Equestria Girls 2: RAINBOW ROCKS (shorts + movie, Fall 2014)

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Re: Equestria Girls 2: RAINBOW ROCKS (shorts + movie, Fall 2

Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:25 am

Maybe they've thought a bit and improved it from the first slightly. (Though I doubt that, considering they're resorting back to bringing pony Twilight in and not human Twilight. :-/ )
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:40 am

My guess is bringing in pony Twilight was a Hasbro mandate. Hopefully one that will be fixed/not forced with EQG3 &/or EQA.

As for the movie itself, it already looks alot more fun then the first. Weather the writing is better or not, just have to wait & see.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:24 am

I don't see why Hasbro would mandate that kind of thing though, I think it's the writers that chose to do that. Yes, Hasbro makes the toys, and yes, there are sets with a pony Twilight and human Twilight, but there's also that Rarity double set, and Celestia, who of course don't travel to the other world.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:28 am

Yea I really don't believe much about the 'hasbro mandate', they've shown over and over they don't really give a shit if a specific toy is in the show as long as the general 'thing' is being done. They want more EQG, they want more human ponies, but they'll do things like put out a human Zecora doll even if she's not in the movie because hey the point of EQG is to make kids/fans go 'that was neat' and then want to buy things, not specifically sell them things.

If Twilight's in it's probably because one of the head writers/show runners/etc wanted her in, I really doubt there was some Hasbro stuffed suit pounding his fist on the desk shouting "WHERE'S TWILIGHT SPARKLE, HOW ARE WE GONNA PUSH TOYS WITHOUT TWILIGHT SPARKLE?!"
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Postby Doctor Wheeze (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:35 am

I think, after seeing this clip, it makes sense to bring in pony Twilight. Sunset Shimmer recognizes the Dazzlings as some sort of magic, it makes sense that she might try to contact Twilight. Twilight's the only other one she knows that is familiar with both human world and with magic.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:43 am

That might be so, but from a storytelling view, they should have just done this with human Twilight, and maybe not have gone with the supernatural element to it.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:00 am

The magical element is what makes it have that extra pop though. EQG is basically a very loose U.S. Equivlant to magical girl anime. And I for one am fine with that. But yes hopefully we get human world Twy eventually .
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Postby Grue (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 7:21 pm

Sunset Shimmer is as good as she could possibly be post-redemption, she didn't turn into a goody two-shoes, but instead she looks grumpy and pissed off like Dan from Dan Vs, and I liked her jacket so it's nice that she kept it (the doll outfit looked terrible (don't they all tho)). Everything else looks ok, though these villains remind me of Monster High for some reason.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:32 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:The magical element is what makes it have that extra pop though. EQG is basically a very loose U.S. Equivlant to magical girl anime. And I for one am fine with that. But yes hopefully we get human world Twy eventually .


I don't think the show really needs a magical element, and would do much better without it. Because by getting rid of the magical part, it'll separate itself from FiM even more.
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Postby Chaos Sonic (?) » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:22 am

Grue wrote:Everything else looks ok, though these villains remind me of Monster High for some reason.

Obviously Hasbro wants everyone to think that Monster High dolls are bad. :v:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:30 am

Eh, given EQG has just been movies so far, I think the magical elements are nesseccary. But I do agree a TV series could cut back on them and work just fine.

Edit: @Grue well things like Monster High & Winx Club are what the series is competing against. XD. Although I still say the look more like anime characters myself. *its the hair, just looks really animu to me :-P *
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:30 pm

So looks like Trixie's band is just some genaric BG Humans. Wonder if they'll have names?

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Postby Rarietty (?) » Thu Jul 31, 2014 6:57 pm

The EQG website was just updated with new games and character biographies. The games contain two new songs from what I can tell.

If anyone's too lazy to play the quiz game for both of the songs, here they are on Google Drive.

I have to admit, if this were a real music competition, I'd easily vote for The Dazzlings over The Rainbooms. Still, this movie at least seems to have pretty good Daniel Ingram music going for it, which is the entire point anyway.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:18 am

Do Dazzle' s flunkies have names yet? I adore the purple and seafoam one's design.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:35 am

shotgunbadger wrote:Do Dazzle' s flunkies have names yet? I adore the purple and seafoam one's design.



The Purple one is Aria Blaze the Blue one is Sonata Dusk
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:05 am

I didn't really expect to see Trixie in such a large role in the movie anyway. I figured if anything, she'd have just as much time as she did in the first film.
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:57 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:I didn't really expect to see Trixie in such a large role in the movie anyway. I figured if anything, she'd have just as much time as she did in the first film.

Well, she won't be the main antagonist, but she has the only other named band (so far), and from the looks of it her partners are just generic assistants, so I expect her to have at the very least a big song/show. :smug:

Also, Ishi Rudell said this, a while ago:
Q: With tons of Rainbow Rocks Trixie merchandise already on store shelves, and Trixie getting her own short animation, can we expect to see her play a big role in the upcoming film?

A: I can only tell you that she will be more visible than she was in EG1.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:32 pm

Here's the cover for the DVD/BD release.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:59 pm

"Film" :gotcha:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:37 am

And again the dolls look dressed widely differently from what's actually seen in the movie. :-I

I wonder if this is like Transformers Beast Machines, where they needed to make the toys earlier than the designs were finished, and as result, the toys ended up not being screen accurate because later changes were made.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Aug 03, 2014 9:04 am

Headless Horse wrote:"Film" :gotcha:

Image "Horsies" is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:52 pm

The Dazzlings Second Song "Under Our Spell" has been put up on YouTube by a fan.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:35 pm

"Under Our Spell", yes, clearly sounds like a legitimate song and not that of a evil mind-controlling group of aliens or something. :-I
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Postby Kamek (?) » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:45 pm

Adagio and her entourage seem awfully familiar... Trio of evils, putting a bunch of people under some kind of spell... :ponder:

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Postby InsertAuthorHere (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:15 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:"Under Our Spell", yes, clearly sounds like a legitimate song and not that of a evil mind-controlling group of aliens or something. :-I


To be fair, so does most pop music. How else can you explain boy bands? :twiright:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:18 am

:-I - YVAN EHT NIOJ
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:07 am

Kamek wrote:Adagio and her entourage seem awfully familiar... Trio of evils, putting a bunch of people under some kind of spell... :ponder:

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Oh! Now I remember.



Personally I see em as an evil skittle colored version of the Hex Girls...but this works too. :-P
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:09 am

Mr. Big wrote::-I - YVAN EHT NIOJ


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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:39 am

:anticipation: :ohboy: :scootawoo: CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MARINES! YAY!!!!
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Postby RainbowDoubleDash (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:17 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:HEY YOU. JOIN THE NAVY.


God I love that episode, and that entire scene in particular.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:18 pm

ShieldedDiamond wrote:"Under Our Spell", yes, clearly sounds like a legitimate song and not that of a evil mind-controlling group of aliens or something. :-I


I kinda love how overt they are about it. Like, if I had mind control magic on that level of things, I wouldn't be subtle either.

"Hey sniff this magic gas, ok now you're doing what I want and I'm gonna sing a big musical number about how fuckin awesome I am and how stupid you are for falling for it, suck it."

Maybe I'm biased because I like their colors more and I'm a literal baby I guess but I totally like these three better than Sunset already.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:53 pm

shotgunbadger wrote:
I kinda love how overt they are about it. Like, if I had mind control magic on that level of things, I wouldn't be subtle either.

"Hey sniff this magic gas, ok now you're doing what I want and I'm gonna sing a big musical number about how fuckin awesome I am and how stupid you are for falling for it, suck it."

Maybe I'm biased because I like their colors more and I'm a literal baby I guess but I totally like these three better than Sunset already.



They have you under their spell! :gotcha:


That's OK, I am as well.

Also love how theres already awesome fan art popping up.
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I just love how confident these villains are. :smug:
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Postby RainbowDoubleDash (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:13 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:Also love how theres already awesome fan art popping up.


Not surprising - there was a bunch of fanart of Cadance before "A Canterlot Wedding" premiered, and even some fanart of Discord before we even know what he looked like, with people trying for their best guess based on his name and what little was known about "Return of Harmony"
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:53 am

Not to mention before we knew who voiced him. :gotcha:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:31 am

Yeah. One thing that's bugging me is most people are forgetting the Dazzlings Translucent wings when they draw their pony forms. Hopefully that's fixed after the movie is released or more people see the toy Boxart.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:45 am

My favorite was all the Sombra stuff when Sombra was only rumored to be a villain. :-I
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Postby citric (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:36 am

RainbowDoubleDash wrote:Not surprising - there was a bunch of fanart of Cadance before "A Canterlot Wedding" premiered, and even some fanart of Discord before we even know what he looked like, with people trying for their best guess based on his name and what little was known about "Return of Harmony"

Wow. Anyone got a link to some of that early Discord artwork?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:10 pm

citric wrote:Wow. Anyone got a link to some of that early Discord artwork?

http://www.bronibooru.com/posts/9460
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:36 pm

Wow. Anyone got a link to some of that early Discord artwork?


For serious: http://www.bronibooru.com/posts/11526?tags=not_discord
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:45 pm

Yeah, I think that and a few others I've seen were done after we'd seen previews of the stained glass window version of Discord. So we didn't know his actual design, but we had the basic "chimera/spare parts" concept to go from for a couple of weeks.
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