Jungle Heart's Fame

This is just incredible, everybody.

Just a few moments after I posted my "My Little Pony" OC Jungle Heart on Deviantart.com, another member there asked me if she could do her own drawing of her. Of course, why wouldn't I let her? It just means that the character has already started to grow its own fanbase. Maybe this will be the big break that I've been waiting for.

Eh, anyway, thanks to Deviantart member hudgie, here you have a new and improved Jungle Heart.

I give my deepest thanks to you, hudgie.

Jungle Heart

My "My Little Pony" OC - Jungle Heart

This is an original character that I've made for a still untitled "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" spin-off that I'm working on.

Why do I bring this up here? Well, simply because she does beat her chest, of course. Hehe.

Her name is Jungle Heart, and I created her as a Pony-Tarzan.

If you want to know more about her, just click on the link here.

My Little Pony OC - Jungle Heart

Missed Opportunity - Littlest Pet Shop (2012)

There are many reasons why I would like to call the animated TV series "Littlest Pet Shop" from 2012, produced by Hasbro Studios and DHX Media, a severe case of "Missed Opportunity!".

Firstly, the character of Minka Mark is a pink spider monkey, and I always looked forward to the day when she would erupt into some chest beating… Because she could have a temper, sometimes.

But there were some special episodes that I feel were true "Missed Opportunities". Like "What's So Scary About The Jungle? Everything!", the seventh episode of this series' third season. Here we had an episode that was all about gorillas, but still, we never got to see a single chest beat. Not even a little thump. I mean… Seriously?!

And then there was "Spendtrifty", the eight episode of this series' fourth season. Here Blythe gets a baby doll that is so realistic, that it cries unstop, and doesn't even have an off-switch. So when Blythe decides to leave it with the pets to take care of it while she's in school. The problem is that the baby doll never stops crying, and finally, Vinnie Terrio, the gecko, have a horrible daydream where the baby doll is King Kong, and he's in the roll of Fay Wray, while the other pets try to save him from the monster doll, at the top of Empire State Building.

Yes, this episode did include a King Kong spoof… And guess how much chest beating we got to see here?! Nothing! Absolutely nothing at all!

And then, finally, we have the last disappointing episode from this series. It's called "Snipmates", and is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of this series. In this episode, while Blythe is taking part in a fashion design contest, the pets are having some big troubles with Sugar Sprinkles, the otherwise sweet and very mellow cat, who for some reason is nothing but depressed and angry today. The pets soon discover that she is missing the sugar sprinkle pieces that usually sit on her head, and they deduce that her sudden aggressive behaviour is somehow connected to the sprinkles being gone, so they try to put new sprinkles on her head, which isn't quite so easy, when the cat in question has gone fully Hulk-mad.

Yes, Sugar Sprinkles does actually go full Hulk, and starts to smash everything in sight, even speaking and yelling "Sugar Sprinkles, SMASH!!!", in the same primitive, simple way as the Hulk.
The reason why I include this episode here, is that, ever since the Avengers movies and TV series, as well as the "Lego Marvel Super Heroes" video games, have all portrayed the Hulk as a chest beater, I have come to expect some chest beating when ever someone goes complete Hulk. But guess how much chest beating Sugar Sprinkles does in this episode?! None. Absolutely nothing. All she does is run around, slicing up any inanimate object that gets in her way, and attack all the other pets, like a wild tiger. But no chest beating, what so ever.

It really pains me to say this, because I really enjoyed this series. Actually, when "Transformers: Prime" finished its last season, in 2013, this show, along with "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" and "Sofia The First", were among the few modern TV series that I actually enjoyed following. But, as much as I liked this show, it did let me down when it comes to chest beating, by not including any, at all. I mean, seriously! When you have a show that features a lot of animals, it's somewhat unnatural not to include any chest beating. Hasbro Studios, DHX Media… You guys really managed to create a true "Missed Opportunity!" with this one. Let's just hope Hasbro Studios don't make the same mistake with the new "Littlest Pet Shop" series, which they are producing together with Boulder Media, scheduled for release this year, 2018. Hasbro Studios, get it right this time!

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - S01E10 - Swarm Of The Century

In the "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" episode "Swarm Of The Century", Fluttershy brings back to Ponyville a seemingly harmless creature called a Parasprite, which turns out to become a problem, as soon as it starts to multiply.

When the ponies managed to drive all of the Parasprites back into the Everfree Forest, they return to Fluttershy's cottage, only to find it swarming with more Parasprites, just because Fluttershy couldn't stop herself from keeping "just one". When Twilight Sparkle realises that they can't round up all of the Parasprites, Rainbow Dash suggest that they "call in the weather patrol", after which she flies up into the air, and prepares to create a tornado, to catch all of the Parasprites in one sweep. Before she makes the tornado, Rainbow Dash puts on her flying goggles, and proclaims that it's "Time to take out the adorable trash!", after which she flies in, yelling like a warrior going into battle, and beating her chest.

(Between you and me, this was the absolutely first scene I ever saw from "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic", and it shaped my whole perception of the character of Rainbow Dash. It actually took me a while to grasp the fact that she was a girl. I truly believed that she was a boy. But she turned out to be a tomboy, instead. Believe me, I wasn't at all disappointed when I found out that she was a girl. In fact, it filled me with joy when I realised that she was an extreme tomboy. I'm actually still waiting for her to do some chest beating in the "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls" series. Hehe.)