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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:17 am

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Postby drunkill (?) » Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:50 am

Canterlot is becoming more and more like Minas Tirith all the time.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:07 am

The Doctor wrote: :areyousure: Sister, our Kingdom is at it's greatest peril by an enemy that knows our one weakness. We may have power over the heavens, but we are no match for a guy with a shinny stick.

A shiny stick (held by a powerful unicorn) defeated Twilight and stole her magic. Coincidence?!

:wingsright: Nice try, but we already know Meadowbrook only had eight magica*BRZAP* :twonk:
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:58 pm

Lol Celestia's lost to changeling drones, so if anything this is a step up for her.
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:45 pm

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(I have no idea who any of these famous people are)


There's a magical thing called Google, and you can copy & paste names into it, and it tells you things :-I

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:52 pm

:ponder: with all the toys being shown off, I really expected a trailer to drop this weekend.
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Postby marshmallow (?) » Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:08 am

Dumb joke, nevermind.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:41 pm

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Postby Ransom (?) » Tue Feb 21, 2017 6:14 am

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Yeah, I had never even heard of Sia before her named attached to this movie.

I run the teen section of my public library and select the music section. I'm obligated by my job to at least keep a passing knowledge of pop music, so I have at least heard of her.

The twist is going to be Storm King is just a front of Grubber, who is the actual master villain /totally random movie prediction with no real reason other than I remember the twist at the end of the American Rabbit and it has for some reason stuck in my head forever.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:36 pm

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/03/my-little-pony-movie-prequel-comic-mini.html?m=0

Looks like the movie is getting its own comic tie-in. It's described as being a mini prequel series to the movie and since Songbird Serenade is on the cover it probably covers the lead up to the friendship festival that was said to be the opening scene back during the NY Toy Fair.

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I haven't read any of the comics in years but I might pick this one up if it isn't too bad.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:38 pm

According to the actual source, it's going to be 96 pages long, so I guess it's going to be published either as four issues or two of the double-length special issues. Given how little time there is between now and the movie's release (in terms of comic book production timeframes), I feel there's a chance it could be the latter, as this TPB is going to get published on September 5.

This is the synopsis:
This fall My Little Pony: The Movie hits theaters, and this prequel mini-series is your first look at the fantastic adventure to come! Danger looms over Equestria as a new villain debuts!
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Postby marshmallow (?) » Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:45 am

I'm curious to see how the movie juggles so many characters. Making a movie that just fleshes out all the Mane 6 would be a challenge. It'll probably be like the adventure episodes and the EG movies where it's mostly about Twilight while the other Mane 6 have short scenes to shine but not go through any sort of arc or development. But on top of the Mane 6 and Spike there's:

8. Storm King
9. Tempest Shadow
10. Grubber
11. Queen Novo
12. Princess Skystar
13. Captain Celaeno
14. Capper
15. Songbird Serenade

Some will play bit parts and Songbird will probably just sing at the start and end. Still, that's a whole heap of characters to fit in, what, a 90 minute movie? All the EG movies were about 70 minutes long.

The only recent animated movie I've seen with such a large cast that had more than lip service character development is Sing:

1. Buster Moon
2. Rosita
3. Ash
4. Meena
5. Johnny
6. Mike

The plot of Sing lets them focus on each character and their boatload of supporting characters while ignoring the rest, then each one has a payoff at the singing competition. Plus it was 110 minutes. If McCarthy can do anything like that with an action-adventure plot where they travel around together that'll be quite the accomplishment.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:56 am

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/03/exclusive-my-little-pony-movie-prequel.html?m=0

So yeah the Movie comic tie-in is going to be a series, and each issue will focus on a new character in the movie.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:45 am

MLP Merch got a few pictures of some more toys from another trade show, including this:
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So yeah, this movie is definitely introducing a new race of bird-people.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:03 am

Angry Pirate Birbs :ponder:
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:27 am

You're burying the lede, here

Because Pirate Applejack was not a thing I expected to see either, let alone pirate AJ + pirate birb
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:27 pm

There's precedent.

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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:00 pm

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Prequel comic coming out in June it seems
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:23 am

:twiright: You see, magic, and by extension, friendship, is made up of tiny microorganisms known as midichlorians.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:14 pm

https://trailer-track.com/2017/04/03/confirmed-first-teaser-trailer-for-my-little-pony-this-week/

Trailer Track is calling that the first teaser of the MLP movie will be shown before the new Smurfs movie.

It's looking to only be thirty seconds so don't expect much.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:34 pm

Aw yeah. Can't wait to see the new character designs in action, they look adorbs :allears:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:24 pm

:v: you know they expect big things by premiering the trailer before a Smirfs movie.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:05 pm

The Doctor wrote::v: you know they expect big things by premiering the trailer before a Smirfs movie.

"This is what a good animated film looks like, Sony Pictures!"
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:08 pm

INB4 new Smurfs has a higher box office and RT score than the MLP movie.

Like we're all not still pretending the pony movie is going to do well are we?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:17 pm

That depends on how many kids there are who care about MLP (whether FiM or EqG, though I'd be surprised if there are terribly many kids who love the latter but don't care much about the former) and how well Hasbro markets the movie. Regarding marketing, I guess we're about to get our first taste of it!
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:17 pm

Yeah it's not going to be Transformers but if they market it right it could be do well enough with its target audience. Better than The Smurfs Movie XIV, anyway. Plus it's not all about the box office, it's also about toy sales.

I don't have high expectations, but here's hoping.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:55 pm

One advantage: Ninjago is the only other kids' movie coming out around then. MLP will probably get stomped by Kingsman and the new Blade Runner unless the latter is really, really bad, but there's very little competition for the family audience.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:21 pm

LEGO Batman had decent legs at the box office, I can see Ninjago having them too if the reviews are positive.

I will honestly be shocked if MLP breaks 10m opening weekend. Them putting the trailer before a Smurfs reboot, and not a big family film doesn't seem to scream confidence from them. They could have put it in front of Boss Baby, or Beauty and the Beast.
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:11 am

DerFurShur wrote:INB4 new Smurfs has a higher box office and RT score than the MLP movie.

Like we're all not still pretending the pony movie is going to do well are we?


I'd actually be more comfortable betting the movie will do well financially than I would betting it will do well critically.

The Doctor wrote:LEGO Batman had decent legs at the box office, I can see Ninjago having them too if the reviews are positive.

I will honestly be shocked if MLP breaks 10m opening weekend. Them putting the trailer before a Smurfs reboot, and not a big family film doesn't seem to scream confidence from them. They could have put it in front of Boss Baby, or Beauty and the Beast.


I guess the big unknown is how well the movie has to do to be profitable. We still don't have any idea what the budget of this thing is, do we?
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Postby Venusy (?) » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:57 am

The reason for putting the teaser before the Smurfs seems pretty obvious to me (aside from it probably being much cheaper than Boss Baby or Beauty and the Beast) - the trailer for Smurfs I saw before Lego Batman heavily implied that Smurfette is the main character, and from a cynical gendered marketing point of view, that's the kind of thing they can probably make use of to get the teaser seen by the right audience (at least the part of it interested in the Smurfs).
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:30 pm

PaulloDEC wrote:I guess the big unknown is how well the movie has to do to be profitable. We still don't have any idea what the budget of this thing is, do we?


Yeah, I don't think anyone involved has been putting those budget numbers in their investor reports for a while now, but Equestria Girls managed to do well enough in a ridiculously limited screening to recoup their production costs. Assuming their celebrity voices and marketing don't bloat things up, I'm guessing Hasbro is playing things conservatively enough to do well.

Anyway, I don't think MLP is going to be a blockbuster #1 animated film, but that's fine as long as it's good. The series has always been focused on having fun presenting a good message, and the audience showed up because they respected that. I hope the movie can do the same.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:26 pm

It's not like any other Animated Series: The Movie movie has ever made a huge impact in its theatrical run. With the possible exception of the time The Care Bears Movie made more money than The Black Cauldron, but that was more about how humiliating it was for Disney, like if a five-year-old managed to beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match.

These things are always just big-budget, 90-minute episodes of the show that get theatrical runs more because they can than because they really belong there. I don't expect this to be any different. That said, this was also before it became a big business to adapt popular animated series into movies, usually of the live-action/CG hybrid sort. I won't argue with Sony's assumption that doing that to My Little Pony would have made more money than what's happening now. I just argue that the movie itself would have been garbage. But garbage is what sells these days.
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:05 am

Garbage doesn't really sell, though - yea, some of the dumb animated films make back their budgets, but plenty flop hard too, and ditto live action.

The movies that have been going huge of late? They're either Marvel films which have perfected the Summer Popcorn Fun Formula, or else they're the ones doing something crazy-weird like Deadpool or Get Out did.
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Postby dragoonanime (?) » Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:44 pm

I wonder if there is any chance of the main villain showing up in season 7 considering that season 7 will end very shortly before the movie comes out if there are no breaks.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:57 pm

And I wonder if the season finale will tie into the movie in any way :ponder:
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:10 pm

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=432901730392021&id=118429394841173

Teaser is out on Facebook.

As was expected, it's not much, just a few animations. And the celebrities listed.



Now on YouTube. And man look at those down votes go.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:19 pm

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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:26 pm

Trailer is here yay! :yay:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:33 pm

That's like a direct-to-video teaser.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:35 pm

The animation is definitely nice, but the quality of the Facebook-to-YouTube rips is not doing any favors. :nngh:
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