BornAgainBrony

Tbh... if Dash just showed up out of nowhere.. after so much daydreaming and wishing I could meet her... I would probably suddenly go into fullblown first-time-meeting-new-someone... fluttershy mode, complete with facial color changes.

And the only way to do that is by rebooting? Star Wars and Harry Potter would like a word with you.

And being bearhugged by Dash is bad because... why?

Dunno, I suspect some kind of aerial race would logically be required here. Anyone got a pair of Russian MiGs we can borrow?

*cough* .......

Well I have seen very little of oldschool MLP, or at least don't remember much, but I've been sort of able to gather that G1 was the only one that was really noteworthy until G4. I can't see G4 EVER being lumped into "past generations." G4... kind of changed the world. It did something that no little girl show ever did before. It's much too big of a deal. G4 hit the moon. G5 would have to hit Pluto in order to make G4 unworthy of retaining its own unique place.

I think it's high time that Hasbro did away with "generations." G4 is an entirely different animal than what came before. It's too important to just "toss out and start over," like it was last season's Christmas tree. And yeah. After everything I've already been through, and especially only discovering this in 2018, I'm really, REALLY worried about how bad this could be. I'm really growing tired of surviving "apocalypses," and this means more to me than any show I've cared about in roughly 90% of my lifetime.

Well, realistically, they're called "My Little Pony." I'm guessing this was derived from G1 (since you can see them standing next to human children), but relative to us they're evidently not the size of normal horses, so saying they weigh 2500 lbs is probably way overboard. Also, weight is relative; I have a funny feeling their planet, if it's even a sphere, isn't nearly as large as Earth (which would make wingspan/weight ratios much more forgiving to support the idea of flying horses).

I'm definitely worried about it. I've been thinking of working on some kind of writing project about how to combat this very thing. Take a look at Furries. They've been a fandom that has been very slowly growing, and they don't even need a show to rally around. They create their own content and that's good enough to not only keep them going, but keep them growing, and some of their conventions last a whole WEEK!. Something like this will need to happen to supplement G4, and also G5 if it ends up being an unmitigated disaster. There are hints of this happening already though. Look at Ciderfest. While it's classified as a Bronycon, its core focus isn't actually the show, but rather music created by fans. First and foremost, it's a music festival. Yes, it has other typical Bronycon stuff going on, but music is at its core. As a result, it doesn't need Hasbro to survive. What it needs is musicians. I would love to see cons extend this concept to more than just music. Events that regularly premiere all sorts of things. A still-art gallery for traditional artists, screenings of new shorts and animations, etc, sort of like a Sundance festival. LARP events like what the Potter fandom does, renting out castles and having mock-Warts for a weekend. There's a lot that can be done that mostly hasn't even been tried yet. I'd be happy just to have a place a few times a year where MLP fans can just all gather, chill and hangout. I don't need for there to be tons of epic guests with signatures to chase after, or lots of panels. Just give me a cafe full of Ponies-at-heart and I'd be there for a weekend. In the end, it isn't up to Hasbro to keep Equestria alive. It's up to us.