My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Magic Coins (G1 TV episodes, 1986, 4x 10 minutes)

Part 1

I still don't understand why the seaponies have life perservers. Are they also bad swimmers, like all the other ponies?

Okay, just ignore the magic treasure. Playing ball is so much more important. As normal with utopian socieites, they don't use 'crass money'.

Single shot wishes from each coin.

Uhm... you could also just herd the bubble all the way to the ground. It's not like you don't have multiple pegasi there.

Okay, good there were fruit and sandwitches in there. At first it looked like it was all sweet baked goods.

Heh, Spike raindancing.

Spike now as a classic 'cowboy'. Someone's been watching westerns from the human world.

So the wishes have to have something to do with the individual coin.

Part 2

Ah, these are *baby* seaponies. That must be why they've got life preservers.

The Moochick. Haven't have him appear in quite some time. Rabbit s now white, and named 'Abbot'.

The Treasure Collection of Nibblic the Troll, Crimson Canyon beyond the Jeweled Desert. Moochick actually knows Nibblic.

The Jeweled Desert looks a lot like the dark crystals that Sombra was messing with.

Puck. Seems a lot like the standard Robin Goodfellow to me.

So *these* are official Goblins? Okay.

Who's this fellow? And a non-pony unicorn dressed up as a charger? The fellow is wearing what is looks like a representation of a set of English globus-style breast-and-back armor, ranging anywhere from 14th to 17th century. Off to slay a dragon and save a damsel.

Nah, he's just a businessman. "Put an egg in your sandal and beat it?" I must have misheard that. Rewind and play it again. No, I still can't figure out what he's going on about.

Part 3

"Slipped your bridle" I like that one. That's a keeper.

Mix of stuff in the troll's place. The door specifically looks like the vented security doors at the oil refinery I worked at thirty years ago.

Odd terrain. I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

Heart of Fire, a huge ruby in the crater of Fire Mountain. Golden Rose in the Haunted Garden. Emerald Idol in the ruins of the City of the Ancients.

Are they just 'treasures' or magic ones?

Maze garden. With topiary guardians. Cute.

Spike using his flame again! He's actually quite competent in this series, I wasn't expecting that.

The Golden Rose is glowing, but doesn't seem to have any real magic properties.

Troll has allergies. Also Cute.

Idol is also glowing.

Wait, something's gone odd. The Idol's no longer glowing.

Okay, that's destroyed.

Again, the treasure is glowing.

Ah, winking has a range limit.

Part 4

So no success from any of the three subquests.

How does that work, that's dirt that's catching on fire?

The Magic of Friendship!

I'm not sure I'm understanding what's going on?

... I probably shouldn't ask this, but if the troll reversed all the coin wishes since the weather control one, shouldn't his friend disappear as well?