My Little Pony
My Little Pony is a girl's toy brand about magical multicolored talking horses. The toy itself is a stylized rubber horse figurine with a brushable mane and tail. Owned by the same toy company who owns the Transformers franchise, there's been quite a few references and cameos in both franchises.
Fiction
Live-action movie continuity
Transformers film
When a hopeful little girl encountered what she thought was the Tooth Fairy climbing out of her family's swimming pool, she took her My Little Pony Pinkie Pie plushie with her. Transformers (film)
Transformers: The Movie Storybook
As Maggie Madsen and Glen Whitmann crack the Cybertronian code, a small My Little Pony figure can be seen sitting atop Glen's computer. Transformers: The Movie Storybook
Aligned continuity
Commercial appearances
A pony named Pinkie Pie shared the spotlight with Megatron and a guy named Dan to sing a cheery song about summertime. The Hub summer promo 2011
Another pony, Rainbow Dash, was apparently studying at Hub High School, as she peeked out of a wall created by Megatron, who was in detention for anger issues. Hub Detention Hall
Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and a third pony, Applejack, joined Megatron and Bulkhead in scatting "Deck the Halls". The Hub Carolers These ponies and Transformers later sung "Jingle Bells". The Hub Carolers (Second spot)
Bumblebee joined Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie at a movie theater to watch family-friendly fare. Hub Family Movie
Games
The Fabulous Ponymaker
Available as an online game on The Hub's website beginning in summer of 2012, The Fabulous Ponymaker allows you to "build your own custom pony" based on the series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. One of the options allows you to build a pony using Movie Optimus Prime-styled parts like a helmet, chestplate and boots. (Despite the presence of the Aqua-Bats' logo in the cutie marks, there is no Autobot symbol. Sad.)
Notes
- Many veteran Transformers voice actors from numerous series have lent their voices to many different generations of My Little Pony cartoons, including Frank Welker, Susan Blu, Charlie Adler, Victor Caroli, Venus Terzo, Brian Drummond, Tabitha St. Germain, Tara Strong, and Peter Cullen.
- In an interview, Buzz Dixon claimed that his initial "punch-up" of the script for My Little Ponies: The Movie would have featured the ponies encountering characters from The Transformers, among other Hasbro franchises.
- At one point one of the Little Ponies had to go looking for...something or someone, I forget. I suggested she encounter some of the Transformers and Joes in her search, specifically, a scene where she flies up to Shipwreck who is drinking some amber fluid from a bottle.
- Shipwreck would just stare at her in bug-eyed disbelief and she’d fly on, then Shipwreck would smash the bottle, take his cap off his head, put his left hand over his heart and raise his right hand in an oath, muttering frantically under his breath. Hasbro said, "Very funny. No."
- In another interview, Dixon revealed that the globetrotting pony would have encountered Optimus Prime before meeting the drunken Shipwreck.
- I suggested one of the Ponies go look for help against the menace facing them. The first person she would have asked would have been Optimus Prime, the second would have been Shipwreck (who would assume he was suffering from DTs & pour out the beer he was drinking).
- Alas,
humorless spoilsportscooler heads prevailed and those scenes were never animated…
- According to Aaron Archer at the BotCon 2008 Hasbro Commentary viewing of the live-action Transformers film, the My Little Pony prop carried by the little girl had to come from the personal collection of a Hasbro employee, as that particular style of figure ceased production prior to the beginning of the movie's filming. She never got it back, as it was later auctioned for charity, and whether she was ever able to replace it is uncertain.
- In Transformers Animated, Professor Princess's flying unicorn doll Powdered Sugar is a homage to My Little Pony toys.
