Difference between revisions of "The Runaway Rainbow"

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This animated episode is 44 minutes long and was released September 12, 2006 to DVD. It was a direct to home video release and it was available on hubworld.com along with other DVD’s The Princess Promenade and A Very Minty Christmas. This feature also came with two bonus episodes Friends are Never Far Away and Greetings From Unicornia. The episode finally premiered on the Hub TV Network alongside The Princess Promenade and Twinkle Wish Adventure, on August 8, 2014 during it’s My Little Pony: Mega Mare-athon.

Synopsis

Rainbow Dash and the other ponies of Ponyville excitedly anticipate the first rainbow of the year.

Meanwhile in the far away land of Unicornia, the unicorn Cheerilee is trying to teach young Rarity the special moves that will let her use her magic wand to summon their special carriage. When Cheerilee and Rarity are joined by fellow unicorns Whistle Wishes and Brights Brightly, they will be able to combine their powers and create the first rainbow of the season.

Rarity is more interested in playing than paying attention and manages to sneak away from Cheerilee. In an unsupervised moment she picks up the magic wand. Cheerilee re-enters the room just in time to see Rarity wave the wand and disappear in a flash of magic.

As the Breezies are traveling to Ponyville for the rainbow celebration, they are surprised when Rarity appears right in front of them. They're skeptical when Rarity explains that she makes the rainbows, but decide to take her to Ponyville. Back in Unicornia, Cheerilee and the other unicorns go searching for Rarity; without her there won't be any rainbows.

Meanwhile Rarity explains the situation to the Earth ponies in Ponyville. The ponies decide they must help Rarity get home. But where is her home? Minty, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and the breezies take her to see Spike who knows everything. They also find her magic wand, which was tangled in her mane.

Spike explains that every year a special unicorn is chosen to learn the rainbow ceremony. They find a map to Rarity’s home as blue star passes them.

On the way to finding her home, Rarity falls in the stream after chasing butterflies, while trying to save her Pinkie Pie and Minty fall in too. The Breezies save the ponies just in time before they go over a waterfall. They all camp out for the night and as the third star passes, Rarity decides she has to leave now. Rainbow Dash wakes up to find her rainbow mane has turned white.

The others unicorns who were camping close to Rarity unaware, find Rarity and she calls the crystal carriage with her wand. They all go in the carriage as the fourth star chases them, as they rush back to Unicornia. They rush under the dome as rainbow colours everywhere start disappearing. They try making the rainbow but nothing happens the first time. Just as they are about to give up, Rarity rallies them and encourages them to try again. They do, this time creating a beautiful rainbow. Everything gets its rainbow colors back, including Rainbow Dash, and the Princess Rainbow ceremony goes ahead without any further problems.

Releases

DVD

If it's all about rainbows it must be about Rainbow Dash. And it is. She loves this time of year when Ponyville and Breezie Blossom are all about celebrating rainbows. Meanwhile in a new magical place called Unicornia, RARITY is being taught how to be a Unicorn Princess and the importance of making the first rainbow of the season. But RARITY is quite a little rascal and embarks on an incredible ride that includes a MAGIC WAND, falling through the clouds right into the middle of Breezie Blossom, a visit to Ponyville, meeting SPIKE THE DRAGON and a huge adventure (with lots of mishaps) as she tries to get back to Unicornia. RARITY soon realizes that getting home in time to create the first rainbow of season is not an easy thing to do --- but it is fun! Come on, won’t you join RARITY and all her friends in the most colourful My Little Pony adventure ever?

• Suggested retail: $12.99
• DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006
• Run Time: 30 minutes

Merchandise

• The Runaway Rainbow video game
  • Nintendo Gameboy Advance

• • Windows XP

Songs

Cast

Rarity, Minty, Pinkie Pie, Sunny Daze, Rainbow Dash, Cotton Candy, Sparkleworks, Spike, Zipzee, Tiddlywink, Tra La La,, Sweetberry, Cheerilee, Brights Brightly, Whistle Wishes, Bowtie, Wysteria, Sunny Daze, Triple Treat, Razzaroo, Coconut Cream,

Crew and Credits

Background Unicorns

The Runaway Rainbow features eight unnamed, background ponies who live in Unicornia. There is no official explanation for them, but they were probably always intended as show-only characters invented to make Unicornia look more populated. Sometimes the eight ponies are duplicated in crowd scenes.

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  powder blue unicorn, orange hair, tomato symbol

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  pink unicorn, green and purple hair, orange tropical flower symbol

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  orange unicorn, blue and yellow hair, pink bubbles symbol

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  green unicorn, yellow and purple hair, blue smiling cloud symbol

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  Fifi

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  Gusty

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  Heart Throb

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  Hippity Hop

Trivia

• A storybook adaptation of the film was created by Nora Pelizzari and was published by HarperFestival on August 15, 2006.
• A comic adaption was also published by Tokyopop in 2006.

Errors

• For a split second as Minty chucks the ribbon around the star at the start, her cutie mark vanishes.
• When we first see Rainbow Dash there’s no yellow in her hair, then it’s on the left then close up it’s on the right.
• When Whistle Wishes catches the yellow ribbon on the bridge, the yellow of her hair changes sides when we move in for a close up. It also happens while she’s running over the bridge to the ribbon and standing by the ladder that Bright Brightly is standing on.
• When Cheerilee ask Rarity if she is listening during the wand explanation, the yellow of Rarity’s mane is coloured pink.
• The ponies on the picture Cheerilee paints with the wand has a blue and purple pony instead of the pink Rarity who should be there. Then while Cheerilee is telling Rarity about being under the dome, Rarity’s mane is wrong again and the pictures gone from the paper.
• When the Breezie put their antenna together the bag on Zipzee’s back isn’t drawn in.
• Mid song where they stop for a talk and Minty says her tummy was thinking to much. The pony who has a green and yellow mane has a purple one as they pull away and fade to the castle.
• When Cheerilee asks the ponies cleaning the carriage “Has anyone seen Rarity?” two of them appear to have swapped places and they forget to draw in Bright Brightly who was just with the other two.
• When Rarity falls in the flowers, Zipzee who’s not wearing her bag and Tra La La fly up to her, when they pan across the Breezies these two aren’t there.
• When Rarity has the first piece of cake Cotton candy is behind her and then when they zoom out Cotton Candy is now to the right of her then back to behind her next shot.
• When Sweetberry says there’s no more Rainberries left to Rarity, Rainbow Dash isn’t by Minty’s side, when they zoom out she is.
• As we watch Rarity eat all the cake we have a shot of all the ponies including Cotton Candy again, later the same shot Cotton Candy becomes Coconut Cream. Then possibly Coconut Cream becomes Wysteria who was at the back of the shop as Rarity explains where she’s from to the ponies.
• When Rainbow Dash faints after the song Minty behind her is yellow and blue.
• As spike recalls the route to Unicornia Tiddlywink and Tra La la swap places, then again when they do a close up shot of the three as they find the wand.
• When Spike asks “are we all ready?” While loading the cart, Pinkie pie is standing with Minty the very next second she’s walking with Rarity.
• After they save the ponies from the water when they make it to their camping site, Rainbow Dash first switches places with Pinkie Pie when they stop then Rainbow Dash is drawn with a full purple mane.
• When the unicorn ponies are setting up camp before panning to the other ponies, as they zoom out, Bright Brightly is the one sitting up awake and is in the wrong place when it should be Cheerilee.
• When Rarity is sitting, spinning on the star before turning into stars her mane is next to all yellow with no pink at all.
• When Spike appears out of the bushes the three unicorn ponies change places.
• As they run into the palace Pinkie Pie’s mane isn’t the right colour and neither is Minty’s.
• Rarity’s voice becomes Cheerilee’s as they put there horns together.

External Links

• "The Runaway Rainbow" on youtube

See also