List of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls animations#Canterlot Shorts

As with the toy line, the animations are primarily set in a fictional world parallel to the pony-inhabited fantasy setting of the 2010 incarnation of My Little Pony, accessible via a magic mirror. The media additionally features alternate humanoid versions of pony characters in roles similar to the counterparts in Equestria; characters as depicted in the Friendship Is Magic television series who travel between worlds assume similar forms in the alternative setting.

The first film, Equestria Girls, follows Equestria's Twilight Sparkle in the parallel world, which is accessed through a magic mirror. Together, with the counterparts of her pony friends, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy, along with her assistant Spike, Twilight will have to deal with the various magical happenings in Canterlot High that originate from the mirror portal.

Later works put Sunset Shimmer, introduced in the first film as the main antagonist who betrayed her former teacher Princess Celestia but later reformed, in a leading role in place of Equestria's Twilight Sparkle. Friendship Games formally introduced the parallel world counterpart of Twilight Sparkle ({{Aka}} "Sci-Twi").

Allspark Animation (previously credited as Hasbro Studios), a subsidiary of Hasbro responsible for non-toy multimedia strategies, commissioned the productions. DHX Studios Vancouver's 2D animation team, part of Canadian company DHX Media's DHX Studios division, produced most of animations. However, the Canterlot Shorts from 2017 were produced by Boulder Media, an animation studio located in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, that Hasbro acquired in 2016.

To maintain continuity of the films with the Friendship Is Magic television series, Hasbro used the same writing staff as the show, including the story editor Meghan McCarthy, who considered the story to be "an extension of our mythology".{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/equestria-girls-a-my-little-pony-offshoot-in-its-movie-debut.html|title=A New Direction for a Hasbro Stalwart|work=New York Times|date=2013-05-12|accessdate=2013-05-13|first=Gregory|last=Schmidt}} McCarthy stated that with the Equestria Girls setting, "we might explore different aspects of relationships that in the pony world don't quite work the same as they do when you set it in a high school setting", thus making the work more appealing to older girls that are in high or junior high school.{{cite web|url=https://tv.yahoo.com/news/little-pony-equestria-girls-takes-ponies-brand-universe-180300415.html|title='My Little Pony: Equestria Girls' Takes the Ponies to a Brand-New Universe|publisher=Yahoo!|date=2013-06-26|accessdate=2013-06-26|first=Steven|last=Bryan}}

Four Equestria Girls animated feature films, each lasting around 70 minutes, were released between 2013 and 2016, promoting the year's particular line-up of Equestria Girls dolls. The films were then followed by the animated specials beginning in 2017 (the year My Little Pony: The Movie, a wide release animated feature film, was distributed by Lionsgate Films).

The first two films were written by Meghan McCarthy and directed by Jayson Thiessen; the third film was written by Josh Haber and directed by Ishi Rudell; the fourth film was written by Kristine Songco and Joanna Lewis, and directed by Ishi Rudell.

Hasbro Studios listed the films as "TV specials" in the company's sales guide.{{cite web |title={{Bracket|Sales guide}} |url=http://www.hasbrostudios.com/data/files/Hasbro%20Sales%20Guide_V4_Spreads_Nomarks.pdf |publisher=Hasbro Studios |accessdate=24 January 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109011130/http://www.hasbrostudios.com/data/files/Hasbro%20Sales%20Guide_V4_Spreads_Nomarks.pdf |archivedate=2016-11-09 |language=en-US |format=PDF |url-status=dead}} However, in the United States and Canada, the first two films, Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks, had limited theatrical screenings in select cities before they were released on home media (by Shout! Factory for the region) and broadcast on television. In the U.S., these films were screened in Screenvision theaters, without any rating from the MPAA, while in Canada, they were shown in Cineplex theaters, with classifications from provincial film boards. There are no box office records in either area are available for the two films. Internationally, there have been theatrical releases of the films in some areas, but in most cases the films were only shown on television before (or after) it was released on home media.

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In writing the script of the first film, Equestria Girls, Meghan McCarthy went back to the self-titled two-part pilot episodes of Friendship Is Magic, where Twilight Sparkle is sent to Ponyville for the first time and forced to meet new friends. She wanted to do the same with the film, in this case putting Twilight into a new world where she would again be forced to make new friends to succeed in her quest.{{cite web|url=http://family-room.ew.com/2013/07/30/equestria-girls-exclusive-clip/|title='Equestria Girls': Go behind the scenes of 'My Little Pony' spin-off in exclusive clip|first=Hilary|last=Busis|date=2013-07-30|accessdate =2013-07-30|work=Entertainment Weekly}} Released in 2013, the film was premiered on June 15 as a part of Los Angeles Film Festival that year, before having limited theatrical releases in the United States and Canada the next day, and was released on home media on August 6.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks}}

The second film released in 2014, Rainbow Rocks centers around Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer and friends' activities against evil sirens using music. On February 13, 2014, Meghan McCarthy wrote on Twitter that she had worked on the film during the summer of 2013.{{cite tweet|user=MMeghanMcCarthy|number=434026737148497920|title=["Rainbow Rocks" Production Work Confirmation]|date=2014-02-13|accessdate=2014-02-13|last=McCarthy|first=Meghan|postscript=.}} That same day, songwriter Daniel Ingram also wrote on the service that there would be a total of 12 songs in the film;{{cite tweet|user=dannyimusic|number=434123150721179648|title=[Number of Songs in "Rainbow Rocks" Confirmation]|date=2014-02-13|accessdate=2014-02-13|last=Ingram|first=Daniel|postscript=.}} however, only 11 songs were used in the film. The film had a limited theatrical release from September 27, 2014, before it was out on home media on October 28 that year.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games}}

Released in 2015, the third installment, Friendship Games, was first teased by Rainbow Rocks co-director, Ishi Rudell on December 12, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNWZsKuslPs/VIwiTcYym5I/AAAAAAACF_I/aQ2exRIsYIY/s1600/1418438653206.png|title=#3 confirmation tweet|last=Rudell|first=Ishi|work=Twitter|date=December 12, 2014|accessdate=December 12, 2014}} (Archived locally) The film was first broadcast on September 26, 2015 on Discovery Family in the U.S. and Family Channel in Canada, and was released on home media on October 13 that year. In the film, the alternative universe counterpart of Twilight Sparkle, a student at Crystal Prep, is forced by Principal Abacus Cinch to disrupt Friendship Games (a sporting event held every four years with Canterlot High) with magic.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree}}

On October 3, 2015, CEO of Hasbro Studios Stephen Davis said that a fourth film, subtitled Legend of Everfree, was in development.{{cite web|url=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/02/new-equestria-girls-coming-fall-2016.html|title=New Equestria Girls – Legends of the Everfree Coming Fall 2016|work=Equestria Daily|author=The Ferret|date=February 12, 2016|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_P2fw_DlS4|title=Keynote: Stephen Davis, Hasbro – MIPJunior 2015|publisher=YouTube|date=October 3, 2015|accessdate=October 3, 2015}} Note: Confirmation at 18:37. The film was released on Netflix on October 1, 2016, and the home media release followed on November 1, 2016. In the film, the protagonists follow the damages at Camp Everfree caused by a creature so-called Gaea Everfree.

Beginning in 2017, Hasbro released Equestria Girls animated specials in place of feature films. As with the four previous films, the specials promote the year's particular line-up of Equestria Girls dolls.

The three 22-minute specials were released in 2017. The following year, 2018, Hasbro began releasing extended specials. The original version of Forgotten Friendship (the first special to be produced under the current cycle) lasts around 50 minutes, but it was cut to around 44 minutes for television broadcasts. Subsequent specials (Rollercoaster of Friendship, Spring Breakdown, Sunset's Backstage Pass, Holidays Unwrapped) were produced to fit around the length of 44 minutes.

The specials since 2018 are also released freely worldwide on YouTube, after the initial release in the United States, through Hasbro's official channels. The YouTube release of specials are divided into parts, and released sequentially every week, in line with the Better Together shorts.

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Dave Polsky

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Three animated specials, each lasting around 22 minutes, were first announced in October 2016.{{cite press release|title=Hasbro Announces My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 7 and New My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Specials for 2017|url=http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/little-pony-friendship-magic-season-seven-equestria-girls-specials-ordered/|location=Pawtucket, Rhode Island|publisher=Hasbro|date=October 18, 2016|access-date=October 28, 2016|via=TV Series Finale}} The specials were broadcast on Discovery Family on Saturdays from June 24 to July 8, 2017, as a part of the channel's "Summer Splash" seasonal event.{{cite press release|url=https://press.discovery.com/us/dfc/press-releases/2017/girls-canterlot-high-return-discovery-family--4057/|title=The Girls of Canterlot High Return to Discovery Family in Three New My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Specials to Air Throughout the Network's Annual "Summer Splash" Programming Event|location=Miami, Florida|publisher=Discovery, Inc.|date=2017-05-26|accessdate=2017-05-26}} The first of the specials, "Dance Magic", focuses on the protagonists' attempt to enter a music video contest to win an amount of prize money, which they plan to use to help repair Camp Everfree; the second, "Movie Magic", follows the protagonists, who were invited to a film studio tour, encounter a series of incidents while the filming was taking place, and begin a group investigation; in "Mirror Magic", the last of the specials, Sunset Shimmer takes Starlight Glimmer to a tour of the parallel universe, and a corrupted mirror slowly influences a girl.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship}}

Forgotten Friendship ({{Aka}} Most Likely to be Forgotten), which succeeded the 2017 specials, was broadcast on February 17, 2018, on Discovery Family. The story follows Sunset Shimmer's discovery that her friends' memories of her have been mysteriously erased; she returns to Equestria and seeks help from Twilight Sparkle to find the cause before the memories vanish for good.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rollercoaster of Friendship}}

Rollercoaster of Friendship was broadcast on July 6, 2018, on Discovery Family as a part of its "Summer Surprises" seasonal event. The story follows Rarity's acceptance of a summer job as a costume designer for a new amusement park and the strain that it puts on her friendship with the other girls, particularly Applejack.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown}}

Spring Breakdown was broadcast on Discovery Family on March 30, 2019. In this special, the girls take a luxury cruise for spring break, but wayward magic imperils the passengers and forces Sunset Shimmer, and the parallel universe counterpart of Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash to visit Equestria for help from Ponyville's Twilight Sparkle.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset's Backstage Pass}}

Sunset's Backstage Pass was broadcast on Discovery Family on July 27, 2019. It follows Sunset Shimmer as she attends a music festival along with other protagonists but finds herself stuck in a time loop.

{{Main|My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped}}

Holidays Unwrapped, a holiday season special, was broadcast on Discovery Family on November 2, 2019. Presented in an omnibus manner, the special follows the protagonists who prepare for, and enjoy, the parallel universe's equivalent of Christmas and holiday season.

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Feature films Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games are each accompanied by a series of animated shorts released online. 8 animated shorts which served as a prelude to Rainbow Rocks were released in 2014, followed by 3 encore shorts to Rainbow Rocks and 5 prelude shorts to Friendship Games (in total, 8 animated shorts) in 2015. The shorts are also included in physical home media releases of the films as a part of special features.

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The Canterlot Shorts (as referred by Hasbro, even though the title card for this series has nothing but an Equestria Girls logo) was premiered on July 30, 2017, on Discovery Family (where it is billed together with the music videos as Summertime Shorts) as a part of the channel's "Summer Splash" seasonal event. The series is the only animated media in the Equestria Girls franchise to be produced by Boulder Media in the Republic of Ireland (which Hasbro Studios acquired in 2016), and all episodes were written by Gillian M. Berrow (who also wrote the novelization of first Equestria Girls film as well as most of the Friendship Is Magic novels).{{cite tweet|last= Berrow|first= Gillian M.|user= gmberrow|number= 919430947975467008|date= 2017-10-15|title= I never officially said it- I wrote all of the "Summertime Shorts" except the music videos.So much fun & more to come! #EquestriaGirls #mlp|access-date= 2017-10-15}} The shorts were later released internationally on YouTube by Hasbro through its official channel.

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They have fun goofing around until Rarity's new pixie wings catch fire under the lights, and Photo declares that the shoot is her best work ever. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = Raise This Roof |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|07|30}} |ShortSummary = At the CHS Fall Formal, Applejack hears her favorite song being played and has Apple Bloom do a line dance with her. Seeing a chance for a dance-off, Rainbow Dash has a hip-hop track put on and starts breakdancing with Scootaloo. The challenge shifts back and forth, with the two younger girls being pushed to the sidelines as the older ones' enthusiasm gets the better of them. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo show them both up by doing a funky dance of their own, for which Pinkie Pie awards them a trophy. Applejack and Rainbow Dash gracefully accept defeat, but the latter still asks the girls for a rematch. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = Steps of Pep |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|07|30}} |ShortSummary = Pinkie Pie recruits Fluttershy to join the CHS cheering club and tries to get her to raise her soft voice as they cheer on the soccer team. They move on to root for a vocal quartet and then a chess match, to which Fluttershy's quietness is perfectly suited. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = Pet Project |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|05}} |ShortSummary = After visiting Fluttershy at her job in a pet grooming salon, Sunset Shimmer decides to get a pet of her own so she can take part in a photo shoot with the other girls' pets (including Pinkie Pie's stuffed alligator doll Gummy). Fluttershy shows her around an animal shelter, and she adopts a tiny yellow gecko and names it Ray, returning just in time for the photo shoot. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = Subs Rock |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|05}} |ShortSummary = Principal Celestia decides to fill in as substitute teacher for Twilight and Rarity's class. However, she is constantly interrupted by situations that include a cafeteria emergency and Rainbow Dash kicking a soccer ball against the outer wall of the building. By the time she takes care of all the problems, she is exhausted and the class ends. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = The Art of Friendship |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|12}} |ShortSummary = Struggling to pick an idea for her painting in art class, Pinkie Pie takes Sunset Shimmer's suggestion to "get the creative juices flowing". She drinks some juice in the cafeteria, dresses up as a bird to watch and annoy the ones in her neighborhood and then plays a drum solo that ends with her pounding on a bucket in the art classroom, driving everyone to distraction. When Sunset explains that she likes to paint things that make her happy, Pinkie acts on that idea and sloshes paint all over herself and the other students' projects, resulting in her quickly turning out a simple portrait of Sunset. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = The Canterlot Movie Club |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|20}} |ShortSummary = Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are about to watch the new Daring Do movie when Pinkie Pie asks them for help in finding her stuffed alligator Gummy. Seeing a chance for adventure, the girls search the movie theater lobby and the trash cans behind the building, to which they then spot Gummy as one of the prizes inside a claw game. Scootaloo plays the game and successfully extracts Gummy, and the girls give the doll back to Pinkie just in time for the start of the movie. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = Leaping Off the Page |WrittenBy=Gillian M. Berrow |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|27}} |ShortSummary = Rainbow Dash settles in to read one of her Daring Do novels and imagines herself as the protagonist. She flees through the jungle from a rival whose voice consists only of car honks, then encounters a bird whose call is a cell phone's ringtone. As the statue she is standing on crumbles under her feet, she snaps back to reality – now sitting on top of her wardrobe – as Twilight Sparkle and Rarity arrive in her bedroom. She was so engrossed in the story that she ignored both the honking of Applejack's horn and the ringing of her own phone before climbing onto the wardrobe. Rainbow climbs down, tosses the book aside, and leaves to join the girls to see a movie. |LineColor = 942594 }} {{Episode list |Title = Epic Fails |WrittenBy=Gillian M. 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A series of music videos was premiered on July 30, 2017, on Discovery Family (where it is billed together with the Canterlot Shorts as Summertime Shorts) as a part of the channel's "Summer Splash" seasonal event. The shorts share the same title sequence as the 2017 television specials. The shorts were later released internationally on YouTube by Hasbro through its official channel.

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style="color:white" !style="background:#FF5F6C; color:white;"|Title !style="background:#FF5F6C; color:white;"|Writer !style="background:#FF5F6C; color:white;"|Original airdate {{Episode list |Title = Mad Twience |WrittenBy=John Boyd |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|07|30}} |ShortSummary = In a take-off of Frankenstein, Twilight Sparkle works on a secret project in her home laboratory during a stormy night with help from Spike. After a long session of poring over notes and schematics, debugging computer code and assembling hardware, she unveils the end result – a robotic puppy friend for Spike to play with. |LineColor = FF5F6C }} {{Episode list |Title = Monday Blues |WrittenBy=John Boyd |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|04}} |ShortSummary = Monday morning starts very differently for Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle, with Sunset oversleeping and Twilight quickly getting ready. A storm hits as soon as they leave their homes to go to school, and both encounter various frustrations and obstacles along the way. When they arrive at Canterlot High, they find that the rest of their friends have had their own troubles in getting to school. The girls share a laugh over their misfortunes, and Pinkie Pie takes a selfie of the group with her smartphone. |LineColor = FF5F6C }} {{Episode list |Title = Shake Things Up! |WrittenBy=Mason Rather |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|11}} |ShortSummary = Working at her part-time job at a juice bar in the Canterlot Mall, Applejack is bored and tired of making the same drinks every day. While slicing apples, she comes across a beet and decides to get creative with her drinks, mixing up new combinations of fruits and vegetables. Her flashy drink-mixing skills slowly draw in a crowd of customers who enjoy the new products. |LineColor = FF5F6C }} {{Episode list |Title = Get the Show on the Road |WrittenBy=Bill Sherman & Chris Jackson{{cite tweet|last= Hadley|first= Katrina|user= isitlunchyet_t|number= 912431442046599169|date= 2017-09-25|title=Music by Bill Sherman, Lyrics by Chris Jackson.|access-date= 2017-09-25}} (song only) |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|08|27}} |ShortSummary = The Rainbooms are about to go on tour, but the bus Applejack finds for them to use is a broken-down wreck. With Twilight Sparkle's planning and the help of their powers, they repair and repaint it in short order. |LineColor = FF5F6C }} {{Episode list |Title = Coinky-Dink World |WrittenBy=Mason Rather |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|09|22}}{{Efn|group=MVs|name=DiscFamGo|Released on the Discovery Family Go! TV Everywhere platform.}} |ShortSummary = Pinkie Pie works as a waitress in a 1950s diner and attempts to play matchmaker to two nerdy patrons. |LineColor = FF5F6C }} {{Episode list |Title = Good Vibes |WrittenBy=Daniel Ingram |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|09|22}}{{Efn|group=MVs|name=DiscFamGo}} |ShortSummary = A glum Flash Sentry helps Trixie carry a load of props through the Canterlot Mall, setting off a domino effect of good deeds that improves a bad day for the Equestria Girls and some of their friends. The effect comes full circle when Sunset Shimmer gives Flash her order of take-out sushi to cheer him up. |LineColor = FF5F6C }}

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A plan to release a series of Equestria Girls animated shorts online sometime in 2018 was first mentioned at Hasbro's 2017 Investor Day event held in August that year. The plan was apparently brought forward, as the series (not to be confused with the Canterlot Shorts and the summer 2017 music videos that were released earlier in the same year), also known as Better Together shorts, was released on Discovery Family Go TV Everywhere platform in the United States in early November 2017, before having a worldwide debut on YouTube later in the same month. On YouTube, the shorts were released by Hasbro's official channel, before moving to My Little Pony's official channel.

As well as normal animated shorts, each season also includes a number of interactive shorts (initially labelled as "Choose Your Own Ending", before re-labelled as "You Choose the Ending") which utilize the interactivity function of Discovery Family Go platform (and previously that of YouTube, before such function was disabled for child-oriented videos in January 2020). In the shorts, viewers are offered three choices, each containing a different ending, at the end of the main video. Each ending can be watched by clicking (or tapping) a button onscreen. The endings don't affect the series' entire continuity, however.

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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls{{cite web|url=https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-animation/my-little-pony-equestria-girls|title=My Little Pony: Equestria Girls|publisher=Shout! Factory|date=2013-07-08|accessdate=2013-07-08}} |August 6, 2013 |Feature film |{{Plainlist| Through the Mirror of Equestria Girls Karaoke Songs ("Cafeteria Song" and "A Friend for Life") Pony-fy Yourself Printable movie poster}}
Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks{{cite web|url=https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-animation/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-rainbow-rocks|title=My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks|publisher=Shout! Factory|date=2014-07-10|accessdate=2014-07-10}} |October 28, 2014 |Feature film |{{Plainlist| New featurette Prelude shorts Sing-alongs (Better Than Ever, Battle, and Rainbooms Battle){{Efn|group="HomeMediaNote"|Instrumental is credited in the Bonus menu of both the DVDs and Blu-rays of the film; but the last section from "Welcome to the Show" is played, starting with Sunset's verse.}} Audio commentary by Meghan McCarthy, Jayson Thiessen, Ishi Rudell, Michael Vogel, and Brian Lenard}}
Equestria Girls: Friendship Games{{cite web|url=https://shoutfactory.com/tv/kids-family/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-friendship-games|title=My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games|publisher=Shout! Factory|date=2015-07-09|accessdate=2015-07-09}} |October 13, 2015 |Feature film |{{Plainlist| Deleted scenes Audio commentary Sing-alongs Animated shorts}}
Equestria Girls (Three Movie Gift Set){{cite web|url=https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-three-movie-gift-set?product_id=4387|title=Equestria Girls (Three Movie Gift Set)|publisher=Shout! Factory|date=2015-08-23|accessdate=2019-12-01}} |October 13, 2015 |Box set Equestria Girls Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks Equestria Girls: Friendship Games |{{Plainlist| Lenticular Cover with Transforming Twilight Sparkle Bonus features Audio commentary on Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games Prelude shorts for Rainbow Rocks Animated shorts for Friendship Games Deleted scenes from Friendship Games Sing-alongs}}
Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree{{cite web|url=https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-legend-of-everfree|title=My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree|publisher=Shout! Factory|date=2016-08-04|accessdate=2016-08-04}} |November 1, 2016 |Feature film |{{Plainlist| Audio commentary Blooper reel Sing-alongs}}
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night{{cite web|url=https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-animation/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-magical-movie-night|title=My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night|publisher=Shout! Factory|date=2017-05-05|accessdate=2017-05-05}} |August 8, 2017 |Specials Equestria Girls: Dance Magic Equestria Girls: Movie Magic Equestria Girls: Mirror Magic |Sing Alongs

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{{cite web |title=Hasbro 2017 Investor Day |url=https://investor.hasbro.com/events/event-details/hasbro-2017-investor-day |publisher=Hasbro |accessdate=28 January 2020 |language=en-US}}

• Slides: {{cite web |title=2017 Investor Day Webcast-Entertainment in Brand Building |url=https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/4aa02741-e932-48a2-99fe-69c896d7e8ab |publisher=Hasbro |accessdate=28 January 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507000846/https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/4aa02741-e932-48a2-99fe-69c896d7e8ab |archivedate=May 7, 2019 |language=en-US |format=PDF |url-status=live}}

{{cite tweet|last= Hadley|first= Katrina|user= isitlunchyet_t|number= 911447193000611840|date= 2017-09-23|title=FYI. EG had some new songwriters! Mason Rather for Shake Things Up and Coinky Dink World. John Boyd for Mad Twience and Monday Blues.|access-date= 2017-09-23}}

{{cite tweet|last= Hadley|first= Katrina|user= isitlunchyet_t|number= 911581657081069569|date= 2017-09-23|title=Yes sorry! Good Vibes! Waves of friendship was an old working title. Forgive me, it been a while since we completed these|access-date= 2017-09-23}}

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