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My Little Pony FiM Community |OT2| I just don't know what went wrong!
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DrForester
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It's never been clarified and people like to assume the worst and some vast Hasbro conspiracy.
Obviously twilight and rarity have to be black because
UberTag
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It's not about what I would like. It's about what would be marketable.
If Equestria Girls is to have a chance at enjoying life outside of the MLP tropes, it needs to draw an audience to it.
So roll out a range of ethnicities ala Bratz, Barbie, etc. so kids will have another way to identify with the characters.
Orange and blue and purple aren't ethnicities. Caucasian, Asian, African-American, Hispanic... those are ethnicities.
If anything, it seems like a way of making characters easily identifiable which could just as easily be done with clothing, cutie mark adornments, hairstyles, voices, names, etc.
Colored skin tones may serve a purpose of having the characters be race-agnostic (that's why Doug went that way as well) but it also limits your broader market appeal. It seems very insular. That plus the fact that they kept the giant pony eyes (the shape is almost identical) and stuck them on these pony-toned human heads makes them look either like aliens or like they're suffering from some kind of medical condition. Here's hoping that Hasbro's market research is telling them something we're completely missing the ball on when it comes to that young girl demographic they covet.
http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/THANK-YOU-218911691
Lauren Faust said:
Also
http://i.imgur.com/fLrQYGq.png
She's "so upset" that people think she left because of her pregnancy, and repeats that (going into season 2) she no longer had "the level of creative involvement and control" that she had in season 1.
Since she's a professional, she can't elaborate on what exactly that means (can't say anything negative about a boss or a co-worker), but it was rumored that Hasbro even dropped the EI restriction in an attempt to keep her.
(EI means that the show is educational, and The Hub is required to air a particular minimum percentage of programs that meet that restriction. The letters to Celestia were part of the EI restriction, because educational programs need to have clearly defined lessons that were learned in that episode. Lifting that rule from MLP:FIM meant that some other show needed to carry that burden, or more likely, some other show had to get kicked off the network so a less-desirable-but-qualifying show could take it's place.)
Edit: Also, Faust left during the writing phase of Season 2. And Faust was 100% opposed to Cadence's status as a Princess/Alicorn. According to Faust, Cadence was a Unicorn. Fake wings, fake princess, made to sell toys. Faust apparently couldn't stop that. So if you want a focal point for her lack of creative control, that's as good as any other.
Have you seen PBS lately?
Don't know how accurate this information is but this is from an editor of the Brony documentry
http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepon...as_ha_editor_of_the_brony_documentary/c9iyltl
http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepon...as_ha_editor_of_the_brony_documentary/c9iyltl
Downton Abbey?
RawkHawk2010
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The color that all the other humanized pony art uses?
Multicolor skin is part of PBS Kids branding!
Greyscale.
They could make it a period piece. Like Downton Abbey. But with more human ponies.
Just a movie as far as we know. Considering DHX is knee deep into season 4 right now a series probably won't even be a possibility until early next year.
Apparently if the movie is received well, there will be a series that runs in addition to MLP:FIM (not a replacement).
It's possible that they're already writing scripts for the series, in anticipation of good news. The MLP writers hinted that they're currently writing something for MLP, even though the writing for season 4 is already complete.
Choppasmith
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Yeah, this is exactly how I feel. I do admit, it looks better in motion than I thought it would, but yeah the whole setting and concept leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Especially hearing a little of that theme song which sounds so overwhelmingly "GRRL POWER!" I want to believe in Ingram and his talent... but I'm just not hearing it.
I love fish out of water stuff and it looks like the scenes involving Twilight "adjusting" will be funny and worth watching. My sister, being the female man-child she is, will jump around with endless squee-ing just from seeing that trailer and will most likely demand we go see it in theaters (I admit, it would be kind of fun to see and meet the crowd that comes to see it)
Actually a person not wanting to work with crap, or having your name not assciated with something, alot of times does more good than harm when looking for work. From an illustration perspective, I turn own a job because I do not like the job, that is on less bad picture to be conected to my name when someone wants to use me for a job.
And alot of people get into the entertainment business not make art rather than money, money is just side stuff.
These Poeple exist for that sole reason, they broke off with capcom just so they could make the games they like.
Not everyone is some soulless business person, a lot of people get into the entertainment bushiness to do what they like for a living. They money part is just a nice side thing.
Owlowiscious
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Money beyond a certain point is a "nice side thing". Money to pay bills and put food on the table always comes first, but usually there's some flexibility in how you get it.
Passion doesn't buy anything.
Passion gets you work, work get you money.
Like I said before, money is nice but alot of these people really like what they do , and that is kind of it. Passion, integrity, and making money are not exclusive of one another.
I am not saying being an artist automatically makes you money, however if you have talent you can have a stable income while doing what you like. The entertainment industry needs artists more than ever, for a lot of people there really isn't a shortage of work. Well this is me from an illustrative perspective and what my animation friends tell me. The VO industry seems just fine, But it could be fuck all horrible for all I know.
So Sunset Shimmer starts out as the class bitch but in the end Twilight and her friends teach her a valuable lesson about friendship so she agrees to cross over to Equestria to learn more about it. Or the big twist is that she's originally a pony.
Also, the blue-haired guy is obviously Shining Armor, no? I imagine it's going to be a bit awkward when he develops a crush on Twilight.
Also, the blue-haired guy is obviously Shining Armor, no? I imagine it's going to be a bit awkward when he develops a crush on Twilight.
All the residents of Equestria would be human if not for magic cast on the world!
DrForester
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equestria girls synopsis
those names...
i'm dying, squirtle
i'm dying, squirtle
Snytbaggen
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Called it.
Owlowiscious
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I haven't even watched the trailer for fear of hating it even more but these stills arent helping my opinion of it at all.
Slamtastic
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It does look a bit better in motion, in my opinion.
Not that my opinion means much to most people...
DrForester
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It might not suck. It's got the same writing team behind it from the show...
and if it does suck...
LumpOfCole
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I feel a darkness rising up within me.
Slamtastic
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and when it does suck...
spiderman = fim, movie = season, etc.
DrForester
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Pft. Star Trek doesn't suck just because of the existence of Enterprise.
You know those names are fake, right?
You know those names are fake, right?
DrForester
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DrForester
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Apparently. It's a one off movie (with the chance for a series later) so it'll probably have big reset button ending.
It's the same Twilight.
It's not canon unless the characters acknowledge the events of this in season 4.
Tritroid
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Soooo anyone notice that Sunset Shimmer (...or Shelby, I guess?) ends up with Twili's crown/element and gets ejected into a beam of light? Maybe it ports her back to Equestria?
What if this movie sets up Sunset Shimmer as a potential villain/rival for Twili in season 4? That could be pretty interesting...and she might end up being a better rival than sub-par Trixie anyway.
What if this movie sets up Sunset Shimmer as a potential villain/rival for Twili in season 4? That could be pretty interesting...and she might end up being a better rival than sub-par Trixie anyway.
DrForester
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The toy could just be a toy. There's a lot of toy's that aren't in the show. I expect a giant reset button to be hit at the end.
The trailer reveals that seeing this in theaters might be the only chance I ever get to see Celestia on the big screen...
The trailer reveals that seeing this in theaters might be the only chance I ever get to see Celestia on the big screen...
Amibguous Cad
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Faust apparently is also angsting over Equestria Girls
DrForester
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It is sad that Hasbro wanted a tween series to go against Monster High, and decided to take the Pony out of "My Little Pony" and after the huge success of FiM didn't pick up Faust's Galaxy Girls.
Hmm.. I was going to make a really poisonous comment but I think it's not the time.
In any case, it sounds pretty awful.
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