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(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:30 am

This thread is for consilidating DVD related news for the show. I'll try to keep the OP updated where possible.
Currently it seems the Australian DVDs will be the first released as a complete season (depending on the timeline of the remaining 3 volumes) Whereas the US distributor, SHoutfactory is going for themed dvd releases with episodes bundled together. Germany appears to be getting season 1 in order, but in small (3 episodes) dvd releases.

Is there a possibility of a Blu-Ray release in the future? "Never say never but there is very little chance of a Blu-ray release." - Product Manager, Madman Entertainment

Please post news as you hear it.

America
Digital download:
Netflix
iTunes (Season 1)
iTunes (Season 2)

Local DVD rights holder: Shout!Factory

DVDs:
The First MLP:FIM dvd release was a collection of themed episodes named The Friendship Express (USD$13.94 + S&H). It contains five episodes from both seasons 1 & 2.

The second DVD release Pony Royal Wedding (USD$14.97) is a compilation of Canterlot themed episodes (plus Hearts and Hooves) including the season 2 finale.

Specs:
Region 1
Boxart:

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Episodes:
Friendship Express (DVD1): Friendship Is Magic - Part 1, Friendship is Magic - Part 2, Over a Barrel, Hearth's Warming Eve, The Last Roundup.
Royal Pony Wedding (DVD2): A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1, A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, Hearts and Hooves Day, Sweet and Elite, Best Night Ever.

Release Date:
DVD1: 28 Feb, 2012
DVD2: 7 Aug, 2012

Australia
Local DVD rights holder: Madman Entertainment

DVDs:
Madman Entertainment will release the entirety of season one across 5 volumes consisting of 5 episodes each. Product pages below:
Volume 1: Friendship Changes Everything Pre-Order (AUD$19.95)
Volume 2: That's What Friends are For Pre-Order (AUD$19.95)
Volume 1 & Collectors Box Pre-Order (AUD$29.95)

3 as-yet-unnamed volumes will round out the rest of Season 1.
Specs:
All discs will be Region 4 in PAL format. Each episode will be in 5.1 surround sound.
Boxart:

Episodes:
Each volume will have 5 episodes in original chronological airdate. [Note: The first two episodes may be counted as one for the first volume, if this is the case the following list may be out by 1 episode per volume]
Vol 1: Friendship Is Magic, part 1 (Mare in the Moon), Friendship Is Magic, part 2 (Elements of Harmony), The Ticket Master, Applebuck Season, Griffon the Brush-Off
Vol 2: Boast Busters, Dragonshy, Look Before You Sleep, Bridle Gossip, Swarm of the Century
Vol 3: TBA
Vol 4: TBA
Vol 5: TBA

Release Date:
Vol 1: 20th June, 2012
Vol 2: 20th June, 2012
Vol 3: TBA
Vol 4: TBA
Vol 5: TBA

Germany
Local DVD rights holder: Unknown

DVDs:
Two 3-episode volumes have been announced.
My Little Pony: Freudschaff ist Magie, Folge 1 (8.99 Euro)
My Little Pony: Freundschaft ist Magie, Folge 2 (8.99 Euro)
Specs:
PAL format, German Language, Region Free
Boxart:

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Episodes:
Folge 1: Friendship Is Magic, part 1 (Mare in the Moon), Friendship Is Magic, part 2 (Elements of Harmony), The Ticket Master
Folge 2: Applebuck Season, Griffon the Brush-Off, Boast Busters

Release Date:
Vol 1 & Vol 2 will both release on 6th April, 2012

(?) · by **Timall** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:24 am

Hahaha, the sticker on the Australian box set edition says 'Now 20% Cooler'.

I told my brother about the DVDs coming to Australia and now he's going to get them on Day 1. I'm really pleased that we're getting the complete first season in order, despite the 5 episode release schedule. Makes up for only about 14 episodes being shown on Foxtel (and they were sped up!).

(?) · by **londonarbuckle** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:57 am

First Australia gets the rest of Moral Orel on DVD, and now this? What the hell. :-/

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:05 pm

Madman appears to be a nerd-run business. For all their faults, they know their market. :v:

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:45 pm

Yup, they have like 80% market share for Australia & NZ. They seems to know what fans of anime and cartoons want and try to give it to them. Hasbro probably asked for multiple volumes, given thats how you sell kids shows, small bundles so parents gotta keep buying them. At least they'll be in chronological order and not just themed packs.

I've pre-ordered the Collectors box and V1 :awesomedash:

Although something was up with my order, don't think it was confirmed so I may as well pick up volume 2 at the same time if I have to resubmit my order (sent an email to support to get some help on it) :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Sobana** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:08 pm

I wanted to buy the Australian set but because it is region 4, it won't work on my DVD player! :applejargh:

(?) · by **Nissl** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:13 pm

If we're keeping a complete list, it should probably also include Celebration at Canterlot. Expensive as heck on Amazon but I found it for $7-8 in the toy aisle when I went to buy Friendship Express. Episode listing: Ticket Master, Suited for Success.

No, the dvd does not include the actual celebration at Canterlot. :v:

(?) · by **Bag of Magic Food** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:37 pm

londonarbuckle wrote:First Australia gets the rest of Moral Orel on DVD, and now this? What the hell.

I heard Australia got all of My Little Pony Tales too!

(?) · by **Sobana** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:47 pm

Bag of Magic Food wrote:I heard Australia got all of My Little Pony Tales too!

I want pony tale too~

(?) · by **ROBOT B9** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:43 pm

Damn, I'm going to pick up that German DVD set, just to support the show.

(?) · by **Pocket** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:01 pm

I don't hold it against anyone that Australia's getting a boxed set first, because they have to wait months and months to pay for grossly overpriced video games.

(?) · by **Sobana** (?) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:22 pm

Pocket wrote:I don't hold it against anyone that Australia's getting a boxed set first, because they have to wait months and months to pay for grossly overpriced video games.

Because they got the pony box set first, they deserve such treatment. :applejargh:

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:40 am

Sobana wrote:I wanted to buy the Australian set but because it is region 4, it won't work on my DVD player!

Your computers DVD drive should (like, an 80% chance) be region free. You should find out somehow and check.

At least here, quite a lot of dvd players sold these days are region free.

(?) · by **Sobana** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:16 am

drunkill wrote:
Your computers DVD drive should (like, an 80% chance) be region free. You should find out somehow and check.

At least here, quite a lot of dvd players sold these days are region free.

How did you know I was on a computer? O.O And more importantly, how do I check?

Also, :yay:

yay, you finally talked to me! :gotcha:

(?) · by **SlateSlabrock** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:52 pm

drunkill wrote:Your computers DVD drive should (like, an 80% chance) be region free. You should find out somehow and check.

In the US, virtually no DVD players are region-free without modification. Actually, if they haven't changed it, Windows will ask you if you want to switch regions when you pop in a DVD with a different region code, but you can only do this five times, and then it is stuck on your last choice forever. (You can reset the counter, but only four times, and then, again, forever.)

Apparently this program will display the region info.

(?) · by **Sobana** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:36 pm

Curses! Why would they do that? :gonkity:

I need to get my hacking skills up!

(?) · by **Chronos30** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:04 pm

I play all my DVD's with VLC. I go back and forth between NTSC and PAL all the time, with no prompts about switching regions.

(?) · by **SlateSlabrock** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:11 pm

Chronos30 wrote:I play all my DVD's with VLC. I go back and forth between NTSC and PAL all the time, with no prompts about switching regions.

That depends on your drive firmware. VLC can't circumvent RPC-2 drives.

(?) · by **Gravenstein** (?) » Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:54 pm

Also, some standalone DVD players can be reprogrammed via hidden menus to be region-free. http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks is a good place to look for how to access said menus.

(?) · by **itinerant nomad** (?) » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:13 am

Sobana wrote:Curses! Why would they do that? I need to get my hacking skills up!

Officially, it allows for movies to have staggered theatrical releases across the world without holding up DVD sales in regions where the movie's theater run is over. It can be used to create barriers to prices equalizing between markets.

(?) · by **diribigal** (?) » Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:52 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Apparently this program will display the region info.

Thanks for this; it shows how many changes I have left and everything.

(?) · by **Venusy** (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:21 pm

WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE :twonk:

The third Australian DVD has been announced. (Probably) contains Winter Wrap Up through Feeling Pinkie Keen, out August 1st.

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:45 pm

Eeeeeeee!

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:29 pm

Yup I caved in and ordered the box and all three available volumes.

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:19 am

Just a heads up

I'll be doing a writeup of some sort for the first two aussie dvd volumes when I get my copy. We'll see how it turns out but i'll try get features and presentation of the dvds. It'll be up on the front page near the end of this month when the dvds ship.

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:19 pm

Double posting:

Collectors boxart got a revamp (slightly) and the 'special items' previously mentioned for the collectors case have been revealed. A bunch of cards for the mane 6 ponies and the toys look like the standard toys r us line of pony toys.
More information (and pictures) here: http://www.mlponies.com/2012/06/07/new- ... e-3-dated/

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:35 pm

Oh my god drunk, we're gonna have our mitts on this box of goodies in less than two weeks, eeeee :awesomedash:

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:45 am

Much less then two weeks. DVDs arrived this morning, 5 days early. A full writeup with pictures will appear on the front page soon, until then have some menu screens :awesomedash:

Edit: Here is the newspost with many images of the dvd release http://www.mlponies.com/2012/06/15/aust ... -released/
Vol 1:

Vol 2:

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:37 am

Yesssss ponies. :awesomedash:

(?) · by **All Out Of Nickels** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:59 am

There seems to be mess-up with the title video on Boast Busters showing Return To Harmony.
However it looks lovely! :allears:

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:30 am

All Out Of Nickels wrote:There seems to be mess-up with the title video on Boast Busters showing Return To Harmony.
However it looks lovely!

That makes no sense, what do you mean by that? I just clicked boast busters and it played the episode :pinkieshrug:

Edit: VVV Ooohh, right hahaha.

Here is an image from the front page review. Everything in the box (including the box) plus volume 2 which is a seperate purchase

(?) · by **Pingcode** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:39 am

drunkill wrote:That makes no sense, what do you mean by that? I just clicked boast busters and it played the episode

It's showing the statue scene from Return of Harmony as its thumbnail. :lol:

(?) · by **Perrydotto** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:23 pm

I preordered the special edition of that boxset and have gotten nothing yet. Seeing those screenshots makes me all giddy and eager to hold my own in my hands. Aaaah sweet!

(?) · by **synthorange** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:34 pm

This is the sweetest thing. :-P

(?) · by **Quanta** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:38 pm

Why can't Canada ever get anything like that DVD boxset, or even the iTunes rips? :fluttersmith:

(?) · by **diribigal** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:43 pm

Quanta wrote:Why can't Canada ever get anything like that DVD boxset, or even the iTunes rips?

You may be aware of this, but the US didn't get anything like that boxset either...

(?) · by **Quanta** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:48 pm

diribigal wrote:You may be aware of this, but the US didn't get anything like that boxset either...

Yeah, but they get the iTunes rips. Canadians can't even get it on Netflix. It's bunk. :-I

(?) · by **ComradeCosmobot** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:18 pm

Quanta wrote:Yeah, but they get the iTunes rips. Canadians can't even get it on Netflix. It's bunk.

Eh. It's not like Canadians have any particular reason they might want to watch the show anyway.

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(?) · by **Quanta** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:29 pm

ComradeCosmobot wrote:
Eh. It's not like Canadians have any particular reason they might want to watch the show anyway.

( )

Canadians made it, and we can take it away! :argh:

(?) · by **ROBOT B9** (?) » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:24 pm

We got DVDs that can be watched in any European country, neener neener. :-P

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