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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 7681507" data-attributes="member: 8461">A minor nitpick, but it doesn't necessarily have to be "toys" per se; the only money I've spent on Pony-related materials are the Ponyfinder RPG stuff...but I suspect that you meant the franchise as a whole, rather than the merchandise.As someone who does consider themselves to be a brony (even if not very much of one, in comparison to the people who go to the conventions, buy the comic books, etc.), the reason I like the show is that it's both interesting and entertaining...nothing more and nothing less.Why is that? Well, it's a combination of things. For one thing, the show has just enough internal world-building and mythology to draw my interest; the idea of a world where the weather has to be manually constructed, for example, and their leaders being the only ones who can keep the day-night cycle going are the sort of thing that I think would stoke any gamer's imagination with regards to what sorts of ramifications that would have on a society. Little things like that pop up all over the place.The central cast members are also given enough personality and characterization that they come across as more than two-dimensional characters. Having one of the main ponies be obsessed with fashion trends might seem shallow at first glance, but having her take that and channel it into not just a job as a clothing designer, but also run her own business with multiple retail outlets, comes across as a smart rejection of what could otherwise be a tired old cliché.It helps that the show also has a fairly good split between slice-of-life and adventure stories (about 2:1), which helps it to avoid feeling like it's pigeon-holed into a particular genre. Plus a lot of little things, such as the surprisingly-catchy musical numbers or various in-jokes and references (e.g. the "Lebowski pony," etc.) help to make the show simply be fun to watch.Also, once every blue moon, the show will completely step outside of itself and do something completely unexpected, such as have the characters engage in a Dragon Ball Z-style smackdown:[video=youtube;bc25SG294EE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc25SG294EE[/video]How's that for superheroic action?</blockquote>

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