![]() ![]() He says the team always feared Hasbro's wrath, but hoped that the company would tolerate its game, just as it tolerated so much fan art. He was also the one who first saw Hasbro's cease and desist. "I wanted to just fight them to the death." The letter pointed towards various dire consequences of non-compliance. It said that My Little Pony belonged to Hasbro that the fighting game project was a breach of copyright that all work on the game must stop, immediately. A few weeks before MLP: Fighting is Magic was due to be completed, the team received an email from a lawyer representing Hasbro. News sites like GameSpot ran stories about the game. A YouTube demo hit half a million views in just a few days, rising eventually to a million. During its development phase the project attracted large numbers of followers. The game, called MLP: Fighting is Magic, was designed as an interactive love letter to the My Little Pony characters, a free piece of fan art celebrating the team's shared admiration for the TV show. Faust had taken a bad TV show designed to sell toys to little girls and turned it into My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, a clever kids' show that anyone could enjoy. They also attracted the approval of Lauren Faust, the TV and movie writer and animator who had remade the moribund My Little Pony franchise. They learned to appreciate what each of them could bring to the project. ![]() Despite being as far apart as Maryland, Mexico and New Zealand, they became friends. In the end they worked together for two years thousands of hours. ![]()
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