Vault101 said:
Vault101, you asked for it:
Pink Pony for the win! Nothing cheers me up quite like Pinkie when I want to stop feeling jaded, at least when she's not being flanderized.
On a more serious note, a pony convention in Las Vegas went to utter shit and left dozens if not over a hundred people, including many guests from the show, with massive bills (usually being between $300 - $1500 from my understanding with the exception of the Guests of Honor, which were screwed even more) being footed to them because the con organizers failed to deliver the things that they promised people such as comped rooms and flights. If you want more details, you'll have to look it up for yourself as it was a lot more disastrous than I can adequately describe, but a lot of people (including show staff) literally ended up stranded in Vegas because of this.
The good news? The entire fandom (and even the show staff) came together and gathered up enough money to not only get the MLP staff home, but paid back many if not all of the regular people screwed by this event (helping them get home as well) and even got to paying the numerous charities that the convention was supposedly raising money for but apparently didn't, with the total money raised reaching at least $30k. As unbearable as this fandom can be at times (so says the Anti-Twilicorn >_>), things like this really do remind me that not everyone on this shithole of a planet is a self-centered prick and that good people really do exist.
Also, while Fighting is Magic is abandoning the MLP aspect of the game, they're still working on the game and even have Lauren Faust herself working to make new character designs for the game that aren't copyrighted (before someone asks, Lauren was the one who offered to do this). Having someone like Lauren helping with a fan project (former fan-project now, I guess) is just awesome no matter how one looks at it.