MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread

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Actually I like the idea of g5 and g4 mixing even more. We don’t have enough of it. G5 is supposed to be a sequel but they never touch the past not even their most recent past. And when they do, which it is just a little bit, people complain that there is too much g4 in g5. If this whole discovery family owns FIM is true (I think it is ridiculous for such a big company as Hasbro to lose the rights of their own properties), then it would be a great idea. They could go wild with the idea of things to do with both MLP.
Then again they might decide to do the easy way of retelling a story and make a g4 reboot. I am really sick of reboots.
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They’ve done it before as I’ve witnessed myself. But yeah, I’ll wait news from the main man themselves, Hasbro. Whose done nothing but clearly screwing up many things as we can see. And for those who can’t, see an optometrist.
It would be funny if let’s say the PUU (Ponies United Universe) was indeed real and the guy who made the image published it only to then receive a call from Hasbro a mere minute later to suddenly announce that they changed their mind and are cancelling it, so the guy was probably like FYAAAAAAAAY!!!!
Either way, I don’t expect good news even coming from Hasbro.
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@northern haste
The presentation slides that confirmed TYT Season 2 was happening were in fact from Hasbro.
You can download everything here to see for yourself. There are slides with the Hasbro logo and information that only Hasbro would know. Regardless, there’s another reason too why Hasbro abruptly pulling the plug on TYT Season 2 is highly unlikely. If 2025 is to have nothing new for MLP, what in the world is going to fill the gap for the wait for 2026, “the year of the pony”?
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Lots of unconfirmed news as a result of a lot of debate where you don’t know anything else. Speculation upon speculation, it is clear that the secrecy introduced by Cocks may have resulted in severe disarray around the governance of the G5 this year - it will not be surprising that there are “too many chefs” without a clear and precise strategy.
1: Should TYT 2.0 be terminated? There is speculation, as nothing has come out about a third season, and it suggests that the second season will drag out well into the next year. But there are many indications that TYT will not get a third season.
2: Controversy over whether IDW will end the license on MLP comics - a reliable source says it won’t happen, but it’s clear that one series, the Storm arc, has been rushed to end in November - the doubling of the prices of #2 and # 3 suggests that the arc was originally supposed to have 5 issues. In itself it is good for us, more per issue - but why did they choose to rush in an important season?
3: A “Ponyverse” is rumored. Everyone knows what this word means, it was brought up in G4, and was among other things mentioned in the MLP manga which has been a great pleasure for the fans.
4: Ponyverse is also claimed to be cancelled.
We must acknowledge that MYM had suffered greatly from poor script quality which has not been fully explained due to the secrecy, and it has resulted in major problems, but it still does not justify the closure decision, which has never been explained. For the whole case surrounding MYM suggests unreasonable intervention from above, such as Hasbro’s management and recklessness towards employees who worked on MLP. This indicates poor and even hostile management.
TYT 2.0 had a good start, but then everything fell apart in June and it’s getting ridiculous with lots of episodes with little content, which even little girls get bored of. In addition, several MLP series in IDW have had quality problems that cause customer attraction to fall - and the decision to stop the G5 comics in favor of short series only worsened the problems. IDW wouldn’t have done it without Hasbro’s knowledge.
So the question is; what is going on Has Hasbro’s management finally lost its cool? Sanity seems to have disappeared when Goldner died in 2021, and Cocks may have frustrated everyone with his extreme censorship practices and lack of long-term strategic planning. Now it is such that mismanagement can be used as a description.
There is a growing market in China, where there is strong interest in both the G4 and G5, where both brands join forces, but because the G4 is more or less finished with hundreds of different products for entertainment, the G5 has of course fallen into the shadows. This could not be ignored or messed up by Hasbro even though there is US-China trouble at the moment, which will only worsen as long as Xi is in power in Beijing. There in China the fans are not only small children, there are also adults - and these children are from a different culture that is not as “morally fragile” as today’s American children - more like these children from the 1980s. Still Hasbro cannot ignore the rest of the world, ANG is still “hot” in many countries, for example in Europe.
So let’s look at the Ponyverse idea; the troubles with G4 rights - which must now be made public - mean this has to end. Because if MLP is to be resurrected and find large customer groups in the future, Hasbro must have all G4 rights in its own possession. That may have been the basis for the planning where you want to merge G4 and G5, creating a universe that can involve all generations under the auspices of G4. But it should have been cancelled, maybe because Hasbro can’t get the rights back? I would have gone to court at once.
Should G1, G3 and G4 like G5 be merged into a new brand, “Ponyverse” on the eve of 2026 which will be the “year of the pony” in China, G5 may survive, although it is uncertain what kind of design it will have for the ponies from the generations. This makes it possible to continue the script around G5 with minor changes, and open up new investment in G4 as G1.
It seems like a very good and realistic solution. It is not possible to have a new generation that will take a long time and many resources, in 2026-27 the work on G6 will certainly start - so it is too early. It is said that 18 months of work on the G5 was rushed. The ANG movie, IDW comics and many good episodes in MYM such as TYT have made G5 unputdownable, it has become inextricably linked with G4 as G1 had been with G4 after the first G1-G4 person is introduced.
But; we don’t know. There are too many different brands with little difference, we have MYM, TYT, chapters, specials, games and this should only be repeated with “Ponyverse”? It reminds me of the chaos surrounding the state railway in my country twenty-five years ago. The trains were given different color schemes, different services based on existing services were produced, it ended with general confusion and budget decline until the board was thrown out - along with the many hopeless consultants who did not understand what they were doing. It took years to clean up the mess that remains a dark stain.
If TYT 2.0 is to be replaced with Ponyverse which will see the introduction of G4 in the G5 world, expanded with G1/G3 brought in - divided into dimensions as with Italian Disney comics and Marvel/DC comics, from Italy several hundred stories are produced - every month about Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. In itself it is a good idea.
But practical? G1 and G3 must be stitched into the common universe and then this must be based on principles established by G4 - which then means that Hasbro must have all rights to concurrent generations under its own control. Unfortunately, there are many G1 rights that have not been collected. Hasbro has a nasty habit of leaking rights.
In fact… with the current management at Hasbro, we risk the G6 suffering a worse fate than the G5, with an even greater loss of money. G4 is popular and very well established, and which still attracts customers - so it will never disappear no matter what you do, and any reboot of G4 in new clothes will only be poor copies, the case with the Transformers demonstrated that this is a big game of chance .
The wisest thing is to bring the whole of G4 under your own control, continue with G5, but with greater G4 involvement - and start work on G6 as an alternative world originating in G4, which does not necessarily have to exist in the same dimension. Ponyverse suggests many dimensions. G5 is the future after G4. G1/G3 is the past before G4. G6 may be an alternate dimension.
But; Hasbro can’t go on. They have to talk to their customers and the fans.
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