Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls/Trivia

• What Could Have Been: You know that one cartoon? The popular one with the ponies? According to this article it got made because Lauren Faust was pitching a cartoon based on Galaxy Girls.
• Development Hell: Again, Lauren Faust has pitched an animated series several times before (one such pitch leading to Friendship is Magic), and back in 2007 she claimed to have been working on a short and shared some storyboard art. As of 2012, whatever progress has been made hasn't seen the light of day (probably because the following year Lauren got a certain job with Hasbro...)