Wrath of Ponies

My submission to MLP-ATG's newest theme for this week, A pony and their favorite toy.

Maybe it's because I'm a Trekkie myself, but Twilight has always struck me as the sort of pony who'd be a Star Trek fan. So, there you go.

The models she has here are based upon real toy models (hence why their coloration would probably seem off to fans) that I happen to own, as well as several more. Back in the nineties, Micro Machines used to make a series of Star Trek toys in their lineup that I loved to collect and play with (much like how Twilight's doing it) as a kid. They have since stopped, but I still have all of them, which proved handy when it came to drawing this pic (they served as excellent references ).

It took me a short while to figure out how I was going to portray this pic, though. At first I thought I would just have Twilight holding them up with her hooves, but there was one big problem with that; hooves don't have fingers, and those models are notorious for not staying upright on their own. So that idea nixed, I looked for other ways for Twilight to hold the models. At one point, I considered getting Spike into the mix, and have him (begrudgingly) hold the models for Twilight, since he had fingers, which could've been a funny idea, but I didn't really want the extra character in there. Ironically enough, I thought of using magic very last, having forgotten for most of this that Twilight was a unicorn pony until the very end of my pondering when I realized that would solve the whole issue.



In the end, though, using magic probably made it that much cooler. I mean, think of all the neat things you could do with those models once you throw magic into the mix. Maybe Twilight could even use magic to simulate the firefights.

This is my first time portraying unicorn magic, too, BTW. Think I succeeded well enough.

The movie Twi's quoting is, of course, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.