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On 2022-03-10 at 9:18 PM, K_Cast said:

 Production Update-

 The animated version of this production has been shelved, however work on the story will continue and postings will have already gone up in regard to this. We just released the full screenplay for the pilot of Equestrian Tales, we still have our entire voice talent pool so we might end up voicing some if not all of the screenplays at some point. Simply put our team has decided to back away from building this as a hasbro production due to the way the industry is changing, we never had any bad dealings with Hasbro or anyone else for that matter, this was an internal choice by the crew. We will put the animation focus on a few of our other productions, but we will not ever forget where we came from, and I want to make sure the story is seen in its original form by those that would understand and get the most out of the story, characters and world we spent the last 10 years or so building. This is for sure not the end, in fact now that we are not focused on a big animated pony series you will see a lot more content coming out a lot faster. We no longer feel like we have cooperate eyes watching us, and that is why we didnt release as much as we wanted to over the years. We learned some lessons of other pony teams in the past, and now we stand as the last of the original creative pony studios left from the beginning, we will try to carry that banner as long as you will have us.

 If you'd like to read the pilot please head over to this thread-

 Thank you all, updates will be coming faster now, so see you all soon.

 

Are you going to turn it into an audio drama? That's probably the most viable way to go.

Whole channel has been marked as "made for kids".

Edit: Nevermind that's already been addressed.

What would the rating be? What kind of content would it have?

Do you think it's possible that there are ponies outside the world of Equestria who live on other planets? What could have happened is that that after the equestrian pony tribes started getting along, many of them went through portals to live on other planets so they can expand pony civilization. Each planet the ponies live on can have their own races residing in them. Would be kinda like how fantasy universes like Dungeons & Dragons and Cosmere have humans living on multiple planets.

As you can see, Tridashie's recent video "Izzy Can Can" got marked as "for kids" by Youtube. He's putting in so much effort into trying to appeal this decision. All he has to do is change the setting to mark as "not for kids".

Here's what you can do to get out of this.

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/01/idw-keeps-license-for-my-little-pony.html

On 2021-10-03 at 4:16 PM, EpicEnergy said:

I think it would have been good for the developers to add a post-credit scene, but I'm also content with what we got from the movie.

Yeah, but it would've at least gave incentive to watch the rest of the credits.

I guess that finally debunks the claim that Sprout was inspired by Trump.

Fantasy, science fiction, or superhero?

On 2021-10-05 at 1:42 PM, Megas said:

Honestly, yes. I actually felt the heavier focus on lore ended up being more detrimental to G4

I'm sure you can still have some focus on lore. Can also have the main characters explore new places.

Since the movie was basically about bringing friendship back together, how would you like about the show being closer to G3, but still keeping the spirit of G4? The episodes would mainly be about exploring the personalities, interests, and relationships of the main characters. The only kinds of antagonists being more akin to Trixie, Flim Flam brothers, and Iron Will, and not having any real villains. It still having writing quality that would appeal to fans of the previous show. It could still have two parter episodes with more of a plot, but only with medium stakes. Would you watch the G5 show if it was like that?

10 minutes ago, FearTheBelle said:

. . . There was a post-credits scene.

It wasn't about the main characters, but it was there.

That was the mid-credits scene.

Would at least be an excuse to have people watch the end credits just to see one more scene. What I would've liked is have one where Sprout is shown doing community service as a punishment for his actions.

He wasn't really a villain, just a misguided individual who didn't know better.

Since Sunny's horn and wings are more of a magical hologram than actual parts, I wonder if she can activate them whenever she wants to. Think of it as a battle form, something like She-Ra. She can use it whenever she needs to fly or use magic. I think that would be a great thing for Sunny to have.

Is anyone else reminded about Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon after watching MLP: ANG? Like Raya, it has minimal worldbuilding, a quest to rebalance the world's friendship, and a non-villain antagonist.

8 hours ago, Megas said:

I don't know where they got this info from Imalou from, but given it's /mlp/ I wouldn't count on this as accurate

The movie was co-written by GM Berrow(who also did screenplay for the movie), who's been with G4 through books since S4 at the earliest(with her first episode in S5)

8 hours ago, Splashee said:

Gillian M. Berrow knows about G4 and Equestria Girls, has been in Bronies React (I think it was the reaction of the MLP The Movie?), and knows about us Bronies

So, no problems with the writers. This is probably most likely a time constraint in the movie itself, than the writers' knowledge. You can only fit so much in the time frame of the movie. 9 seasons of G4 is a little too much to recap

 

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Also, 4chan is a little sketchy of a source

 

Berrow is part of the screenplay writing team, not the story writing team, which includes Robert Cullen and a few others.

I found this on 4chan the other day.

If this is true, then this is a huge problem for G5. The fact that it's being written by people that never even watched the original show tells me that there's going to be all kinds of continuity inconsistencies.

It's like Hasbro has forgotten what made the music of MLP so great.

Edit: Oh btw, this song is written by Jenna Andrews.

4 hours ago, Oleks said:

I don't have a preference. As long as the content is good, any format is fine. Although I must say I usually find 3D more spectacular and 2D more atmospheric.

You're not wrong there.

I personally don't consider 2d superior to 3d, nor do I see 3d as a replacement to 2d.

I prefer 2d for organic character animation, various effects (like water, fire, dust, explosions, lightning, etc), painted backgrounds, deep canvas style texturing, and other organic animation. I prefer 3d for robots, vehicles, machinery, props, large creatures, complex environments, action shots, CGI effects, references for 2d animation, etc.

5 minutes ago, Them's Seeing Ponies said:

Interesting. You may be correct in suspecting this to be G5, although I personally don't find the visual style here, while kind of cute, to be particularly appealing, particularly the shape and proportions of the face - they're kind of trapped in an uncanny valley between more horse-like (squarer, more prominent muzzles) and more human-like (particularly the shape of the faces) features combined to create a simultaneously bland and obtuse style lacking in the streamlined elegance of G4's visual designs. I...don't know what else to say here.

I guess they wanted to go with a mixture of G4's style and the gens before it.

I just had a thought. I don't believe that the 2021 film and 2022 show isn't actually a G5, but is more akin to Beast Wars. BW served as a continuation of Transformers G1, while having no connection whatsoever to G2. Like in BW, the original shown is being mentioned as a point in history. Same universe, different time period. I'm fairly convinced that the real G5 will be in a separate universe like all the other MLP gens. What about you?

8 hours ago, Megas said:

No, they were unpleasant in their first appearance, and unlike certain other characters 

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Flim and Flam, Garble, Snips and Snails 

The writers were smart enough to not bring them back apart from Flashbacks 

The webcomic Dash Academy pretty much nailed it in their portrayal.

1 minute ago, ExplosionMare said:

Nah, they were just meant to be the “bully characters”. It was interesting to see them come together in “The Cutie Remark”, though, when Twilight and Starlight were fighting and they all wanted to watch.

This is why I have such a beef with bully characters. They're not even real characters unless they have some sort of development. Otherwise, they add nothing to the story whatsoever.