Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/Animated shorts/@comment-26423071-20190324114300

So, as I was saying, it's oibvious why "Sundae Sundae Sundae" was made:

to sell Minty toys.

Remember that this a toy-based franchise, so there are times where special, episodes, or in this case, shorts are made to promote a toy.

They had all these Minty toys that weren't selling well, so they introduced her to the show to sell toys.

It's the same rationale behind characters like Flurry Heart, the Crystal Prep Shadowbolts, or Toola Rola and Coconut Cream: they are here to sell their toys.

The only Hasbro franchises thay aren't tied to this mentality are the ones promoting board games, since the board games sell regardless. So, the writers of the "Dungeons and Dragons" movies and comic books get a lot more freedom in that regard, same with the writer of the movie "Battleship".