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Re: In-Season General Show Chat

Postby Octavia (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:25 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Considering that they have a holiday episode geared up, I'd expect the finale to be sometime in late January or even early February.

The best months to come to Chicago for the finale meetup. :-I
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:40 pm

Bremen wrote:Just a wild guess, but they might want to build a bit of anticipation for EqG 3. I bet we'll be seeing some commercials for it during the new episode :-P


But wait...they'd be airing the movie in the middle of the season. Could it spoil the finale?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:49 pm

I don't see why it would have anything to do with S5. EqG and FiM have been growing more and more separate over time.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:12 pm

One thing about Season 5 is that, due to in-season hiatuses, it would've taken at least 8 to 10 months to air in its entirety, making it the longest season yet by airdates.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:33 pm

Here's a potential schedule with no weeks off:

-9/12: 514
-9/19: 516
-9/26: EqG3
-10/3: 517
-10/10: 518
-10/17: 519
-10/24: 520
-10/31: 515 (has a title suggesting Halloween)
-11/7: 522
-11/14: 523
-11/21; 524
-11/28: 521 (has a title suggesting Xmas)
-12/5: 525-26

I'm going by the leaked title list, which could be a bit outdated as they decided to shift for holiday episodes. Thus, I don't think I'll be renaming episode codes like with Trade Ya, so effectively 516 is now 515, etc. if anyone cares. :-P

I can see S5 ending before the end of the year with this honestly... that's 2 weeks of buffering they have. The Xmas ep could freely air anytime in November too, for sure, I just put it as close to Xmas as possible here.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:38 pm

I suspect there will be at least a few ponyless weeks.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:46 pm

Yeah, I'd imagine that the show will run into at least January with the ponyless weeks. Regardless, I'm hyped as hell for this now! :excite:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:09 pm

I can see it ending just before Xmas and I can see stretching it out to February. We'll see!
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Postby Applepie (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:18 pm

It would awesome if the S5 finale will be on my 42 years Birthday at the start of December.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:29 pm

I suspect the finale won't air until January. While I'm sure Hasbro and Discovery Family want to keep the hype train rolling through the holiday season, I also think they learned from this summer's schedule that too many breaks can really hurt ratings.
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Postby Illuminations (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:50 pm

So much for hoping to see Sunset Shimmer return to Equestria in the second half of the season, post-movie play. On the bright side, we get to enjoy a shorter mid-season hiatus then what was originally thought of. Not too shabby and overall pretty nice if you ask me.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:52 pm

At this rate I doubt Sunset Shimmer will ever show up in FiM. I'd actually been expecting at least a reference to her in Slice of Life, but I was surprised at how that episode avoided EqG entirely.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:29 pm

So, the episodes are still going to air on Saturdays, right?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:33 pm

Yes. Moving episodes back to Fridays (like how it was in S1) would be suicidal.
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:00 pm

Someone shared this with the pony group I'm in on Facebook:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:46 am

That picture makes me wonder if Al will show up again at one point.
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:09 am

Weird Al wouldn't be horrifically out of place at a brony convention, IMO.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:08 am

Is that a upcoming episode title? :ponder:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:52 pm

Crossposting from PPPP: Lindsay Cibos, artist and one of the authors of the Draw Furries series of art tutorial books (amongst several other works), has made the unofficial Little Pony Drawing Book: How to Draw and Create Magical Friends. It's coming out in November (with two unofficial pony coloring books, also by her, coming out in October) and is ridiculously cute, so if you know (or have!) kids who love the show and want to learn about art, this might be something interesting to get them.

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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:58 pm

Those designs look adorable and it's great to see more art books for children come out. :allears:
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:30 pm

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/08/a ... ushie.html

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One of my top favorite singers signed a plushie ponysona of himself.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:38 pm

First we had Weird Al. Maybe next we'll have Alice Cooper. :v:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:36 pm

School's out forever :twonk:

But that is pretty cool. :yay:
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:58 pm

That learn-to-draw-ponies book is adorable and I would love to see what's inside. :allears:

But out of curiosity, what are the legal implications? I have a hard time believing Hasbro would sign off on this, so is this being published without their approval? And if so, doesn't it go a bit beyond "fair use" in terms of making non-trivial amounts of money off Hasbro's intellectual property?
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:04 pm

Seven Seas wrote:That learn-to-draw-ponies book is adorable and I would love to see what's inside. :allears:

But out of curiosity, what are the legal implications? I have a hard time believing Hasbro would sign off on this, so is this being published without their approval? And if so, doesn't it go a bit beyond "fair use" in terms of making non-trivial amounts of money off Hasbro's intellectual property?

None of those ponies on the cover have cutie marks, and Hasbro doesn't have a trademark on drawing ponies, unicorns, pegasi, or alicorns, since the mythology of them has been around for ages. So as long as they don't use official names, like "How to draw Rainbow Dash", then there's no legal issue with it.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:14 pm

Seven Seas wrote:That learn-to-draw-ponies book is adorable and I would love to see what's inside. :allears:

Well, given that Amazon has that feature that lets you preview a few of a book's pages, you can. :v: But for convenience's sake, here's several examples of the art:
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Like Octavia said, Hasbro doesn't and cannot straight-up own the idea of magic cartoon horses. If this book doesn't use canon characters or specifically mention things like Ponyville or Canterlot then Hasbro doesn't have a leg to stand on. It also helps that while the artist's style is obviously similar to FiM's base style, it ain't a near-exact reproduction, unlike (for example) the things that JanAnimations made and got C&D'd for.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:25 pm

Yeah, I think they can pass it off as a generic pony book. Anyway, hope that art book can help inspire a lot of great artists. :allears:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:31 pm

Crossposting from PPPP: Lindsay Cibos, artist and one of the authors of the Draw Furries series of art tutorial books (amongst several other works), has made the unofficial Little Pony Drawing Book: How to Draw and Create Magical Friends.


Looking real good.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:14 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Image

I really like this anthro here, the style feels very close to the human one, but still kinda distinctively horsie-like enough that it reads as a pony anthro rather than a human. I wouldn't mind if this was what they had in mind for G5 (since it combines the EqG thing with the horse thing, and I think they might be bold enough to try and essentially capture both audiences at once) although like you pointed out, the semi-anthro variant is far more likely if they're going to move away from the usual ponies.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:12 am

Yeah, while the general MLP style can definitely evolve over time (look at the current generation vs. G1 or even vs. G3.5), it still has to stay close enough to its predecessor in order to maintain brand identity, and anthro-ifying them to that point feels like a bit too big a leap from FiM's look. Hell, even if we look at the way I draw anthro ponies...
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Vs. her style, I draw them a bit more pony-like, still standing on two hooves and with little stubby fingers on their hands, but even if I were the king of Hasbro I would still want something more pony-like than this for G5.
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Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:38 am

Talked to my mom today and she said that she took my nephews to Chick-fil-a and apparently it was a My Little Pony-themed kids night. My nephews were unenthused, but my mom got her picture taken with someone in a Twilight Sparkle costume.

I didn't ask for too many details, but I wonder if it was an official event or not. Has anyone else heard of something like that?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:10 am

I've heard of fast food restaurants occasionally doing that, though that's always been a local thing done by the owner of a particular restaurant. Maybe whoever owned that particular restaurant knew that kids liked My Little Pony and saw such a promotion as a way to get families to come and eat there.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:11 am

Did Hasbro sponsor it or was it a independent thing?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:17 am

Almost certainly an independent thing, as Hasbro usually works with McDonalds for tie in promotions.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:06 pm

Chick Fil-A kinda preaches the opposite of what the show does. :unenthused:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:19 pm

Well, that's the advantage of it being done independently. I should at least hope that such franchise owners aren't also required to be homophobes in their business operations.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:39 pm

I believe as of today, we have less than a month for new MLP episodes. :yay:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:05 pm

You're right. The 14th episode of S5 will be airing on September 12.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:34 am

Have they announced how many more episodes will be in the season? I'm expecting another 13 to bring the season total to 26.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:46 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:Have they announced how many more episodes will be in the season? I'm expecting another 13 to bring the season total to 26.

Season 5 will have 26 episodes. We're half-way in.
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