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Postby Bremen (?) » Mon May 02, 2016 4:03 am

I really doubt it.

Other thoughts, I wonder if they'll actually set hippogriffs up as pony/griffon mixes, or just have them as their own race?
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Tue May 03, 2016 11:22 pm

Well a griffon is a half-eagle, half-lion. Whereas a hippogriff is a half-eagle, half-horse. Totally different species. :twiright: I just think it's a bit strange that they would have an air themed pony race that isn't pegasi related.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Tue May 03, 2016 11:37 pm

Soft Snow wrote:Well a griffon is a half-eagle, half-lion. Whereas a hippogriff is a half-eagle, half-horse. Totally different species. :twiright: I just think it's a bit strange that they would have an air themed pony race that isn't pegasi related.


In what language does griff mean eagle? As far as I'm aware a Hippogriff was historically viewed as half horse, half griffin.
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Tue May 03, 2016 11:48 pm

Yeah, mythologically, a hippogriff is the offspring of a horse and a griffin, so they definitely could be a hybrid race in Equestria. The show has already established that mules (a hybrid of a horse and a donkey) exist, so it wouldn't be completely unprecedented.
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Postby Ransom (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 2:49 pm

I'm trying to imagine a scenario where Celestia has an Optimus style death and...I just can't even really imagine it. :gonkity:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 4:28 pm

Bremen wrote:
In what language does griff mean eagle? As far as I'm aware a Hippogriff was historically viewed as half horse, half griffin.

Latin. :wingsright:
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Postby Bremen (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 4:43 pm

Soft Snow wrote:Latin. :wingsright:


"Aquila"

From the Wikipedia page on Griffins:

"The derivation of this word remains uncertain. It could be related to the Greek word γρυπός (grypos), meaning 'curved', or 'hooked'. Also, this could have been an Anatolian loan word, compare Akkadian karūbu (winged creature), and similar to Cherub. A related Hebrew word is כרוב (kerúv).[5]"
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri May 06, 2016 12:08 am

Bremen wrote:
"Aquila"

From the Wikipedia page on Griffins:

"The derivation of this word remains uncertain. It could be related to the Greek word γρυπός (grypos), meaning 'curved', or 'hooked'. Also, this could have been an Anatolian loan word, compare Akkadian karūbu (winged creature), and similar to Cherub. A related Hebrew word is כרוב (kerúv).[5]"

<insert joke where Soos from Gravity Falls mispronounces pterodactyl as "Pa-terodactyl" because it was such a long time ago no one remembers how to say it>

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Postby The Ghost Of Ember (?) » Fri May 06, 2016 4:00 am

Ransom wrote:I'm trying to imagine a scenario where Celestia has an Optimus style death and...I just can't even really imagine it. :gonkity:

They'd probably turn or to stone or have her scattered to the cosmic dust or something rather than having her really die. Dead in everything but actual fact and the characters act like she's dead, but parents can keep acting like death doesn't exist
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Postby Dal (?) » Sat May 14, 2016 8:18 am

Just thinking about something like that makes me physically ill. Would without a doubt ruin the show for me.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 12:39 am

Yeah while Twilight taking her place at the end of the show isn't 100% out of the question, there's no way Celestia's actually gonna die :pinkieshrug:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:45 am

This is interesting:

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MLP Movie and Guardians branding on the same product, suggesting the lines are linked somehow. It doesn't help that we don't actually know if Guardians is more than just a toy line at this stage.

I guess this could just be a movie character toy rendered in the Guardians style.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:11 am

Also at the top of the card: Gilda, Flim or Flam, and... is that Hoity Toity?
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:55 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:Also at the top of the card: Gilda, Flim or Flam, and... is that Hoity Toity?


Sure looks like it. I also see Daring Do's front legs I think, and maybe Pip's head?

Probably just stock shots.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:51 am

That, or perhaps they all show up in the film. I wouldn't be surprised if there's at least one crowd shot where we see as many one-off characters and background ponies as possible, much like the stadium audience we saw in Equestria Games.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jun 25, 2016 12:35 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:That, or perhaps they all show up in the film. I wouldn't be surprised if there's at least one crowd shot where we see as many one-off characters and background ponies as possible, much like the stadium audience we saw in Equestria Games.

Probably when everyone has to channel their friendship to Twilight so she can beat up the cosmos.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:47 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Probably when everyone has to channel their friendship to Twilight so she can beat up the cosmos.


I would be thoroughly down with that actually. Instead of fretting about responsibility and duties, Twilight starts to think real hard about what she actually knows about friendship and decides she's still pretty new at it and not even that good. The plot hinges around her being reassured by tons of little random encounters with everyday ponies she's met before that she really does now know how to forge personal connections and be liked, to whatever degree is necessary to engage global friendship = magic mode.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:24 pm

So in a fairly light SDCC panel, apparently this happened:

Table read with the full cast of an upcoming scene.

Queen of the hippos... leave equestria. Hungry, hungry, hippos.

It was a table read of a scene from the MOVIE!!!!

Movie Character: Somber Songbird Serenade. Played by Sia


EDIT: Official tweet: https://twitter.com/DiscFamilyDay/statu ... 2502500353
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:28 pm

Discovery Family is calling her Songbird Serenade

So not sure who to trust on this one, but cool that Sia is gonna be in it, maybe she gets to sing on a song
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:36 pm

DerFurShur wrote:Discovery Family is calling her Songbird Serenade

So not sure who to trust on this one, but cool that Sia is gonna be in it, maybe she gets to sing on a song


Would be a lovely twist if Songbird Serenade didn't sing :v:
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:42 pm

Yeah but what's the point of paying extra money for one of the biggest current pop artists and then not have her sing?
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:45 pm

Official tweet: https://twitter.com/DiscFamilyDay/statu ... 2502500353

Looking back in this thread, the EqG link to a Russian presentation on May 1 now leads to a dead video, but I said this at the time:

Going way back to the Sony leaks where the plot was vaguely referred to in an email, it's possible the sea ponies is one of three places to go to get the three stones/MacGuffins, etc. I will say that the opening with Spike sending letters the nostalgic way etc. sounds pretty legit to me.


And Soft Snow surmised

So from that I can gather, some guy named Cosmo shows up and says ponies don't belong in Equestria and starts a bunch of ruckus. The only only way to stop him is to collect the stones of water, air and fire and to get them they have to transform into a different pony species each themed after their respective stone. So far the new ponies will be seaponies, hippogriffs and I can only imagine the fire ponies will either be nightmares or those dragon things from Thems' Fightin' Herds


Today's snippet only strengthens those inferences, I'd say.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:50 pm

Sooooooo they're gonna turn into hippos?
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:54 pm

Songbird Serenade

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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:58 pm

So the ears are confirmed to be movie style
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 6:58 pm

They're also changing the wings.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:03 pm

So 50/50 on this being her actual character or just a pony version of Sia they made specifically for the announcement.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:13 pm

Oh, so she is a product placement :-I I was joking around the idea that it was related to the Hungry Hungry Hippos game which happens to be owned by Hasbro.

I wonder if we'll meet Guess Who :amazing:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:14 pm

Marimo wrote:They're also changing the wings.

Have we gotten a good look at the wings of more regular pegasi? New characters tend to more often have unique faces, eyes, hairstyles, etc., than those from the early days of the show, so this could just be another case of that.

And am I the only one who has never heard of this "Sia" person? :-I
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:15 pm

She wrote Try Everything from Zootopia
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:47 pm

That hair is so anime.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:55 pm

It's based off how she looks in real life, including it covering her eyes
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:16 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Have we gotten a good look at the wings of more regular pegasi? New characters tend to more often have unique faces, eyes, hairstyles, etc., than those from the early days of the show, so this could just be another case of that.

The ears are also unique, and they're changing Twilight's ears to look like that in the movie. I imagine the other characters will get redesigns as well.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:51 pm

http://deadline.com/2016/07/sia-my-little-pony-actress-and-songstress-comic-con-1201791009/

So Sia's Songbird Serenade is going to be a popstar and Sia did in fact write two songs on the soundtrack.

So yeah she's literally going to be the Shakira/Gazelle of the movie.

Also this is the first of me hearing about it but Rita Hsiao is also co-writing the movie alongside McCarthy. Hsiao was involved in Toy STORY 2 and Disney's Mulan.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:58 pm

Interesting. Having someone who's written major children's movies before maybe polishing the script sounds good though.

Also yay who needs Coloratura anymore? :iamapony:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:59 pm

DerFurShur wrote:So 50/50 on this being her actual character or just a pony version of Sia they made specifically for the announcement.


They're sure pushing that image hard; Sia's official twitter account directly states "Here's Sia as Songbird Serenade for the #MyLittlePony movie. Check out her #cutiemark!". Given that I found Gazelle/Shakira to be the only bad part of Zootopia, the whole thing makes me a little nervous.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:29 pm

It is good we are getting some big names for this movie. People might actually recognize Sia's name better because of her role in MLP. Pony fandom seems to put a bit more emphasizes on the cast of the show then most other fandoms it seems.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:16 pm

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/10/mlp-movie-emily-blunt-hints-at-her.html?m=0

Blurb from Popsugar:

PS: What other movies of yours are you excited to show your kids?
EB: The animated ones; I did Animal Crackers with John [Krasinski], which was so fun and cute. And I did My Little Pony, though I'm a nasty pony in that, which was kinda fun. I'm excited about Mary Poppins. I think Salmon Fishing in the Yemen's a really good movie. I think some of these movies where I'm making out with other guys, they're gonna be like "Ewww!"


So it sounds like Emily Blunt's character in the movie will either be a jerk or maybe even a villain. Which is funny because remember Sassy Saddles was based off of her character from The Devil Wears Prada.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:27 am

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/04/ ... -pony.html

The First clip is now showing on the screen, it makes everyone really excite and goosebump. Yes, it’s a movie trailer. No No No, not the trailer you saw on the last week. It’s a new one, never before seen, with a near complete version of the animation. Production is very terrific. The frame rate is very high, the background is so detail, character animation is so life-like, and so smooth. (Sorry, Hasbro not let us to take any photo out of it). The clip also contained several new songs from our guest stars (including SIA!).

After we saw it, the hall is now filled with fan praising the show.
But yet, it’s not over yet. The MC now announce that we have 2 more clips to show, and you will never believe about what you see it today.

The 2nd clip is unexpected, it filled with cinematic feeling. The Pegasus are flying to somewhere, the screen is show the life in Equestria with orchestrated music. And it’s end up with the logo: My Little Pony the Movie. It’s wowed all people in the hall, because they never believe what they saw. It’s the OPENING scene of the Movie!!

The 3rd clip is show on the screen nonstop. Guess what is it? It’s a music video cut from the movie, but it’s not a complete version. It’s an animatic! The song is sang by *** and *** and ___ playing wood drums on it. It’s so Disney-que (Remembered Moana, Frozen, and Aladdin) and you will never disappoint. (We can’t spoil it, to ensure our safety and guaranteed your compliment when you see it).

You will never believe it! We not got just 1 clip but 3. 3 unreleased clips!!! Hasbro is very generous to us.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:01 am

High frame rate? :rariwhat:

I doubt they animated in 60 frames or just above the current rate. I think either he confused slick animation and animation smears for a high frame rate or maybe Hasbro showed the footage off a screen that artificially creates a higher frame rate.

I mean, there's shows like Wander Over Yonder that has some of the best animation smears and there's Little Witch Academia that has these amazingly fluid slick character animation. Both of them are still animated in 12 frames
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