G3 screenshots, lore, and random stuff

[lalalei2001]

According to A Charming Birthday, Sunny Daze can make charms out of sunbeams and Rainbow Dash out of rainbows.

[lalalei2001]

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[Bag of Magic Food]

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I like how the bright sunbeams in that scene give everyone shadows or highlights, which wouldn't become standard in the animation until A Very Minty Christmas.  I know Friendship Is Magic used highlights for the scene where Twilight Sparkle watches the Mare in the Moon; were there any other times?

According to A Charming Birthday, Sunny Daze can make charms out of sunbeams and Rainbow Dash out of rainbows.

I always wondered how literally we were supposed to take that stuff.  ("You promise us predictions of meteorological phenomena, and instead you paint a ribbon in your favorite colors?")

But then that comic LadyMoondancer posted has things like Sparkleworks catching stars out of the air in a net.  And Rainbow Dash "riding rainbows" was a common piece of backcard lore that went underused, but now we've seen that she can also just climb up on one and slice it to ribbons.  And with the "Random plant gains a life of its own" plot, I'd say "The Magic Fir Tree" has officially reached the G1 comics' level of surreality!

It took me a while to learn that the "making charms" part of "A Charming Birthday" was part of the toy advertising, as early G3 toys came with little charms to hang on them, the way the old G1s had their ribbons.  The fact that they were made giant might have been saying, "Here's a suggestion: Remake this charm in your own size, kids!"  Or it could also tie into a theory I had to explain how the dessert trio in "Friends Are Never Far Away" were able to make so much ice cream so fast in such a small building: Ponyville possesses some sort of magic growth potion they can use on food for just such an occasion.  Since the ice cream and the cherry were separate foods, though, they had to be injected with the potion separately, and that's why the cherry wasn't already on the top despite that the ponies were able to pile the scoops that high.  And if it was more of a general-purpose shrink ray, then maybe the friends in "A Charming Birthday" were working on their charms in giant form for more precision before shrinking them down to the correct size for the final bracelet, and Razzaroo was the only one left out of the loop about this technology.  I bet that's also the reason Ponyville stays so secure, because they can just turn someone giant to stomp any invaders.

Now I could offer more silly speculation like that if you want, but I'm unsure whether to link Star Catcher more to my Guardian Angel theory or my Pegasus Mindmeld theory, and I've had about enough of impugning poor Spike's motives.  So instead, here's the funniest still frame I've seen in a movie's credits!

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Oh, I hope you'll put up Supervillain!Kimono as well . . .

Oh, that!...

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[Sumire]

Oh, Bag of Magic Food, your post!  I'm trying not to laugh too loudly since I am at work!

[Bag of Magic Food]

I know Friendship Is Magic used highlights for the scene where Twilight Sparkle watches the Mare in the Moon; were there any other times?

Oh, now see how far behind I've gotten from vacation?  I just saw an episode where Applejack had the starlight highlights, from two weeks ago.

[LadyMoondancer]

The animation style of G3 really changed quite significantly from the first special to the later ones, didn't it?  Especially the hair.  It's more "piecey" in "A Charming Birthday".

Another wintery G3 story:

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Rainbow Dash as the fashionable one (dahling) seems to have been a later add-on, as she really doesn't have that personality at all in the first annual.  She's portrayed as one of the more athletic and daring ponies and they never mention fashion in connection with her.

Also, she really likes RAINBOWS.

[hathorcat]

RD looks quite evil in one of those images!

[Bag of Magic Food]

And so Rainbow Dash's need for speed would forever be rewarded with more pain.

I love those snow outfits!  Did they never appear again?

[scarletjul]

The illustrations of the ponies in their snow outfits in the third panel made them sort of look like they were wearing masks.  Weird.

I guess they brought back Dash's speediness for the g4s? 

[lalalei2001]

Fashionista Dash was really only G3.5. G3 Dash was more of a cool big sister.

[Bag of Magic Food]

I usually see G3 Rainbow Dash as the Peggy Hill of My Little Pony. 

[lalalei2001]

More G3ness ^^

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[lalalei2001]

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[lalalei2001]

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[LadyMoondancer]

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Minty the Popple in mid transformation!