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Postby drunkill (?) » Fri Jan 29, 2016 5:12 am

Larson might have a lesser role, apparently he is no longer the story editor, Josh Haber is (there is a discussion in the spoiler forum for this) presumably because he needs to write another book and his movie deal is going ahead.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jan 29, 2016 1:37 pm

Keep in mind that some show veterans are busy working on the movie now. Meghan McCarthy has been involved in some capacity in writing it, for example.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Jan 29, 2016 1:43 pm

Meghan also has that new position with Hasbro that oversees the entire Girls Line of products. I can't imagine she would have much time to be heavily involved in the show.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:23 pm

The big question is how long they've been working on season 6. Meghan's promotion was announced in June, which is long enough ago that they might already have had half the season in the bag, or they might have handed the series off to someone else and kept her transition quiet until the time was right.
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Sat Jan 30, 2016 4:53 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:The big question is how long they've been working on season 6. Meghan's promotion was announced in June, which is long enough ago that they might already have had half the season in the bag, or they might have handed the series off to someone else and kept her transition quiet until the time was right.


Didn't Sisby end up doing some S6 work before she left? So that certainly means Sept 2015 was S6-storyboarding at least, if not earlier.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:41 am

Hasbro and Mattel are in talks for a merger. I wonder what this will mean for Ponies should this happen.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:08 am

MLP is way too big to get thrown out, should this go through and should the resulting company start trimming things down. Franchises on the chopping block would likely be things such as Pound Puppies, LPS, or a bunch of the lower-tier board games.

With that said, I hope this merger doesn't happen. As I was saying elsewhere, the last thing we need is yet another mega-corporation dominating a sector.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:12 pm

*insert Monopoly joke here*

*because that's what this would mean, a straight-up monopoly; literally every major toy brand in America is owned by either Hasbro or Mattel at this point*
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:16 pm

About the only one that would escape this hypothetical hegemony would be Lego.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:51 pm

Well Lego is the number one toy company in the world, though I have to wonder if a merger between numbers 1 and 2 would change that?
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 10:35 pm

Wanna bet that if Sunburst appears in S6, he'll be an asshole?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 10:53 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:About the only one that would escape this hypothetical hegemony would be Lego.


DerFurShur wrote:Well Lego is the number one toy company in the world, though I have to wonder if a merger between numbers 1 and 2 would change that?



LEGO* :spike101:
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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:57 pm

Lego is also the largest tire manufacturer in the world. :amazing:

Oh, sorry, I obviously meant the properly capitalized THE MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF LEGO™©® BRAND BUILDING BLOCKS AND/OR TOYS.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 3:45 am

Lego isn't an American company though.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 4:28 am

LEGO might be big, but they kinda only make one thing. And video games for that thing. And a movie about it.
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:32 pm

Larson won't be working on S6?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:52 pm

VGAddict wrote:Larson won't be working on S6?

I don't know, will he?
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sun Feb 07, 2016 2:46 am

May he?
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:02 pm

Will we get info on S6 at the sales results tomorrow?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:17 pm

I doubt it. Sales info is generally about the toys and the brand as a whole, so if Hasbro does talk about it then I imagine we'll most likely only hear what we've already heard about S6 beginning this spring.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:37 pm

I hope there is another pony commercial during this year's super bowl.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:55 pm

There's going to be a Pokemon one. :gotcha:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:47 am

Soft Snow wrote:I hope there is another pony commercial during this year's super bowl.
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This got me thinking about unusual MLP ads and I just remembered the one ad that ran in the New York Times's wedding section back in April 2012, "announcing" the wedding of Cadance and Shining Armor. That ad actually helped convince me to start watching the show, since while I don't ordinarily read that section of the paper, I checked it after hearing about it online and that made me think that FiM was more important than I'd previously imagined.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:49 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:This got me thinking about unusual MLP ads and I just remembered the one ad that ran in the New York Times's wedding section back in April 2012, "announcing" the wedding of Cadance and Shining Armor. That ad actually helped convince me to start watching the show, since while I don't ordinarily read that section of the paper, I checked it after hearing about it online and that made me think that FiM was more important than I'd previously imagined.

Looks like the ad did it's job well then. Just look at you now. That was a good story, thank you for sharing it.
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:17 pm

If a video on YouTube is true the opener will be interesting to the canon for sure. :awesomedash:

Also if we are gonna be in a dystopian cyberpunk future of mega corporations could we at least have a quartet of hot women in powered armor fighting NOT TERMINATORS to really rad 80s rock?

No Is0bel and Gobbet from Shadowrun Hong Kong either.

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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:51 am

Came across this "Schoolhouse Rock" parody called "Political Correctness", made in 1995.

I'm only linking this because Lauren Faust did some voices on it.

https://vimeo.com/18898894
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:24 pm

Am I the only one who likes Spike?
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:27 pm

VGAddict wrote:Am I the only one who likes Spike?


Nah, it's funny to pretend otherwise, and the show's kinda in on the joke since he never gets invited and he photoshops himself into the mane 6's party photos :v: But he's cool.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:30 pm

I like Spike. I wish he had more substantial roles in episodes, but in the meantime I'm running a classic video game thread hosted by the little guy. :here:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:35 pm

Soft Snow wrote:I hope there is another pony commercial during this year's super bowl.
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If ad space is $5 million for a 30 second spot, that's more than the entire production budget for a season. :smirk:
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:41 pm

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:
If ad space is $5 million for a 30 second spot, that's more than the entire production budget for a season. :smirk:


Well I mean, last year it was just a 2 second snippet in a bigger ad, not an actual 30-second MLP ad (which seems pointless).
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:13 pm

Since S6 is coming soon, I've organized a group rewatch of S5 on the Octagonal Pasture. Tune in at 7:30 EST this Friday and we'll start with the first four episodes of S5, then continue on for another six weeks or so.
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:20 pm

Anyone else not as into the show as there when they first got into it?
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:38 pm

There's a lot of people
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:59 pm

Last season pulled me back in somewhat (although there were some jarring moments), way more so than did S3 or S4 - but mostly it's the fandom I'm not as into these days.
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:52 pm

I still haven't watched the second half of S5. :pinkieshrug: It happens.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:18 pm

I still care enough about the show that I started learning to draw thanks to it. For me, that was huge.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:31 pm

S5 was a big improvement, but I think the new car smell of S1 and S2 will never come back.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:33 pm

The Doctor wrote:S5 was a big improvement, but I think the new car smell of S1 and S2 will never come back.

I feel like that has more to do with our own perceptions than anything else, seeing as so many of us started watching the show before or during the second summer at the latest. Sure, the show has built on itself a lot and the characters have grown up somewhat (and the art's gotten a lot prettier), but as far as tone goes I don't think the show has lost its appeal.

Then again, I suppose some people really loved (early) S1's simplicity in its characterization and story. I see the change in that as part of the show growing up, but if that was a big part of the appeal for anyone then perhaps that counts as something lost.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:53 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I feel like that has more to do with our own perceptions than anything else, seeing as so many of us started watching the show before or during the second summer at the latest. Sure, the show has built on itself a lot and the characters have grown up somewhat (and the art's gotten a lot prettier), but as far as tone goes I don't think the show has lost its appeal.

Then again, I suppose some people really loved (early) S1's simplicity in its characterization and story. I see the change in that as part of the show growing up, but if that was a big part of the appeal for anyone then perhaps that counts as something lost.


Well, no, I really get what The Doctor meant. S1 (and S2 to a lesser extent) were really new and fresh; it was an introduction to a fantasy world that was, for once, not a complete ripoff of Tolkien, and a lot of work building the core cast. The show hasn't gotten worse (at least, IMHO), but a lot of the appeal of those first seasons was how innovative they felt and now that it's established it can't really recapture that.
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