My Little Pony: Mother's Day Edition

I spent my Mother's Day weekend this year at "Equestria LA" which is the local convention for "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" fans. For those not in the know my sons ae Bronies which is what you call boys who like the MLP:FIM ponies. Girls like the ponies too. Some refer to them as "Pegasisters", I just prefer to be called an interested party and leave it at that.
But seriously, I spent the weekend with my sons at this convention and actually had a really good time despite the fact that I was one of the few at the convention old enough to remember when JFK was our president. Honestly, I didn't really feel out of place though. The MLP bunch is a very welcoming group of people and they embrace all who share their interest in all things pony. And it wasn't just the Brony and Pegasister crowd, there were plenty of little girls from the target demographic attending with their moms and dads in tow. In fact, we ran into a lovely daddy-daughter duo. The daughter was about 4 years old and dressed as Pinkie Pie and Dad decked was out in a Pinkie Pie t-shirt to match! Gotta respect a man who will do that to support his little girl's pony love!

Mitch wearing his ears, horn and wings. 

Matt hanging out in the lobby.

"Shirtless" Discord dancing for us during the Cosplay Fashion Show. 

He was the hit of the convention for the ladies!

More from the Cosplay Fashion Show

Matt and his friend after the Cosplay Fashion Show.

Assorted Convention Attendees coming out of the fashion show

Another picture of the attendees.

The Vendor Hall-they had an amazing assortment of MLP merchandise

nearly all of it hand crafted. 

Some of the hand-crafted plush ponies they had for sale. 

One of the friendliest gals at the convention!

I sat in on a number of panels including the voice actor panels and the Pony Music Video contest as well as the wonderful Cosplay Fashion Show. Best of all, I got to spend quality time with my sons having fun and they WERE NOT embarrassed to be hanging out with their Mom! I'm looking forward to Equestira LA 2014, in fact, I'm looking into having a table at the vendor hall and selling my own hand-crafted pony merch!

We have my son to thank for this post...

I asked my 20 year old son for a blog post idea, and he said one word: PONIES. And by ponies he means My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (aka MLP:FIM). So here you go. My son is a "Brony" (male fan of all this pony stuff) and therefore should be happy with this post...and maybe you will be too.

This is the cast of MLP:FIM

They are ponies and they do fun stuff.

Little girls like them,

as do college-aged boys.

No, I don't get it either.

But what's important is that we don't judge.

Oh yeah, and my son made this MLP:FIM/Beer For My Horses crossover video.

It was featured once on Equestria Daily.

Fans of Country music superstar Toby Keith will totally "get" the video. 

Do you think Mr. Keith will like that I called him a "superstar"?

Okay, that's it. I could go on and on about MLP and how they promote a fostering of good values and friendship and pink things...but I don't feel the need. He said Ponies, and I produced a blog post on ponies so my work here is done. 

Laters Everypony!