Friends Are Never Far Away (G3 Direct-to-DVD Short packaged with the Hidden Treasure toy, 2005, 20 minutes)

Summary: Sky Wishes and Star Catcher want the ponies of Ponyville and Butterfly Island to all be friends, but convincing the Pegasi is a problem in and of itself.

Back to Butterfly Island. Okay, so we're not going to just ignore this. Good, good.

Pegasis ponies are very shy... heh.

Pegasis ponies love icecream. Who doesn't?

And again with the prehensile tails.

So much for the secret.

The art is very inconsistant. Some of the ponies have black outlines, some don't. It really looks odd with the mix.

Not really getting clear look at any of the architecture. What bits I've spotted looks like Ponyville, but more thatched roof examples, probably standard for Island fare.

Starcatcher's wings are considerably bigger than the other pegasi.

The waterfall rainbow is actually some form of transportation system, as they *have* to use the rainbow to move between Ponyville and Butterfly Island.

Holy crap. *That's* a sundae. Good luck with that.

The sparkly butterflies are sentient.

Lots of hot-air baloons now.

The inconsistant outlines is very jarring. It's almost like the different characters were drawn by different artists on the same frame.

However, we now have pegasi ponies and earth ponies co-existing to an extent. That's good.