Just coming in to say that I’ve been doing as indepth research on G1 as I can because I’m incorporating it into Reverie Equestria (which is G4-based.)
I can be really good at looking up obscure stuff (thanks to the Original Bronies being just as pedantic about recording it.)
I’m not really worrying about G2 or G3 other than vaguely nodding to their general ideas. G4 uses so many character colors and names from G3 that I don’t think I can reasonably have both, and G2 had no show so I’m treating it as a “Dark Ages” kind of deal.
Unfortunately, G1 did not have a single continuity (especially US vs. UK) or… really very much indepth lore at all for most of the characters, but I hope what I do with the G1 stuff makes symbolic sense if nothing else.
We’ll see!