Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony (2012) on Netflix
TV-1420121h 30mDocumentary
Adult men who watch My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meet at fan conventions and explain the pull of a show made for young girls. Some describe hardship in admitting it.
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Plot summary
Hasbro's My Little Pony line was relaunched in 2010 with an animated series, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, aimed at young girls. Male viewers, many of them adults, took to it in numbers nobody had expected and called themselves bronies. The documentary grew out of a crowd-funded campaign built around one voice actor's trip to a fan convention in New Jersey in 2012. Funding passed every goal, so the scope widened to include two European conventions as well. Footage from BronyCon, GalaCon and B.U.C.K. runs beside interviews with fans and with the show's creative staff, a survey of the music, artwork, videos and games that fans produce, and original animated segments.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony (2012)
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- The production team halted work on planned bonus features in February 2013 because of copyright infringement within the brony community; unlicensed copies were on YouTube within half an hour of the digital release, and about 4,000 digital sales were estimated against more than 10,000 viewers.
- The documentary's Kickstarter became the fourth most funded film project on the site by June 8, 2012, and ended as the second most funded film on Kickstarter with $322,022 in pledges; the extra money paid the producers' fares to the European brony conventions GalaCon and B.U.C.K.
- My Little Pony creator Lauren Faust wrote the villain Discord as a sendup of John de Lancie's Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation without expecting him to voice it; when casting the part, the team found de Lancie available and made Discord's mannerisms even more Q-like.
- John de Lancie recorded the My Little Pony character Discord thinking it was just another small role, then was flooded with fan emails and messages after the episode aired; researching the fandom, he found it resembled early Star Trek fandom, whose original fans were mostly women.
