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Published: 2018-01-21 18:48:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 7848; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 91
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The upcoming fifth generation of the My Little Pony franchise is reportedly right around the corner, scheduled to début on screens around the world sometime in the next few years.
Recent leaked images , which are believed by some to be concept art for the new iteration of the property, have created concern amongst many fans, who fear that any successor to Friendship is Magic could fall short of expectations, with some suggesting that the redesigns are 'horrific' and 'an atrocity'.
I spoke to a number of fans who gave their views on Generation 5 of My Little Pony and outlined some of their concerns.
What do YOU think? Should My Little Pony Generation 5 use the same characters, or should it use an entirely new cast? And will you miss Friendship is Magic when it's gone? Let me know!
(Credit to MadamMerSilver for providing some of the resources used in this upload and to EStories and SpokenMind93 for letting me know about this supposed leak.)
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I suppose some of the new designs are okay. Do we have a release date for gen 5? i would like to know how similar they might be.
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My reaction was it's a working progress p.s. any pony can use magic in G5
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i hear their planning to turn Spike into an other dimensional street smart speciest with no relation to Twilight at all and possibly they will bump him out of the main cast i don't want that to happen, PLEASE HASBRO don't ruin Spike let him still be a friend and main character.
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Well... Twilight is like 50% cute but the rest is IDK.
Pinkie as a pegasus? She was basically already a pegasus with Surprise... But those small ears...
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According to certain rumours though, G5 would be for adult audiences, just to make sure the reboot can be different from it's predecessor which is G4.
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A lot of those designs look really ugly and tf are they doing with AJ and making Twili and earth pony and Flutters a unicorn?! Also G4 is super popular so why would Hasbro stop it if they continue to make lots of profit off of it? I just don't get it!
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Everything ends, everything dies, G4 had to die at some point no matter how much some bronies wish they could force hasbro to make G4 until the end of time it had to die at some point.
Besides G5 is going to be in a entirely different art style.
Now some bronies are freaked out because the mane six in g5 shares the same names and general looks as ponies from g4, but its not like it's the first time hasbro has done this.
I mean there's always been clones of the mane six in all of the generations, it's just this time they were actually able to keep the names for said ponies.
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Money is doing so nicely, why try something new? This is like fixing things when they're not actually broken.
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While this is true, at some point, things get stale and loose money to the point that it will no longer make a profit; sometimes, a shake-up is needed (G4 is practically this shake-up).
Besides, look at the ratings on Discovery Family; Season 5's viewership crashed from a premier of 500,000 to a finale 300,000, then 200,000 by season 6, and while viewership reports on all of season 7 weren't released, several episodes report a viewership of 150,000... I predict a viewership of 100,000 with the finale and I also predict season 8 will have at least 1/2 of that viewership. Viewership is getting to a point that the MAIN SHOW ITSELF might be loosing money rather than gaining money; those numbers translates to "no one is watching this anymore."
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Ahh.... you got some really strong point.
PS : I really wish this may affect Spongebob until the whole thing dies, but sadly, why can't that poor quality of a cartoon ever DIE?!
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As much as many may hate to hear this, quality is all subjective; what may be good for one person, it may suck for the other... what may be stale and uninteresting for some, it may be new and exciting for others; as the saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." The closest way to measure quality is with large polls, but it's much easier to just look at how many people watch the thing. In regards to SpongeBob... your wish may be coming true because, looking at the viewership, SpongeBob is also hitting rather low numbers and it may be cancelled a short while into the 2020's... after the third movie.
This decline in viewership started in Season 9, where it began with an average of 4-5 million views, but by the time the season ended, viewership was cut in half to 2 million on average, and seasons since then have not gotten more than 2.3 million views, with Season 11 having lot of episode ratings in the ONE millions (low for a Nick show IN GENERAL). Episode quality has an impact (though again, that's subjective), but objective reasons could include the fact that Season 9 was handled horribly, lasting FIVE years with new episodes rarely appearing, and Nickelodeon allegedly cutting down the number of SpongeBob broadcasts by a considerable amount (though I don't know for sure); also, don't forget stream sites. Really, as you probably may have noticed and heard, Loud House gets viewership numbers that are comparable or higher than those of SpongeBob. If anything, SpongeBob is unlikely to continue into the 2020's for very long if numbers remain this low and if Loud House's numbers are maintained or increased.
Now, you may wonder why one million is low for SpongeBob yet 500,000 is high for FIM; well, it's likely expectations are different due to the amount of people having the network. 92 Million have Nickelodeon on their TVs while 70 Million have Discovery Family, so DF likely has lower expectations.
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The hatred of Spongebob only continues consider Nick treat that cartoon as a "flagship & top brand" merchandises, yes.... with a quotation.
Worse of all, Kids Choice Award's Favorite Cartoon has ALWAYS BEEN RIGGED and never give the others a chance, I don't believe kids vote for that cartoon all the time, it's most likely rigged by the executives there, once I knew it was rigged, I stopped watching KCA as it's gotten boring but the most insulting of all is obviously the rigged polls for "Favorite Cartoon". Avatar the Last Airbender broke Spongebob's "winning" streak, it was great, but sadly, I bet this is a moderate employee who discovered the rigging and changed it, after he was caught, he's fired and the whole scandal is completely covered like nothing happened.
All in all, I'm pretty sure Spongebob is all about the money. For KCA, it's all about Nick's company image while destroying others, which I bet they want to keep Nick's investors happy. But fans & viewers are not easily fooled, me too, we noticed the whole thing is completely rigged when Spongebob kept on winning for no reasons despite the low quality today.
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G4 is much better because the art syle is simplistic and easier for the artists to work with.
With G5 the art style is much more detailed and harder, so I'm thinking G4 might continue because otherwise artists would have to work harder adding every single detail like fetlocks and realistic designs, and probably leave or move on.
Think about it: with G4, even the tiniest mistakes can be corrected because everything is simplistic and easy to work with.
With G5 one small mistake can ruin almost the whole thing and really hard to change because everything would have to be redone.
And for the record, they're PONIES, not horses, so why change style and species from a familiar cartoony simple style to an almost realistic unfamiliar and unrecognizable style that no one can relate to? Honestly, Why?
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First off I don't believe they are real for second. Second of all.. I really don't mind if they mix up the type of pony they are.. In fact I'd LOVE to see Alicorn Fluttershy become canon but frankly it's their personality that's important parts then their looks then avoiding the nonsense of the world's political nonsense.. Not their racial ID...
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I have no opinion about G5 and I'm neutral to the previous gens before G4 came. I'm just glad G4 will end soon instead of going through more seasonal rot and ongoing path like Simpsons and Spongebob. It can't go on forever and things has to come to an end instead of getting stale over time and it has been going on for almost a decade. Besides, the staff and the voice actors probably would move on to other projects to work with in the future. And Hasbro confirmed back in 2014, that G4 will last another 5 years.
I hope the finale of G4 will be good and ends with a bang like Gravity Falls and Regular Show did.
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TBH, to me, I was okay with the old MLP gens, and FiM is kind of going downhill (mostly ever since Lauren Faust left), but yeah, I feel like it doesn't deserve to live for a very long time. Still, as a sane fan, I think MLP's G5 will be better than the last one, even if they're starting from scratch again. 
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(I don't mind Twilight being an alicorn though.)
Well, maybe for you, I'm not interested getting into G5 anytime soon and probably never will. G4 is the only generation of the whole MLP franchise that interest me.
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I know, that's why I said in my opinion, lol.
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Don't be so sure of that. I heard season 9 is the last one.. That's only 4 years but it's close enough..
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I know. When I refer to 2014, at that time Hasbro said, that G4 will last another 5 years. After 5 years, the show will be concluded in 2019.
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But we are at season 7 as of this coming year which is 2018... So it's safe that year is off by two more years if they keep their promise of a season 9 but truth be told I suspect that season 7 or 8 will be the real ending of the series.. Season nine is my default series end based on what I keep hearing.. But what they do will be completely different from what I expect. As it is we have been pretty much living off barrowed time since season 4 which was the official of the series in spite of the Alicorn Twilight haters say or want..
One would think they would have noticed the pointy crowny element she wore by the second episode.. I knew what was coming when I saw that crown but I still wasn't ready for it and I thought it would be a tad longer/harder for her to get there and now that we have Sofia the first wearing her own magic necklace. The others are not as safe as rest the bronies pretend they want them to be.. But I know better.. Thrones
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If you're not aware, try see this. 4.bp.blogspot.com/-Co9bV2KQRow…
The show will likely end next year instead of 2 years later. I believe the show will be concluded in 2019. By the time G5 comes out in 2020, G4 will be 10 years old.
As for Alicorn Twilight, if Faust was still in charge, the show would likely have ended after a short time before Twilight became an alicorn.
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That is debatable. Faust wanted them to travel their world and have adventures and she was there when they made the choice but you are right in saying if she been in charge it never would've happened.. it was not what she wanted for Twilight...But in the end they were HASBRO's to do as they please so we got Alicorn Twilight which didn't bother me that much but it really left a disconnected feeling between the six as far as I'm concerned.. They should've all become princess or not at all!!!!... This one became princess blows chunks of disconnect.. BTW; I'm not disagreeing with you on when the series will end. I'm just saying I keep hearing different things when they decide to end the series but personally my bet is this year will prove the end the series but we may get surprised.. Maybe but I highly doubt it. The chances that this will be the last season is far too high!!!!!! So yeah I agree.. This is the end but I keep hearing of a season 8 so we will have to wait and see what Hasbro says when it comes time for the new season.. It should start pretty late due to the movie..
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It was just a theory about the show's rate, if Faust was still in charge.
Well, the 2nd MLP movie is likely a pilot to represent G5 early before being a full series.
As for season 8, Tirek will make a return and I'm so excited.
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Yeah and with luck his brother will show up too in season 8!!
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Oh I'm LOVING!!! That new Earth version of Twilight!! 
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Im more hyped about G5 than about S8 and S9 of G4.
Finally Twilight that doesnt solve problems with magic, finally Fluttershy who actually use magic to communicate with animals and finally Pinkie Pie use wings to fly around instead denying the laws of physics and flying as an earth pony.
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According to certain rumours though, G5 would be for adult audiences, just to make sure the reboot can be different from it's predecessor which is G4.
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Seem's people did already email Hasbro or something with their concerns over Gen 5
the further i got into this the more i find out and the fact this is in a utter mess.
We need to know if Gen 5 is happening sooner rather than later.
Sadly i cannot share the files i have email wise and so on.
What i found out so far
> seem's to favor over Gen 5 movie more
> a sequel was planned for Gen 4 but apparently dumped
Pretty much there seems to be allot of apparent focus over Gen 5
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i would love if they didn't actually change any of the races between the ponies, as in pinkie pie staying as an earth pony and fluttershy as a pegasus. but i would like it if they changed twilight back to an unicorn, as if in a new start. i don't mind if they add some new colors to the new designs though, like in the applejack one. a little more diversity could look nice.
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Seriously... Why switch from something that works to something, that has a HUGE (?) change to fail.
I seriously, seriously don't get it.
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Agreed. I don't get the race swaps. It's just wrong
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You'd have to read a tone of the emails that where leaked .
I am half going through them and it's pretty much this
''as we have moved our MLP movie 2 date into Spring 2020 with a new story we are up against some very exciting but also timely challenges and deadlines. As the movie will be kicking off our new series reboot story we must align quickly on a visual style and an overall story pitch. ''
What i found out so far
> seem's to favor over Gen 5 movie more
> a sequel was planned for Gen 4 but apparently dumped
Gen 5 is a re boot and pretty much where they might see it as ''we need something new and something we can do with more''
Hasbro are known to re boot stuff.
So it's nothing new or shocking or how fans are taking this.
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Just nope. Nope nope nopity nope. If they want to change things then get new characters entirely. It'd be like completely switching around the characters in Star Wars or having Captain Jack Sparrow as Governor Weatherby Swan and vice versa. We are so used to the characters with the roles they have that changing them so much is bound to have negative reactions. It would be different if they weren't so lazy and just made new characters instead.
But if there is one interesting concept I could get behind it would be
10/10 xD
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Been out of MLP for ages myself really. Had a look at the concepts and if they were all applied to new ponies we're not familiar with, I'd be fine with it.
I've personally never been a fan of a massive character design change in a big mainstream project. Gradual changes, I can accept; but we have kids who probably have just started watching the show on netflix and are going to be confused by this new series no longer featuring Twilight as a princess, while still supposed to be Twilight.
Not trying to say kids are too stupid to adjust to the change, but inconsistency does mess with kids. Or maybe that was just me.
Either way--the designs are pretty. Just wish it was for new ponies and to retire the FiM cast for now.
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Changing the Mane 6 around is probably not the best. It'd probably be better to start off fresh... and have some comeptant writers and fans in to make it.
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I just don't get why they wouldn't have an entirely new cast of ponies, just drastically changing the gen 4 mane 6 and calling it new kinda sucks ):
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And G4 is supposed to be original in comparison?
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Working at a retail company I can tell you that it's most likely a combination of laziness and being cheap.
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Honestly, all I'm worried about is the quality of animation. When a reboot comes along, and the style changes to become 'shinier' somhow, the animation quality usually takes a hit, but as long as the characters have visually appealing designs, they don't pay much attention to that.
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while i do like some of the designs
i don't like how it's being made more "ethnic"
and i don't like how they are making the ponies less cartoony
also MLP has always used the same characters it's not new
it's like they want to lessen the fanbase or something
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I'm curious as to what's going to happen with the reboot. Will we split into Gen-5 and Gen-4 bronies, stay as a whole with one or the other, etc? Too many possibilities for me to think about. We've built such an immense fanbase with this gen, I can't imagine it'll be easy to top.
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Again, using the same characters in a reboot after an iconic series is a bad idea. They should focus on newer characters and wait before recycling.
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All these Bronies freaking out, yet they're forgetting G5 is a reboot. This isn't new for this franchise.
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Exactly. And, to be fair, some of the designs are really good. Like this one, for example:
Way better than what we have currently, tbh.
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I think that's fairly insulting to the artist who put blood, sweat and tears into this design :@(
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Sorry. I wasn't thinking with that comment. Apologies for insulting your artwork. It's okay at best, but keep working at it, and you'll get better at it!
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