@Garth01  
Since the other shorts apparently involve the main cast, probably not.
 
Also, apparently nearly all if not all the scenes in the trailer are from the shorts rather than the full movie; everything but Twilight’s scenes.
 
If the book follows the shorts, it’ll be:
 
1 - Vinyl Scratch (Music to Her Ears)  
2 - Rainbow Dash (Guitar Centered)  
3 - Applejack (getting the bass back from Flim and Flam)  
4 - Fluttershy (calming the hamsters)  
5 - Pinkie (discovering that she’s a drummer)  
6 - Rarity (delivering the grand piano)  
7 - Mane Five (arguing over decorations)  
8 - Mane Five (the Spring Fling)

@Pangea  
Judging from the book: nope.

@Background Pony #2D78  
No, he would be completely serious and overreact to everything, then go into his “I WAS ONLY JOKING GUIZ” defense mechanism. That is, if it didn’t pretend to play dumb first.

@PonyPon  
ClownDicks claimed to make similar jokes.
 
The difference is his were actually funny.
 
Your “jokes” are just obnoxious.

@Background Pony #8915  
I imagine it would.
 
But we can’t always get what we want, now can we?

@Trickquestion
 
@PonyPon
 

SHOW SOME MYSTERY MINT! Yaaay!

@Pangea  
She’d better.

Cryptic, eh? Well, there’s gonna be a total of 8 shorts, each 3 minutes in length… ‘H’ is the 8th letter of the alphabet… There’s a total of 8 letters in “half life”… Half Life 3 confirmed!

I’m guessing what he means by connected is that during the film we will see these events going on in the background.

Thats wonderful news.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Sunset’s gonna make an appearance in one.

@Itsthinking  
Fine, I shall write “I Shall Not Make Jokes” 300 times on the backs of my Jaguar Slaves in penance.

@PonyPon  
And I’m not the kind of person who would say that kind of thing, if anything I would contribute to people believing that.

@PonyPon  
You don’t need to exaggerate your unenthusiasm towards people who can’t do shit to change anything.

@Itsthinking  
I never said I didn’t care.

@PonyPon  
Do you want to complain about how the fandom is dying and everyone is cynical and jaded?
 
If you really didn’t care, you would say nothing at all. Putting “exaggerate” and “unenthusiastic” in the same sentence doesn’t even make any sense.

@Itsthinking  
Oh come on, I can’t even exaggerate how unenthusiastic I am?

@Trickquestion  
@PonyPon  
Quit being such drama queens if you’re both genuine, and quit perpetuating drama that you’ll then complain about if you’re “trolling.”

@Trickquestion  
[holding back vomit intensifies]

Oh god, you mean there’s more?

@DuskFox  
Sounds like its a movie and a separate series of 8 3-minute shorts.

@LightningBearer  
You called a person named Big Jim a she. <_<

so it isn’t a movie…it’s actually a short series?

… I wonder if she means they aren’t part of the actual movie or if they won’t be on the DVD at all. If they are separate shorts, it’d still be nice to have them as special features on the DVD, or something.