Hell Al Capony might still be possible, but that sure as hell isn't an alligator. This is a 4600DPI scan with a whole bunch of small modifications to sharpen it.
It could just be two nonsense background ponies in goggles and a hat, or it would actually be some season 2 characters.
What do you guys think? The actual image is MASSIVE btw, so be sure to open it to check if you want to theorize on it!
93 comments:
first. suck it, nerds
ReplyDeleteFirst!
ReplyDeleteBrohoof for simultaneous
ReplyDeletedon't touch me, cretin
ReplyDeleteO.o
ReplyDeletePink pony with aviator goggles (and/or Rarity's combat helmet from Dragonshy), and street urchin colt/filly that I want to see in Season 2. That is all, and nothing more.
ReplyDeleteStop fighting you two
ReplyDeleteas for the picture. I dont see a clear picture. Im gonna have to wait for somepony to do some fancy work of magic
It's a human with green hair/a green hat, with a dog or racoon.
ReplyDelete@Flygon16
ReplyDeleteOh, AND first comment actually relating to the post. Seriously, people, I know this'll sound incredibly odd coming from someone who watches a show with the MLP name, but grow up a little.
I see a yellow mane and pink coat pony with an aviators hat and goggles next too a white coat pony with some kind of hat.
ReplyDeleteI would have to guess something like a self-insert of the poster artist. Kind of like video game easter eggs where the creators appear in a picture frame or something.
ReplyDeleteI see the pink pony with the aviator helmet but whatever's on the right I can't really make out.
ReplyDeleteIt's just one pony. Her tail swishing up and back is what looks like Al Capony's hat, but the white underneath it is just shading effects.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is it's just a badly colored Twilight.
Now, onto what I really think
It's a six legged pony with a purple polka dotted mane who flies through the air all over the world to hide magic sparkly eggs!
The pony on the left looks Appleloosan mare to me, and the one on the right reminds me of one of the paparazzi ponies that hounded Fluttershy in 'Green Isn't Your Color'
ReplyDeletePink pony/blonde mane w/goggles.
ReplyDeleteinb4 Jessie and James
i's waldo¡¡¡ i've been looking for him eighteen years¡¡
ReplyDeleteoh, horse apples!
ReplyDeleteI had submitted my own enlarged and enhanced scanned picture very similar to that, and THIS one happened to get in!
curse it all!
at least I have my poster, safe and sound.
derp!
ReplyDeletei see gilda...
Looks like twilight in a army helmet and some sort of raccoon creature.
ReplyDeleteThere's got to be a vector of this image somewhere on Hasboro's hard drive. We really need a mole in their art department.
ReplyDeleteIt's... oh boy.
ReplyDeleteIT'S FUCKING NOTHING
COKATRICE!!!
ReplyDeleteOUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!
hahahahaha LOL XD
Looks like just one pony to me. Pink with brownish-green mane (Hat?). The brown thing to the right just looks like his/her tail.
ReplyDeleteIt's freaking Twilight and/or Sweetie Belle in some sort of hats. What makes people think it's something wacky and new??? OCCAM'S RAZOR, for crying out loud, bronies....
ReplyDeleteNew characters to be introduced in season 2, I guess.
ReplyDeleteAlso seeing the pink coat, blond mane pony with an aviator hat. Dunno what's to the right of her; too blurry to make out.
And there's definitely two passengers.
The one on the left is PROBABLY Spike with Gummy on his head. The one on the right, not too sure... probably a new character of sorts.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteOops. I meant "Twilight and Sweetie Belle/Rarity". One purple pony, one white pony. No crazy woodland creatures or criminals...
Maybe some of the ponyrazzi from "Green is Not Your Colour"?
ReplyDeleteThat, or drop bears.
Looks like the one on the right is wearing aviator cap with goggles, similar to what they wore in WWI, the one on the left looks like it is wearing a camo helmet.
ReplyDeletePossibly the pony air brigade?
I'm subscribing to the one pony theory. The colors between the mane and tail don't quite match, but at that resolution, it could just be the way they averaged out from the vector.
ReplyDeleteLooks like http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/b/ba/Daisy_id.png
Or possibly http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/d/d1/Constelle_Thumb.jpg
I think Season 2 will finally answer the one question that everyone's been asking since the beginning:
ReplyDeleteWHO THE FUCK OWNS THAT BALLOON!?
I'm going to call it as a pink pony with blond pigtails wearing goggles on her head, and a white filly with brown hair in Twilight's hairstyle. now that you picture that...can you see anything else but?
ReplyDeleteI see a pink donky and a chipmunk... o_o then again I'm also half-asleep so I'll have to look again in the morning xD
ReplyDeletePINKIE PIE WITH A GUMMY HAT
ReplyDelete'nuff said.
STOOOOP~!!!! JUST STOP!!! your dumb speculations are killing me!
ReplyDeleteThe creator of the poster already said in the previous thread that the pony on the left is the background pony Cherry/Cherries Jubilee with aviator cap & goggles. They also made it sound like there is a character to her right, but they wouldn't give any clues as to who it was.
ReplyDelete@Radimir
ReplyDelete"It's a human..."
Don't. Say. That. Please?!
Drat it! I thought it'd look better when these finally came out but okay :c
ReplyDeleteI see a giant snake with a pink belly and a marshmallow with poop on it... other than that anyones guess is mostly likely as good as mine.
ReplyDeleteIt's Rarity's cat with Gummy biting it's head, while standing next to Winona!
ReplyDeleteWhat I win?
It's sasquatch and loch ness monster! nobody else is so blurry.
ReplyDeleteI have no clue what they are, but I'm very sure that the animators of the show are just looking at us trying to guess and probably eating some popcorn as we do too.
ReplyDeleteIs Squeak pink?
ReplyDeletecan somebody link to a high resolution scan of the whole poster?
ReplyDeletethat way even those of us who couldn't attend comicon can get one printed for ourselves ^^
I'm kinda confused how many people are still discussing who the pony on the left is, even after Nayuki said it was Cherry with goggles/cap on.
ReplyDeletehttp://mlp.wikia.com/index.php?title=List_of_ponies/Season_one/Earth_ponies&image=Cherry_id-png
The only real mystery is the pony on the right. I'm guessing, since it is supposed to be a secret, it is a season 2 character and we don't have much of a chance figuring it out though...
Pink pony with green aviator hat.
ReplyDelete... -headtilt- With a pandabear side kick kickin' that sweet hat.
Or maybe that's her tail, and her mane is brown...
@Radimir
ReplyDeleteIntroducing a Human into the series = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE
TF2 hats. That's what I think.
ReplyDeleteWaspinator.
ReplyDeleteI kid, I kid.
^ BillyBatman, that's what I was gonna say! :D
ReplyDeleteI see a pink pony with a blonde mane and goggles strapped on it's forhead, and a white pony with some kind of hat and a moustache.
ReplyDeletethe white one might be http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110507210507/mlp/images/thumb/a/a4/Flashbulb.png/180px-Flashbulb.png
ReplyDeleteStill say the left one is Twilight's mom.
ReplyDeleteThe right one looks like Opalescence wearing a turban.
Or Dinky wearing a turban. Or whatever those poofy, middle-eastern hats are that aren't wrapped-up cloth.
It's too short to be Flash.
The left one also seems to be wearing a skydiver's helmet and have 'the derp'.
And, while looking to our left, seems to be making 'ta-da' gestures to the white thing next to them, have a square, protruding jaw, one hoof on the basket's rim and another towards the hat the white thing is wearing.
What if it's Twilight's mom and Filly-Rarity?
It's too skinny and short to assume it's a diamond dog.
But the white thing defiantly seems to be looking left(-ish while staying rightly).
they are obviously raritys parents
ReplyDeleteCan somepony PLEASE link to a hi-res scan of the FULL poster?
ReplyDeleteI need this! Thanks!
The one on the right looks like a bag.
ReplyDeleteThe one on the left is Cherry.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteSacky? Of the Kicky-Sock Sack Factory?
I just see some of the photographers from the show.
ReplyDeleteThe one on the right looks a lot like
http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/3/38/Film_1.png
http://www.strawberryreef.com/Index/g4characters.html
ReplyDeleteThere are a few ponies in here that seem... questionable. Why they're there? I have NO idea. That's why I wonder if maybe they can be for season 2?
As for the balloon, I have no idea.
Half of those are the recolors they made with G4 molds.
ReplyDeleteI think it could just be some little in-joke that was going around the art department, the OCs of the artists or something like that. Or maybe Hasbro is trying to see how obsessive we can get with minor details. We do over think some things a little much.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the midnight crew, ponified?
ReplyDeleteI know Nayuki doesn't have an OC yet, although Lyra is his go-to pony for a bit of self-insert.
ReplyDeleteHe feels her seating style comes from his bad posture.
While Midnight Crew would be awesome, it would in no way fit the show. (Anon0630)
ReplyDeleteI know it has apparently been confirmed that one is Cherries Jubilee, but you know what I think? Spike and Angel in hats. Somebody run a color profile on those guys!
I see goggles and as everyone knows they do nothing!
ReplyDeleteDistinctly a pink pony with blond mane and either goggles or a camo helmet. The white one still looks the same. Bonnie and Clyde!
ReplyDeleteSniper pony and her scout watching from a distance.
ReplyDeleteGuys, these scanned images are overkill. There's no need to scan the image above the resolution of the printing. Moreover, most scanners only have a 2400 dpi optical resolution, which means that if you try anything above this; it’ll only make a digital extrapolation, not adding any quality to it. A scanner that says it has 4800 dpi digital resolution is just a marketing stunt. Check your scanner specs for optical resolution before scanning an image.
ReplyDeleteFor what I can tell the printing resolution is approx. 600 dpi. Scanning above this won't bring any more quality (it'll just show the printing dots). My advice to any one that has the original poster is to scan at 600 dpi to a JPEG (at 100% quality) and then use superresolution software like the Topaz Vivacity plugin for Photoshop to increase the overall quality of the image.
If anyone has the original poster, please make a 600 dpi scan on ponibooru (with the tag comic_con) and I’ll use Topaz Vivacity to enhance it. Also, if the poster is bigger than your scanner, scan overlapping parts that represent the whole poster, post them on ponibooru and I’ll do the reconstruction.
Here's the correct enhancement :P
ReplyDeletehttp://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/38044
Whatever is in the balloon is probably nothing we'll ever hear from again.
ReplyDeleteThe ponies are probably (from right to left):
ReplyDelete- Cherry/Cherries Jubilee
- Snappy Scoop
Check http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies to compare the images.
I have nothing better to do then stare at an extremely zoomed in 2-inch picture of a balloon with two characters in it that could or could not be characters from season 2.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, yes I do.
It's Amelia Earhart! Can't think of a ponified name for her. Anyway, that's my theory :D
ReplyDeleteAmelia Airheart. A pegasus with cutie mark similar to Sweetie Belle's: a heart made from the stylistic curves of lines to accentuate the wind.
ReplyDeleteAnd Nayuki already said one is a current background character.
Looks like Twilight wearing goggles with Owlowicious next to her.
ReplyDeleteI figured it out
ReplyDeletehttp://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=213
The one on the right looks like a griffon, but why the hell would a griffon need a hot air balloon?
ReplyDeleteWhere can we find scans of the full poster? (or is that sorta taboo?)
ReplyDeletePink female pony with some kind of goggles on her head.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteWell done! Now if only everyone else would notice your link. Did you send it to Seth?
The pony on the right may have the same type of hat as Snappy Scoop, but their mane is appears to be completely different (in color and style).
The one on the left is the pink background pony that has a pair of cherries as her butt symbol, she is wearing a helmet with goggles or something. The one on the right, if it exists at all, is who knows.
ReplyDeletehttp://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/38044
ReplyDeleteHere.
a full poster scan from 4 scanned images -
ReplyDelete600DPI 9957x6454, 46mb @ jpg 100% quality
the one on the right could be a baby griffon...
ReplyDeleteSimple: was that supposed to be a link? If so, it ended up being just text.
ReplyDelete@Simple
ReplyDeletehost that on megaupload or something like that please
The one on the right looks an awful lot like a young griffin?
ReplyDeleteI've heard the pink one is Cherry with and aviator cap and goggles, which seems to fit with this scan. I can't for the life of me figure out the other though.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0TVMFGE
ReplyDeletehaha guess I failed that one. There's a link
It's Valdo and Carmen Sandiego of course.
ReplyDeleteAfter examination,
ReplyDeleteit looks like Spike, and Rarity's pet,
dont ask why, but thats what i see
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0o-HHgFJIrqMmQ4MjQwZDEtMTZhNC00ZjhlLThjNTUtNjA4YzkwNjUxNjNm&hl=en_US
ReplyDeleteAll right guys, here it is, the link above is a superresolution image of the poster scanned by Simple (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0TVMFGE - thanks man). Look no further, this is the best image of the poster you can get (I’ll explain bellow why this is a better image than the 4800dpi scan featured in EQ).
In order to make this image I took the scanned image and applied the median filter (in the noise menu of Photoshop) with 2 pixels. Then I used the Topaz Vivacity filter "Enlarge2X" followed by Clean(YCbCr) with 2 Interactions.
The image is now 1200dpi and 19914x12908.
The quality of the JPEG was reduced so that it is less than 8Mb. However, since this is a superresolution image, the decrease of the JPEG quality doesn’t affect the overall image significantly. Therefore you can still see who is in the balloon (in my opinion, much clearer), and I still think we’re dealing with Cherry/Cherries Jubilee and Snappy Scoop (check http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies to compare the images).
The image of the balloon in EQ is definitely overkill. There's no need to scan the image above the resolution of the printing. Moreover, most scanners only have a 2400 dpi optical resolution, which means that if you try anything above this; it’ll only make a digital extrapolation, not adding any quality to it. A scanner that says it has 4800 dpi digital resolution is just a marketing stunt. Check your scanner specs for optical resolution before scanning an image.
For what I can tell the printing resolution is approx. 600 dpi. Scanning above this won't bring any more quality (it'll just show the printing dots).
I strongly advise everypony to use the Topaz Vivacity plugin for Photoshop: These superresolution techniques work very well in cartoon images like the ones from MLP:FIM.
^^Also posted here: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/pony/res/35716170.html
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