I didn't know there were any My Little Pony fans anywhere, certainly not adult male ones, but apparently, there are, and there are conventions for them:
http://gawker.com/5874047/here-are-some ... /gallery/1
We're fascinated by Bronies, the subculture of mostly-male internet nerds obsessed with the new animated series "My Little Pony." So on Saturday, Gawker's Max Read and I visited their natural habitat: the Winter 2012 BronyCon in midtown Manhattan.
The first BronyCon, held last June, was a tiny affair with just 100 attendees. But bronies' ranks have swelled on the back of recent publicity, and at the Hotel Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon about 700 people crammed into the tiny, sweltering hallways and filled the shabby ballroom that made up the site of the 2012 Winter BronyCon. Thankfully organizers reminded attendees in a pre-conference email that "You'll be in a room with many other people, so please be courteous by practicing good personal hygiene."
Many bronies keep their fandom strictly internet-based. But the bronies and pegasisters (female bronies) congregating In Real Life at BronyCon were out and proud. Here are some of the bronies we met in between watching a panel of My Little Pony fan artists ("It's hard to draw with hooves"), a raucous demo of a fanmade My Little Pony fighting video game, and browsing the many homemade My Little Pony goods for sale.
Why, God, why?