History Trivia / MyLittlePonyANewGeneration

*** When Sunny gets back to Maretime Bay, she galops around and looks at the mess it became after Hitch's absence.

* RoleReprise: The Mane Six from Generation 4 all have their original voice actors[[note]]Creator/TaraStrong, Creator/TabithaStGermain, Creator/AshleighBall, and Creator/AndreaLibman[[/note]] reprising their roles for the movie's FakeOutOpening.

*** The ponies were deigned so Pegasi would be the smallest, Unicorns the tallest, with Earth ponies in the middle. Mark Fattibene stated "The Earth Ponies are pastel, the Pegasi are in jewel tones and the Unicorns are earth-toned, (...) We wanted to have the full diversification of light and dark."

*** Originally, during the lowest point of the five ponies, Izzy started to cry for saying goodbye to Sunny, and Sunny apoligized Izzy for letting her friend down.
*** When Sunny gets Izzy inside of her house, Izzy asks her why is Sunny stearing at her, and she immediately stears at Sunny back.

This movie cuts down the cast size, [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/12/notes-from-spanish-language-interview.html such as five core characters instead of six]], to better fit them in the movie's limited runtime.

*** Originally, during the lowest point of the five ponies, Izzy started to cry for saying goodbye to Sunny, and Sunny apoligized Izzy for letting her friend down

** A [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/01/new-deleted-scene-from-my-little-pony.html deleted scene]] from an alternate version of the movie called ''Storm Heist'' would have Sunny and her friends discover the Pony Crystals are losing power and seek to restore magic to them. A power surge would occur at Zephyr Heights while they try to steal the Pegasus Crystal. Here the crystal would have been part of Pipp's stage instead of Queen Haven's crown. This version also shows that pegasi are still able to fly despite magic being gone.

** A [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/02/new-deleted-my-little-pony-new.html deleted scene]] from an early version of the movie had Sunny and Argyle try to warn everypony about the Earth Pony Crystal losing its magic only for both of them to be dismissed as being weird.

* AscendedFanon: During ''[=FiM=]''[='=]s run, it was common for fanfics, like ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', to lump the various pony generations into a single timeline that often explain the transitions of between each generation with some major incident that regressed society and rewrote the calendar, especially when moving from G3 to G4. Come this movie and this is pretty much what happened with G4.

** In 2017, early concept art and setting explorations were leaked on the Internet. Notably, as this was extremely early concept work, very little of what was present there actually made it into the finished work -- the only major element to remain was that the pony tribes were living in division.
** A Czech website selling children's bedding leaked the designs for this generation of the franchise a few days before it was officially announced.
** Pages from a [[TheChristmasAnnual 2022 annual]] that showed a few plot points from the movie were also leaked on the Internet around the same time period.

* DiedDuringProduction: Brian Goldner, the film's executive producer, barely avoided this from happening, as he died three weeks after the film was released to Netflix.

* TheMerch: Long before the aforementioned cast trailer was even made, this movie got lots of merchandise.

* PromotedFanboy: Léa “Imalou” Dabssi, one of the character designers for the film, is better known for creating fan art within the [[{{Fandom}} Brony fandom]] during the days of Generation 4.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** According to early concept art from the 2017 Hasbro leak, originally this would have been a full-on ContinuityReboot as opposed to a DistantSequel to ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship Is Magic]]'', with the fifth generation being centered on new iterations of the Mane 6 complete with [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/03/celia-kaspar-and-imalou-release-new.html race swaps for some characters]] ([[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/03/lots-of-new-mane-6-g5-concept-art.html such as Twilight Sparkle being an Earth pony, Pinkie Pie a pegasus, and Fluttershy a unicorn]]). [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/11/official-early-g5-mane-six-concepts-and.html Early CGI models of this version of G5]] still exist, showing some of the aformentioned race swap.
*** [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/03/more-concept-art-of-new-generation-g4.html Applejack and Twilight Sparkle would have been childhood friends.]]
** Other material in the 2017 leak included concepts for various villains who didn't make the final cut, such as a vain prince based on longmas (dragon-horses from Chinese myth) and a towering hooded villain who would've been revealed to actually be a very short, elephant-like creature who overcompensates for being the shortest of his species and would've used this to relate to Spike. Concept art also exists of a settlement called Neon City, consisting of brightly lit, colorful buildings in visual contrast to dark surroundings and a deep pit -- depending on the concept sketch in question, the city could have surrounded the pit, stood on a platform above it, or been at its bottom.
** Early setting explorations also mentioned the thee pony tribes existing in separate worlds that used to be a single one before a WorldSundering event. In the finished movie, this persists in a much less extreme from as the three tribes living in separate lands.
** [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/03/more-g5-concept-art-earth-ponies-were.html The earth ponies and their village was originally designed with Viking and Celtic themes.]]

** One of the mountains at the end of "Looking Out for You" was to be Canterlot-esque, but decided against it to avoid an exact time skip.
** A [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/01/new-deleted-scene-from-my-little-pony.html deleted scene]] from an alternate version of the movie called Storm Heist would have Sunny and her friends discover the Pony Crystals are losing power and seek to restore magic to the crystals. A power surge would occur at Zephyr Heights while they try to steal the Pegasus Crystal. Here the crystal would have been apart of Pipp's stage instead of Queen Haven's crown. This version also shows that Pegasi are still able to fly despite magic being gone.

** A floated idea was [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/04/tons-of-new-concept-art-posted-by.html Maretime Bay being destoryed by black rainbows]].

*** Sunny's father is confirmed to be deceased.

* TheOtherDarrin: None of the main voice cast from the film returned for the post-film franchise.

** According to early concept art from the 2017 Hasbro leak, originally this would have been a full-on ContinuityReboot as opposed to a DistantSequel to ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship Is Magic]]'', with the fifth generation being centered on new iterations of the Mane 6 complete with race swaps for some characters ([[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/03/celia-kaspar-and-imalou-release-new.html such as Twilight Sparkle being an Earth pony, Pinkie Pie a pegasus, and Fluttershy a unicorn]]). [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/11/official-early-g5-mane-six-concepts-and.html Early CGI models of this version of G5]] still exist, showing some of the aformentioned race swap.

* FanartAtFirstSight: As a design for a bedspread depicting Sunny, Izzy and Pipp was accidentally released ahead of schedule, fanart of those characters started appearing a good few months before any official confirmation of the movie, its title or its contents did. Afterwards, once the promotional campaign proper got underway, fanart of the new characters started popping up within a few hours of each new trailer or screenshot being released.

* HeAlsoDid: This is the second animated Netflix production in a row of 2021 to feature Kimiko Glenn voicing an [[WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}} equine.]]