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Re: Offseason General Show Chat

Postby Sobana (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:52 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:I just got an email, apparently Hasbro is looking for a new creative brand leader for MLP. Which is important, because this person will determine where the brand goes in 2 years, due to how long the production process takes.

That is some interesting news and relevant to my interests. Who ever they pick will have an influence on the show's future. It might even suggest they plan to have the show run for longer then expected. Please keep us informed about this. Thank you. :allears:
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Postby synthorange (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:38 am

Tony Abbott's the Trojan horse. He's crashing and burning this week after months and months of awful performance. Turnbull is the Trojan Rainbow Dash. He has a tin can for a hat because he's currently communications minister and has saddled (hehee) the country with a backwards internet infrastructure for purely political reasons. Also he's supposed to be a friendlier face than Abbott, hence the pony, and/or supportive of gay marriage. He's still as bad though. :v:

Also is Bronibooru dead?
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:24 am

Hey, nice to see you, synth. :yay:

And yep, Cosmo's currently working on getting the booru up and running again.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:11 am

Sobana wrote:That is some interesting news and relevant to my interests. Who ever they pick will have an influence on the show's future. It might even suggest they plan to have the show run for longer then expected. Please keep us informed about this. Thank you. :allears:


Just because they're hiring for this position doesn't mean they're extending the show. In this same email, they said they were hiring for the same position in the field of Transformers. It does not suggest that they intend to have the show last longer, it has more to do with the toys than the show.
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 2:00 pm

synthorange wrote:Tony Abbott's the Trojan horse. He's crashing and burning this week after months and months of awful performance. Turnbull is the Trojan Rainbow Dash. He has a tin can for a hat because he's currently communications minister and has saddled (hehee) the country with a backwards internet infrastructure for purely political reasons. Also he's supposed to be a friendlier face than Abbott, hence the pony, and/or supportive of gay marriage. He's still as bad though. :v:


That sounds right.
Didn't even think of Turnbull.
Thanks for clearing that up. :flutterunsmith:
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 2:24 pm

Passport Clean wrote:
The Rainbow Dash is Tony Abbott, the current prime minister and head of the Liberal Party (note the shield of one of the politicians). He is frequently depicted with large ears and a prominent chin. Rainbow Dash was chosen because of this real life image of Abbott wearing a rainbow hair net back in his health minister days:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-11-08/m ... bow/720392

The tin can hat is a reference to this story (fourth paragraph from the bottom):

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... 2hvvo.html

example of the tin can cartoons:
http://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/ima ... and480.jpg

The rest of the cartoon is the usual story about welfare reform maneuvering.


The rainbowdash is Malcom Turnbull, who looks likely to become the new Liberal party leader and thus new Prime Minister in around 12 hours in a leadership spill (if the vote passes at 9am). He is represented as RD because he supports gay marriage, and well, isn't as large of a broken trojan horse like Tony Abbot.

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Because Malcom Turnbull is the Communications Minister, who is currently overseeing the National Broadband Network downgrade from Fiber to the Home to Fiber to the Node, to help his mates out. He also made (some of) his millions by investing in an ISP in the early 90s. Hence the tophat that is also a a broken tincan telephone.

Basically what Synthorange said.
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Postby Wylie (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 2:56 pm

Kinda pisses me off that Rainbow Dash is political cartoon code for "supports gay marriage." :rainbert:
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 3:02 pm

In this case it is more about being a toy horse, given same sex marriage isn't a policy involved in this issue at the moment.

But yes, cartoonists do like symbolic allegory.
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:23 pm

Thanks for the explanations synthorange and drunkill! It makes much more sense when you've got someone to spell it out for you :flutterunsmith:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:40 pm

For anyone who doesn't keep close track of the spoiler forum, a new trailer just dropped, and it's actually got new stuff from S5. Go chat about it there.
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Postby Doctor Wheeze (?) » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:08 pm

No premiere date :grumpydash:
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:14 pm

Doctor Wheeze wrote:No premiere date :grumpydash:


I'm really curious to why that's the case :ponder:

I wonder if it has to do with Hasbro 'discussing with other online streaming sites in regards to their media' and possibly streaming from their own site? :rariwhat: I dunno, it just sounds like Hasbro is distancing themselves from Discovery and since The Hub has been rebranded to Discovery Family and Hasbro talking about streaming, I can't help but consider that a possibility for the delay/unknown release date.
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Postby DaBatGuy (?) » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:39 pm

Doctor Wheeze wrote:No premiere date :grumpydash:

Really? Not even a nebulous "month/season 2015" ? Also is it possibly the same trailer that's suppose to premiere at BroNYCon?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:51 pm

It still says "spring 2015" just like all those trailers they released in December.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:05 pm

DaBatGuy wrote:Also is it possibly the same trailer that's suppose to premiere at BroNYCon?

Doubt it
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Postby synthorange (?) » Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:59 am

drunkill wrote:In this case it is more about being a toy horse, given same sex marriage isn't a policy involved in this issue at the moment.

But yes, cartoonists do like symbolic allegory.


I see drunkill still hasnt gotten himself killed on the pile of junk bike I sold him. yay!
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:49 am

Question: Can anyone remember which episode Discord claims to have been around for "eons" in?
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:01 am

Wasn't it the first one?

IIRC, it was something like "That's the funniest thing I've heard in eons."
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:05 am

Yeah, it's in The Return of Harmony after Discord has successfully turned everyone, I think.
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:09 am

Bremen wrote:Wasn't it the first one?

IIRC, it was something like "That's the funniest thing I've heard in eons."


Seven Seas wrote:Yeah, it's in The Return of Harmony after Discord has successfully turned everyone, I think.


Thanks team, you just saved me a lot of scrubbing through episodes! I'd have found it via a google search, but I forgot that there was an alternate spelling of "eons", "aeons".
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:21 am

:gotcha: I love that Andy price shows off his commissions at conventions.

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Postby Durandal (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:38 am

Tara's big enough that pony shirts fit her now, so it's time for some product placement:

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Is it pee or is it poo?
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:10 pm

That Jayson / Big Jim panel at Ponycon, with a supposed new S5 trailer, is in progress...
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Postby Atticon (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:25 pm

Wayoshi wrote:That Jayson / Big Jim panel at Ponycon, with a supposed new S5 trailer, is in progress...


It's going to be a bit of a letdown if, as expected, it's just last week's trailer. In that case, did the con make false promises, or did Hasbro make them to the con? Or did Yahoo screw up?

Either way, at the evry least I'm hoping for a premiere date.
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:29 pm

It took this long to come up with a good fully animated one:



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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:32 pm

Probably won't be anything ground breaking.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:34 pm

The Doctor wrote:Probably won't be anything ground breaking.

Eh, this seems like a good time to announce the premiere date, assuming it's coming in March or April. If it won't be until May (or, heaven forbid, June) then I can see why folks on the show would want to keep quiet a little longer.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:37 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Eh, this seems like a good time to announce the premiere date, assuming it's coming in March or April. If it won't be until May (or, heaven forbid, June) then I can see why folks on the show would want to keep quiet a little longer.


I have to think that if they were ready to announce a date it would have been at the end of the trailers from last week.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:43 pm

If that were the case then what would Jayson and Big Jim have to reveal to the people in attendance? I think that either they're going to have another new trailer (unlikely, since I do not think they want to reveal too much of what's happening in future episodes, considering how much of S3 got revealed in trailers and preview clips) or a hard premiere date.
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Postby Atticon (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:50 pm

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Postby Bremen (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:00 pm



There's some really weird stuff there.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:08 pm

Ooh. More Cloudsdale.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:10 pm

The pony in the blue suit and red mane looks like she could be Harshie's assistant.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:16 pm

It looks like even DHX doesn't know the release date...
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Postby Wylie (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:34 pm

Was there even another trailer? Or did Hasbro release the one they were supposed to show at Ponycon already?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:51 pm

:starity: is that the Cook and Price OC ponies on the left next to Rainbow Dash in that character sheet?
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Postby Wylie (?) » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:17 pm

Looks like them. And all the characters on that page look like they're wearing convention badge lanyards, too.
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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:37 am

IMDB has an entry for Episode 5.1, with a listed date of "April 2015". There's an episode synopsis, so I'm not linking it (or reading it) because spoilers.

I've glanced through the forums and not seen any specific month posted yet.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:38 am

IMDB can be edited by its users. Without an official source, it's about as good as our fandom's collective guess.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:40 am

"April" is basically a 50/50 chance. We know it's spring, and it's a pretty good assumption that if it was March, we'd know by now.
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