spoiler I Can't Believe A Fan Made Animation Can Become An Official Episode

[Ginger Ale 723]

When I watched the latest episode I immediately recalled a fan-made sfm video that was made last year. I rewatched it again and they are pretty parallel to each other.

Do you think this fan-made video became official? Do you think Hasbro asked permission to use the story? What is your idea?

[Bricks_Ahoy 860]

I am going to say it is a coincidence. Shampoo that destroys hair is a common trope in many TV Shows and cartoons. 

But, I could also be wrong, I think that this being an inspiration is quite unlikely.

[SugarCoatxMarblePie 701]

That timeline where Dash had a robotic wing tho, that was inspired from some animations and from fallout equestria probably, then the look of the sombra evil ponies looked a bit like mortal kombat, not gonna lie.

And companies do compete, they think x demographic likes y, lets have a knock-off of y, or a reference to y to please or attract audience. Or just because hey, its a creative idea, I think they'll like it, they already like things similar to it, so whats not to like. Like, who doesn't like dragons, plenty of ppl love those, lets throw some dragons in there.

Its kinda like how they had a bunch of star wars and other references intentionally for an adult audience (and ppl say its primarily targeted at girls, nuh-uh, they did say they wanted it to be more family oriented, like young daughter, you watch it with her sorta deal).

Edited September 16, 2017 by SugarCoatxMarblePie

[Marimo 555]

2 hours ago, Ginger Ale said:

Do you think this fan-made video became official? Do you think Hasbro asked permission to use the story? What is your idea?

I think it's just coincidence since common policy among any studio is writers do not go through fan stuff in the first place, much less use them or asking to use them. If similar ideas are presented, then it's just a coincidence.

[Hierok 11,831]

I think it is coincidence.