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Actually, it's more like a few eons. I mean, just go ahead and search Derpibooru.

We don't have enough canon horsedick at the moment you see, so…

Edit: Also, this is the official get hype page. EqGRR in less than 24 hours. Have the new trailer…

<div class="spoiler" title="Flash Sentry haters, get ready to loose yo shit…"

Oh shit man I just realized EQG2 premiers tomorrow. Prepare yourselves for rustling.

xTSGx wrote:

The opening volley of the Mod Civil War has begun…

Umm…. No. More like a mod locked the gallery as a joke (I don't even remember who it was that's how little I care about the subject) all the other mods were like "wtf why was the gallery locked?" and then Don unlocked the gallery. While the idea of mods secretly splitting into pro gallery-locking vs anti gallery-locking is amusing the real story is sadly not as epic.

…but might take their cartoons elsewhere, like Cartoon Network.

Doubtful. I see all of Gen 4 remaining on the Hub Discovery Family Network. Hasbro pumped half a billion dollars into it. They're not going to be leaving until at least some fo that investment is recouped.

Supposedly, the big conflict was over stuff like Dan Vs, really good ratings, but shit merch. Hasbro hated it while Discovery loved it.

DeadParrot222 said:

I was under the impression that Hasbro created and owned The Hub as a network to launch its reboots of all of its franchises.

The Hub was originally Discovery Kids (most famous for being the network that aired all the old Nickelodeon game shows like Legends of the Hidden Temple). Since it's a Platinum-tier network (you have ot have th emost expensive cable package to watch it), it always had crap ratings and was at the bottom of Discovery's networks.

Discovery, in an attempt to refresh some of their sagging networks (Discovery Health became OWN, Planet Green became Destination America, etc), wanted a partner to rebrand Discovery Kids. Hasbro stepped in, forked over 200 million for a stake in the network and they partnered.

Hasbro was in charge of programming, so everything that aired on the hUb went through and was payed for by Hasbro. Discovery handled the more nitty-gritty. Marketing, advertising, cable fee negotiations, etc. It didn't make for good synergy, though, as Hasbro, being a toy company, became focused on how much merch they could pump out for the shows. Discovery couldn't care less about merch and only looked at advertising revenue and ratings. Friction ensued over shows like Dan Vs, which had good ratings but very poor merch results. Hasbro wanted it axed due to the poor merch, but Discovery saw it brought in decent advertising. Multiply that friction for all the shows and it's not that big of a surprise they're starting divorce proceedings.

TL;DR: Discovery wants a TV network, Hasbro wants a 30 minute toy ad.

Crashgordon said:

I’m not entirely sure of the details behind the lock, but whoever locked it did it without discussion among the other mods. Whatever happened, the gallery is open again now and we don’t intend on permanently locking the gallery in the near future

The opening volley of the Mod Civil War has begun…

Blue Screen said:

Okay now I really need to know what the deal is with 5 Nights At Freddys…

From what I understand, it's basically the "new" Slender--a modestly scary game that will quickly be overrun with Youtube videos and an annoying fanbase.

I also see some plotholes, like:
>company's about to go bankrupt
>leave the animatronics running 24/7

But I guess that's a requirement of the modern horror genre.

The Cute Master :3 said:

Isn’t Discovery owned by Disney anyways?

No. They are totally unrelated. Discovery Communications is a publicly traded company. However, Advance Publications--the company that owns Reddit--owns a 31% stake in Discovery, which is more than large enough to basically have de facto control, even though it isn't 50.1%.

@Flash Sentry
Sigh

@HUB drama: What I don't get is why they're so upset with the numbers. They rake in 70-72 million subscribers according to Wikipedia. Compare this to their non platinum-tier channels like TLC or Animal Planet who get 95 million subscribers (or competitors Disney and Nick with 90 million) and those numbers are pretty darn close. If they would could bump it down to the regular tier, they'd easily get the numbers. I really don't think this move is going to get them any better ratings.

Of course, given the Dan Vs. situation and Hasbro's stance, I'm guessing Hasbro was the party that made the move to pull out. Inb4 Disney locks in a deal to move ponies exclusively to the DC. I could easily see Transformers moving to cartoon network, so this move will probably workout better in Hasbro's favor anyways.

If Disney did buy the MLP license, we'd have a downside and upside. On the downside, this means that MLP would be on the Disney Channel alongside such… sophisticated programming such as Austin & Ally. On the good side, there'd be a very slim (but hopeful) chance of a crossover with Gravity Falls. And on the really good side, there'd probably end up being an MLP ride at Disney World.

…I came just typing that.

I would also mean that Disney would own yet another piece of pop culture – along with Marvel, Luca Arts, Pixar, and the stuff they made on their own.

Also, Twilight Sparkle would become a Disney princess.

Platus wrote:

Also, Twilight Sparkle would become a Disney princess.

@Gravity Falls cross-over:

Not like there isn't already fan art of it.

Found that not even looking for it. I was looking for the other image above. lol.

Twilight the Disney Princess?

…Though I could only think that MLP being owned by Disney would make the C&D bullshit so much worse…

LISTEN

IT'S TIME

Man, remember when we all thought the wait for Season 5 would be horrible? Man, this shit is just flying by. But then again, it could just be the fact that I work 10 hours a day 6 days a week so I have nothing better to do with my life right now….Or maybe time is just flying by!

Also, fucking Discovery. They couldn't even pick a better fucking name for the channel? Discovery Family Channel just rolls off the tongue a lot better than The Hub eh fellas? Eh, eh? Ah screw it, see you guys in another month which will just feel like another week for me! Kill me.

There was not enough drama this hiatus to make it any significant. And, well, all the shit between 4chan and SJWs kept people kinda entertained.

Anyway, when can we expect EqG:RR to appear on TPB??

Platus said:

I would also mean that Disney would own yet another piece of pop culture – along with Marvel, Luca Arts, Pixar, and the stuff they made on their own.

Also, Twilight Sparkle would become a Disney princess.

Disney wouldn't own it, they'd just be airing it. Unless a show is produced by an in-house studio, the network that's airing it doesn't own it. That's why shows like Futurama or Stargate SG-1 were able to hop from network to network--the company that was producing them wasn't the same one that was airing them.

Krupam the Myrtanian said:

There was not enough drama this hiatus to make it any significant.

We've gotten a new dose of drama with the whole "official comic writer's a SJW who gave a known brony hater a cameo in the comic." It's apparently causing IDW to crack down on the comic writers and artists doing background cameos.

@EqG 2
And so, the wait for sodacam anon's leak begins anew.

“official comic writer’s a SJW who gave a known brony hater a cameo in the comic.” Goddammit, what did I miss?!

It just happened over the past couple days. Ted Anderson (writer of several comics and the current annual) decided it would be nice to place a picture of infamous brony-hater Dragondicks/Cuteosphere in the recent annual as a background portrait. This brought in the discussion of fan-ocs being involved in the comic and further on the fact that said oc is from, well, a horrible person who believes assault on men is okay…despite at one point being a man…(grey areas are fun)

None the less, Bobby Curnow, glorious Editor-in-Chief at IDW, is at least squelching the use of fan ocs in the comics for the time being and is talking to Mr. Anderson.

This is where things get ugly. Mr. Anderson then post on the IDW forum an "apology" that if anyone is to blame for this, it's him. Which is well fine and all until he decided to return to the bastion of pure and ivory tower that is The Round Stable. There, he posted this little gem:

Yup, he just insulted the audience from the company website then stated that it's okay for men to be treated in ill. But it gets better. Here's a follow-up post:

After that, there has not been a response from the EiC or the author.

At this point Ted might have his current quota left for IDW. At least, I'd be done with him where I his EiC.

I mean, putting a fan OC into your comic is bad for all sorts of reasons – not least of all because it opens up a whole whack of really sticky copyright problems by blurring the strong creator/consumer division that the current copyright framework (rather naively, I think) depends on in order to make sense. If I were writing the artists' guidelines for the comic, I would probably ask that they not do that.

That being said, it's a bit bothersome that people are calling for this guy to be fired for nakedly ideological reasons. I read his comment – I understand where he's coming from (even though I don't completely agree), and I don't at all think that this is a case of him or the fan whose OC he used being "man haters." Rather, I think that he considers the severity of a woman saying bad things about men to be less than that of a man saying bad things about women, since one repeats and furthers a set of sexist memes and the other does not. So, to clarify: he thinks that both are bad, but one is worse – he doesn't hate men; he is just less worried about them because of the social advantages their sex confers on them. And, again, I have a lot of reservations about this position, but I do think that it has a lot more nuance than the people calling it "hate speech" are giving it credit for.

So while I think putting that OC into the comic was a bad decision, I don't think he should be fired. And I certainly don't think "being a SJW" should be a fireable offense.

you missed a lot

@Issue regarding Ted Anderson

Hmm. Reading his post, all I can think is:

"well, there's also NOT making slurs or supporting people who make those slurs against EITHER gender…you know…as opposed to, you know…fueling the fires of inequality by continuing to believe hate is fair against one side…but…you know…"

But hey, he can support who he wants. If he wants to show more support for women, that's fine. And this fandom could probably use more pro-women input anyway. Since I feel like the fandom has become a popular battleground for misogyny allegations and feminism scandals. Equality really shouldn't be such a sensitive issue here

Including non-canon OC's of any kind in the official comic probably isn't a good idea though. Especially if objectionable ideology of people represented by those OC's comes with that. Content creators should try to remove the tensions in the fandom, not provoke them

That's the least of concerns when adding a non-canon OC in a comic. The biggest is gonna be th influx of letters/death threats asking Hasbro to include they're red and black Donut Steel alicorns into them as well.

@MLP and Disney
Yeah, we don't want that…
Crash mentioned it, too, but if you think Hasbro is too heavy handed with its legal department, Disney is far worse.
They have the money to really keep pretty much total control over their IPs and they don't like unauthorized use, even in fan content.

Hasbro, on the other hand, has been relatively open to the idea of fandom content.
They can't allow everything and the more open model is a bit 'riskier' in some ways, but they've been much more lenient than I would have expected from a corporation of their size and influence.
Not perfect, but preferable.

@Ted… stuff
Hey, an excuse to use this gif:

Okay, it's not that unbelievable, I guess.
Just a very poor series of decisions by someone who should really know better.
I mean, even ignoring the specific issues that that particular OC represents, it is just a generally bad idea to insert controversial references into your job, especially when that job has nothing to do with politics or activism in any way.
You are just asking to divide your customers and bring on this kind of reaction.
For someone who works on a freelance basis, you really don't want to burn lucrative bridges like this by doing something without thinking.

That said, I too dislike this weirdly hypocritical call for his freaking head on a pike.
I've seen so many people ridicule SJW movements attempting to get suspected 'rape apologists' fired but many of those same people seem all too happy to use the exact same tactics when the roles are reversed.
It just feels very petty.

That also said, I definitely highly disapprove of this guy's views on gender relations.
I can see his angle of arguing that those who have been repressed might 'deserve' a bit of lashing out, it only seems to harm the overall movement toward actual equality.
Especially coming right on the heels of Emma Watson's UN speech talking about the right way to go about this, it just comes off as highly toxic to any actual discussion of issues.
Saying 'Society has been and still is unfavorably stacked against women and we need to address this issue' is perfectly reasonable (and is likely supported by a vast majority of people).
Saying 'Kill all men' isn't and only serves to further divide people based on gender which should be the exact opposite of their stated goal.

And to the idea of OCs in official products, even with this incident, I'm not really ready to say it should stop entirely.
They should just be done more intelligently.
This OC wasn't an issue because it was a fan-made OC; it was a problem because of the extreme views and opinions wrapped up in that OC.
I think you would get a similar amount of crap if they were to feature, say, a Hitler pony in some issue.
It's the dredging up of uncomfortable politics that people are really turned off by, not OCs themselves.

From the sound of it though, it won't really matter too much.
This incident is quite likely to greatly reduce to likelihood of anyone putting any unapproved character into any issue, controversial or not.

@EqG2
Anyone here actually seen it?
I'm waiting for a full recording to surface- I mean, I hope that perfectly legal methods of remotely viewing this cinematic experience are made available forthwith!
From what I've heard so far, people seem to be very positive about it.
Sounds like it is much better than the first movie in a lot of key ways.
I believe I saw a review that basically said 'EqG 1 was not as bad as it could have been, but EqG 2 was actually good in its own right.'
Looking forward to being able to see it soon!

Meanwhile, at the Hasbro Movie Production Studios, the crew is celebrating a successful first day.
Their joy turns to unease, however, when a faint tapping is heard on the window.
All movement in the room seems to stop.
Writers, animators, artists, and executives alike try to pretend they don't hear, try to listlessly continue to party, or simply stare down into their cups.
It's funny how the cheeriest of music can become so bitterly ironic when playing in an otherwise silent, joyless room.
One knows precisely what they will see before ever lifting their head, but the morbid urge to look cannot be fought for long.
<div class=spoiler title="Slowly, and one by one, each person turns toward the window.">

The rainbow pony's eyes, gigantic and round, stared sadly into the room, passing over each sunken face in turn.
A lone balloon floated to the ground as the only indication that time itself had not stopped.
No one could be sure how long they stayed like this, but eventually the little pony turned her head away and resumed her trot.
The clopping of hooves could be heard fading off into the distance until the music drowned them out, but their retreat did not undo what had been done.
The life had left the party, never to return.
Someone finally had the good sense to click the merciless stereo off so they could sit in silence.
Silence only broken when one person decided to give voice to the thought in every mind:

…

…

…

…

"When the hell are we going to make a My Little Pony movie that actually stars the goddamn PONIES?!"

I'm having fun and no one can stop me!

Hey @DeadParrot222, could you upload that gif to the image gallery, before it's being locked 'coz I could use it in some situations, and it would be not fair from me to upload it, and I have few reason why not. -mainly coz I'm too lazy to uload it myself- (one does not simply, wait 2, walking into Mordor and that sentece don't want to be striked thru)

^I think it's already in there.

Anyway, I have some stuff to say, will post again in a bit.

^and can I get a link? Oh btw, do you have any pony Mario?

'Coz I think your princess is now being, how you say it? Foalnapped? Hehe.

^It's here in the main MLP gallery and here in the Pony Reactions gallery. And while I'm at it, on Derpibooru and DeviantArt

As for Pony Mario:

And there's plenty more where that came from!
(Was originally going to post a crappy EQG Mario from the Cringeworthy gallery, but decided against it)

And knowing the type of people that make those kinda OCs, that's sad but true.

Deadparrot222 said:

Disney is far worse.

As someone who was in the Lion King fandom for several years prior to pony, I can say that there was never any fandom issues with Disney. Not with the 400,000+ pictures on The Lion King Fanart Archive, not with the fanfics, and not with Youtube--all the songs are available. Granted, the Lion King fandom's much smaller than MLP, but it still shows Disney's not nearly as draconian as people think.

I’m waiting for a full recording to surface…

Ask, and /mlp/ delivers not one, but two different cropped versions. Quality's not as good as based Sodacam Anon, but it'll work.

Just waiting for a situation like last year, someone posting a link in the thread. Because it's the only way to watch it for me, cause the first Equestria Girls was played in a theater about 30 minutes away from my house. Now I have to drive 5 hours to go see Equestria Girls 2 and that is NOT worth it. I like how "Select theaters" kind of means "Lol, fuck you."

EDIT Oh, OP delivered. Huh, didn't know Kazumi Evans played the villain. So Twilight's singing voice played the villain of the first movie, Rarity (and Luna's) Singing voice plays the villain of this movie. So what, is Pinkie Pie's singer going to play the villain of the third movie? Well, technically she's already Silver Spoon, but she's not exactly a villain……Well, back to pony movie.

@Movie posts

"Hey there son, what'cha doing?"
"Oh I'm watching, uh . . . . banana bread."
"Banana bread?"
"Yes."
"That's really fucking weird, son."
"Well, I mean-"
"But at least you're not watching those girly ponies again. Keep up the good work."

And the best screenwriting Oscar goes to . . .

So uhh…..thanks to me totally driving 5 hours to go see it and another 5 hours back to see Equestria Girls 2 all I can say is…..It was actually alright and not a "Eh, it was something" like the first movie. You did right guys, you did right, mostly.

I mean, I'd rather have a real pony movie over Equestria Girls but it did alright in its own right.

Also, @ the movie, they have a post-credits stinger. Just a heads-up.

Trust me, pally. We ALL know about the stinger…

Ugh, shit quality recordings. No thanks. I can wait.

Well, I guess I didn't understand the reference.
Can anyone enlighten me?

I'm SOOOOO tempted to watch either of those. I missed the showtimes today and yesterday due to me being out of town on a camping trip. WHY did they only have one midday showtime?!? They should have had a full release for this one! Grrr…

Being European with no chance of watching it in a cinema anytime soon and no chance of watching the original version in a cinema ever, I had no shame in watching it.

I guess it was kinda alright. Could write a bit more, but it's late here already and no one cares anyway. And, as I also kinda liked the first movie, I guess my view would be kinda irrelevant here.

I have to wait another week before the next showing. I feel like I might as well be out of country. T_T

I've already been spoiled like hell, but I'm gonna watch the movie anyway. Just waiting for Cinépolis to put the announcement like they did last year with the first film.

If that doesn't happen, I'll watch it on TV.

My reaction to seeing rainbow rocks

@EQG2
I've said basically a gloss over of the major aspects of it in a image in the image board, But I kinda want to say the parts that made me cringe or laugh, it'll be in a Spoiler box so don't click on it if haven't seen it, and not wanting to get spoiled by it. But all in all, It's ok, the movie's overall focus finally started to follow what needs to be followed, scenes almost never had no purpose of being there, and it just felt like a movie. Its a movie this time, not crap being projected in the theater.

My non Brony friend, as soon as we head out the door, he just said that was terrible, but when I said my blanket statement, its alright, His jaw fucking dropped hahahaha. I'm okay paying the 8 dollars this time around, I wouldn't want to watch it again, well, pay more money to see it again (Buying the dvd basically). Though that being said, EQG still shouldn't of existed, And if there is another EQG movie, I will not see it. Its still a shit franchise, they just manage to clean all the garbage from the first, just to discover a 2 by 4 piece of wood, nothing special, its just a block of wood.

So out of all the movies I've seen of 2014, This is my list, #1) Either Lego movie, or Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. #3) Guardians. #4) Muppets most wanted. #5) Amazing Spiderman 2. #6) Godzilla. #7) EQG2. #8) RoboCop (Seriously fuck that movie.)

Post Credit Stinger: A bonus scene that appears at the end of a movie, either as a little joke or even be something like a cliffhanger for the next movie. This one is kinda both.

So I just watched Rainbow Rocks through completely legal means, and I quite liked it! Especially the pandering. I'm a sucker for pandering.

So yeah, glad I saw it, and the stinger looks like it has potential. If they do make a spin-off series about this, I'd be happy to watch it at this point. Before I was "meh", but now I'm actually looking forward to what they have in store.

As long as they keep the quality up like this I wouldn't mind a spin-off. Especially if it premieres during No Pony Time and not the next "New episode of Equestria Girls after the new episode of My Little Pony!"

@Octavia voice

I must have completely missed it. Does anyone know roughly where in the video it is, so I don't have to re-watch the whole thing?

At about 52:58

Now, I haven't seen the film (want to get through the stuff before it first) but can I ask, did Vinyl speak? I think I might know the answer but just to make sure.

No.

I would've left it at that but I have to have at least 4 letters in a forum post. Ho hum.

^4 letters? That means TopKek is okay. BTW as one who took shit in God's domain, I like to bring those topics in to the community's thread related to those topics. So now I'm gonna bring up one of these topics, to be more exact the ponification. Yup. So what are you think about it? It's really always neccessary? Are love all of 'em or there are few, you never want to see? Or you would like to unsee?

There's no reason not to do it. That's good enough for me.

Ah, whatever, here's my thoughts:

Overall, I guess it was alright. Kinda better than the first one, but like I said, I liked the first one, too. Maybe I wasn't hyped for it enough to care, but yeah, I it was okay.