I just figured out a possibility of how g5 can bring back the mane 6

[doomy343 16]

time travel, maybe sunny star secretly knows the mane 6 because she has her own secret time machine or some way to do time travel. I think the idea of time travel mlp might actually be cool, maybe princess celestia and luna could do time travel them selves, let's add that of an idea too the g5 show.

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

I feel like that would mess with the story G5 is trying to go for. They established the Mane 6 as long gone so it would be odd for them to suddenly return. Besides, that is just lazy writing to reuse the same characters and have them repeat things they have already done.

[doomy343 16]

3 hours ago, ExplosionMare said:

I feel like that would mess with the story G5 is trying to go for. They established the Mane 6 as long gone so it would be odd for them to suddenly return. Besides, that is just lazy writing to reuse the same characters and have them repeat things they have already done.

actually after rewatching the movie, I think I might actually like this new equestria better, if I had the choice to live in either ancient equestria, or modern equestria I might choose modern. I think sunny starscout is actually kind of a beatiful pony, maybe even more than twilight. I do wonder what twilight would think of modern equestria with technology like TV and iphones that didn't exist in ancient equestria. I guess mlp is like power rangers, you know everytime they start a season except the first one they always have new teams of rangers, I don't like the fact that they killed off mane 6 though, I kind of like to think that they just retired and went on to live else where, maybe they went to rainbow land you know where rainbow brite lives.

[Steve Piranha 29,421]

I’m expecting the Mane 6 to return once every important event. They’re Sunny’s idols after all 

[Megas 27,622]

They should only come back for an anniversary/crossover event and really nothing more 

[HereComesTom 2,267]

1 hour ago, Megas said:

They should only come back for an anniversary/crossover event and really nothing more 

I'm with Megas on this one:  right now, the G-4 ponies making a comeback is not a good idea, and as Solstice said, G-5 needs to be able to stand on its own right now. 

Once it's had a few decent story arcs, then it'll be time to think about an epic crossover.  That'll take at least a few years, but if the writing and characterization and comedy are good, then G-5 could last long enough to have that crossover.

The question that's going through my mind is:  would the crossover draw in G-1, G-2, and G-3 ponies as well?

[doomy343 16]

1 hour ago, Steve Piranha said:

I’m expecting the Mane 6 to return once every important event. They’re Sunny’s idols after all 

I feel like that mlp is turning into power rangers you know every season there's a new team of power rangers but on some occasions they'll bring back old power rangers it's usually tommy, I think it could be the same here maybe not all of the mane 6 maybe just twilight.

[Misty Shadow 7,862]

20 hours ago, ExplosionMare said:

I feel like that would mess with the story G5 is trying to go for. They established the Mane 6 as long gone so it would be odd for them to suddenly return. Besides, that is just lazy writing to reuse the same characters and have them repeat things they have already done.

This sums up my thoughts pretty well. It's also far more likely for us to soon get a story that will further cement the fact that the Mane 6 have passed on. They were popular enough to become an integral part of G5's lore, that's good enough for me. 

[doomy343 16]

7 hours ago, CloudMistDragon said:

This sums up my thoughts pretty well. It's also far more likely for us to soon get a story that will further cement the fact that the Mane 6 have passed on. They were popular enough to become an integral part of G5's lore, that's good enough for me. 

maybe it would be better if later in the show that the mane 6 where just a story that sunny starscouts father told her and his mother told him and it came popular and that's why there's mane 6 toys and merchandise, you know like spiderman, he's a comic book story but we have spiderman toys, merchandise and things like that so maybe the mane 6 were actually equestrias super hero stories, and that's all it was so that sunny starscouts father can keep her happy.

 

[Sparklefan1234 170,416]

On 2022-06-05 at 4:50 PM, Megas said:

They should only come back for an anniversary/crossover event and really nothing more 

 

Yeah! Like, the TMNT 2003  "Turtles Forever" special! 

[Splashee 28,563]

Anything can be fixed or broken with time travel.

It is a weak trick for the show's writers, when needed, to fix G5. It might be needed