Talk:Power Ponies/@comment-19871-20131210225105/@comment-2170890-20131214235637

That was a minor problem I had with G1, though I got why they did it. It was a shame G1 was so quick to remove characters completely so they could show more ponies (again understandable - even though no generation was 100% a toy comercial, they are all hoping kids will buy them, including FIM) when they could have just taken them out temporarily until they were needed again or pushed them into the background until they're needed again. (while they focus on the ponies they "need" to show now). G3 did better in this respect for me; there were still ponies that weren't used as much as they could have been, but while they still introduced new ponies to keep up with the toyline they still kept the old ponies involved, and they still got storylines - it really seemed like a real world (with colorful ponies) in G3, just because a certain character wasn't in focus anymore, didn't mean they just dissapeard, at least not that much (it still happened, Kimono and Lilly Lightly spring to mind here...

The ironic thing is; while G1 tried to rush things a little in order to include as many ponies as it could - not everypony was used; there are many ponies that never appeared in any episode whatsoever, and the same applies to all generations (G2 especially as it had no show, and Tails was not it - so nopony got an episode).

I would have loved Firefly to have been in more episodes - she is awesome in my opinion, but also because there should have been more of an obvious bond with her and Megan, for reasons you mentioned. Also, it was just one episode.