My Little Pony: The Complete Series

If you'd told me two years ago that I'd be a fan of My Little Pony, we would've had words. But once I took the plunge into FiM, I learned a really valuable lesson about passing judgement on a show before seeing it. It only seemed fair to give G1 a chance.It took me a while to get into G1. At first there were so many 80's animation pitfalls that just couldn't be ignored. If you're familiar with a lot of 80's animation, you know what I mean. It really isn't any better or worse than most animation from the 80's. But let's just say it took me a while to get into it and I can see why some bronies rather not give it a chance.But if you give it a while, give it a good solid chance, you'll find that G1 does have a charm all its own. It can be downright dark and forboding. One look at "Rescue at Midnight Castle," "Return of Tambelon" among others can be downright creepy. But then you also have the more light hearted episodes as well.Over all, give it a while to sink in. If you're used to FiM and other cartoons of today, there's a bit of culture shock to get used to. But if you give it a chance, you should find something about it you like.Just a couple notes. "Rescue at Midnight Castle" and "Escape From Catrina" aired as specials before the series proper started. They were later edited down quite a bit and aired later in the final season. The versions on this collection are the edited down versions.Also, while the video quality is certainly better than the VHS rips you'll probably find on Youtube and it seems cleaned up rather nicely for this DVD release, it's still definetly 80's animation and could only be cleaned up so much.Still, a solid release. If you're a brony, you've already taken the plunge to decide you liked FiM. I highly encourage you to take another plunge and really give G1 a chance.

Wonderful series! I'm hoping for some better relief with how things are rolling (gotta love a terminal brain tumor?) And hopefully things will improve with the betterment of time

As a fan of Friendship is Magic, I had wondered what had come before it, and--on a whim--I bought the complete series. It's...a cartoon from the mid 80's designed to sell toys. It's both hilarious, and surprisingly dark at times. I have no connection to the first generation of My Little Pony, but the original series isn't as bad as I thought. The only real issues I had was 1) it's Shout! Factory, so no effort was put in beyond the bare minimum, and 2) you can tell that these episodes were intended as small segments for television, as the first episode is TEN (10) PARTS. Still, it's a solid B-.

For years finding this series was nearly impossible: it was only available in copies of copies from decaying VHSes or in long out-of-print collections, and even those had badly compressed video. No longer.The quality of the episodes I have watched so far is crystal clear. It is obvious that the people who made this collection cared enough to go back to the archival copies and make fresh, high-resolution transfers of all the episodes. If I have any complaint about the DVDs themselves, it is that the collection does not include the uncut versions of the original two specials. Overall, though, this is the nicest release that this series has ever had. Now if only we could get a new DVD release for Tales...I grew up long after this series finished airing and did not watch it until I was in my 20s, so I hold absolutely no nostalgia when I say this series is truly amazing. It has the kind of charm that only low-budget cartoons from the 1980s have, and succeeded despite its low budget and early cancellation. Without this series, My Little Pony would have been a very different franchise.

Seriously... Give G1 a chance! If you got into G4, this is your foundation, your origin. Give it some respect. Yes, it suffers from the abysmal quality of 80s era animation and voice acting. Plots can be disjointed or downright silly, but the series tries to do something that back then, was new. You had rainbows and unicorns and ponies and colorful flowers... and red and black centaurs kidnaping ponies and transforming them into beasts to pull his chariot, threats of decapitation, and the evil goal of a night that never ends. Sonambula stole youth, and there were other baddies too. The series was perfectly capable of being dark when it wanted to. At this price, it's practically a steal! If you love My Little Pony, then give this a shot. Not everyone cares for G1, but at least show MLP's elders some respect! :)I gave G1 a chance, and I actually very much enjoyed it! It was a little girls show that tried to incorporate adventure and danger into it. Later on in the series, corporate interests shifted it to a "happier" direction, but that first season... Totally worth it, even if you only ever watch it once.

The classic My Little Pony series is a lighthearted action-adventure series with very little violence. The animation is about average for the 80s, which is to say usually adequate but with the occasional animation error. The writing is above average for the era, with many surprising plot twists; however it is weighed down somewhat by the huge cast, which makes it difficult for the writers to flesh out very many of the characters and for the viewers to keep track of them all. Note that while part of the same franchise, this series has a very different look, feel, and storyline from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic".This collection contains the entire original series, except for "My Little Pony the Movie". It is worth noting however that the versions of the two My Little Pony specials, "Rescue at Midnight Castle" and "Escape from Catrina" are the versions used in reruns, and as such are lacking several scenes from their original broadcast; also they are on disc 4, which might be confusing to new viewers (these episodes occurred prior to season 1 and the Movie).

I watched these when I was little, glad my daughter can watch too.

Such a classic, I wish they hadn't redone these as the modern ones aren't half as good. I don't watch them. These originals are classics, sweet, innocent and so entertaining!

Really is great value, and arrived super fast coming from the states.

I love it

The dvd r in the wrong region so I can’t even watch them so I’m very unhappy and fed up my little pony classic tv collection