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What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thread)

Grimfang

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

CannonFodder said:
There's a ton of short animations out, and there's even fan episodes in the works.
Say what you will about the music in the picture perfect, but the animation is solid. Not as good as the first, but children of the night has been worked on for like a entire year and picture perfect only a month.
There's even fan video games in the works. Some are total remake mods of games like fallout equestria is a totally redone of fallout 3 mod. Whereas games like figthing is magic or ponykart are completely new games from the ground up and are practically in every genre.
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I'm impressed by the videos. The Picture Perfect Pony music was good, but as you said, I liked the animation the most. I'll have to keep an eye out for the other video, once it's fully released.

I also just check out Ponykart and Fighting is Magic. Bronies have done everything, haha.

On a slightly random side note, I still find it amusing that MLP is discussed and/or watched on a daily basis at my internship.
 
CannonFodder

CannonFodder

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Grimfang said:
I'm impressed by the videos. The Picture Perfect Pony music was good, but as you said, I liked the animation the most. I'll have to keep an eye out for the other video, once it's fully released.

I also just check out Ponykart and Fighting is Magic. Bronies have done everything, haha.

On a slightly random side note, I still find it amusing that MLP is discussed and/or watched on a daily basis at my internship.
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Ponykart and Fighting is Magic aren't out yet. Ponykart is getting close to being done and Fighting is Magic is getting there. Legends of Equestria is in open alpha I think, but it's a free mmo. I'm waiting for Questria though, cause it's sort of like diablo being a hack and slash rpg where you control your character from above. From what I've been reading about Questria it sounds like once it's released it's going to be pretty solid. There's also going to be another tactical rpg game coming out which I can't seem to remember the name for.
Tl:dr; early/mid 2013 we're going to get just utterly bombarded with pony games of practically every genre.


That's cause there's so much to the fanbase. I've just been talking about video games in this post, but bronies just keep pumping out more and more content every day. I'm kinda surprised actually, cause most fandoms I've been in there's a point at which the amount of unique and original content that keeps getting put out plateaus fast. Like with furry the primary stuff people create are fursuits and stories or art, or anime primarily puts out just artwork and fanfics and cosplay. I could go on. However bronies are like, "hey why don't we make costumes" and they do it, "hey why don't we make video games" and they do it, "hey why don't we make fan episodes" and they do it. There's even a novel.

I've been watching the news of the majority of the major projects and so far only two large scale projects have failed. One was a card game, but that was because they wanted money and hasbro already has mlp cards. They almost got sued cause they were looking to make a profit off it. The other was Legends of Equestria, but the previous team working on it kinda quit; however the project lead took what they already had done and instead of just calling it quits he put together a whole new project team. So Legends of Equestria technically failed, but the project leader brought it back from the dead and is now back on track.



Oh and speaking of different media, with the upcoming comic book midtown media has their own unique cover for it-
http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?pl=316&PRID=My+Little+Pony+Friendship_1231790
 
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BrodyCoyote

BrodyCoyote

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

CannonFodder said:
"Get over here"
Figting is magic is streaming a fighting tournament over at canterlot gardens right now and guess what character had been added to gameplay?
http://www.twitch.tv/8wayrun
Rainbow Dash has been added.

Oh nice they have a spitfire recolour of RD and a daring doo one. Ah sweet firefly as well.
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I like how "Get over here!" is actually one of Applejack's quotes while doing the lasso. Also Twilight's victory message, "Dear Princess Celestia: Today I learned how to kick flank."
 
CrazyLee

CrazyLee

Biggest buttplug ever
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

CannonFodder said:
And MadTv now holds the world record for world's strangest shipfic of mlp-
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Is that Ian McKellen?


CannonFodder said:
Stuff like this upcoming animation(only a teaser trailer as of yet)-
or-
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or-
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(where I got my bass cannon clip)

WE CRANK THAT BASE UP TO 11 AND IT CLEANS OFF THE DISHES ON A MICROSCOPIC LEVEL! YEA!
 
CannonFodder

CannonFodder

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Vukasin

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Anyone else see the Andrew W.K. panel? It was pretty awesome.
 
CrazyLee

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Butters Shikkon

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Conker

Conker

Destroyer of Nazi Teddy Bears
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

CannonFodder said:
There's even fan video games in the works. Some are total remake mods of games like fallout equestria is a totally redone of fallout 3 mod. Whereas games like figthing is magic or ponykart are completely new games from the ground up and are practically in every genre.
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From what I understand, Fight is Magic is using a preexisting fighting engine to program the game in, so it's not quite from the ground up. Though a lot of games are made in preexisting engines (Mirror's Edge on the Unreal Engine for example), but that still saves a ton of time as making a game engine isn't exactly easy :p

I love all the fan content, but my problem with it is an economical one. If these people are this talented, they should just make something they can outright sell without getting sued. It seems like a waste of time in a way.

Though I guess you shouldn't do art things for money, but once you've got a team and put in a good hundred or more hours, the thought of profit has to cross the mind. At least those that worked on Fighting is Magic and these other projects can put that on a resume if they want to get into those fields.
 
Vukasin

Vukasin

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Conker said:
I love all the fan content, but my problem with it is an economical one. If these people are this talented, they should just make something they can outright sell without getting sued. It seems like a waste of time in a way.
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If you're doing something you like and you find it fun, then there is no way it could ever be a waste of time. They choose to do it for free because they want to, and there's nothing wrong with that.
 
CannonFodder

CannonFodder

Resistance is futile! If 0 ohm
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Conker said:
From what I understand, Fight is Magic is using a preexisting fighting engine to program the game in, so it's not quite from the ground up. Though a lot of games are made in preexisting engines (Mirror's Edge on the Unreal Engine for example), but that still saves a ton of time as making a game engine isn't exactly easy :p

I love all the fan content, but my problem with it is an economical one. If these people are this talented, they should just make something they can outright sell without getting sued. It seems like a waste of time in a way.

Though I guess you shouldn't do art things for money, but once you've got a team and put in a good hundred or more hours, the thought of profit has to cross the mind. At least those that worked on Fighting is Magic and these other projects can put that on a resume if they want to get into those fields.
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Like Vukasin said, money shouldn't drive people to do what they love. I've seen a ton of people with the mentality of-
1)draw art or such
2)become popular
3)????
4)profit

Sure making a entire free video game is daunting, but not everyone can draw or write or make music. If they are talented in a field then it's okay for them to make fan content of what they can do. It's all about doing what you love like vukasin said and it doesn't even have to be something you're good at so long as you are giving it everything you can. A fandom doesn't HAVE to just do one thing and one thing only. That is what I think is one of the defining differences between bronies and other major fandoms, rather than everyone having the mentality of "well I HAVE to learn how to draw otherwise I'm not a true fan" there isn't that mentality and instead it's just a "do what you love" mentality.

Like I was in the anime fandom for nearly a decade and even though it's a fucking huge fandom there's next to no fan video games or animations when compared to their membership numbers. Sure hundreds of fan video games sounds like a lot, but when you realize their membership is measured in the tens of millions that's barely a drop in the bucket.

Nor is there a measurement of what you HAVE to do in order to be considered a member. Unlike other fandoms I've been in for 5+ years there's all these "THIS is what it means to be a member and you HAVE to produce THIS in order to be a TRUE fan".


If anything we should as a fanbase dissuased the notion that such projects as fan video games or such are a waste of time; otherwise we'll wind up in the same iddy bitty tinnie winnie box of fan produced content norm that so many other fandoms eventually wind up falling into and that we should also encourage new creative mediums cause there's ton of creative people out there and drawing a line in the sand that excludes them from participating is a bad idea.


Tl:dr; if a fanbase only promotes art, music and costumes then that alienates a insane amount of people. It also takes creativity and puts it in a box.
 
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Conker

Conker

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

CannonFodder said:
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I agree, but I have one problem. You seem to be defining a fandom around created content; whereas I define a fandom around a group of people that like and want to discuss a specific thing. Even if the MLP fandom put out ZERO content (which would be an extreme impossibility), there would still be a large group of people that want to talk about a very specific thing. It's still a fandom.

And it is nice to see something inspire so many people to be creative. I guess I just have this odd adversity towards fan created content that, on an intellectual level, I shouldn't have.

And every large project made by bronies could easily be a stepping stone into a career. There are industries that are hard to get into with out some very specific examples of "I DID THIS", so putting your name down on fan content is better than nothing, especially if that fan content is fucking popular as hell. Fighting is Magic is going to have a ton of downloads, and it'll get featured on Kotaku and probably IGN and other gaming sites. I know I've seen it mentioned on Kotaku already. There's a nice stepping stone towards getting into the gaming industry.

And yet, I look at this and see a dedicated and hardworking (and talented I'd imagine) group of people working on this and think, "why not just create your own game? That would mean more." Of course, this group wouldn't have gotten together without using MLP as its backbone so there's that.

I'm really just arguing with myself at this point.
 
Vukasin

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Conker said:
And yet, I look at this and see a dedicated and hardworking (and talented I'd imagine) group of people working on this and think, "why not just create your own game? That would mean more." Of course, this group wouldn't have gotten together without using MLP as its backbone so there's that.
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Without MLP they may not have had the inspiration to go "Hey, let's make a fighting game!". If it wasn't an MLP game then it would not be nearly as popular as it is right now, and like you said, without MLP this group would have never gotten together.

It took MLP to bring all the pieces together.
 
CannonFodder

CannonFodder

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Conker said:
I agree, but I have one problem. You seem to be defining a fandom around created content; whereas I define a fandom around a group of people that like and want to discuss a specific thing. Even if the MLP fandom put out ZERO content (which would be an extreme impossibility), there would still be a large group of people that want to talk about a very specific thing. It's still a fandom.

And it is nice to see something inspire so many people to be creative. I guess I just have this odd adversity towards fan created content that, on an intellectual level, I shouldn't have.

And every large project made by bronies could easily be a stepping stone into a career. There are industries that are hard to get into with out some very specific examples of "I DID THIS", so putting your name down on fan content is better than nothing, especially if that fan content is fucking popular as hell. Fighting is Magic is going to have a ton of downloads, and it'll get featured on Kotaku and probably IGN and other gaming sites. I know I've seen it mentioned on Kotaku already. There's a nice stepping stone towards getting into the gaming industry.

And yet, I look at this and see a dedicated and hardworking (and talented I'd imagine) group of people working on this and think, "why not just create your own game? That would mean more." Of course, this group wouldn't have gotten together without using MLP as its backbone so there's that.

I'm really just arguing with myself at this point.
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I'm not defining a fanbase by the creative content that it is putting out. I'm saying that with fighting is magic and such there have been people who got into the fandom through that as well as other fan made content. If bronies put out zero fan made content then a ton of people who are now members would have never joined in the first place.

Also with fighting is magic like you said the creators could use the popularity of it to gain a job. There's nothing wrong with that. They had a choice of choosing to do a original game or a fan game and chose to do a fan game. If you want their personal reasons of why they chose to start the project you would have to ask them individually. What I am getting at though is that fandoms should never discourage people from doing what they want to do.
 
Conker

Conker

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

CannonFodder said:
What I am getting at though is that fandoms should never discourage people from doing what they want to do.
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I agree. Hell, if people did that, I wouldn't have a 55 minute album of pony themed music on my computer. Shit's good.
 
Cain

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

So, the thing Tara did...

Has anyone mentioned we have some of the best VAs for a show?
 
CrazyLee

CrazyLee

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

Tara is sexy as hell. And I'm not talking about her looks.
That is all.

Butterflygoddess16 said:
No. It's...an old though.
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I still think the narrator sounds kinda like Ian McKellen (Gandalf/Magneto) if you listen closely.

Conker said:
I love all the fan content, but my problem with it is an economical one. If these people are this talented, they should just make something they can outright sell without getting sued. It seems like a waste of time in a way.
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While after putting in a lot of work on something that someone else is going to use, I'd love to be paid, I'd also love for my hard work to mean something other than just money, IE that people like it, or that it helps someone out, or that it makes someone happy.

And even working on a project like this that is complex it is not a waste of time. If it's something they enjoy doing, then it's not a waste of time for that reason, because it makes them happy and gives them a constructive project to work on towards a goal. And if any of them are planning on going into any computer or graphic design program, it gives them real-world experience, and it really is far from a waste of time. Employers who are looking for computer experts love to see people doing related things in their spare time because it means they're committed to the field and will make excellent employees.
 
CannonFodder

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Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

That moment in which you realize that even though the majority of the ponies have the same stock base that you are able to tell which is which from the minutest things or phrases or colours cause their personalities are very distinct from each other.
What I mean is that just saying things like the following your mind intantly clicks which pony it is-
"I'll be tardy!"
"Sugarcube"
"Needs to be 20% cooler"
"Oh my goodness"
"For a pony that hasn't made a potion before you whipped up something fierce"
"I just don't know what went wrong"
"WE HAVE GRACED YOUR TINY VILLAGE WITH OUR PRESENCE-"
"This day has been just perfect"
"This day was going to be perfect"
 
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CrazyLee

CrazyLee

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Figured out what's up with Vinyl Scratch's eye color. Meet Wubsy.
 
CannonFodder

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Ames

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Pony folder just broke the 5gb barrier.

My life is average.
 
CannonFodder

CannonFodder

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Well season 3 has been officially announced for November. I think we were all hoping for that since they shot down the rumors it was going to be October.

Also here's John DiMaggo voicing Trixie-
[YT]8Ebha1NW5t0[/YT]
 
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Shoki

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Ahaha! That's amazing.
 
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