Tricky Berry

Depends. Are links/pics of the leaked content allowed here? I'm relatively new to this site.

This post is incorrect about a lot of things, let's start with the most important one: G5 is NOT centered around the Mane 6 from G4. In fact, that is emphasized quite a few times throughout the leaked documents, I'm not even sure why this misconception is so widespread. They straight-up say in several instances that G5 will feature an entirely new cast of main characters. The only reason the art of the Mane 6 from is present in the docs, if anyone bothered to even read attached notes, is because A. The main characters of G5 had not been created at the time, and B. to test out the new artstyles. The characters that we currently call the Mane 6 will just be random characters in G5. Some of them might be background characters like Lyra, or secondary characters who are prominent for only an episode or two, like Coco. So that's one worry taken off your list. Let's get to the other one. No, it is most certainly NOT "too early". If anything, the content we saw in the leaks is pretty close to, if not THE, final drafts. How do we know this? Because, again, if anyone had bothered to read the rest of the documents, it is stated that G5 is starting with a feature-length CG film as its pilot, which will be airing in 2021. That means that everything has to be ready to begin production before they begin any work on the movie, since it's only 3 years from now, and CG movies take at LEAST that long to make. The only way the movie will be done by then is if they either began work soon after the leaks, or perhaps they had already begun work before the leaks happened. Bottom line is, it's actually too late for any major changes. If we had discovered these leaks 5 years ago or so, then yes, that would've been far too early for anything to be set in stone. But, with only 3 years to go, they've probably already been working on the movie for quite some time. Evidently I am one of the few who actually bothered to pay attention to all the info instead of just gawking at a single piece of art and making wild assumptions.

Just for clarification, that wasn't a mural; it was a statue of Tirek and Cozy Glow, the new antagonist for the S8 finale. It doesn't necessarily imply that Tirek is going to be reformed. When I first saw it, that wasn't even my first thought. I actually had thought it meant that Tirek and Cozy are going to be defeated and possibly petrified into a stature.