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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:59 pm

I only knew of that because of Toy Story 3... :awkward:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:43 pm

Similar to how Hasbro hired Lauren Faust to re-imagine Ponies, they also hired Jim Davis to re-imagine Mr. Potato Head. He did a newspaper strip and everything:

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It didn't last :v:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:09 pm

Julienne :iamapony:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:10 pm

Yeah, that comic looks...interesting. How long did it last for?
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:04 am

JGamboa3 wrote:Was it this one?
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Oh wow, that's pretty well done, it looks awesome.
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:52 am

So is there an ETA on Season 5 yet so I can be reminded to visit here more often? Because I really should stop being a jerk and ignoring you guys for months on end. :v:
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Postby BeautifulShy (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:16 am

There isn't an exact date yet but people are speculating winter 2014 so November 2014 to February 2015. I would guess that Season 5 will start in mid December.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:22 am

Just in time for Christmas...that would work for me. :allears:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:02 am

Hell yeah, that would be great! :excite:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:26 am

Was just slightly shocked to randomly channel-flick into a report on bronies on the 7.30 Report (a current affairs program on our national broadcaster here in Australia). Mostly short interview snippets with fans, a lot of footage of a small convention-type event, some show clips and a very short chat with Ashleigh Ball.

Not what I was expecting to see while channel surfing!
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:20 am



That's the one.

Oh, they've got a video of the whole segment up there too. Kinda wish I hadn't wasted my time getting that thing captured and posted to Youtube now :-/
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:17 pm

Davyinatoga wrote:So is there an ETA on Season 5 yet so I can be reminded to visit here more often? Because I really should stop being a jerk and ignoring you guys for months on end. :v:

All we still know is that it's sometime in 2015. However, considering the Hub's upcoming change in name and format, it's possible that we might get an actual date once the network becomes Discovery Family.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:21 pm

From what I heard, it's now rumoured to be in December of this year. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Octavia (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:45 pm

PaulloDEC wrote:Was just slightly shocked to randomly channel-flick into a report on bronies on the 7.30 Report (a current affairs program on our national broadcaster here in Australia). Mostly short interview snippets with fans, a lot of footage of a small convention-type event, some show clips and a very short chat with Ashleigh Ball.

Not what I was expecting to see while channel surfing!

I've written music for the 7:30 Report before. :awesomedash:

But it was like one episode 3 years ago, and I don't remember which one. :ponder:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:49 pm

Cool to hear that, Octavia! How many TV shows have you written music for?
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Postby Octavia (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:00 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Cool to hear that, Octavia! How many TV shows have you written music for?

Too many to count. :-I
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:16 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:All we still know is that it's sometime in 2015. However, considering the Hub's upcoming change in name and format, it's possible that we might get an actual date once the network becomes Discovery Family.


I imagine it'll be close to when Transformer's new show airs, which is said to be the beginning of next year.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:20 pm

Recently, "Gravity Falls" did an anthology episode where Grunkle Stan tells three stories to viewers.

I wonder if a similar format can work for an episode of Ponies, where a character (maybe Spike) tells three stories involving the main characters. And because it won't be considered canon, writers are free to come up with batshit insane ideas for the stories.

ROBOT B9 wrote:Yeah, that comic looks...interesting. How long did it last for?

2002-2004, IIRC.

Headless Horse wrote:Julienne :iamapony:

The son's name is Chip. You can figure out the naming pattern there :v:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:23 pm

Are there any bits from the Twittersphereverse where a director says something like "Putting the final touches on the storyboards of the MLP S5 finale" or some such?
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:25 pm

This was in your sig just now:

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I'd like to think that Raridad dragged Rarity all over the place, whether she liked it or not. :ohrarity: :smirk:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:31 pm

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:Are there any bits from the Twittersphereverse where a director says something like "Putting the final touches on the storyboards of the MLP S5 finale" or some such?

Meghan McCarthy recently (sometime last month) talked about how all the writing for S5 was complete and also gave the initials of the writers who wrote for S5, so yes, that sort of thing does happen. Of course it's never guaranteed how much info we'll ever get out of her and the rest of the gang.
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:34 pm

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:Are there any bits from the Twittersphereverse where a director says something like "Putting the final touches on the storyboards of the MLP S5 finale" or some such?

The last I heard was that all the S5 scripts have been finalized. Not sure if there have been further developments, but I'd guess they're staggering the production process as they have in past seasons (for example, some scripts may just now have been sent to the storyboarders, whereas other episodes are already finished and ready to air).

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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:37 pm

Bakertoons wrote:Recently, "Gravity Falls" did an anthology episode where Grunkle Stan tells three stories to viewers.

I wonder if a similar format can work for an episode of Ponies, where a character (maybe Spike) tells three stories involving the main characters. And because it won't be considered canon, writers are free to come up with batshit insane ideas for the stories.


I'm not sure if it would fit so well in the show. If it was about them just telling stories, that might work. Or past events, like in that CMC episode. But stories about the characters, and it isn't canon, doesn't seem like it'd fit.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:39 pm

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I'm not sure if it would fit so well in the show. If it was about them just telling stories, that might work.

Yeah, that's the idea. The framing device of the Ponies telling stories is canon, but the ones they actually tell are made up by the characters and thus never happened.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:45 pm

Bakertoons wrote:Yeah, that's the idea. The framing device of the Ponies telling stories is canon, but the ones they actually tell are made up by the characters and thus never happened.


Okay, so then like Hearth's Warming but shorter? Yeah, that could work. And having them be other characters would still be fun. But I feel it they did a Treehouse of Horror kind of thing, and kept them the same, that's where I feel it might not fit.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:55 pm

Bakertoons wrote:Recently, "Gravity Falls" did an anthology episode where Grunkle Stan tells three stories to viewers.

I wonder if a similar format can work for an episode of Ponies, where a character (maybe Spike) tells three stories involving the main characters. And because it won't be considered canon, writers are free to come up with batshit insane ideas for the stories.

Eh, I don't think that would work too well here. Consider The Simpsons and the yearly Treehouse of Horror episode. That's a welcome break since it's set in the real world, in Springfield, somewhere in America, in the present day. While some regular episodes of The Simpsons have gotten pretty damn out there (this increased in later seasons; the season 11 episode Saddlesore Galactica comes to mind, with the way it featured racehorse jockeys being literal elves in an underground fantasyland), overall its stories still have to stick to what could be plausibly believable. That time around Halloween is the one time when they can write something that's totally out there.

Compare this to FiM. The magical land of Equestria is full of variety and crazy stuff. Giant dragon about to settle in for a 100-year nap and suffocate your town with smoke? Sure! Your fashion designer friend heads off to the big city (like, 1950s New York big) and has to deal with getting screwed over by someone else? That's just fine! An ancient god of chaos is released from his stone prison and threatens to remake and corrupt the land? And then he's deliberately released again and another one of your friends gets through to him and opens his heart? Oh yeah, you bet that'll fit right in. My point is, Meghan and the gang already have free reign to put in pretty much anything they want. A "wacky" anthology episode where everything was explicitly non-canon, compared to the actual things the show has done, would feel rather boring and pointless to me.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:13 pm

I think an anthology episode would be fun. Could simply be the CMC camping out with their big sisters again & each pony telling a traditional Equestrian Horror story. Or heck. Just cheat & do a Halloween anthology ep set in the human world. XD
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:14 pm

Bakertoons wrote:This was in your sig just now:

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I'd like to think that Raridad dragged Rarity all over the place, whether she liked it or not. :ohrarity: :smirk:

Kancho!

(that's gross)
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:17 pm

A anthology episode has been high on my want list for a while. I don't think it has to be horror based either, it could have a different framing device and be a series of similarly linked stories.
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Postby TheNegaverser (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:21 pm

Yeah, I'd also like some kind of anthology episode at some point.

Just have a really fun/bizarre/silly pony episode without having to worry about it making any sense! :-P
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:27 pm

Maybe what they could do is like a Rashomon episode. That's another thing on my must have list; the same story told from each member of the Main 6's perspective: Twilight's version would be more realistic, Pinkie's would be like a 1930s cartoon, Rainbow Dash's like a action movie, Applejack as Leone...you get the picture.
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Postby TheNegaverser (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:12 pm

That would be fun! My favorite part of MMMystery on the Friendship Express was Pinkie's retelling of the events in the different film styles. Give me more of that!
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Postby Durandal (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:40 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Maybe what they could do is like a Rashomon episode. That's another thing on my must have list; the same story told from each member of the Main 6's perspective: Twilight's version would be more realistic, Pinkie's would be like a 1930s cartoon, Rainbow Dash's like a action movie, Applejack as Leone...you get the picture.


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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:54 pm

HAPPY APPLEJACK APPRICIATION MONTH EVERPONY!! :flirt:

https://twitter.com/hubtvnetwork/status ... 3012200448

A mere week before their demise...HUB Finally Acnowledges AJ is best Pon. :hilarious:
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:59 pm

TheNegaverser wrote:Yeah, I'd also like some kind of anthology episode at some point.

Just have a really fun/bizarre/silly pony episode without having to worry about it making any sense! :-P


We've had a whole three anthology episodes already, and two of them were equivalent to a few episodes in length each! :-P
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:17 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:HAPPY APPLEJACK APPRICIATION MONTH EVERPONY!! :flirt:

https://twitter.com/hubtvnetwork/status ... 3012200448

A mere week before their demise...HUB Finally Acnowledges AJ is best Pon. :hilarious:


:angry: Would it a-killed you to admit I was best pony sooner?

:offendash: Actually, it DID kill the Hub. The execs thought it was such a bad idea they ordered the whole network cancelled. YOU KILLED THE HUB, APPLEJACK.

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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:20 am

So Applejack is to blame for the loss of the Hub? :-I
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:25 am

:annoyed: You leave mah big sister alone!

:eenope: Eeyup!

:twasnothin: Thanks, guys.

:saddash: It'll never happen on the Hub again.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:12 am

:bluh: "Thanks for schedulin' my month right in the middle of apple harvest season."
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:applejargh: "Because I'll be workin'."
:vogue: "And that's why we love you, Applejack."
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