80s MLP Animation Production Material

[Carrehz]

Oh cute! <3

Interesting that Baby Quackers is listed as "Baby Quacker" (no "s"), wonder if that explains why they tended to leave off the S in the cartoon or if it's just a coincidence?

[greeby]

As of this week, it's officially 40 years of MLP on TV

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[Crystal-Sushi]

OH MY GOODNESS THANKYOU! This is incredible, and will help a future animation project immensely!

[greeby]

Michael Swanigan, who storyboarded on many a Marvel show in the 80s, has added MLP to his rotation of model sheet/storyboard books.  While the models are already covered by what Rhaegar has made available, there does appear to be storyboards from Revolt of Paradise Estate: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116099265391

[Taffeta]

Those sketches are super nostalgic. I didn't watch much MLP tv stuff as a kid, but I had Ice Cream Wars and Revolt of PE on a vhs tape and I watched that a lot. I liked Revolt of PE especially.

[Carrehz]

Ooh, nice. I like the art style, very fluid.

[Rhaegar]

Sorry for the delay (family in and out of the hospital) but I've uploaded pages from Baby It's Cold Outside. More coming, including at least one more reel.

[Rhaegar]

Also up is designs and sketches for Flight to Cloud Castle.

[Rhaegar]

MLP Movie auditions #3 reel uploaded. Contents:

0:00-2:07 Denise Ryland: Morning Glory, Rosedust, Fizzy
2:08-3:40 Mia Martina: Gusty, Baby Sundance, Fizzy
3:41-5:57 Barbara Berry: Magic Star, Fizzy, Baby Sundance, Rosedust, Morning Glory
5:58-7:44 Barbara Sammeth: Wind Whistler, Magic Star, Baby Sundance
7:45-9:58 Lauri Fraser: Gusty, Fizzy, Baby Sundance, Buttons
9:59-11:38 Carol Baxter: Sweet Stuff, Wind Whistler, Magic Star
11:39-14:22 Matt Shakman: Danny
14:23-18:35 Russi Taylor: Rosedust 

https://archive.org/details/my-little-pony-auditions-3

Coming up soon is the unicorn audition reel. But first more drawings.

[Carrehz]

Ooooh I can't wait to listen to those auditions tomorrow <3

Still downloading the Baby sketches to look at (darn slow Wayback Machine ), but oooooh, the Cloud Castle character lineup has some interesting things:

- the ponies are listed as Heart Throb, Locket and TAFFY?!? Taffy never appeared in the cartoon?! :O In the actual ep it's So Soft Twilight. Could just be that they wrote the wrong name since the thumbnail clearly shows "Taffy" as a pegasus (wouldn't make sense for an earth pony to be in this story anyway), but that they knew the name in the first place suggests maybe she was supposed to show up in the cartoon at some point... Hmmm!

- the note "SONG" next to a pic of Garth and Ariel suggests there WAS meant to be a song in Part 2! Cloud Castle pt 1 has a song, but pt 2 is one of only two episodes without a song (Tambelon pt 3 being the other), I know there's been a lot of debate on here about if this one was meant to have a song and if so, what it would've been... This isn't exactly concrete info but it's definitely interesting :o

Also I forgot how cute Ferdinand and Andrew are! I like their little faces. So goofy and cute.

[Rhaegar]

Taffy almost made it. Queued up on my tumblr (a few are already up) are some very interesting pictures from ended ebay auctions. I wasn't able to win any of them sadly. You'll see them all over the next few weeks.

[Carrehz]

Unfortunately I can't access your Tumblr reliably - if I scroll too far down it starts asking me to log in Seems to be some new thing they've added in for blogs that are tumblr.com/username instead of username.tumblr.com, weird site... But I did manage to get it to work long enough to see the model sheets of Taffy and Sweet Stuff, ooooh! The SS one could be for the TAF advert I guess? But Taffy, ooh :O

Love the Baby It's Cold Outside sketches, omg they're so fluid and full of character! The sketch page of Charlton is wonderful.

[Rhaegar]

Here's the direct links to them. I guess I'll put them in the thread for easy access as they appear. If someone wants to upload and link these elsewhere be my guest.

https://www.tumblr.com/yanchamisc/747207322692157440/sweet-tooth-model-sheet-source?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/yanchamisc/747297898195304448/taffy-model-sheet-source?source=share

Greeby also put up a storyboard for Revolt of Paradise Estate:

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2024/04/my-little-pony-revolt-of-paradise.html


I've put up some random pages from Return of Tambelon. More coming as I find the time, including two reels.

[greeby]

6 minutes of rapid-fire auditions for the Bushwoolies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zTSeH0E7eU

[lovesbabysquirmy]

super cool that you have this resource up for us all to admire!  Thank you!