A Very Minty Christmas - Deleted Scenes

So, does anyone know about that 2005 MLP movie called "A Very Minty Christmas"? Well, I'm actually a huge fan of the G3 series of My Little Pony. I especially loved watching this movie from Christmas 2005, Christmas 2006, and Christmas 2007. It was very heartwarming and cute.

But now, the year was 2008, I thought of that movie up to this day since I gave away my old VHS copy of that, last year. Finally, I decided to go buy myself a new or used copy. When I arrived at my video store, (Blockbuster Video) I asked the lady behind the corner if they had any copies of "A Very Minty Christmas" left. Just to my luck, he said that they have two copies left (one on DVD and VHS).

I bought the two for $10 and then left. When I got back home, I got out my old DVD/VHS player, opened the DVD copy of the movie and put the disc into the drive. When I got to the DVD menu, I pressed Bonus Features and I saw something out of place: "Deleted Scenes". I then thought to myself, "How can there be a bonus feature like this?" but without anything to lose, I just started watching it.

The first deleted scene showed an animated scene of Minty crying like a helpless child during her speech. A short time later, her crying voice got louder and it literally sounded like her voice actress Tabitha St. Germain was actually in tears. The next scene shows Minty screaming, as tears began to flow. Minty's tears looked like they're from a modern Japanese anime instead of her bluish-white tears, you'd see it in most cartoons.

After 5 minutes of these scenes, she walked out somberly. Then came back to her house. That's when I became depressed and confused at the same time. "Seriously? How can there be a lot of emotional and violent scenes in a little girls' cartoon?" I said. Anyways, Minty was just standing there all alone. She began tearing up again and this time, she started sniffling. Finally, she spoke: "I've ruined Christmas for everybody! What am I gonna do?" and runs away crying. After this emotional line, she sniffles for 3 minutes before finally letting out her emotions. "NOOOOO!!!!" Minty cried out as she just stands there all alone once more. The scene ended there as I walked away. Seriously? Why would she bawl her eyes out in the first place? Shortly afterwards, I carried on with the video.

The second deleted scene showed Minty and Thistle Whistle getting trapped on a cliffhanger after they lose control of their hot air balloon. You know that scene where they get stuck in a tree, but it ends up being saved by the other ponies? Well, it was at the ending part (you know, where Minty almost falls into the cliffhanger, but Pinkie luckily saves her?) Well, unfortunately, that part doesn't happen at all. So instead, Minty just falls down to the wormhole of doom. The next scene shows Minty lying on the ground with realistic anime-like blood surrounding her and it ends up getting more emotional than before. I began to cry at the sight of one of my favorite characters that are tortured, including Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Sunny Daze, Sparkleworks, Sweetberry, Cotton Candy, Twinkle Twirl, Skywishes, Star Catcher, Triple Treat, Cloud Climber, and even Thistle Whistle.

I don't remember much about the other deleted scenes, so I'll skip some detailing.

On the final deleted scene, Minty was shown again in the same animation from the first two deleted scenes, as tears began to flow. The background behind Minty was Ponyville with a lot of crying sound effects accompanying where Pinkie Pie and the gang are crying. It sounded way too similar to the Japanese anime sound effects of crying, which is very strange because the crying sounded too real to be acted out by the voice actresses Tabitha St. Germain, Janyse Jaud, Venus Terzo, Adrienne Carter, Kathleen Barr, Kelly Sheridan, Chiara Zanni, Saffron Henderson and even Lenore Zann.

Minty then sadly spoke her last lines to Pinkie Pie and her friends: "My life is over! I wanna go home!" and breaks down into tears. After this, several telekinetic energy weapons that manifest as invisible arms, known as the vectors, came out of nowhere and tortured Minty. After this, she collapses to the ground and dies with realistic anime-like blood coming out of the wound from where she got tortured by the vectors. Pinkie Pie was just standing there all alone holding Minty in her arms. Pinkie Pie then sadly spoke her last lines to Minty being deceased: "Minty! NOOOO!!!!" and breaks down in tears as well. After this, several vectors came out of nowhere and tortured Pinkie Pie dying instantly. Just like Minty, the blood that was coming out of where the vectors tortured herself was realistic. Christmas in Ponyville was ruined because of the vectors as Minty and Pinkie Pie's friends are holding Minty and Pinkie Pie's lifeless bodies in their arms. It jump cuts to Minty and Pinkie Pie's death scene, showing their friends crying in the hospital with Minty and Pinkie Pie being covered up with bandages. It looked very emotional that I shedded a few tears myself. After a short period of time of this frame being printed onto the screen, it went to a modern Japanese anime art style for the remainder of the scene. Before the video ended, an image of Minty and Pinkie Pie's death scene with their friends drawn in a modern Japanese anime art style, appeared onscreen for 10 seconds. After that happened, the screen faded to black and took me back to the DVD Menu.

I ejected the disc and sold it as a yard sale. I've fallen in a deep depression from this DVD. And all I remember from calling my parents from the last deleted scene was Minty and Pinkie Pie looking at me crying over the cancellation of the My little Pony G3 franchise.

Don't watch these deleted scenes of a Very Minty Christmas, otherwise you'll have the same depression that I have.