My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree facts for kids

Quick facts for kids My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree
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Directed by	Ishi Rudell
Produced by	Angela Belyea
Written by	Kristine Songco Joanna Lewis
Starring	Tara Strong Rebecca Shoichet Ashleigh Ball Andrea Libman Tabitha St. Germain Cathy Weseluck Michelle Fernandes Enid-Raye Adams Brian Doe
Music by	William Anderson
Editing by	Shannon Archibald Tom Harris
Distributed by	Hasbro Studios
Release date(s)	September 24, 2016 (2016-09-24) (Discovery Kids Latin America) October 1, 2016 (2016-10-01) (Netflix in the United States and Canada)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	Canada United States
Language	English

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree, or simply known as Legend of Everfree, is a 2016 Canadian–American flash animated musical fantasy film sequel to 2015's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, written by Kristine Songco and Joanna Lewis, and directed by Ishi Rudell. The film was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Hasbro Studios in the United States as a part of Hasbro's Equestria Girls toy line and media franchise, which is a spin-off of the 2010 relaunch of My Little Pony. Prior to its release in the United States on Netflix on October 1, 2016, the film was first broadcast on Discovery Kids in Latin America on September 24, 2016. It received a home media release in the United States and Canada on November 1, 2016. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the animation, voice acting and music, but criticized its script, plot and excessive use of too many plotlines all at once.

Like the first three Equestria Girls films, Legend of Everfree re-envisions the main characters of the parent franchise, normally ponies, as teenage human characters in a high school setting. The film's plot concerns the students of Canterlot High School attending a field trip to Camp Everfree, which becomes plagued with bizarre magical circumstances relating to a local urban legend.

Legend of Everfree is then followed by three specials, which aired on Discovery Family from June 24 to July 8, 2017.

Plot

The students of Canterlot High School attend a field trip to Camp Everfree, a nature camp owned by Gloriosa Daisy and her brother, Timber Spruce. During the bus ride, transfer student Twilight Sparkle has a nightmare of being overtaken by "Midnight Sparkle", a malevolent alter ego of herself produced while temporarily corrupted by Equestrian magic. Her friend Sunset Shimmer is supportive, relating through her own similar experience of transforming into a demon. Shortly upon arrival at the camp, Twilight develops telekinetic powers, which she worries is a sign of Midnight's lingering presence.

That night, Timber tells a campfire story about a forest spirit named Gaea Everfree being angered by the camp's construction and threatening to unleash a plague of natural disasters upon it. The next day, a sailboat crashes into a dock the campers are building to use as a fashion show runway. The terrified campers spot glittering gem dust that matches the description of Gaea's presence in Timber's story, convincing them that Gaea is real. Twilight, however, believes her magic to be responsible for the accident and distances herself from her friends.

Later, Twilight's friends begin developing superhuman abilities which they can only use within the camp's boundaries. Now believing her magic is infecting her friends, Twilight prepares to run away from camp. Sunset follows Twilight into the woods and, discovering her own power of telepathic empathy, convinces her to stay. As Timber leads them back to the camp, Sunset notices gem dust falling from his pocket and suspects him of staging Gaea's attacks. She later overhears him arguing with Gloriosa to abandon what Sunset assumes to be the camp. Remembering his earlier statements of longing for urban life, Sunset concludes that Timber means to shut the camp down by terrorizing the campers.

Sunset brings Twilight and Spike with her to investigate a nearby cave kept off-limits by Timber, where they find geodes infused with Equestrian magic. The three are confronted by Gloriosa, who reveals herself to be the true cause of the natural disasters. Sunset learns through her visions that Gloriosa, desperate to prevent the camp's closure, has been wearing the geodes as a necklace to harness their power, with the "disasters" resulting from her reckless attempts at using magic to improve the campers' experience; Timber, anticipating this, invented the story of Gaea Everfree to cover for her.

Gloriosa adds more geodes to the necklace and is driven completely insane by their power, taking on an appearance resembling Gaea. Crashing the campers' fashion show rehearsal, Gloriosa enacts her intent to "protect" them by trapping the camp in a bramble cage. When Sunset's friends fail to stop Gloriosa's psychotic rampage, they encourage Twilight to embrace her magic to assist. Following one final struggle against Midnight, Twilight asserts control of herself and takes the geode necklace apart, freeing Gloriosa from its influence. The geodes turn into pendants for Twilight and her friends, who gain new magical forms and restore the camp. Still faced with the camp's closure, the girls organize a last-minute fundraiser ball held within the cave. Their plan is a success, attracting a large crowd of former campers and saving the camp.

In a post-credits scene, the girls finally restore the dock after it has been wrecked several times, but Pinkie Pie accidentally destroys it again with her powers, leaving the group in shock.

Cast

• Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle, a transfer student at Canterlot High who is haunted by nightmares of Midnight Sparkle, her temporary split personality from the third film. She gains telekinesis.
  • Shoichet performs Twilight Sparkle's singing voice.
• Rebecca Shoichet as Sunset Shimmer, one of Twilight's friends who gains the power to empathetically sense others' thoughts and feelings through physical touch.
• Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash, who gains super speed; and Applejack, who gains super strength.
• Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie, who can infuse sprinkles with explosive energy; and Fluttershy, who can communicate with animals.
  • Shannon Chan-Kent performs Pinkie Pie's singing voice.
• Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity, who can create diamond-like force fields; and Vice Principal Luna, Celestia's younger sister.
  • Kazumi Evans performs Rarity's singing voice.
• Cathy Weseluck as Spike, Twilight's talking pet dog.
• Enid-Raye Adams as Gloriosa Daisy, the owner and director of Camp Everfree, and the film's main antagonist. She is also the sister to Timber Spruce.
  • Kelly Metzger performs Gloriosa's singing voice.
• Brian Doe as Timber Spruce, Gloriosa's brother and a camp counselor who falls in love with Twilight.
• Nicole Oliver as Principal Celestia, the head of Canterlot High School.
• Vincent Tong as Flash Sentry, a camper enamored with Twilight's princess counterpart from Equestria who struggles to disassociate the two.
• Brian Drummond as Filthy Rich, a businessman who threatens to replace the camp with a spa resort.

The film also features minor speaking roles with Michael Dobson as Bulk Biceps; Lee Tockar and Richard Ian Cox as Snips and Snails; Kathleen Barr as Trixie; Tong as Sandalwood; St. Germain as Muffins; Ball as Lyra Heartstrings; and Libman as Sweetie Drops.

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - La leyenda de Everfree para niños