My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is a 2013 Canadian–American animated musical adventure movie.

The movie is based on the animated television series, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The movie premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 15, 2013 and was released on limited screens in Canada and the United States on June 16, 2013.^[1] Screenvision added additional showings of the movie to allow more people to see the movie because of a larger-than-expected number of theater-goers in the initial weeks of showing.^[2]

The movie takes place after the show's third season finale "Magical Mystery Cure" and is about Twilight Sparkle entering the human world to get back her magical crown after it was stolen by Sunset Shimmer. During her time in the human world, Twilight learns how to behave like a human and meets the human counterparts of her pony friends. With the help of her new friends she hopes to stop Sunset Shimmer and take back her stolen crown.

The film later spawned a franchise of sequels, dolls, an animated web series, merchandise and apparel, and more. The second movie titled My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks was released theatrically on September 27, 2014. The third film titled My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games was released on September 26, 2015 on Discovery Family. And the fourth film titled My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree was released on October 1, 2016 on Netflix.

As well as the release of 3, 20 minute specials titled "Tales of Canterlot High"^[3] which was put on Netflix but was removed in 2022.^[4]

5, 44 minute long specials^[5] were released from 2018 to 2019, titles with no specific order are: Spring Breakdown, Forgotten Friendship, Sunset's Backstage Pass, Rollercoaster of Friendship, and Holidays Unwrapped.

A digital series exclusive to YouTube^[6] ran for 50 and 19 episodes each, with the series being split into 2 parts: Better Together^[7] and Choose your own Ending.^[8]

In 2017, a series of "summertime shorts"^[9] ran on the Discovery Network, the first five short ran in July, all airing in August.

1. ↑ "L.A. Film Festival: 'My Little Pony' reels in families". Los Angeles Times. 16 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
2. ↑ "Exhibitors Adding Showings Of "My Little Pony Equestria Girls" Due To Consumer Demand". Screenvision. Archived from the original on 2013-07-06. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
3. ↑ Equestria Girls: Tales of Canterlot High (Animation, Family), Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball, Tabitha St Germain, DHX Media, Hasbro, retrieved 2023-06-13{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
4. ↑ "Watch Equestria Girls: Tales of Canterlot High | Netflix". www.netflix.com. Archived from the original on 2023-06-13. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
5. ↑ "Animated media". My Little Pony Equestria Girls Wiki. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
6. ↑ "My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Better Together". My Little Pony Equestria Girls Wiki. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
7. ↑ My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Better Together (Animation, Comedy, Family), Andrea Libman, Ashleigh Ball, Tara Strong, DHX Media, Hasbro Studios, 2017-11-17, retrieved 2023-06-13{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
8. ↑ My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Choose Your Own Ending (Animation, Comedy, Family), Andrea Libman, Tabitha St Germain, Ashleigh Ball, DHX Media, Hasbro Studios, 2017-12-17, retrieved 2023-06-13{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
9. ↑ "My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts". My Little Pony Equestria Girls Wiki. Retrieved 2023-06-13.