History Trivia / MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight

* {{Jossed}}: The idea of Sunset being homeless or squatting in a run-down building has turned up in a number of fanfics, but the Summertime Short "Monday Blues" establishes that she lives in a loft apartment.

*** Right at the end of the girls' music video (during the final line of the song, as the camera pans away from Rarity's and Sour Sweet's face) one can see that Rarity has her left human ear along with her pony one. This error persists during the entire pan.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Dance Magic" [[https://twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/878753793411661824 was written and produced]] before ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree Legend of Everfree]]'', and would have been about the girls [[https://twitter.com/isitlunchyet_t/status/878759031313096704 raising funds to attend camp]]. It was apparently a fairly last-minute decision to have it take place after the film, but only the dialog needed to be modified. This explains why the titular song debuted on the ''Friendship Games'' soundtrack, why Twilight's "casual clothes" design was first seen as insert art on a TieInNovel, and why the girls didn't have their magic necklaces during the special (although this gets handwaved in "Movie" as the girls not thinking/forgetting to wear them at all times). A remnant of this seems to have made its way into the novelization: Sugarcoat claims it's only been three weeks since the Friendship Games, instead of a few months.
** Believe it or not, the specials were originally supposed to premiere in US on Netflix first.

* ShortRunInPeru: Three countries and one entire region got to see all or some of the specials before they officially aired on Discovery Family. For reference: The three specials are set for broadcast in Discovery Family on June 24th, July 1st and July 8th (one per day, in the order of "Dance", "Movie" and "Mirror").

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Dance Magic" [[https://twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/878753793411661824 was written and produced]] before ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree Legend of Everfree]]'', and would have been about the girls [[https://twitter.com/isitlunchyet_t/status/878759031313096704 raising funds to attend camp]]. It was apparently a fairly last-minute decision to have it take place after the film, but only the dialog needed to be modified. This explains why the titular song debuted on the ''Friendship Games'' soundtrack, why Twilight's "casual clothes" design was first seen as insert art on a TieInNovel, and why the girls didn't have their magic necklaces during the special (although this gets handwaved in "Movie" as the girls not thinking/forgetting to wear them at all times).

** While certainly taking inspiration from Creator/GeorgeLucas (who wrote the ''Indiana Jones'' films that inspired ''Daring Do''), Canter Zoom is the splitting image of Creator/GeorgeARomero, as [[https://twitter.com/isitlunchyet_t/status/886718843778875392 pointed out by a viewer and confirmed by Co-Director Katrina Hadley on the day of Romero's passing]].

** The New York Toy Fair 2017 managed to avert the trope for once: it showed a lot of upcoming Equestria Girls merch (including those that turned out to be about the specials), but didn't make references to the specials specifically and didn't have an spoilerrific Hasbro employee, unlike the last two movies.

*** Fluttershy's wings are missing on the entire duration of the zoom out.

** Somewhat less severe, Discovery Kids Mexico aired the specials eight days before their respective debuts on Discovery Family.

** And Discovery Kids Latinoamérica will air them all on July 3rd in a single 60-minute block. The first two specials would've already aired at this time in Discovery Family, but "Mirror Magic" airs five days earlier.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Dance Magic" [[https://twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/878753793411661824 was written and produced]] before ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree Legend of Everfree]]'', and would have been about the girls [[https://mobile.twitter.com/isitlunchyet_t/status/878759031313096704 raising funds to attend camp]]. It was apparently a fairly last-minute decision to have it take place after the film, but only the dialog needed to be modified. This explains why the titular song debuted on the ''Friendship Games'' soundtrack, why Twilight's "casual clothes" design was first seen as insert art on a TieInNovel, and why the girls didn't have their magic necklaces during the special (although this gets handwaved in "Movie" as the girls not thinking/forgetting to wear them at all times).
* WordOfGod: Indigo Zap's absence in "Dance Magic" was, according to the writer, [[https://mobile.twitter.com/gmberrow/status/878657525070954496 because she's on a cruise with her family]].

* DirectToVideo: Straight to {{Creator/Netflix}} in North America, at least.

** In "Dance Magic"

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Dance Magic" [[https://twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/878753793411661824 was written and produced]] -- and thus would've taken place -- '''before''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree Legend of Everfree]]''; the girls were originally [[https://mobile.twitter.com/isitlunchyet_t/status/878759031313096704 fundraising to attend camp]]. It was apparently a fairly last-minute decision to have it take place after the film, but only the dialog needed to be modified. This explains why the titular song debuted on the ''Friendship Games'' soundtrack, why Twilight's "casual clothes" design was first seen as insert art on a TieInNovel, and why the girls didn't have their magic necklaces during the special (although this gets handwaved in "Movie" as the girls not thinking/forgetting to wear them at all times).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Dance Magic" [[https://twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/878753793411661824 was written]] -- and thus would've taken place -- '''before''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree Legend of Everfree]]''; the girls were originally [[https://mobile.twitter.com/isitlunchyet_t/status/878759031313096704 fundraising to attend camp]]. The crew got a last-minute notice of the change, but it was fairly easy to fix so it took place after ''Legend''.

* ShortRunInPeru: Gets hit with this thrice. For reference: The three specials are set for broadcast in Discovery Family on June 24th, July 1st and July 8th (one per day, in the order of "Dance", "Movie" and "Mirror").

* {{Blooper}}: In "Mirror Magic", upon being sucked into the mirror, Fluttershy loses her butterfly hairpin. Although it's mostly missing in the mirror world scenes, [[https://derpibooru.org/1457198 there are a few shots where it's back.]]

** The first and most severe case was the Polish airdates for the three specials: May 14th, 21st and 28th. That's a month and ten days earlier in all cases; even better/worse, the American airdates were officially announced on May 26th — when two of the specials had already debuted in Poland.
** Somewhat less severe, but "Dance Magic" is aired on June 16th -- eight days earlier -- in Mexico.[[note]]It's also set to air at least once for three days in a row.[[/note]]
** And Discovery Kids Brasil -- [[Trivia/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree not being the first time this happens]] -- aired "Dance Magic" just a day after Mexico did, on June 17th.

* ShortRunInPeru: A double dose. For reference: The three specials are set for broadcast in Discovery Family on June 24th, July 1st and July 8th (one per day, in the order of "Dance", "Movie" and "Mirror").

** Somewhat less severe, but "Dance Magic" is [[http://mlplatam-dkprogramacion.esy.es/programacion-mexico/ set to debut on June 16th]] — eight days earlier — in Mexico.[[note]]It's also set to air at least once for three days in a row, unless those are supposed to be the other specials.[[/note]]

* NovelizationFirst: Thus far, the novelization is set to be released 17 days before its Discovery Family debut. It remains to be seen if it'll be ultimately averted with the Netflix release.
* ShortRunInPeru: The specials were first given the rather vague release date of "Summer 2017" for their North American Netflix debut. Cue the specials airing in the last three weeks of Spring in Poland: May 14th (Dance Magic), May 21st (Movie Magic) and May 28th (Mirror Magic). Making it even better-slash-worse is that not only were the definitive Polish airdates known well before the release date(s) for the American market in any format (Netflix, DVD, TV), but the first two specials had already aired in Poland by the time the Discovery Family airdates were announced, and there '''still''' isn't a well-defined Netflix release date beyond "Summer 2017" (and the specials were suppused to debut in said platform!). For additional comparisons, the novelization is set for June 6th 2017, the DVD for August 8th 2017, and the Discovery Family airdates are in June 24th, July 1st, and July 8th.

** A downplayed one, but rather vague synopses of the specials were available in the product description of a then-upcoming, new ''Equestria Girls'' book -- which turned out to be the novelization. This was made available even before the "Summer 2017" announcement. So, anyone curious enough would know ahead of time that [[spoiler:the girls make a music video to get money for Camp Everfree, get involved in movie production hijinks, and Equestrian magic causes trouble again]].

* NovelizationFirst: Thus far, the novelization is set to be released a bit less than ''two months'' before the DVD debut. It remains to be seen if it'll be ultimately averted with the Netflix release.
* ShortRunInPeru: The specials were first given the rather vague release date of "Summer 2017" for their North American Netflix debut. Cue the specials airing in the last three weeks of Spring in Poland: May 14th (Dance Magic), May 21st (Movie Magic) and May 28th (Mirror Magic). Making this edge into ExaggeratedTrope territory is that not only were the definitive Polish airdates known well before the Netflix release date(s), but that two of the three specials have already aired and there '''still''' isn't a well-defined American release date beyond "Summer 2017". For additional comparisons, the novelization is set for June 6th 2017 and the DVD for August 8th 2017.

** More like "spoiled by images buried in the official website's server", but the appearance of new character Juniper Montage and human designs for Daring Do[[note]]actually new character Chestnut Magnifico in costume as Daring Do[[/note]] and Starlight Glimmer -- and that they'd have some degree of importance in new animated media to get their own character profiles in the website -- were known for some ahead of any official release.

** More like "spoiled by images buried in the official website's server", but the appearance of new character Juniper Montage and human designs for Daring Do and Starlight Glimmer -- and that they'd have some degree of importance in new animated media to get their own character profiles in the website -- were known for some ahead of any official release.

* ShortRunInPeru: In what must be some sort of record, the specials are set to air in Poland on May 14th (Dance Magic), May 21st (Movie Magic) and May 28th (Mirror Magic). For reference, the novelization is set for June 6th 2017, the DVD for August 8th, and the Netflix release in ''summer 2017'' in North America.

* ShortRunInPeru: In what must be some sort of record, the specials are set to air in Poland on May 14th (Dance Magic), May 21st (Movie Magic) and May 28th (Mirror Magic). For reference, the novelization is set for June 6th 2017, the DVD for August 8th, and the Netflix release in "Summer 2017" in North America.

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: One of the most requested sights for the fourth generation of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' was to see Sunset Shimmer return to Equestria. While it's brief, that does happen in "Mirror Magic."