My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip

***My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip*** is a one-hour animated special based on the animated television series *My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic*; however, unlike *Friendship Is Magic*, the special was produced by Boulder Media Limited in Ireland rather than DHX Studios Vancouver and features the redesign art style used in the 2017 movie. It premiered on Discovery Family on June 29, 2019.

## Plot

Rainbow Dash receives an invitation to be the guest of honor at the Rainbow Festival in the town of Hope Hollow. She and her friends set out by hot air balloon, but collide with a rainbow billboard on the edge of Hope Hollow, in which the billboard and balloon are destroyed. The ponies are put at a hotel run by Petunia Petals.

The next morning, the ponies wake up to find the town devoid of color. The mayor, Sunny Skies, takes them on a tour of the town, in which the Festival events are meager or nonexistent, and the mayor admits apathy has taken hold. Sunny's grandfather had set up the Festival and built up a Rainbow Generator to fill the sky with color. When Sunny became mayor, the generator malfunctioned and drained all the color from the town, so Twilight Sparkle and her friends agree to help.

The Hoofingtons are bakers whose products suffer as they cannot tell ripe from unripe fruit without color, while their next-door neighbor, Moody Root, is a grower. Once Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie encourage them to start talking, Moody agrees to give the Hoofingtons part of his crop in exchange for some pies. Applejack works with repair pony Torque Wrench to fix the billboard. Rainbow Dash mentors local youngsters Barley and Pickle Barrel in stunt flying, and Rarity collaborates with fashion designer Kerfuffle on designs for the Festival. As Twilight and her friends encourage the ponies, small spots of color begin to manifest around town.

Twilight investigates how to bring color back. Torque repairs the generator, but it still fails to reverse the color loss. Twilight realizes that the generator was not at fault and the fading of the town's hopeful spirit has caused the colors to start disappearing even before the generator has broken down. By working to revive the Festival, she and her friends have been bringing that hope back.

The Festival begins anew, with the Hoofingtons' pies, Kerfuffle's accessories, and Rainbow Dash leading Barley and Pickle in an airshow. Sunny proposes marriage to Petunia, who accepts in front of a cheering crowd. Community spirit and color return to Hope Hollow, and Twilight and her friends return to Ponyville with the town's gratitude.

## Voice cast

* Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
	+ Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle (singing voice)
* Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash and Applejack
* Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy
	+ Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie (singing voice)
* Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity
	+ Kazumi Evans as Rarity (singing voice)
* Cathy Weseluck as Spike
* Ian Hanlin as Mayor Sunny Skies
* Kelly Metzger as Petunia Petals
* Rhona Rhees as Torque Wrench
* Terry Klassen as Moody Root
* Racquel Belmonte as Kerfuffle
* Michael Daingerfield as Mr. Hoofington
* Veena Sood as Mrs. Hoofington
* Sabrina Pitre as Barley Barrel
* David A. Kaye as Pickle Barrel