The sack he's always petting contains some kind of artifact that 'by the power of darkness' can transform ponies into dragons. Nope, I'm wrong, they're stylized glaive-forks, using standard nomenclature.īetter look at Tirek. Hey Shining Armour? Nope just the same color scheme. Just go above the clouds and back down again after a song.ĭragon attack again. She's got that Player Character glow, I guess.Īnd flies to the pony world with no magical transition at all. Could be earlier as what she's wearing (basic overalls and blouse) was technically around since the 1900's but unlikely to be anything other than the broadcast date.įirefly basically kidnaps Megan, for no real reason. Megan's speech patterns indicate America, probably northern California. So the human world doesn't know about My Little Pony-like creatures at this point.Īrchitecture and clothing of the human world is 60's-80's. This would be Megan.įirefly shows up, and Megan is confused by the talking, flying pony. He needs exactly four ponies for his chariot. Not pulling any punches on this 'little girl show'. Tirek's handling that sack like it's a pet cat. Villain of the episode is mentioned as Tirek (This manticore guy's pronouncing it Tee-Rak), Master of Midnight Castle, while manticore-guy is being all threatening-by-proxy. Strange creature is riding one of the dragons, looks like an anthropomorphized manticore. Right at the end of the utopian theme song, a Dragon attack. "No threat in sight." Odd phrasing.Īnd suddenly the dark themes kick in so hard it's whiplash time. Theme song and action indicates a kind of paradise. Get used to being smashed into by Rainbow Dash-like pegasi, pretty much every incarnation of you has that happen. Unicorns can teleport, but it seem to take concentration and effort. Pony that eventually becomes Rainbow Dash. Either that or the scale here is really weird. Bet you it's supposed to be a single keep rather than an enclosing curtain wall. Not sure what I'm seeing there with that transition.Ĭlassic Late Norman-style castle with round towers. Which may actually turn into a rainbow-like waterfall. Pegasi can interact with rainbows as if they are liquid, using it as a waterslide. She brings back the human Megan, and a magic rainbow to try to defeat the master of Midnight Castle, Tirek, before he brings on eternal night. Summary: The land of the Ponies are invaded by dragons, and Firefly goes searching for help. These notes are from the original version, not the reworked one. The title Rescue at Midnight Castle was the name given to it when it was reworked into being part of the series. It was released as a stand-alone special and followed up by two other films before the series actually kicked off in two years later in 1986. The first animated feature was made as a pilot for a continuing series. My Little Pony had existed for three years as a toy line before this. Originally known simply as My Little Pony, and sometimes as Firefly's Adventure. My Little Pony: Rescue at Midnight Castle (G1 Animated Feature, 1984, 22 minutes) Let's start with the first ever broadcast show for My Little Pony. They are presented in the order I wrote them as I was watching the episode with minimal editing. Plus just some silly things I noticed during the episode. So a lot of these notes will be about architecture, clothing, apparent technology, and the cultural mores displayed in the episodes. I have no qualifications whatsoever, and my primary purpose doing this is to glean any interesting tid-bits that can be used to build up the society, culture, and history of the My Little Pony world. These are my notes I took while watching the episodes. I'm going to be watching MLP, from the beginning.
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