(All I ever see these DVDs get reviewed by are parenting/mother sites, it's time for a real brony to get in there and review this $#!%)

Princess Twilight Sparkle is the 5th 5-episode DVD released for Friendship is Magic, following The Friendship Express, Royal Pony Wedding, Adventures in the Crystal Empire, and Pinkie Pie Party. It may not be the most interesting offer for bronies, but hey, supporting official releases is a good thing I think, so I buy them. So how does this one fare?

Putting it in we start with the usual Shout Factory logo and a pretty cool new Hasbro logo clip, followed by commercials for Royal Pony Wedding and a The Littlest Petshop DVD. And then we get to the menu... after Pinkie Pie Party's lively camera panning menus, I was expecting something cool like that, but here we get something a bit more overly pink than usual... maybe it's just me, but it's probably my least favorite of the MLP DVD menus. Works exactly the same, I just dislike the look they went with this time.

The episodes are really what you'd probably get this for though, and with Lesson Zero, Magic Duel, and Magical Mystery Cure, some of the best of the best are here. Games Ponies Play is pretty good too, but although it's a great episode too, MMMystery On the Friendship Express really has no place here- they really should have just went with another fully Twilight episode instead really, although I suppose she has a prominent enough role in it so it's not extremely out of place here, but still. The episode order is out of wack here too but it was on Royal Pony Wedding and Adventures in the Crystal Empire too so it's expected really.

The bonus features aren't great, just a printable coloring sheet and a sing-a-long of A True, True Friend, which is kind of pointless since you could easily sing along with the whole of Magical Mystery Cure by turning on closed captioning anyway...

Overall, it's a pretty good DVD for the episodes alone, good to have if your cable or internet goes out or something I guess. Plus it's pretty cheap, I'd recommend it.