The My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Thread

[The Chronicler]

Some more G5 concept art was shared, mostly relating to the unfinished episode shared last week:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/12/another-round-of-g5-concepts-revealed.html

Also shared were some unused G5 songs, probably intended for a holiday special that would've been made if the series hadn't been cancelled:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/12/unreleased-g5-my-little-pony-christmas.html

And the incomplete episode shared this week is actually the second 22-minute special (would've released sometime in August if the series hadn't been cancelled), which was (almost) fully animated (and supposedly the final piece of G5 content to be fully animated), though the audio quality of this video really shows its unfinished state:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzkK3WKgGk

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Much like the one special that officially released, I thought this one was just okay. I didn't find it especially interesting, though I did appreciate some moments that helped to move the overall story forward (which we sadly will probably not see much more of beyond this point).

[The Chronicler]

Not much news of interest worth sharing this week (except that all but last week's unfinished episodes have recently been taken down, but I'm sure other people have already saved them elsewhere), so here's this week's unfinished episode animatic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgN3dzdq3o

[The Chronicler]

Another week with not much of interest aside from the next unfinished episode animatic, but this one seems to be quite interesting (when one of the writers calls it their favorite, that really says something):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWTFwIQMQI

[The Chronicler]

There may no longer be any shows for G5, but at least we're still getting a few comics this year, such as this one coming out in April:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/01/my-little-pony-comic-tournament-of.html

And of course, the animatic of yet another unfinished TYT episode was shared earlier today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kskIIhvE1U

[The Chronicler]

First official comic of the year has just released, featuring the backstory of Princess Cadance:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/01/my-little-pony-rise-of-cadance-released.html

And for the next TYT animatic, this one looks like it could've been very significant if this episode had been finished:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd2BO68J8PU

[f-22 "raptor" ace]

Hasbro seriously screwed up canceling TYT

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Did Gen 5 ever happen? I know that sounds like a dumb question, but there never seemed to be something they committed to that felt like the actual flagship show. I mean, let's walk through the various G5 deliveries:

*The Movie (2021): This one is unequivocally flagship, it spearheaded the whole generation. But it used celebrity VAs that didn't stick around, it never got a sequel, and it had a vastly different quality and execution to everything that came after. Still, if the generation had followed its lead, I wouldn't be asking this question. But we didn't get that, instead...

*Tell Your Tale (2022-2024): The closest thing to an regular ongoing show for G5, it came out before anything else and lasted the longest, but it was never marketed as such. It was a collection of random vignettes on YouTube, usually a few minutes long, with no major ongoing storyline and largely treated as a stocking stuffer to tide fans over while the "real show" was worked on. Which we eventually got...

*Make Your Mark (2022-2023): This was clearly intended to be the actual G5 show everything else was leading up to, and on paper it kinda succeeded? It had the movie's 3D artsyle and an actual ongoing storyline that furthered the plot, sure the quality and writing and animation were a huge step down from the movie, but those weren't developer intentions so I can't dock points for that. But I can point out how content-starved and irregular its production and releases were. The first episode was over half a year after the movie, and many later episodes had months in between their release, and we only got 27 episodes in total. The last episode ended on a cliffhanger of the sort suggesting there were gonna be more chapters if production hadn't stalled, and this is all in 2023, we got dead air for the rest of the generation after that. Tell Your Tale got so much more content and attention that it feels weird to treat this sparsely-populated and prematurely-canceled mess as the flagship over it.

*Some holiday specials (2022-2023): Counting these for completion sake, but a few specials does not a generation make. They did their job of supplementing the canon, but there's only three of them. The franchise still needs some sort of throughline product to tie everything too. And I don't think G5 ever got that.

Compare this checkered hodgepodge of content to G4 and it's like night and day. G4 had one flagship show, with a consistent artstyle and quality, which ran without fail for hundreds of episodes over a decade. I'm not saying G5 had to do that, but I feel like they never even got off the ground with whatever they were actually trying to do.

[Sneak]

There were also some non-canon(?) comics (and it's still going, barely alive)... But yeah. Only first movie was a strongest link, a skeleton for this generation (though it still had a lot of problems, imo). But all subsequent shows brought a mess and obscurity in storyline and a clear picture of what show should be a face of generation. And the worst part is these shows not only ruined some of what the movie managed to build, but also did everything to wrack previous generation. :/

And, as result, the fate of the generation was unfortunate but predictable.

[The Chronicler]

I will admit that trying to keep track of all the various forms of media that MLP G5 was scattered across had reminded me of how complex the later years of Bionicle had gotten in the late 2000s. For me personally, that nostalgia for the later may have subconsciously influenced my fondness for MLP G5 (though it is a little annoying that I can't call the whole thing one particular name like G4 did with MLP:FiM), so that might be why I continue to follow any new content that might still be yet to release, even if it'll never be officially finished. Speaking of which...

Some more concept art from Make Your Mark has been shared, specifically for the dragons:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/dragon-concept-art-from-generation-5-of.html

Also, one of the writers recently revealed that scripts for an entire second season of MYM had been fully written:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/an-entire-extra-season-of-make-your.html

And here's the animatic of this week's unfinished Tell Your Tale episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXs3mmLPvLg

[The Chronicler]

Had a rather busy evening this week, but at least there's not much new that I found worth sharing here aside from the animatic of the next unfinished Tell Your Tale episode, and this one had been hinted at since the initial leaks approximately a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjizhN40Hco

[The Chronicler]

Quite a lot of this to cover this week. First, this month's official comic has just released, featuring some G5 characters:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/my-little-pony-skys-secret-released.html

Now here's something very interesting. Back in the early years of G4 (2011 and 2012), Hasbro compiled a book for internal use only that helped employees keep track of what was happening in the Brony fandom craze at the time. And it seems that book has recently been revealed to the public for the first time:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/what-did-hasbro-think-of-us-in-early.html

Here's a video showing animatics and early versions of the song from the Hearts and Hooves episode of Tell Your Tale (basically, various stages of progress for an episode from the previous season that did get completed and released):
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/unreleased-g5-hearts-and-hooves-song.html

And speaking of TYT animatics, the one shared this week is apparently the final episode that made it to the animatic stage. After this, all that remains to be leaked are the animatics of the two other specials that had been planned for late 2024, as well as scripts and concept art for any other episodes that would've followed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrtJ1MqfrSc

[The Chronicler]

The animatic for the third Tell Your Tale half-hour special will be shared next week. For now, some concept art from that special has been revealed, including a pair of rather interesting characters:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/the-third-tell-your-tale-special.html
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/the-petal-gala-concept-art-revealed-for.html

And while there are no more remaining episodes that made it to animatic form, there are still a few more that at least consist of scripts and some concept art, so here's a Halloween themed episode that was shared today:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/02/concept-art-for-unreleased-tell-your.html

[The Chronicler]

Okay, so apparently the release of that animatic for the third Tell Your Tale special got delayed over a week. From what I've heard, it's because the people sharing it wanted to include some sound effects for parts that otherwise would've been several minutes of near silence. Anyway, the remastering work on it has been completed, so here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMHHDoxZHi0