My Little Pony Friendship Run Returns to Manila in 2017

The Philippines plays host to Friendship Runs each year, and 2017 is no different. As with the last few, lots of custom merchandise will be available, along with some really neat medals for anyone that completes it.

If you happen to be int the area on the 23rd of September and want to run in one of the four different races (500m, 1km, 3km, and 5km) you can sign up for it over here or hit up a "Chris Sports Outlets" store to sign up in person.

Below the break you can find an infographic with everything.

Music: Vylet Pony - Cadence For The Dying [Orchestral Electronic]

Another release from Vylet Pony's Mystic Acoustics album, Cadence For The Dying is an ambitious amalgamation of a wide variety of ideas, with orchestral, synthpop, soundtrack, EDM and ambient themes all well represented here. Orchestral swells, a strong vocal performance and a powerful chord-filled drop section all combine to make a really cool piece. Check it out below!

Story Updates - August 29th

Updating stories! That was quick. We haven't had two in a row like that in a while!

Get em below.

Nightly Discussion #1183

I just love the shore, it just offers some of the most amazing views the planet has to offer and it looks like Fluttershy agrees!

Evening everyone! Chat time!

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Hasbro Scoops Up the "Allspark Animation" Trademark

In their quest for world domination of the media sector, Hasbro has been going hardcore at the movie and animation biz. While traditionally working through third parties like DHX for the cartoon offerings, it looks like that might be changing soon with a new trademark filing. "Allspark Animations" will be focused on the following:

Entertainment services, namely, production and distribution of movies, television series, online series, webisodes and digital content; entertainment media production services for motion pictures, television and internet

At the moment not much else is known, as is the norm for these early trademark snipes. It could be completely focused on Transformers (hence the "Allspark" title) or it could be an all encompassing like Allspark Studios, their live-action movie brand. Keep an eye out for more info!

Thanks to Isaiah for the heads up.

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Equestria Tales Releases New Animatic and Adds Disney Animator Rick Farmiloe to Team

Over a year ago, we posted about a big animation project in the works by a team called Harmonize entertainment. Since then, they have been hard at work on getting it prepared for all of you to hopefully watch some day!

An animatic has been released showing one of the scenes from the final project has been released, and they have apparently scooped up Disney animator Rick Farmiloe to their team. He's worked on everything from Aladdin to Iron Giant. He will be helping as a full character animator, and apparently isn't the last big name they are scooping up.

Head on down below the break for both videos!

Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #2366

Just... wow. That is incredible.

Get a bunch of art to go with it below!

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Battle for beauty by Imalou

Community Soapbox #46 - RD's Greek God Heritage, Windy Whistle Origins, Immortality, and More!

Expect these posts normally every Tuesday at 2:00 PM PST. To submit your own, see this post.

Note: These soapboxes do not at all reflect the ideas of EQD. They are an open forum for anyone to post whatever crazy theory they want.

Headlines for the week:

• Rainbow Dash's Subtle Mythology
• Whistler: Bringing Back A MLP Classic
• Utopia Breaker
• Classic Rock Genre in MLP
• Immortality and the Mane 6
• Why Derpy is EVERYTHING the Fandom Should Be

And get your soapboxes below!

Friendship is Magic Rarity Collection Singles Appear on Amazon

The Rarity friendship is magic collection set revealed at Toy Fair earlier this year has slowly trickled toys out in between movie toy releases. We now have four of the singles available over on Amazon.

Head on down below the break for them.

Short Animation: Luna Is A Bad Loser

Just a short animation celebrating the gamer Luna fanon. Go get it down below while we dig up more stuff to post today!

Story: Starlight and Trixie's Bonding Adventure

[Comedy][Dark]

Author: Kamikakushi

Description: When Trixie and Starlight find the friendship map after Trixie misplaced it with her wayward teleportation spell, the two discover a horrible mistake that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. After all, there's a reason most ponies don't teleport big things around on a whim Good thing Starlight has a plan and the know how that can take care of the whole problem.

Starlight and Trixie's Bonding Adventure

Additional Tags: bonding over shared experiences

Comic: Episode 17 / Open Sesame / Watch / Boat / In Time 2 / Cherry 2:14 / AoS 1:30 / Revenge 2 / Sable56

Our own Comic Relief is back with another episode prediction? What sort of craziness has he come up with this time? Check above if you're not afraid of maybe spoiling a little of episode 17.

Comics guys, get the rest after the break!

Music: Sonic Hooves - First Flight [Orchestral] + The Seapony Orchestra Recording

Sonic Hooves' First Flight is symbolic of the greater journey he has been undertaking over the last year. The Seapony Orchestra was a project he started to organise in the middle of last year, and it finally came to fruition at the Southeast Asian convention SEAPonycon earlier this month with a truly wonderful performance. This piece was debuted there, and now it's out for everybody to enjoy. There's some really superb composition throughout, and it definitely comes across rather hopeful and uplifting. You can check it out below, along with a recording of the first ever live performance of The Seapony Orchestra!

15 My Little Pony Movie Books Have Released Today! Be Wary of Spoilers!

As the clock ticks by to August 29th, a flood of books has officially released. Many of these were available for pre-order a few weeks ago, and all of them are now up for grabs. We already know the My Little Pony Movie art book didn't hold back at all on spoilers, so I'm betting the rest of these won't either.  

Head on down below the break for all of them!

Morning Discussion #961

I wonder what flavor of slushie AJ has there? Looks like something fruit related, but considering all the crazy colors all different flavors come in nowadays it can be just about anything.

Morning my friends! Ready to chat?

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Artist Training Grounds VII - Final Makeup Day!

Our ponies tonight have reached their ends, making their way to their final destination as we have now finished the last of the unique prompts for the ATG! Now all that is left my friends is our makeup day for today and your final graduation prompt tomorrow. You've come so far everyone and stuck to this challenge for a whole month!

Thanks to your dedication we were able to bring in another 82 ponies bringing us up to 4040 ponies in total, breaking the 4000 picture mark! Congrats guys!

As promised, we have one more makeup day for you guys tonight, but with a special twist! For tonight we present you with a special challenge Draw as many of our prompts in one picture as you can! 

This is optional though, you are just as welcome to makeup any pictures you've missed or tackle any particular prompts again.

Get the prompt list after the break!

As always you can find our compiler here! See you all tomorrow with your graduation prompt.

Remember, our compiler is up a few hours even after this post goes up so feel free to submit your submission even though this post is up!

Check on after the break for our full gallery!

Tutorial on first day on how to upload
Art tutorials
ATG Alumni Group tutorials