So, apparently some of you are eager to talk about EqG. Consider this our official place for you to do that.
Drop your opinions, thoughts, rants and everything else here.
I'll add some information that I know of after the break.
If you know more, provide a reliable source.
Also, I won't partake in the discussion.
Drop your opinions, thoughts, rants and everything else here.
I'll add some information that I know of after the break.
If you know more, provide a reliable source.
Also, I won't partake in the discussion.
Excerpt from the NYT article
“We are responding to the desire by our fans to experience the brand in more ways,” said John A. Frascotti, Hasbro’s chief marketing officer. “They imagined themselves as which pony they would be or which pony they identified with the most.”
So Hasbro created Equestria Girls, a parallel world in which the My Little Pony characters were reconceived as teenage girls in high school. To maintain continuity, Hasbro retained the same creative talent, animation style and message of friendship.
“Our goal is to stay true to who those characters are,” said Meghan McCarthy, the head writer for the movie, adding that the high school setting allowed for new storytelling possibilities. “It’s new but still an extension of our mythology.”
“It is a major strategic initiative for us,” Mr. Frascotti said, one that will feature toys, apparel, publishing and accessories. Multimedia components include an interactive Web site, content on YouTube and a partnership with Stardoll.com, a fashion Web site for girls.
Hasbro does not break out revenue for My Little Pony, but in its earnings statement in April, the company said its girls’ category rose 23 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, growth that was helped in part by the My Little Pony brand.
Equestria Girls offers an opportunity to build on that growth, said Michael Vogel, vice president for development at Hasbro Studios. “This is a bold new direction,” he said.
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Hyperdudeman 111p · 620 weeks ago
Speedypegasus 111p · 620 weeks ago
DrCob 120p · 620 weeks ago
As far as interesting things goes, little to no obvious BG pony look alikes (as in Colgate, Berry Punch, or even lesser known ones) I think this is good, trying to distance it from FiM and not have too manyout side Vinyl and possibly Carrot Top. Sunset Shimmer seems cool IMO, and if that is her in the blue energy piller, she may even be an interesting threat. And Twilight adjusting to human life seems like it will be funny at least. Otherwise, not mega hopeful for this.
EggheadDash 111p · 620 weeks ago
2) If you pause at the very first frame of the shot at about 0:10 where they all (including Luna? She's in this!) watch her go through the mirror, Spike's eyes are HUGE.
3) The animation certainly isn't as bad as I expected. It seemed rather low budget from the vectors that were leaked a few months back, but I guess that's just Hasbro official vectors. One curious thing I found is that the vectors that were leaked months back have Twi, RD, and FS with wings, (but Twi and Rarity didn't have horns), yet the human versions of the pegasi are all wingless (and the unicorns hornless for that matter). And yes, it IS Twilacorn though we can only tell through a couple really quick, weird-angle shots before she puts the saddlebag on.
4) And now for the bad stuff animation-wise. The couple shots of Twi's first introduction to humanness is hella awkward, and it's very off-putting how they're all humans, but still have candy-colored skin.
5) Twi has a love interest? And there's a biatch who's clearly the antagonist? This isn't cliche at all!
5) Thankfully, the voice acting seems to all be the original talent, so it seems we'll be fine in that area.
6) VINYL SCRATCH!!!! Oh and the CMC. Shouldn't they be in like elementary school or something? And they're not even aged up or anything.
7) i really hope this background track isn't in the actual thing. I know for movies though it's actually really common for music to be last-minute, and not done before the trailers. Usually it's just stock music that the studio has the rights to, so maybe this is some other Network Music Ensemble thing that's way less catchy than Giddy Up.
8) Pause at 0:45 (Yes, I'm 8 items in and only that far) Are Fluttershy and AJ wearing strap-on (hehe) pony ears? Also is Spike still in love with Rarity in dog form? Isn't that like, bestiality or something? (not that BABY dragon-pony interaction isn't weird anyway) Who knows, maybe he's just in love with her leg.
9) This centers around a prom? How...exciting. /sarcasm
10) Real Pinkie's face in the end. JUST LOOK AT IT.
EDIT: EQD mentioned that the villain looks a lot like Sunset Shimmer, who mentioned that she didn't know who the character was, and implied that she legitimately didn't know, even though she wrote this. According to Rusticware's reply to me on EQD she said that she was "not being secretive or evasive."
EggheadDash 111p · 620 weeks ago
"To maintain continuity, Hasbro retained the same creative talent, animation style and message of friendship."
Well I already figured out the talent one, and I'm glad on the message of friendship. I wouldn't exactly call it the same animation style, since it's hard to do that with completely different creatures. The exception being the Equestria portions, or course.
'“Our goal is to stay true to who those characters are,” said Meghan McCarthy, the head writer for the movie, adding that the high school setting allowed for new storytelling possibilities. “It’s new but still an extension of our mythology.”'
There, this is ****ING CANON. The "the high school setting allowed for new storytelling possibilities" quote made me laugh though.
'The movie — titled “My Little Pony: Equestria Girls” — will be released on DVD later in the United States and other markets worldwide, followed by a television debut on the Hub network in the fall.'
So if you don't want to pay to go see this, or drive hours to the nearest theater (the nearest one to me is 1 hour, 45 minutes away), we can wait for it to air on the Hub in the fall. If you have the Hub you can watch it there, or I imagine it'll be on the interwebz within hours.
"This is a bold new direction”
-Mike Vogel, Hasbro Vice President for Development
Just another hilarious quote.
Okay I'm done now.
Hyperdudeman 111p · 620 weeks ago
DrCob 120p · 620 weeks ago
Yuk 126p · 620 weeks ago
Sorry, but.. you're just desperately looking for flaws to make EQG look like something really awful.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending it. I think it will be like a 6/10 movie. It's just that, your arguments..
Also, no, it's not canon. Just look at that twitter.
EggheadDash 111p · 620 weeks ago
EDIT: Just because it's separate from S4 doesn't mean it's not canon. By that logic, S1-S3 are also not canon.
Yuk 126p · 620 weeks ago
But some of your arguments are just... okay, sorry.
About being canon or not, I understand your logic but come on, we know what Meghan meant.
Let's not get conspiratory and just use some reasoning instead.
EggheadDash 111p · 620 weeks ago
That seems pretty clear.
Eclipse 126p · 620 weeks ago
But seriously, can't really say at this point, knowing really so little outside of a trailer. It's been given not to affect the show itself, so there's little to worry about there. I'm not really much of one for speculation. If nothing else, I'll see it out of pure curiosity to see how good/bad it is.
DrCob 120p · 620 weeks ago
Flutterguy 115p · 620 weeks ago
But the fact that EQG and S4 are separate really lightened my mood.
Well, it all has been sad. shipping twi with a guy who kinda looks like shining -> BAD
Making a movie that incolves everything that was originally banned from MLP -> BAD
Voice acting and less alien lke humans -> better than expected.
Ponies belong to equestria, but this movie might not be as bad as i think it will...
deleted331616 130p · 620 weeks ago
Yuk 126p · 620 weeks ago
Honestly, the animations look great, the characters' designs aren't bad, there seem to be some nice comedy and the characters stay true to their personalities. Those facts you CAN'T deny.
So the only thing I'm concerned with is the storyline. Seems to be poor because it's all highschool and all.
But we have our writers, our musician and our VA's. Really, the only thing we can complain about so far is the storyline. I can't think of anything else.
AND for some clarification: no, we bronies are NOT the target audience for EQG.
There was that one market officer from Hasbro that said:
"Now as we look ahead to the fall of 2013, we’re launching an entirely new pony brand expression in our top-10 countries. We’re going to launch it with a made-for-TV movie and full execution of this new IP across our blueprint. We did a tremendous amount of research, and our consumer insights told us that girls want more ways to play with My Little Pony and more ways to experience My Little Pony, so we’ve developed a brand new expression of My Little Pony—an entirely new IP—that will appeal to slightly older girls and give them an even “cooler” way to play with My Little Pony. And we’ll deliver this IP across multiple product categories within toy and other categories as well, and then importantly across all of our digital platforms. We’ll be revealing this new IP later this summer with full-fledged pink carpet events at major pop culture venues like San Diego’s Comic-Con, so you’ll be hearing more about this new IP as the year unfolds."
See?
That's all.
Celestia1973 130p · 620 weeks ago
Hyperdudeman 111p · 620 weeks ago
CaptainBoat 118p · 620 weeks ago
That said, the side jokes, the shout-outs, and the music should be enjoyable, and I'll probably watch it for that alone.
Ebonysdagger 100p · 620 weeks ago
Ebonysdagger 100p · 620 weeks ago
Trigonometrize 109p · 620 weeks ago
Zirconium_Pants 103p · 620 weeks ago
What will probably be a bigger hurdle for the Brony community is that the Equestria Girls designs are so... well, well defined. Look at a FiM pony. Ambiguous age, not a readily apparent gender, no region-specific attire. You can map a heck of a lot of different people onto that pony, which is why FiM has such a diverse fan base. It's not a big reach to see yourself in one of the characters. With Equestria Girls, we have obviously teen-aged characters who are obviously female or male, from a western culture. It seems a lot less likely to reach outside of a very specific target demographic. I don't know how well I can relate to a human Rainbow Dash that's going to be way more different from me than a pony RD.
As for the storyline, from the bits we've seen I'm not overly impressed. It's better to withhold judgement on that until we get a clearer picture of what happens in the movie IMO. I'm sure Thiessen et al will do an admirable job within the confines of Hasbro's story requirements.
Dawnforge 85p · 620 weeks ago
twilightcadence 104p · 620 weeks ago