Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony

Bronies The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony formerly titled BronyCon The Documentary is a 2012 documentary film centering on bronies, the adult fans of the 2010 animated television series, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. The film, funded through crowdsourcing via Kickstarter, was originally envisioned to follow voice actor and executive producer John de Lancie to the 2012 Summer BronyCon in New Jersey. The project raised much more than anticipated, allowing it to grow in scope to bring on Lauren Faust, Friendship Is Magics original creator, and Tara Strong, a principal voice actress on the show, as executive producers and to include additional convention footage from European conventions.

The resulting show, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, was well received by parents, but found another unexpected target audience through the Internet image board 4chan amongst males, many of whom are adults. Quickly expanding through the Internet, the fandom came to use the term brony a portmanteau of bro and pony to describe themselves. The brony fandom is attributed to Faust and her creative team for including strong characters, crossgenerational appeal, cultural references, the shows expressive Flashbased animation, and the ability for the showrunners to communicate and reciprocate with the fandom, such as including fanderived elements within the show. Hasbro was initially caught offguard by this surprise demographic but have since come to embrace it, leveraging licensing deals to market clothes, media, and other merchandise beyond toys to the older audience.The documentary is split into numerous sections, primarily featuring the mid2012 BronyCon, Galacon, and B.U.C.K. conventions. These portions are bookmarked by several featurettes, including original animations, interviews with the shows creative staff, members of the fandom, and other such facets, and look at the fandoms various effects, including music, art, videos, writing, and gaming. The work in particular provides background and the experiences of a number of fans, explaining their introduction to the fandom, the hardships they have faced by admitting this to others, and their enjoyment of the conventions. In addition to the live footage, the documentary includes original animated interstitials in the style of Friendship Is Magic, featuring songs composed by Arthur Sullivan arrangement by David O. lyrics by Amy Keating Rogers, Zachary Lobertini, and Faust and sung by de Lancie and Strong. In these sequences, de Lancie voices a professor pony giving an illustrated lecture about the fandoms history, subgroups and popular activities, only to be confronted by a group of mares wh

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