My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic airs a very special episode tomorrow on The Hub in which the lovable and charismatic Twilight Sparkle is changing. To find out how much, we spoke with the talented woman who provides her voice on the series, Tara Strong. Hear what she had to say about Pony fandom, the upcoming Teen Titans Go!, and the one animated venue she’d still love to visit.

We’ve seen John de Lancie do a lot of ridiculous things thanks to his time as Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation but this…this is something to behold. “Let’s Go and Meet the Bronies” was written by Lauren Faust, Amy Keating Rogers, and Zachary Lobertini and is part of a larger My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic documentary about the fandom. De Lancie voices Discord on the animated series and star Tara Strong adds her vocal stylings to the mix near the end. My life is better for watching this.

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Voice actor Tara Strong attended Canterlot Gardens, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic convention in Ohio, a few days ago. This isn’t news. What is news is Strong arrived on stage dressed as her character, Twilight Sparkle. And yes, there’s video. 

It’s been an exciting week for bronies…Is a sentence I never thought I’d be writing in a professional capacity when I grew up. But it has been! There’s been the announcement of a new comic book series based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, to be published by IDW. There’s been the teaser trailer for season three of the show (viewable after the jump). And now, amongst all the revelry, the cast and a writer for the show are publicly talking about their overwhelming love for bronies and the “social phenomenon” they have wrought.

I was impressed after watching the first trailer for Lego Batman2: DC Super Heroes, by just how many characters of the DCU were being included. Now after watching this follow-up, I’m more excited, if that’s even possible but that may be solely based on the interaction between Superman and Batman in this one. Interesting to note here is the minifigs having voices for the first time in-game. We noticed they did in the LEGO: The Lord of the Rings trailer, but this game is getting released first (June 19). Was this a choice made by the creative teams or was there perhaps some push from the higher-ups as a result of the LEGO movie in development from the directors of 21 Jump Street. Audiences will get to see voice actors bringing the minifigs to life in that so maybe this is a way to get us used to it. Who knows? I don’t care either way but I know a lot of people prefer they don’t have an actual voice in the games. But Clancy Brown is back to voice Lex Luthor and Tara Strong is voicing Harley Quinn. So maybe you don’t mind as much now?

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Voiceover dynamo Tara Strong was scheduled to appear at the Knoxville Comic and Anime Show, but ended up canceling. Much to the dismay of a teenage fan named Dragon and his mother Rebecca Andrews, who posted on the convention’s Facebook page that her disabled son had really been looking forward to meeting the voice of Twilight Sparkle on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. While the VIP Andrews purchased didn’t help her son meet Strong at the convention, the actress went out of her way to let Dragon know how much she appreciated her fans: she placed a personal call.

Get as ready as you can be for this, because you will never be prepared for the overwhelming geekitude you are about to witness. Several voiceover actors — the people who have voiced almost literally every cartoon you’ve ever watched — got together at Emerald City Comic Con to read Star Wars Trilogy: The Radio Play. Kevin Conroy (who is Batman) read stage directions while Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Jess Harnell, and Rob Paulsen read the various other roles as the cartoon characters they’ve voiced in the past.

This lasts nearly an hour and a half. You will want to squeeze this into your schedule after wiping your brain parts off the walls — because your mind is probably already blown.

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I love that this production doesn’t just include voice actresses like Tara Strong, Rachael MacFarlane, and Nika Futterman, but also Andrea Romano, veteran casting director on pretty much your entire childhood with seven Emmys under her belt.

Now, before you go off on the voice acting luminaries who don’t show up here, you should know that this is just a trailer: I Know That Voice is still in production, and still interviewing, so we’re going to go off and demand the inclusion of Phil Lamarr and Jennifer Hale.

Uh, please.

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Sadness of the day: Arleen Sorkin, long time voice of Harley Quinn in pretty much everything, will not be returning for Batman: Arkham City alongside her cast-mates Kevin Conroy (Batman) and Mark Hamil (The Joker).

Three original castmembers of Batman: The Animated Series was very sweet icing on the incredible cake of Batman: Arkham Asylum , considering that they are the voices that anyone who grew up on the series hears for those characters in their heads. Sorkin doubly so for Harley, because while Batman and The Joker had had numerous previous film adaptations (Adam West, Michael Keaton, Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson), Harley was an original character created for Batman: Animated.