My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** Of the worst kind, [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/clarification-from-hasbro-about.html due to deals made with TV networks outside of the US]. To date, the complete series has only been released for sale on the iTunes Store, which does not sell videos to those living in the remaining two-thirds of the world, and not even all of them are available outside the US in the one-third of the world where the iTunes Store sells videos. [[Netflix]] has all the episodes from seasons that have finished airing, as well as the episodes that [[Shout Factory]] has released on DVD. Selected episodes have also been released on the [[LeapFrog]] App Center, but that's region-locked too<ref>As of March 2012, the videos are only available on the US and Canada app sites, and only three pairs of episodes ("[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E07 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" with "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E01 Mare in the Moon|Friendship is Magic, part 1]]" with "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E02 Elements of Harmony|Friendship is Magic, part 2]]", and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E18 The Show Stoppers|The Show Stoppers]]" with "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E17 Stare Master|Stare Master]]") are available</ref>. As for DVDs, Germany has a pair of 3-German-episode [[Region Coding|Region 0]] DVDs from Edel Germany GmbH, while Australia and New Zealand will start getting a five-volume [[Region Coding|Region 4]] DVD set of Season 1 from [[Madman Entertainment]] on June 20th, 2012. However, aside from those, only "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]" has been widely released (in some countries, only through limited-time promotions) on DVD outside the US (one or more countries may have received multiple episodes)--and even if you're willing to import, the two non-[[Shout Factory]] volumes, ''Celebration at Canterlot''<ref>containing "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]" and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E14 Suited for Success|Suited For Success]]"</ref> and ''Adventures in Ponyville''<ref>containing "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles|The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", and the ''[[Family Game Night]]'' Season 1 episode featuring Leah's and Sabrina's families</ref>, are sold only at brick-and-mortar stores (in ''Celebration at Canterlot'''s case, only Target stores), so good luck finding them! Those who can't get Boomerang, which has somehow obtained the rights to air programming based on Hasbro's franchises almost everywhere outside North America, are screwed, since as noted in [[Screwed by the Network]], not all countries have pay-TV providers that carry Boomerang. [[Nick Jr.]]? Only in certain parts of East Europe, though the German dub of the entire first season can be watched for free on [[Nickelodeon]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005225246/http://www.nick.de/videos/show/1008-my-little-pony-freundschaft-ist-magie German site] as well as on [[Nick Jr.]]'s [http://www.nickjr.de/list/video/my_little_pony German site]. And naturally, all the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020072601/http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/videos videos] on [[The Hub]]'s website are region-locked to the USA, even the short clips (and proxies apparently don't work)--the videos on Hasbro's main site may be viewable from outside the USA, but would require navigating to [http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/media/browse.cfm?type=videos the US version of the Videos page].