Discord by ~TwinTailsInc
As posted about yesterday, John de Lancie was a guest of honor at the Dallas ComicCon along side Star Trek star Patrick Stewart, and of course a slew of other guests at the con which included names such as Stan Lee. During his panel he gave a speech about My Little Pony and this community, and I feel that his words ring very true to what the core of this fanbase is about. The video can be found after the page break, but I have also transcribed his speech into text form for ya.
For those of you who don’t know it and I think its really important that you should. I ended up doing a cartoon show called My Little Pony. Didn’t know anything about it. Looked at the material, it was really good, went out there, knocked off a couple of them. Completely forgot about it. And then all of a sudden about four month ago I was inundated. People would go My Little Pony and I’d go….what!? DISCORD! What? I turned to my wife and asked what are they talking about? Well she said you did a My Little Pony thing. It was my first step into a world that I’ve become quite fascinated with.
The reason I’ve become fascinated with it, is this. It’s not My Little Pony, its Friendship is Magic and it purports interestingly enough a better future. It has a fanbase which are the ages of my sons. Very interesting. And as I go further into it, I’m beginning to go, you know I feel that I’m at the beginning of a really important fanbase made up of people who are interested in music, who are interested in art, who are interested in doing good and being good and doing good, in a world which seems to at least, I don’t know about you people but as far as I’m concerned this world has gone crazy in the terms of how mean we’ve all gotten.
I’m delighted and I feel like I’m at the beginning…when I came into Star Trek along with Patrick, the Star Trek fanbase had already been established. Well I feel like I’m at the beginning of a new fanbase, and I want to invite you who are Trek Fans to embrace Friendship is Magic fans, because I’ve discovered that we all have a lot in common.
- John de Lancie
If I wasn’t so damn tired, I would be giggling like a bitch right now.
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I like how John makes the correlation between the ideals between both works, how both ST:TNG and MLP:FiM have similar mindsets, that things are more utopian-focused, with kindness, charity, understanding and other positive attributes fostered, and how these works reflect a hope of changing the supposed real-life mindset that things are going to Hell in a wicker basket (unless you send us your money).
It’s funny how just making a single appearance on a children’s TV show seemed to jump-start his fame among the growing Brony Community, and it sounds like he’s got his finger right on the pulse of this new rising fan base. Salud, Mr. de Lancie!
What a beautiful speech. I am so happy that John De Lancie is embracing this fandom & that he gets it. He gets us. He understands what makes this fandom so amazing & he is trying to show others why.