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… Okay, I think I’m gonna let something out (bcs I can’t keep it off my chest any longer), but first and foremost, I’m very disappointed and I hope you and others have learned since then. Secondly and lastly, and keep in mind this is from myself that had those kinds of expectations, even some realistic ones when it came with, well, the Pokémon anime. It backfired way too many times.

Honestly I adore both

Disappointment.

@TexasUberAlles  
They did them for RR and FG, if I recall correctly.

@621Chopsuey  
I honestly thought Shout!Factory just stopped doing commentary tracks entirely after the Season 1 collection.

@TexasUberAlles  
The commentary on the regular DVD noted this, too.

@Background is Best Pony  
Wait– there was BluRay commentary???  

@TexasUberAlles  
Apparently it was in the bluray commentary. First it would’ve been Spitfire, then Lightning Dust, then they introduced a new character all together. :P

@Shimmering Brony  
but she got repleaced by Indigo Zap  
Has anyone on staff actually come out and said that, or is it still just fairly obvious conjecture?

I hope Lighning Dust appears on the 4th EqG movie… If the Shadowbolts make an appearance.
 
Did any of you know that she was gonna be on Friendship Games, but she got repleaced by Indigo Zap as the producers wanted a new character?

@TexasUberAlles  
I suppose you’re right, it just kinda made me laugh at first.

@BozoTheDeathclown  
Caucasian  
When everyone is all over the rainbow in terms of skin/hair/eye color, I don’t think you can really tag peach-ish skin as anything other than just “peach-ish”.

@BozoTheDeathclown  
We could ask the same about Norman.

But why is Indigo Caucasian when everyone else is technicolor?

@TexasUberAlles  
You have a point.

@Background Pony #7BD7  
green characters don’t sell very vell among girls  
I forget whether it was at a convention panel or on Twitter, but Jim Miller has mentioned that Hasbro instructions with that exact rationalization from Season 1 were in fact the reason why there have been so few Green Pones, and that the animation directors and storyboard/layout artists been actively trying to include more of them in S5 and beyond. It was part of the same gendered toy marketing Pink Aisle nonsense that gave us Pinklestia in S1-S2 toys; excutives decide that “Girls want X” or “Boys like Y” and then use a combination of loaded focus groups and heavily slanted marketing to turn that into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Helping to wreck that ridiculousness is one of the major impacts Friendship Is Magic has had on the toy/cartoon/merchandising industry– WLF and Hot Topic may have shitty business practices, but they’ve made marketers and merchandisers sit up and take notice of new ways to sell stuff to people with money to spend– but hardly anyone realizes it because it’s all going on behind corporate closed doors. Equestria Girls exists in the first place because Hasbro wanted to bite Mattel’s (enormous) success with Monster High, which is itself a huge great middle finger to the idiotic idea that girls are only interested in rigidly defined corporate-approved Girly Stuff™.

@SeraphimDawn @TexasUberAlles  
My theory is that they think green characters don’t sell very vell among girls. If Lyra wasn’t a very popular pony, we probably wouldn’t get toys of her

@LDBP  
True, but apparently that was only a prototype of Indigo. That doll wears nearly an exact copy of Indigo’s clothes. Some idiot at Hasbro didn’t realize how similar they were until after they made a prototype doll and then her design was changed.  
Even if she is in Friendship Games, she’ll be a minor character.

@Background is Best Pony  

 
There was and still IS a indication. Lightning Dust has a equestria Girls Doll…so if you put one and one together…
 
 
@Background Pony #0BB9  

 
You are NOT i even think she is best pony <3

What I *actually* got:
 

@Dr Outback  
I reckon it’ll be like Rainbow Power or something. X3

I expected Red and Blue hair but I got was light blue and blue hair. How did they mess that up?!

I like blue hair better.
 
Also, Lightning Dust has actual fans? I thought I was the only one.

It’s like they’re avoiding Lightning Dust any way possible.  
Copyright or something? What is it?