Will the 2017 Pony movie cast pull an 80's Hasbro move?

[PiratePony 8,490]

There's a lot of celebrity voices that have been hired or are in talks to be in the 2017 My Little Pony movie (why my phone hasn't been ringing I'm not sure.). I'll give you a name that is striking fear in my soul, and that is the name of a celebrity that many of you youngsters may not have heard of....his name...is Don Johnson.

 

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In 1987, there came forth the G.I. Joe movie, starring Don Johnson.

 

The year before, in 1986, there came The Transformers movie, starring Leonard Nemoy.

 

The reason these celebrities scare me is:  in both of the movies you had the real cast of the successful cartoon series pushed aside for larger characters voiced by the celebrities.

 

The villain of Megatron was changed to have the voice of Leonard Nemoy rather than the amazing Frank Welker.

 

A rag tag group of new Transformers, including Rodimus Prime took over the reigns from Optimus Prime, who was merced early on.

 

In GI Joe, we had to deal with whiney Don Johnson and his scrub friends trained by WWF's Sgt. Slaughter. Meanwhile Cobra Commander (who was once a man!) was pushed aside by Mickey from Rocky/The Penguin as the main villain. The regular Joes were doing...something. Duke died was in a coma.

 

So,....in light of the celebrity casting.....

 

Will Hasbro pull out their tricks from the 80's and push aside our beloved Mane 6 for a unwanted group of celebrity voices as the real stars of the movie, with the best voice casting on television, in my opinion, being relegated to supporting role status?

 

Or am I being paranoid....because why change what made them such a success?

 

Discuss!

[Johnny1226 14,674]

I Highly doubt that will happen our beloved characters voice stars are already famous throughout the brony community if they get changed hasbro may have a full scale riot on their hands

[Luigi 7,871]

I sincerely doubt Hasbro will make that mistake with MLP

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

From what I've heard on some article (sorry I can't find the link to it, so I may be wrong on this), the article specifically listed the regular voice actors as being in the movie. I can't imagine they would want to do that, seeing as those voice actors have been voicing these characters the whole show and it's within the same cannon. 

 

The celebrities will probably just voice a lot of new characters in the movie.

[Once In A Blue Moon 896]

They made the right choice for Discord, so I'm not too worried - at least, not about that. The transition from 20-minute episodes to 90-minute film might be a bit rough, although by most accounts the EG films were good (although I admit that I haven't seen them myself) so I think that the film is in good hands. 

 

Worst case scenario is that the film is awful and they stick to 20-minute episodes from then on - I can't see a failure of the film bringing down the whole show or suchlike... ok, maybe I can, but only when I'm feeling paranoid.

Edited May 24, 2016 by Once In A Blue Moon

[Megas 28,101]

Those early Hasbro movies seemed to have a lot of things in them that Hasbro will likely want to avoid now with FiM. While celebrity voices are fun and all, they should realize people would want to watch this for their favorite characters. I mean, as beloved as the Transformers Movie is now, back then not many people liked Rodimus and his small team replacing Optimus and co. At least Galvatron was still Megatron, but Optimus's death was so unpopular when it happened that it forced them to rewrite the GI Joe movie so Duke didn't die, and they had to revive Optimus at the end of the series

[cmarston1 5,964]

Seeing as how this is a My Little Pony movie, I highly doubt they will pull an Optimus Prime.

I highly doubt that any character would be killed off.

[PiratePony 8,490]

Seeing as how this is a My Little Pony movie, I highly doubt they will pull an Optimus Prime.

I highly doubt that any character would be killed off.

 

 

I just meant in a sense that the focus was on new characters, while the main characters were given the brush off as supporting roles. Not that any ponehs would get killed. 

 

 

....imagine THAT backlash. At least The Transformers and GI Joe were in wars.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,336]

I doubt if Hasbro is going to shunt aside the mane characters. It would alienate Bronies and the little kid fans. I bet Don Johnson is going to play a mayor or maybe a cop (Miami Vice, anyone?)

 

A rag tag group of new Transformers, including Rodimus Prime took over the reigns from Optimus Prime, who was merced early on.

Now it just may be me, but what does the name Rodimus Prime sound like? To be delicate, it sounds like a different sort of entertainment character.

Edited May 25, 2016 by Yellow Diamond
Removed YouTube link.

[NeonCobalt 256]

Well to be fair with the Transformers movie, that was less that they wanted to use the celebrity voices and more that they were making an excuse for the new toyline to become the main cast. They just decided to give the new toys celebrities voices. I'm pretty sure that this film won't be ushering in a new mane cast, so I don't think there's much to worry about.

[ManaMinori 4,149]

Mane 6 and Spike will still bethe real stars. Every brony knows that

 

Don't care about the Celeb lineup Hasbro is taking in for the movie, so far

Until we get Hayao Miyazaki, Andy Beirsack, Yoshiki, Voltaire, Josh Groban, Johnny Depp, Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, and Caitlin Glass, (all of them), I'm not interested

[Steve Piranha 29,495]

Hasbro might have done that before, but I feel like they've learned their lesson as they mostly let the writers do their job in peace. Besides, these are different times, I doubt these celebrity-voiced characters will steal the spotlight of the Mane6 

[Leave a Whisper 703]

I was about to ask if you meant killing off a beloved character for the umpteenth time, but never mind. I also had no idea Spock voiced anyone in Transformers.

Hasbro might have done that before, but I feel like they've learned their lesson as they mostly let the writers do their job in peace. Besides, these are different times, I doubt these celebrity-voiced characters will steal the spotlight of the Mane6

Hasbro keeps making live action Transformers movies. They haven't learned nuthin! Edited May 25, 2016 by Leave a Whisper

[Steve Piranha 29,495]

I was about to ask if you meant killing off a beloved character for the umpteenth time, but never mind. I also had no idea Spock voiced anyone in Transformers.

Hasbro keeps making live action Transformers movies. They haven't learned nuthin!

That's another story, the movies are bad, but people keep watching them, like ALOT  . No wonder why they keep Michael :BOOM: Bay to make those awful movies. Which reminds me, I should record the extinction one only for the Dashie scene 

[Unlikeable Pony 2,700]

Hasbro learned alot of lessons from those movies.

In those movies, the hasbro execs failed to grasp that the CHARACTERS were what made the franchises successful, not the concepts, so killing off everyone just to introduce replacements was NOT a good idea: Unfortunately, hasbro execs of the time just though "The kids like it for the robots or the ponies or the soldiers" and figured that they'd be happy with replacements.

 

NOW hasbro has realized how stupid that reasoning was, and its almost certain they'd avoid doing that if they could. They know that fans Want to go see those movies to see the characters they love, not random new guys.

[Steve Piranha 29,495]

I was about to ask if you meant killing off a beloved character for the umpteenth time, but never mind. I also had no idea Spock voiced anyone in Transformers.

Hasbro keeps making live action Transformers movies. They haven't learned nuthin!

Oh yeah, forgot to mention: They can't afford to screw up with this movie. Transformers are given a free pass because, while the movies sux, they got, giant robots, explosions, cars who transform into giant robots, explosions, giant robots beating the shit out of each other, explosions, PEW PEW guns, explosions, :BOOM:, :KAPOW:, MORE EXPLOSIONS, explosions.... and people are into that stuff. What a bunch of colorful horses could have to attract a wide audience? Not very much. It'll be a challenge already to bring audience without the stigma MLP carries from previous gen. They have to show thet FiM is more than just another cash in with no plot and generic girly characters. 

[Rarity Is Best Pony 634]

You seem to be speaking from experience. But I think in those 30 years Hasbro has wised up and won't commit such heinous transgressions once again.

[Leave a Whisper 703]

Hasbro learned alot of lessons from those movies.

In those movies, the hasbro execs failed to grasp that the CHARACTERS were what made the franchises successful, not the concepts, so killing off everyone just to introduce replacements was NOT a good idea: Unfortunately, hasbro execs of the time just though "The kids like it for the robots or the ponies or the soldiers" and figured that they'd be happy with replacements.

 

 

NOW hasbro has realized how stupid that reasoning was, and its almost certain they'd avoid doing that if they could. They know that fans Want to go see those movies to see the characters they love, not random new guys.

Didn't they kill off fan favorites in the recent TF movies?

 

They also gutted all the sci-fi elements, the characters and positive messages in Jem and the Holograms despite massive fan backlash and turned it into a bland crossbred of Hannah Montana and the Justin Bieber movie.

 

The newer GI Joe movies weren't bad. I do like the original MLP movie and the original Transformer movie. We own MLP the Movie. The Smooze and the Witches are so much fun.

 

Unless I know that I already like them, I don't think I ever wanna see another Hasbro movie again.

Edited May 25, 2016 by Leave a Whisper

[Megas 28,101]

Didn't they kill off fan favorites in the recent TF movies?

 

The Transformers series, and the Bay movies in particular are intended for a much more different or older audience. Though even then it's usually unpopular when they kill off characters, I'd argue it's the way they're killed off that pisses people off. Jazz and Iron Hide were killed off like chumps, the female Autobots were killed off in a minor throwaway scene, Sam fucking Witwicky killed fucking Starscream, Optimus Kills Megatron seconds after they agreed to team up to kill Sentinel Prime for really now reason, and several Autobots are killed off offscreen between the 3rd and 4th movies, all with zero lasting impact or significance. Ratchet's death is arguably the only one that has any sort of meaning or lasting impact, and even then it results in Optimus deliberately killing a human, something that's very un-Optimus like

Edited June 19, 2016 by Sideswipe

[Unlikeable Pony 2,700]

They also gutted all the sci-fi elements, the characters and positive messages in Jem and the Holograms despite massive fan backlash and turned it into a bland crossbred of Hannah Montana and the Justin Bieber movie.

 

 

Jem was basically just tossed to whomever was willing to try and make a movie out of it due to it being virtually a dead franchise. Jem failing wasn't hard to see coming, since it had little to no momentum and was a very "80s" style series who's concept hasn't aged really well.

 

It'd be like trying to make a Reboot series present day: some concepts just only really worked well at certain points in time.

 

 

 

The Transformers series, and the Bay movies in particular are intended for a much more different or older audience. Though even then it's usually unpopular when they kill off characters, though I'd argue it's the way they're killed off that pisses people off. Jazz and Iron Hide were killed off like chumps, the female Autobots were killed off in a minor throwaway scene, Sam fucking Witwicky killed fucking Starscream, Optimus Kills Megatron seconds after they agreed to team up to kill Sentinel Prime for really now reason, and several Autobots are killed off offscreen between the 3rd and 4th movies, all with zero lasting impact or significance. Ratchet's death is arguably the only one that has any sort of meaning or lasting impact, and even then it results in Optimus deliberately killing a human, something that's very un-Optimus like

 

Well, one could argue that his killing of a human was only due to the circumstances though: That human was preparing to kill another human, meaning their was no other viable way to save the first human without killing the second human.

 

But yeah, I will admit that optimus felt really "off" in the fourth movie. They're still selling well though, since they're able to be marketed to non-transformers fans due to the mainstream action movie elements.

[Megas 28,101]

 

 

Jem was basically just tossed to whomever was willing to try and make a movie out of it due to it being virtually a dead franchise. Jem failing wasn't hard to see coming, since it had little to no momentum and was a very "80s" style series who's concept hasn't aged really well.  

 

It'd be like trying to make a Reboot series present day: some concepts just only really worked well at certain points in time.

 

 

Didn't Jem experience a small surge in popularity after airing on The Hub for a while? I remember both the movie and a comic series(which I actually hear is quite good) being announced some time after the series re-aired. The series sounds pretty niche compared to some of Hasbro's other series, but seems to be remembered fondly. Kind of sucks there was never a proper Jem movie, I remember there being one back in the 80's when Hasbro was making movies for their other franchises, but got cancelled after the MLP and Transformers movies underperformed

 

Also I think Reboot would be a good show to revive, the early CGI is hard to look at, and with what they can do now with CGI a revival could do wonders

[Unlikeable Pony 2,700]

 

 

Didn't Jem experience a small surge in popularity after airing on The Hub for a while? I remember both the movie and a comic series(which I actually hear is quite good) being announced some time after the series re-aired. The series sounds pretty niche compared to some of Hasbro's other series, but seems to be remembered fondly. Kind of sucks there was never a proper Jem movie, I remember there being one back in the 80's when Hasbro was making movies for their other franchises, but got cancelled after the MLP and Transformers movies underperformed

 

Also I think Reboot would be a good show to revive, the early CGI is hard to look at, and with what they can do now with CGI a revival could do wonders

 

 

The premise just doesn't seem like it would work well now though. Back in the 90s, all the computer and internet stuff was new, so alot of the premise (the internet being this giant mysterious place, all the random computer lingo/jokes like using nano-second, bits and sprites, ect.) would just feel really dated if they tried it nowadays IMO, since computers are so ingrained in everyday life.

[Leave a Whisper 703]

Jem being dated doesn't mean it's bad, I bought the box set to show my daughter what Jem was really like and she loves it. It's still got a lot of positive messages and crazy action and a lot of it is still futuristic, fun and techy enough.

 

 

Anyway my point is Hasbro has learned nothing, they should stick to making toys, toons and the occasional straight to DVD.

Didn't Jem experience a small surge in popularity after airing on The Hub for a while? I remember both the movie and a comic series(which I actually hear is quite good) being announced some time after the series re-aired. The series sounds pretty niche compared to some of Hasbro's other series, but seems to be remembered fondly. Kind of sucks there was never a proper Jem movie, I remember there being one back in the 80's when Hasbro was making movies for their other franchises, but got cancelled after the MLP and Transformers movies underperformed

 

Also I think Reboot would be a good show to revive, the early CGI is hard to look at, and with what they can do now with CGI a revival could do wonders

 

Jem didn't need it, it's one of those rare cartoons that had an actual ending.

Edited May 28, 2016 by Leave a Whisper

[PiratePony 8,490]

 

 

remember both the movie and a comic series(which I actually hear is quite good) being announced some time after the series re-aired. The series sounds pretty niche compared to some of Hasbro's other series, but seems to be remembered fondly. Kind of sucks there was never a proper Jem movie,

 

Believe it or not, there was a Jem movie that came out last year, but it came and went so fast nobody noticed, making a measly 2.3 million at the box office...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_and_the_Holograms_(film)

[Leave a Whisper 703]

Believe it or not, there was a Jem movie that came out last year, but it came and went so fast nobody noticed, making a measly 2.3 million at the box office...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_and_the_Holograms_(film)

That monstrosity was not Jem. But boy did it feel good to see it fail so miserably!

Edited May 28, 2016 by Leave a Whisper