Ok I have to ask. Seeing as I'm not an 8 year old girl I've only been paying half attention to the stream of My Little Pony threads on Io9 over the year but I can't just ignore the pony in the room any longer. Is Io9 covering this for real or ironically? Am I missing out on something cool? Admittedly I did play with My Little Ponies with my sister as a kid.