Talk:The Crystal Empire - Part 1/@comment-108.202.170.31-20120930202120/@comment-4424419-20121001132940

I wonder if it happened like this:

Retail buyers (not end consumers) tell Hasbro, "Okay, if Celestia is white, we'll buy 500 units, but if she's pink, we'll buy 50.000!" So Celestia ends up being pink.

Fans clamor for a show-accurate Celestia. Retail buyers perhaps don't quite agree.

Hasbro then makes a compromise. Hasbro is allowed to sell a white Celestia toy, but only if they also make another pink alicorn to sell at the same time. (Retail buyers are somehow convinced that "girls only ever want pink toys".) In the name of making progressive strides, Hasbro agrees. They make a white Celestia. The also come up with Princess Cadence, and figure out a way to work her into the cartoon.

Despite our fears, Season 3 turns out to be mind-blowingly awesome as Princess Cadence and Shining Armor get more character development and turn out to be really awesome (my guess). Princess Celestia and Luna also get a lot more backstory, and songs (also my guess). Mane six still as awesome as ever. Both white Celestia and pink Cadence figures FLY off the shelves, because our love for the show utterly EXPLODES!

Hasbro then makes a point to retail buyers. "Fans and little girls don't care if a toy is pink or not, They do care if the show is really good, though!" (Again, my guess)

I have no facts or evidence for this, but I'm wondering if this is more true than anything else out there.