage and Hot Rod were in similar spots and now are usable again. A trademark issue is NOT set in stone, it can be cleared up. They've done similar for GI Joe and just worked out things with Jem so they can release toys for that franchise again. Its not some impossible dream that a G1 pony or two might show up.

Not to say that I believe its Firefly, just saying its not an impossibility.