S06E20: Viva Las Pegasus

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Re: S06E20: Viva Las Pegasus

Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 7:12 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Today I learned that Britney Spears is still relevant enough to have a show in Vegas and to get referenced in My Little Pony. What an honor!


There are actually slot machines of her now. Course pretty much everything has a slot machine of it these days. Even Dungeons and Dragons. Seriously. I'd be lying if I didn't want to steal the chair of the Terminator machine we had a few years back. The seat had an embroidered T-800 head on it. :allears:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 7:52 pm

Oo, I didn't even see the actual Luxor back there. :-I

E: Which I guess means the one at right, while evoking the Eiffel Tower of the Paris casino, is actually designed to look like an idealized Crystal Empire palace. It's a Crystal Empire themed casino :allears:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:55 pm

Octavia wrote:Here you go:

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Also let me just say that it's :3: as hell that they animated it accurately.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 10:05 pm

Headless Horse wrote:It's a Crystal Empire themed casino

Lots of evidence suggests otherwise, but let's just say the show's timeline is equal to ours: The Crystal Empire came back at the beginning of Season 3. We're about to close out Season 6, so let's round up and say it's been four years since the Empire returned. Could we concept, plan, implement, and physically build an entire entertainment complex and resort hotel in four years, let alone one based on a civilization that was previously considered to be just a myth, let alone these little ponies?

...Sure. Yes, because it's great. It's an awesome in-universe nod, and it reminds me of Eddie Izzard's comment about Euro Disney and castles: "You better make it a bit bigger, they've actually got them here... And they're not made of plastic!"
Also let me just say that it's :3: as hell that they animated it accurately.
:serious: Yeah, umm actually I know for a fact they don't put an X over the outline arrow if you miss one (not that I've been in a situation to verify that in the past few years) and if you look closely you'll see...
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 10:19 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I really wish the show's animators, background artists, etc., got attention on Twitter on the same level that the writers, directors, and actors do. Sibsy is the only particularly noticed one who comes to mind and she doesn't even work on the show anymore.

Jim Miller does call out Twitter accounts of storyboard artists and other helpful team members whenever they come up in an episode, but most of them seem pretty quiet. Although, considering the treatment Jim gets, maybe that's for the best.
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Postby Femto (?) » Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:00 am

I do like how Las Pegasis is mostly how a young kid would picture an ideal vacation place, it's a cute touch. :anticipation:

e: also good: horse snorts, the animation when Fluttershy takes the wig off.

e2: I can't believe they referenced the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in this children's show :v:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:29 am

Las Pegasus gave me the S1 feeling of saying "I wish this really existed." :ponydrugs:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:45 am

I mean, the energy of the place. Everyone running around all the time. OMG! :awesomedash:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:24 pm

Headless Horse wrote:I mean, the energy of the place. Everyone running around all the time. OMG! :awesomedash:

Literally :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs: ?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:48 am

The way everypony was running around reminded me of Ms. Peachbottom from the Equestria Games sales pitch episode.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Tue Sep 20, 2016 3:14 am

She was from Mustangia. :allears: I miss her a bunch.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:13 am

Headless Horse wrote:I mean, the energy of the place. Everyone running around all the time. OMG! :awesomedash:

It actually felt like it was a fun and legitimately enjoyable place, even if the gaming was no more "adult" than what you'd find at a Dave & Buster's or something.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:29 am

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Postby Strangepony (?) » Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:43 am

Smuggershy. :dreamworks:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:52 am

This has been Fluttershy's season for facial expressions. Image
:speakest: The fun has been doubled!
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:35 am

Mr. Big wrote:Yeah, that's something I noticed. By now, the audience knows the routine for the map episodes, so they skipped the train sequence for once. Made for a great intro, when they arrived at Las Pegasus.


Also conveniently avoids showing us how exactly one gets up to Las Pegasus.

Just like they avoided showing us how they reached the Dragonlands, except that's actually across the sea... ;P

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I totally sympathize with this and I agree, but I look past the grammatical clumsiness because I know (based on things like the old map) that they were this close to making "Los Pegasus" into the analog not of Vegas but of Los Angeles, and that would have been even worse.


But the pun works better that way.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:15 am

The problem with Los Angeles as a pony town is that, outside of Hollywood, its identity as a city is, "It's really big." They did include "Applewood" on the world map, but unless they did a movie star episode, Vegas has more of an identity as a glitzy tourist trap, like we saw here.
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:30 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:The problem with Los Angeles as a pony town is that, outside of Hollywood, its identity as a city is, "It's really big." They did include "Applewood" on the world map, but unless they did a movie star episode, Vegas has more of an identity as a glitzy tourist trap, like we saw here.


Would make a great location for Tartarus, though

Because, you know. LA is Hell. >_>
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Sep 22, 2016 10:28 am

My assumption with Las Pegasus was that it'd be relatively anchored to a mountain or some other structure where the train station would be. That way, even walking up to the city would be filled with flashy, gaudy stuff, just like how I've been told that even McCarran International Airport has slot machines so that you can start gambling as soon as you get off your flight to Las Vegas.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Sep 22, 2016 10:38 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:That way, even walking up to the city would be filled with flashy, gaudy stuff, just like how I've been told that even McCarran International Airport has slot machines so that you can start gambling as soon as you get off your flight to Las Vegas.

Confirmed.

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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:30 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:It actually felt like it was a fun and legitimately enjoyable place, even if the gaming was no more "adult" than what you'd find at a Dave & Buster's or something.

Seeing how I spent some of my vacation at a Dave & Buster's, I can agree with this.
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