sgaparchivalinitiative:

After a search of my own, I, too, have not been able to turn up any of the canon text that was issued with the Star Hopper pony packaging. Pretty much all that’s out there are these images of a storybook, which SGaP referenced in the description of the video. Since he otherwise tried his best (it seems, based on the other parts) to link reference material for space pony into the video descriptions, and it seems vastly unlikely he came into possession of a physical copy of any original packaging, I think it fair to say he most likely personally wrote the Star Hopper story he referenced in the song



That said, it is clear there was some influence from the aforementioned storybook (”Question Mark, why is space so dark …”), so my thinking is he drew on that for some inspiration, but otherwise just tried to write something that neatly tied the whole album together and presented a pleasing flow. Certainly, he may have chosen Star Hopper partially because her story is unknown, as it provided an infinite blank canvas from which he could derive whatever story he wanted, without treading on the toes of any canon

UPDATE: STAR HOPPER STORY FOUND



While searching for info on where those two images came from, I found they were printed in the UK G1 MLP comics, more specifically in issue 100. Here’s some more of the story!

I can’t find any more scans at the moment (though I’m working on that), but I did locate an image of the original Star Hopper packaging!



“That was a great movie, Star Hopper,” Sunspot said to her friend, turning off the television. “I liked the flying saucer,” said Star Hopper, going to the kitchen to make hot cocoa. As she heated the water, Star Hopper turned her cup upside down on her saucer and touched it with her magic horn. Suddenly, the cup and saucer began to spin around, then flew past Sunspot and zoomed out the window! “It’s a flying cup-and-saucer!” laughed Sunspot, as it zipped back inside and sprinkled stardust on the delighted ponies!

As we can see, this is a similar story to the one told in the comics, though in the comics, Star Hopper is recounting the tale to Milky Way and the terrifying anthropomorphic Question Mark, while here we have the original narrative. So, it turns out that the comic scan which we’re aware SGaP knew of was actually very similar to the backcard story, which he may not have known of, considering its obscurity and that he did not link it with the video

