Nightly Roundup #1022

It's so nice that our ponies have such rich and extended families. It really makes them seem much more realistic that we get to know a bit about their backstory and family ties. Once we learn more about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's families I think we'll finally be complete (well, that and AJ's parents).

News gang, get it while it's hot!

Nightly Discussion #55

An epic pony RPG would be absolutely wonderful I think. We've seen ponies adapted to Earthbound and FF6 as well as some of our own original RPG projects, but something with a serious tone would be really cool.

Time for chatting gang! Get to it!

Twitter: Calpain

Music of the Day #347

See? Trixie can do some good.  Shes not all bad.  Some of you are just biased because of that whole alicorn amulet thing.  Despite her still trying to make Rainbow Dash writhe in agony once it was taken off, most of the trouble was caused by the corrupting influences of dark alicorn magic!

Get some music below to celebrate with me.  Yay Trixie.  2014 Summer of Trix ect.

Big Pony Merch News: 3D Printing Company "Super Fan Art" Teams Up with Hasbro to Sell Fan Made Figurines!

Remember way back in the day when Shapeways pony stuff was being axed? It looks like good news is on the horizon for those of you collecting those.  According to the New York Times, Shapeways has teamed up with Hasbro to sell fan art style Friendship is Magic figurines.

A quote from the article:

“We have been investigating 3-D printing for quite a while, as have many people,” said John Frascotti, chief marketing officer at Hasbro. “What 3-D printing truly empowers is the creation of artwork that maybe wouldn’t make sense for mass production, but it makes sense for a unique item.”

From the image above, some of the classics from way back in the day are already popping up. That's right, instead of going all the way with a C&D, Hasbro just hired the artists instead.  How awesome is that?

Head on down below the break for images and more information! 

Second Quarter Hasbro Webcast Tomorrow

At 8:30 ET AM Tomorrow, Hasbro will be hosting their second earnings conference call and broadcasting it for the masses to listen in on.  As with the last one, I'm sure we will hear some interesting points of information revealed about upcoming plans for My Little Pony. Here's to hoping Season 5 gets a release date or something else signifcant goes down! I guess we find out soon!

You can find their webcast area over here.

Ponies Around the World 2014 - Submissions Day 1

Ancient temples, nuclear reactors, giant mountain peaks, and more.  This year was an awesome Ponies Around the World! I think summer break and longer deadlines was a good choice, because 2014 blew all the others out of the water!

Similar to last year, we will be splitting this up into sets of 100 daily.  All in all, we had 600 submissions, though it may drop once we finish getting all of the duplicates and rule breakers cleaned up.  If you sent yours to the submit box instead due to issues with the submitter, they will be added near the end. 

Hopefully you all had some fun! Now go travel the world WITH PONIES. 100 Locations below the break!

Comic: Muffin's Embrace / Student of the Night 46 / Adapting to Night: Midnight Thirst / Iced Ice Babies / The Great and Powerful Brag

It may be one huge panel, but it sure is a sweet look at our favorite little mail mare and fandom mascot so to speak. Very lovely work artist!

Comics? We've got them! Click for full. And yes, one of these is pretty much the same except for a small edit.

Twitter: Calpain

Animatic: Damp Rocks : Trixie at the rock farm

So, how well did Trixie handle manual labor at the rock farm? About as well as you'd expect.  Get her journeys of rock mining below the break, with Maud Pie, via animatic.

It's pretty sad.  Poor Trixie.

Story Updates - July 20th

Story Updates! Get whatever twilight is doing above, below.

Drawfriend Stuff #1232

Woops. Blame Twilight Sparkle on that.

Have some Coco Pommel to start. When was the last time she was at the top? Art below!

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Coco Pommel

Artist Spotlight: Peasantb / FireBrandKun / Pixel Prism / EStories

I wish I could get as motivated as the artists who make these amazing pieces then maybe I'd actually get these done at a quicker pace. At any rate, welcome to another edition of the Artist Spotlight where we highlight some of the lesser known artists in the fandom.

As usual, these posts are in similar style to the Tumblr Spotlights, a group of 3-5 artists will be spotlit each entry along with a small short description along with a small selection of their artwork! In order to make this feature work though we need people to suggest artists to us so make sure to send artists you think need some exposure to calpa[email protected]. Please also include a short biography I can work with as well as what medium you work in most.

What sort of artists count? Suggestions should follow these criteria:

• No clop or extensive gore galleries as those typically violate our content guidelines. If the artist has a safe for work gallery separate from their not safe for work stuff they or their fans can submit the safe for work gallery. If there is a mix of SFW/NSFW on a gallery the decision whether or not to include them will be judged on a gallery to gallery basis.
• Don't be afraid to spotlight yourself as well as others!
• Artists of all types accepted -vector, OC, traditional, digital. As long as it is pony and of quality it has a chance of being spotlit. 

Now on to the artists!

Twitter: Calpain

7 Page Preview for Freinds Forever #7 Arrives

Seven pages of the Friends Forever comic starring both Luna and Pinkie Pie have popped up.  We had two of these from iTunes a few days ago, but this gives you a bit more content to chew on. 

Head on down below the break for all of them!

Thanks to Masem for the heads up. 

GalaxyArt Moves Pony Animations to New Channel

In hopes of dodging any copyright claims in the future, fandom animator GalaxyArt has moved all of his pony and licenced character stuff to a new archive channel.  He was not sent a C&D, it is simply a way to let his main channel focus on his original projects without having to worry about companies coming in and demanding takedowns.

Most of his old stuff can be found, and will be moving over here! 

Get the announcement video with details below.

Story: The Road to Prolegomena

[Adventure][Dark]

Author: Stanku

Description: Prolegomena, or the beginning of all metaphysics; a plane where nothing certain can be stated, thought, or conceived. Canterlot has fallen. Twilight, along with some of her friends, has been exiled. Can they make sense of the madness that has befallen Equestria before it's too late?

The Road to Prolegomena

Additional Tags: The end of all metaphysics

Spotlight Music: Sign My Flank / Sick of Partying

Pony Flank. It's a topic that comes up sometimes. Imagine that.

We have a song with some of that in the first one from Vylet, followed by some good ol' rock in the second slot. Now go! Listen to things! Discuss them below1

1.) Sign My Flank | Pony! | Vocals by Vylet | From Horse Friends Pt. 1 (Vocal - Electronic)
2.) Caine - Sick of Partying (Vocal - Rock!)

Children of the Night Animation Team Teases New Character from Original Pony Animation

Something wild is on the way from the people that did the Children of the Night animation a while back.  They look to be taking a step back from the show ponies and moving on to something completely original.  We have a short teaser synopsis for you all below.  Expect the full trailer to premiere at the Hall of the Moon Custom Toumaking 101 panel at BronyCon. 

Get the synopsis below!

Weekly Releases of "Bronies - The Unreleased Tapes" Begins

Was the old Brony Doc not enough for you? Good news then! They have started releasing the Unreleased Tapes from the kickstarter from a while back.  Expect weekly releases until the full thing is ready to ship.

Head on down below the break to check episode one out, along with the official release on all of it!

Thanks to Knol, GWFan, Jordan, and everyone else for sending it!

Durr Dee Vibe

Uh oh.  My email box has an email notification for a Weegygreen upload. If Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash with their mating ritual didn't weird you out last time, get something that most likely will in this one. 

Get it down below! Expect some language.