There was something kind of wonderful about Rainbow Roadtrip. I'm sure if this ended up being movie length with celebrities playing the side characters, it would have had higher stakes and scale, but the character driven low key nature of the final product was refreshing. The mane six were all given something to do, and the overall message of not losing hope in a world where it's fading was relatable, and even a bit of emotional, considering the series is coming to an end soon. I would be interested to know what the original plan was, as this was meant to be the second theatrical film, so I'm wondering if there was a villain and a couple more songs in the first draft. As it stands, this was a pleasant surprise that was fun to watch, and all around adorable from start to finish. Rainbow Roadtrip gets an 8/10 from me.

Each time I hear “20% cooler” I get sad, realizing how much I’ll miss this show when it’s gone.

While the pace is slow, it adds a bit of charm to the whole thing. Also, Kerfuffle is adorable

Am I the only one who appreciated this entirely slice of life special, no crazy action had to happen for this to be cute and enjoyable, the story was a bit slow but very real feeling with the theme of disconnect in a community over time, not to mention the characters introduced were all unique and lovable.

Okay, who else thinks "The End of the Rainbow" would be a more appropriate title for this film? The double-meaning alone makes it brilliant.

After the success of the MLP movie, I’m glad that this style of animation was reused for this special. I also admire the number of characters involved in the plot(like Petunia and Kerfuffle to name a few) as well as the songs(“Living in Color” is my favorite BTW). Nice reaction too, I liked it.

You know in retrospect, I feel the moral here is a lot more impactful now then it would have been 20, even 10 years ago. It seems like people don't listen or talk to each other anymore.

12:33 "Oh, waifu" - basically a natural reflex for RarityDash, it seems.

10/10 "Don't cha know" Is Craved In my Brain Two More Favorite Ponies For me

Now we wait until August 3rd to start second half. This was calming special. If Boulder Media is doing Generation 5 it's in good care.

Whoa, I wasn't expecting this to come out so soon after the special premiered

I guess the mayor doesn't believe in the saying, "Don't fix what isn't broken." And he is basically a Canadian-Minnesotan Sunburst.

Had no idea Petunia is voiced by Spitfire herself.

Either everyone or noone noticed this, but at the start when we see Lyra and bonbon you can see the butterflies form a heart.

I feel a strong feel of first 2 seasons of the show. It's so charming. Like I was genuinely smiling throughout this special. Specialy(lol) special treat for us imo

fun fact: the voice actor of Pickle Barrel(the colt) is the same guy who voices J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision from Marvel

how... is pinkie's cannon lighter than twilight's books? you know what, i'm just gonna let it go, she is pinkie afterall.

*Spoiler warning for those who may not have seen it yet* 59:00 So Sunny Skies' hopelessness was from not having the courage to ask Petunia to marry him, and her Hopelessness was from wondering if he ever would ask her?

Let's count how many times Raritydash says "wow" in his videos. :D

10:58 In the words of Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd.... "I knew you'd say that." 14:48 That too. I hate being right, sometimes.

(Spoiler alert 🚨) In my opinion I believe that this art style could hold the key 🔑 to G5.

While I did enjoy this special, it feels weird to get an hour long, movie animation, Slice of life story. It’s very casually paced, and not much action happens. It’s good, just odd.

Petunia you need to expand your hotel so there is more than 1 room and make the rooms a bit more presentable.

7:12 I'm gonna laugh EVERYTIME when you say "THE MOON!" XDD

34:59. Indeed she is a cutie :D I like the animation on this series.

I love the end of the rainbow song

Now I feel the surroundings became grey. *I don't feel so good*

Because of the animation-style, it gets easily compared to the movie. And honestly, apart from the length and the songs, I think it's arguably on par with it. While the movie is more of an extended season finale adventure or something, this one's a REALLY good slice-of-life special. It's one of those things that's just an amazingly good, fun thing to get and cap off the entire series with before the real ending. One last simple feel-good Mane 6 adventure, with movie-level animation, and it'll be great to always come back to and rewatch if you ever just want to briefly come back to that special feeling of this show. I've seen a lot of people praise this special because they say it reminds them a lot of early S1/S2 FiM in all the right ways, and I can see what they mean. This does have that specific feeling of the early seasons I think the show has kinda passed and hasn't had in quite a long while. Granted, I think for longevity's sake, it had to pass that to survive, but it's still nice to revisit once more. Only thing I think could've been improved story-wise, is that I think maybe there should have been some slightly bigger, more specific explanation as to what suddenly drove the town into such a state of hopelessness. I mean, it's not far-fetched that it can just... happen; it often does in real life. But I feel like something super bad must've been going on to cause such a level of this "hopeless magic", because we've never seen it before, at least in this specific form and extent. This story/situation is basically the EXACT same as in "Made in Manehattan" and we didn't see it happen there. So the situation in this town must've been even worse, but I feel if that's the case, I think we kinda needed a bit of an explanation. Or is it just a time-thing? Maybe the longer it goes on, that's what causes it. Kinda does make you wonder why The Cutie Map didn't just call them to save this village, too. In fact, I'm kinda surprised they did this "invited to a rainbow festival" thing instead of just using the map to get the story going. Would've made just as much, if not more sense.

You need to react to Sunset’s backstage pass. You NEED to.

Is this the first time we've seen the moon not in "full moon" phase?

Hey let's play a game:Take a shot every time he says "wow".

Look at all deez -Canadian- Minnesotan waifus. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

They need to keep this animation for next gen, it's really good.

I'm surprised that this is just about the first time that clothing specifically for wings is shown in MLP. You'd probably expect that to be pretty common considering about a third of the ponies are pegasi. Also, I'm guessing wings would get pretty cold during the winter considering how thin they are and how they are usually exposed to wind. Very nice design on the rainbow princess wing decorations.

This special is wholesome and Kerfuffle is so adorable

What I haven't seen anyone mention is that the Mayor was voiced by Ian Hanlin, AKA Sunburst So if you ever wanted a Sunburst song, now you can close your eyes and imagine. I know there's at least one Sunburst fan out there

I have to admit, this was a pretty clever way to finish up 'Pride Month' with all the COLORS appeal.

Fantastic Rainbow Dash Shirt RarityDash. I really enjoyed your reaction to Rainbow Road trip. Have a wonderful day.

Okay apparently I just never watched this. It was a super nice surprise to find new pony a couple years after the show ended. Made me tear up a few times :)

*and it was nice to see the return of the 3D animation😁.*

No one: Literally not a single goddamn soul: Me: 34:37 "Stack my pancakes!"

What I'd like to say is that the show finally put emphasis on amputee ponies

That was way better than I thought it would be. I loved it

I loved this episode. Not epic by any means or a favorite (such as Best Gift Ever), but very sweet and cute. I may have teared up a smidge at all the wholesomeness... The Mayor and Petunia especially were so sweet, IMO. I also really loved that it was also the last day of pride month and rainbow-filled!

15:40 I didn't know Lucas The Spider was making a cameo

This special gave us a lot of new really likable characters. It's a shame we'll probably never see them again. Which is a shame since I'd love to see Sunny Skies and Petunia's wedding.

National Lampoons: Rainbow Roadtrip

If they ever revisit this town (in another special or something)-- I think it'd be cool if one of the town's ponies is naturally grey and white and is worried that there's something wrong with them since they didn't change physically.

Friendship is bringing back color i noticed around the middle

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i loved this

I love this special. (Btw, I like to believe Sunny Storm is related to Trixie. Maybe cousin since Trixie's dad ((supposedly)) is in Las Vegas. And Sunny's dad was also mayor for a while. Also, I better see sunny and petunias wedding)

6:29 Good to know I wasn’t the only one who thought RD was called Rarity fat.

(1:02:15) A recolored Lyra and Bon-Bon.

Please react to Sunset's backstage pass.

A nice special for the end of Pride Month

15:37 lucas the spider 😍😍🤣🤣🤣

I think the whole grey thing is the same thing that happens to pinkie pie whenever she is sad and looses her color

This art style is quite nice

It was cute. I enjoyed it :)

THE MOON!!!!

36:32 The RAINBOW Connections.

It's amazing but a little bit slow but I like it enough that I can watch it

Commenting this earlier in the video, but lowkey feel like someone's going to use this to make a sequel for rainbow factory

This made me so happy actually told my father about all the new Waifu's lol

As a Wisconsinite, I find their accent relatable hahaha

Am I the only one to notice that cafuffle had a rear-left prosthetic leg?

PRIDE MONTH!!!

besides starlight's village it also had vibes of the kirin village as well

i wish the show always had that kind of animation its so well done

that was awesome

I'm surprised you got this up so early, good you were able to get past the dastardly copyright stuff

*very nice, relaxed movie. Very enjoyable and adorable, I didnt have a problem with the pacing, the speed it went was fine in my opinion. The movie isnt incredible, but it passes for me.*

8:20 Twilight, quit pointing out the flaws in the show regarding when new random stuff is added but treated like it's always been there. That's our job. 9:44 aw, COME ON, MLP! You missed a chance to make the classic "I shoulda made a right turn at Albuquerque" joke. Hmm. Would it be Albarnquerque, to keep with the pony theme? See?! Missed opportunity gold here! 10:33 🤨 um, Twilight, honey? You DO remember you have a MAGIC HORN, don't you? You could easily hold the rainbow billboard in place or just teleport yourselves AND the balloon away so it doesn't get damaged. Not to mention three of you have WINGS. You can grab the non flyers and get down safely that way. 10:58 oh, sure. NOW you remember three of you have wings and think to teleport. Still didn't think to levitate the billboard, though, did you? And THIS is the pony who's gonna be ruling Equestria in less than a year. Honestly, how she doesn't lead Equestria to destruction is beyond me. 13:04 "doncha know?"? Is this the MLP version of Canada? 😆 16:00 Dead. 21:39 wait. Sunny Skies literally was facing that direction. How did he NOT see the trout pony? And no, plot reasons is not an excuse. 24:00 hello, blatantly obvious recolour of Big Mac. Seriously, they couldn't have done ANYTHING to make him look any different than just Big Mac light-blue and with a different Cutie Mark? 31:33 Wait. You both see those two falling and just STAND THERE DOING NOTHING? 58:03 Okay, I can't lie, cool as they are, I'm really disappointed that Twilight's new wings were just clothing and not some kind of new magic awakening within her due to her Friendship with the others like I'd thought when I saw the leaked images of it ages ago. Wouldn't it have made sense, what with her taking over for the Princesses by the end of the season?

@50:39 it kinda sounds like AJ calls Twilight a bitch!

it's all connected!!!

This was kind of a toss up. While the story itself was pretty bland and forgettable, it more than made up for it with all the fun and memorable new characters. For as little as I cared about what was happening, I was surprised at how quickly I became invested with so many new faces. To me, all of these characters have an impact on par with Autumn Blaze; shame we probably won't get to see any of them ever again. Long live Kerfuffle and Torque.

14:47 I somehow new you were going to say that.

this could have been another map adventure

Honestly, even though I've seen some of your vids before, up until now, I didn't even realize your channel name is RarityDash. I always thought it was Raridash. Basically without the ty in the middle.

8:16 blank flank applejack

Yes

Is it just me, or does Mrs. Hoofington sometimes sound like Queen Moon from Star Vs. The Forces of Evil? I can especially hear it when she greets 'Mr. Root'.

So, did you still like it RarityDash or was it a bore all the way through for you?

so about episodes 10,12, and 13 are blocked all over the world except two places Kosovo and Somaliland which at least on express vpn there is no way to connect to those .

Totally start to cry 😆😂♥️🧡💛💚💙

i enjoyed it and while it wasnt great and probably didnt deserve the hour long special not to mention story elements thats been used before, Pinkie is kinda dumb which she shouldnt be i do think the message makes up for it especially since it improved on the whole befriending ponies that the movie suffered from. Hell EVERY pony did this instead of just a few. Despite it being saccharine as fuck and being kinda OG mlp related i actually care and felt for this town id say its a good B+

Love that shirt! When did you get it?

10:20 rainbow falls

I'm wondering if this was made in honor of pride day and the Trevor Project

Are you going to react to Sunset's backstage pass?

hey raridash go back and see how mini times that you can count how many time that they say rainbow

I liked

Hey, if you need any footage for the latest Equestria Girls shorts you’ve to react to yet, I could help you. I recall that when you reacted to some of the early shorts last year, some of them weren’t edited in a clean way. 1 or 2 seconds of footage was repeated and even some dialogue was repeated twice (Constructive Criticism being a noticeable example). So, I’ve downloaded the latest shorts you haven’t reacted to yet and I’ve edited them so that there’s no repeating. If you choose to have these be the versions to react to, let me know. I’ll be happy to send you the Google Drive links.

i randomly just stopped watching this video not even 30 minutes into the video. i don't remember why but now that it's here i'll watch it. and maybe for the 2nd time luffy will upload. seriously last time i was watching one of your videos he uploaded. if it happens again i'm going to start questioning things.

niiiice!

Yeah, sure looks like the movie, but it sure felt like an episode. And, hm... Rainbow wings on Twilight? Twidashing anyone? XD

43:56 Interracial spell

Nice shirt RD

The last mlp video I'm watching before I ship for Army Basic tomorrow.