Maybe it’s going to be better then the past four seasons. That could be the reason why is starts in spring 2015.

Hasbro: The show continues! While you guys are waiting…BUY OUR TOYS!!!!

@Itsthinking  
Dude, that toy ad at the end was cheesy and out of place and you know it.

FUCK YEAH!!!!!

I think it’s safe to say that by then…
 
To the show: Great Spectacle
 
To the majority of the fandom: Happiness while poking fun of plotholes
 
To the minority of the fandom: FANRAGE BLOODBATH

@Itsthinking  
It’s gonna be in stereoscopic 3D.

@09MurphyM  
Raep

@09MurphyM  
Marriage or war?

What do you suppose the Narrator meant when he said that nothing could prepare twilight for “what comes next”?

Good to have a set time.  
Now I just have to wait for Xenoblade Chronicles X to get a date.

I’m just glad we’re actually GETTING Season 5.

That’s a few more months than I expected.

If they are making us wait THIS long, shit is probably going to go down.

@Itsthinking  
Re-writes and or re-shoots.

The last time we didn’t have new pony in Nov/Dec was in 2009. Didn’t think 2014 would be “that” year too.
 
My guess is that at this rate, season 5 premieres in February, they air the first 13 episodes, then put it on a four-month summer hiatus, then air the remaining 13 episodes.
 
Or… they could just air the episodes they’ve finished. Like they did on seasons 1 and 2. They weren’t fully finished yet when they premiered and we had to wait 2-3 weeks occasionally. Now it seems they’ve committed to this strange “FULL STRAIGHT NON-BRAKES NON-STOP WEEKLY 26-EPISODE PONY TRAIN EXTRAVAGANZA, AT ANY COST”.

Finally!  

Man, I guess this will be our longest hiatus yet.

@soundtea  
So? Says little about the show. Whatever.

@Itsthinking  
That sudden toy thing at the end is a pretty damn blatant advertisement.

@Masem  
Just air the shit online where your target audience of children watches anyway.
 
 
@Ichijoe  
Beat that horse.

@Ichijoe  
Waiting for the Mr. Poniator animation of this ad just because of that.

@Itsthinking  
We know the episodes for S5 were scripted-finished earlier this year. We’ve got tweets from Meghan on those points. (RR was written out last summer, as Meghan called it her summer project).
 
I will say that the fact Hasbro wanted to pull out of the Hub might have caused part of the delay - it would make no sense to start the S5 run on the Hub only to have the fate of the season unknown if there was a change of ownership. I would believe now that Discovery and Hasbro have defined the control of Discovery Family, that Hasbro can now affirm they will have their pony block and can run S5 through without concern. But this is likely a secondary issue to getting all the episodes in the can.

@sekacpuc  
Basically, so that they have a six month window of fuck up

Why do devs always put the season? Why not the month? Dont they know that it’s not the same season in every part of the world? What if if someone doesn’tknow when a season starts? gees