The Pony of Oz

Applebloom's Dilemma
Applebloom is a Cutie Mark Crusader, and slightly troubled orphan seen running down the prairie dirt road with her little pet dog named Winona. The two have just come from the unseen school house, as they return to Applebloom's sister and brother Applejack and Big McIntosh who both live at an old farm up the road. After a disastrous encounter with the snooty and mean spirited neighbor, Queen Chrysalis, Applebloom is in a deep dilemma. To Applebloom's dismay, it seems as if no one at the farm cares or is interested in this as Applebloom tries to tell the adults about her problems. The adults around her are simply far too busy to be bothered by Applebloom and her childish nonsense as they are accessing the chicken coops and the baby chicks.

The other three wise cracking Kansas farm hands Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy are also too busy at work on the wagon and pig pens and do not want to hear Applebloom rambling and ranting on about her misfortune that took place earlier that day. Everyone tells Applebloom to just try and stay out of the way and find some place where there isn't any trouble. However, Applebloom day dreams of a care-free and more colorful world, a land where there isn't any trouble. Applebloom then sings a pretty melancholy song about a place somewhere over the rainbow.

Later that same day, the neighbor Queen Chrysalis finally arrives on her bicycle to the Gale farm and announces to Uncle Henry that she will have Toto destroyed because Toto got into her garden, chased her old cat and even bit her when she hit him on the back with a rack in defense. Miss Gulch has gotten the Kansas Sheriff to give her a legitimate order for Toto to be taken.

Despite Aunt Em defending her niece's dog, Queen Chrysalis insist that Toto is now hers. She takes Toto away from a crying Applebloom and in a basket on her bike to be put down. Applebloom is devastated and runs to her bedroom heartbroken. Luckily, while Queen Chrysalis is riding her bicycle down the dirt road, Toto is clever enough to jump out of the basket to escape and he loyally runs back to his owner, Applebloom.

Applebloom is delighted when Toto returns. But then she also realizes that Queen Chrysalis will return for him sooner or later. So Applebloom decides to pack her basket and a traveling suitcase to run far away to escape all her troubles.

After a few miles of walking aimlessly, Applebloom crosses over a small bridge where she encounters a friendly fortune teller named Trixie who stays by himself with his horse in a wagon beside the road by a dried out river. Applebloom asks if she can come along with him and see all of the crowned heads of Europe. She guesses correctly that she is running away and pretends to consult a crystal ball within his wagon (in reality taking Applebloom's basket and looking at a photo of Aunt Em as Applebloom has her eyes closed). Trixie tricks Applebloom, for her own good, and makes up a phony story about Aunt Em being suddenly ill and grief stricken over Applebloom leaving and might die from a broken heart. Dorothy then realizes how selfish she has been by not thinking about her Aunt's feelings and not taking her guardians into consideration. In a panic for her Aunt's health, Applebloom grabs Winona and after thanking Trixie she turns around and heads back to her family right away.

It's A Twister
However, by this time an unexpected storm has approached, bringing a deadly cyclone that has hit the Kansas prairies and is headed for the Gale farm. Aunt Em looks for Applebloom as she screams out her name. But Big McIntosh takes a frightened Applejack as there is no time to wait for Applebloom, and with the three farm hands everyone safely hides in the storm cellar.

The wind howls and blows terribly, but Applebloom finally reaches the backyard cellar, yet is unable to get in because it is locked. Despite her cries to let her in, the sound of the storm is too fierce for Applebloom's voice to be heard. Applebloom runs back onto the farmhouse and finds shelter safe inside her bedroom. The pressure of the wind is so strong and violent by now that it finally causes a window pane in Applebloom bedroom to break inward and hits Applebloom on the head, knocking her unconscious as she lays on her bed beside Winona. Then, a strange thing happens, the tornado lifts up the farmhouse from its foundation without demolishing it and the house twirls upward until it reaches the clouds and is sucked into the heart of the cyclone.

When Applebloom awakens minutes later to the sound of a rooster crowing at her window, she looks out and sees the inside of the storm, and she realizes she must be inside of the tornado. Then Applebloom and Toto see many other people and even animals who were also caught up into the storm. And to Applebloom horror, she sees none other than Miss Gulch who is still riding on her bicycle. The woman suddenly makes a hideous transformation and turns into a Wicked Witch with a pointed hat and long cape as she confidently flies on her broomstick while laughing at Applebloom in a crackling voice. The house then begins to spin and twirl in the air uncontrollably and the storm finally releases the farmhouse and drops it, falling with gravity as it descends from out the sky.

Not in Sweet Apple Acres anymore
The farmhouse finally lands with a great crash, and all is silent. Once the coast is clear, Applebloom grabs Toto in her arms and eagerly rushes to open the front door of the house to step outside. As the door is opened, the film transitions to brilliant Technicolor. Applebloom is amazed and left speechless by what she sees before her very eyes. She finds herself in the midst of a country consisting of marvelous landscaping and breathtaking beauty. The sky above is bright blue and there are lovely green hills in the distance with tall, stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Meadows and banks of giant gorgeous flowers blossom on every hand and exotic birds with rare and brilliant plumage sing sweetly as they flutter in the trees and bushes. A little ways off is a small babbling brook of blue water that leads into a little blue pond filled with giant lillypads which is centered in the middle of what seems to be a little town, of little houses with domed roofs, all built for little people. Dorothy then realizes she is no longer in Kansas, but must be over the Rainbow.

As Dorothy stands absolutely mesmerized by the sights around her, Glinda, (Billie Burke) the beautiful Good Witch of the North, appears before her in a big pink magical floating bubble. Dressed in an elegant glittering gown adorned with diamonds and a matching headpiece, Glinda slowly approaches Dorothy to ask the girl if she is a Good Witch or a Bad Witch. Dorothy denies being any type of Witch at all, neither her dog Toto. Glinda then informs Dorothy that she is in the magical Land of Oz, and that her farmhouse landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, which killed her. As Glinda says this she also points with her magic wand directly at the farmhouse, to Dorothy's shock, there indeed are two stocking feet sticking from under the fallen establishment adorned in a dazzling pair of sparkling Ruby Slippers. Glinda also tells Dorothy that the Munchkins who live in the east are the little people who live in the tiny house seen about.

Thanks to Dorothy, the Munchkins are now free of the Wicked Witch forever who apparently kept them in her bondage for a long time. As Glinda assures the Munchkins that Dorothy will not harm them, the Munchkins come out of their hiding spots and a big celebration is thrown throughout Munchkinland. Dorothy is even declared a Hero by the Mayor of Munchkin city and all of the Munchkin county council.

The celebration is interrupted when the Wicked Witch of the East's green skinned sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, (Margaret Hamilton) who appears in a cloud of flaming fire and red smoke. This Witch is said to be much worse than her sister and she is very angry to see her sister is now dead and demands to know who is responsible for her sister's demise. Glinda then reminds the Wicked Witch of her sister's precious slippers, but before the Wicked Witch can take them to claim as her own, Glinda cleverly uses her own magic powers to teleport them onto Dorothy's feet to keep them out of the hands of evil. Just as the Wicked Witch reaches out to grab them the shoes vanish and as a result her dead sister's bare stocking feet curl up and shrink under Dorothy's house. When the Witch ask where the pair are, Glinda reveals that Dorothy is now the new official owner.

This upsets the Wicked Witch tremendously and she threatens Dorothy to give the shoes back as she is the only one who knows how to properly use them. But Glinda tells Dorothy to keep tight inside of them for their magic is very powerful. Glinda reminds the ill tempered Witch that she has no power in Munchkinland, and advises her to immediately leave at once before someone drops a house on her also! So the frightened Wicked Witch threatens Dorothy to watch her back, and promises to get her sooner or later, and her little dog too. Disappearing in the same way she came, the Wicked Witch vanishes in a cloud of fire and smoke. Soon Dorothy asks Glinda how she is supposed to get back home again to her family in Kansas, since she did not bring her own broomstick. Glinda tells Dororhy that only the great and Wonderful Wizard of Oz can truly help her. And Glinda explains that the Wizard is the most powerful and mysterious figure within all the land and lives as a recluse in the Emerald City, which is a very long journey from Munchkinland. To get there, Dorothy must follow the Yellow Brick Road which leads all the way to the city gates. Before departing, Glinda carefully warns Dorothy to never take off the magic Ruby Slippers even for a minute, or she will be at the mercy of the Wicked Witch of the West. Glinda then kisses Dorothy upon her forehead for luck and gracefully disappears up into the sky inside of her pink magic bubble again.

The Munchkins wish Dorothy and Toto a happy journey and wave farwell as she and the dog skip along the yellow paved road before them.