Discovery Family no longer airing EG on weekends; last broadcast times for every piece of EG content to date

[FirePuppy 734]

With Summer Camp Island replacing all My Little Pony content on weekends on Discovery Family starting this July, that means the channel will no longer be airing any MLP content of any kind whatsoever on weekends, especially all Equestria Girls movies or specials. Discovery is doing this probably because they want to end their contract with Hasbro sooner than ever, and for the fact that everything is already on YouTube and KiDoodle TV.

Either way, here's all the last broadcast dates for everything EG on Discovery Family through June 2024 that I know of:

• Equestria Girls 1 - May 26, 2024
• Rainbow Rocks - April 14, 2024
• Rainbow Rocks shorts - June 29, 2024 (1:30 p.m.)
• Friendship Games - May 4, 2024
• Friendship Games shorts - June 29, 2024 (1:00 p.m.)
• Legend of Everfree - April 28, 2024
• Dance Magic - June 15, 2024 (1:30 p.m.)
• Movie Magic - June 23, 2024 (1:00 p.m.)
• Mirror Magic - June 23, 2024 (1:30 p.m.)
• Forgotten Friendship - June 9, 2024
• Rollercoaster of Friendship - June 8, 2024
• Spring Breakdown - June 30, 2024
• Sunset's Backstage Pass - June 1, 2024
• Holidays Unwrapped - January 1, 2024 (3:00 a.m.)

[Starlight Serenade 3,098]

This is great news as Discovery had really tied down every single little part of the G4 franchise in general, which inadvertently affected G5. From what I recall about syndication and other intellectual rights for media, some of the shows that were still airing on Discovery's platforms prevented the use of certain characters without explicit permission and royalties from Hasbro. EG is something that would still be considered in that vein. To me it is what would explain why a lot of characters are vaguely mentioned or rarely shown at all throughout G5 media despite being in the G4 timeline. However, with recent rumors that G5 may end in Spring of next year, I can see the argument that they might really end it early in favor for something else. Though I wouldn't be surprised if G5 had the sudden appearance of familiar faces anytime soon. I say good riddance to Discovery's contract as it seemingly had Hasbro's hands tied and it really showed.

Edited June 19 by Starlight Serenade

[Rafa Stary 2,894]

2 hours ago, FirePuppy said:

Discovery is doing this probably because they want to end their contract with Hasbro sooner than ever

I would say it's actually the opposite, Hasbro is the one who wants to end the contract 

1 hour ago, Starlight Serenade said:

with recent rumors that G5 may end in Spring of next year

WhuwhahwtahwtaWHAT???? I know I kept saying this multiple times throughout this year, but it was just my personal speculation, there are now rumors about it??? 

[KPackratt 249]

I'm glad I have all of the movies on Blu-ray, the Canterlot specials on DVD, and recordings of the Better Together specials that didn't get official releases on physical media in the US. On the bright side, this could be a sign that Discovery is starting to part ways from Hasbro, which could mean a better chance of G4 content staying on streaming instead of rotting on a dying cable TV channel.

[Starlight Serenade 3,098]

1 hour ago, Rafa Stary said:

I would say it's actually the opposite, Hasbro is the one who wants to end the contract 

From the looks of it, I think both got what they initially wanted and are ready to move on. Idk when they made the contract, but G4 did come out around a decade ago and the media landscape has since hten changed.

 

1 hour ago, Rafa Stary said:

WhuwhahwtahwtaWHAT???? I know I kept saying this multiple times throughout this year, but it was just my personal speculation, there are now rumors about it??? 

Oh yes, I recall you making some interesting posts about it. That and I recall seeing some Youtube shorts months ago saying that G5 was going to end by June of this year (which made no sense to me). Alongside those instances,  I got another YouTube short a few days ago saying that with how things are going that G5 will end in August or something. Idk why some have different end dates already lol 

The reality is that nopony has any legitimate proof that the end is coming. We can only speculate what will happen next and the best we can with the current information given.

My personal opinion- I speculate that we are around the midpoint for G5. Hasbro has implemented different approaches for the franchise and is slowly figuring out where they need to focus on. G5 is doing WAY better than some people think and things will be changing up during the next year. I found it interesting how the general opinion shifted more positively for TYT with the 2nd season and other projects too. (speaking of which - I need to catch up to the past month or so worth of episodes XD)

 

Edited June 19 by Starlight Serenade

[FirePuppy 734]

29 minutes ago, KPackratt said:

I'm glad I have all of the movies on Blu-ray, the Canterlot specials on DVD, and recordings of the Better Together specials that didn't get official releases on physical media in the US. On the bright side, this could be a sign that Discovery is starting to part ways from Hasbro, which could mean a better chance of G4 content staying on streaming instead of rotting on a dying cable TV channel.

I love the sound of that.

[Rafa Stary 2,894]

56 minutes ago, Starlight Serenade said:

Oh yes, I recall you making some interesting posts about it. That and I recall seeing some Youtube shorts months ago saying that G5 was going to end by June of this year (which made no sense to me). Alongside those instances,  I got another YouTube short a few days ago saying that with how things are going that G5 will end in August or something. Idk why some have different end dates already lol 

The reality is that nopony has any legitimate proof that the end is coming. We can only speculate what will happen next and the best we can with the current information given.

My personal opinion- I speculate that we are around the midpoint for G5. Hasbro has implemented different approaches for the franchise and is slowly figuring out where they need to focus on. G5 is doing WAY better than some people think and things will be changing up during the next year. I found it interesting how the general opinion shifted more positively for TYT with the 2nd season and other projects too. (speaking of which - I need to catch up to the past month or so worth of episodes XD)

Interesting, the main reasons for me to believe that the generation will be ending in March 2025 or at least in some point of 2025 are two:

1: The contract with Discovery Family ends in March 2025 according to Wikipedia, meaning that starting from April 2025, they can use anything from G4 again in animated media (I say this because the contract is apparently only restricted to that specific media, the comics aren't, the comics can use anything from G4)

2: The leaked image (or it wasn't leaked, can't remember) showing Hasbro's plans for MLP in 2024, says that Tell your Tale will continue into 2025, which for me begs the question, why specifically 2025? Why right the year where the contract with Discovery Family expires? It can be a coincidence, but I highly doubt it, why not just say "will continue in the next few years"? 

There is actually a extra point too, they're likely rushing the production for Tell Your Tale. During the run of Make Your Mark, it was given time for the production of the episodes of the 3D series, the development for stuff like the visuals and voice acting was probably all made in 2023. For Tell your Tale though, the final episodes from Season 1 were already done since 2022, 2022, and they were released just in the end of 2023. That means they already had the first Season of TyT completed long before Chapters 5 and 6 of MyM. And now, going to Season 2 of TyT, all the episodes released so far were made in 2023.

With that mind, considering that the final part of Season 1 was made in 2022, and was released just in the end of 2023, it's very likely that the episodes we'll be getting til the end of 2024 were all made in 2023, and they are already working in the episodes that are going to be released in 2025. I'm sure about that specially because of the leak from February (or it was from January? Can't remember) showing backgrounds from episodes up to 30 or 35, and we are just in episode 14.

That's pretty much it, there are more reasons but they are all just theories or pure speculation, and maybe it also contributes to this belief the fact that I've been overly just upset with TyT and gradually losing interest in it, but that doesn't matter so I'll save you from it. 

I also think about the possibility that maybe G5 will not end in 2025 and what we'll see after March will be a lot of things and characters from G4 being used again, either still in TyT or in a new series, but I think G5 ending seems more likely. Hasbro is not in a good situation, I won't discuss about the whole sales part and stuff, I prefer to talk about the more creative and artistic part of it, I'm really not into the bureaucratic part, sorry for that, but I'm very aware that it plays a major role in the situation. So I feel that Hasbro won't try to risk anymore, for me, TyT being the only animated production now demonstrates a cut of costs, they are trying to earn by spending as little as possible, so they canceled the big budget 3D show and now they are only producing the 2D show, which is so cheap and quick to make that they have the episodes done a whole year prior to their release.

They likely bet that going back to G4 will make the car work again, that's why we see some weird things like them replacing the G5 TyT banner in the official channel by a banner with G4 characters only, and G4 & Equestria Girls receiving more priority in the videos quantity and live streams.

So with all of this, I think we can already imagine how G6 is going to be like, but honestly, I've been thinking about a possibility for a few weeks now, it's something that @FirePuppy said, that maybe we won't even have a G6, when he said that for the first time I thought it was absurd, but stopping to think about it, I think it's indeed possible, and obviously very worrying 

[Misty Shadow 7,846]

3 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

WhuwhahwtahwtaWHAT???? I know I kept saying this multiple times throughout this year, but it was just my personal speculation, there are now rumors about it??? 

It's not that there are "now rumors about it", G5 being meant to last until at least 2025 was always the plan (which could have changed), as I've said in the past. Regardless, rumors are nothing to be ecstatic about. There were rumors being spread just very recently about FiM being "confirmed for a Season 10" and someone even speculated that it was going to be...I'm not joking, "put back on Discovery Family because Hasbro sold MLP to Discovery".

Oh yeah, and then there was also that whole TYT AI lie fiasco just recently. Rumors are nothing to be over the moon for. 

[Rafa Stary 2,894]

I know that rumors aren't reliable, for that reason they are rumors, it's just that I'm surprised there are more people talking about it now, which means that it's a recurring subject in the fandom and not just something that I speculated about with a few other fans, but in overall, I only trust official information and leaks that are proved to be genuine. And hm, not sure, as far I as know, it was only said that TyT will continue in 2025, and nothing more, I never saw anything about G5 planned to last until 2025, hm? 

[donutmasterjoe 201]

3 hours ago, Starlight Serenade said:

That and I recall seeing some Youtube shorts months ago saying that G5 was going to end by June of this year (which made no sense to me). Alongside those instances,  I got another YouTube short a few days ago saying that with how things are going that G5 will end in August or something. Idk why some have different end dates already lol 

TyT S2 just started so no way G5 will end that soon lmao 

[Starlight Serenade 3,098]

2 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

Interesting, the main reasons for me to believe that the generation will be ending in March 2025 or at least in some point of 2025 are two:

1: The contract with Discovery Family ends in March 2025 according to Wikipedia, meaning that starting from April 2025, they can use anything from G4 again in animated media (I say this because the contract is apparently only restricted to that specific media, the comics aren't, the comics can use anything from G4)

2: The leaked image (or it wasn't leaked, can't remember) showing Hasbro's plans for MLP in 2024, says that Tell your Tale will continue into 2025, which for me begs the question, why specifically 2025? Why right the year where the contract with Discovery Family expires? It can be a coincidence, but I highly doubt it, why not just say "will continue in the next few years"? 

There is actually a extra point too, they're likely rushing the production for Tell Your Tale. During the run of Make Your Mark, it was given time for the production of the episodes of the 3D series, the development for stuff like the visuals and voice acting was probably all made in 2023. For Tell your Tale though, the final episodes from Season 1 were already done since 2022, 2022, and they were released just in the end of 2023. That means they already had the first Season of TyT completed long before Chapters 5 and 6 of MyM. And now, going to Season 2 of TyT, all the episodes released so far were made in 2023.

With that mind, considering that the final part of Season 1 was made in 2022, and was released just in the end of 2023, it's very likely that the episodes we'll be getting til the end of 2024 were all made in 2023, and they are already working in the episodes that are going to be released in 2025. I'm sure about that specially because of the leak from February (or it was from January? Can't remember) showing backgrounds from episodes up to 30 or 35, and we are just in episode 14.

That's pretty much it, there are more reasons but they are all just theories or pure speculation, and maybe it also contributes to this belief the fact that I've been overly just upset with TyT and gradually losing interest in it, but that doesn't matter so I'll save you from it. 

I also think about the possibility that maybe G5 will not end in 2025 and what we'll see after March will be a lot of things and characters from G4 being used again, either still in TyT or in a new series, but I think G5 ending seems more likely. Hasbro is not in a good situation, I won't discuss about the whole sales part and stuff, I prefer to talk about the more creative and artistic part of it, I'm really not into the bureaucratic part, sorry for that, but I'm very aware that it plays a major role in the situation. So I feel that Hasbro won't try to risk anymore, for me, TyT being the only animated production now demonstrates a cut of costs, they are trying to earn by spending as little as possible, so they canceled the big budget 3D show and now they are only producing the 2D show, which is so cheap and quick to make that they have the episodes done a whole year prior to their release.

They likely bet that going back to G4 will make the car work again, that's why we see some weird things like them replacing the G5 TyT banner in the official channel by a banner with G4 characters only, and G4 & Equestria Girls receiving more priority in the videos quantity and live streams.

So with all of this, I think we can already imagine how G6 is going to be like, but honestly, I've been thinking about a possibility for a few weeks now, it's something that @FirePuppy said, that maybe we won't even have a G6, when he said that for the first time I thought it was absurd, but stopping to think about it, I think it's indeed possible, and obviously very worrying 

It's understandable how you can speculate and feel that, and I respect it. I try to keep an open mind and don't intend to criticize people as I want everyone to obtain a better understanding of the big picture and why things happen.

I look at things through a business lens as that's what I have been studying and currently trying to learn more about business decisions made behind the scenes. A lot of production changes could mean so many things, I could even start a video essay/rant on it, but I rather keep my sanity and avoiding going into long debates that go nowhere.

Honestly speaking - I am actually disappointed with the implementation they took with G5, but have fairly enjoyed some of the series. As months before the movie released,  I finished watching G4 and was sad that there wasn't much activity online as it was already over at that point. The initial movie and interviews around that the time from eOne/Hasbro's executives really hyped G5 to revamp the franchise, but not in the way anyone would have expected it.

It's why I speculated before that it was the reason why many G4 characters have not shown up in G5 and why G5 ended up the way it currently is. From some of the interviews I saw, Hasbro originally had plans to do so many things such as world building/expanding upon the G4 world, but the rights for characters and ideas fell through. Otherwise, there is no legitimate explanation that makes sense on why they made all their current decisions. Not even monetary, because they could've made so much more! Don't you find it odd that Twilight, Spike, and the princesses were shown briefly in G5 media(not counting the comics) and did not do much?

From all the financials and news that I could find publicly online, it's why I believe G5 may still have some more shelf life left. I thought it was obvious that they never planned for a season 2 of TYT until they saw the huge online following and wanted to pump out something immediately, as they were still dealing with MYM on Netflix. It's why the production and release schedule changed in the past year. That and please consider the industry wide writers strike a year ago that affected multiple industry projects by pushing things back.

2D animation has always been much cheaper and easier to produce than doing 3D/CGI. Its why they took out all the celebrity actors from the movie and put all these unknown voice actors for the main cast for the other series. When I heard that they hired those famous actors for the movie, I was like- "they are not coming back for a 2D series as it would be too expensive to have them recurring for Hasbro". It makes complete sense why they focused over to the cheaper TYT on Youtube after they reviewed everything and completed the deal with Netflix on MYM. It's why when something happens in TYT/MYM, they are quickly recapped or vaguely mentioned like when Misty joined the crew for example.

One theory I had a year ago was that they may start an entirely new MLP series that airs only on Youtube in the future and they are testing the waters with TYT. Currently, I think Hasbro is aiming to keep various series rotating on multiple platforms for monetization purposes for the foreseeable future. However that doesn't mean that they won't do another 3D/CGI series, I have a feeling they might make another limited series and/or special soon as they did a while back for TYT.

As for G4- they tried to make the Pony Life series to replicate the success of Teen Titans Go(look at the glaring similarities), but it did not fare well I believe as I haven't heard anything for a while. They still did some G4 collabs like some "mlp themed shops" in Asia with G4 and even Magic The Gathering did a collab recently as they are both owned by Hasbro.

If they try to go back to G4 after whatever they do with G5, I think they will attempt to revamp G4 and it will never be the same. The early popularity that G4 experienced was lightning in a bottle that unfortunately ran out midway as that series declined. If they try to make another gen, I think they should take some ideas from G4 and G5, but let the new series take place away from them.

Edited June 19 by Starlight Serenade

[Rafa Stary 2,894]

19 hours ago, Starlight Serenade said:

It's understandable how you can speculate and feel that, and I respect it. I try to keep an open mind and don't intend to criticize people as I want everyone to obtain a better understanding of the big picture and why things happen.

I look at things through a business lens as that's what I have been studying and currently trying to learn more about business decisions made behind the scenes. A lot of production changes could mean so many things, I could even start a video essay/rant on it, but I rather keep my sanity and avoiding going into long debates that go nowhere.

Honestly speaking - I am actually disappointed with the implementation they took with G5, but have fairly enjoyed some of the series. As months before the movie released,  I finished watching G4 and was sad that there wasn't much activity online as it was already over at that point. The initial movie and interviews around that the time from eOne/Hasbro's executives really hyped G5 to revamp the franchise, but not in the way anyone would have expected it.

Thanks, that is a important view, there are a lot of things we don't understand given how private and coporate they are, so it's always good to have that vision in this subject.

I truly believe Hasbro was confident with G5 in the beginning, I said that multiple times too, if we look back at the investment they put into this generation until 2023, we'll see that it was pretty much almost the same amount of investment put into G4, with 2 series going on, one of them being long and in 3D, a Movie, the comics, and there are even the console videogames, something that not even G4 got. Now we only have the cheap short 2D show, a videogame and the comics, which for me sounds like a huge downgrade and represents a cut of costs. I'm sure, if G5 was very successful, we would still be getting new MyM episodes, maybe even a new movie.

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It's why I speculated before that it was the reason why many G4 characters have not shown up in G5 and why G5 ended up the way it currently is. From some of the interviews I saw, Hasbro originally had plans to do so many things such as world building/expanding upon the G4 world, but the rights for characters and ideas fell through. Otherwise, there is no legitimate explanation that makes sense on why they made all their current decisions. Not even monetary, because they could've made so much more! Don't you find it odd that Twilight, Spike, and the princesses were shown briefly in G5 media(not counting the comics) and did not do much?

To be fair, I think Spike had a very decent amount of screen time in MyM's final chapter. And Twilight, even though she barely appears for obvious reasons, I think she has done her role. But yeah, it's weird, for me it's problematic specially because after the Opaline arc ended, they completely forgot anything about the connections with G4, the characters, the references, everything is now ignored, Twilight is no more mentioned, she was mentioned multiple times throughout MyM, so it almost feels like that they're pretending that the whole "sequel to G4" thing didn't happen, which really bothers me and it's undoubtedly weird, because it just wasn't natural. It's even weirder when you look at TyT, you'll notice that the 2D series never, in any way, references G4 or talk about G4, that show completely ignored anything from G4 since Season 1. The only references to G4 as far as I can remember were just 2 easter eggs, Sunny wearing a Nightmare Moon costume, and Sunny's mom showing the Mane six mini figures in one of the latest episodes, that's all. It just feels weird to me, did they really came to the point of not paying Discovery Family anymore for the use of these characters and elements? No clue.

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From all the financials and news that I could find publicly online, it's why I believe G5 may still have some more shelf life left. I thought it was obvious that they never planned for a season 2 of TYT until they saw the huge online following and wanted to pump out something immediately, as they were still dealing with MYM on Netflix. It's why the production and release schedule changed in the past year. That and please consider the industry wide writers strike a year ago that affected multiple industry projects by pushing things back.

With how advanced Season 2 of TyT was already in production before the 5th chapter of MyM, I have my doubts, but we don't know for sure. The writers strike must be considered indeed but I personally don't think it affected a series like MLP that much, but that is just my personal thought, we have no info on it. I think it's more likely that the TyT episodes were delayed for something else, one of the reasons being the commemorative dates, they delayed the episodes so the release of some of them containing a specific theme could match a commemorative day with the same thematic, such as the Easter episode releasing in Easter, Sunny's mother episode releasing in Mother's day etc. It's unfortunate though that the latter schedule for 2023 failed, as they released the TyT recap episode for MyM's Chapter 6 a month before the release of Chapter 6 

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One theory I had a year ago was that they may start an entirely new MLP series that airs only on Youtube in the future and they are testing the waters with TYT. Currently, I think Hasbro is aiming to keep various series rotating on multiple platforms for monetization purposes for the foreseeable future. However that doesn't mean that they won't do another 3D/CGI series, I have a feeling they might make another limited series and/or special soon as they did a while back for TYT.

I'm with donutmasterjoe in this one, I really don't think we are getting a new 3D series or anything in the future of G5, TyT will remain as the only G5 animated production post-2023, after Season 2 ends, maybe they'll renew it for a Season 3, but my bet is: TyT Season 2 ends, with one of the 3 remaining specials (which are officially planned, so it's not your feeling, it's a fact), Generation ends. I really doubt they'll invest in making another 3D series or something similar for this generation. I know there was that person from G5's staff saying in discord that we may still get new 3D series or content for G5, but for me that doesn't mean anything, but we never know, let's wait.

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As for G4- they tried to make the Pony Life series to replicate the success of Teen Titans Go(look at the glaring similarities), but it did not fare well I believe as I haven't heard anything for a while. They still did some G4 collabs like some "mlp themed shops" in Asia with G4 and even Magic The Gathering did a collab recently as they are both owned by Hasbro.

I think it was also mostly made to fill the gap between the end of FiM and the A New Generation movie, feels a lot like a transition generation (G4.5), so they did some alternative minor cheap content while they were working on the new generation, and I must admit, it was really fast. FiM ended in late 2019, Pony Life started in late 2020, and G5 started in late 2021. I think that shows how the pandemic had little effect on the series, which makes sense to me, I heard multiple times that the pandemic wasn't that much of a problem for the animation department, but I'm not completely sure if it's true. I also said this because I saw some people saying that if we ever get a G6, it won't be made right after G5, that it would took 4-5 years after the end of G5 for G6 to happen. I highly doubt it, if even with the pandemic, G5 only took 2 years to arriive, then I think it's unlikely for G6 to take that long to happen, but there must be more internal problems that I'm not aware of, and maybe that indeed makes G6 take years to happen. 

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If they try to go back to G4 after whatever they do with G5, I think they will attempt to revamp G4 and it will never be the same. The early popularity that G4 experienced was lightning in a bottle that unfortunately ran out midway as that series declined. If they try to make another gen, I think they should take some ideas from G4 and G5, but let the new series take place away from them.

Fully agreed, that's something I said multiple times here too when MyM ended. The explosion that G4 was just wasn't meant to happen in any way, it was a anomaly, a lot of factors at that time in the early 2010's contributed to FiM being a hit, it was a different world, and these factors just aren't present in our current world anymore, MLP is not going to be a hit again, the struggles that the western market and media are facing nowadays just makes it a completely unfavorable scenario for not only this franchise but also many other franchises, it depends on a lot of luck now for something to turn out well, it's the unfortunate current era we're now living 

Edit: I just noticed that we are completely off-topic here, how the hell are we talking about this in a thread focused on Equestria Girls ending its run in Discovery family? 

Edited June 20 by Rafa Stary

[Starlight Serenade 3,098]

2 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

Thanks, that is a important view, there are a lot of things we don't understand given how private and coporate they are, so it's always good to have that vision in this subject.

I truly believe Hasbro was confident with G5 in the beginning, I said that multiple times too, if we look back at the investment they put into this generation until 2023, we'll see that it was pretty much almost the same amount of investment put into G4, with 2 series going on, one of them being long and in 3D, a Movie, the comics, and there are even the console videogames, something that not even G4 got. Now we only have the cheap short 2D show, a videogame and the comics, which for me sounds like a huge downgrade and represents a cut of costs. I'm sure, if G5 was very successful, we would still be getting new MyM episodes, maybe even a new movie.

To be fair, I think Spike had a very decent amount of screen time in MyM's final chapter. And Twilight, even though she barely appears for obvious reasons, I think she has done her role. But yeah, it's weird, for me it's problematic specially because after the Opaline arc ended, they completely forgot anything about the connections with G4, the characters, the references, everything is now ignored, Twilight is no more mentioned, she was mentioned multiple times throughout MyM, so it almost feels like that they're pretending that the whole "sequel to G4" thing didn't happen, which really bothers me and it's undoubtedly weird, because it just wasn't natural. It's even weirder when you look at TyT, you'll notice that the 2D series never, in any way, references G4 or talk about G4, that show completely ignored anything from G4 since Season 1. The only references to G4 as far as I can remember were just 2 easter eggs, Sunny wearing a Nightmare Moon costume, and Sunny's mom showing the Mane six mini figures in one of the latest episodes, that's all. It just feels weird to me, did they really came to the point of not paying Discovery Family anymore for the use of these characters and elements? No clue.

With how advanced Season 2 of TyT was already in production before the 5th chapter of MyM, I have my doubts, but we don't know for sure. The writers strike must be considered indeed but I personally don't think it affected a series like MLP that much, but that is just my personal thought, we have no info on it. I think it's more likely that the TyT episodes were delayed for something else, one of the reasons being the commemorative dates, they delayed the episodes so the release of some of them containing a specific theme could match a commemorative day with the same thematic, such as the Easter episode releasing in Easter, Sunny's mother episode releasing in Mother's day etc. It's unfortunate though that the latter schedule for 2023 failed, as they released the TyT recap episode for MyM's Chapter 6 a month before the release of Chapter 6 

I'm with donutmasterjoe in this one, I really don't think we are getting a new 3D series or anything in the future of G5, TyT will remain as the only G5 animated production post-2023, after Season 2 ends, maybe they'll renew it for a Season 3, but my bet is: TyT Season 2 ends, with one of the 3 remaining specials (which are officially planned, so it's not your feeling, it's a fact), Generation ends. I really doubt they'll invest in making another 3D series or something similar for this generation. I know there was that person from G5's staff saying in discord that we may still get new 3D series or content for G5, but for me that doesn't mean anything, but we never know, let's wait.

I think it was also mostly made to fill the gap between the end of FiM and the A New Generation movie, feels a lot like a transition generation (G4.5), so they did some alternative minor cheap content while they were working on the new generation, and I must admit, it was really fast. FiM ended in late 2019, Pony Life started in late 2020, and G5 started in late 2021. I think that shows how the pandemic had little effect on the series, which makes sense to me, I heard multiple times that the pandemic wasn't that much of a problem for the animation department, but I'm not completely sure if it's true. I also said this because I saw some people saying that if we ever get a G6, it won't be made right after G5, that it would took 4-5 years after the end of G5 for G6 to happen. I highly doubt it, if even with the pandemic, G5 only took 2 years to arriive, then I think it's unlikely for G6 to take that long to happen, but there must be more internal problems that I'm not aware of, and maybe that indeed makes G6 take years to happen. 

Fully agreed, that's something I said multiple times here too when MyM ended. The explosion that G4 was just wasn't meant to happen in any way, it was a anomaly, a lot of factors at that time in the early 2010's contributed to FiM being a hit, it was a different world, and these factors just aren't present in our current world anymore, MLP is not going to be a hit again, the struggles that the western market and media are facing nowadays just makes it a completely unfavorable scenario for not only this franchise but also many other franchises, it depends on a lot of luck now for something to turn out well, it's the unfortunate current era we're now living 

Edit: I just noticed that we are completely off-topic here, how the hell are we talking about this in a thread focused on Equestria Girls ending its run in Discovery family? 

I think we are going off-topic as I was the one initially considering the potential implications of EG moving away from Discovery and where things could end up.

I'll respond with a quick summation to your responses as I don't want to take anymore space from the original topic:

I agree, they had seemingly had a plan at the start, however there were multiple factors at play that changed things. I would be inclined to agree that if G5 was very successful, they would be doing a lot more. If it was a flop, they would have cancelled TYT after the first season and not bother with multiple chapters of MYM with Netflix. I would say it has been moderately successful with the high social media numbers, multiple series/long running show, movie, specials, etc. However, Hasbro's business implementation really squandered its true potential if anything.

I'm pretty sure they had production delays due to the pandemic, the writers strike, and other things that can't come to mind atm, we can't estimate or underestimate how much those factors changed things. The pandemic certainly affected multiple industries across the board and everyone adapted much differently. That and there are different animation teams for these series. We will have to double check, but Hasbro may have a big studio or multiple studios animating everything. A studio can have multiple departments working on multiple series and its not uncommon for a studio to outsource work to another or freelancers. Those could be reasons why the turnaround time in releases felt fast. Maybe one day we will have more insight on that process. I have heard similar things that some artists working on the projects claim this or that, but I take it with a pinch of salt as its a lot of finger-pointing. We'll see if another series comes out in the next year. As for Pony Life - I agree that it felt a bit transitional as they worked on G5's movie and other projects,  but it really came off as a cash grab to me. If they really don't have anymore plans for G5 for the next year- I would assume that they are already in the beginning stages of planning G6(or whatever they end up doing) at this point as they need to map things out early.