Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-5532318-20130314045104/@comment-5288784-20130314123237

Honestly, I have no particular preference. I know, those are fairly different from each other, but I got used to both of them.

When I saw the first one, I thought about this as some kind of incognito mission into human world, to learn about them etc. If that was the case, Rainbow needed her skin tone readjusted (and maybe Rarity) but it might have worked.

When I saw the second one, my first thought was: "well, I didn't expect it to evolve THAT way". I didn't hated it for being less realistic though. I began thinking: "why would they (if we assume, that the second design is closer to the final one) decide them to look like that".

The reason might be fairly simple: just like MLP, EqG is designed to sell toys and these toys might be released before series' debut. Those toys might have to defend themselves for a while, before the new shows comes to help sell it better. How those toys were supposed to sell well if those were just "regular" dolls.

Sure, those would not just be "regular" to all customers, but Hasbro is aiming at appeasing the wants of new target consumers and some of them might not be familiar with MLP (as unlikely as it seems, there are people, who hadn't heard about FiM yet).

Knowing well of "Monster High" popularity, Hasbro decided to forsake some human traits to make them unique-looking. Honestly, have you ever seen anthropomorfised ponies on the shop's shelf? No? Exactly!