My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is a 2013 American-Canadian fantasy animated children's film and the first My Little Pony film since My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure in 2009 and the first theatrically released My Little Pony film since My Little Pony: The Movie in 1986. The film tells the story of Twilight Sparkle, now princess of Equestria, as she must travel into the human world in order to retrieve her element of magic and continue to protect her universe.
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Director | Jayson Thiessen |
Producer | Sarah Wall Devon Cody |
The film is set in the continuity of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but also introduces the Equestria Girls universe of characters and places into the franchise. As such, it introduces the eventual face of that franchise, Sunset Shimmer as its lead antagonist and introduces the concept of "corrupted magic", which would be expanded upon in its second sequel, Equestria Girls: Friendship Games.
Although the film was not as much a critical darling as the television show it was inspired by, it did receive an impressive viewership of 553,000 in the U.S. and would spawn a massive toyline that would last for an entire decade to come.
Synopsis
Story
Featuring
- Main characters
- Primary settings
Appearances
Characters and groups
- Mane Six
- Spike
- All Aboard
- Amethyst Star
- Goldengrape
- Shoeshine
- Equestrian royal family / Amore Dynasty
- Royal Guards of Equestria
- Biggest Meanies
- Sunset Shimmer (reformation arc)
- Snips
- Snails
- Equestria Girls (regroups)
- Canterlot High School cliques
- Athletes
- Fashionistas
- Dramas
- Eco Kids
- Techies
- Rockers
- Crimson Napalm
- Valhallen
- Cherry Crash
- Thunderbass
- Flash Sentry (Equestria Girls) (also apart of Flash Drive)
- Ringo? (also apart of Flash Drive)
- Brawley Beats? (also apart of Flash Drive)
- Mystery Mint
- Other CHS students
- Canterlot High School staff
- Canterlot Movie Club
- Apple family
- Applejack
- Granny Smith
- Apple Bloom
- Friendship Express
Places
- Crystal Empire
- Human world
- Canterlot
- Canterlot High School
- Hallways
- Principal office
- Cafeteria
- Gymnasium
- Library
- Soccer field
- Faculty lot
- Sweet Shoppe
- Canterlot High School
- Canterlot
Objects
- Crystal Heart
- Elements of Harmony
- Magic Mirror
- Wondercolt
- Canterlot High School yearbooks
- Twilight Sparkle's disguise
- Wondercolt cheer leading outfits
- Rarity's glasses
- Flash Sentry's car
Events
Species
Abilities
Staff
Cast
Featured Voice Performers
- Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
- Ashleigh Ball as Applejack and Rainbow Dash
- Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy
- Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity and Vice Principal/Princess Luna
- Cathy Weseluck as Spike
- Rebecca Shoichet as Sunset Shimmer
- Lee Tockar as Snips
- Richard Ian Cox as Snails
- Nicole Oliver as Principal/Princess Celestia and Miss Cheerilee
- Vincent Tong as Flash Sentry
- Britt McKillip as Princess Cadance
Featured Singers
- Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle
- Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie
- Kazumi Evans as Rarity
Crew
- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Series Developed For Television By: Lauren Faust
- Voice Director: Terry Klassen
- Voice Casting & Production: Voiebox Productions Inc
- Score by: William Kevin Anderson
- Additional Music and Orchestrations by: Matthew Sorensen, Patrick Griffin, Kelly Davidson, Alex Lu
- Theme Song Remix by: Daniel Ingram
- "This Strange World" Music and Lyrics by: Daniel Ingram
- "Equestria Girls" Music by: Daniel Ingram
- Lyrics by: Daniel Ingram and Meghan McCarthy
- "Time to Come Together" Music by: Daniel Ingram
- Lyrics by: Daniel Ingram and Meghan McCarthy
- "This Is Our Big Night" Music by: Daniel Ingram
- Lyrics by: Daniel Ingram and Meghan McCarthy
- "A Friend for Life" Music by: Daniel Ingram
- Storyboard Supervisor: "Big Jim" Miller
- Storyboard Artists: Sabrina Alberghetti, Marshall Fels Elliot, Emmett Hall, Sherann Johnson, Raven Molisee, Cory Toomey
- Storyboard Revionists: Sabrina Alberghetti, Hanna Lee, Nabie-Ah Yousuf
- Art Director: Ridd Sorensen
- Character Concept Designer: Kora Kosicka
- Character Designers: Rebecca Dart, John Keane, Josh Tin
- Prop Designers: John Beveridge, Hanna Lee
- Location Designer: Phil Caesar
- Cleanup Artists: Patrick Colquhoun, Justine Pulles
- Location Color: Geoff Manson
- Color Artist: Alexandra Jones
- Builds Development: James "Wootie" Woottan
- Builds Supervisor: Jaqueline Robinson
- Character Build Artists: Dennis Hu, Vivian Hui, Edwin Poon, Mike Tse, Nabie-Ah Yousuf
- BG Builds Supervisor: Chris Mizzoni
- Offline Editor: Mark Kuehnel
- Online Editor: Mark Kuehnel
- Layout Supervisors: Denny Lu, Ishi Rudell
- Key Layout Artists: Tim Bennett, Kuan-Fu Chen, Kristen Dingman, Matthew Herring, Christopher Leinonen, Rexis Liwanag, Graeme MacDonald, Edwin Poon
- Layout Artists: Trish Bartklw, William Bradford, Kaylea Chard, May Chow, Hyunjoo Kim, Daniel MacGregor, Ella Marshak, Fernanda Ribiero, Randy Santa Ana, Kat Stenson, Wataru Uno, Sebastian Zegers
- Animation Director: Ishi Rudell
Behind the scenes
Production
Reception
Music
Merchandise
Toyline
Equestria Girls proved to be successful to push an impressive amount of merchandise. The film produced three toylines, Equestria Girls, Through the Mirror, and Pinkie Pie's Boutique, though the latter only provided one figure.
Publications
The film also produced a number of publications; on October 1, 2013, a novelization of the film entitled Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror, written by G.M. Berrow, notably featuring a notably different plotline with additional scenes and characters. The first annual by IDW Publishing featured two stories based off the film; both prequels. The first, "The Fall of Sunset Shimmer" starred Sunset Shimmer who was still in Canterlot, while the second story, "Equestria Girls" was about the girls in their first days in high school.
Home media
On August 6, 2013, the film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray by Shout! Factory and has later appeared in the Equestria Girls: Three Movie Gift Set. In 2014, Clear Vision released a DVD in France and Italy[1][2].
Around the world
Quotes
Notes
- Yet unnamed and alternate identifications:
- Micro Chips: Named in "Best in Show: The Victory Lap"
- Sandalwood: Currently unknown
- Sweet Shoppe: Named in the films' novelization
- Indigo Wreath was identified as the two-legged creature in the novelization, he has yet to receive any other proper identifier
- Teddy was possibly identified as Sir Chance-a-Lot in the novelization.
- While the original students of CHS were said to be original designs, a number of them resemble Friendship is Magic characters to a varying degree. These include Cherry Crash resembling Gilda, Wiz Kid resembling Featherweight and Cloudy Kicks resembling Cloudkicker.
- The backstory with the Equestria Girls being friends as young girls would arguably be contradicted by the comic story "Equestria Girls", published in My Little Pony Annual 2013 in which the art (done by Tony Fleecs) depicted them noticeably older looking in their first meet ups.
- While this could simply be an art error, the other Equestria Girls comic story included in the 2013 annual, "The Fall of Sunset Shimmer" contained its own continuity errors regarding the chronological placement of the films' backstory. Most notably, seemingly portraying Moon Dancer, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon as adults, and most perplexing of all, Twilight Sparkle as a filly, during Sunset Shimmer's first voyage into the human world, in which she was already a teenager.
- ...This has lead many to view Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry's relationship as, umm, extremely creepy as it would imply she would be at least 30 while he was around 15 to 17 at his oldest.
- ......Likewise, the closest thing to a canon age Twilight Sparkle has ever been given was promotional material for My Little Pony: 20/20 stating that the Sonic Rainboom incident happened 20 years in the past, c. early post-Storm War Equestria. Even at low-end estimations of the passage of time between season 4 and 8, this could put Twilight in her early 20s while she was romantically involved with a high schooler.
- ...This has lead many to view Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry's relationship as, umm, extremely creepy as it would imply she would be at least 30 while he was around 15 to 17 at his oldest.
- While this could simply be an art error, the other Equestria Girls comic story included in the 2013 annual, "The Fall of Sunset Shimmer" contained its own continuity errors regarding the chronological placement of the films' backstory. Most notably, seemingly portraying Moon Dancer, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon as adults, and most perplexing of all, Twilight Sparkle as a filly, during Sunset Shimmer's first voyage into the human world, in which she was already a teenager.
- Up until the 2017 film, Equestria Girls was informally known as the My Little Pony movie, given how it was promoted in its early days, before being considered a backdoor pilot for the Equestria Girls branding.