My Little Pony
My Little Pony is a (predominantly) girl's toy brand, involving representations of cartoon horses.
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
Shattered Glass Animated
The AllSpark Almanac Addendum
In a page from her diary, Sari Sumdac sketched a pony labeled "Rainbow Dark" and a "Poison Apple" cutie mark. The AllSpark Almanac Addendum
Aligned continuity
Commercial appearances
First has a My Little Pony named Pinkie Pie sharing the spotlight with Megatron and a guy named Dan to sing a cheery song about summertime. The Hub summer promo 2011
Second has another My Little Pony named Rainbow Dash 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
Third has Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and a third pony named Applejack, joining Megatron and Bulkhead in scatting "Deck the Halls". The Hub Carolers
Fourth has these ponies and Transformers sing "Jingle Bells". The Hub Carolers (Second spot)
Fifth has Bumblebee joining Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie at a movie theater to watch family-friendly fare. Hub Family Movie
Sixth has Megatron's favorite song being the theme song to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Megatron's Favorite Song (26 Hour Takeover marathon promo)
Seventh has Megatron, answering fan mail, reply that his favorite thing to do on vacation is journey to the dark side of Pluto so that he can focus on his favorite hobby: Drawing water color Rainbow Dash fanart. Ask Megatron: Vacation
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 Aquabats' 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, Richard Newman, 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.
- Optimus Prime made an easter egg appearance in IDW's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #2 as the possession of a Cave Troll.
- Optimus would later make a proper appearance for the 2013 conventions exclusive cover of My Little Pony Micro-Series #5 featuring Pinkie Pie (made available at BotCon 2013, among other conventions). Said cover was eventually adapted into an officially licensed t-shirt by We Love Fine.
- The transformation noise is heard in the early minutes of the My Little Pony feature film Equestria Girls, as Pinkie Pie unfolds herself in a manner similar to a transformation.
