My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Ghost of Paradise Estate (G1 TV episodes, 1986, 4x 10 minutes)

From here on, the series My Little Pony n' Friends seems to follow a pattern a four-parter followed by a stand alone episode. This is the first four-parter.

Summary: An evil creature seeks to destroy all of Ponyland, starting with Paradise Estate.

Part 1

Building a nursery again to replace the one by Dream Castle. Again, baby ponies/foals seem to be raised in a creche system.

Ghost bothering the foals. Interesting that it's shown as a winged ghost.

Ghost can shapeshift into other forms.

Animation error, the bed is missing or the pillow is already floating in midair.

Megan and Molly is here. What about the brother?

Okay, Megan has seen witches, giant spiders, talking animals, unicorns, pegasi, flutterponies, various goblins and furry things, but draws the line at ghosts? Megan is an idiot.

Okay, there's the brother. Do they live here now? What happened to their parents?

Rube Goldberg device. I remember building these at his age. I still do, occasionally.

Not sure what happened there with the 'not reflection'. It changed colours right at the end, which may have been an animation error.

How big is the freaking place? It's like a TARDIS, bigger on the inside.

Part 2

I recognize that voice from Scoobie Doo cartoons.

Who's chasing who here?

Pluma, a Penneth. Shapeshifter that orginally lived in this area, but moved far, far away. Looks like a lyrebird of some kind.

Squirk, the villain of the day.

All the area was underwater a long, long time ago.

Squirk is a cephelopod thing, with an artifact called a flashstone.

Water drained, and the penneth arrived. War between penneth and Squirk. The leader of the penneth, Pluma's grandfather, got the flashstone away from Squirk, broke it in half. Threw one part away into the river, and the other half underneath the land Paradise Estate is on.

Unicorns can't teleport through things.

Telekenisis is useful, but no stronger than a pony's own physical strength.

Why Pluma can't dig underneath other than vaporize the estate, I have no idea.

Part 3

Now she digs. *sigh*

Half a flashstone actually produces exactly half the effect, in the most useless manner.

Lobster with hair. Don't want to think about that.

Dragons don't swim very well.... according to prior episoded neither do ponies.

Ahhhh! Shoopie-do!

Or is it Blooma rather than Pluma?

Wow, scale issues. Crank is suddenly huge.

Okay, maybe he *is* that big.

Why didn't Squirk get the other half of the flashstone *first* if it was that easy?

Flashstone is a *lot* like the alicorn amulet in G4. Pulling off a great flood here.

Part 4

I'm not sure I understand this bit at all. The two of them together can transform easier than either could separately?

Really? It looks normal to me.

Crank or Frank? I'm having trouble understanding the names with these strained 'kiddie' accents they're doing.

This is a weird con-job.

So what's stopping Squirk coming back?

In Megan's hand, this flashstone seems to act like the Rainbow of light, with the same display. Actually, that brings up a point, where has the rainbow of light been since the movie?

Flashstone destroyed? I doubt it, magic items are rarely that easily gotten rid of.