In addition to doing more writing for my projects, my ultimate goal for 2024 is to give my YouTube channel a lot more attention - I only uploaded one episode for my Animation Review Show this year, and that's supposed to be my main show...

Next year, I not only aim to work hard to get more Animation Reviews done, but to basically "be a YouTuber", and upload things more generally, like while I'm working on the things that take longer to finish (like the reviews), I'll do something that can ultimately be done in a day, like a Gaming episode, or a Vlog, and upload that.

I also aim to do some My Little Pony related videos in someway, in addition to obviously reviewing the cartoons.

instead [G5 is] this grim dystopian future where the Mane Six failed and are all presumably dead.

This is kind of off topic, but I keep seeing this view point, and I just don't relate to it, no offense. This isn't the vibe I get with G5 at all...

What I get from G5 is that the Mane Six were successful, and that friendship is still, and will always be, "magic", because of how easily things were put right - pretty much the worst of it was the A New Generation movie, and even that showed hints that the magic of friendship wasn't gone, it just needed to be rediscovered, and the fact that it still existed to be rediscovered shows that the Mane Six were successful, which is what I personally feel that G5 is trying to say - it's like saying that a marriage is bad just because you argue at times, but that's not how it works; loving someone doesn't mean never fighting with them, it means that you always make up when you do. That's ultimately a simplified version of how I look at G5 following G4, Equestria just had a bad patch, albeit one that lasted (in my headcanon at least) a few centuries, but a bad patch that could be solved, and pretty easily from the look of it (and yes, I get that's because they had to make it MLP as soon as they could.)

Also, as much as I love the Mane Six, I don't get the problem with them being dead in G5, as it's basically centuries in the future - of course they're dead, but they're still alive in their own time, so it's not like G4 ended with them dying (which in itself, also shows that if anypony did fail, it wasn't the Mane Six, as this all happened after their time, most likely.)

And in any case (though this seems to be something that a lot of bronies seem to miss), My Little Pony has multiple canons in each generation anyway, right? So if one wants to, they can view G5 as being a sequel to its "own" G4 rather than "our" G4 (and what "our" G4 is, is different to everyone, at the end of the day, or it should be because that is one of the beauties of My Little Pony) I mean, G5 already feels like it's own generation, with its own rules - it's just saying it's taking place after one of the previous generations as part of its storyline, but as everything else is going its own way, and the idea of how things work has again changed for this generation, it may very well be a sequel to the G5 version of events of what happened to the Mane Six, rather than G4 itself.

But at the end of the day, the overall vibe I get from G5 is that the Mane Six succeeded. 

EDIT: And to be fair... G5 may not be that hated by bronies, I mean, those who hate it exist, but I've seen a lot of people (who are at least likely to be bronies) just getting on with it, and enjoying G5 - in some cases, it's probably just the kind of bronies who only like G4 to an excessive degree, and the haters being louder than the fans again (like with the bronies who hated the previous generations Vs. the ones that did.) I dunno, it's probably more balanced than it seems, at least. I also don't think that Hasbro are trying to discourage bronies (or at least G4 fans) either, as G5 seems pretty respectful and nostalgic towards it (and G1 for that matter) while still being its own thing.

And yeah (getting back on topic) I doubt that anything happened to the rights with the G4 ponies, the same as I no longer think anything happened to the rights with the G1 ponies - they just want to focus on the newer ponies (or the ponies they want to focus on.)

Thank you to all who answered.

It looks like there isn't a full DVD version (at this point?), which is shame - I love that I have all the episodes together, but it's a shame that my favorite is edited. I'm still pleased to have it, but it does feel incomplete, I have to say (not only is it missing Applejack and Glory's adorable moment, but edit surrounding it is so jarringly sudden, that it's glaringly obvious that the episode was edited - like it jumps so suddenly to the next scene, it just looks wrong in my opinion - though that may be because I know that something's missing.)

I know the "MLP in Dreamland" PAL tape is definitely uncut but not sure if there were any later releases over here.

At least I have the knowledge that this exists, so thanks for this. I know it's VHS (at least that's what it sounds like it is), but it's something - maybe if I see this I'll get it. 

At the end of the day, I don't think Hasbro had any disdain towards G1, or any of their previous generations - I know that they released some joke videos about it towards the end of G4, but I think that's all they were - jokes, like you can playfully mock yourself, but that's probably all it was (I will admit I didn't watch them, so I don't know for sure - I only glanced at the Megan one.)

The thing is, Hasbro put a thing online where they asked bronies to be nicer to the pre-"Equestria" ponies, and to give them a chance too - I remember bronies being surprised that Hasbro would stand up for the generations before G4, as they weren't making money from them, which obviously isn't the point, but yeah... Hasbro stood up for G1-G3.5, so ultimately I don't think they have anything against it...

I mean, they even payed homage to G1 in G5 not that long ago (though that may have been the writers, rather than Hasbro) and it was beautiful in my opinion - at the end of the day, I think Hasbro appreciate where they came from, even if some bronies don't.

I like both Aurora and Nova - Aurora has a beautiful color scheme (despite, yes, it being a color scheme that MLP has already done a few times) and her symbol fits the theme of what they appear to be trying to do with toyline.

Nova also has a beautiful color scheme, and it fits the space theme a little more in my opinion - I am mixed on her symbol, because I find lightning symbols cool, but there's kind of a lot going on with it.

I actually feel that a pony with Nova's color scheme and Aurora's symbol (albeit slightly recolored) would have been perfect.

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Before I mention my next example, I'd like to point out that this looks beautiful, IMO - it looks like it could be from a movie! 

Any way, here's a weird thing I'd a collect, and yes there's another sort of explanation; Eyeshadow Palettes.

The reason it's weird and requires an explanation is that I have no idea of how to apply make up, and have no interest in doing so, but I am fascinated by the different palettes people create based on themes, and how they come up with names for each shade based on the theme, so I'd kind of like to have an example of each palette out there, so I can just casually look at them physically at any time, and check what the shade names are when I felt like it, because that is the part that interests me, and it's nice to have them physically, I guess, even though they'd be purely display and never actually used... strange I know.

Thank you for the interview! It's interesting seeing somebody who is a little more focused on the shows here. G3 indeed has a very cute cartoon.

Thank you. I will admit, I have actually been pretty nervous about how I focus on the cartoon more than the toyline - basically because I didn't want to look like I was making the show out to be more important than the toyline.