More on MLP

another thing I have been pondering on the subject of MLP is the fantasy world aspect of it. certainly there is nothing wrong with a little creative fantasy, in fact I would say we need more such fantasy and adventure based toys for little girls rather than the mountains of fashion doll and maternity prone toys. But does this fantasy world image perhaps have a negative side to it? Or am I just being cynical?

here's why I thought of it: as a child I was obsessed with pretend play imaginary worlds, mlp was not small part of that, in fact so much so that I refused to play any game that required me to pretend to be human. Now, it may just be that I was a particularly jaded child and saw the human world for what it is sooner than most, or that I have some form of peterpan syndrome, but even into early highschool when asked what I wanted to career wise I would respond with: I want to be a pony. ofcourse this was in part a joke, but... on the other hand it wasn't. If given the choice, hell yeah I would rather be a colorful little pony who plays games all day and defeats magical vilians. Now maybe I am just exposing my crazy, but I can't help but wonder, do such fantasy based images of mass produced toys, from companies that do their best to sell them not suggest that "this could be your life" in a fantasy world (if you buy this colorful plastic 5 inch toy)?

On the one hand, ofcourse a child should be given that time of their life where they get to live in a fantasy world, but at the same time, does it not make it all the more difficult to accept the reality? for instance I have always thought that lieing to a child about figures such as santa or the easter bunny or the tooth fairy, etc, is a sick joke, that entertains the parents at the child's expense. this may just be cause my parents never tried that crap on me, but thats just what it seems like to me.

But thats all for now, I have to go brush Sky Skimmers hair.....