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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (abbreviated as MLP: FIM[5]) is an animated children's television series based on the fourth incarnation (also referred to as the fourth generation[6][7] or "G4"[8][9]) of Hasbro's My Little Pony toyline and media franchise. The show follows a studious anthropomorphic unicorn (later an alicorn) pony named Twilight Sparkle (Tara Strong) and her friends Applejack (Ashleigh Ball), Rarity (Tabitha St. Germain), Fluttershy (Andrea Libman), Rainbow Dash (Ball), and Pinkie Pie (Libman), and dragon assistant, Spike (Cathy Weseluck), who travel on adventures and help others around Equestria while working out problems that arise in their own friendships.
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Created by | Lauren Faust |
Based on | My Little Pony by Bonnie Zacherle |
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Theme music composer | Daniel Ingram |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 9 |
No. of episodes | 221 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 22 minutes[4] |
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Network | Discovery Family[lower-alpha 4] |
Release | October 10, 2010 (2010-10-10) – October 12, 2019 (2019-10-12) |
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The series is animated in Flash, and aired on The Hub (which was renamed Discovery Family on October 13, 2014) from October 10, 2010, to October 12, 2019. Hasbro selected animator Lauren Faust to be the show's creative director and executive producer. Faust sought to challenge the nature of the My Little Pony line, and created more in-depth characters and adventurous settings; she aspired to create a show similar to how she had played with her toys and incorporated many elements of fantasy. Due to hectic production schedules and a lack of creative control, she left the series during season 2.
The series became a major commercial success; it was the highest-rated production in Hub Network's broadcast history. Despite the target demographic of young girls, Friendship Is Magic also gained an unexpectedly large following of older viewers in mid-late 2011, mainly young and middle-aged men, who call themselves "bronies". Additionally, it led to new merchandising opportunities for Hasbro, including games and comics. A spin-off franchise, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, was launched in 2013, and ran alongside the show for several years. A feature-length film adaptation based on the television series, titled My Little Pony: The Movie, was theatrically released on October 6, 2017, in the United States. My Little Pony: Pony Life, a spin-off reboot series, premiered on Discovery Family on November 7, 2020.