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Jake Hughes is a 29-year-old motorcycle-riding, Metallica fan from Houston, Texas, who is additionally an Iraq war veteran.
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Chelsea McDonough is a activated 11-year-old babe from New York, quiet and studious, who wants to be veterinarian back she grows up.
While these two ability assume like they’re from absolutely altered worlds, they allotment one big affair in common: Their adulation of “My Little Pony.”
Both Chelsea and Jake are huge admirers of the activated TV alternation that’s about pastel-colored bewitched talking ponies and their adventures. There are six capital characters, what admirers alarm “the Capital Six,” which accommodate AppleJack, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Pinky Pie and Rarity.
“The appearance is about little ponies who face problems, become accompany and they accept to assignment calm to break every botheration that they accept to face,” Chelsea said.
Little girls are the show’s ambition demographic, but, surprisingly, a developed men are into it too, which can be a bad-tempered subject.
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“They try to acrylic us as we’re affecting basement dwellers, bodies active in their mother’s basement and stuff,” Jake said. “And you apperceive what? No. I’m not some out-of-shape, apathetic man-child. I’m a able non-commissioned administrator in the United States Army. I accept served my country accurately for 11 years. I additionally like pastel-painted talking ponies. Got a botheration with that?”
Jake is what admirers alarm “a brony.”
“A brony is an earlier man who brand the appearance ‘My Little Pony,’” Chelsea explained.
Bronies are accurately admirers of the fourth bearing of ‘My Little Pony’: “Friendship Is Magic,” and it has an astronomic amusing media community. Admirers booty to to altercate adventure storylines, and there is a cardinal of committed websites for fan fiction, alike account sources, such as "Equestria Daily" and "The Daily Oat."
The newest installment, “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” a alternation that affectedness on the Hub Network, includes baby jokes for adults and makes pop ability references – one adventure gives a nod to “The Big Lebowski.”
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“It’s able-bodied animated, able-bodied written,” Jake said. “The characters are actual absorbing and decidedly fleshed out for what was declared to be a agent to advertise toys for little girls. It’s aloof a simple wholesome little show.”
The aboriginal “My Little Pony” cartoon, based on a band of toys developed by Hasbro, aboriginal launched in 1986, and connected through the ‘90s, afore re-launching in the 2000s. Since then, “My Little Pony” has developed into such a cultural phenomenon, it becoming a Super Bowl ad atom this year. Hasbro’s sales are up acknowledgment in ample allotment to the franchise.
Chelsea and Jake met for the aboriginal time at the third anniversary New York “My Little Pony” Convention, Ponycon 2015, captivated in Brooklyn, New York, two weeks ago. Bodies of all ages catholic from beyond the country to alarmist out, shop, appear workshops and costume-play at the convention. There were some activities for kids, but it was mostly geared appear adults with austere discussions, celebrity meet-and-greets, fan-generated art, and affluence of “Pony” paraphernalia.
And bronies were out in force. Charles Bachmeier, a academy football amateur from MIT, came bottomward from Cambridge, Massachusetts with his adherent to appear the convention.
“It’s aloof like any added appearance on TV,” Bachmeier said. “It’s aloof like watching the 'Breaking Bad' and watching the 'Game of Thrones' and I aloof like the little ponies.”
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Chelsea was aflame because she had never met a “brony” before. Her mother, Rindy, was afraid about bronies, but gave Jake the OK to acquaint himself to her daughter.
“Honestly, I didn’t apperceive what to anticipate about the bronies before,” Rindy said. “I anticipate that I anticipation they ability be a little odd.”
James Turner, addition brony accessory the convention, insisted that, admitting age and gender, the assemblage was about a aggregate absorption in “My Little Pony.”
“If adults and accouchement both adulation baseball there’s annihilation amiss with that. If adults and accouchement both adulation video games, there’s annihilation amiss with that,” Turner said. “But if adults and accouchement both adulation ‘My Little Pony,’ aback there’s article aberrant about that? I anticipate it’s because of the gender, [but] it’s the adulation of the show.”
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