2023: The WORST year for MLP!

[FirePuppy 627]

2023 has been the worst year for My Little Pony fans. The worst ever! Aside from all the Make Your Mark episodes on Netflix and Tell Your Tale on YouTube, we did not get much at all of anything else. All we got at all worldwide were the Korean dub of Friendship is Magic's final season, and Portugal finally getting Season 7 of FiM, Rainbow Roadtrip, and Pony Life. That is it -- nothing else. Which means all the 2019 Equestria Girls specials and Rainbow Roadtrip still remain banned in many countries including most of Northern and Western Europe and especially Turkey, the latter who has also banned the Disney movies Lightyear and Strange World.

Another piece of awful news this year is that no new digital home media releases occurred for the first time within an entire calendar year in My Little Pony history, for this generation or G5, with the New Generation movie being the last new release in April 2022. I checked iTunes, Amazon Video, and every other digital media store, and found absolutely nothing new! Which means you have to continue spending a buttload of money on Netflix to see one of the two series, and it's still downright illegal for streaming services and media stores to distribute Rainbow Roadtrip or the Friendship is Forever miniseries in the United States.

It's all because of one thing: Hasbro's force on its ownership with Discovery Family. I'm betting that right before the contract was previously set to expire by the end of 2021, in addition to extending it to 2025, they put an extreme amount of force into their ownership, which is what caused the show to be removed from Netflix instead of that other network, and eventually resulting in the entire My Little Pony library to return to DF without warning (including every season and episode that was previously taken out of circulation within the last few years), and all remaining Hasbro-owned programming (including My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) to now be the absolute oldest shows still airing there, even despite the shutdowns of the Discovery Family GO! app and the channel's official website. Which means you have to continue subscribing to cable (which will cost you a lot more than even Premium Netflix today) to see the show again, and I know none of you guys want to do that, and nor do I.

Of course, Pony Life was removed from both Hulu and Discovery Family in 2023, leaving only Season 9 of Friendship is Magic still on Hulu, but despite the show's removal, Discovery Family still owns the rights to it, meaning that no streaming service can acquire it now until the rights expire, likely because of the way Hasbro forced their shows to stay on DF, even if the channel refuses to air them.

I'm really hoping 2024 will be much better than this year was. On that marketing slide, where it says "Episodes will live on Netflix throughout 2024", it's basically a friendly way of saying, "You're getting nothing new this year!" Besides, Hasbro Entertainment really needs do something about all of its content, rather than just solely focus on the new stuff like Season 2 of Tell Your Tale.

[Misty Shadow 7,085]

This year was the worst year for MLP fans? I honestly feel that title belongs to 2020 if we're going by recent years, given that we basically only had Pony Life that year, a show that was essentially developed for the sole purpose of Hasbro wanting something to hold MLP fans over as they waited for the G5 movie. Wouldn't call this a great year for MLP by any means, but calling a year where we got what I honestly felt was some truly fantastic MLP content from Make Your Mark in addition to some good content from Tell Your Tale "the worst year for MLP"...just doesn't click with me. 

[FirePuppy 627]

41 minutes ago, Misty Shadow said:

Calling a year where we got what I honestly felt was some truly fantastic MLP content from Make Your Mark in addition to some good content from Tell Your Tale "the worst year for MLP"...just doesn't click with me. 

Unfortunately on that part, I terminated all of my YouTube channels because I very seldom watch YouTube nowadays, and I only used to use AI to make YouTube videos. Moreover, most of the official My Little Pony YouTube channels are doing no good for G4 fans. They go on hiatus every once in a while, sometimes even for a long time.

[Evil Pink One 12,997]

Whatya gonna do? Gen 5 didnt get much love. 

Only a few are making gen 5 content on you tube. I salute Makaryo for that.

Support him if you support gen 5. One who is great at making gen 5 content.

@Misty Shadow i tells ya you should make a youtube channel for gen 5 so it'll at least boost moral and wake the others up, who knows?.

Im sure your speech and blogs would do great for gen 5 if you placed at on a wider platform such as youtube.

[WubaDubDub 16]

Yeah, now the show is finished, the fan base is shrinking and no new content/music is being made.

the peak of the Brony fandom, was one of the best times of my life, found people like me, made lots of friends, had parties, love and friendship all around. 
 

but G5 looks like cheap watered down essence of G4, yes it was ok and the music was pretty good, but it lacks that equestria magic that made G4 bring everyone together (and upset 4chan  ) 

* Le sad flutter shy face * 

[Evil Pink One 12,997]

3 hours ago, WubaDubDub said:

Yeah, now the show is finished, the fan base is shrinking and no new content/music is being made.

the peak of the Brony fandom, was one of the best times of my life, found people like me, made lots of friends, had parties, love and friendship all around. 
 

but G5 looks like cheap watered down essence of G4, yes it was ok and the music was pretty good, but it lacks that equestria magic that made G4 bring everyone together (and upset 4chan  ) 

* Le sad flutter shy face * 

Actually i kinda liked what they did with the movie of gen 5... Maybe they shouldn't have made a movie THEN a series... Cuz the movie was lit.... Then boom tye series dropped it... For me.

[MadWitchJay 186]

Not sure if thats true or not, but it was this year, now last year, that I spent more time on the forum. Personally I'm more on the furry side, and don't follow anyting MLP related anymore.

Allthough I don't think G5 is the worst thing ever.

[Theautisticrebel 290]

I'd say 1999-2002 were the worst years for My Little Pony, as My Little Pony toys were only sold in Europe and there wasn't even a TV Series, just a videogame and a toyline.

[Evil Pink One 12,997]

1 hour ago, Theautisticrebel said:

I'd say 1999-2002 were the worst years for My Little Pony, as My Little Pony toys were only sold in Europe and there wasn't even a TV Series, just a videogame and a toyline.

Uh you have a point there

..... BUT where they even trying? I think they were just chillin and wasnt even putting much at the time so nothing lost nothing gained i guess?

But 2023.... I guess they werent even trying as well... BUT they are losing money and laying off people.... So thats that too... who knows... Maybe 2021 was their worst year?

[FirePuppy 627]

On 2024-01-01 at 6:51 PM, Evil Pink One said:

Uh you have a point there

..... BUT where they even trying? I think they were just chillin and wasnt even putting much at the time so nothing lost nothing gained i guess?

But 2023.... I guess they werent even trying as well... BUT they are losing money and laying off people.... So thats that too... who knows... Maybe 2021 was their worst year?

2021 was miles better than 2023. We got all Season 1 of Pony Life on digital VOD, and A New Generation on Netflix. And unless Hasbro does something good to G4, 2024 will be just as bad, maybe even worse, than 2023. And like I said in my first post, where it says "Always On: Episodes will live on Netflix throughout 2024", as seen here:

This is just a friendly way of saying, "You're getting nothing new this year!"

Edited January 25 by FirePuppy