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Before we had the ponies of Friendship is Magic we had these fine ponies:
And to show you how things have changed here's a collection of Applejack through the years:
So who else remembers the original MLPs and where glad that they were one of the many toys/shows from the 80's that got revived like Tranformers and Strawberry Shortcake.
those are not the 80's ponies. Those are the 90's ponies
The 80's ones were not that bad. I like them. The problem is the 90's g3 and g3.5.
Oh god! the pain!
Are you talking about that image they originally posted before the Applejack image? They're right those ponies WERE before FIM but that image is of G3 Ponies, those came out in the early to mind 2000's. MLP toys in the 90's (G2) looked like this:

whatever... I don't really care about the other series. G4 is the best so far
Whether you care or not, G4 is still draws inspiration from the older generations, mainly G1 and G3. It's not really its own entity that's completely original. Heck some of Main 6 have the personalities of G1 ponies and are repackaged with the names of G3/3.5 ponies. The show is excellent but the toys, I think, aren't really as pretty as some the older generations.
If you're gonna correct someone you can at least get your facts straight? *shrugs* Also, have a little respect for the folks who do like the older generations. Don't just go around mindlessly bashing them since they aren't all bad.