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[Peppermint_M]

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I am less ok with this than I am with the knowledge that if anything has a fandom there is porn of it...
Plus design=really poor

I have come a cross a few anime or disney styled ones that look better.

[Lordofdragonss]

I actualy Love their designs. and I hope this will be better than last episodes :)

[Aanchir]

I'm looking forward to Equestria Girls. To be honest I find the amount of criticism it's gotten quite sad... but then again, having been an AFOL, a brony, and an A:TLA fan, I'm kind of used to fans being unpleasable.

I posted a journal of my reactions to the drama over here. In general, I'm optimistic. I love the character designs (they kind of remind me of Lauren Faust's Galaxy Girls, plus a bit of anime influence), it's got some amazing creative talent behind it, and of course I'm not so detached from reality that I think selling toys and telling good stories are mutually exclusive. Plus, with the kind of budget it's likely to have as a movie, I'm expecting some really stellar music and animation.

Overall, part of me wants to be skeptical. Part of me knows this is a grand, experimental undertaking that could go horribly wrong with a given combination of factors. But frankly, after seeing fans obsess over all kinds of supposed "disasters" that ended up meeting or exceeding the quality of the work they were supposed to be ruining, and after seeing heavy hints that this will be the same old song and dance once more, I am reminded that when you put stellar creative minds in charge of something, betting on the armchair storytelling experts who insist they can't succeed is a losing game. And yes, those stellar creative minds include the toy designers and marketers at the nebulous "Hasbro" the brony community has always been so quick to condemn.

[Oky]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not critical about EqG because I think it's bad or that it ruins "Faust's vision" or the franchise or anything like that. I don't have a problem with the designs either. Sure there are better fan arts out there, but these do a good job at staying within the style of the show. It just seems like a very cliche high school drama from what I have seen (even the song used in the trailer sounds like a very generic pop song), and that's just not my cup of tea. Plus, as I said before, I'm not a fan of the concept of turning the ponies into humans since that kinda takes the magic out of their character - in Twilight's case literally. I just don't see the appeal.

Then again, everything that can be said against this movie is stuff that every brony would have said about MLP:FiM before they watched it, so who knows, maybe the creators can work their magic again for this genre. It is definitely worth checking out, I'm just lowering my expectations because I just can't see myself enjoying a high school drama, but hopefully I'm wrong. At the very least it will be interesting to see how the whole stolen crown plot fits into this and who the villain is.

[Aanchir]

Oky, on 15 May 2013 - 06:26 AM, said:

Don't get me wrong, I'm not critical about EqG because I think it's bad or that it ruins "Faust's vision" or the franchise or anything like that. I don't have a problem with the designs either. Sure there are better fan arts out there, but these do a good job at staying within the style of the show. It just seems like a very cliche high school drama from what I have seen (even the song used in the trailer sounds like a very generic pop song), and that's just not my cup of tea. Plus, as I said before, I'm not a fan of the concept of turning the ponies into humans since that kinda takes the magic out of their character - in Twilight's case literally. I just don't see the appeal.

Then again, everything that can be said against this movie is stuff that every brony would have said about MLP:FiM before they watched it, so who knows, maybe the creators can work their magic again for this genre. It is definitely worth checking out, I'm just lowering my expectations because I just can't see myself enjoying a high school drama, but hopefully I'm wrong. At the very least it will be interesting to see how the whole stolen crown plot fits into this and who the villain is.

It was confirmed on Twitter that the song in the trailer isn't anywhere in the movie itself, so it probably IS a generic pop song. Or maybe it's in the credits. I dunno.

Personally, here's a theory that's been bouncing around in my brain. There are definitely some conspicuous magical effects at one point in the trailer, and additionally the clips in the trailer use mostly-human versions of the characters (well, multicolored humans) versus the ones with pony ears, cutie mark facial tattoos, long hair, and pegasus wings from the stock art. But that stock art doesn't seem like concept art to me — it looks like fully-realized promotional art. My guess is that the climax of the movie involves the girls somehow unlocking these forms — let's call them "magic forms" for simplicity's sake. Any ongoing series after the fact will let the characters switch between their "magic forms" and "human forms" at will, and the series will occupy a sort of a Sailor-Moon–type "magical girl" genre, or at least dabble in that genre, from that point forward.

Not sure if "superheroes-by-night, high-schoolers-by-day" is any more bearable than "generic high school drama". It's certainly no less cliche, as high school subplots are common to cartoons with youth protagonists. But it would explain why there are two distinct sets of character designs, one which is used in the clips we've seen and one that will probably be used as promotional art for the toyline whenever that happens. Some of the creators have hinted on Twitter that the more pony-influenced character designs will have some significance, so it's certainly not a case of Hasbro simply veering radically off-model. That's just my theory, though.

As for the villain...

Spoiler

The villain, as far as I can tell, is Sunset Shimmer, whose FiM toy revealed at Toy Fair describes her as "a former student of Princess Celestia's". Her name, role, and cutie mark set her up as a foil to Twilight Sparkle, and the trailer sets her up as a competitor for the fall formal dance thingy crown, a.k.a. the crown Twilight Sparkle lost. Perhaps she got trapped in the magic mirror once and needs the crown to escape? Regardless I'm pretty sure that's her in the center of the giant magical green column at one point in the trailer, so she's definitely more than the bratty "mean girl" she seems.

On a side note, anyone planning to customize some LEGO Friends mini-dolls into Equestria Girls characters?

Edited by Aanchir, 15 May 2013 - 11:59 PM.

[Tanma]

Anyone want to talk about Avengers Assemble? They are releasing more adds now. Its just, the more and more I hear about it the more I dread it. Reason number one is my avatar.