My Little Pony: The Movie
 

Lionsgate and Hasbro teamed up for My Little Pony: The Movie, an animated film based on the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series.
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/anima...railer-a150190

I love the FiM show, so I'm sure I'll love this movie when I see it on the big screen. From the way its advertised, it seems like this movie could the finale for the show, as season 7 will probably end by the time the movie comes out.

In total, mlp FiM has given us at the very least, 7 seasons with 169 episodes, 4 spin off movies and one feature film coming out. That's quite a legacy for something that started out as a toy commercial.

Really looking forward to this. I love the show.

I know this might be the finale but I hope it's not.

The hype is real! Still watch the show to this day.

I didn't read anything about this being the finale.

I'm sure this will be awesome news for about... 20 girls, and 40 billion guys.

Right? I'll never understand it either.

Not really hard to understand, a good show is a good show, and some people don't let things like asthetics get to them

It looks like it might be using G1 characters...I may have dropped out, but I still recognize some of the redesigns by fans enough to know that Fire Fly is in there.

I don't know. I've heard from some people that it is a good show but I just personally don't care. Besides, even if it was a good show, how would you know? How many grown men randomly watch shows aimed at little girls just in case they happened to be turn out to be good shows?

honestly dropped MLP at the 100th episode, moved on with Ever After High...now that's some good ****. Before the rebranding, it was essentially Kamen Rider Gaim of little girl's cartoons.

It just has that right type of ****ed up situation where none of the characters are allowed to have happy childhoods. I find the characters so deep that I could almost drown in them (especially Ginger Breadhouse.)

I personally thought it looked cute and watched a couple episodes out of curiosity since it didn't seem like kindergarten material.

Don't you ever just check something out for the fun of it? Who cares who it's "supposed to be for" ?

With regarding Ever After High, I caught an ad on Youtube. It essentially just said that if you don't act like a puppet and follow your lines, you die. So curious, I watch the first season of the show (about 45 minutes) and found the story to catch my attention.

I picked the first Ever After High book (which goes deeper into the first season) and got hooked with the characters and stories, and finding out the mysteries of the world. and despite the rebranding, I'm (for the most part) am enjoying the series 15 books in.

From character's past, to the bestiality, to Bella and Brutta, the death of Blue Fairy's daughter, to a god that is just ****ing with her creations, the series seems to have it all for me.

and it's a goldmine for theories for me (and I don't really jump on the theory wagons)

It's a different era now, guys can like fluffy and cute stuff.

MLP is not my thing, but for the guys liking it: enjoy.

They have a name for this fanbase, They call them Bronies.

This could be the closest thing to a classic Disney-esque film since The Princess and the Frog in 2009, or the Winnie the Pooh movie in 2011, what with the 2D animation and musical numbers. Definitely looking forward to taking my niece to see it.

If the animation looks off to anyone, it's because the trailer people for whatever reason apparently messed up on the conversion process.

"They didn't convert the 16 bit images to 8 bit properly and it crushed all the shadows. I'm so depressed." explains MLP: the Movie's art director Rebecca Dart on Twitter, also commenting with "I never would have approved this. The animation looks so much better than this, trust me."

I'm pretty sure everyone knows this by now. I myself love this show but I don't see myself as something of a die-hard fan. It's very enjoyable and can be outright amusing at times. One of the earlier episodes I remember is when an anvil and piano fell on Twilight for trying to figure out Pinkie Pie's senses.:lol:

I, too, always found it weird how so many grown men are into this show. I believe you if you say it has surprisingly good writing for a cartoon aimed at little girls... but what exactly is good writing for a cartoon with such target demographics? I mean, I also have liked shows targeted at female audiences before such as Nana and Sailor Moon before but those series are not aimed at 5 year old girls.

Maybe it all started as a joke and then word spread and thus got more grown men interested in it? I wonder if Winx Club had lots of male fans back in the day as well.

Exactly. One doesn't exactly see what is essentially a show for little girls and decide 'hmmm I think I'll watch it just in case it's secretly a good show'. Just like little girls that are into girly stuff wouldn't randomly watch Spawn and just in case there's a cuddly teddy bear in there somewhere.

I just never got into. Nowadays when I browse for new shows or series I tend to go for action packed or at least interesting anime.

The ponies look cute, and have cute voices. That's the best guess I can make.

For a min I almost thought an unknown one in the trailer might have been Firefly from back in the day... Has a moon or something on her butt though, not a lightning bolt. Darn.

I admit this cartoon has grown on me. (I swear though, if this or the series does not address Scootaloo's family absence... lol)

Is it really a good show though?

I remember when the Hub premiered the hit surprise show ended up being My Little Pony and everyone in /co/ loved it mostly because of the reaction images they were getting and it was a cute show. I tried to love the show but it never clicked like it did with other people. Eventually all these umm...let's call them bronies took the show a little too seriously and then the opinion of the show turned from awesome to creepy. Odd how it happened since originally it was kind of an anticulture thing that made the show cool but then that became into just something like furries.

I only watched the first two seasons which had the original creator of the show and I might've finished the third season but that was it. It was a cute show but that's about it and doesn't deserve so many episodes. Isn't the movie a little too late? Even bronies have kind of died down in recent years and in general the show isn't as hot as it was when it came out or the years following.

I think Lauren Faust was only involved in the first season and the premier of the second.

And I also think I'm the one that spread the fandom to my boyfriend and the other boys I hung out with in high school (thanks to the Autistic Support group making me the only girl most of the time). I fell out around season...fiiiiive? I'm not entirely sure, but I was officially done after the episode with meeting Twilight Sparkle's niece.

I love the show and hope to see another season as good as the 2nd or 4th.

I wish they gave us an actual preview for the movie.

Is it really hard to understand why people would enjoy ponies?

I mean look at power ranger/tokusatsu, it's a franchise about grown men in spandex beating the **** out of one another

The Rise of The Bronies!!!! Coming to a theater near you!

Season 8 of the show was just announced. Assuming its 26 episodes like the seasons before it, it would bring the show to a grand total of 195 episodes, surprassing the original tmnt cartoon!

Its seems like the show still has quite a bit of steam left, even after the feature film.

I assume that MLP merchandise is still selling and they don't want to chance to lose profit by doing another reboot.

I mean, look what happened to Monster High after the reboot...from what I heard it really took it bad in the sales.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mlp becomes the SpongeBob of Hasbro.

Official trailer released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIv_ConaZ1c

artstyle is...different to say the least. if my niece wantsto see it, I might take her. Otherwise it will be a streaming.

I can't wait to see it in theaters.

The big movie budget looks so weird xD . Look at all the frames

(And they finally get to seaponies after I've gotten bored of it???)

Looks really nice with the higher production.

We all know this, dude. We're on the internet.:roll:

It's really entertaining. When you watch the first season (the first two episodes won't quite convince a new-goer), you start to see why this show appeals to anyone that really loves cartoons. There's a lot of Looney Tune-esque antics in the show to keep it from falling under the category of "girls cartoon." To be honest, I always felt that this show was more so popular amongst the internet than phenomenally like Rugrats, Pokemon, or Spongebob, so I don't think it will lose steam anytime soon.

I liked the trailer a lot. I'm a bit mixed on the animation style, though. It's nice to see them going all out for the movie but I'm so used to the series being flash animated that it just seems a tad jarring.

I'm definitely not the target audience, and I don't understand how this appeals to anyone who isn't a little girl, but I have to admit that the animation looks good. Apart from the fact that the characters don't look right with the backgrounds at times. Aside from that, definitely a step up than cheapy flash-animation.

Looks like your standard play-it-safe film

I agree with SDP, I feel this film's come way too late, the show peaked ages ago and I don't know too many friends that were into it back then that watch it now. I certainly lapsed after the third season. I kind of 'shipped Rarity and Spike back in the day, and to a smaller degree, Fluttershy and Discord [yeah, I'm a crack 'shipper]

Never was really one to ship much, though the redneck part of me found the ironic comedy of Applejack/Bigmac hilarious.

Though I suppose if I had to choose, it would be Sunset/Pony!Twilight.

I hope the movie is good and does really well at the boxoffice.

Personally the Rarity+Spike ship should never happen. I was hoping Spike would get over Rarity and find someone closer to his own age like Sweetiebell. But I agree, the Fluttershy+Discord ship should happen.

So the movie premiers tomorrow and while there aren't any professional reviews yet, fans that got an advance screening gave it positive reviews. I expect this to be a good movie much like how the original Transformers movie, the Spongebob movie or even the Simpsons movie, but I'm interested to see how newcomers that have never seen the show before react to it. I'll see the movie tomorrow or sometime this weekend, but either way I'll be seeing it soon and I look forward to it.

Too bad my local theater didn't get it and I do not have a car.:(