- For Fluffy Cloudsdale, see Weather Control Pegasi.

Cloudsdale, from Sonic Rainboom.
Development
According to Lauren Faust, the name "Cloudsdale" was originally suggested by her husband Craig McCracken.[2]
Depiction in the series
Season one

A rainbow over the Cloudeseum.

Filly Rainbow Dash and two foals at a summer flight camp in Cloudsdale.
Spitfire briefly mentions Cloudsdale in The Best Night Ever after spotting Rainbow Dash, commending her for her actions in Sonic Rainboom.
Season two

The Cloudsdale rain factory in Hurricane Fluttershy.
Hurricane Fluttershy portrays the annual task of delivering water to Cloudsdale, in order for the weather factory to produce the year's rain clouds for all of Equestria. When Ponyville is chosen for the year's delivery, Rainbow Dash and the town's other Pegasi must funnel water from Ponyville's reservoir by creating a tornado. Fluttershy is reluctant to help at first, on account of her weak flying skills and the taunting she endured at Cloudsdale's flight camp (as seen in a flashback). However, she eventually joins in the effort and delivers the final push needed to get the water to Cloudsdale.
Season three
Cloudsdale appears in Rainbow Dash's flashback in Games Ponies Play as Fillydelphia is announced as the location to host the Equestria Games.
In Magical Mystery Cure, after Twilight accidentally switches her friends' cutie marks, Fluttershy nearly moves back to Cloudsdale because she is unable to make ponies laugh.
Season four

The flag of Cloudsdale at the Equestria Games.
In the Equestria Games episode, the Cloudsdale team wins gold in the Games' aerial relay event. Spike offers to sing the town's anthem in celebration, thinking he would be singing Ponyville's anthem and, because he is unfamiliar with the song's lyrics, awkwardly improvises them on the fly.
Season five

Cloudsdale in Tanks for the Memories.
In The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1, Starlight Glimmer uses Star Swirl the Bearded's time travel spell and goes back in time to when Rainbow Dash performed her first sonic rainboom at Cloudsdale Flight Camp. She prevents Rainbow from performing the rainboom, creating several alternate timelines. Twilight and Spike follow Starlight to past Cloudsdale and stop her from doing so.
Season six

Fluttershy's parents' house.
Season seven
Cloudsdale appears in the episode Parental Glideance, both in the present day when Scootaloo goes there to meet Bow Hothoof and Windy Whistles, and in flashbacks to Rainbow Dash's childhood. Cloudsdale political office elections are also mentioned in the Ponyville Chronicle in Daring Done? In Once Upon a Zeppelin, the zeppelin cruise flies past Cloudsdale, where Iron Will correctly points out Twilight's past tour of the weather factory.
Depiction in Equestria Girls
In My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games, Cloudsdale appears in one of the dimensional rifts opened by Midnight Sparkle.
Other depictions
IDW comics

In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #19, a sheet of paper on page 3 reads "Cloudsdale in ruin", referring to the Cloudsdale of an alternate universe.
In My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #18, Rainbow "Dash is excited to go to the Cloudsdale school reunion-but Fluttershy is harboring some bad memories and fears!"[3]Software
In Gameloft's mobile game, Cloudsdale is shown on the world map.[4]
Notable characters
Residents
- Bow Hothoof
- "Dumb-Bell"
- Fleetfoot
- Fluttershy (formerly)
- Gilda (formerly)
- Hoops
- Mr. and Mrs. Shy
- Rainbow Dash (formerly)
- "Score"
- Soarin
- Spitfire
- Windy Whistles
- Zephyr Breeze
Gallery
References
- ↑ Map of Equestria April 2013 Archived locally
- ↑ Lauren Faust via Twitter (2013-03-15). Retrieved on 2013 March 15.
- ↑ my little pony friends forever #18. PREVIEWSworld. Retrieved on 2015 April 22.
- ↑ Timeline Photos. Facebook (2014-06-05). Retrieved on 2015 April 23.
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