The Coffee Pony

Never thought I'd have to make this thread. Alright so after seeing so many topics on the same subject "The Fandom is going to die after the show ends! The end is Neigh!" and all that I thought I'd make a thread about one thing I point out in every thread I see about this subject but almost nobody else seems to discuss, the possibility that after the show ends and the next generation comes out that the fandom will evolve from a show-based fandom into a franchise fandom. Now let me point out what a franchise fandom is: Basically take anything like a show, comic book, movie and anything else along those lines. It becomes a huge hit and gains a large fandom. Now there is usually two outcomes to this: Scenario 1 which usually involves comics: It is a huge success and becomes so popular the company that owns it decides to turn it into a franchise and hires people to make stuff based off it like say a television show or a movie series that gathers more fans (not all have viewed the original source material) and you get fans of all, most or some incarnations of the franchise. Examples of this include Spider-Man and it's various incarnations (Original comic, Spider-Man 2099, Ultimate Spider-Man and other alt universe comics, 8 Cartoons, 2 Live Action TV-shows, The Sam Raimi Movie Trilogy and TASM Movie series), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Original comic, alt. universe comics, 3 cartoons, a movie trilogy, a live action TV series, an anime OVA, whatever that terrible Coming Out of Our Shells Tour classifies as, a CGI Movie and the Michael Bay Movie) Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games, Cartoons, OVA, Comics, anything I'm forgetting) and Batman (Oh no, I'm not going through that shit again!) Scenario 2: The series whether it be a Movie series, Comic or TV show is a huge success and gains a huge fandom but eventually ends and is so well loved that there's the possibility for more so the company decides the make a revival, sequel series, next generation or a new show entirely of this franchise (Not necessarily using the same medium, it can be an adaptation) and brings in a new audience and brings back a lot of the old fans. So like the above example you get fans of all, most or some incarnations of the franchise. Examples include Transformers, Star Trek, Star Wars, Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra, The Crow. Now with all that said and done: Do you think My Little Pony will evolve into a franchise fandom when Friendship is Magic ends and Generation 5 comes about? My Opinion: Yes, I'm quite confident that My Little Pony will evolve into one! After the success of Friendship is Magic, Hasbro is obviously going to want a show that will be as big as a success! I'll even argue that it's already one since there is a large number of people that are also fans of My Little Pony G1, myself included. And while tales and G3 were duds even they have there fans. Now go on! Give me your thoughts! I want to hear them!

As others said there are plenty of fandoms that have lasted long after their shows have ended. What I'd also like throw in is that MLP has the potential to evolve from a one-show-based fandom into a franchise fandom like the fandoms for Transformers, Spider-Man, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so on and so forth when G5 comes around. To those that are fans of G1, MLP already is this.

Alright so I'm pretty sure we all have a favorite franchise or in my case more than one and like every franchise there have been some pretty crappy releases and in this thread we'll be drawing attention to them. Spider-Man One More Day The Clone Saga (1994-1996) Ultimate Spider-Man Animated TV Show (2012) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming out of our Shells Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Michael Bay Film) Batman All Star Batman & Robin Batman Forever Batman & Robin Doctor Who The Twin Dilemma (Classic Series) Series 7 and Series 8 (Modern Series) Star Trek Voyager Enterprise JJ Abrams films (As Star Trek Movies, they're entertaining in their own right) Star Wars The Holiday Special The Prequel Trilogy Transformers Beast Machines Robots in Disguise (2001) Transformers (Michael Bay Movies) Transformers: Generation 2 Comics My Little Pony My Little Pony Tales (G1.5) My Little Pony G3 My Little Pony G3.5

The EqG movies are FUN!!!! I love fun movies!! so to answer your question:

Hey nothing wrong with being under the radar! I never get mentioned and I'm still full of awesome! Nobody can say otherwise!

I'm surprised I haven't seen this one yet but here we go!!! A thread for people who are fans of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles whether they be fans of the comics, the '87 cartoon, the '03 cartoon, the new cartoon, the movie trilogy, the '07 TMNT movie, the games like the arcade game and Turtles in Time ...er...Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation....Coming out of our Shells- Ah hell I'm just scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point. SO DISCUSS AWAY! Eat some pizza and for the love of all that holy do not mention Venus de Milo to Peter Laird.

That's actually quite common over here. Eh, I'm pretty sure it's just ship teasing and not really making the ship canon but see it anyway you wish.

After watching G3 up to a Minty Christmas I think I can safely say: NO!!!! When you take G3.5 out of the equation G3 still sucked and it's a big black stain that gave My Little Pony in general the reputation it does today for those outside the fandom that make fun of us for it!

Any other shows to keep you occupied till then? For me it's Doctor Who (at least until next week), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles '12 and Star Wars Rebels. Seriously watch TMNT '12! IT'S AMAZING!!!