Trivia / My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

• Ascended Fanon: A meta case, in that people often did human versions of the cast for fan-art, due to the difficult nature of art using ponies. Hasbro made an entire franchise where everyone is human.
• Blooper:
  • When Sunset Shimmer is threatening to smash the portal with a hammer, for a few frames it looks like she's wearing an earring shaped like her cutie mark. We never see it at any other time.
  • In the second to last scene, for a brief moment Twilight has her mane in the style as it was at her coronation. When she turns her head, it reverts to its regular style.
  • Human Pinkie has bows on her boots with her fall formal dress, but when she "ponies up" in the final battle the bows disappear.
• Casting Gag: Rebecca Shoichet had been the singing voice for Twilight Sparkle since the very beginning of the series. Having her play Twilight's (then) Evil Counterpart cannot have been a coincidence.
• Creator Backlash:
  • If these three tweets are any indication, Lauren Faust is not happy about the prototype doll line (though she hasn't said anything about the movie itself).
  • According to an interview with her husband Craig McCracken Lauren "isn't the biggest fan" of Equestria Girls, and implies that if Hasbro's other executive meddling didn't influence her departure from the show, this probably would have.
• Cut Song:
  • One that was worked on by Steffan Andrews, who otherwise didn't work on the movie.
  • A song titled "My Little Pony Friends", meant to be the song for the credits.
• Direct to Video: In non-US markets worldwide, the movie premiered on DVD.
• Edited for Syndication: The Hub premiere trimmed down certain parts, Most notably the Trixie peanut butter crackers scene, "This Strange World", and the Crusaders and Cheerilee library scene.
• Executive Meddling: Surprisingly averted, despite what some of the fans would have you believe. Other than being told to "make a movie where the ponies are girls in high school", the cast and crew were pretty much given free rein to do whatever they wanted with it.
• Follow the Leader: The new IP seems to be trying to compete with Mattel's Monster High and other successful "alternative" doll lines.
• God Never Said That: There hasn't been an official statement that Equestria Girls is in Canon Discontinuity or an Alternate Continuity, nor that the movie will have no bearing on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Here's what has been officially stated:
  • By staff:
    • Season 4 of MLPFiM is FiM and not Equestria Girls which is separate, according to Meghan McCarthy.
    • It's new but still an extension of their mythology, according to Meghan McCarthy.
    • The Season 4 premiere of MLP will be a new story rather than EqG in episode format, according to Meghan McCarthy and Michael Vogel.
    • MLP season 4 is all pony, according to Meghan McCarthy.
    • Flash Sentry is not a character in MLP:FiM season 4, according to Meghan McCarthy. There is a pony counterpart of Flash Sentry (and credited as such) in the Season 4 finale, but given the nature of alternate universes, is not the same character Twilight had a crush on when human.
    • EG takes place before S4, according to Meghan McCarthy.
  • According to a tweet by Meghan McCarthy◊, Equestria Girls is considered canon to the series/franchise, but otherwise doesn't have any real bearing on Season 4.
  • By others:
    • Equestria Girls is a completely separate show that will have no bearing on Friendship Is Magic, according to the editor of Kidscreen (the February/March 2013 issue of which announced Equestria Girls as a series rather than as a movie).
    • Of course, it looks like the movie is the pilot to a possible series. Indeed, Hasbro has contracted out an annual Equestria Girls comic to IDW Publishing.
• Lying Creator: Fans were sent into confusion when Sunset Shimmer's◊ toy was released, with a description of a suspicious impact on canon, compared to other toys' at least. When questioned, Meghan McCarthy said that she didn't know what her questioner was referring to and that she wasn't being secretive or evasive. She also said that she's not a part of a Season 4 plot, because she's a part of the movie instead. Then Shimmer turned out to be the antagonist of Equestria Girls, The Movie, making the former Blatant Lies. Although in the first tweet, she could have been referring to the freak out when she said she didn't know what her questioner was talking about.
• Milestone Celebration: This movie, along with "Magical Mystery Cure", was released during the 30th anniversary of the My Little Pony franchise.
• No Dub for You: When Japan did get the Equestria Girls movies, none of the songs were dubbed at all.
• No Export for You: Some countries, such as Japan, did not get this on DVD, as they haven't gone past Season 3 of the parent show at the time this film was released.
• Word of Saint Paul:
  • According to it, the majority of the background students aren't based off any previous background-filling ponies like Lyra from the original show. Instead, the students are original characters which quote, "is great news for fan-artists". Ponies like DJ Pon-3 on the other hand, have human counterparts as they are considered secondary characters and not "Background Ponies" used commonly to fill the background via cloning.
  • As mentioned under All There in the Script, it is confirmed that the unnamed girl who competed against Sunset Shimmer for Princess of the Spring Fling was Rarity, though a few lines were left in that imply it was her.

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