I just got out of the My Little Pony: Season 8 Sneak Peek Panel (you can find that here) and before that one was The Making of My Little Pony: The Movie.
Unfortunately, Hasbro was really strict on on the NO TECHNOLOGY active during the Making of Panel, so there will be no pictures for this part. However, I did take some extensive notes, so let's get started!
Head on down below the break for a recap of the entire Making of My Little Pony: The Movie Panel.
THE MAKING OF MY LITTLE PONY THE MOVIE
The panel began with a brief introduction video where the cast of the
movie introduced themselves and their characters for the movie, and what
each actor liked about their characters. The video was rapid fire, and
filled with a lot of familiar faces!
After that Ed Lee, a writer for Littlest Pet Shop, walked out onto stage
and introduced the panelists. The panelists on the panel were Meghan
McCarthy (Executive Producer), Andrea Libman (Voice Actress behind
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy), Cathy Weseluck (Voice Actress behind Spike
the Dragon), and Jayson Thiesson (Director, My Little Pony: The Mvoie).
After the whole panel was on the stage, Ed dropped a bombshell of a reminder on the audience that My Little Pony: The Movie will premiere in 4 weeks!
The entire audience gasped in surprised! We had all forgotten that the movie's premiere was so close!
Ed then started leading the panelists through his questions. Starting with a question for Meghan and Jayson about how did she feel when she found out she was going to be working on the movie! Meghan answered with a the question with a single word--Nervouscited--to great cheers from the audience!!!
For Jayson, he was excited to work on the movie! It was a crazy opportunity--he knew the film was going to be a lot larger in scope--but he felt like the franchise was supposed to be there on the silver screen.
Ed then asked a question to the Andrea and Cathy asking if their approach to acting in the movie changed at all from what they were doing on the TV show.
Andrea (Pinkie Pie Voice): It was the same! *laughs heard throughout the arena*
Cathy: There was a lot of time to experiement with the characters and play off of each other that we don't get an opportunity to do while recording the show.
Andrea: It was really cool to take that extra time with experimenting with how a scene can come together to make the film really special.
It was at this point that Meghan presented Cathy and Andrea with "concrete slabs" of the hoof and claw prints of Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Spike like all the movie stars get to do in Hollywood! This was followed by a showing of a movie clip! This clip was both familiar and very different to those who were in attendance of the MLP Panel at SDCC last year!
It was incredible to be able to go from a script read and then to see the final product! So much fun!
Ed then asked, in a fairly round about way when comparing the Mane 6 to superheros, what Cathy and Andrea thought of the ponies being superheroes. Of course this was just a segway into the real topic he wanted to talk about! For one cannot have superheroes without super-villains! And so Ed asked Jayson about the Storm King!
I unfortunately was a little behind in my hand note taking, so I missed what he had said specifically that made the entire audience laugh. However there was another movie clip waiting in the wings just to be seen which had all of the films villains plotting away! What were they plotting? You'll have to wait for the movie to see it!
But the clip did showcase the amount of the incredible special effects which will be in the show! The effects showcased in this particular clip were all hand drawn! I honestly wish Hasbro would release the clip of this one, so you can see what I'm talking about, but it is amazing!
And speaking of amazing, Ed led the panel into a discussion about the music of the film. Everyone on the panel gave huge props to Daniel Ingram for his work on this the movie. What's he's been able to accomplish with the full orchestra for the film, and with Mike Vogel and Meghan writing most of the lyrics has given My Little Pony it's time to be awesome!
Which just so happened to be the title of the song clip they showed immediately following that clever name drop. I'll give you three guesses as to which pony sung that song, and the first two don't count.
After the song played Meghan made an offhand comment about how she expects that song to become one of the songs constantly played at other conventions aside from HASCON. I think we can all take a pretty good guess as to which convention she was referring to!
From there the guided interview ended with a question to Andrea and Cathy about what would be the next epic adventure for their characters?
Spike: What another one!? But we just got back from this one!
Andrea is excited that when the movie is released the whole universe of My Little Pony has opened up! Lots of new locations, new creatures/species who aren't ponies can now be used in telling lots of new adventures in the future!
After that the kids QnA opened up. It was filled with the usual questions you would see asked at a My Little Pony panel. However the first question out of the gate was a question directed to Andrea and Cathy, and it was something I know Seth would get a kick out of.
Question: How would your characters react if Starlight Glimmer became an alicorn?
Spike: Great. More work for me.
Pinkie Pie: Oooo! Sparkly!
Needless to say the entire audience cracked up! And it was like that for the rest of the panel.
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