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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:28 pm

I'd be surprised if that name doesn't come up in the actual show at one point.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:58 am

It's a solid ass pony name
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:44 am

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:speakest: He will of course be voicing my pet Opossum, Tiberius.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:48 am

How many more Star Trek stars does FiM have to get before trekkies start showing up en masse at Bronycon?
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:11 am

Now I'd like to see a "KHAN!!!" type scene in an episode with Shatner. :twonk:

I wonder if Leonard Nimoy liked Pony. It would have been awesome to see them both do an episode. :fluttersmith:
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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:18 am

I would love nothing more than to have Patrick Stewart voice Starswirl.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:17 am

Patrick Stewart is a chill enough old dude to do that, too.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:59 am

Patrick Stewart is a semi-regular on "American Dad". He's definitely done cartoons before.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 5:30 am

If they can somehow get Shatner to make an appearance, it may be the greatest thing ever.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:46 am

I hope Patrick voices Starswirl. Or he could voice that ancient griffon in a flashback.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:54 pm

If Patrick Stewart appears, it'd only be natural to have Discord somewhere in there. Just think of the possibilities... :v:
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:09 am

Starswirl and Discord could totally be old rivals
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 5:41 am

You know, that is really a cool idea. I'm sure that they could do so much with that storyline...maybe it could even be a two parter.
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:44 am

shotgunbadger wrote:Starswirl and Discord could totally be old rivals


I've been saying that ever since Discord showed up for the first time. They better make it come true. :rainbert:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:51 am

I'd like to think that the showrunners would seriously consider it if they can somehow get Stewart to make an appearance.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:30 am

I dunno, I think it would feel a bit gimmicky to me. I don't know if I'd be able to get the image of American Dad Patrick Stewart out of my head.

It's like, come on, the Trek joke has been done. Don't beat it to death, this show is usually better than that.
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:15 pm

Headless Horse wrote:I dunno, I think it would feel a bit gimmicky to me. I don't know if I'd be able to get the image of American Dad Patrick Stewart out of my head.

It's like, come on, the Trek joke has been done. Don't beat it to death, this show is usually better than that.


1) It's your own fault if you watch American Dad so much that you associate Patrick Stewart strongly with it. :P
2) If anything, it would actually ground the whole Trek thing more in the show. It wouldn't be just an isolated thing anymore, and nobody says it's needs to be 1:1 like Picard and Q.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:24 pm

Image Captain, the Enterprance is up there. They're asking if we want to beam up.

:-/ Let's get the hay out of here.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:31 pm

Plus, I don't think that the Trek thing has been beaten to death. They've carved Discord out into his own character and I assume his association and reactions would be different to Stewart, whoever he plays. Maybe they can mix it up: have him play the villain.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:32 pm

You guys can keep your Stewarts and your Shatners and whatever. All I want is for Twilight's dad to be Adam West.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:45 pm

Well, if we're talking guest stars, I want Trace Beaulieu to play a mad scientist villain at one point.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:19 pm

Headless Horse wrote:I dunno, I think it would feel a bit gimmicky to me. I don't know if I'd be able to get the image of American Dad Patrick Stewart out of my head.

It's like, come on, the Trek joke has been done. Don't beat it to death, this show is usually better than that.


Honestly I think it'd work well no matter who the horse is, Discord as mr chaos and wild shit and Starswirl as the respected horse mage and all works as a fun rivalry thing.

Just with Picard in the mix it takes it to an extra level with a little 'tee hee get it because they were on that show'.

Also American Dad Stewart rules.

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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:32 pm

There's a lot of great voice actors that I'd love to see guest star on Pony. H John Benjamin, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman.... ok basically the whole cast of Bob's Burgers. Patrick Warburton would be great too.

I don't think we're likely to get any of them though. Aside from DeLancie and Weird Al, there just haven't been many special guest voices. Getting some of those bigger names to voice can be pretty expensive. Don't want to blow half the episodes budget just on a voice. It's a fun idea, but I just don't see it happening.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:26 pm

I just don't want FiM to start bringing in guest stars for the sake of having guest stars. That's something that eventually started to really drag The Simpsons down.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:36 pm

Perrydotto wrote:2) If anything, it would actually ground the whole Trek thing more in the show. It wouldn't be just an isolated thing anymore, and nobody says it's needs to be 1:1 like Picard and Q.

I'm not sure I'm down with that. Patrick Stewart is great, and I'd love for him to do an appearance, but Discord is a good character in his own right without being identical to "Q." If they did bring Shatner or Stewart or someone else on, I hope they'd ensure that they fit into the pony show first and the Trek reunion second, if at all.

Like, when Weird Al got an episode, everyone was freaking out about how horrible this blatant cameo would be, but it worked out because his pony character meshed perfectly with the show. That's the standard for any future guest appearances to live up to.
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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:21 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I just don't want FiM to start bringing in guest stars for the sake of having guest stars. That's something that eventually started to really drag The Simpsons down.


I disagree about that actually. They had special guest stars a ton in the earlier, good seasons. Many times they played characters, many times they played themselves. It was a common thing for the entire series run.

They obviously couldn't play themselves in MLP. They'd just play a pony who is a lot like them, like Weird Al did with Cheese Sandwich.

It would be more ideal if they took a note from Bob's Burgers and King of the Hill where the vast majority of special guest voices played one-off characters. Still, those shows have a much larger budget than MLP, and so like I said before, I just don't see it happening because of that.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:23 pm

Lack of guest stars has kind of surprised me on MLP given that DHX also did Pound Puppies, and that show had quite an impressive guest star list for such a small-time show.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:47 pm

The Doctor wrote:Lack of guest stars has kind of surprised me on MLP given that DHX also did Pound Puppies, and that show had quite an impressive guest star list for such a small-time show.


And that's part of what makes me use the word "gimmicky". I don't mean it as a bad thing per se—more that having lots of obvious and recognizable guest stars is a textural thing that some shows choose to do as part of their makeup. It's a Pound Puppies kind of thing to do: oh hey guess what, this episode has George Takei. And tune in next week for recurring characters voiced by Betty White and Rene Auberjonois! Or switch over to the Seth McFarlane Channel where your Adam Wests and your Patrick Stewarts hold court unchallenged!

Pony never had that as part of its texture, whether that was a conscious decision during its design or not, and whether it's to the show's benefit or not. Discord being a guest star was a huge departure from its norm, like a zany one-off stunt, and making him a recurring character was a bold twist on that move—it wasn't a statement that "this is the kind of thing MLP:FiM does now". It seems to me like changing that aspect of the show, whether it's explicitly in order to make it more like some other show or whether it's just because someone has a chance meeting at a celebrity auction or manages to score a retweet from a checkmarked user, feels like the kind of thing that shouldn't be done "just because", without full understanding of what effect it would have on the show as a whole.
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:28 am

Master_Twig wrote:There's a lot of great voice actors that I'd love to see guest star on Pony. H John Benjamin, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman.... ok basically the whole cast of Bob's Burgers. Patrick Warburton would be great too.

Only if it's Patrick Warburton doing a ridiculous voice affectation. Patrick Warburton ends up being cast as [adjective] Patrick Warburton in almost everything he performs in, and I know the guy has enough range that he can do more than just compartmentalized versions of himself. FiM is an ideal place to give him the opportunity to be silly.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:32 am

Heh. If they did that they'd have to completely not market-blitz the episode the way they did with Weird Al. He'd have to just sort of show up, with no fanfare, or everyone would be expecting chapter-and-verse Warburton.

I still remember how weirded out I was when I saw Phil Collins doing voice work in Balto and he didn't sound like a vocoder
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:09 am

I don't want Patrick Warburton doing pony because I want him to stand behind Doc Hammer with a bowie knife and glare menacingly until they hurry up and make more Venture Bros.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:19 am

I wouldn't want Patrick Warburton on the show only because every time that the character opens its mouth, I'll be thinking of Puddy. :-P
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:24 am

MLP the guest star show. :yay:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:20 am

Eh, I wouldn't want it to become flooded with guest stars either. I think pre movie Spongebob balanced it well with characters like Manray who was voiced by John Rhys-Davies, not just being gratutious but also fit in to the story.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:30 pm

Heads up if you don't go to the spoiler subforum: the next episode will air on September 12th. Looks like the hiatus will end a bit earlier than we'd thought.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:39 pm

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa :awesomedash:

Wow, I am completely taken aback by this. That's...wow. I thought they were going to wait until EQG 3 comes out in October but this is awesome news. Any reason why they're airing it earlier than expected?
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Postby Octavia (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:48 pm

Bakertoons wrote:Heads up if you don't go to the spoiler subforum: the next episode will air on September 12th. Looks like the hiatus will end a bit earlier than we'd thought.

Awesome! :yay:

Does that mean the season finale will be around Christmas time? Or maybe January if they skip a few weeks for the holidays?
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:54 pm

Considering that they have a holiday episode geared up, I'd expect the finale to be sometime in late January or even early February.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:11 pm

Since it looks like they'll be shuffling some episodes around for the holidays, I'm expecting at least two or three weeks where there aren't new episodes.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:04 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa :awesomedash:

Wow, I am completely taken aback by this. That's...wow. I thought they were going to wait until EQG 3 comes out in October but this is awesome news. Any reason why they're airing it earlier than expected?


Just a wild guess, but they might want to build a bit of anticipation for EqG 3. I bet we'll be seeing some commercials for it during the new episode :-P
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