My Little Pony, pre-FIM

I found a new favorite pony :3 http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Chocolate_Chipper

I DID IT!!!

I MADE

A RECAP PAGE FOR

My Little Pony 'n Friends!

help filling episodes out is appreciated cause I'm too exhausted right now. XD

edited 16th Feb '17 9:13:09 AM by lalalei2001

By serial and stand-alone, I hope?

Thanks for the work, you're always a big help with these.

By airing order XD; I didn't even know it had 'seasons' until I looked it up. I kept the episode listing to 65, though, since they're treated as one long show on the DV Ds.

I forgot "The End of Flutter Valley" was 10 EPISODES LONG! Are these 11 minute long episodes? if not, how did they stretch out the plot?

edited 17th Feb '17 4:48:53 PM by DS9guy

Heh, it's like a second movie, but with nine evenly-spaced cliffhangers! But yes, every segment was 11 minutes. And I think you'd only see one MLP segment per day, because the other segment would be one of the other toy franchises, so MLP and Glo Friends apparently started off with like a two-week saga. (So MLP one-offs would usually be Fridays, after the two- or four-parters?)

edited 17th Feb '17 5:06:04 PM by BagofMagicFood

Yup. It was more like 9 minutes though, gotta make room for those commercials.

Somebody needs to turn this into a graphic novel or something.

Does anyone prefer G1 to G4?

I do!

Explain why.

A lot of G4 stuff has roots in G1, particularly the worldbuilding, creativity, and general sense of adventure. Some G4 characters also had roots in G1, with Celestia being based off of Majesty, the G4 main cast originally being conceived as updates G1 ponies, and appearances by Tirek, Grogar, and the Smooze, all of whom originated in G1. (G3 stuff like Breezies also appeared in G4 ^^) I grew up with G2 and G3 with the toys, which I also greatly enjoy, but I'd seen G1 on VHS a few times.

Another cool thing was the powers. Earth ponies could run fast, Sea Ponies could breathe underwater, Pegasus ponies could fly, Flutter Ponies used their wings to cast wind magic, and unicorns could teleport, but every unicorn also had a power unique to her—Buttons had telekinesis, Gusty could make the wind blow, Fizzy could make bubbles, Galaxy was an empath, and Ribbon could teleport better than the others, to list a few examples.

Villains tended to run the gamut from anti-villains to scary, and while some got redeemed and others were just defeated, the truly nasty ones got turned into glass, torn apart, or otherwise died. Their plans could get pretty nasty, too, ranging from turning everyone and everything in Ponyland to glass to draining the life out of it, unbalancing its magic, freezing it over, and making it eternally night.

Then there's the ensemble cast—since they were promoting several different lines of the toys at around the same time, you'd get arcs about the Princess Ponies and Big Brother Ponies as well as shuffling around the main ponies at the time. While some ponies appeared more than others there was no main cast because of that, and the serialized storytelling ensured many episodes ended in cliffhangers to keep people tuning in. The 10-part End of Flutter Valley was also a movie-length sequel to the theatrical movie.

Overall, I really enjoyed the sense of adventure and fun—it felt like kids playing with their toys in cartoon form, and even if some stuff was silly or didn't make sense the storytelling and matter-of-fact way it was presented was really nice, and some of the lessons taught were pretty good. The songs were catchy too!

MLP Tales, the second G1 series, was also neat for being slice-of-life before those kinds of shows were common ^^ I haven't seen much of that one but it became a Cult Classic.

edited 24th Jan '18 5:46:00 PM by lalalei2001

One interesting thing about MLP Tales was that all the ponies were Earth ponies, no Unicorns, Allicorns, or Pegasus ponies. It was also the only Hasbro-based show to air on the Disney channel.

I think the very last episode had unicorns or pegasus ponies but it might have been a dream sequence or something XD

Been rewatching G3 stuff. Too cute!

Thinking of writing a G1 fanfic based on a throwaway line from the movie, where Hydia mentions a "Malevia from Nightmare Heights who made Easter Sunday come up on a Tuesday."

That would be interesting! I don't think G1 ever did an episode themed around a real-life holiday (in the animated show, at least, I'm not sure about the UK comics or other books), so it makes me wonder how Easter is even celebrated in that world. Maybe Megan imported the idea from her world? Or maybe that incident occurred outside of Dream Valley/Ponyland and happened on Earth instead? The witches seem to be humans like Megan, just with magic powers, so maybe they have relatives who live in the human world or who went there to cause trouble.

edited 10th May '18 2:46:11 PM by Rainbow

Was the term "cutie mark" ever used in any of the previous generations, or was that term created for FIM?

It was first used in G3 and G3.5, with G2 and G1 using 'symbol.'

I just completed a Generation 3 My Little Pony story I'd been stuck on for years. I finally finished it! My intent with the story was to show that the G3 cast could handle a G1-level threat while remaining true to themselves, to explore some mysteries like how and when the G3.5 cast showed up, and reference other generations of the franchise as well. :)

Also it started as a oneshot idea ('what happens to the Breezies during winter') and went from there. XD

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/1/Wintertide

edited 14th May '18 12:37:56 AM by lalalei2001

Where does MLP Tales fit in with the generations? I've heard that it's still part of G1, but it's got a completely different cast and continuity from the previous cartoon. Maybe 1.5?

It's part of the G1 toy franchise but separate from the previous TV series/specials/movie. (Just don't call it G2; that makes everybody angry :P)

Indeed, I once saw there was a long-running G1 comic book (or was it a magazine?) that had to suddenly change its whole setting to be about My Little Pony Tales.

The UK G1 MLP history is pretty interesting. they had their own continuity for comics, stories, and books, kinda like Sonic the Comic versus other Sonic media. Outside the UK it seems to be known as 'the one where Majesty has a super high kill count' but that's not all there was to it XD

Does anyone know if the My Little Pony TV Specials are on DVD in their original forms? They're on the complete series DVD but in their syndicated forms.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jul 20th 2019 at 4:05:03 AM