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MLP News - "The Friendship Express" DV...

Mark your calendars, pony fans! “The Friendship Express” is slated for release this Tuesday, February 28, 2012.

You can still pre-order the DVD on Amazon for $9.99. The set includes the following episodes:

• Friendship is Magic, Part 1 (Mare in the Moon)
  
• Friendship is Magic, Part 2 (Elements of Harmony)
  
• Over a Barrel
  
• Hearth’s Warming Eve
  
• The Last Roundup

According to the Friendship is Magic Wiki, the DVD will also include MLP sing-a-longs, “Meet the Ponies”,  coloring pages, and the first episode of Pound Puppies (“The Yipper Caper”).

Equestria Daily has released a review on “The Friendship Express”. According to this, the full version of the theme song that was found in the Twilight Sparkle Animated Storyteller is included as a special feature. Pretty cool!

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DH Central - New Blindbag Ponies pop up on Chi...

You'll be seeing this picture a few more times today.
Man, I'm not sure if Hasbro should plug that obvious leak. But LadyM from the My Little Pony Trading Post forums (this is one of those long standing forums where fans from ALL the generations hang out) found a brand new pack of Blindbag ponies INCLUDING MALE PONIES AND BACKGROUND PONIES.

Right off the bat, there's Big Mac, Lyra and Rose. Even though her hair is a little funky her CM is the same as Berry Punch's. Anyways, the faithful news scrapers for EqD found this one and I was taking a nap. All the cool things happen when I'm sleeping...

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DH Central - MLP:FiM Wins the CableFAX award f...

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CableFAX is an organization that serves to educate and promote shows to keep television execs and producers in the know about their peers. Our little television show happened to have won the award for best animated series, beating out one of my favorites Archer from FX and The Hub's own Transformers. This may not seem like a huge feat to those outside of the television world but it shows people are starting to stand up and take notice. via the Hub Facebook

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DH Central - Season 2 Screenshots

Delicious Season 2 screens from a press release found here.  The top three are definitely Season 2, while the other three are kind of vague, and could be season 1.  (Update - Gasping picture below in HD).

Also randomly found in the press release, general character bios.  See after the pictures after the page break for a copy.

The above picture is something you really want to look at.  The other pictures (for the moment) are LD, where as someone found an HD version of the above.  Someone was pointing this out on /co/, but take a look at the stain glass windows.

Now maybe I'm crazy, but this is probably a very good insight on the first episodes.  The first thing you're going to see are dragons.  One brown one (on either side).  The next window is the same design of the brown one, except white, with what can only be assumed as Celestia and Luna circling.

Go further, the window on the right side, extreme front, shows the mane 6 below some sort of symbol.  On the left side, three windows back, you see something that very much resembles puppet ponies, three of them.  Now this might be stretching it, but isn't the colors very close to Cutie Mark Crusaders?  You be the judge.

MLP Character Descriptions

TWILIGHT SPARKLE-

Dutiful and intelligent, TWILIGHT SPARKLE is obsessed with one thing: studying magic!  She once studied so much, she made no time for anypony else. That is until her mentor, PRINCESS CELESTIA, charged her with the study of a special kind of magic--- friendship!  Newly converted to the joys of having friends, she uses her knowledge and unusually powerful gift for magical spells to help her new companions in PONYVILLE.  Though sometimes she gets on her “high horse” about what’s right or wrong, her eagerness to learn and lend a helping hoof endear her to her new friends in PONYVILLE, and when the going gets tough, her love for her friends transform her into a natural born leader!

RAINBOW DASH-

Capable and athletic, RAINBOW DASH lives for adventure!  When any problem should arise that involves traveling to distant lands or dealing with a magical, mysterious beast, RAINBOW DASH is the first to volunteer! Brave and bold, anypony who has ever seen this rainbow-haired Pegasus in the air has been left in jaw-dropped awe of her speed, agility, and, well, her confidence. She’s quite positive she’s the fastest pegasus pony alive, and truth be told, she probably is.  Yes, she’s a bit proud, and a bit mischievous, and when the chips are down, and danger is a-brewing, RAINBOW DASH always, always comes through, proving time and time again that she is a true hero!

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DH Central - Another Season 2 Sample

Aidan McAteer, an animation revisionist for FiM and who's also known for animation on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, released a clip reel of animation samples from various projects he's worked on.
The video is sprinkled with several clips from FiM, with a couple from Season 2!

Apparently this is four months old?

(thanks Hoppip)

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DH Central - Mortimer the Mouse - Faust Reveals...

Its kind of like fishing, you wait around long enough, something interesting is bound to pop up.  Earlier today Lauren Faust released 14 sketches from the 2008 series that would become part of the "FiM Bible" on her DeviantArt account.  It includes a few "what could have been" things which are interesting.

The above is something someone noticed, Mortimer the Mouse, aka the original concept of Fluttershy's companion character.

The rest of the dA pictures if you haven't seen them (HA.....) is behind the page break.  Also included are quotes from Lauren Faust (the ones with the da green backgrounds).

Enjoy!

To address worry that things would be too scary, I skewed the dragons kind of pretty at first. Might have been an interesting direction....

When I submitted the premise for the pilot, there was concern that facing a Manticore would be too scary for kids, so I designed him kind of dopey to help ease worry. Imagine my surprise when I got the note that he didn't look threatening enough!! It's not often that you're happy to get a note, but I was. I like the final one better.

These were just random Fillydelphia residents. I wanted Ponyville to be Fillydelphia originally. Obviously that didn't pan out, but I was glad we got to use the name somewhere else.

Her original name was indeed Appleseed. Ran into some copyright issues, and now she is Apple Bloom. In the original bible, she was solo in her quest for a Cutie Mark, and "seed" signified that she still needed to grow. CMC's Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were developed later.

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