Talk:Lauren Faust/@comment-208.157.172.163-20120801004612/@comment-2170890-20120801102621

1. She's not here, but I'm not going to tell you where she is. She gets very little respect from actual Bronies, so she doesn't need hate from non-bronies.

2. They are two different characters - they have the same name, and that's it. When you make a new version of something (remake doesn't really fit when it's your own storyline - even though that is the term) you can choose how you want old characters to be - I understand if you prefer the third generation, but no one is a ruined version of anyone - there just different versions.

3. The first episode and a few others where based on fanfictions Lauren did when she was very young, while watching the first generation, so it would have contained G1 ponies, which was the plan for ''Friendship is Magic. ''She wasn't allowed to use them, so she used G3 ponies, but gave them pieces of her favorite G1 ponies' personalites she liked while keeping some of the G3 personalites that she liked. She didn't grow up with G3, but respected its fans.

4. She had already made Rarity the fashion pony, and the reason was because she replaced Sparkler in her fanfictions, and that was her interpetation of Sparkler. Another pony that needed to be replaced was (sadly) Firefly, who was shown to be fearless "gets things done" pony. Lauren looked at the "Dash" part of Rainbow Dash's name and thought it would be a nice alternative meaning for the name. In G3 it was because she was "dashing" so it's an alternative. It's like how Fluttershy was never shy in G3 - her name was a pun in the fact that she was a photographer (it's an anagram). I think the litteral "Dash" works, but I understand the old version as well.

5. You're exagerating about the fanbase - I find it to be a pretty even fanbase of age and gender. The reason so many guys like FIM/G4 is because they are now old enough to know that just because something contains ponies doesn't mean it's just for girls. My Little Pony was a TV Series for both genders when it came out (the show, not the toys), but when more girls watched it they started to soften it (it was the 80s-90s so things were more stereotyped in media), but it never got in your face girly until G3 (though part of me still likes G3). G4 basically attempted to take all the best parts of each generations so the guys were old enough to give it a go, and realize that My Little Pony was hardly ever girly.