My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip

Rainbow Dash receives an invitation to be the guest of honor at the Rainbow Festival in the town of Hope Hollow. She and her friends set out by balloon, but collide with a rainbow billboard on the edge of Hope Hollow. The billboard and balloon are damaged, but the ponies are unhurt. Petunia Petals puts them up at the hotel she runs.

The next morning, the six friends find the town and residents totally devoid of color. The mayor, Sunny Skies, takes them on a tour of the town. The Festival events are meager or nonexistent, and the mayor admits apathy has taken hold. Sunny's grandfather had set up the Festival and built a Rainbow Generator to fill the sky with color. When Sunny became mayor, the generator malfunctioned and drained all the color from the town. The Mane Six agree to help him.

The Hoofingtons are bakers whose products suffer because without color, they cannot tell ripe from unripe fruit. Next-door Moody Root is a grower, and once Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie encourage them to start talking, Moody agrees to give the Hoofingtons part of his crop in exchange for some pies. Applejack works with Torque Wrench to fix the billboard. Rainbow Dash mentors local youngsters Barley and Pickle Barrel in stunt flying, and Rarity collaborates with Kerfuffle on designs for the Festival. As the Mane Six encourage the ponies, small spots of color begin to manifest around town.

Twilight investigates how to bring color back. Torque repairs the generator, but it still fails to reverse the color loss. Twilight realizes that the generator was not at fault; the fading of the town's hopeful spirit had caused the colors to start disappearing even before the generator broke down. By working to revive the Festival, she and her friends have been bringing back that hope.

The Festival begins anew, with the Hoofingtons pies, Kerfuffle's accessories, and Rainbow Dash leading Barley and Pickle in an airshow. In front of a cheering crowd Petunia accepts Sunny's proposal of marriage. Community spirit and color return to Hope Hollow, and Twilight and her friends return to Ponyville with the town's gratitude.

• Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
  • Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle (singing voice)
• Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash and Applejack
• Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy
  • Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie (singing voice)
• Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity
  • Kazumi Evans as Rarity (singing voice)
• Cathy Weseluck as Spike
• Ian Hanlin as Mayor Sunny Skies
• Kelly Metzger as Petunia Petals
• Rhona Rhees as Torque Wrench
• Terry Klassen as Moody Root
• Racquel Belmonte as Kerfuffle
• Michael Daingerfield as Mr. Hoofington
• Veena Sood as Mrs. Hoofington
• Sabrina Pitre as Barley Barrel
• David Kaye as Pickle Barrel

A toyline collection pack tie-in, titled "Rainbow Tail Surprise", was announced at the 2019 Toy Fair in New York. This pack was made available in the third quarter of 2019.[2]

Multiple books based on the special was be released, including a "Passport to Reading" Level 2 My Little Pony: Road Trip Event reader on June 25, 2019.[3] In the United Kingdom, My Little Pony Annual 2020 is set for an August 8 release[4] and My Little Pony: Essential Handbook: A Magical Guide for Everypony on September 5.[5]

Rainbow Roadtrip received a private screening at the Odeon Cinema theater on May 23, 2019 and premiered on June 29, 2019 on Discovery Family. It will also premiere on Netflix at a later date.[6]

• My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip at IMDb