Monday, June 27, 2011

Friendship is Magic Billboard

Woah, this thing is awesome.

Check out that smug ass Twilight Sparkle.  That's almost Trixie level right there.

I hope these are the new vectors they use everywhere!

This billboard will be showing up in LA tomorrow.  What better way to attract absolutely everyone?!

You can find the facebook announcement here!


Thanks to everyone that sent it to me!

(Sorry about the delay, I promised myself I'd try to sleep for once, figures I pick the important news day) 

Apparently Cereal created this post for 2:00 PM... so, have his response below! Sorry Cereal! News skips the hourly thing!
The more promotional material I see for this show from the Hub, the more unabashedly excited I get for season two. Doubtless there will be some who think this is taking it too far, but I'm loving this. It's perfect for those who recognize the pun, too. I love puns.

What do you guys think?

Also the image it is based off of


120 comments:

Fengor said...

took me a second to realize it was parodying the Bridesmaids movie poster but when I did realize I nearly killed myself laughing.

NinesTempest said...

That's the official goddamn... My Little Pony page.

And it's badass as fuck.

I hope Season 2 is like that.

Aquaman52 said...

...I'm literally just sitting here, "Tron" being ignored in the background, and grinning like a goddamned hyena.

This. Is. Amazing.

Toty said...

they are all so cool :O
Except Pinkie, She's just Pinkie ...Maybe that's extra cool.

BagOfChips said...

If it had the MLP logo somewhere on it it would be perfect.

And the double takes it would cause would cause many an accident.

Anonymous said...

This is fake you tards

Abalidoth said...

This.... this is awesomesauce.

Lindil said...

It's official? Doesn't seem like a billboard to advertise kids show, more like one advertising a show for young adults.

Fred: Trap Lover said...

My body is ready for season 2

JPS said...

Broadway tunes for the show, fuck-all for the advertising. I'm beginning to love Hasbro as much as Studio B.

ActionScripter9109 said...

Holy. Frack. The Hub is now beyond awesome. I think they've realized what they have, and they're rolling with it.

Stephen said...

That. Is. Awesome!

Long Live Bronies!

Dr. Orbital Death-Ray said...

I don't care if this is real or not. This is the best thing.

The. BEST. THING.

DareDreamer said...

If this real, I love it. Now I regret not seeing Bridesmaids with my mom awhile back(I just HAD to lose my glasses DX) I hope it shows up in NYC so I can see it in person!

Aquaman52 said...

@Anonymous

Seth got this from the official MLP Facebook page. Link's up at the top.

I don't know about you, but I'm gonna stay optimistic.

Anonymous said...

That's... a real billboard?

Real fuckin' Neato.

Shellsh0cker said...

@Anonymous
>This is fake you tards

It is on the official MLP Facebook page, which I am given to understand is actually run by the show producers. I suppose it's possible that they're trolling us, but it seems relatively reasonable to take this at face value for now. C'mon, really, we're all bronies here, we don't have much use for cynicism. And name-calling isn't terribly nice, either.

Anyway, personally I love the look on Fluttershy's face best, maybe because it contrasts so directly with her usual demeanor.

James Corck said...

Man...this is fucking fantastic.

I wish I was in LA now...just to see that.

Anonymous said...

L.A. Cannot possibly be ready for this much pony.
Taking bets on California finding the billboard 'controversial.'

Say what you want, this is California.

Aquaman52 said...

@Shellsh0cker

And hey, in the event that they are trolling, we can always just get a few dA artists together and go vandalize a billboard ourselves.

Preferably one for The Hub, if such an advertisement exists.

Anonymous said...

This billboard, all the mane 6 have got this "you don't mess with my little pony"/"You got a problem with Bronies?" look about them.

Except Pinkie.

Pinkie is indomitable.

Let's just hope she doesn't pop off the bill board and start terrorizing LA with a impromptu parties up an... actually that's EXACTLY what should happen! Long live the Pinkie!

Anonymous said...

Twilights leg is bending the wrong way -_-

Only their front legs have been seen to be double jointed!

Anonymous said...

I don't mean to be a party pooper, but this is just making making me more afraid of Season 2. There's no denying this is awesome, but it looks like more fan-service, like Equestrian Girls.

Oh well. This billboard is still awesome, especially that 3-legged Rarity.

Anonymous said...

I have conflicted feelings over this. They range between "this is fucking awesome" and "WTS IS GOIN ON?! I GOTTA FUCKIN' HIDE".

Cliff Snowpeak said...

I would have gone with "Bridesmares" but this is still awesome.

Anonymous said...

o_O This... the show, the ads, the fandom, it's all insane and awesome at the same time.

Filiecs said...

I love the looks on their faces but Twilight and Rarity's poses just look awkward.

Silfir said...

@AnonymousWhat, you think they're using up too much of their awesome on advertising campaigns? I like to think awesome is a non-finite resource when it comes to ponies.

Anonymous said...

Everypony looks so serious. And then you see Pinkie.

TenchiFreak5 said...

There is so much amazing in this that its hard to describe.

New artwork! A billboard! A parody of an R-rated movie!

Anonymous said...

@Cliff Snowpeak
About Bridesmares, I bet they wanted to avoid the "Bride" term because it will cause lots of confusion and mayhem.

SomeGuy said...
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BagOfChips said...

@Anonymous

Flawed assumption. The makers of the show do not make the advertisements.

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/pony/src/130920342842.png

"season 2 started last summer, and no, hasbro did not ask to adjust the target audiance."

crazyredemu said...

to that guy who suggest that we get DA artist in case this is Celestia at work and not real...don't get a shipping artist to do it, we don't need that kind of controversy! lol

Anonymous said...

Here's the higher-res bigger version Seth.

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/oat/src/130918421326.jpg

SajinZero said...

This just made my day

Shellsh0cker said...

@Anonymous

I won't say your trepidation is unwarranted, but so far the fanservice has been almost exclusively confined to ads, which is exactly where it should be, in my opinion. Now, granted, there hasn't been any canonical content released in the same timeframe, but the show creators have been aware of us for a good while--remember Derpy Hooves?

Bottom line, I say let's just keep the faith and trust that the producers are smart enough to leave the fanservice out of the show. Not much more we can do.

Anonymous said...

Dash's pose there.

FUCKING BADASS HNNNGGG

Anonymous said...

if this actually happens it will be so much WIN but it also might attract trolls and hater i wont name them *cough*fox news *cough*

Anonymous said...

^^ oh wait, i didn't realize you could download it full size from your link. Never mind, carry on!

SomeGuy said...

That is so amazingly epic. At first I looked at it and thought "that's some nice fan art". Then I noticed the link and was all "Oh My GOSH! It's real! It's Real? This is official? This is official!" Then I realized what it was parodying and starting laughing like a Hyena for several minutes.

This is going to turn many heads on the road. They all have have this smug look about them, well except for Pinkie Pie, but then again she's Pinkie Pie. This billboard will defiantly create many new fans.

Hasbro/The Hub wanted to know fan reaction, and from what I've seen so far it is overwhelmingly positive. It is stuff like this that will help change the way people view MLP.

Anonymous said...

I hate when ponies are in human poses. Twilight and Rarity look really freaky. I'm glad they're reaching out to their older audience, but I think this is misleading. The show is not like this.

BagOfChips said...

@Anonymous

Misleading advertisements? Someone alert the press.

coolpowers said...

@Anonymous

I know where you're coming from - one of the reasons I love the show is that it's NOT full of ironic references - but I think Hub is doing the right thing advertising this way. They need eyeballs, and seeing as the adults are still largely the ones in control of the remote, those are the people they need to target.

Wheelworld said...

>Smug Fluttershy

HHHNNNGGG

Leandrea said...

Please, SOMEONE get a picture when this is actually put up!

KidNeo said...

And my anticipation for Season 2 continues to build.

This is pure unbridled (See what I did there?) awesome! It took me a second to realize what this was parodying when I first saw it on Facebook, but when it hit me, I Lol'd so hard!

Anonymous said...

@BagOfChipsOh, Thanks.

Thattagen said...

While the poses bothered me at first, it's acceptable considering the original Bridesmaids movie poster.

The Hub is so awesome right now.

Gallant Vision said...

Oh my Celestia AND Luna, THIS.

I wish this would appear in my town! I LOVE those smug looks the ponies have, especially Fluttershy and Rarity's! <3 Pinkie Pie is great too. She's too awesome to look smug. XD

Storm Vision said...

... you know, I already use the phrase "I'm not making this up" far too often when describing this whole.. thing that the fanbase, creators, and show have all combined into. Don't get me wrong, I love it, and I love this in particular, but... how the hay did we reach this point, anyway?

Anonymous said...

I didn't realize ponies could be so badass.

Retl said...

I laughed way too hard, and then went over to facebook to give all of my support.
And then I realized for some reason the site is uber-broken for me, and I can't "like" anything nor leave comments.

So I'll just have to leave my support here. BWAHAHAHA THAT IS HILARIOUS AND AWESOME.

Anonymous said...

*grins evilly letting out a Rarity laugh rubbing hooves together* someone needs to put up these billboards across from every Fox network/news station building

Anonymous said...

Aw hell yeah. Rainbow Dash looks particularly awesome.

This is the last thing I would have expected for an MLP ad, but I'm loving it.

Anonymous said...

@Anonymous
God, that was awful. Let me try that again.

Thanks to everyone who reassured me with this. If this season was made last summer, then I'm sure it will still be awesome! Just too much fanservice can be bad.

GabuEx said...

Someone NEEDS to submit a photo to Equestria Daily of this ad on an actual billboard once it goes up. This is amazing and awesome.

Lindsay said...

This is awesome!! :D

And really well-thought out as a parody, too! Not only are the ponies actually positioned like the women in the film's poster (link to image), but - having seen Bridesmaids myself - the characters are actually paralleled pretty well too! Rainbow Dash as Megan: the straight-talking, no-nonsense one. Twilight as Rita: a shut-in, disaffected mom that wants to get out and socialize more. Fluttershy as Becca: the naive, shy and repressed Disney movie nut. Pinkie Pie as Helen: the party-planner. Rarity and Applejack are the only two, in my opinion, that don't quite fit the Bridesmaids characters, but for two very different productions (a "little girl's" cartoon versus an R-rated comedy) the parallels that do exist were very well done!

Color me impressed x1000!! :D

RobotPony said...

I don't see how this would ruin the show. Of course, if they started putting in obvious fan service into the show then it would be ruined, but that isn't what they're doing. You have to remember, the marketing arm of MLP:FiM is completely different from the arm that actually makes the episodes.

Anonymous said...

This is awesome, I didn't think this was real at first! Unrelated, I think that there should be a post about Funnyjunk . com, because that website has officially converted to ponies as well (I helped a little)! The Admin of the site changed his profile name to Princess Celestia, and is now holding a poll to get suggestions on a site name-change. About 60-80% of the suggestions are something along the lines of ponies.

RedEnchilada said...

I would watch this if it were a movie.

RibbitHoof said...

It would have been cooler if they had been able to work out a normal (for ponies) pose while getting the feeling of the original poster across. The only pony who should be on two hooves is Pinkie.

That said, it's funny. But I still hope that any future posters will translate 2 legged poses to 4 legged poses (as was done in the show, like during Fluttershy's photo shoots).

Timofei said...

Funnyjunk is fucking terrible. All their content is stolen from other, much better sites. The admin is a homophobic retard. The less publicity that site gets, the better.

Anonymous said...

About the poses, I think Rarity has her front left leg stretched behind AJ and Twilight's hind leg is bent back at the knee (not the ankle) with her ankle joint straight.

It is a common misconception that the knee on the rear leg of quadrupeds (dogs, cats, horses etc.) bend backwards. What people think is a backwards knee is actually the ankle joint. Horses have a knee joint on the rear leg it is just position high up on the leg relatively close to the body compared to the foreleg. On the Ponies it is just below the Cutie Mark. Look carefully at how Pinkie's hind legs bend in the billboard. Back then forward. The thigh is just short.

Timofei said...

Search for "funnyjunk oatmeal" to learn more about how Funnyjunk is the worst thing.

Eric said...

This seems to cool to be official. I like this trend.

Skylark Torch said...

We need one of these in the Eastern North Carolina region. It would be a monument worth visiting! I would ride my bike all the way to it just to have my picture taken with it!

Anonymous said...

Oh my Celestia that is awesome. Hell, even if they are trolling us I don't care. It's pure epicness makes up for it. And if it is real, it might convince some parents to maybe watch it with their kids. That doesn’t seem to happen enough these days.

Anonymous said...

@Lindil
It isn't for young adults?

SomeGuy said...

We don't have to worry about adult fan service working its way into the show. This is simply advertising. It's purpose is to grab people's attention and make them want to find out what this is all about. It is no different then the fan made YouTube videos (why do you think Hasbro allows them, it's free advertising) only official.

Anonymous said...

haha aw man this is too cool

Cereal Velocity said...

YOU STOLE MY NEWS

STOLE IT

WHY

Ewyndall said...

Never been part of any fandom, I guess I have picked the right one to be my first :)
Or maybe...the fandom picked me...Will never know.

Ewyndall said...

Oh and a second note: I'm becoming more and more sure Hasbro is starting to see potential market in bronies :)

Anonymous said...

Okay... IF this is actually going down... who the buck do I have to lobby to get one in Seattle. I'll write a fkn ADVERTISING THESIS as to why it's an invaluable demographic to target.

Secondly, lol @ cereal. Lol.

Lastly, Fluttershy's expression is gold. Just gold.

The Linker said...

I can't express how much I love this. I'm so freakin' happy that the people on the marketing department are so very aware of their show's audience.

This is... this is amazing.

Anonymous said...

@Cereal Velocity

He mad. Everypony focus your hugs on him!

Brongaar said...

As a Class-A driver, I don't believe what I hear and only believe 50% of what I see. So when I run my LA locals (a 3 day event) I may see this if it is true. And laugh my butt off... of course trying not to crush a Prius or 2

Jeqstrem said...

That's freakin' badical.

Anonymous said...

SO GANGSTAAAAAAA

B-Man said...

This blows my mind as an epic and brilliant marketing technique.

Anonymous said...

Please don't tell me the show is going to try and apeal to it's older demographic, it's perfect where it is.

Matthew-147 said...

I think this is a perfect definition of WIN!

Anonymous said...

HOLY SHIT. The Hub is really pushing the "FiM is adult" thing! FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC!

inb4 Season 2 only airs late at night.

Virga Rainboom said...

This is the download link, also on the Facebook page, that leads to a download of the 279KB version of our pony Bridlemaids:

http://hphotos-snc6.fbcdn.net/265953_244821235535321_118429394841173_1152959_1731848_o.jpg

specter114 said...

I love how they are all serious except Pinkie Pie, who is being... Pinkie Pie!

Anonymous said...

can someone find a bigger picture i want to set this as my desktop backround

Anonymous said...

1920 x 1080 Desktop size:
http://postimage.org/image/1yywjad5w/full/

Anonymous said...

@Anonymous
Anonymous always delivers.

7heSama said...

'parently I don't find it as amazing as everyone else. Mostly because their emotions just don't seem to match, particularly Rarity, Fluttershy and Twilight.
Also I think the ponies look weird when they stand up. :/

Virga Rainboom said...

@Virga Rainboom

the link up here is to an official 2048x623 24bit version

Virga Rainboom said...

What amazes me is that Twilight has a "crotch" in this image. The ponies almost never do! They usually have an "arch" or belly sag line.

Anonymous said...

Oh god virga why, I didn't notice Twilight's crotch before, now I'm gonna be thinking about that every time I see that bill board! Come on Twi, put that away!

Anonymous said...

Seth, you steal Cereal's news?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COG-MvZVhzo

I propose a recompense of Cereal's choosing! (may Celestia have mercy on us all if he picks up on this)

Tears of a valedictorian said...

omg fluttershy

Anonymous said...

Can somepony recomend a good T-shirt printing website? This really need to be on a T-Shirt.

Myoron said...

Dislike. Not the face I'd want to put on a kids show to advertise it to thousands of mainstream and biased people.

Virga Rainboom said...

@Anonymous

*Laughs!* Sorry, I didn't mean to "harsh your pony buzz". I just finished up in the Artist's Training Ground Event and have been studying FiM pony anatomy for the last month. I drew some ponies standing so I have re-watched episodes and stared for hours at how they are drawn. I have not seen that particular pose before in canon art.

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm

Anyone out in L.A. gonna get us some pics when/if this goes up?

Randomjack said...

SO

MUCH

WIN

That's like 46% cooler

LordOfTheWrongs said...

It seems like the wrong aspect ratio for a typical billboard.

HOWEVER... it looks just about right for the side of a bus?!

LordOfTheWrongs said...

@Virga Rainboom
I think that's not a crotch, it's her knee in front of the usual belly-sag.

Anonymous said...

While I like the fan service.....

Jayson, if you are reading this:
DON'T CHANGE THE SHOW
IT ISN'T BROKEN, SO DON'T FIX IT

that's about it really.

Fire.Esper said...

THEY NOTICED!

The marketing department, that is. This is definitely an adult-oriented ad.

They noticed adults are interested in this show. I'd be concerned about the show itself changing, but... I can't think of any ways it could do so for the worse.

Anonymous said...

Part of me finds this hilarious. Part of me is a little weirded out.

Calnos said...

So.. does this make Applejack the Bride? Who is she getting married to? Season 2 hint, or am I just looking too much into a parody?

Mami Tomoe said...

I saw this on the FB page, and I was like "OMG HOW AWESOME!!!"

I love the artwork too... Oh why Pinkie you are so random!

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah, if this is Season 2, my body is so not going to be ready.

Also, DAT FLUTTERSHY.

Anonymous said...

Fluttershy's assertive lvl increased to "I'M 20 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU, FOAL"
LA? O RLY?..............(yay!)
oh and good night press sleep timer button to extend!!!!
(HuffytheMagicDragon)

Anonymous said...

Today LA, tomorrow the World!

Anonymous said...

I am going to LA this week for Anime Expo and i will try to find this.

Aoshi Stark said...

I really hope somepony who lives in LA will be kind enough to get pictures of the unveiling! :D

Heliopause said...

They must have put it up overnight because it was there this morning. I sent pics in to Cereal & Sethisto

KidNeo said...

I have found a pic of the actual billboard! :D

Check it out!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=183709131682120&set=a.163005017085865.50536.162258317160535&type=1&theater

Anonymous said...

Words fail me.

Heavy Weapons Pony said...

That is so RAD!
The Hub has the best commercial team EVER!

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