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Title: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: lonewolf on June 22, 2019, 09:22:52 AM
Just after the new episode, the trailer for the movie that airs next Saturday was played on Disc. Fam. One streamer managed to capture it and put it on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH4SUTcVkIA

It's going to be the movie style of animation.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Foxtale on June 22, 2019, 09:25:50 AM
Oh how exciting! I love that they are using the same animation techniques from the movie. That style was so cute!
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Zapper on June 22, 2019, 09:44:55 AM
I did not know this was going to be non-flash animation. Need to watch it just for that!
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: CloudyGlow on June 22, 2019, 01:48:38 PM
I am very excited to see more movie style pony! I have discovered that I am more comfortable drawing movie style rather than show style. More footage means more references for me to work with.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on June 22, 2019, 03:07:56 PM
I love that they're using the other animation program for this!
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Minty_Magic on June 23, 2019, 02:40:13 AM
Oh, I’m really excited that it will be in the movie style! What a nice surprise!
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: gemini_pony on June 23, 2019, 06:11:27 AM
Nooooooo I don't have cable *cries*
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Zapper on June 30, 2019, 05:39:38 AM
Wow that special was... really boring.
I think the animation was nice to look at but felt overall slower than the movie. I am not talking about the budget cuts but just the way the ponies moved and emoted.
The song about the rainbow village was not good. I just... it sounded like it was improvised? I literally fell asleep to it, woke up half an hour later to turn off the computer then finished it today. Really did not expect to be so underwhelmed.
Maybe I shouldn't have expected "MLP movie" from something that just uses its style.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Teddy on June 30, 2019, 08:04:37 AM
I totally agree with Zapper! This special was rather boring. It got a little more interesting like halfway through, but not by much. I do like this style of animation as I think it's rather cute, but anyone else notice that all the background Ponyville ponies were in their usual Flash style while Main 6 were in the movie style? Kind of weird/lazy looking if you ask me. *shrugs*
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: StarSwirl05 on June 30, 2019, 06:32:28 PM
Quote from: Zapper on June 30, 2019, 05:39:38 AM
Wow that special was... really boring.
I think the animation was nice to look at but felt overall slower than the movie. I am not talking about the budget cuts but just the way the ponies moved and emoted.
The song about the rainbow village was not good. I just... it sounded like it was improvised? I literally fell asleep to it, woke up half an hour later to turn off the computer then finished it today. Really did not expect to be so underwhelmed.
Maybe I shouldn't have expected "MLP movie" from something that just uses its style.
Agreed. Rainbow Dash made it unbearable for the 1st 15 minutes and it only marginally got better. There was also that lame reason behind the town's ordeal "No, we had no issues with the rainbow device. We just stopped caring". Seriously? That's the ENTIRE reason behind the lack of color? At least The Runaway Rainbow had a better explanation. Rarity's job wasn't done and consequently everything suffered.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Zapper on July 01, 2019, 08:52:50 AM
Quote from: Teddy on June 30, 2019, 08:04:37 AM
(...) but anyone else notice that all the background Ponyville ponies were in their usual Flash style while Main 6 were in the movie style? Kind of weird/lazy looking if you ask me. *shrugs*

I did not even notice that, wow. Maybe there is a completely fine explanation for it like "we ran out of money lol" but it's weird once you see it. They also had a Big Mac model walking around the Rainbow village and now I can't tell anymore if he was Flash or not.

Anyways, I don't want to knock the special too much. It was fine and soothing. It just wasn't something that needed that long running time.
Except that one song was just so boring, I stick by that. "And then this happened and then this happened and then-" zzzZZZZ Remember the old Care Bears movies? They were all about people stopping to care but they had demon kids and water dragons and evil books that scared the heck out of you and me :lol:
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: TJgamer on July 03, 2019, 06:57:55 PM
In light of all the negativity so far, I’d like to provide a more positive perspective.

Now I won’t deny, when I saw the Movie animation style, I was expecting something huge and exciting like said theatrical release. And, as expected, I was initially disappointed on that front. Rainbow Roadtrip is the complete opposite of the Movie in almost every way, despite sharing the same aesthetic (though obviously with a smaller budget). Instead of having a big and complicated adventure, it’s a smaller and simpler outing. The movie was very fast paced with a lot going on, whereas this special is a lot slower with less going on. But after a second viewing, it's grown on me already.

I get that many of you found this special to be boring, and I do think they could have easily afforded to cut it down to 44 minutes without losing much. But on the plus side, it allowed the entire main cast, along with the new ponies to shine. I also really enjoyed the atmosphere of the first third with the mane six first entering the night-lit hollow and entering their hotel room. Kinda has a Twilight Zone vibe.  ^.^

Most of the new characters are really likable and adorable. Many of them have that northern accent that I find charming.  :P  Sunny Skies is such a lovable dork, Petunia Petals is a sweetheart (and looks a little like G3 Cheerilee), Torque Wrench was pretty interesting with her perspective on unsung work, and Kerfuffle is an absolute delight and already the fan favorite. Unless if you count Rainbow Dash's metal wing in The Cutie Re-Mark, this is the first canon amputee pony we've gotten.

Now the moral may seem kind of shallow at first, but looking back, I think I can really dig it. What caused the colors to disappear was apathy. There was no big moment or evil entity that made things go wrong. Passion and endearment can fade with time if not upheld.

When I first saw Sunny blushing around Petunia, I thought to myself that they were probably going to start dating by the end or whatever. But when Sunny revealed that his speech in front of the town was not the one he had written, I internally gasped; I knew he was going to propose to her, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Okay, enough of me being all mushy and stuff. I will admit this special isn't really fantastic, and it may come off as a waste of the higher quality animation and runtime. The plot does have a few holes, like why did Sunny need to make up an excuse to ask Rainbow Dash and her friends for help. The songs are nice, but not amongst best. Rainbow herself is a little annoying, but that's par for the course, and this is one of her tamer showings. And like I said, they probably could have shaved a few minutes off to save some airtime.

Honestly, it almost felt like a G3 special, though not exactly in a bad way. I also want to make a Rainbow Brite joke, but I'm not familiar enough with that property to pull it off.  >_<

Overall, I think it's nice. While I had more fun with the Movie obviously, I do think this special handled its material a little better.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Ragamuffin on July 03, 2019, 07:43:29 PM
The Crystal Empire.................2!
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We've seen this plot done several times already in G4, starting with The Crystal Empire. I don't remember TCE being the best ever but I know that it has one of my favourite G4 songs (Ballad of the Crystal Empire). And I would recommend watching that over this. Rainbow Roadtrip was incredibly drawn out, they could've done it in the normal 22 minutes, it's a whole lot of fluff with nothing going on. AND the songs were terrible. The one at the end was okay but Sunny Skies' was painful. Daniel Ingram didn't do the music for this if it helps anyone. ;)

I agree you have to watch it for Torque, Kerfuffle, and Petunia. I'd like Sunny a lot more but he's so boring compared to the other characters, visually. "You know he's a boy pony because he's blue! :)" FiM stallions get no variety, they're either naturally coloured, blue, or they have a yellow-with-orange-hair combo (I don't care for Zephyr Breeze's personality but I like his colours). There WAS a background pony who was pink though, I think that might've been the first pink boy we've gotten in all of G4.  :blush: And despite the background ponies in Hope Hollow being the same recycled puppets we've seen for a decade, I liked them a lot better than Ponyville's residents. FiM ponies are either pastelly or washed out or naturally coloured, while Hope Hollow was full of colour!

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Also, the company who animated this wasn't FiM's normal studio. It's Boulder, who's supposedly in charge of the G5 media (and I think they're doing EQG maybe?) That's why I brought up the ponies' designs. If this is what Boulder has in store in terms for background/minor character design I can get behind it!
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: otocolobus_manul on July 03, 2019, 08:13:33 PM
I liked it! I thought it was sweet. Someone pointed out that it was definitely aimed at the younger end of the audience, which is something I can appreciate.

I also saw it pointed out that it did better than the movie on 2 fronts: simultaneously giving each character their chance to shine instead of ignoring some (cough Applejack and Fluttershy cough) and not trying to cram so much in that half the scenes feel rushed and underdeveloped (cough the pirate and seapony scenes cough). Truth be told, I prefer it to the movie for those reasons. Rainbow Roadtrip didn't have much going on for it, true, but it also didn't have the glaring, overwhelming flaws that made the movie so disappointing to me.

The mayor's song sucked though, yeah. Also, did anyone get major Pride Parade vibes at the end? I know it was unintentional, but it's still a nice coincidence.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: lonewolf on July 03, 2019, 08:14:02 PM
Quote from: TJgamer on July 03, 2019, 06:57:55 PM


Honestly, it almost felt like a G3 special, though not exactly in a bad way. I also want to make a Rainbow Brite joke, but I'm not familiar enough with that property to pull it off.  >_<


That was the first thing I thought of. Similar thing happened in the episode Peril in the Pits, and there was an audio book called "Rainbow Brite and the Brook Meadow Deer" that had a similar thing in that the landscape had turned brown and had to be recolored.

To me Petunia was the cutest (especially her voice). Thought about making a brushable custom of her, but that would be murder trying to style the hair like that.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Pinkie21 on July 03, 2019, 08:14:56 PM
Man this special wasn’t worth seeing the movie style again. 
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What even was the need for that Rainbow Generator if it was “teh frandshipz” that gave the town its color?  I also didn’t like the whole “we should all be social with our neighbors no matter what” message.  Some of us don’t want to have any business with our neighbors, and that’s okay.  That old cranky guy with the peach tree shouldn’t have had to give up his peaches if he didn’t want to, just because Fluttershy tricked him.  I dunno, I don’t like the whole “co-op” vibe I got from that town.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Dragonflitter on July 03, 2019, 08:26:33 PM
I caught this uploaded to YouTube last night! ....so it's probably already deleted by now lol. XD

I was surprised to find the movie style characters in a new special! I really enjoy their design (especially their big sparkly eyes) so I was thrilled when I saw the thumbnail on my youtube 'suggested videos' list and quickly hit play!

I really wasn't thrilled with the MLP movie... It introduced WAY too many characters and new species and new locations, and didn't give any of them time to shine on their own. I didn't like the villain because 'dark and edgy pony' doesn't do it for me. And they gave so much character actions to Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie that the other three suffered greatly. If you dropped Fluttershy, Rarity, and AJ from the movie, it wouldn't have even changed the plot. They only had a few lines each.

Why do I bring this up? Because Rainbow Roadtrip fixed all of my complaints! This actually felt like a MLP episode in movie format, not like a 90-minute commercial for pirate parrots and Animated-Mos-Eisley.

I liked the idea of a town in trouble tricking the Mane Six to come there to help. Of course we know it would have been much simpler just to write to them and ask for their help and of course they would have come, but hey, cartoon logic lol. I liked that RD's "fanclub" was just two youngsters with no cutie marks. (I wish they had both gotten a Wonderbolt-like cutie mark at the end when they did their stunt show! That would have been so adorable.)

I liked that the special gave each of the Mane 6 something to do, even if Fluttershy was just helping Pinkie for most of it. I liked the idea that Kerfluffle just knew in her heart what colors the fabrics were, even though she couldn't see the colors anymore. The fact that almost all the ponies of the village had Minnesota accents made me laugh even while I was rolling my eyes at the same time. XD I loved when Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy got the reclusive neighbor pony to start talking to the fancy couple and they all started baking together. That is really what Pinkie excels at! I liked Twilight Sparkle's "wing bling" XD even though it was just to sell the toys of Twilight with rainbow wings.

I REALLY loved the background ponies during the final song! We dropped the old-as-time tradition of pastel-ponies-only and got some really vibrant background ponies! Dark blue, dark red, dark green! They were great! Did you see the whole field of green ponies when they were singing in groups of colors? I squee'd! We NEVER get green ponies! And other than Big Mac, it's rare to get a dark red pony so I enjoyed that crotchety old neighbor lol.

Was it perfect? Ugh... no.  -_- The songs were AWFUL. All three of them. (I think there were three?) The opening song was a little catchy, but the other two... ugh. I won't be listening to any of them again, now that I finished the special. Once is more than enough.

As a writer, I'm usually very hard on the scripts of my favorite shows, and yeah this one was a little lacking. The idea of the machine not really draining the color from the village and it just being a catalyst for everyone to stop caring doesn't REALLY work... I mean, we don't see color draining out of anywhere else in Equestria when ponies stop caring, do we? I think it would have made more sense if there was something in the area that triggered it, not just the "we all stopped caring" thing.

I went into it thinking of it as a long episode rather than a second movie, so I guess that's why I wasn't disappointed in the standard-type plot. If this is how we're starting to wrap up the G4 experience, I'm enjoying it. :)
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 12:10:41 AM
Anywhere I can watch this?
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: TJgamer on July 04, 2019, 02:24:07 AM
Quote from: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 12:10:41 AM
Anywhere I can watch this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvKXk40OrGU
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7c5jqp
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 02:40:22 AM
Quote from: TJgamer on July 04, 2019, 02:24:07 AM
Quote from: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 12:10:41 AM
Anywhere I can watch this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvKXk40OrGU
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7c5jqp
Many thanks
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Zapper on July 04, 2019, 03:23:32 AM
Quote from: Dragonflitter on July 03, 2019, 08:26:33 PM
I REALLY loved the background ponies during the final song! We dropped the old-as-time tradition of pastel-ponies-only and got some really vibrant background ponies! Dark blue, dark red, dark green! They were great! Did you see the whole field of green ponies when they were singing in groups of colors? I squee'd! We NEVER get green ponies!

That's the part I sneered at because they obviously did not have a green one in the M6 so for the "green" lyrics they had to use a pony from the town.
And also Rarity is no color at all so they just left her out :lol:
I still hope we'll get new characters in the next gen and one will be green... orjustaddmintytothemaincast :cool: And more vibrant colors in general. No more brown and grey stallions with troll hair cuts. No more stallions that look like Pegasus frkm Disney's Hercules.
And animated Mos Eisley needs to return because I am tired of the pony world just being regular degular towns and cities (when other creatures living spaces are grass huts and stuff). I want muh High Fantasy and different climates and landscapes.

Kerfluffle's leg was pretty cool. Now it does not really mean that much to me because a. she is not getting a toy as always and b. show is ending so they are suddenly getting more creative and showing more "risque" things. They could give one of the M6 a cool looking prostetic leg in G5 but that would mean one unique mold and Hasbro can only make unique molds that appear once or twice like Skystar or Sandbar.
Making a unique one that would appear more often would be too logical.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Dragonflitter on July 04, 2019, 07:38:00 AM
Quote from: Zapper on July 04, 2019, 03:23:32 AM
I still hope we'll get new characters in the next gen and one will be green... orjustaddmintytothemaincast :cool:

Yes!! Oh man I would love Minty or even a new character in green!

What does Hasbro have against green ponies...?

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I remember one person here on the Arena theorized that the ponies are usually in green environments (lawns, forests, etc.) so they don't do a green pony so that all the characters stand out. But Minty in her pastel green and pink would stand out in a forest just as much as AJ and Twilight. :) I think there's some other reason... green characters are notoriously absent from a lot of media.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: StarSwirl05 on July 04, 2019, 07:56:20 AM
Hasbro staff: Why not include a green pony in the main cast?
Hasbro CEO: No. Green ponies are not what little girls want as they remind them of the yucky green swamp. We need to only use ponies that make them think of cupcakes with frosting on top.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Al-1701 on July 04, 2019, 01:00:26 PM
Fizzy is feeling unwanted.

Well, that was boring and hard to keep going through.  I would rather watch the storm passing over than that.  I agree with those who said this should have been 44 minutes.  It was too drawn out.

And does no one in Equestria know or care what a terrible person Rainbow Dash actually is?
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: StarSwirl05 on July 04, 2019, 01:32:45 PM
Quote from: Al-1701 on July 04, 2019, 01:00:26 PM
Fizzy is feeling unwanted.

Well, that was boring and hard to keep going through.  I would rather watch the storm passing over than that.  I agree with those who said this should have been 44 minutes.  It was too drawn out.

And does no one in Equestria know or care what a terrible person Rainbow Dash actually is?
To think some actually look up to her like she's the best in the world.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Zapper on July 05, 2019, 12:35:30 PM
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What does Hasbro have against green ponies...?

And looking at the pictures... what does Hasbro have against long faces? :lol:
Seriously, if you look at these line-ups you notice their faces got more and more spherical with each new art style until G4 where the frontview is just a circle with nostrils à la Voldemort :lol:

So I campaign for green and horse face.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Dragonflitter on August 03, 2019, 09:02:14 PM
Tonight I was checking some screenshots of the Roadtrip special and spotted this background pony:

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I mean the purple unicorn on the left with the planet cutie mark. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this the OC of someone here on the Arena? I vaguely recall a couple years ago someone here had a webcomic of her OC and it looked exactly like this pony... I remember the comic plot being something like...this pony moving to a new town in Equestria to become the town astronomer? But in my old age, my memory is like a goldfish's and maybe I'm just getting mixed up. :P

I'm just curious if someone here got their OC included in the special as an easter egg! We've seen that happen before on the show once in a while.
Title: Re: Rainbow Roadtrip promo released (spoilers)
Post by: Wind~Whistler on August 03, 2019, 09:54:15 PM
I finally made time to watch this special the other day, and it honestly felt like a reworked version of Runaway Rainbow.
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