Set between the third and fourth seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the film's plot involves Twilight Sparkle pursuing her stolen crown into an alternate world where she transforms into a human teenage girl. The film re-envisions the main characters of parent franchise, normally ponies, as teenage human characters in a high school setting.

It also commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of the original My Little Pony toyline. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 15, 2013, followed by limited release in the United States and Canada on June 16, 2013, with a home media release on August 6, 2013. The film was directed by Jayson Thiessen and written by Meghan McCarthy, and was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Hasbro Studios in the United States. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, or simply known as Equestria Girls, is a 2013 Canadian–American Flash animated fantasy musical film which is the first installment of Hasbro's toy line and media franchise of the same name, which is itself an anthropomorphized spin-off of the 2010 relaunch of the My Little Pony franchise. $488, 232 (Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and United Kingdom)

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