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The unimaginable has happened… Equestria has lost its magic! Earth Ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi are no longer friends and now live separated by species. But idealistic Earth Pony Sunny (Vanessa Hudgens) is determined to find a way to bring enchantment and unity back to their world. Teaming up with open-hearted Unicorn Izzy (Kimiko Glenn), the pair travel to faraway lands where they encounter the likes of charismatic and brave Pegasi Pipp (Sofia Carson) and Zipp (Liza Koshy) and the ever-responsible fellow Earth Pony Hitch (James Marsden). Their mission is full of misadventures, but these new best friends each possess their own unique and special gifts that may be just what this ponyverse needs to restore magic and prove that even little ponies can make a big difference.
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My Little Pony: A New Generation Plot Summary and Synopsis
In the earth pony town of Maretime Bay, Argyle Starshine teaches his daughter Sunny Starscout about tales of old Equestria when earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns lived together, but which most other earth ponies believe are fairy tales, and instead have grown up in fear of the other pony races.
Sunny hopes that the three races can be friends.
Years later, after her father passes away, Sunny continues to try to change the mind of the other earth ponies, purposely disrupting a showcase of anti-pegasi and unicorn technology by Phyllis Cloverleaf. Hitch, Sunny’s childhood friend and sheriff of Maretime Bay, pulls her away and prepares to send her back home when suddenly a unicorn enters town.
While most of the earth ponies scatter, Sunny befriends the new unicorn, named Izzy Moonbow, and quickly takes her to her home to hide from Hitch and his deputy Sprout. Sunny learns from Izzy that no unicorns have any magic, and decides to go with Izzy to Zephyr Heights, the home of the pegasi, to see if they can help restore the unicorn’s magic and help to reunite the pony tribes.
The two dodge Hitch and flee town, and Hitch leaves Sprout in charge while he chases them down. With Hitch gone, Sprout goes on a power-hungry spree, turning the ponies of Maritime Bay into a hostile mob and has his mother’s factory construct a giant war machine to prepare for a possible invasion.
As Sunny and Izzy approach Zephyr Heights, they are caught by guards and taken to meet Queen Haven and her two daughters, Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm. When Sunny starts asking about magic, Haven has them thrown in the dungeon.
Zipp secretly visits them there and tells them that the pegasi too lack magic to fly, and helps them to escape to show them an abandoned airport that has evidence of when earth ponies and unicorns would travel to Zephyr Heights. Sunny sees a glass window that shows that two crystals – one that is in Queen Haven’s crown – may fit together and bring back the magic.
The three concoct a plan to steal the crown during a showcase for Pipp that night, but when Hitch also arrives, a series of pratfalls cause the royal family to reveal to the general public their inability to fly as well.
Haven is arrested, and Pipp is forced to flee Zephyr Heights with Sunny, Izzy, and Zipp to find the unicorn crystal in Izzy’s home of Bridlewood, with Hitch initially trailing along only to make sure Sunny returns home immediately afterward.
In Bridlewood, Izzy helps disguise the group as unicorns before they meet Alphabittle, a tea shop owner that has the unicorn crystal. Sunny challenges Alphabittle to a dance competition and manages to win, but in celebration, loses her disguise. As the group flees with the two crystals, they come across Queen Haven who had escaped herself.
Sunny and Izzy try to put the two crystals together, but they fail to do anything. Dejected, Sunny returns the crystals and returns home with Hitch.
At her house, she packs up her childhood toys when she discovers that her lamp contains a third crystal that would line up with the other two. As she races to tell Hitch, they discover that Sprout has turned the entire town to his side and is piloting his war machine.
Sunny and Hitch race back to her home as Izzy, Pipp, Zipp, Haven, and Alphabittle arrive. Gathering the other two crystals, Sunny, Izzy, and Pipp try to put them together while Hitch and Zipp hold off Sprout’s machine. Though Phyllis steps in and tells Sprout to stop his antics, her warning is too late as the machine wrecks Sunny’s home and the means to connect the crystals.
As Sunny surveys the damage, she realizes that despite failing, the three ponies tribes have since come together and gotten over their hostilities. With that, the three crystals begin to glow, lift Sunny into the air, and transform her into an alicorn while restoring magic across the land.
My Little Pony: A New Generation Ending
Sunny and her new friends watch as earth ponies, unicorns, and pegasi work together to clean up Sprout’s mess and bring a new era to the land.
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