A Very Pony Place (G3 Direct-to-DVD Collection, 2007, 45 minutes overall)

This is a collection of three shorts, each of a different length.

Come Back, Lily Lightly (20 minutes)

Summary: Lily Lightly doesn't want to be different from the other ponies, and being promoted to princess is the worst thing she can think of.

Time for the Unicorn Spectacular. The Rainbow Lights Party.

Right, so Lilly is now a Princess. And it's making her horn glow, and she's exceedingly nervous about this.

Ah, there was a specific toy for this character that had a glowing horn and dress.

Re-using animation sequences.

Closer look at Unicornia architecture. It is rather Bavarian, overall.

We keep getting odd scenes of the balloon with Minty and Pinkie, but they seem to not have anything to do with the story.

And suddenly she's wearing a glowing dress. Out of nowhere.

Two for the Sky (15 minutes)

Summary: Two storybook characters try to learn to fly.

Back to Ponyville, to a windmill built like a pinwheel toy. Turns out this is the library?

Twilight would love this place.

Gossamer the... Dragonfly? Is this pony's equivalent to Twilight's Spike.

These are the pony equivalent to the Wright Brothers, I guess.

These guys predate the discovery of the pegasi, but not the Breezies.

Uhm... Flutterponies?

I don't like this one. Sure, be who you are is a good message, but this one is tinged with 'don't try to do something different.'

Positively Pink (10 minutes)

Summary: It's Pinkie Pie's birthday, and her friends try to surprise her.

It appears that Razaroo is gone or something. Nobody's in charge of tracking birthdays anymore.

Back to Puzzlement, who has that odd English accent. If I'm catching it right, I believe it's a variation on 'RP', or 'Received Pronunciation', a sort-of-fake accent used ages ago on the BBC, sometimes known as the 'Oxford' accent though that's not entirely accurate. What Rainbow Dash (and G4 Rarity) has is Mid-Atlantic accents, another variation of RP that occurred when upper-class Americans picked up Received Pronunciation.

Rainbow berry bush. I get the feeling these are this generation's zap apples.

Rainbow berries look... odd. They're kind fluffy looking. I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

Minty may be a nit, but she's good at improv.

This may or may not be the end of Generation 3, it depends on who you ask, and I'll explain that in more detail in the next entry. I'm gong to hold off doing a summary for the worldbuilding blog because of the confusion. I might even wait until the end of G3.5 and do it as a combined thing. Things get weird from here on in.