A Very Minty Christmas - Deleted Scenes

So, does anyone know about that 2005 MLP movie of "A Very Minty Christmas"? Well, I'm actually a huge fan of the G3 series of My Little Pony. I especially loved watching this movie from Christmas 2005, Christmas 2006, and Christmas 2007. It was very heartwarming and cute.

But now, the year was 2008, I thought of that movie up to this day since I gave away my old VHS copy of that, last year. Finally, I decided to go buy myself a new or used copy. When I arrived at my video store, (Blockbuster Video) I asked the lady behind the corner if they had any copies of "A Very Minty Christmas" left. Just to my luck, he said that they have two copies left (one on DVD and VHS).

I bought the two for $10 and then left. When I got back home, I got out my old DVD/VHS player, opened the DVD copy of the movie and put the disc into the drive. When I got to the DVD menu, I saw something out of place: "Deleted Scenes". I then thought to myself, "How can there be special feature like this?" but without anything to loose, I just start reviewing it.

The first deleted scene showed an animated scene of Minty crying like a little 2-year-old girl during her speech. As the camera started zooming in on the close-up of her creepy crying face, her crying voice got louder and it literally sounded like the voice actress was actually sobbing while acting. This went on for about 6 minutes until Minty pulled herself together and looked directly into the camera in front of the viewers with a close-up of her teary anime eyes. The next shot showed her remembering her beloved memories, as tears rolled down on her face. Minty's tears looked like they're from Japanese anime instead of her bluish-white tears, you'd see it in most cartoons.

Then after about 3 minutes of this, she walked out sadly. Then came back with a pink handkerchief on her hoof and it looks like a shape of a heart. That's when I became depressed. Seriously? How can there be a lot of Japanese anime-themed culture in a little girls' cartoon? Anyways, Minty then took the handkerchief and blew her nose before wiping her eyes. She began tearing up again and this time, she started sniffling. Finally, she spoke: "I've ruined Christmas for everybody… What am I gonna do?" and runs away crying.

After this emotional line, she sniffles for 2 minutes before finally giving up her depression attempt. "I'm not going to cry… Am I crying? Like I was a baby pony? What makes everyone else think I'd cry?", Minty cried as she took her handkerchief and wipes her eyes. The scene ended there as I walked away. Seriously? Why would she try to cry her eyes out in the first place? Shortly afterwards, I carried on with the video.

The second deleted scene showed Minty and Thistle Whistle getting trapped on a cliffhanger after they lose control of their hot air balloon. You know that scene where they get stuck on a cliffhanger, but it ends up being saved by the other ponies? Well, it was at the ending part (you know, where Minty almost falls to her sadness, but Pinkie luckily saves her?) Well unfortunately that part doesn't happen at all, Minty just fell and gets hurt out of sight. The scene then jump cuts to her landing on the hole, but it sadly ends up getting more emotional than before. I began to cry at the sight of one of my favorite characters crying, including Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Sunny Daze, Sparkleworks, Sweetberry, Cotton Candy, Triple Treat, Cloud Climber, and even Thistle Whistle.

I don't remember much about the other deleted scenes, so I'll skip some detailing.

On the final deleted scene, Minty was shown again in the same animation from the first deleted scene, tears rolling down on her face and looking directly at the camera in front of the viewers. The background behind Minty was Ponyville with a lot of crying sound effects accompanying where Pinkie Pie and her friends are crying. It sounded similar to the Japanese anime sound effects of crying, which is too much as the voice actresses were actually sobbing while acting.

Minty then sadly spoke her last lines to Pinkie Pie and her friends, after remembering her beloved memories: "Pinkie Pie! Everyone! Please don't leave me! I love you!" and bursts into tears. After this, she pulls out a handkerchief, wipes her eyes, and blows her nose. Rain came pouring down in Ponyville as Minty gave Pinkie Pie her friends an emotional hug with her pink blanket. It jump cuts to Minty's sadness, showing Pinkie Pie and her friends crying like little 2-year-old girls. It looked very emotional that I almost cried. After a short period of time of this frame being printed onto the screen, it went to a Japanese anime art style for the remainder of the scene. Before the video ended, an image of Minty's sadness with her friends drawn in a Japanese anime art style, appeared onscreen for a split second.

I ejected the disc and got thrown in the yard sale. I've had depressions from this DVD. And all I remember from calling my parents from my last scene was Minty looking at me. Pulling out a pink heart shaped mail letter to Pinkie Pie and her friends saying: "Thank you".