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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#203676: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:08:50 AM

A time traveller gave it to her!

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#203677: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:11:36 AM

its the MCU, they probably weren't

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#203678: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:14:41 AM

I'm blaming Deadpool,this is all his fault

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fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#203679: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:27:23 AM

@POTD I'm half tempted to PM that to Diana 1969, just to see how much she would cringe. Celestia, when she said she was an edgy dumbass back then as "Adric De Psycho", she wasn't exaggerating. I got on the thread in 2017 so I missed most of her most stupid moments.

@Sunset She does come back to Equestria briefly, just to pick up papers for her Journal. Why didn't she come back earlier?

No reasons given, she's just not interested. The issue's never brought up from what I could tell from the scuttlebutt.

wild mass guessShe's secretly afraid of how much time passed between her first exiling herself to Equestria High and her trying to steal the Element of Magic. She might find a family or friends that were already gone by the time she was enjoying her second consecutive Fall Formal coronation.wild mass guess

@MLP Reference A cute reference that I'm not sure many of the people who know about MLP would be able to say "hey, MLP was made in 1975, this is the wrong generation"? A lot of people probably know about MLP, especially the fourth generation that was like lightning in a bottle with how it managed to spread outside the targeted demographic, but aren't very big fans of it, kinda like Star Wars: millions watch the movies but are just going to respond with a blank stare to "Jacen Solo" or "Mara Jade" or "remember that time Han Solo fought a giant otter queen".

The latter might get more then a blank stare, admittedly.

Edited by fredhot16 on Nov 24th 2021 at 7:30:41 AM

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#203680: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:29:04 AM

> I'm half tempted to PM that to Diana 1969, just to see how much she would cringe.

subjecting someone to that much cringe from their past would be criminal and ban worthy

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fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#203681: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:34:42 AM

Speaking of "visitors to the thread", did you know Sunset was also on this thread? Check the POTD, it's a pagetopper.

Edit: Does this mean that the Mirror allows for an internet connection or that we're in Sunset's world?

Edited by fredhot16 on Nov 24th 2021 at 7:37:38 AM

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#203682: Nov 24th 2021 at 7:36:01 AM

sockpuppets come and they go,we mostly keep them in the mirror pool nowadays,though every so often one escapes..

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#203683: Nov 24th 2021 at 8:21:30 AM

I agree that it is just a cute reference, and it is Twilight Sparkle because of Small Reference Pools - she is just the most famous and recognizable face of the franchise right now. Maybe in a few more years it will be Sunny, who knows?

The show also never got around to explaining what Sunset's home situation is, if any. She could be living in an empty classroom for all we know. Twilight certainly had no trouble making a bed in the library unnoticed. And then she suddenly has this fancy apartment, somehow.

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#203684: Nov 24th 2021 at 1:51:48 PM

I went to add a note about the Twilight Sparkle doll to the Black Widow page, only to discover that someone else had already done it! I guess this is proof that I wasn't the only person to notice.

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#203685: Nov 25th 2021 at 5:10:37 AM

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I thought that season 3 was better than fine, really.

@Marston, from last page: Of course, things have gotten to the point where 'Kind of disappointing' means 'Worst Thing Ever' to some people. Some things worked, some things didn't. Same as the last season, and the season before that. But somehow season 3 is just the worst.

Posted by edvedd on Sun, 2nd Jun '13 8:01:52 PM - Post #372268 in the old thread

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#203686: Nov 26th 2021 at 6:45:30 AM

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Wasn't someone in the pony thread writing a fanfic about a changeling who fed off of respect rather than love? He was like an author or something.

is my story so easily forgotten? :(

I'm certain that a changeling could feed off of lust, but, as the previous discussion concluded, they'd probably have to do it in person, thus a brothel.

Posted by Blissey 1 on Mon, 13th May '13 8:29:07 AM - Post #366688 in the old thread

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#203687: Nov 26th 2021 at 6:53:18 AM

Changlings feeding off feelings means they can feed off cringe,probably

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#203688: Nov 26th 2021 at 7:36:56 AM

So November 26 is the 11th anniversary of "Dragonshy" and the 10th anniversary of "The Mysterious Mare Do Well". To say that they have different critical receptions is an understatement.

Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
#203689: Nov 26th 2021 at 9:16:20 PM

Early G5 drafts are out. Turns out the Mane Six, including the rebooted designs from the leaks, made it to 3D models.

Wonder why they changed to a new cast if the old plan was so far along and what it says about production?

The video documenting this is in Spanish, but according to one of the comments "they worked on the Mane6 remake version in 3D for a week before it was dumped (they didn't even start on AJ, Pinkie, and Rarity) because the iconic 2D style didn't translate well." Can anyone else verify that?

1. Given the show-accuracy of Sunny's Mane 6 figurines and fan made 3D models, what exactly was such a problem they had to change the story over it? (If not working in the art style why stay with the style?) 2. What does that say about the possibility Mane 6 or such appearing even in flashback?

Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught on Nov 26th 2021 at 9:16:39 AM

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#203690: Nov 26th 2021 at 9:37:38 PM

[up] Interesting! Frankly when that initial leak first came out it felt disappointing, like Hasbro was not confident enough in G5 that they had to keep the G4 cast. Glad they kept the MLP tradition of having a new core main cast.

Edited by harryhenry on Nov 27th 2021 at 6:38:24 AM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#203691: Nov 27th 2021 at 12:40:14 AM

I think making it a new cast was a good choice. The Mane Six are such strong characters that you can't just decouple them from their designs the same way you could on the old show.

Also, that's not "far along". Having mockup designs of characters is standard practice, and they can go through many iterations. This is very much still preliminary design stuff. It's just that traditionally, they would have been drawings, not 3D models.

Edited by Redmess on Nov 27th 2021 at 9:44:21 PM

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#203692: Nov 27th 2021 at 6:29:49 AM

Post of the Day #3437

Why not use that word, It's what she felt like to me.

I could see her saying it without thinking, that, I could understand, but then, not even acknowledging how bad what she said was.. completely ignoring it even after the fact. No, it was just vile. All for a joke.

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Posted by Seraphem on Mon, 10th Feb '14 8:07:27 AM - Post #47823 in the new thread

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#203693: Nov 27th 2021 at 4:42:01 PM

[up]My impression was they wouldn't being animating, even just conceptual roughs, until the script was very well developed, thus it would have been easier to make the models work/revise the art style than go back and revise the story. Is there something about the CG development process I'm unaware off?

I just have a hard time believing the early CG drafts not working would be the main or only reason they resided to completely revise the story and setting.

harryhenry It's either real or it's a dream Since: Jan, 2012
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#203694: Nov 27th 2021 at 9:36:50 PM

[up] It's tough to know precisely why they changed course, besides just asking employees who were there. Technical or design issues could be a factor, but it's hard to say. My hunch is that Hasbro was experimenting with how to take what they had learned from G4 and bring it into a new generation. One of those ideas happened to be just bringing the Mane Six back, in a still-unknown (but probably very similar) storyline and continuity. But maybe there were those inside the company who felt like just doing that would essentially bring the G4 cast to the status of Transformers: Generation 1 (i.e. while later iterations have many new characters, there'll always be new versions of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, etc. along with them) and while that would work for some fans, you would loose something after all the previous Pony generations brought in a new cast.

Ironically, Friendship is Magic was famously gonna do this by elevating My Little Pony's own Generation 1 characters to that status, with Lauren bringing all of them back as the Mane Six since they were the characters she grew up on. But through various iterations (and I think copyright problems with Firefly), only Applejack and Fluttershy remained intact from G1.

In any case, I think taking the storytelling/worldbuilding lessons from G4 and not the specific characters (though they are referenced) was the right call, it opens things up and keeps going with what made G4 for so many people, myself included.

Edited by harryhenry on Nov 28th 2021 at 6:46:12 AM

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#203695: Nov 28th 2021 at 1:55:39 AM

I'm pretty sure Fluttershy was supposed to be Gen I Posey.

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#203696: Nov 28th 2021 at 4:46:06 AM

And Pinkie was supposed to be Surprise.

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#203697: Nov 28th 2021 at 6:22:03 AM

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@ Story depends on the type, Black Court have all the normal weaknesses, garlic, holy objects, silver, light, ec. but they are also the most powerful

Red Court have most of the same, sans the garlic and silver, and are a pretty much only really kilable through fire or total cranial distruction

White Court have none of them, they are just incredibly strong, fast, and resilient, but enough damage without the chance to feed will put them down.

Posted by Seraphem on Sun, 20th May '12 12:11:15 PM - Post #199406 in the old thread

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#203699: Nov 29th 2021 at 4:39:44 AM

Post of the Day #3439

But I love english accents and scothis too! they sound pretty awesome.

About my voice picture a latino trying to speak in english yeah! lol

Posted by Fallen Legend on Fri, 27th Jan '12 7:11:58 PM - Post #81564 in the old thread

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#203700: Nov 30th 2021 at 7:59:21 AM

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You can wax it off? It hurts, but not that much. And it lasts for, like 4-6 weeks. Girls do it all the time!

I've been wondering that too. Other than myself, who else is a girl?

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