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* ''[[My Little Pony]]'''s toy line suffered this in the late '90s, when Generation 2 came along. They scraped their previous chubby designs in exchange for a design that resembled Horses instead of Ponies, and that generation was the only one not to get its own cartoon.
** Another, short lived dork age occurred in 2009 with the G3.5 toy line, which limited the ponies to just seven characters alone (dubbed the "Core 7") and changed their designs to having large heads and hooves, but small bodies, this dork age ended in October 2011 when Hasbro switched to [[Lauren Faust]]'s designs, although your mileage may vary with the Generation 4 toys...
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' arguably had its dork age in the early-mid '90s, when the line introduced more outlandish subsets like the Eco Warriors (basically, ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' meets ''[[Captain Planet]]''), [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Ninja Force]], and ''[[Street Fighter]]'' (no really!). Not helping was the decidedly bright and blatantly neon colouring for certain figures, as well as the overabundance of spring-loaded weaponry, among other gimmicks. Plus, there was the added competition from lines like [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] and the coming of a certain [[Power Rangers|morphenomenon]], all of which spelled the end for the "Real American Hero" line by 1994. This was followed by a rather short dork age in the form the ''Sgt. Savage'' line, which introduced a [[Captain America (comics)]]-esque<ref> the eponymous Savage didn't dress in red-white-and-blue, but his origins shared a lot in common with Cap's, including the [[Super Soldier]] angle, as well as being frozen for an innumerable amount of years.</ref> soldier helping the Joes against new enemies, but the line was short-lived.
** And following on ''Sgt. Savage'' was ''[[G.I. Joe Extreme]]'', where the toys had [[Rob Liefeld|Liefeldian]] proportions and designs and articulation was reduced down to five points. While Sgt. Savage changed the scale somewhat it still kept most of the traditional Joe articulation and sculpting style intact, while Extreme was a blatant [[Follow the Leader]] to [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]].
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