Hand sculpted and casted resin statue of Discord reimagined as a G1 My Little Pony: Pony Friends toy.
I love the G1 toys and Pony friends are so cute, when I got into G4 I thought it would be fun to redesign Discord as if he'd been in G1.
He was very tricky to design, as G1 never had a character this complex in it's toy line, but if I took away too much, he'd stop feeling like Discord and more like an original character I'd made up. Which to be fair, happens a lot in toy reboots, look at the difference between G1 and G3 Apple Jack for example, but I wanted to toe the line, not cross it.
Deciding on colors alone took me ages. Brown was not a color G1 used much, if at all, but Discord's main color IS brown, and he didn't look like himself without those muted tones. I did want to simplify his color scheme though, as G1 ponies usually only used a few colors in their paint jobs. The more colorful ponies got their color from the use of different hair colors, not in the paint job itself. A paint job like this would have been expensive to manufacture in the 80's as it is.
I finally settled on this look, as least for this casting. I might make more in the future and play around with different colors.
After six months though, I'm glad to finally have a finished one in my hands! To start with and idea and end up with a physical object you can hold is very satisfying. I hope you all like him as much as I do. c:
