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Oh - yeah, good points, all of them. And I agree she looks like the result of "design by committee and research group". In a lot of ways, she's the "mission statement" of the show, with more Garfields per design choice than even princess Flurry Heart.
But, I think this is also a sign of Hasbro using their "Push the toys" approach to the show, like when a Transformer toy will be selling well, so they'll instruct the studio to substitute another character who isn't selling well in the next episode, whether it makes story sense or not. And, I definitely agree. I would not be a bit surprised to hear a writer say that they were asked to recreate Sunset's character in the TV show.
But, I find it VERY interesting that they are pushing the friendship with Trixie so hard, and the amount of interaction between Trixie and Discord that they're scripting. It almost feels like they are trying to create a second set of characters - a "B Line" if you will - that could carry the weight if the Mane6 actors were busy with some other project, and they needed to fill some slots.
Everything they did with Episode 100 is so fascinating to me, because you listen to M.A.Larson talk about sending scripts to Hasbro, and them responding with "No - SHIP IT HARDER", and the effort Hasbro was making to bring the secondary characters up to toy status, which they then fulfilled with actual Derpy toys and Octavias on shelves in Target.
So, I agree that they seem to be setting up Glimmer as a new group leader, but ... spin-off? Separate TV specials?
Who knows?
And, I totally appreciate your drawing of her - you really gave her good energy and movement without going to Sunset Shimmer. Too often people just draw Sunset Glimmer with Starlight's palette, and you managed to capture Starlight and give her a very unique energy.
That's one of the things I love about your art - even if you aren't a fan of a character, you can really bring them to life!
So, I'm eager to see if this is going to result in a new line of Discord + Trixie + Glimmer + Thorax toys or shows, or even a spin-off, but I'm also hopeful that the movie will rock Hasbro's bank account so hard they double-down on the Mane 6.
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Oh - yeah, good points, all of them. And I agree she looks like the result of "design by committee and research group". In a lot of ways, she's the "mission statement" of the show, with more Garfields per design choice than even princess Flurry Heart.
But, I think this is also a sign of Hasbro using their "Push the toys" approach to the show, like when a Transformer toy will be selling well, so they'll instruct the studio to substitute another character who isn't selling well in the next episode, whether it makes story sense or not. And, I definitely agree. I would not be a bit surprised to hear a writer say that they were asked to recreate Sunset's character in the TV show.
But, I find it VERY interesting that they are pushing the friendship with Trixie so hard, and the amount of interaction between Trixie and Discord that they're scripting. It almost feels like they are trying to create a second set of characters - a "B Line" if you will - that could carry the weight if the Mane6 actors were busy with some other project, and they needed to fill some slots.
Everything they did with Episode 100 is so fascinating to me, because you listen to M.A.Larson talk about sending scripts to Hasbro, and them responding with "No - SHIP IT HARDER", and the effort Hasbro was making to bring the secondary characters up to toy status, which they then fulfilled with actual Derpy toys and Octavias on shelves in Target.
So, I agree that they seem to be setting up Glimmer as a new group leader, but ... spin-off? Separate TV specials?
Who knows?
And, I totally appreciate your drawing of her - you really gave her good energy and movement without going to Sunset Shimmer. Too often people just draw Sunset Glimmer with Starlight's palette, and you managed to capture Starlight and give her a very unique energy.
That's one of the things I love about your art - even if you aren't a fan of a character, you can really bring them to life!
So, I'm eager to see if this is going to result in a new line of Discord + Trixie + Glimmer + Thorax toys or shows, or even a spin-off, but I'm also hopeful that the movie will rock Hasbro's bank account so hard they double-down on the Mane 6.