DHX hit with major data breach (beware of spoilers)

[Leave a Whisper]

Not neccesarily Baby Sugarberry. As far as I can tell, there isn't any mention of any of the four adult toys being a parent of any of the 8 baby merponies.


IF we actually get the prettier, horsey designs, it would be a perfect gen to bring back Flutters, Unipegs, and proper Breezies.

[Al-1701]

I was talking with my friend about Hasbro in general.  None of their toys are of very good quality or innovative anymore.  The company has become indolent, controlling so many properties that they believe they don't care anymore.  They're perfectly fine following trends and profiting off that than setting trends and taking control of the market.  The market will be handed them as far as they're concerned.

And we're seeing that in this leaked info.  The Mane 6 are popular (though I don't know if they really are popular since no other ponies have been allowed to compete with them).  So, they'll keep with them.  They're unwilling to take the risk and develop new characters.  Sadly, because Hasbro has strangle hold on brushable ponies, so there is no threat to this strategy to force them to consider.

[Leave a Whisper]

I was talking with my friend about Hasbro in general.  None of their toys are of very good quality or innovative anymore.  The company has become indolent, controlling so many properties that they believe they don't care anymore.  They're perfectly fine following trends and profiting off that than setting trends and taking control of the market.  The market will be handed them as far as they're concerned.

And we're seeing that in this leaked info.  The Mane 6 are popular (though I don't know if they really are popular since no other ponies have been allowed to compete with them).  So, they'll keep with them.  They're unwilling to take the risk and develop new characters.  Sadly, because Hasbro has strangle hold on brushable ponies, so there is no threat to this strategy to force them to consider.

I know. It's sad and aggravating. Seems G3 is the truly last great gen for variety.

[Zapper]

Dream Beauties look like they're about to jump off a cliff, because they gave them 'actual horse' faces, and horses don't smile.

I always thought DB was Hasbro's attempt to compete with Barbie horses. And ironically Barbie horses have become mostly pink and purple deformed ponies

[Leave a Whisper]

Dream Beauties were probably meant to compete with fashion star fillies and fantasy fillies.

[Taffeta]

Dream Beauties were probably meant to compete with fashion star fillies and fantasy fillies.

I'd agree with that. Except we had FSF here but not Dream Beauties I really wanted Arielle :/ so I know we had them here. I never got Arielle. I'm still resentful (Reality - I got actual ponies instead, actual ponies win, I'm fine )

I think the one potential threat to the mane 6 mentality may even be the retro pony project. I don't see G1 coming back, but if these sell really well and they're all different characters,maybe someone at Hasbro will think about the stranglehold in a different way. Maybe we ought to be writing to Hasbro en masse - not about G5 but about creating more original characters because the mane 6 is killing the brand. I dunno. I just see this as the death of My Little Pony if this 'new start' keeps the same characters as the old. MLP is about new stuff and innovation and characters and worlds and colours and styles. It's NOT about groundhog day releases.

I actually have seen a couple of G3 that I like recently. I mean, I don't collect these and downsized them, but sometimes I see one I don't know and I think, wow, Hasbro...what went wrong with this generation that you ditched that level of variety for...cloning.?

[Leave a Whisper]

Arielle is gorgeous! She reminds me of a tropical sunrise.

Well, your idea is definitely worth a shot.

[Taffeta]

Arielle is gorgeous! She reminds me of a tropical sunrise.

Well, your idea is definitely worth a shot.

I would love to get her MIB one day but she seems rather expensive

I just found that Smyths website has an email address listed for Hasbro UK...

*ponders*

[Baby Sugarberry]

Not neccesarily Baby Sugarberry. As far as I can tell, there isn't any mention of any of the four adult toys being a parent of any of the 8 baby merponies.

Still doesn't seem likely to me that they'll release baby ponies outside of things like Flitterheart (sp?), given what we've seen for the G4 run.

[Taffeta]

Not neccesarily Baby Sugarberry. As far as I can tell, there isn't any mention of any of the four adult toys being a parent of any of the 8 baby merponies.

Still doesn't seem likely to me that they'll release baby ponies outside of things like Flitterheart (sp?), given what we've seen for the G4 run.

Actually, that's an interesting perspective, given that Monster High has suddenly and obsessively gone for the family angle, releasing siblings and parents and so on for the original ghouls. Since Hasbro and Mattel often butt horns on creative content, maybe LAW's hopes aren't that crazy...

[Leave a Whisper]

It's nice to know I'm not that crazy.

[Taffeta]

It's nice to know I'm not that crazy.

I said your hopes. I didn't say anything about you specifically

[Leave a Whisper]

It's nice to know I'm not that crazy.

I said your hopes. I didn't say anything about you specifically

I know.

[Bebopgroove]

I think I'm really just eager for G4 to come to an end, and G5 to begin.. And also:

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I absolutely adore the TLU-styled G5 concepts, lion-tailed unicorns and all. I think that kind of different approach would be a breath of fresh air to the brand, though that's just my tiny 2-cents.

I'm ready and eager for MLP to hopefully distance itself from the weird and wacky internet fandom (that actually put me off of collecting for a couple years), but at the same time, I do hope there is lore and world development that would actually be fairly interesting and complex, and not 3-year-old-little-girl-levels of simplicity (I'm really eyeing G3 when I say this, I'm sorry  )

Just my 2-cents. Or 5-cents, rather.

[tailrustedtealeaf]

Boulder Media has posted that they are seeking for animators to work on a CG movie for a "well-known" Hasbro franchise. It's possible that this will be the studio making the G5 movie, although not certain.
This was posted on the Boulder Media Twitter:

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