Avant Garde

Hey everypony! First off, thanks for stopping by Now, on to the topic: does anyone know of, or has anyone seen the actual -pilot- for FiM? I'm not talking about S1 E1&2. I mean pilot pilot, the most-likely lower quality, and shorter, maybe even just 'animated' storyboards with voice overs "hey, look at this, would it make a good show?" 'concept' episode. I am aware Hasbro approached Lauren Faust to make the show while she was pitching another show. But that shouldn't remove the need for a pilot, they would still need a 'concept' episode to show to the Hasbro people before getting the green light. I was just wondering if anyone knew about it, or had seen it? Or, if I'm a lucky pony, knows where it can be seen? By my reckoning, it has to exist. And I wanna see it!

I miss her too. I was always a big fan of Derpy, and I was one of the 'camp' of thought that removing her was more insulting to ponies with disabilities than having her in. (Seriously, imagine if a character in a wheelchair got ripped out! There would be discord!) I wish they would bring her back, but at the same time, with the show being puppet-mastered by a corporation whose interest is in selling toys rather than making a quality show, I can understand why they took her out (to err on the side of caution). Their mistake was that there would have been, had they let her stay, many more ponies who liked Derby than would have been offended by her. The parents of the foals watching the show (who Hasbro is really marketing to) are all around my age (20s - early 30s). Now, I don't want to toot my own horn, but from what I've seen, most 90s foals make bad-flank adults (hey, look at the show, the staff is mostly grown up 90s foals). There is no reason, I can see, that any brouhaha over her would have lasted more than a month. Especially if they made an episode involving her, and went into her disability with a lesson about accepting ponies who have them or something. Although, I do disagree with you at one point. I wish the voice actress had been made aware of her gender.. I think it should have been more feminine (imho! You're free to disagree. =P ) since she's an adult. If she were a foal, it would have been fine as-is.