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  1. HedonismBot
    Certainly one of the must-see fan works for anyone in the fandom.
  2. HedonismBot
    This community may be what you're looking for:
  3. HedonismBot
    In the comics, the ponies didn't agree to it - Twilight did it to essentially blackmail the ponies into being nice to each other after Opaline started a race war. In the show, I'm pretty sure Sunny said something about the Unity Crystals having been created to keep the magic from being stolen by Opaline (though Sunny didn't mention her name). Either way, it raises the question of why "fire up the Elements of Harmony and toss Opaline in Tartarus" wasn't an option (or some other less drastic measure that wouldn't end up screwing over all of Equestria).
  4. HedonismBot
    The question now is, what will we all do after "Tell Your Tale" ends?
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    A few minutes of research would have told them how hard it is to make money with content for kids on Youtube. I would like to remain cautiously optimistic about what Hasbro has planned for the next year or two, but it's hard for me to have any faith in them after this.
  6. HedonismBot
    Plus spring 2025 is when Hasbro's contract with Discovery Family expires, and the rights to G4 and its characters are once again 100% theirs. It's not unreasonable to assume that they have something noteworthy planned for after that. On the other hand, it was said that the final "Tell Your Tale" episode will be on October 17, meaning that they've just set up a redemption arc for Allura that they won't be able to properly follow through with. Plus all the other stuff they won't be able to meaningfully address (Skyros, the other intelligent species featured in "Friendship is Magic", etc.). It's hard to have any faith in Hasbro if they can't finish what they start.
  7. HedonismBot
    And most people involved in the MLP fandom in any context have already seen the movie by now.
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    Or these specific clouds have some magical properties, which they would have to in order to hold up the machine. Though that raises the question of what it's been up to while the magic was gone.
  9. HedonismBot
    "Appleoosa's Most Wanted" featured a pony (Trouble Shoes) whose cutie mark actually was keeping him from desired career. And one season after this episode, "The Washouts" would show off Short Fuse, which was kicked out of the Wonderbolts over anger management issues and whose cutie mark suggests that his "special talent" is anger management issues. Imagine if Rumble had learned of either of them...
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    I mean, it's not unreasonable to assume that Hasbro has something planned for when that happens. And this does feel like something they might do to milk G4 nostalgia while still selling G5 toys.
  11. HedonismBot
    And somehow, this new feature of the Boardtrot was known to pony society except for the ponies who unleashed the magic that created the Boardtrot.
  12. HedonismBot
    The next special is due out soon, isn't it?
  13. HedonismBot
    The contract with Discovery Family is supposed to expire next spring. It's not unreasonable to assume that Hasbro has something planned for after that. If so, hopefully it will involve using the G4-G5 connection intelligently as opposed to mindlessly milking G4 nostalgia.
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    I've noticed a bunch of fans claiming that Iron Will did nothing wrong on account of Twilight's parents should have read the fine print. Yeah... no: a. Words like "free", "prize", and "won" by default mean that one will not have to pay anything for whatever it is. "They should have read the fine print" does not make it any less dishonest to offer a contract claiming to be one thing and have fine print stating something completely different. b. Iron Will advertised a "princess cruise" and had another set of fine print stating that he couldn't guarantee the participation of any actual princesses, but he his only effort at recruiting princesses amounted to blatant manipulation. Though she was also using her magic to stack other babies like toys, so...
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    And it looks like we'll be losing BABSCon after 2025, though there's still a good variety of conventions going on in multiple countries. We did get one new convention, but it was founded by 4chan.
  16. HedonismBot
    Plus the contract between Hasbro and Discovery Family (giving them partial rights to Friendship is Magic) is set to expire next spring. Hopefully, this will result in the G4-G5 connection being used more intelligently.
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    And then there's 2, 4, 6, Great!". Rainbow Dash being disappointed with being assigned to the cheer squad instead of actual athletics? Understandable. Shamelessly taking it out on the students, at least some of whom probably have her as a teacher? Not so much. Twilight knowingly giving Rainbow Dash a job she'd have no interest in so as to teach her a lesson - as if that's more important than ensuring that the students have teachers who actually care? Ummm... no.
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    Well, there was a statement from one of the staff to the effect of "if you see unusually advanced technology, assume it runs on magic:". Though between unicorn magic, earth pony strength, and pegasus speed, my best hope would probably be diplomacy - find out why the pony wants to fight, and explain that it won't accomplish anything. Or just try to pet them and hope it gets somewhere.
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    A spinoff starring the Student Six could have worked. For what it's worth, many of the worst parts of seasons 8 and 9 could have been avoided by showing the Mane Six in their roles as teachers and having them, you know, teaching the episodes' lessons rather than rolling back their character development so that they could keep learning lessons they should already know. There is Hello Pinkie Pie.
  20. HedonismBot
    Don't forget Animal Planet.
  21. HedonismBot
    I'm pretty sure there's nothing stopping them from planning ahead as long as they properly time the release dates relative to the contract's expiration date.
  22. HedonismBot
    Or do more with the G4-G5 connection, hopefully making at least a token effort to use it intelligently instead of shoehorning references in all over the place.
  23. HedonismBot
    I'm just hoping that when the contract does expire, Hasbro has plans to take advantage of it. That is, they better after they heavily promoted G5 as a sequel to G4 knowing full well they'd be limited in their ability to treat it as such.
  24. HedonismBot
    There's also the multiple episodes where one of the Mane Six had their character growth rolled back for the sake of a lesson. They're teachers - let them be the ones to teach the lessons.
  25. HedonismBot
    Not that popular? Japan has its own pony convention in Tokyo: https://ponycon.blog.ss-blog.jp/2024-01-04
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