My Little Pony 'n Friends: Escape from Catrina (G1 Re-edited TV Episodes, 1987, 2x 10 minutes)

Like Rescue from Midnight Castle, two minutes were edited out of this by removing one song. In this case, however, the one song has one of the biggest worldbuilding bits of weirdness in it, as it's when the two villains dress up in 1880's costumes and do a musical number right out of Mary Poppins with a penny-farthing bicycle and everything.

Like the previous re-edited special, there's not much point redoing my notes for this one. So here's my original notes from the TV Special version: http://mlpforums.com/blog/1191/entry-6945-escape-from-catrina/

Well, that's it for the original My Little Pony cartoon. Next I move on to My Little Pony Tales. I've put my compiled findings so far in my worldbuilding blog: http://mlpforums.com/blog/844/entry-7371-the-generation-of-ideas-my-little-pony-n-friends/

Before I go though, I need to say that any Bronies who complain about Hasbro interfering with My Little Pony? You guys really need to watch the original series. Every other episode is advertising new toy lines (New Tooth Ponies, Newborn Ponies, Twinkle-Eyed Ponies, Big Brother Ponies, etc.), all buildings are copies of playsets, characters are swapped out randomly just so that all the toys get screentime, etc. Watching the old series, then the new one, you get the distinct impression that the toy line was propelling the old series, while the new series is the one propelling the toy line this time around. Yes, Hasbro still has DHX add things or swap things around on occasion, and often the writers need to scramble to find a way to fit this stuff in, but it's no where near as blatant as previous generations were. I'm curious to see if this was a sudden change with G4, or whether it progresses slowly from this point.