y’know when fanfics made twilight an alicorn back when she was still a unicorn everyone loved it. soon as hasbro does it everyone loses thier g*ddamn minds.

“And wanting to be a princess entirely unacceptable for a girl.” -OP

@Background Pony #34F6  
“Celestia’s successor” does not necessarily equate to “ruler of all Equestria”. It could just as easily mean “ruler of the School for Gifted Unicorns”.

@Background Pony  
What, she can’t be a pretty purple pegacorn princess before being ruler (co-ruler?) of all Equestria?

@Mr. Horrible  
She said that Twilight would be “Celestia’s successor”, as in, ruler of all Equestria. So yeah, Hasbro is kinda skewering her vision.

You know, this DOES kinda make a good point now that I think about it…

*stuff

@boz  
You’re right that is crazy and completely 100% wrong. Meghan McCarthy has already said that s4 opening is about dealing with the princess stucf

@Background Pony  
@Background Pony  
@Aquaz  
I agree with you three.

Sometimes I think little girls whine less than this fandom.

Guys, you still realize this is still a KIDS’ show right?

Ugh…sometimes I think Bronies are emo.  
That time would be now.

@WassonG  
What if in Lauren’s vision, Twilight Sparkle was supposed to become a champion for democracy when the Royal Diarchy proved to be ethically questionable?
 
We don’t know in what way Lauren intended Twilight to “succeed” Celestia, and we probably never will. It was obvious from the start that Twilight was Celestia’s apprentice, but seeing as Celestia wears quite a few hats that does not mean that it was Faust’s vision for her to be a princess, let alone for her to get her race changed.

@WassonG  
This, essentially.
 
I don’t think the show is nearly as “off the rails” as people are thinking. :P

Never had a problem with Twilight becoming an Alicorn, call it a next step of character growth.
 
Problem was that she automatically is titled princess, which didn’t make much sense (this could have had a whole new season of her working toward that status or getting use to the new wing while maintaining her friendships, but POW! you’re a princess now too!), other words, rushed promotions aka bad storytelling…

@PonyPon
 
Crazy theory incoming, the spell was fake. I’m not into the conspiracy celestia so I’ll say she must had a good reason, but we saw twilight disappear from her house walking with her a little in the other realm and reappearing outside her house at her return in her world.
 
So we can say that the distance she travel in the stars realm was corresponding to a distance in the real world (from where she dissapear the where she reappear) and so is real. Yet, Celestia was there before her abnd even reappear with her next to her house so she must have been there wiating for her from the beginning to make her an alicorn.
 
I don’t know maybe this world was somehow special to increase her magic and make twilight evolve or something like that, but I’m sure celestia had another way to get in the stars world without the element or a spell that was suppose to be a friendship spell not a interdimentional traveling spell.

Lauren - “I want Twilight to eventually take over for the princess…”
 
Show staff (aka “Hasbro”) - makes twilight a princess and show it’s a meaningful part of her growth as a character
 
“fans” - “fuckin hasbro…they ruin everything.”
 
Me - ???

Eventually taking over for Celestia is fine. It’s the whole finish spell=become alicorn thing that rustled the jimmies with it’s lack of logic.

@Background Pony  
I’m confused as to how she would succeed Celestia otherwise.

Of course this leaves out that Faust had planned on her being Celestia’s successor all alone (at least according to her Bronycon doc interview).

For me, it all comes down to what they do with her in Season 4. I’ll save me bitching for if they screw up.

In one of the interviews from the Brony Documentary, Lauren actually says that having Twilight become a princess was a long-term goal she had in mind when she created the character, along with other stuff like Dash joining the Wonderbolts and the CMC getting their cutie marks.
 
So yeah, for everyone crying “evil hasbro ruining her vision”, if Lauren had stayed with the show we’d more than likely be in the exact same *^&%ing place we are now. So can it.

@Grieffon
 
I really don’t get why people are so obscees with the more money arguments. How could we know what direction is the most profitable? Maybe the idea I’ve just trow about letting the show go is own way and make money out of it as the media it is and with toys that are inspired by the show writers instead of given to them would be the more financially profitable.
 
They have to make a choice about how they believe this franchise would give them the most, maybe they’re right who know, but you can’t deny the possibility that another solution could be profitable.
 
@bboifatz
 
I think those who buy those different batman figures were actually liking their idea despite their difference with the show(total collectors excluded), but making them in the show could have make them loose people that were still likely to buy other things. A good way to test an idea before including them in the show could also be of releasing a toy to see how good it sell without show support to judge of how good it is.

@boz  
I think Hasbro should focus more on making toys that aren’t shitty quality. If kids like the characters they will buy toys of it– when you make a dumb toy and tell the writers to make a story out of it, you often times just end up hurting the show.
 
Look at how huge Batman toys were in the 1990s. There were a billion ridiculous color variants of him, but they never had to use any of them in the show. The ridiculous toys still sold well because kids loved the show, and they thought the toys were cool.
 
Imagine what a shitty show Batman would have turned into if Warner Bros. started making them write the ridiculous variant toys into the show. That’s what they did with Batman and Robin, and we all know how Batman fans feel about that movie. I think it’s fair for fans to be at least a little bit protective about the show being influenced too much by the toy line.