Summer 2013 Day 21 : Equestria Girls - Set Theaters to Fail?

Maybe it's me but with weeks and weeks throughout the summer to put My Little Pony Equestria Girls in theaters did it have to be this week? The same weekend Man of Steel rolls out into theaters? It explains the ultra limited 200 theater release, it's no doubt only appearing in art theaters. Yeah, it's Miyazaki's Spirited Away all over again.

Far be it for me to question Hasbro, but taking their biggest franchise not GI Joe or Transformers and doing this to its first theatrical outing? Unforgivable.

Yes, Equestria Girls is at least original, and the Entertainment Weekly trailer hyped a decidedly Star Trek IV feel with Twilight struggling to understand the human world, let alone being human, in her quest to recover the big crown core element of the elements of harmony... only this is not what Bronies wanted out of a first Friendship is Magic movie. A Brony's idea of a FIM movie would probably not be original, but it would be all pony, what the first FIM movie should have been. This Equestria Girls idea would have been a great mini series in the vein of Clue, with contests and multimedia events tied about it promoting its possibilities as a full series, but ultimately it should have been its own release and not a FIM movie, let alone the first FIM movie.

So odds are severely poor that Equestria Girls is playing in a theater within 100 miles of you, but if your still playing the Gameloft game, review coming soon on Raise This Village blog, then your interested in the new update... whenever that finally comes out. It should be out now, in fact, but I am still waiting for the update... go figure.

Past the movie itself I would have embraced a Equestria Girls IDW comic adapt, only no such thing was made. Missed opportunity.

As soon as that update comes out I will be back, as well as for reviews of both the main and micro series of the FIM IDW comic. Stay tuned.