Why Tell Your Tale's Biweekly Release Schedule is Completely Unnecessary

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

Since I've stopped watching TyT, I've been noticing how the people who actually like this show are constantly complaining about this specific same detail that isn't actually about the show itself, but its release schedule, they are truly annoyed by it, and I truly agree that it was indeed very frustrating to wait 2 weeks for a story that is just 5 minutes long.

But, trust me, it can get worse, if you think it's already very frustrating the way it is, then I'll show you something that it'll make you even more frustrated, with evidence, this is a informative post, yes I'm still going to speculate a few things, but most of what I’m going to show here is info seen in official released material, a lot of what I'm going to say here I already said actually, but it was in my posts where I criticize TyT, so I decided to make a post solely to talk about this fact. I’m going to show how your frustration about TyT's biweekly schedule is completely justifiable, not exactly because of the stories, but because there's absolutely no reason for Hasbro to not release episodes every week, at least not a reason we can think of.

Well, I think you might remember when Hasbro accidentally spoiled the 6th Chapter of Make Your Mark in 2023 when they released Season 1 Episode 67 “The Rise and Fall” a week before the release of Chapter 6.

That may make you think that Hasbro just really messed up the release dates and that the TyT episode was made after Make Your Mark's Chapter 6, that is something very logical to believe, but in reality, it's far from that, and I mean, veeeery far.

Episode 67 of Tell Your Tale's Season 1, a Episode that recapitulates the first two episodes of Make Your Mark's chapter 6, was actually made before MYM's Chapter 6, not only that, but also before Chapter 5! Not only episode 67, but pretty much all of the latter half of Season 1 was already finished months, moooonths before the last two chapters of Make Your Mark, while they were still showing us Opaline, they were already working in Season 2 of Tell your Tale.

The evidence? Simple, look at the credits of both productions:

Credits for the final episode of Tell your Tale's 1st Season (“©2022”) 

Credits for the 5th Chapter of Make Your Mark (“©2023”) (thank you Netflix for not allowing me to take screencaps )

As you can see, the copyright section officially states that the former was produced before the latter, you may ask, how is this possible? Simple, Tell your Tale is a show that is super cheap to produce, not only its episodes are shorter, but its animation is a lot easier and faster to be made than something like FiM's, and of course, Make Your Mark's 3D animation.

It's cheap to this point where they already had the final episode of the first episode completed back in 2022, while we only got to watch it a full year later, on December 21, 2023.

And don't think that it's different now, no, it continues that way, have you tried to look at the credits of the Season 2 episodes?

I know I've said that I stopped watching the show, but I skipped the episode released this week just to check its credits, and well, just as I thought

Credits for the latest episode, Season 2 Episode 17 (“©2023”)

So pretty much all of the episodes we got so far were all made back in 2023, and now I'm going to make a prediction, so mark my words so you can charge me in the future. I bet the next 30 or 40 episodes were all made in 2023 as well, maybe the 2nd 20 minutes special as well, I'm very sure about it, now it's just speculation, but even for this part, I'm going to bring some evidence:

If all of the latter half of the First Season was finished back in 2022, then the first half was probably made back in 2021, after all, the show debuted in April 2022, right? Well, no, the show is cheap enough to the point that they can actually make 70 episodes in a single year.

Let's check the credits for the very first episode of the series.

Credits for Season 1 Episode 1 (“©2022”) (had to take it from a unofficial upload because the official one just keeps translating the title for me for some reason, the translated one don't includes the Season & Ep numbers )

So this shows us that indeed the entire first season of Tell your Tale was made and completed in 2022, which shows how much a single year is more than enough for them to produce this number of episodes. Now, considering this, and the fact that all the Season 2 episodes we got so far were all made back in 2023, then I can pretty much assure that around 40 or 50 episodes of Season 2 are already completed at this point, I'm sure about it, now, I don't say 70 because of a problem that occurred in 2023.

The Writers Strike in 2023, I really don't need to explain it, but you remember it, you may think that this strike could be the reason for the change in the schedule, and that it delayed the episodes production, but honestly, no, I highly doubt the strike affected TyT that much, yes, It must've delayed it for sure, but not to the point that it forced them to completely change the schedule for the show, no.

1-The strike lasted only 5 months, not an entire year.

2-if they could make 70 episodes in 12 months, then 7 months should be enough for them to produce at least an amount of episodes next to 70, that's why my bet is that they already have around 40-50 episodes done.

3-Actually, we don't even know if Season 1 was really made in 12 months, maybe it was completed in 11, 10 months or less, the time necessary for these episodes to be made could be even shorter than we imagine.

4-Let's also remember that Season 1 was for the most part released biweekly as well, so if they already had a similar schedule before, if all of the episodes were already made in 2022, and these Season 2 episodes we're all getting were probably all made back in early 2023, then that strongly suggests that the episodes are made non-stop, Season 1 was finished and they already went straight for the production of Season 2.

5-I highly doubt that if it had affected them that much, they would have even thought about making an initial weekly schedule to begin with, if they had, the most logical would have been to start Season 2 with the biweekly release.

Now, this one isn't really official, it's a leak, but it's still true. Do you remember about the Leak from March? The leak showing concept arts, backgrounds for episodes of some episodes from Season 1 and Season 2, and of course, backgrounds for episodes that we still have to see, and, oh well, the last image says “Episode 35”:

Spoiler

https://www.tumblr.com/g5mlp/745642949141004288/spoilers-warning-a-lot-of-concepts-art-of-season?source=share

So this clearly shows how advanced in production Season 2 is, let's remember that just because this was leaked in March and they only have up to Episode 35 of concept arts, it doesn't mean that as of March they've only made 35 episodes, no, the leak is clearly quite random, the leak only shows us that they already made up to episode 35 of the season, and not that 35 was the latest episode they've worked on until March.

Now, another bet, considering that they already completed Season 1 in 2022, and that it took almost 2 entire years for all the episodes to be released…

At this point, while we are still stuck in the pre-20 episodes, they have already finished all the episodes that we are going to see in 2024, now they must be working on the ones that are going to be released in 2025, why 2025? Well, in 2023, that was how much TyT was promised to last, 2 more years, according to this magazine, it's official:

So, if we got the first half of TyT's Season 1 in 2022, and the second half in 2023, then it's very easy and safe to assume that the first 40 episodes of Season 2 are going to be released in 2024, and the other 40 episodes in 2025.

Though, it's not really that coherent, if they really continue with this biweekly schedule til December, then we won't even get up to episode 30 before 2025, which is much worse.

And well, that's everything, now, why the heck did they change the schedule for the show? 

I have absolutely no idea, while it's very easy to speculate and draw conclusions on the production of the show, I just can't think about anything that could explain this change.

Specially now that they don't have a 3D show holding them anymore, so the production for the show should be faster than ever, it's just extremely unlikely that they would run out of episodes if they kept the weekly schedule, they're rushing so much, why?

So no one has absolutely any idea what is the reason behind this change, all we can do is really make crazy theories and speculations with no basis at all.

I've already said my two crazy theories in a few posts months ago:

1-Maybe the latter episodes of the show are going to have a massive use of characters snd elements from G4, but since Discovery Family still owns the rights of this material, Hasbro can't really release it, they can produce the episodes with G4 stuff, but can't release them until the contract expires, and the contract will end in March 2025, so they delayed the episodes in order to make them available only after March 2025, if they kept the weekly schedule, then episodes with G4 stuff would be released prior to the expiration of the contract, so Hasbro would need to pay Discovery Family, something they're probably avoiding to do.

But like I said, there's nothing that really supports this theory, I don't even know how the contract works, maybe Hasbro is not only not allowed to release animated content with G4 stuff, but also not allowed to produce this type of content at all.

2-They're rushing the production of the show because they want this generation to end as soon as possible so they can already work with G6 in 2025, or prepare for it. They said TyT was going to continue into 2025, but what about 2026? 2027? Is it not going to get a 3rd Season? For that reason I think it's possible that they're really already working on G5's finale for 2025, and the rushed production tells me that maybe they don't want the franchise to enter in a hiatus after G5 ends, that they want G6 to start right after G5 ends, already in 2025.

This one seems more likely to be the case in my opinion, though I don't trust it very much, if we ever get a G6 I don't think it's going to happen before 2027 or 2028.

That's pretty much it, I really hope they give us a explanation for it in the future, or that someone leaks it, and if it happens, let's hope that it's a good reason, A VERY GOOD ONE (which I think it's very unlikely, but let's wait), wish all the world's patience for those who are watching it and feeling frustrated, hope they go back to the weekly schedule so it can less painful to you.

If you have any theories too, please share them, thank you. ☆

[Misty Shadow 7,867]

I'm sure most of us have been finding the biweekly schedule unnecessary from the outset. I've never liked it, finding it silly to have to wait two weeks for a short episode, but I also definitely feel that we should not be letting it get to us and make certain episodes out to be far worse than they actually are. Short-form content and long waits for short batches of content are becoming normalized more and more. 

[Starlight Serenade 3,248]

2 hours ago, Misty Shadow said:

I'm sure most of us have been finding the biweekly schedule unnecessary from the outset. I've never liked it, finding it silly to have to wait two weeks for a short episode, but I also definitely feel that we should not be letting it get to us and make certain episodes out to be far worse than they actually are. Short-form content and long waits for short batches of content are becoming normalized more and more. 

Pretty much, I thought for a biweekly format for a 5 minute episode was completely unnecessary. However, depending on the size of the team working on the show, it could take them 2-3 weeks tops to animate a single 5 minute episode of a show. The studio I saw in the credits for TYT mention the independent studio Lil Critter Workshop based in Malaysia.

My theory is that they did this schedule on purpose to kill time until their both their contract with Discovery ends next year and when the next "announcement/project" is ready. This way they can make whatever adjustments needed. Since they had a first and second season with lots of views, I am sure they are readjusting their plans now.  I have a feeling that we will get an announcement or update soon.

Also, I agree that short form content is being more normalized now as kids have short attention spans and they do advertise everything on social media platforms too, so I can see this format being effective for their target audience.

 

4 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

1-Maybe the latter episodes of the show are going to have a massive use of characters snd elements from G4, but since Discovery Family still owns the rights of this material, Hasbro can't really release it, they can produce the episodes with G4 stuff, but can't release them until the contract expires, and the contract will end in March 2025, so they delayed the episodes in order to make them available only after March 2025, if they kept the weekly schedule, then episodes with G4 stuff would be released prior to the expiration of the contract, so Hasbro would need to pay Discovery Family, something they're probably avoiding to do.

But like I said, there's nothing that really supports this theory, I don't even know how the contract works, maybe Hasbro is not only not allowed to release animated content with G4 stuff, but also not allowed to produce this type of content at all.

2-They're rushing the production of the show because they want this generation to end as soon as possible so they can already work with G6 in 2025, or prepare for it. They said TyT was going to continue into 2025, but what about 2026? 2027? Is it not going to get a 3rd Season? For that reason I think it's possible that they're really already working on G5's finale for 2025, and the rushed production tells me that maybe they don't want the franchise to enter in a hiatus after G5 ends, that they want G6 to start right after G5 ends, already in 2025.

I believe we talked about 1 and 2 before on several posts in the past as well. I wrote in posts from a long time ago too where I put the reason why they haven't had assets from G4 not show up yet was because of animated licensing issues. There are some copyrights where they could charge anytime an asset is used and Hasbro would not want to pay those rights, so waiting for the contract to be up will save them more money. When the contract with Discovery ends, we will see if this was true if we start seeing G4 characters suddenly showing up in the animated arena. One of my theories was that TYT might end by 2025 Spring, just in time for the contract with Discovery to end, for a brand new show that will host G4 characters in the G5 timeline. Or maybe even a revamp of G4?

However, in the meantime, they have to kill time, which is why I think they purposely switched to a 2 week schedule to kill time and make whatever adjustments as needed now that they have more viewer metrics/data as well.

I found out that TYT season 1 has multiple episodes where they averaged a million views each on Youtube and others that have a few hundred thousand. Season 2 only has around 17 episodes so far, but they already have several episodes that have over a million views each too.  The other episodes have either 10s of thousands to a few hundred thousand views as well!

However, I just found out an interesting tidbit of information!!! Idk if you knew this!

MLP TYT is actually being released on two official MLP youtube channels! Some of the season 1 eps were first being released on the "My Little Pony Official Channel" and then later on on the "My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale" official channel once that was set up. Other times, some of the episodes are being re-released on both channels. Clips from episodes too!

All the views that I have mentioned to this point have only been from the "My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale" official channel (1st screenshot)

Now look at that number from the second screenshot!

Wow, that means that MLP TYT is actually bringing in millions of more views on average than we thought! (This isn't even counting reuploads on the same channel, third party channels that I just found, episode clips which have thousands to millions of views too, and channels where people re-uploaded the episodes that have several hundred thousand views!)

Now I see why we got a TYT season 2...and why we might get a TYT season 3 or another new G5 series next year when the Discovery contract finishes. I would not see why Hasbro wouldn't entertain the idea of another G5 series based on this numbers I just saw. However, I could be wrong and we enter G6 next year? Idk.

 

 

Edited July 28 by Starlight Serenade
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[Rafa Stary 2,991]

13 hours ago, Starlight Serenade said:

Pretty much, I thought for a biweekly format for a 5 minute episode was completely unnecessary. However, depending on the size of the team working on the show, it could take them 2-3 weeks tops to animate a single 5 minute episode of a show. The studio I saw in the credits for TYT mention the independent studio Lil Critter Workshop based in Malaysia.

My theory is that they did this schedule on purpose to kill time until their both their contract with Discovery ends next year and when the next "announcement/project" is ready. This way they can make whatever adjustments needed. Since they had a first and second season with lots of views, I am sure they are readjusting their plans now.  I have a feeling that we will get an announcement or update soon.

Also, I agree that short form content is being more normalized now as kids have short attention spans and they do advertise everything on social media platforms too, so I can see this format being effective for their target audience.

I believe we talked about 1 and 2 before on several posts in the past as well. I wrote in posts from a long time ago too where I put the reason why they haven't had assets from G4 not show up yet was because of animated licensing issues. There are some copyrights where they could charge anytime an asset is used and Hasbro would not want to pay those rights, so waiting for the contract to be up will save them more money. When the contract with Discovery ends, we will see if this was true if we start seeing G4 characters suddenly showing up in the animated arena. One of my theories was that TYT might end by 2025 Spring, just in time for the contract with Discovery to end, for a brand new show that will host G4 characters in the G5 timeline. Or maybe even a revamp of G4?

However, in the meantime, they have to kill time, which is why I think they purposely switched to a 2 week schedule to kill time and make whatever adjustments as needed now that they have more viewer metrics/data as well.

I found out that TYT season 1 has multiple episodes where they averaged a million views each on Youtube and others that have a few hundred thousand. Season 2 only has around 17 episodes so far, but they already have several episodes that have over a million views each too.  The other episodes have either 10s of thousands to a few hundred thousand views as well!

However, I just found out an interesting tidbit of information!!! Idk if you knew this!

MLP TYT is actually being released on two official MLP youtube channels! Some of the season 1 eps were first being released on the "My Little Pony Official Channel" and then later on on the "My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale" official channel once that was set up. Other times, some of the episodes are being re-released on both channels. Clips from episodes too!

All the views that I have mentioned to this point have only been from the "My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale" official channel (1st screenshot)

Now look at that number from the second screenshot!

Wow, that means that MLP TYT is actually bringing in millions of more views on average than we thought! (This isn't even counting reuploads on the same channel, third party channels that I just found, episode clips which have thousands to millions of views too, and channels where people re-uploaded the episodes that have several hundred thousand views!)

Now I see why we got a TYT season 2...and why we might get a TYT season 3 or another new G5 series next year when the Discovery contract finishes. I would not see why Hasbro wouldn't entertain the idea of another G5 series based on this numbers I just saw. However, I could be wrong and we enter G6 next year? Idk.

I could be advancing the scenario way too much, but that just makes me think about something, if Season 1 was so successful, then why not just go on and celebrate all the glory of TyT by saying that we're going to have years and more years of content? Why not keep a weekly schedule? Saying that it's going to last just until 2025 is just awkward to me, specially because it's exactly the year where a certain important contract expires. I saw this before, usually, when a show is very successful in its first season, they announce more than just one new Season, they usually announce at least 2 of 3 more Seasons, and that is a lot, more than 2 years of content for sure.

Of course I'm not saying that "TyT confirmed to last for 2 more years = Show going to end in 2 years", we could still get a 3rd Season after 2025. But it's still weird how specific such information is, specially now that we are in mid 2024 and they probably already produced a large mass of episodes, with such success we should've already received the confirmation for at least a 3rd Season or that it's going to last more than 2 years.

Since you said that you remember we discussing my two theories to explain the delay decisions in the forum before (honestly I don't XD) and I'm not sure about both of them, I will try to make a bet then.

I think the production for TyT already ended, they already have all the episodes done, we are still getting episodes of a show that, behind the scenes, is already old news, they're already preparing themselves for the next generation, or something big, this season of TyT is there to save time for them, they were confident enough to the point that they thought releasing episodes of TyT every week wouldn't make a difference and they would still have a lot of time to work in the next big project, but just like you said, they had to change the schedule to kill time, they thought that releasing TyT every week would eventually result in them not having any more episodes to release, then, the time they saved to work in the next project wouldn't be enough.

Though I should remember, that we have no ideia how long Season 2 is going to be, maybe it's not going to have 70 episodes like Season 1 did, I said before that if they keep the biweekly schedule, then we won't even get up to episode 30 before 2025 and that would be problematic, but what if this Season is going to be shorter? Like, 50 episodes? That number would even 

I don't know if you still carry your "TyT ending in Spring 2025" theory, but if you still do, well, this theory don't really work, at least not if they keep the biweekly schedule, Spring 2025 starts on March, the contract ends at day 31 of the same month, the leak shows concept art for Episode 35, if that release schedule continues, then Episode 35 wil be released on April 10, 2025, or maybe later, as we could still get a Special in the middle (or even a break, let's remember we got some when the schedule was still weekly), and I highly doubt that Ep 35 is going to be the final episode, it's doesn't feel enough to me and the leaked image just don't give me "ending vibes" at all (that's why I said that this Season could have at least 50 episodes)

Anyway if they really changed the schedule in order to give more time to work in the next project, then I'm actually glad about it, that would mean that there is a good side for the change, Dragon Ball fans complained since 2019 for not getting a new anime, and then Dragon Ball Daima was revealed by Toei to be a series they've been working on since 2022, with a lot of time given for the staff to work on it in order to deliver a high quality project. I really hope that this is what is happening with MLP now, I'll wait the necessary if the artists really need time to work on a new high quality project, even though I think it's very unlikely that this is what is happening there (yeah I really don't trust Hasbro), but let's hope and wait for it.

[Starlight Serenade 3,248]

35 minutes ago, Rafa Stary said:

I could be advancing the scenario way too much, but that just makes me think about something, if Season 1 was so successful, then why not just go on and celebrate all the glory of TyT by saying that we're going to have years and more years of content? Why not keep a weekly schedule? Saying that it's going to last just until 2025 is just awkward to me, specially because it's exactly the year where a certain important contract expires. I saw this before, usually, when a show is very successful in its first season, they announce more than just one new Season, they usually announce at least 2 of 3 more Seasons, and that is a lot, more than 2 years of content for sure.

Of course I'm not saying that "TyT confirmed to last for 2 more years = Show going to end in 2 years", we could still get a 3rd Season after 2025. But it's still weird how specific such information is, specially now that we are in mid 2024 and they probably already produced a large mass of episodes, with such success we should've already received the confirmation for at least a 3rd Season or that it's going to last more than 2 years.

Since you said that you remember we discussing my two theories to explain the delay decisions in the forum before (honestly I don't XD) and I'm not sure about both of them, I will try to make a bet then.

I think the production for TyT already ended, they already have all the episodes done, we are still getting episodes of a show that, behind the scenes, is already old news, they're already preparing themselves for the next generation, or something big, this season of TyT is there to save time for them, they were confident enough to the point that they thought releasing episodes of TyT every week wouldn't make a difference and they would still have a lot of time to work in the next big project, but just like you said, they had to change the schedule to kill time, they thought that releasing TyT every week would eventually result in them not having any more episodes to release, then, the time they saved to work in the next project wouldn't be enough.

Though I should remember, that we have no ideia how long Season 2 is going to be, maybe it's not going to have 70 episodes like Season 1 did, I said before that if they keep the biweekly schedule, then we won't even get up to episode 30 before 2025 and that would be problematic, but what if this Season is going to be shorter? Like, 50 episodes? That number would even 

I don't know if you still carry your "TyT ending in Spring 2025" theory, but if you still do, well, this theory don't really work, at least not if they keep the biweekly schedule, Spring 2025 starts on March, the contract ends at day 31 of the same month, the leak shows concept art for Episode 35, if that release schedule continues, then Episode 35 wil be released on April 10, 2025, or maybe later, as we could still get a Special in the middle (or even a break, let's remember we got some when the schedule was still weekly), and I highly doubt that Ep 35 is going to be the final episode, it's doesn't feel enough to me and the leaked image just don't give me "ending vibes" at all (that's why I said that this Season could have at least 50 episodes)

Anyway if they really changed the schedule in order to give more time to work in the next project, then I'm actually glad about it, that would mean that there is a good side for the change, Dragon Ball fans complained since 2019 for not getting a new anime, and then Dragon Ball Daima was revealed by Toei to be a series they've been working on since 2022, with a lot of time given for the staff to work on it in order to deliver a high quality project. I really hope that this is what is happening with MLP now, I'll wait the necessary if the artists really need time to work on a new high quality project, even though I think it's very unlikely that this is what is happening there (yeah I really don't trust Hasbro), but let's hope and wait for it.

Well everything depends on their business strategy and plans for next year. Based on the success of TYT, it would be odd not air more episodes, but not all companies want to invest more money into making a show that costs them any kind of money even if it's bringing in money. It sounds silly, but there are many series even like DB for example that could be raking in money just for airing whatever, but the quality of the series would diminish. I did hear rumors recently that they tried to do MYM with AI (MYM was produced with eOne/Atomic, I think?) and were looking at doing the same with TYT(produced by Lil Critter Studio) now. That sucks to hear although I don't know the validity of those rumors as they claimed they were from an official interview with a worker, but I take it all with a pinch of salt as I do not know if they are telling the truth OR simply upset at Hasbro's way of running business. That and it's very important to note that many workers sign non-disclosure agreements so they wouldn't be able to even mention something like that without being sued. So would someone in any position really come out and claim something like that? Hasbro could already have something else in the works which I previously mentioned as well.

It's quite possible that production for TYT already concluded as the biweekly schedule so far could have bought them the time they needed, but they are simply waiting to kill time for their part of their plan to start.  It's not the first time an animation studio has done things this way either. They could change airing schedules in the upcoming months like they did this year or early next year so that episodes would air to end in Spring OR until the end of Spring 2025 or by Summer 2025 and that would make way for a new show to debut in Fall 2025 as well. That's another possibility to consider.

Again speculation and being hopeful, but I am slowly realizing to not expect anything big from Hasbro, Toei, or any of these companies/studios anymore. Too many sudden changes, behind the scenes drama, etc.

Idk if you have seen some drama a while back regarding Dragon Ball: https://youtu.be/PX9JnBHvYrA?si=XB057ZnihkfvGhnd

 

 

 

Edited July 28 by Starlight Serenade

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

56 minutes ago, Starlight Serenade said:

Well everything depends on their business strategy and plans for next year. Based on the success of TYT, it would be odd not air more episodes, but not all companies want to invest more money into making a show that costs them any kind of money even if it's bringing in money. It sounds silly, but there are many series even like DB for example that could be raking in money just for airing whatever, but the quality of the series would diminish. I did hear rumors recently that they tried to do MYM with AI (MYM was produced with eOne/Atomic, I think?) and were looking at doing the same with TYT(produced by Lil Critter Studio) now. That sucks to hear although I don't know the validity of those rumors as they claimed they were from an official interview with a worker, but I take it all with a pinch of salt as I do not know if they are telling the truth OR simply upset at Hasbro's way of running business. That and it's very important to note that many workers sign non-disclosure agreements so they wouldn't be able to even mention something like that without being sued. So would someone in any position really come out and claim something like that? Hasbro could already have something else in the works which I previously mentioned as well.

It's quite possible that production for TYT already concluded as the biweekly schedule so far could have bought them the time they needed, but they are simply waiting to kill time for their part of their plan to start.  It's not the first time an animation studio has done things this way either. They could change airing schedules in the upcoming months like they did this year or early next year so that episodes would air to end in Spring OR until the end of Spring 2025 or by Summer 2025 and that would make way for a new show to debut in Fall 2025 as well. That's another possibility to consider.

Again speculation and being hopeful, but I am slowly realizing to not expect anything big from Hasbro, Toei, or any of these companies/studios anymore. Too many sudden changes, behind the scenes drama, etc.

Idk if you have seen some drama a while back regarding Dragon Ball: https://youtu.be/PX9JnBHvYrA?si=XB057ZnihkfvGhnd

The claims about the use of AI in G5 are false: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/05/the-ai-voiceover-drama-continues-french.html / https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/05/no-ai-for-tell-your-tale-or-make-your.html 

(And yeah I'm very aware about the DB rights dispute, there were a lot of rumours about it back in 2023 already, that makes me very worried about the future of the franchise, it's scary because part of the case involves AI as well )

[Starlight Serenade 3,248]

3 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

he claims about the use of AI in G5 are false: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/05/the-ai-voiceover-drama-continues-french.html / https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/05/no-ai-for-tell-your-tale-or-make-your.html 

Thank you for sharing this, I remember people posting it here on the forums, but not the clarification that it was false or so. I'm glad they officially verified that it did not! I had a feeling that people were spouting bs, probably that vocal minority of haters.

3 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

(And yeah I'm very aware about the DB rights dispute, there were a lot of rumours about it back in 2023 already, that makes me very worried about the future of the franchise, it's scary because part of the case involves AI as well )

I hope his family is able to protect his legacy.

[FirePuppy 735]

Hasbro has been cutting too many costs lately, which might be another reason why they're taking too long to release all the Tell Your Tale episodes they produced.

Right now, their annual revenue is down to $4,544,000,000, a record low since 2016.

[Sparklefan1234 170,669]

They release the episodes this way so they will have content to show for the next couple of years.

Edited July 29 by Sparklefan1234

[WickedGames 240]

On 2024-07-28 at 2:48 PM, Starlight Serenade said:

Well everything depends on their business strategy and plans for next year. Based on the success of TYT, it would be odd not air more episodes, but not all companies want to invest more money into making a show that costs them any kind of money even if it's bringing in money. It sounds silly, but there are many series even like DB for example that could be raking in money just for airing whatever, but the quality of the series would diminish. I did hear rumors recently that they tried to do MYM with AI (MYM was produced with eOne/Atomic, I think?) and were looking at doing the same with TYT(produced by Lil Critter Studio) now. That sucks to hear although I don't know the validity of those rumors as they claimed they were from an official interview with a worker, but I take it all with a pinch of salt as I do not know if they are telling the truth OR simply upset at Hasbro's way of running business. That and it's very important to note that many workers sign non-disclosure agreements so they wouldn't be able to even mention something like that without being sued. So would someone in any position really come out and claim something like that? Hasbro could already have something else in the works which I previously mentioned as well.

It's quite possible that production for TYT already concluded as the biweekly schedule so far could have bought them the time they needed, but they are simply waiting to kill time for their part of their plan to start.  It's not the first time an animation studio has done things this way either. They could change airing schedules in the upcoming months like they did this year or early next year so that episodes would air to end in Spring OR until the end of Spring 2025 or by Summer 2025 and that would make way for a new show to debut in Fall 2025 as well. That's another possibility to consider.

Again speculation and being hopeful, but I am slowly realizing to not expect anything big from Hasbro, Toei, or any of these companies/studios anymore. Too many sudden changes, behind the scenes drama, etc.

Idk if you have seen some drama a while back regarding Dragon Ball: https://youtu.be/PX9JnBHvYrA?si=XB057ZnihkfvGhnd

 

 

 

If you are wanting a G5 series that fully connects G5 to G4 then I am afraid you are going to have to wait till 2026 at least 

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

12 minutes ago, WickedGames said:

If you are wanting a G5 series that fully connects G5 to G4 then I am afraid you are going to have to wait till 2026 at least 

Why 2026? Doesn't the contract end in March 2025?

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Moments ago, Rafa Stary said:

Why 2026? Doesn't the contract end in March 2025?

I mean they probably can’t do it right away haha 

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

15 minutes ago, WickedGames said:

I mean they probably can’t do it right away haha 

Hmm...why not? Curious now

[WickedGames 240]

On 2024-08-01 at 12:37 PM, Rafa Stary said:

Hmm...why not? Curious now

The problem also is unlike Make Your Mark Gillian Berrow is not involved with Tell Your Tale and without her I can’t seem them expanding on G4 lore

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

On 2024-08-16 at 8:12 PM, WickedGames said:

The problem also is unlike Make Your Mark Gillian Berrow is not involved with Tell Your Tale and without her I can’t seem them expanding on G4 lore

I don't think just because a member left they aren't going to do any references anymore, money speaks louder

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3 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

I don't think just because a member left they aren't going to do any references anymore, money speaks louder

I don’t know why people want Twilight to fully come back in G5 and like connect with the main characters

That would be so depressing 

[FirePuppy 735]

Not even Netflix is doing anything more about this series. With the money they make, they could easily acquire a whole batch of episodes for a fraction of a day's net earnings. And yet, they're just wasting their money on releasing their own movies and shows.

[Starset Twinkle 499]

They're stretching it out as much as possible to be sure >.<

[FirePuppy 735]

According to the 2024 Franchise Overview, the remaining three specials are scheduled for release after approximately 30, 38 and 41 episodes of Season 2 are released, based on how things were supposed to go before the biweekly releases began.

See here, week 32 was the first full week of August, when we were supposed to get the second special after the first one and the first 30 episodes, then week 41 will be the first full week of October, when we'd be getting the third special after the first two and the first 38 episodes, and week 45 will be the first full week of November, when we'd be getting the last special after the first three and the first 41 episodes.

But instead, due to the biweekly releases continuing on, everything has now been delayed. Since episode 21 of this season has just been released today, if the biweekly schedule continues, it'll take another approximately five months to release the second special in February 2025, followed by the third special in June 2025, and the last special in August 2025.

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2 hours ago, FirePuppy said:

According to the 2024 Franchise Overview, the remaining three specials are scheduled for release after approximately 30, 38 and 41 episodes of Season 2 are released, based on how things were supposed to go before the biweekly releases began.

See here, week 32 was the first full week of August, when we were supposed to get the second special after the first one and the first 30 episodes, then week 41 will be the first full week of October, when we'd be getting the third special after the first two and the first 38 episodes, and week 45 will be the first full week of November, when we'd be getting the last special after the first three and the first 41 episodes.

But instead, due to the biweekly releases continuing on, everything has now been delayed. Since episode 21 of this season has just been released today, if the biweekly schedule continues, it'll take another approximately five months to release the second special in February 2025, followed by the third special in June 2025, and the last special in August 2025.

If we consider the number of videos in the Official Season 2 playslist, this season should have at least 40 episodes, excluding the extra one episode, what you said might really be onto something, interesting to see that the original schedule suggests that this season should start and end in the same year of 2024 (if the plan is really to have only 40 episodes)

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Why Tell Your Tale's Biweekly Release Schedule is Completely Unnecessary

Knowing how things turned out, I do feel like the bi-weekly schedule ruined momentum for Tell Your Tale.

"Oooh! A new...Oh, I have to wait until next week." is a feeling I had a lot when TYT's release strategy changed.😕

I love looking forward to watching MLP TYT content but waiting for every other week for new episodes was too confusing, IMO. 

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20 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

Knowing how things turned out, I do feel like the bi-weekly schedule ruined momentum for Tell Your Tale.

"Oooh! A new...Oh, I have to wait until next week." is a feeling I had a lot when TYT's release strategy changed.😕

I love looking forward to watching MLP TYT content but waiting for every other week for new episodes was too confusing, IMO. 

(That thread title doesn't make much sense anymore I guess)

Well unfortunately there was nothing that they could do, TyT was probably already cancelled since 2023, they had to delay the episodes in order to fill a big part of 2024 with new releases, now why they had to do this I have no idea, maybe it was some financial thing?

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11 hours ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

Well unfortunately there was nothing that they could do, TyT was probably already cancelled since 2023, they had to delay the episodes in order to fill a big part of 2024 with new releases, now why they had to do this I have no idea, maybe it was some financial thing?

 

Edited October 20 by donutmasterjoe

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2 hours ago, donutmasterjoe said:

 

 

Okay never saw that before, also that could explain why there was that leak from March showing finished visuals for Episodes 24-35 (and pretty much confirms one of my other theories about these latter episodes being worked in 2024)

Though, I was also pretty confident that they worked on a lot more episodes in 2023, but the last episode made and completed in 2023 was Episode 23, that's why I thought the show was cancelled in 2023, so maybe development for Episodes 24 onwards was extended to 2024? Or the two strikes in 2023 affected them that much and I was wrong?

 

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,295]

If it was the 2 strikes, we're left out of the loop more than we're led to believe  

Not cool, cliffhanger!