Hub Network's My Little Pony: Dragonfire teaser

I would watch the shit out of this.

Comments

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

I think that's just a very elaborate April Fool's joke on Hasbro and the Hub's part, but we'll see, I guess.

If it was anthro ponies, and not humans (the ones from Equestria Girls don't count right now), I would, too. But I'm more than a bit skeptical about this thing. But, like I said above, we'll see if this is real, or not.

[RBDash47]

1975107
Oh, I'm sure it's a prank. It doesn't make any sense for Hub to create a pony-based show targeting the older demographic specifically.

[Sypher]

It does sound pretty cool.

[djthomp]

No kidding, 47. It's almost certainly just a joke, but oh lordy do I wish it wasn't.

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

1975113 Yeah, me, too. And I'm sure that you're right. No way that somethin' like this could be real.

This trailer was pretty convincing, though............

You know, things like this are just one reason that I get very sorely tempted to spend the whole of April 1st in bed with my head buried under my pillows and covers.

[PresentPerfect]

I am monumentally sad that this is not real.

[Hoopy McGee]

Personally, I'm looking forward to all of the fanfics this is going to spawn.

[BaroqueNexus]

I wouldn't. It may be an unpopular opinion, but if this actually happened (I know it won't but still) I personally think it'd be a disaster.

[horizon]

It always makes me a little wistful when companies try to pull April Fools' jokes that start with a cool idea they'd never, ever, in real life do, and end with "isn't this funny, ha ha, it's funny because we won't do it."

Because the thing that makes it cool means that they would have an audience, even if it's nowhere near their target market, and more often than not I'm in that market, so it comes across as a backhanded "Ha ha, your tastes are weird and hilarious."

Apparently another April Fool's joke, for example, was Bioware adding Garrus Vakarian body pillows to their online store. I haven't even played that game but if I had thought for a second it was a real thing I would have been sorely tempted to pull out the ol' credit card. The relationship scenes with him I watched on Youtube were some of the most genuinely moving and romantic moments I've seen out of video games in a long while. Buuuuuut, no, the joke is just how body pillows are mockable, and that's a letdown on multiple levels.

Wheeling back around to MLP, this is Hasbro pretty much saying, "Ha ha, science fiction!" Never mind that the brony market would go 100% guaranteed apeshit over this in a positive way, never mind they're already doing GI Joe and Transformers et.al. and could throw some creative teams at it who could write compelling adventure, never mind the groundbreaking statement they could make about blurring the lines between "boy's" and "girl's" shows … nope, it's just a joke. Sigh.

[RBDash47]

1977291
Basically

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[CartsBeforeHorses]

This idea is hilarious, and could be awesome, like Cowboy Bebop but with ponies. But again, there would probably not be a big enough audience for it.

[toafan]

I would watch it too! Except that, statistically speaking (wait, is that correct here? Hmm), I suspect Hasbro would botch it. But I'd probably watch it anyways!

That looks so much like it's a crossover with something specific. I almost wish it was, because then I could find out with what, and watch the s out of that. But short of digging optimistically through youtube comment threads, there doesn't seem to be any chance of that happening.

I'm tempted to go watch stuff anyways. Battlestar Galactica! Babylon 5! Cowboy Bebop! Firefly! All! The! Things!

1977291
Dude, we are on the fandom's premiere fanfic site. There's got to be something, sooner or later. (I'd say something about making sure awesome fanfic of this happens if I have to write it myself, but I'm worried about that shading into unkeepable promises.)

But you're right about companies doing awesome-but-we'd-never-make-this things for April fool's being a bit of a dick move. (Some things are probably never a good idea, of course. Have you seen the live-action Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time movie trailer? What's your opinion on that?)

[horizon]

1989473
For some reason the LoZ trailer feels different to me. Ah, here:

IGN doesn't actually have the power to make the movie; they're doing it out of the same sense of homage that drives our fanworks. They're laughing with us rather than at us. Now if it were Nintendo dropping a trailer, rather than going out and optioning the franchise to a Hollywood studio …

Of course, given what happened last time they tried, maybe it's better this is only a fanwork.