Once Upon a My Little Pony Time (G3.5 Webcast, 2009, 2x 10 minutes)

Here we go with another odd G3.5 experiment. We're dealing Flash animations produced by a different animation studio: Kunoichi.

Over Two Rainbows

Summary: Sweetie Belle arrives in Ponyville for the first time.

Early flash animation style, kinda odd but fascinating.

Flashback... Oh god. Newborn ponies.

Ahhhh! Hasbro actually *paid* for this? They didn't even bother animating the mouths.

This has to be a new continuity, as they're talking about the first time Sweetie Belle came to Ponyville, and these characters are younger than when the earth ponies met the unicorns in the prior continuity.

Uh. What?

Sweetie Belle was spontaneously created by two rainbows crossing. Okay. That's new.

They know about Unicornia.

Sweetie Belle is demonstrating a variety of random magic. Growing flowers, bubbles, cleaning clothing.

So Many Different Ways to Play

Summary: Pinkie Pie and Cheerilee have to cope with watching a high-energy Scootaloo.

Okay, they've animated the mouths now.

Who's this? Pinkie Pie's mother? She has a similar cutie-mark to Pinkie, but they're heart balloons.

Wah? Low-level nightmare fuel, there.

Pinkie Pie's playhouse has a working sink.

I'm getting really weird signals as to how old these ponies actually are. Pinkie & Cheerilee, despite being treated as completely independent by their parents, are still in diapers and are crawling around. And Scootaloo, who has to be at least 9 to 11 months younger (depending if they're using human or horse gestation periods) is doing the exact same thing.

And that's it. I'm done. As far as I'm aware, that's all the My Little Pony prior to Friendship is Magic.

Now I have to decide if I'm going to continue on with G4. Since I'm not really 'reviewing' these episodes, I'm just watching them to pull out any worldbuilding ideas out of them, I'm not sure I can really add anything that other people haven't already.

However, there is more than just the episodes to G4; there's the live show, and the comics, so there's lots of material to grind through.

In any case, I have to do my G3.x summary in the worldbuilding blog.