My Little Pony G3: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Art Shift]]: Some of the toy commercials use a different art style from the actual cartoons.

* [[Be Yourself]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121109004346/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729116001 The Princess Promenade]'', "Come Back, Lily Lightly"

** Also, the Breezies save the ponies from going down a waterfall.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: At the end of the "We're Glad That Everyone's a Princess" song in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121109004346/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729116001 The Princess Promenade]'', the characters turn to the audience and sing "And, yes, it's true! That you are a princess too!"

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Once the "Core 7" came along, Hasbro threw out several older characterizations out the window and everything became ''even more'' feminine. This [[Dork Age]]-type change is where the infamous "Fashionista" Dash comes from.

* [[Christmas Special]]:

** G3.5 has ''Waiting for the Winter Wishes Festival'' and ''Twinkle Wish Adventure'', though these are about the [[You Mean "Xmas"|Winter Wishes Festival]] rather than Christmas.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Played with in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121109004346/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729116001 The Princess Promenade]''. At first, everyone is excited to have Wysteria be the princess of Ponyville, but as Spike's rules pile on and restrict Wysteria from doing the things she normally does, including interacting with her friends as equals, the idea of having a princess doesn't seem so great anymore. However, instead of quitting being a princess in name, Wysteria essentially quits the job by making EVERYONE in Ponyville into royalty, including Spike, which means that neither she nor anyone else has to follow the princess rules anymore. So it's played straight in the sense that everything is better with LOTS of princesses instead of just one, but in making the title meaningless it's not a typical example of the trope. It almost seems to have a lesson of "It's fun to be a princess but only when you don't have to follow any behavioral rules or do any actual leading."

* [[Filler]]: ''The World's Biggest Tea Party'' stage show is nice enough, but it also contains a lot of songs that seem to have been placed merely as a way to get the audience up and excited and don't actually drive the plot of the film. The story presented in the stage show probably could have easily fit into a 22 minute television episode.

* [[Fun Size]]: The Breezies in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121109004346/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729116001 Princess Promenade]'' and the new redesign in ''Twinkle Wish Adventure''.

* [[Licensed Game|Licensed Games]]: A few games for the [[Game Boy Advance]] and PC/Macs came out during this series' run.

** [[Edutainment Game|Edutainment Games]]: Said PC/Macs titles.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Within the same generation at that. The first few specials weren't the sugary, [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] fueled stuff that G3 is known for (although it wasn't anywhere as dark as pre-[[My Little Pony Tales|Tales]] G1).

* [[The Musical]]: ''The World's Biggest Tea Party'' stage show, to the degree that there is actually more singing than there is dialogue. It is not unusual for a song to be almost immediately followed by an entire song, as there a total of 25, running a total of close to 40 minutes. Many of the songs are extended versions of songs from other G3 releases heavily edited to fit the show, including "Positively Pink", "I Just Wanna Have Fun, "Breezies Know" and "Here in Unicornia". In fact, they may have just about recycled close to half of the tunes within the G3 releases, including the ''My Little Pony'' theme. Others, however, were created exclusively for the stage show. And one song, "I'm a Little Teapot", isn't original material at all, just a traditional tune that they repurposed for the program.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Well, there's two of them

* [[Team Mom]]: Ponyville's spring parade comes close to getting derailed when Wysteria is taken out in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121109004346/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729116001 Princess Promenade]'' and Wysteria is the only one capable of fixing things.

* [[Title Theme Tune]]: They use an instrumental version of the original theme tune for the closing credits of most of these releases. They also used a vocal version for the live stage show, ''The World's Greatest Tea Party'', which was later released to DVD. The instrumental version is also used heavily as a sort of [[Recurring Riff]] at the end of most songs in this stage show.

* [[Wasn't That Fun?]]: "Let's do that again!" is Rarity's catchphrase in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121114144300/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729115001 The Runaway Rainbow]'' DVD.

* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: G3.5's two ''[[Spinoff Babies|Once Upon A My Little Pony Time]]'' shorts.

* [[Theme Tune Roll Call]]: With the core 7 ponies.

* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]:

* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: The Winter Wishes Festival in G3.5's ''Waiting for the Winter Wishes Festival'' and ''Twinkle Wish Adventure''

 

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