Previous Post Came across the following in a random session of browsing. Since Vish graced us with a MLP version of the Watchmen trailer, I thought I would retalliate: My Little Pony does Top Gear "Someone’s been interfering with ponies. Luckily, they’re not real ones – this is a worryingly well-executed video mashup of the My Little Pony cartoon and Top Gear. It is deeply, deeply odd. Jeremy’s morphed into Rarity, Hammond’s Fluttershy, James is
Pinkie Pie and the Stig’s Twilight Sparkle. Which, coincidentally, is what they call each other in the office. Click on to watch The Mane 6 wearing a hat, Photo Finish doing something else and Twilight Sparkle listening to the Bee Gees. You will be troubled. You have been warned." Top Gear is a magazine show for car enthuisasts (and some people who just find it amusing).My Little Pony...isn't.

I'm glad that the Top Gear folks got done up in pony by someone who could do some quite good lip synching... those are always my favorites, and people have gotten that down to a science now where they can match the ponies up to just about any dialog imaginable.

It was probably about a year ago that I first brought up the scourge of ponies, and I recall predicting that the day was coming when fans wouldn't need a studio produced show in order to feed their fixations... that fan-produced content was becoming so elaborate as to be self-sustaining if necessary.

I think I said it was likely within the decade... I may have to speed up that time-table after I saw this following video. It is completely made from scratch... Original backgrounds, characters (although many are based on and match the show's characters perfectly), original voice acting, original song and music... This is all new material, not spliced together from existing clips. And while I'm not sure how clear it would be to someone unfamiliar with the show, I have to say that as a fan and an artist it looks to match the show's animation insanely well:



Now, the song had been written and performed by other fans as a tribute to the Photo Finish character a while back, and then this person re-recorded it with a voice actress that matched the one from the show very well, and then animated a video for it. It's this snowballing collaboration that I really enjoy about the fandom, myself.