I’m gonna have to start limiting questions because I get so many story questions pertaining to the movie’s script and I can’t answer any of them because they pertain to spoilers. That’s one of my biggest issues. Plus, I’m sort of getting tired of spamming the blog with Q&A posts. 

So I may go through the Inbox and just start deleting questions. I haven’t fully decided yet.

Not very much. It is implied that something happened between Discord and Celestia that essentially made him the way that he is, but its never explicitly stated.

The Changeling Scorpion is still in the film yes, but the placement of where it comes into the story was moved around and changed.

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle make cameos, but Scootaloo is the only crusader to have spoken dialogue in the movie.

No actually. I took inspiration from film, not really television. My biggest influence when it comes to ANYTHING I do is the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Especially in the way I write women. 

When putting the movie together in some cases, I looked at elements from Tales from Earthsea, a little bit of Spirited Away, and a small touch of Castle in the Sky to kind of give this greater sense of comedy, emotion, and drama. But most of the infuences for the film come from Disney and Don Bluth. In many cases you could say we’re trying to make a Disney-ish Pony movie rather than a straight forward pony movie in some cases. Which I don’t think is really a bad thing at all honestly.

It allows for more depth and a little bit of magic to really shine through.