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Rising Star is a male unicorn with a coat,  mane and tail,  eyes, and a cutie mark of three white stars. He is unnamed in the show, but he is named in merchandise.

Development and design
Rising Star shares his coat and eye colors, cutie mark, sometimes tail, and sometimes pony kind with "Sir Pony Moore", resembles "Top Notch" in color scheme, cutie mark, pony kind, and sometimes mane style, shares his mane and tail styles, eye color, and cutie mark with Twilight Sky, shares his design with "Graphite", S02E26 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #1, S02E26 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #2, and "Flank Sinatra", shares his mane and tail styles with Star Hunter and "Cosmic", and shares his tail style and sometimes pony kind and some of those times mane style with "Orion".

In a storyboard by Sabrina Alberghetti for Call of the Cutie, an episode of the season prior to Rising Star's debut, he appears instead of the finished episode's Cherry Fizzy.

Depiction in the series
Rising Star appears in The Mysterious Mare Do Well, Sweet and Elite, Hearth's Warming Eve, The Last Roundup, The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, A Friend in Deed, It's About Time, A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, One Bad Apple, Magic Duel, Magical Mystery Cure, Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2, Rarity Takes Manehattan, Pinkie Pride, For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils, and Leap of Faith.

Appearances
Times stated below are approximate.

Other depictions
Rising Star appears in Rarity's Fashion Police.

Merchandise
A mini-figure toy of Rising Star has been displayed at the 2014 American International Toy Fair.

In Enterplay's collectible card game, Rising Star is named on his own card α #75 C, which attributes to DJ Pon-3 the quote "Rising Star? Yeah, his music is pretty sick. And the louder you play it, the better it sounds."