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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

American-Canadian animated series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated television series based on Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise and marking the start of its fourth incarnation. The series follows a studious pony named Twilight Sparkle, her dragon assistant Spike, and her friends Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash (Ball) and Pinkie Pie (Libman). The six ponies, collectively known as the "Mane Six", go on adventures and help others around Equestria, solving problems with their friendships.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” is american-Canadian animated series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Little, Pony and Friendship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 74-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Little, Pony and Friendship is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.