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My theory: the suits didn’t want to risk accusations of “fan pandering” and/or there were legal hurdles involved, so they recolored Wild Fire at the last minute (except for one short blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment near the end).

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RyuSpike
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Hmmm… When she said “Men…” I begin to wonder…
 
Could Wild Fire’s replacement be because she just wasn’t “girly” enough? Hasbro might have felt that there wasn’t enough pink in Dash’s little team so they chose Sibsy’s pony to be change. To boost sells or something. I wouldn’t know. I’m not a “genius” at marketing. This is only a theory so don’t take it too close to heart.
Amber

Well,I’m not a big fan (lol) of fan pandering but I really don’t understand the suits’ reasoning for taking Wild Fire from the scene and then allowing another Pegasus OC with horrible color scheme * cough * Midnight Strike * cough * at the same time.Fan pandering sounds a ridiculous excuse on their part.Wild Fire belongs to Hasbro.Even Sibsy said it.
Crowley
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@Battle GT  
Hasbro Execs thought “Wow, we should focus more on this since it’s gotten a bigger fandom now.” And then they thought “That means official official official!!! Is that character official!? No!? Remove it!”
 
They were just a little too late with the Canterlot Wedding’s development to stop that one.
Battle GT
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It's a cartoon show!
It sucks that it happened,but I want to know what changed from when A Canterlot wedding was finished to now.
Ponylooker
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Hasbro made the right decision. No way should Wild Fire have been at Wonderbolt Academy.
 
Think about it. She was bickering with her husband (seriously, why would a boyfriend pay for a hooficure?) when Twilight was a little filly! Nopony should be starting out at the Wonderbolt Academy that late in life.
Crowley
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Can't we all get along?
So Flowershine was supposed to be Wildfire? DO they even know how much more awesome that episode would’ve been if she was in it!?!
 
Sigh, executive meddling: a million times worse than pandering will ever be. Why is it that anyone with a suit who goes near something that’s nice, ruins it? It’s almost like a fucking disease or something, yet they moronically believe they’re “improving the show” by getting a stranglehold on it.
 
Any executives reading this (all zero of them, I know), PLEASE LET THE STUDIO DO WHAT THEY DO. IT’S WHY WE LIKED THE SHOW IN THE FIRST PLACE. You don’t thank a fireman for saving you from a burning building, just to rush right back in there.
Background Pony #552F
^You?  
please they’re pandering to me did you see how they just blatantly stuck Rainbow Dash in this episode  
that was clearly a shoutout to me
Background Pony #2F64
i am sick of them pandering to me. i keep saying i want ponies and every episode they give me ponies. i think it’s really sad they just do whatever i ask.
Background Pony #DD79
I really don’t understand why people think that the staff is pandering to anyone. Frankly, I don’t see how they’re not just making episodes the way they’ve always done.
ALIS

I hope they pander so much that the people who complain against pandering stop watching all together.
 
But people like that don’t leave as they so often threaten. They stay and complain… forever.
Background Pony #552F
how is adding a sona of someone who works on the show pandering there was probably another issue :T