History WesternAnimation / MyLittlePonyG3

* YouMeanXmas: The Winter Wishes Festival in G3.5 specials ''Waiting for the Winter Wishes Festival'' and ''Twinkle Wish Adventure.'' Averted in "A Very Minty Christmas".

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship:
** Minty and Pinkie Pie are ''very'' close friends.
** Skywishes and Star Catcher are famous for it.
** Special mention goes to Star Flight and Heart Bright, who are "as close as two ponies can be," go in for SweetheartSipping, share the same bed, dream the same dream, and finish each other's sentences.

* AlternateContinuity: The G3 books line is an AU from the cartoons.
** Once the "Core 7" came along, Hasbro threw several older characterizations out the window and everyone became younger.
* AnthropomorphicShift: The first special wasn't really all that different from other gens. They occasionally used their [[FeatherFingers hooves to do things]], and moved their forelegs around, but it wasn't that different from, say, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]''. Later on they became far more anthropomorphic and starting wearing clothing often.

* BabyPlanet: Ponyville, a town in the temperate zone, is just a short balloon ride away from the North Pole!

* BlindWithoutEm: Daffidazey, to the point where she thought Spike was a pony.

* {{Filler}}: ''The World's Biggest Tea Party'' stage show contains a lot of songs that seem to have been placed merely as a way to get the audience up and excited and don't actually drive the plot of the film. The story presented in the stage show probably could have easily fit into a 22 minute television episode.

* FunSize: The Breezies in ''Princess Promenade'' and the new redesign in ''Twinkle Wish Adventure''.

* InformedAttribute: Cotton Candy is a storyteller apparently, at least according to "A Charming Birthday", but we never see any evidence of this. In practice, she can usually be found running the cafe alongside Sweetberry and Triple Treat. We've seen the role given to other ponies in later episodes, such as Storybelle and the second version of Cheerilee.

** {{Edutainment Game}}s: Said PC/Macs titles.

-->'''Spike:''' A princess doesn't ''have'' friends.
-->'''Wysteria:''' Oh, how ''sad''...
-->'''Spike: (quickly)''' Well, of course you have friends. You just don't have ''equals''!

* RightBehindMe
** In "The Princess Promenade", Rainbow Dash is arguing with Sweetberry while Wysteria watches. Rainbow is so busy speaking that it takes her a minute to notice her.
-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' But I might have been able to see where I was going if you weren't building the largest cake in the world to impress the-
-->(Rainbow and Sweetberry see Wysteria)
-->'''Both:'''[[OhCrap ...princess.]]

* SliceOfLife: Carrying the torch forward from "Tales".

* ToylessToylineCharacter: Fiesta Flair (who only appeared in the Ladybug Jamboree short) never got a toy because Hasbro thought she was offensive stereotype of Mexicans. Instead, they made a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute named Candy Apple, who has the same color scheme as Fiesta Flair except her cutie mark has candy apples instead of maracas.

* ToylessToylineCharacter: Several background ponies, and some named ones like Fiesta Flair and Storybelle.

* ReactiveContinuousScream: A brief one happens in "The Princess Promenade" when Pinkie Pie, Wysteria, and Zipzee meet Spike the Dragon after he awakens from his thousand year slumber. Spike quickly puts an end to it.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The Newborn Cuties talk, have playdates and are generally more like toddlers than newborns. (This is the par for the whole franchise, where a "baby" anything will act more like an elementary schooler at the ''youngest.'')

* SceneryPorn: Several of the series' backgrounds were quite good, as were scenes with dark lighting.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Played with in ''The Princess Promenade''. At first, everyone is excited to have Wysteria be the princess of Ponyville, but as Spike's rules pile on and restrict Wysteria from doing the things she normally does, including interacting with her friends as equals, the idea of having a princess doesn't seem so great anymore. However, instead of quitting being a princess in name, Wysteria makes everyone in Ponyville into royalty, including Spike, which means that neither she nor anyone else has to follow the princess rules anymore. So it's played straight in the sense that everything is better with lots of princesses instead of just one, but in making the title meaningless it's not a typical example of the trope.

-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' But I might have been able to see where I was going if you weren't building the largest cake in the world to impress the- (sees Wysteria) [[OhCrap ...princess.]]

** In "The Princess Promenade", Rainbow Dash is arguing with Sweetberry while Wysteria watches. Rainbow was so busy speaking that it takes her a minute to notice her.

-->'''Rainbow Dash:'''But I might have been able to see where I was going if you weren't building the largest cake in the world to impress the- (sees Wysteria) [[OhCrap ...princess.]]

* ReactiveContinuousScream: This happens in "The Princess Promenade" when Pinkie Pie, Wysteria, and Zipzee Meet Spike the Dragon after he awakens from his thousand year slumber.

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The first G3 special. Released in 2003 in a VHS packaged within the first release of the G3 toys. Chronologically taking place before Dancing in the Clouds, it shows how the ponies in Ponyville planned a special surprise party for Kimono. It was released later as a bonus episode in ''The Princess Promenade'' DVD.

Released in 2004, the second special is packaged with a Pegasus Pony toy, Star Catcher. Chronologically taking place after A Charming Birthday and before Friends are Never Far Away, it shows Star Catcher's first encounter with Sky Wishes. Released later as a bonus episode in ''A Very Minty Christmas'' DVD.

Friends are Never Far Away is the third special released in 2005 on DVD packaged alongside the Pegasus pony named Hidden Treasure. It's the sequel of the last feature Dancing in the Clouds, as it explains how Star Catcher and Skywishes help the Pegasus Ponies to make friends with the residents of Ponyville. Released later as a bonus episode in ''Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow'' DVD.

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