My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, or simply known as Friendship Games, is a 2015 – flash animated musical sports fantasy television film sequel to 2014's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, directed by Ishi Rudell and written by Josh Haber. It was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Hasbro Studios in the United States, as part of Hasbro's Equestria Girls toy line and media franchise, itself a spin-off of the 2010 relaunch of My Little Pony. The film received a television network premiere on Discovery Family, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Hasbro, on September 26, 2015, with a home media release on October 13 that year; it also had a limited theatrical run in the and  beginning in late October 2015.

Like the first two Equestria Girls films, Friendship Games re-envisions the main characters of parent franchise, normally ponies, as teenage human characters in a high school setting. The film's story centers around a sports competition between the students of Canterlot High School and their rivals at Crystal Prep Academy, one of whom is Twilight Sparkle's human counterpart, who has been investigating the magical activity around Canterlot High.

A fourth Equestria Girls film, subtitled Legend of Everfree, was released on Netflix on October 1, 2016.

Cast

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Shorts
A series of animated prequel shorts for Friendship Games, similar to those produced for Rainbow Rocks, was announced on February 13, 2015. Like the Rainbow Rocks shorts, these are also separate from the film. A total of five shorts were released; the first four of these, paired with a 10-minute preview of the film, aired on Discovery Family on August 29, 2015.

International versions

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