Saturday, July 30, 2011

Comics: Chickens are Super Spies/Memes on the Moon


Hey! Hey guys! I know how to call an international agent of intrigue and mysery! Scootaloooo! Scoot Scoot Scootaloooo! Also works on chickens for some strange reason. The above awesomery from everypony's favorite flight-challenged filly is brought to you by Aalevgor. Below, find Twilight Flopple's super ultra mega realistic depiction of Celestia and Luna's reaction to seeing their toys. It's so real, I think it may have just been recorded with a video camera. Real!

53 comments:

TenchiFreak5 said...

That second one was awesome.

Anonymous said...

Not first.

Also, the first one was great. Scootaninja is best ninja.

Klaus said...

Lol loved the comic

Anonymous said...

That second one.
Awesome.

Atlas said...

They forgot about the light up fairy wings!

Not Creeper said...

I love you Phoe. Mostly your voice though. it is a nice voice.

Stargazer said...

/hugs both Luna and Celestia

It'll be alright, some pony will make great figurings of you two I promise!

ActionScripter9109 said...

These were both awesome. The first on an epic level, the second on a LOL level.

Also, yay, it's Phoe!

Stargazer said...

Ment to ask what scoots is attacking. Hard to comment from lack of information lol. ( well, other then awesome scoots is awesome )

Ditzy Derp said...

For once i agree with celestia, it had to be done

WeirdPonyGuy said...

This is the first time that Celestia banishes someone who deserves to be in the moon.

Octavia said...

Best chicken assassin ever?

And lmao! Oh, the second one was hilarious.

TundraTerror said...
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TundraTerror said...

Disregard currency
Acquire banishment

Also, Luna never gets fat, just more cuddly.

KShrike said...

I dare the haters to say that the first comic isn't any gram of epic.

Anonymous said...

TO THE MOON!!!!!
FOORRREEEVVVEERRRRR!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I like how Hasbro is just this one guy

reynard61 said...

Why is Princess Luna wearing Princess Celestia's tiara?

Display Name said...

@Anonymous

One guy who owns ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.

Luna said...

The true question is: why wouldn't I be wearing sis's crown?

Anonymous said...

Other then trolling, I've never heard a good explaination to why Celestia's toy is pink.

Pink for girls and yet the show and even on the box shows a white Celestia, doesn't make sense.

Been funny if they would of included the nails on a chalkboard phrases the Celestia toy says.

Scootaloo said...

Oh no! My cover's been blown! Hurry! Send-in Agent Show Mare for a distraction while I make my escape!

- Super Secret Agent Scootl-Double-O

ElectricZoNe said...

Haha these are great.

SoFDMC said...

That guy doesn't have to wait for a thousand years. Too many guys will be going up there to try finding if Sentinel Prime indeed crashed on the moon.

blitzthedragon said...

Say, can anyone explain this new "X, grab my Y!" meme to me?

Anonymous said...

@blitzthedragon
Knowyourmeme.com?

Jelfes said...

how does everyone know who's posting these. Above, people are saying that Phoe posted this but I don't see any indication she did, or anypony else for that matter.

Jelfes said...

@Jelfes nevermind, just saw the indication, i derped

Commodore Z said...

Hasbro! Why must you torment us with such toys? Where's Celestia when we need her to counter-troll?

UltimaShadow7 said...

More Ninjaloo art? AWESOME!

Rakshata said...

Hasbro guy who sucks at making toys,
Send 'im to the moon.
Marketing research that fails,
send 'im to the moon...

Anonymous said...

@UltimaShadow7
> Ninjaloo

This.

This is the greatest name.

It also sounds like an Indian curry dish.

Which makes it even greater somehow.

kriss1989 said...

@Anonymous The reason the toy is pink? Look closely at Celestia. She's NOT white, she's a very pale pastel pink.

Rakshata said...

@kriss1989 regardless, at a glace you would claim she is white. The reason she is a tint is because of she was pure white she'd look flat to us. Hell, this background isn't white, it's a very close shade of white. That doesn't give one teh ability to say "Celestia is pink" or "The background is blue"
It'd be okay if the Celestia was just a tint of pink, that's perfectly fine... But she isn't tinted, she's full on pink.

Vermillion Twilight said...

@Anonymous
>Other then trolling, I've never heard a good explaination to why Celestia's toy is pink.

The answer was posted on Equestria Daily a little while back. Hasbro in fact originally designed Celestia to be white, but while showing off the prototypes at industry trade shows there was considerable feedback from the toy retailers that 'pink sells better'. Hasbro simply changed the color so they could at least get the toys in the front door to sell them. There were pictures posted here that showed the original white Celestia figure, and Pinkie pie for example with slightly different, show accurate colors.

That's why I think so much energy is wasted on trying to get Hasbro to make better merchandise, when it should be the retailers that we focus our letters and petitions towards. If THEY know we want to buy off their shelves, they'll tell Hasbro what to market. We need to stop bitching and moaning to the makers when they can only make what they have a chance to sell.

FoxxFur said...

@Vermillion Twilight

I'm fairly sure this was Lauren's theory that she posed to a DA inquiry back in November. As she and all the other crew of the show have stated, they have no influence or insight over the toys.

A response did come pretty direct from Hasbro at the Ponycon Q&A however, and it basically boiled down to "our demographic buys pink ponies over all other colors". The implicit point being that bronies or indeed even the adult MLP Gen 1 collectors that convention is geared to are not included in their demographic.

I'm sure the real reason is somewhere between the two, but I do think it's important to note that nearly all the graphic representations of Celestia on all the MLP product show her as white. Retailers have no problem buying and stocking those toys and probably have no problem selling them.

My theory is that Hasbro basically flinched. Here was this new wave of MLP merch and here they are introducing a brand new pony character - a real Princess, not just a horse dressed as one - and there's no guarantee that the toys or the show will go over well. So make her pink. I'm sure that pink ponies are failsafe, just like how Hasbro requested that Celestia be demoted from "Queen" to "Princess".

Pinklestia doesn't enrage me as much as their callow response to an adult fan's question. That's where this comic came from. Once I saw the awful eyes on the Luna toy in the new Target 2-pack, I knew they had it coming. TO THE MOON

- Twilight Flopple (Foxxy)

Vermillion Twilight said...

@FoxxFur

There are so many archived news posts that I couldn't find the one showing the original color Celestia and Pinkie Pie prototypes. Ah well.

Hasbro definitely dropped the ball by changing Celestia, but they didn't design her that badly to start off with. I still think that retailers are the first and last line for getting better merchandise, and should be the focus of our Rarity-level whining.

Actually, Hasbro would be the hero of the day if they would put out a prestige line of ponies that they could sell in limited runs and online only, or even easier have another company experienced in marketing collector oriented figures handle the design, production and marketing of such a line. I would gladly pay a premium to have a full set of show accurate, molded ponies and side characters, without all those recolored ponies with their cloned poses.

blakestar15 said...

Cool, now all Celestia needs to do is use Seth's space sattelite ray to change the color of all the celestia figurines to white easy as getting another ten million views.

Wierdplatformer said...

Scootassassin?! I think so.

In other news, step up Hasbro!

Alevgor said...

Wow. I just don't know what to say. I posted that Scootacomics as a WIP (it isn't nearly done - just some character poses) in order to get some feedback on one specific forum. Was quite shocked (in a good sence) to find it here.
Hope you will enjoy the final version when it's done.

Matrilwood said...

The last panel with Scootaloo makes an epic wallpaper.

Anonymous said...

>second comic

gnu debugger;
operation cancelled to avoid infinite recursion.
-the function "Hasbro" shouldn't call itself.

If anyone gets this I will be proud of you all.
(I suppose technically it should be DDD instead of GDB)

Anonymous said...

Scootaloo with Katana > Luna in Socks
Now we need Scootaninja in Socks.

James Corck said...

The first thing I though when seeing the first comic was: "Meet the Scoot!"

The second one made me feel sorry for Habro. They are doing their best! The get a toy approved and finished takes months, guys. I bet they are working on the toys of white Celestia and Derpy as we are talking.

Firleycat said...

I just imaged how hard it would be to wield a sword in between your teeth would be. Just keeping it level after a swing would be a nightmare, let alone trying to hit something. That why I would use gauntlets as my pony weapon of choice.

Well, its good to see memes being used to solve problems instead of random jokes. Though you can never know with Celestia. She could have organised all this as an extremely complex plan to mess with us and Luna.

Anonymous said...

#2 It's soooooooo truuuuueee......

sotha said...

I feel bad for Luna.

YonderVandal said...

Ha ha ha! Those were great. But why is it that Scootaloo is always being featured as a ninja? I can't deny she makes a pretty cool one, but it's pretty clear that Sweetie Belle is the real ninja of the CMC's (Staremaster anyone?). In the end, Scoot would probably make a better samurai.

Anonymous said...

...pump--

*CLOP*

--YOU up!!

Swallowtail said...

Is it weird that the first one with Scoot kind of reminds me of Sucker Punch?

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