Talk:Rainbow Dash/@comment-25620871-20141222030825/@comment-2170890-20150126131032

General Firefly had nothing (intentionally) to do with G1 Firefly, sadly. She was named after Lauren's screen name (which is a good thing, in it's own way, because it's nice that they still acknowledge her), but they never intended it to be a G1 shout-out to my knowledge (even though Lauren chose her screen name because of G1 Firefly.

I and many others are actually unconvinced their was ever a copyright problem with the names at all. It was most likely just Hasbro not wanting them to be used so simply didn't allow Lauren to use them. They probably wanted to keep using names that were still being used in their advertising and marketing rather than names they hadn't used for a long time. This can be supported when you consider that Applejack is the one name they left alone, and it is also the most likely to be targeted for copyright.