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One year from now, Hasbro will finally leave Discovery Family alone for the first time in over a decade. But which company should acquire all the properties next – just the ones that the Hub Network/Discovery Family previously owned and nothing else? By the way, I did not include Warner Bros. Discovery because Hasbro's shows should no longer belong there, based on what WBD has been doing recently.

https://shoutfactory.com/collections/my-little-pony Apparently, Shout! Factory still owns distribution rights for Hasbro's content, seeing as though they are still selling My Little Pony DVDs, despite releasing absolutely nothing new since 2019, including Seasons 8 and 9 of FiM and Pony Life. I don't even know how long their contract with Hasbro is ever going to last either. For what I know, it took Shout! Factory just over seven years to release new G4 titles, and so far, they've released nothing for over five years now.

I still think that is kind of off topic regarding the other nine films I mentioned here.

We all love animated movies, but sometimes, there are those that just aren't viewable at all in our country because of certain regulations. Thus, here is my top 10 list of animated films that are/were banned in these specific countries. The bans are ranked in order from least concerning (green) to most unforgivable (blood red). Please note that the first 3 movies in the list are adult-oriented, and the last 7 are kid-friendly. 10. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) The motion picture based on Comedy Central's longest-running TV series is banned in Iraq due to showing Saddam Hussein as a homosexual, who was president of Iraq at the time. 9. Sausage Party (2016) For several years, Sausage Party was banned in Malaysia due to sexual content and for the fact that pork products aren't consumed by Muslims. While the film clearly never got released in Malaysia to date (at least according to IMDb), it's still unclear whether if the ban got lifted or not. 8. The Simpsons Movie (2007) Burma has banned The Simpsons Movie due to fear that the characters would cause bias, over the fact that the country's flag uses the colors yellow and red. 7. The Prince of Egypt (1998) Due to its negative portrayal of a prophet, which is considering illegal under Muslim law, The Prince of Egypt is banned in modern-day Egypt, Malaysia and Maldives. A pretty reasonable ban -- unless you're Muslim-American. 5. Lightyear (2022) In Lightyear, there is a scene where a lesbian kiss occurs for just a few seconds. Disney refused to cut this scene, and as a result, the film ended up banned in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and pretty much every other country in the Middle East. It's also banned in the People's Republic of China. Nonetheless, there are still official Arabic subtitles and a PRC Mandarin dub available in countries where the film isn't banned, so that's still something. A pretty harsh ban indeed. 5. Strange World (2022) You're probably wondering why I tied Lightyear with Strange World. Well, for the same reason as to why Lightyear was banned in the Middle East, Strange World contains a gay main character named "Ethan Clade", who's only 16 years old, by the way. Because of the Middle East's strict laws regarding LGBT, Disney chose not to release Strange World in those countries, which still counts as a ban anyways. 4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) In a couple of scenes, there is a transgender flag hanging in Gwen's bedroom containing the words "Protect Trans Kids". No matter what purpose the flag was used for, because it was still used, the film ended up banned in at least four countries in the Middle East. I find this ban a little more unfair than for Lightyear and Strange World. 3. Abominable (2019) Over a week after being released worldwide, Abominable was banned in Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia due to a map containing a nine-dash line. Because Universal refused to cut the film, it still remains banned in the countries I mentioned. Not such a reasonable ban, honestly, as the film does have Malay and Vietnamese subtitles on Netflix in countries where the film isn't banned. 2. Onward (2020) If you think Lightyear's ban wasn't harsh enough, check this out. Onward was banned in a few of the same Middle East countries only because in just a few split seconds of the film, a female cyclops police officer indicated that she was a lesbian, by uttering the words "my girlfriend's daughter". Russia, however, did manage to change the line to "my partner's daughter". By far, the worst ban ever done to an otherwise kid-friendly movie -- but nowhere as bad as #1! 1. My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip (2019) Despite containing nothing objectionable whatsoever, Rainbow Roadtrip is still banned in most of Western Europe, Northern Europe and Turkey at the very least. The 2019 Equestria Girls specials all currently share the same fate in every country from these regions. Obviously, the most unforgivable ban made to a kid-friendly movie -- EVER! And that's my list of top 10 animated films that were banned in certain countries.

Big companies like Nintendo and Disney care a lot about their intellectual properties. But Hasbro, not so as much. Why can't Hasbro just follow those other companies' footsteps and be more protective of their works?

Either way, I still want to see Hasbro move to anywhere but Discovery Family or any other network without a VOD service by the time their contract with DF expires next year at the earliest, since that's when it's currently scheduled. If I see any kind of My Little Pony episode appearing in the April 2025 schedule, I am writing that petition I mentioned earlier. Not only that, Hasbro Entertainment won't be very likely to earn much money through both Discovery Family and YouTube combined.

I demand a different answer than this.

Honestly, can't it be possible that Discovery Family can just end their contract much sooner instead of letting it last for the full amount of time? Besides, international productions of My Little Pony and Transformers before 2021 are already suffering seriously pervasive censorship worldwide, and Hasbro is already giving Discovery Family a hard time themselves by forcing their shows back on the channel while the network itself is trying to make room for WB cartoons. And if they dare renew their contract again, I am starting a petition to force them to move to another service.

You can't! Well, anymore, at least. In my opinion, YouTube started getting worse in 2020, when many videos were set to "made for kids", redirecting millions of users to a video titled "Features impacted by COPPA: Made for Kids content". The YouTube staff was offended so much by the massive amount of dislikes the video received that they took more action by disabling the YouTube Dislike feature. And finally, the service is forcing creators to disclose use of AI on their channels, which could be serious trouble for all the My Little Pony official channels worldwide.

But look at this: Not only are both these videos the exact same thing, they have different addresses. And they're from the same official MLP channel. As additional proof, here's the links to the exact same videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PzGEnlPQNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJ-ApMUFjo

I bailed out of YouTube four months ago because of the guidelines getting stricter and stricter these days, and my channel primarily comprised of AI videos, which is what the platform is now cracking down on. Besides, there's lots of other streaming services I can choose from besides YouTube, such as Disney+, Netflix, Tubi, Pluto TV, Roku, and among others.