My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Glass Princess (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 4x 10 minutes)

Another four-parter.

Part 1

Pony Olympics. Hurdles, pole bending but with balloons.

What are those? Dogbirds?

They have some kind of telepathic/remote viewing with...

Princess Porcina. Looking for magic material to repair her cloak that can turn things into glass?

Not sure what the little fuzzy thing that is wandering around is.

Dogbirds are serving Porcina because she promised to create a kingdom just for them.

Paradise estates is looking rather reduced today.

Weaving horse-hair is actually pretty tough. My wife spins, and horse-hair is one of the hardest to do.

What the? Okay Porcina is poor-man's Miss Piggy.

Why is the pink pony dressed up as Strawberry Shortcake? No, don't answer that, I don't want to know.

Kidnapping. Ponies are prone to kidnapping.

Part 2

Bushwollies. Again.

Raptorians. The dogbirds are called Raptorians.

Ah, Black Mountains. This has been referenced before. The other side of the Black Mountains is the Grundleland that was destroyed by the Smooze.

Bushwollies have a shedding season.

You wash fiber *after* it's been sheared, not while it's still on the animal. Just as a note.

Obviously gizmonkey-made pony-wash.

Cute. The raptorians are *really* not taking this seriously at all.

Ponyland. This is the first time the entire region has been named. Dream Valley, Paradise Estates, Flutter Valley, even the Black Mountains and the Volcano of Gloom are all in 'Ponyland'.

Part 3

Uh, okay. They grow their manes back that fast? This is probably referencing some toy that 'grows' hair back. I have vague memories of that kind of thing.

That's not how spinning wheels work. At all. Or looms for that matter.

Why do I have the feeling it's not that easy to fix a magic cloak?

That's a magic mirror as well.

Okay, it is that easy to fix a magic cloak.

Porcina still needs a spellbook to do additional magic.

Part 4

There's a serious difference between the mane hair of a pony, and the shed hair of a bushwoolie. The staple length is completely different. *sigh*

That was a fast spin/weave of a new cloak.

Is that heel-face change because she's honestly changed her mind, or because the cloak magic changes the wearer's personality, like so many artifacts in mythology.

Nope, she's got the cloak back again and she's still on the side of the angels now.

Cloak destroyed.

So Porcina goes to live with the bushwoolies.