YMMV / My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise!

• Fanfic Fuel: What would a Daring Do/Power Ponies crossover by Quibble Pants be like?
• Fridge Brilliance: It's implied that the whole second series took place over "About twenty minutes"◊ which seems improbably short. But it was stated that 4-issues equal a 44-minute two-part episode. Aside from the first and final issue, only the Young Six and the Spike/Dinobots issue happen in order. Assuming the other four stores were Simultaneous Arcs with the rest, that does adds up to the twenty minute length.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the Starscream vs Rainbow Dash Death Battle, Rainbow Dash won after using Starscream's own missiles against him. She uses that exact same maneuver in her issue — although in this case it's against Misfire and the Rainmakers.
  • Even more hilarious is that out of all ponies to go off against Starscream, it's Rarity, the most elegant and graceful of the Mane 6.
  • Even better, the sequel features Dash (and the Wonderbolts) forming an Enemy Mine with Starscream (as well as Skywarp and Thundercracker)!
  • Another great example, at the end of the sequel, Pinkie Pie transforms into a gun that Megatron wields, while Transformers: Prime Megatron has made many commercial appearances with Pinkie Pie for the Hub
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: While some fans enjoyed the silly antics of the comics, a few were annoyed that the narrative was just cut up into smaller unrelated short stories rather than one long narrative. This rings especially true for the Megatron/Chrysalis team up which kicked off the plot, the two aren't seen again till the end of the story and what partnership is shown quickly crumbles when near every pony and Autobot arrive to combat them. At least there's a sequel...
• Just Here for Godzilla: It's Transformers and My Little Pony, arguably Hasbro's flagship franchises, teaming up together; who wouldn't want to read this?
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Chrysalis and Megatron are severely underused in the comic, only showing up in the beginning and end of the story. The former much more so than the latter as he at least makes more of an effort leading his troops with Chrysalis just giving out the usual "Equestria will be mine" rhetoric.
  • Optimus and Twilight are similarly underused for the same reasons.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: A threat that warrants cosmic power comes knocking on Equestria's doorstep and the ones who can face them head-on are either passive (Discord) or absent (Royal Sisters). Subverting the "invaded world being completely reliant on the Autobots' help." trope would have made it a better crossover.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Almost all of the Decepticons who appear as major antagonists are G1 staples (Starscream, the Constructicons, Shockwave, Soundwave, the Insecticons, and of course, Megatron), so it's quite a surprise to see Misfire at all, let alone as the main antagonist of issue 3's second story. He even brought the Rainmakers with him!
  • The Insecticons are the main threat of "Strength in Numbers". That includes the toyline-exclusive Insecticons— Venom, Barrage, Chop Shop and Ransack.
  • On the Autobot side of things, while staples like Grimlock, Arcee or even the most recent Windblade are expected, no one would have guessed Gauge, a character original to the 2019 IDW continuity, as one the main characters to one of the stories. She even manages to take on Shockwave along Pinkie Pie.
  • The sequel has plenty more surprises in store:
    • In the first story of issue 1 alone, we get fan-favorite Transformers: Prime Decepticon Breakdown, Airachnid from the same show, the Cyberverse iterations of both Shadow Striker and Slipstream, and minor characters ranging from Spinister, Skytread and Fracas to Mindwipe and Skullcruncher!
    • Not to be outdone, the MLP cast gets a case of this in "A Real Mother" through Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty, Scootaloo's aunts, who were One-Shot Characters in the cartoon but get A Day in the Limelight fighting Killmaster (who himself is a case of this, as this is his first appearance outside of the IDW 2005 continuity, where he was first introduced) with Arcee and Greenlight.
    • "One-Trick Pony" brings in Wildwheel, a Decepticon introduced in the Cyberverse continuity family (and exclusive to it until now). Then the story tops itself with two more surprise characters— Quickstrike and Skids. Skids is the less unexpected of the two— while he only showed up in two episodes of the G1 cartoon, he's still a G1 character so he's at least understandable. Quickstrike, however, is a Beast Wars character (and not even a particularly popular one).
    • "The Beauty of Cybertron" brings in a true fan-favorite bot in all his good-looking glitz and glamour... Knockout!