An obscure My Little Pony reference came from an unlikely source this week as what is arguably the worst show in television history, Seth MacFarlane’s The Cleveland Show, included a sign with a hidden messages. The letters TSRDFSPPRAJ appeared on a sign held by the Cleveland Brown, the show’s horribly unfunny titular character. These letters stand for Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack.
This week’s episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic featured a sequence done entirely in felt. Pinkie Pie goes through the steps of meeting and befriending a new resident of Ponyville, and then breaks the 4th wall by bringing a piece of felt from her mind into the “real” world. One of the show’s storyboard artists Jocelan Thiessen gives us details on this sequence which you can read in a post on her blog.
Jocelan, who is experienced with working in felt, cut out all the pieces over the course of a week. Show director Jayson Thiessen animated the pieces in stop motion for the full effect. The end result is truly remarkable. A big thanks to the Thiessens for all their hard work on the show.
We can’t share the clip with you, but keep reading for more pictures of the felt designs.
Here’s a short video written by and starring Peter New, voice actor for Big Macintosh. Peter plays the bartender who says “Yep” at 1 minute and 8 seconds.
Peter shared this video to his facebook page, though even he seems to be only jokingly suggesting that this is where the “Eeyup” really came from. Is this a trademark line of Peter’s? A hidden reference? A line in the script that Peter followed with little significance? Will we ever really know the answer to these burning questions?
Keep reading to compare clips from this short and My Little Pony.
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Toy Fair 2012 is on and Hasbro has a great exhibit of the My Little Pony lineup for 2012. A picture of many of these toys was shared on the official My Little Pony facebook page and we found some better pictures of some individual ponies at the AllSpark facebook page.
Upcoming toys look great and include many show favourite characters like Nightmare Moon, The Great and Powerful Trixie, Zecora, DJ Pon-3, a White Princess Celestia, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a rare male pony and many more. After last year’s lack lustre line up of toys which were already on the market, we see some great stuff now as Hasbro is making quite an effort to make show accurate toys that fans will enjoy.
Keep reading for pictures of toys we think fans will be the most interested in.
The Ponyville Gazette is proud to announce the opening of our new message board forum! You can go visit and discuss all things ponies here. It is a sub-forum or our parent site’s message board at Powet.TV. We hope you will post and stick around for some of the fun stuff we have planned for the site.
The latest episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, “The Last Roundup”, featured a parody of the famous chocolate factory scene from the I Love Lucy episode “Job Switching”. Instead of chocolate, the Ponies are sorting cherries that are coming by on a similar conveyor belt.
Both in I Love Lucy and My Little Pony, the rate at which the items come through on the conveyor belt is too quick, causing them to fail at their task. In the I Love Lucy episode the rate is simply too high to keep up with. In My Little Pony on the other hand, the problem occurs when 3 of the 5 ponies abandon their stations, and Applejack is made to run too quickly out of anger, causing the cherries to come by at too fast a pace.
Clips from the original I Love Lucy episode and the latest My Little Pony episode as well as more screen shots of the scenes are available below for reference.
Derpy Hooves, a character that was originally spawned from an animation error giving her googly eyes, has been a fan favorite since she was first spotted. When her popularity in the fandom grew, she was given the name Derpy Hooves by the fans. In the actual show, she had been referred to as Ditzy once, and made several non-speaking cameos that grew as season 2 progressed. Season 2 Episode 14, “The Last Roundup” started with an entire scene featuring the pony in a speaking role, going so far as Rainbow Dash referring to her by the fan-given name Derpy.
The voice actor for Derpy has been confirmed by Jayson Thiessen on twitter to be Tabitha St. Germaine, who also voices Luna, Rarity and Grany Smith.
The fandom is a buzz right now.
A mod has been made for the extremely popular game, Skyrim, featuring Fluttershy as a stand-in for the game’s dragons. The mod can be found here and I included a short video below.
Via: Kotaku
