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My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« on: June 21, 2018, 08:59:53 AM »
Recently I started watching the original My Little Pony 'n Friends show, and oh boy those animation errorssss.

I already know that the first 10 episodes are supposedly from a scrapped movie sequel, but the original movie had some decent animation! During my watch, I kept getting more and more incredulous at everything on screen - I know the show was made for selling toys, and don't get me wrong I think the show is very enjoyable - but the animators just didn't seem to care!

Anyway, here you can find a list of animation errors from mylittlewiki. The reason I made this post is because I noticed a new mistake in the 1st episode that wasn't on the errors list! (it genuinely made me laugh, lol) You can watch the episode here, and at the 6:30 mark, they animated Draggle with both her voice and with Reeka's voice, as Reeka peers menacingly from behind the same rock...

Are there any mistakes that made you guys LOL while watching/rewatching?

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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2018, 10:45:02 AM »
STRAP YOURSELF IN, animation errors ahoy!!!

To me the most blatant one was Princess Primrose's tail being red though MULTIPLE EPISODES of "Quest of the Princess Pony."  Like, really?  No one questioned that?  WHY IS IT RED?  And I could understand more if they made all her hair red, but her mane is colored correctly!
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2018, 10:46:19 AM »
I *think* baby Surprise was an alicorn once?
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2018, 10:47:15 AM »
Whenever they give the wrong characters lip movement, it makes it very confusing!
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2018, 11:32:49 AM »
The animation errors really stand out to me in the "Bright Lights" story arc. 

I have a lot of error pics so I'll put them in the spoiler tags.

This is one of my favorites. Lofty has 5 legs

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At one point in Bright Lights the mayor and sheriff mice of a town decide to go with the ponies.

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Sheriff Mouse becomes a different mouse for no reason


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Different mouse character(still should be Sherriff Mouse) changes into another mouse character.

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Baby Quacker's eye in "The Prince and the Ponies"


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I'm not sure how the animators didn't noctice Princess Primrose's tail being the wrong color and not matching her mane.  :lol:


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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2018, 11:53:17 AM »
STRAP YOURSELF IN, animation errors ahoy!!!

To me the most blatant one was Princess Primrose's tail being red though MULTIPLE EPISODES of "Quest of the Princess Pony."  Like, really?  No one questioned that?  WHY IS IT RED?  And I could understand more if they made all her hair red, but her mane is colored correctly!

Because she's Princess Ruby. Of course. She was protesting about her name, which belongs to a principally YELLOW flower, especially given that her symbol is a BUTTERFLY. But you know, Rubies are...red :D

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I still like the multiple legs. That one wins for me.
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2018, 12:04:00 PM »

At one point in Bright Lights the mayor and sheriff mice of a town decide to go with the ponies.

Sheriff Mouse
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Sheriff Mouse becomes a different mouse for no reason


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Different mouse character(still should be Sherriff Mouse) changes into another mouse character.

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This is Sheriff Mouse erasure and I will not stand for it!

Also: That quackers one is wild... I always forget that those old shows are just animation cels, and the thought that some animator was like: "Hm... seems this one is ripped. Oh well." *uses the slide anyway* is SO funny. Really, how can you miss something like that unless you're just churning out half-baked episodes?

Some of my favorite animations are also when people leave outside work on top of the cels. I'm blanking on which one, but in an old Mario cartoon, I distinctly remember a note about the slide just being left on top of a frame. Oops!

Loved the 5 legged one. Took me a second but it looks hilarious.



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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2018, 12:53:50 PM »
Multiple Legs Lofty:  the hero we need or the hero we deserve?
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2018, 03:42:03 PM »
I haven't seen it in years, but I remember the episode Fugitive Flowers being riddled with animation errors. <3

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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2018, 03:46:37 PM »
Wow! Fun to see it all documented. Even as a kid I would notice. Wings where there shouldn’t be, missing limbs, wrong colors even wrong voices! Lol

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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2018, 03:48:49 PM »
I found a few more. 

I'll put them under the spoiler tags again

Something's wrong with Heart Throb
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Gusty has hands   :lol: This even more amusing given the fact that in another thread we were talking about how many times Hasbro forgot ponies don't have hands.


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Baby Cuddles and the Lullabye Nursery basment

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Baby Cuddles is in Paradise Estate when she comes out of the nursery basement

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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2018, 03:51:20 PM »
Gusty has hands   :lol: This even more amusing given the fact that in another thread we were talking about how many times Hasbro forgot ponies don't have hands.


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That Gusty one gets me every time. Not the only time there's been a visual case of ponies having hands either, one of the loading screens for FiM's mobile game gave Rainbow Dash a thumb. I think I've seen one other case of a pony having a finger before but I'm blanking on where it was.
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2018, 04:19:05 PM »
Some of the G3 episodes also have them having thumbs.  I guess we know who is wearing those mittens in Sniffles & Snookums backcard story now: Gusty, the G3s, and G4 Rainbow Dash.  :P

Poor Heart Throb.  Off with her head!
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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2018, 04:19:59 PM »
These are hilarious :lol: I have all the episodes on VHS and I've been watching them repeatedly for years and I've never realised the mistakes!

The only one I've ever noticed was in a Tales episode where the ponies meet the Berrytowns, the mum calls the baby pony Posey, and then a second later calls her Cherry.

Surely they had to notice when watching the episodes through? :lol:

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Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2018, 04:24:33 PM »
Oh, I was hoping someone would bring up that pic of Gusty with hands soon :heart: I've been thinking of it ever since the backcard thread ;)

IIRC the 5-legged one is a case of them colouring someone's leg wrong, doesn't it flicker between Lofty and Heart Throb's colours? Or am I thinking of another animation error?

and OH LORD that Baby Quackers one!! I don't think I've noticed that one before, yikes. What on earth happened there? XD

What confuses me about the Primrose thing is her tail is blue for most of part 4. Like, if it was red all the way through I wouldn't think THAT much of it, I'd just assume someone messed up or there was a miscommunication or something. But..
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???

Speaking of colour changes, Baby Shady zigzags between being pink and red, depending on the episode (can't remember if she swaps colours in the same episode off-hand, but I wouldn't be surprised):
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(Also, Baby Lofty's eye colour changes all the time. It's supposed to be lilac, but they often gave her brown eyes like her mum. I can see how they made that error, though.)

Some more favourites of mine:
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(This one's easier to tell it's an error in motion - I'll have to make a gif of it sometime. Basically when the pink Furbob raises his front leg, they forgot to remove the cel with his leg still on the ground.. so he has five legs XD not the only show I've seen do this, it's one of my favourite kind of errors XDD)

One that's in every episode:
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Sheriff Ricotta's already been brought up, but I might as well post this anyway:
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I'd love to know what the heck happened here... there HAS to be a fun story behind it.

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Megan's ponytail is missing (also, her face, just... her face)

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Winged Unicorn errors are the best kind of errors

Gotta dig out my collection of animation error screenshots one day, there's some fun stuff in there.. I love these kind of threads. I love the G1 cartoon XD
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