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My Little Pony: A New Generation is a CGI animated film based on the My Little Pony toy line released on Netflix on September 24th, 2021. It continues the story and events from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic several years in the future.

History

The earliest mention of the new generation was a leak that was reported on by the My Little Pony fan blog site Equestriadaily, named after the land in which the ponies live. The news piece^[1] uses catalog listings from a company known for making officially licensed merch to show what the character designs for generation five allegedly look like. This news was also discussed on the YouTube channel Flutter525. The YouTube^[2] video was posted on February 25th, 2021, and obtained 560,000 views in five months (shown below).

On June 30th, 2021, the official Netflix YouTube account posted a teaser video, this time showing who was voicing the ponies for the next generation of the show. The cast list has:

• Vanessa Hudgens, of High School Musical, voicing Sunny Starscout
• Kimiko Glenn, of Peni Parker fame, voicing Izzy Moonbow
• James Marsden, of Sonic the Hedgehog, voicing Hitch Trailblazer
• Sofia Carson, most known for Descendants, is voicing Pipp Petals
• Liza Koshy, a known YouTuber, is voicing Zipp Storm

The video^[3] reveal of the main cast with their pony character designs received 160,000 views in six days (shown below).

Reception

The reception was mostly warm to the new character designs and the cast. On Twitter, excitement over the premiere started to show in early July 2021, with Twitter^[4] users such as @atlunazz tweeting how prepared they are for the event, which earned them 100 likes in five days (shown below).

It do be like that #mlpg5 #mylittlepony pic.twitter.com/NI22mBxpbD

— Atlunaz (@atlunazz) June 30, 2021

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