Saturday 16 July 2011


A few days ago a video of the Friendship is Magic musical was thrown up on Youtube, as you can imagine.. It is not anything superb. It basically boils down to a chopped together generic Hasbro plot and a bunch of re-renditions of songs from the show. The costumes were crap, the set was non-existent and it was really nothing more than a corny little romp designed for little girls as a blatant cash-grab.
The voice actors did a great job with what they had and did a much better job at imitating the show's VAs than I expected. It was a lot of fun to hear them performing songs from the show even if the words they replaced because of a lack of half the mane cast really threw off the flow of the songs.
Clearly I didn't like it much, but that's fine because it wasn't targeted at me.

I'm sure their target audience will absolutely love it but what annoyed me and prompted this blog post is the reaction the Brony community had.

I've been part of this community since early March and so far it's been a lot of fun but I just can't escape this one daunting thing, Bronies can be fucking stupid sometimes when it comes to My Little Pony. The reactions to that video really made me lose a little bit of faith in this community.

I'll save you the hastle of rummaging through the comments and sum up the Brony community's thoughts on the matter in one sentence:
They did not care for it.